Politics & Pakora: celebrating International Women’s Day 2023
Date/Time
Date(s) - 08/03/2023
17:30 - 19:30
Location
The Pod Café
Categories
To celebrate International Women’s Day on 8 March Nina Harries returns to The Pod to play at its first Politics and Pakora ‘Tiny Gig’.
Composing original material for the double bass and voice, her music and technique has both an ethereal and an earthy modernist sound. Modern life, ancient prose and heavy feminist realism inspires Nina’s lyrics, which are often profound, enthralling and at times mesmeric in their repetitive quality.
Nina’s musical influences are diverse, working regularly with the likes of Anoushka Shankar and Katie Melua, as well as being part of Akram Khan’s touring show Xenos.
Captivating audiences with original songs and commissions, Nina explores the relationship between the double bass and the female voice.
In 2017 she received the PRS Women Make Music Grant in order to record her self-titled debut album. It was performed live by Nina and her band to a sold out audience at the official release party at Hoxton Hall, London in September 2019. In 2021, she received funding from the Arts Council National Lottery Fund, to create her 2nd album, a 6 track EP, which she recorded and produced herself aboard her narrowboat home.
International Women’s Day is powered by the collective efforts of all. Collective action and shared ownership for driving gender parity is what makes International Women’s Day impactful.
Gloria Steinem, world-renowned feminist, journalist, and activist once explained “The story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights.”
This event is pay as you feel and as is tradition with Politics and Pakora the Cafe Team will create some great vegan nosh.
Booking
Places are very limited to book email christine.eade@coventry.gov.uk.
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