RECYCLE ME for Organ Donation at Kulturkalaset / Culture Festival Gothenburg together we do do MORE!

Thanks everyone who came by our tent on Saturday, so nice to meet you all! 

RECYCLE ME for Organ Donation at Kulturkalaset / Culture Festival Gothenburg together with;

Petra Vestlund, transplantation coordinator at Sahlgrenska University Hospital. Susanne Ljungman, Renal specialist and renal failure coordinator Ellinor Broms. Jenny Nyström, professor and kidney researcher at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg. Gelinfonden, The foundation’s main assignment is to support vital research on organ transplantationer. Håkan Hedman, Honorary Doctor at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg and Chairman of the Swedish Kidney Association. Håkan Gäbel is a senior lecturer and former transplantation surgeon. Markus Gäbel, transplantation surgeon at Sahlgrenska University Hospital. Pamela Lindgren, founder, project leader and designer of RECYCLE ME, Master of Fine Art and PhD student at Chalmers University of Technology. Tina Pajunen, active in the Swedish Kidney Association. Fredrik Holm, music producer Definition Baroque. Lelethu Mahambehlala, “Poeticsoul”, poet from Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa. Asanda Msaki Mvana, musician from Buffalo City , South Africa. ETZIA, musician from Gothenburg Sweden. Rushay Booysen, artist and  hip hop manager from Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa. The 4 Blind Mice, artistic collective from Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa.

A big thank you to our volunteers!!

This is Asanda Msaki Mvana from Buffalo City, South Africa. Msaki will soon be on stage for RECYCLE ME to promote organ donation awareness at the Kulturkalaset /Culture Festival in Gothenburg, Sweden! We are so looking forward to see her perform live on stage together with ETZIA and guests!

http://goteborgskulturkalas.se/…/4179-etzia-och-hot-this-ye…

“Msaki is a singer-songwriter and composer from South Africa. She is a rare breed of artist who disrupts your senses with her alto voice and subtle tales of love, loss, home, revolution and hope. Her sound is soulful, folky, symphonic and African.”

More info about Msaki;
https://twitter.com/Msaki_ZA
https://web.facebook.com/Msaki-384136548298484/?_rdr

Msaki’s journey to Sweden has been made possible by The Swallows Foundation. Thank you so much for this opportunity!

http://www.isisekosenkonjane.co.za/

http://goteborgskulturkalas.se/s%C3%B6k/recycle%20me

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Kulturkalaset Photo Dick Gillberg
Kulturkalaset Photo Markus Wetterberg

  

  

 

Happy to announce that RECYCLE ME now has a collaboration with The Swallows Foundation located in South Africa! We are very happy, proud and excited! This August we are going to host music artists and a poet from both Nelson Mandela Bay and Gothenburg at the Kulturkalaset / Culture Festival here in Gothenburg Sweden! On photo Lelethu Mahambehlala, “Poeticsoul”.

Kulturkalaset is providing us with a stage and activity tent, thank you so much for this opportunity!

More info you find here: http://goteborgskulturkalas.se/s%C3%B6k/recycle%20me

 

“The Swallows Foundation SA also known as Isiseko Senkonjane or (ISSA) works as a Development Agency for all forms of the arts, culture and heritage throughout the Eastern Cape in South Africa, seeking innovative solutions for social cohesion and creating platforms for artistic expression.  It seeks to create opportunities and connections nationally and internationally by encouraging intercultural exchange and relations through the arts. The partnership with RECYCLE ME is meant to explore collaborative opportunities on social issues using the Arts and to raise awareness in both Göteborg and Nelson Mandela Bay.” 

– Mr Oyama Vanto

More information about the Swallows Foundation:

http://www.isisekosenkonjane.co.za/

Lelethu Mahambehlala Photo Bantu Mtshiselwa

Kulturkalaset Photo Dick Gillberg

Kulturkalaset Photo Beatrice Törnrös