In the meantine till friday…

Posted on May 22, 2007 by Rebel Up

some uploads…

Musafir – Hanji Mara Lalou Sa (Rajasthan)
Patriarcas De La Rumba & Macaco – Me Voy Pa’ Cachimbama (Spain)
Femi Kuti – Traitors of Africa (Nigeria)
X’lents – Psychedelia (India)

Friday 25th of May, Rebel Up! Soundclash party, our world turns to Rwanda this time!

Posted on May 14, 2007 by Rebel Up

Rebel Up Soundclash! #3. -We keep it going!!-

The chosen charity for friday the 25th is the Igitego Inyange project in Rwanda. This project has been initiated a few years ago by the Rwandese Anathalie Mukundwa and the Belgian VSO worker Vincent Thiry, to help a village in the poor Gahanda village region developing themselves in as many ways possible.

Their aim:
– To provide secundary education and arrange funds for university.
– Access to medical care for all , by paying insurance and visits at the doctor. A doctor has already been appointed to the village through donations.
– To build a centre in the town in the near future. This centre will serve as a medical and social centre and at the same time it provides the locals space to store, display and produce their handcrafts. Also tourist accomodation will be built to attract western visitors, so that locals can earn their livelihood through social tourism, without the intervention of package holiday agencies.

Please take a look at the Igitego Inyange website.
Below some impressions of Gahanda and the project.

map of Rwanda

the amount of children that are now able to go to school

the village

the future centre plan

Rebel Up! Soundclash #2, 28th of April

Posted on April 19, 2007 by Rebel Up

hey there!

Next saturday the 28th of april, the 2nd installment of the Rebel Up! Soundclash will be organised in OCCII.

Repeating the audiovisual fun, yet a different momentum alltogether. Exotic cultures will again meet northern hemispheres halfway and the plan remains unchanged: our golden winnings will still be donated to charity.

This time we selected the Chakana project in Bolivia. Chakana is a Dutch organisation who
provide support to the poverty-stricken Aymara indians who live in the barren highlands. The project we support will be for building greenhouses, so that they can build their own veg crops without fear of bad seasons that often occur. We will be happy to receive any donation one can spare. Nope, we’re not fussy for the sake of good support. Especially combined with a party!

the info bit.

Saturday, 28th of April @ OCCII, Amsterdam (www.occii.org)

Amstelveenseweg 134 (tram #1 (stop Overtoomsesluis) or #2)

doors open 22:30 – 4:00, free in before 23:30,
4 Euro after.

Rebel Up! Soundclash #2

Diasporic sounds from the global underground

a global culture mashup of Southern European Mestiza and Gypsy beats, old skool Roots, roughness from Africa, Arabia & Asia, Latino funk and gritty electronics…..(eyy, what is this here propaganda goin’ on?)

Who’s playin’ those tunes then? your local grocery nomad dj’s and friendly guest dj’s from the Elephant Soundsystem. There will also be visuals all night, projected from and into many cultural angles. yay.

Please tell your friends, family, and network buddies, through word of mouth, digital forwards and so on. we hope 🙂

Sunny spring greetings,

the Rebel Up! rockers.

Party aftermath

Posted on March 26, 2007 by Rebel Up

Hi all,

-a week of radio silence, broken-

first, thanks to all you out there for coming out to the OCCII on the 17th!! You made this debut party a real success and by this feat we managed to raise about 300 sweet euro’s! This will surely give the people at Grassroots Projects a sincere push in their Chiapas cause.

We truly had not expected this many people with happy feet, creating such a superb atmosphere. We counted more than 100 people after midnight, who turned the dancefloor into a sea of bodies, rocking straight till the end!
We are especially glad you folks enjoyed our diverse diasporic tunes and hereby once and for all acknowledging that world music styles should not be pigeonholed into ethnical corners or themes, but played with blood, sweat and tears!

Stay tuned here on the blog for more fun, as we are planning more nights in May and June!!
Plus, renowned international guest dj’s who are fronting this diasporic style will join too!

April on the other hand, seems to be a inactive month, sorry for the wait.
But the blog will keep itself updated through audio and words. Perhaps a mix somewhere too.

Please pass the word onto your friends and so on. Keep in touch, drop us a line, whatever
Many thanks again.

ps: has anyone made photo’s at the night? We would surely like to post them up here.

Grassrooted

Posted on March 14, 2007 by Rebel Up

Hi all,

We have a charity!

The profits made on saturday will be donated to the Chiapas Indians in Southern Mexico, who are struggling to support their families and their livelihood, since the Mexican government does not take sufficient care of this remote part of the country. The Indians have to build all their schools and hospitals themselves and for this they need support from the outside world.

Maybe some of you will have heard about the Zapatista movement uprising, which can be seen as one the first antiglobalists who stepped up for their rights when their govenment did not act on their issues. We at Rebel Up! feel that we need to support these rebelling indians in their righteous cause.

At the moment a hospital is being built nearby La Realidad, which is situated in the autonome area that is not controlled by the Mexican army anymore. Funding is seriously needed for the construction of this hospital and that’s the chosen route our money will follow. This project is coordinated by Grassroots Projects, please scrobble their website for more info. We hope to see you saturday.