Latest Anti discrimination Podcast Episodes
Salon Series I
Holding Up The Ladder - July 04, 2023 23:00 - 1 hourHolding up the Ladder Salon Series I This episode is in collaboration with Black British Art, an arts platform that focuses on championing, educating, curating and advising on all that is Black British Art. Its founder Lisa Anderson-Diffang, a curator, consultant and Interim Managing Director...
Makoto Fujimura & Haejin Shim
Holding Up The Ladder - September 21, 2021 23:00 - 1 hourWe have come full circle and reached the end of season 3 - time really flies! I started this season expressing my desire to talk about social justice, racism and discrimination. I gave the example of the Japanese art of Kintsugi - the broken vessel that is mended to make new. And who better to t...
Alexander Liebermann
Holding Up The Ladder - September 14, 2021 23:00 - 1 hourHave you ever asked yourself the question - what is music? Does nature around us - the birds, the trees - make music? What is music supposed to do? I had never thought of these questions (and I didn’t even plan on asking them) until I spoke with my guest today, composer Alexander Liebermann. Al...
Yvadney Davis
Holding Up The Ladder - September 07, 2021 23:00 - 1 hourAs we continue our conversations about the ways in which art and creativity can be used to bring about social change, I wanted to talk about how normalising the ordinary can actually be a form of activism. I’m joined by kids’ fashion stylist, blogger, lecturer, start-up entrepreneur, artist, wif...
Topher Campbell
Holding Up The Ladder - August 31, 2021 23:00 - 1 hourADVISORY: This episode contains adult themes unsuitable for younger audiences In this week’s episode of HUTL we’re talking about the idea of radical homelessness. Where do we find home? What does home mean? Is home a physical or geographical location, is it a state of being or is it both? And h...
The Temple of Her Skin
Holding Up The Ladder - August 24, 2021 23:00 - 1 hourWho gets to tell stories, who gets to tell your story? How does story relate to the body? What are the stories our bodies tell? These are some of the questions I delve into through the prism of African women, tattoos and scarification, with my guests today Laurence Sessou and return guest Jessic...
Felix Howard
Holding Up The Ladder - August 17, 2021 23:00 - 1 hourI’ve been thinking a lot about how Black culture shapes mainstream culture so sometimes it can feel like we’re everywhere - but actually when it comes to positions of leadership and ownership - female bandleaders, women producers, label or studio owners, songwriters, women of colour who are comp...
Dr. Mark Breeze
Holding Up The Ladder - August 10, 2021 23:00 - 1 hourWhat do you think of when you think of shelter? Have you even thought about what it means or what it’s meant to do? Is it just something that provides immediate protection from the elements? And what about architecture? Is architecture about buildings that we find aesthetically pleasing (or not!...
Art of Change
Holding Up The Ladder - August 03, 2021 23:00 - 1 hourWhen is enough is enough? When is adapting no longer the appropriate response? When do people stop adapting because of their resilience and say we’ve had enough and we need to do something to change this? I’ve changed this week’s programming (we were due to talk about music with A&R manager ...
Dr Lemah Bonnick
Holding Up The Ladder - July 20, 2021 23:09 - 1 hourThis is the 3rd and final instalment on the series of discussions on race, class and education in the UK. It only felt right to interview the person who is the reason I am who I am, who has shaped the way I see the world - the person who literally brought me into the world, my mother, sociologis...
Dr Michael Taylor
Holding Up The Ladder - July 13, 2021 23:00 - 1 hourI’m delighted to bring to you part 2 of our 3-part series on race, class and education in the UK. This week we’re joined by historian Dr Michael Taylor, author of what I’m calling ‘required reading’ & shortlisted for The Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2021 - The Interest, How The British Est...
Reni Eddo-Lodge
Holding Up The Ladder - July 06, 2021 23:00 - 1 hourToday’s episode is the first of a 3-part discussion on race, class and education in the UK. A 3-part conversation that really is the basis for the theme of season 3 - arts, anti racism and social change. We kick off the discussion with journalist and author of Sunday Times bestselling book Why...
Dr. Zoe Whitley
Holding Up The Ladder - June 29, 2021 23:00 - 1 hourIn this week’s episode of HUTL, we’re talking art, access and representation with art historian, writer, curator and director of London’s Chisenhale Gallery Dr. Zoe Whitley. We talk about the importance of seeing oneself reflected in culture and having teachers who create spaces for that explor...
Eric Collins
Holding Up The Ladder - June 22, 2021 23:00 - 1 hourIt’s great to be back and with the first episode of season 3, a season dedicated to the arts, creativity and social change. My guest today is serial entrepreneur, investor, tech executive, CEO and Founding Member of Impact X Capital Partners, Eric Collins. Bio London-based Eric is a serial...
Season 3 - Trailer
Holding Up The Ladder - June 15, 2021 23:00 - 8 minutesWelcome to Season 3 of Holding up the Ladder In the few months between the end of season 2 and the start of season 3 it seems the world isn’t calming down any time soon - in fact in many ways, it feels more intense and more far-reaching. We’ve had the conviction of Derek Chauvin for the murder ...
