We were very excited to host Exist Palestine, who hold their first-ever Berlin event at Oona Bar, Weserstr. 166 on Saturday, August 20th.

Exist is a festival and event series founded in Palestine, with the aim of building bridges between artists, musicians, DJs and curators from Palestine and across the globe. Its broad, transnational family are united in a desire to use art to impact their environments in critical ways, and through their engagement with anti-colonialism in the context of Palestine and beyond.

Exist Festival’s event at Refuge Worldwide will include DJ sets by Exist extended family members Ciarra Black, Dirar Kalash, Falyakon, Kujo, Oldyungmayn, Sainte Marina, No Plastic and the festival's co-founders Odai Masri and Bint Mbareh. 

There will also be two installations on-site at Oona: an audiovisual installation by Sarah Risheq titled if_the_archive_could_speak, exploring Palestinian physical and mental archives; and a sound piece by Dirar Kalash called To Exist In Sound, which draws from audio recordings of the 1948 Nakba and 1967 Naksa.

Exist Festival Takeover - August 2022

On February 6th, two earthquakes took the lives of over 40,000 and counting Turkish, Syrian and Kurdish people, and displaced millions more, in what is one of the most devastating natural disasters of the 21st century. The effects of this disaster will be felt for years to come, and we as an international community need to raise money however we can to help, and also need to keep the crisis visible in global news.

On Sunday, February 19th, we hosted a fundraiser event over two floors at arkaoda Berlin, in collaboration with Root Radio, Radio Alhara and Resident Advisor. It was be a chance for people from the affected communities to meet and mourn together, to listen to some DJs from these regions play downtempo sets, to buy some donated artworks and crafts and, most importantly, to raise money. 

Together, we raised 12,000€ which was split equally between three reliable organisations: AHBAP who focus on Turkey, The White Helmets focusing on Syria and Heyva Sor focusing on Kurdish people.

DJ line up curated by Oscar Atanga, Richard Akingbehin, Ahmedshk & Ibrahim Owais.

Turkey-Syria Earthquake Fundraiser

Radio shows from the GALA takeover of Refuge Worldwide, warming up for our stage takeover at the festival this May. Hear new sets from Anja Ngozi, Heléna Star and No Plastic who play our tent, plus a recording from BORN N BREAD's Toasty Talks and a recording of Danilo Plessow (MCDE) closing the GALA Main stage in 2021.

GALA 2023

One of our favourite days of the year at Refuge Worldwide is the Friday bank holiday in April, which, since last year, we have dubbed “B2B day”.

From 10 AM to 2 AM, we celebrated new friendships and musical collaborations through a whole day of all-new back-to-back radio shows. Breakfast show host Nikola started the day in partnership with Bézier, and from there we hosted a full day of joint musical adventure between the station's residents.

10:00 - 12:00 Nikola & Bézier
12:00 - 13:00 No Plastic & Anton Teichmann
13:00 - 14:00 Rita & Delphine
14:00 - 15:00 Henry Weeks & Shiru
15:00 - 16:00 Richard Akingbehin & Riki Ross
16:00 - 17:00 Zoe & Dance_98
17:00 - 18:00 Nadia Wise & Pat
18:00 - 19:00 Alias Error & Kiki
19:00 - 20:00 ABIBA & Yasmin Umay
20:00 - 21:00 Mandel & Deniz Arslan
21:00 - 22:00 Grant Gibson & O.N.A
22:00 - 23:00 Laura Vargas & Nordberg
23:00 - 00:00 MLE & Stephen Howe
00:00 - 02:00 NM DJ & Ophélie

B2B Day 2023

Shows from the week-long XJAZZ! Festival takeover, which ran from Tuesday 9th May through Saturday 13th May, and was hosted by Henry Weekes.

XJAZZ! Festival 2023

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Leesh - Daisychain | 001

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Sa Pa - Absurd Lustre

Philipp Otterbach - Guest Mix March 2021

Maurice Fulton - GALA Takeover

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Regenerate Festival - BeatPete (Azymuth Special)

On Tuesday, 2nd November, Kampala-based festival, label and creative platform Nyege Nyege brought electronic sounds from across sub-Saharan Africa directly to Refuge Worldwide.

Founded in 2013 and hosting the Nyege Nyege Festival since 2015, Nyege Nyege illuminates the undercurrents of pan-African contemporary music and promotes a cross-breed of African and European underground dance sensibilities. “Dope underground music, that’s what we’re about. Just dope music,” says Arlen Dilsizian, co-founder of Nyege Nyege Tapes.

In the past decade, Uganda has birthed a growing number of homegrown electronic scenes influenced by traditional sounds such as plucked notes of the Ennanga harp and the fervent drumming of courting dances.

