Oyé World Pod - Episode 5 - Jubeda Khatun
Episode description
We are delighted to bring you to another episode of THE OYÉ WORLD POD - the podcast from Africa Oyé - the UK's biggest celebration of African and Caribbean music and culture.
The 'Oyé World Pod', hosted by Oyé's Artistic Director, Paul Duhaney & Oyé Ambassador, Spykatcha, will welcome a different guest each show, chatting about the music they just can't live without, dream festival lineups and lots lots more.
EPISODE 5 - Jubeda Khatun
Jubeda is the Artistic Director of BlackFest’s - Liverpool's grassroots Black arts festival. She is a performance arts graduate, theatre maker, producer and spoken word poet, an alumnus of the Artistic Director leadership programme: Future Leader of Tomorrow delivered by cohort of theatres Talawa, Tiata Fahodzhi, Freedom studios.
She won Merseyside Woman of the Year 2022; featured in the Echo's Power list: 100 Most Influential People in Liverpool; and she was a Finalist as an Artist of the Year 2020 in Liverpool's Creativity and Culture Awards, recognised for curating many arts opportunities through the pandemic.
She is a Trustee of two great mini grant funding initiatives in Liverpool: Awesome Foundation Trustee and Liverpool SOUP supporting great projects that bring joy and make positive change.