Reflections
Holding Up The Ladder - February 03, 2021 00:00 - 47 minutesAnd so we come to the end of Season 2! And what a season it’s been. I would normally have another wonderful guest to come and share their process with us, but this time I wanted to do something a little different. I feel like I had some real personal awakenings that I’m going to share with you. ...
Shruti Kumar
Holding Up The Ladder - January 27, 2021 00:00 - 1 hourWe talk about access to musical education, about bridging the gap between classical music and other musical genres. We talk about the role of arts in society, about creating safe spaces, safe spaces for artists, for women artists. We talk about starting musician-led spaces rather than seeking a ...
Elora Hardy
Holding Up The Ladder - January 20, 2021 00:00 - 52 minutesToday, we’re talking about the future - about creating a world we haven’t yet seen and a future that hasn’t yet been imagined. We’re talking about outside the box thinking, dreaming, playing, experimenting. I'm talking AI, living on Mars, the Elon Musks, the Will. I. Ams, my guest earlier this s...
Money Talks
Holding Up The Ladder - January 13, 2021 00:00 - 1 hourIn this special bonus episode of Holding up the Ladder, we’re talking money! Money and the music industry. I’ve brought in some formidable women to talk about these issues and made a point of including not just artists but people who work in what I call the administrative side of the industry ...
Daley
Holding Up The Ladder - December 18, 2020 00:00 - 1 hourI’ve probably said this before but the thing I love most about music, apart from the music itself is who you get to meet through it, the relationships that are forged - I’ve made friends whom I now consider my extended family. One of those people is the reason I know today’s guest. His name was ...
Building Creative Community
Holding Up The Ladder - December 11, 2020 00:00 - 1 hourIn this week’s special bonus episode of Holding up the Ladder, we’re talking value systems and building creative community. I’ll be sharing some of the lessons I’ve learned/am learning over the past 8-10 years building my music production company. I’m joined by my good friend Ramona Harris- she ...
Makoto Fujimura
Holding Up The Ladder - December 04, 2020 00:00 - 1 hourBorn in Boston, Makoto Fujimura or 'Mako' the name he goes by is an artist, arts advocate, writer, thinker and filmmaker. He studied 16th & 17th century Japanese art in Japan and practices the Japanese art of Nihonga or ‘slow art’. This beautiful ‘refractive’ art requires you to slow down in ord...
Pura Fé
Holding Up The Ladder - November 27, 2020 00:00 - 1 hourIt’s not everyday you get to talk to artists you admire and then they turn out to be even more wonderful in person. I’ve been listening to the music of today’s guest for many years now and every time I return to it I’m reminded of why I love music from authentic voices. Pura Fé (meaning ‘pure f...
Leeroy Jason - Part II
Holding Up The Ladder - November 20, 2020 00:00 - 41 minutesADVISORY: In this episode we talk about issues of domestic and sexual violence Welcome back to the second and final part of my conversation with South African photographer Leeroy Jason. If you haven’t listened to part 1 yet it’s worth tuning in so you get a sense of Leeroy, his work, his values...
Leeroy Jason - Part I
Holding Up The Ladder - November 13, 2020 00:00 - 1 hourADVISORY: In this episode we talk about issues of domestic and sexual violence If you’ve been listening to this podcast at all you’ll hear me talk a lot about South Africa and you’ll also know that I’m half South African. I love South Africa it is home for me as much as London is my home - yet ...
Chef Pierre Thiam
Holding Up The Ladder - November 06, 2020 00:00 - 1 hourMy guest on today’s episode of Holding Up the Ladder is chef Pierre Thiam. Hailing from Dakar in Senegal, now residing in New York, Pierre is an author, restaurateur, social entrepreneur and culinary ambassador. He is the executive chef of awarding-winning restaurant Nok by Alara in Lagos, Niger...
Beatie Wolfe
Holding Up The Ladder - October 30, 2020 00:00 - 1 hourSome conversations are less about answers and more about the questions. Getting to ‘the why’ of an issue. And sometimes those questions, those ‘whys’ open the door to unexpected discoveries that give rise to even more questions. That’s how I would describe my conversation with today’s guest, art...
Heidi Vogel
Holding Up The Ladder - October 22, 2020 23:00 - 1 hourEvery city has its ‘scene’ those spaces where groups of people with a similar aesthetic, value system or art discipline or music style find each other. Well in London the jazz, soul, session musician scene is on one hand really big yet on the other really tiny - everyone knows each other and if ...
Lisa Anderson
Holding Up The Ladder - October 15, 2020 23:00 - 1 hourMy guest on today’s episode of Holding Up the Ladder is art writer, curator, advisor and founder of Black British Art, Lisa Anderson. With a background in international relations and an MA in Human Rights, Lisa’s love of art and curation was sparked while at university - it’s an intimate story,...
Season 2 Trailer
Holding Up The Ladder - October 08, 2020 23:00 - 4 minutesThe trailer for Season 2 is here! Episode 1, Season 2 out on Friday 16th October 2020! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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