Ziúr | Nyege Nyege Takeover

Turkana | Nyege Nyege Takeover

Join Honey Tapes for an extra special Garage Girls takeover on Refuge, inviting some of their fave female DJs to party in the booth for wall to wall bangers.
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The Honey Tapes: Garage Girls Takeover - Eliza Rose

We invited 20 of our nearest and dearest onto the airwaves for an extended and very special b2b session. One of the most rewarding aspects since opening the studio has been to see new relationships flourish in the DJ booth - giving birth to friendships, music, and creative collaborations. On Friday 15th April, we celebrated that love!

B2B Day - DJ Fire Abend & Riki Ross

Exist Festival - Oldyungmayn

Exist Festival - Drew McDowall

Exist Festival - Sainte Marina

Exist Festival - Falyakon

Exist Festival - No Plastic

Exist Festival - Odai Masri

On February 6th, two earthquakes took the lives of over 40,000 and counting Turkish, Syrian and Kurdish people, and displaced millions more, in what is one of the most devastating natural disasters of the 21st century. The effects of this disaster will be felt for years to come, and we as an international community need to raise money however we can to help, and also need to keep the crisis visible in global news.

On Sunday, February 19th, we hosted a fundraiser event over two floors at arkaoda Berlin, in collaboration with Root Radio, Radio Alhara and Resident Advisor. It was be a chance for people from the affected communities to meet and mourn together, to listen to some DJs from these regions play downtempo sets, to buy some donated artworks and crafts and, most importantly, to raise money. 

Together, we raised 12,000€ which was split equally between three reliable organisations: AHBAP who focus on Turkey, The White Helmets focusing on Syria and Heyva Sor focusing on Kurdish people.

Turkey-Syria Earthquake Fundraiser - Hüma Utku

Turkey-Syria Earthquake Fundraiser - Lefter Records

On February 6th, two earthquakes took the lives of over 40,000 and counting Turkish, Syrian and Kurdish people, and displaced millions more, in what is one of the most devastating natural disasters of the 21st century. The effects of this disaster will be felt for years to come, and we as an international community need to raise money however we can to help, and also need to keep the crisis visible in global news.

On Sunday, February 19th, we hosted a fundraiser event at arkaoda Berlin, in collaboration with Root Radio, Radio Alhara and Resident Advisor. It was be a chance for people from the affected communities to meet and mourn together, to listen to some DJs from these regions play downtempo sets, to buy some donated artworks and crafts and, most importantly, to raise money. 

Together, we raised 12,000€ which was split equally between three reliable organisations: AHBAP who focus on Turkey, The White Helmets focusing on Syria and Heyva Sor focusing on Kurdish people.

Turkey-Syria Earthquake Fundraiser - Konduku

Turkey-Syria Earthquake Fundraiser - Ahmedshk

Turkey-Syria Earthquake Fundraiser - Rabon Aibo

Turkey-Syria Earthquake Fundraiser - Melis

Turkey-Syria Earthquake Fundraiser - Mehmet Aslan

🎙Hosted the GALA Festival show last month, ahead of our stage in London this summer. Tracks from Eglo, Analog Africa, Blue Note and more.

Refuge Worldwide at GALA (Peckham, London) - 28th May: https://refugeworldwide.com/news/gala-23

GALA Takeover - No Plastic (Refuge Worldwide)

Gala Takeover - BORN N BREAD x Toasty Talks

GALA Takeover - Danilo Plessow (MCDE)

GALA Takeover - Heléna Star

GALA Takeover - Anja Ngozi

B2B Day 2023 - Laura Vargas & Nordberg

B2B Day 2023 - Mandel & Deniz Arslan

B2B Day 2023 - ABIBA & Yasmin Umay

B2B Day 2023 - Alias Error & Kiki

B2B Day 2023 - Nadia Wise & Pat

B2B Day 2023 - Nikola & Bézier

B2B Day 2023 - MLE & Stephen Howe

B2B Day 2023 - NM DJ & Ophélie

XJAZZ! Festival - Henry Weekes & Dimitra Zina

XJAZZ! Festival - Henry Weekes & Sonic Interventions

XJAZZ! Festival - Henry Weekes & Aver

XJAZZ! Festival - Henry Weekes, Douniah, D'Monk & Sanni Est

XJAZZ! Festival - Henry Weekes, Angel Bat Dawid, Natalie Greffel & Abasé

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Linda & Norm - Guest Mix February 2021

Iggy P - Guest Mix February 2021

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We are an independent, community radio station working in solidarity with grassroots and non-profit organisations. So that we can continue building this platform to amplify the people, music and issues that we care about, please consider joining our Patreon as a supporter.

Between January 1 and June 30th 2021 a share of Patreon revenue raised will be donated to The Queer Black Therapy Fund, an initiative started by Kemoy Jemmott, a host at Refuge Worldwide.

More info: www.refugeworldwide.com

Love On The Rocks - Paramida, Samuel Gieben, Alex Kassian

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