Silvia Penide

Silvia Penide is still in tour of her new CD “Todo pintado de plata” coproduced by Felix Arias, essential singer-song writer in Coruña music stage and 50% of Lovely Luna with Xoel Lopez.

The kind of pop so personal this singer plays made her short-listed twice and winner once, of Martin Codax Price of Galician Music.

She also took part in famous festivals like “Festival Noroeste Estrella Galicia” and El “Festival de la Luz” that Luz Casal sponsors.

Martín Mirás & Ángel Vicos

Ángel Vicos was awarded as best saxo performer of music conservatory and Martin Mirás is an excellent clarinet player. Both of them are part of different music bands, such as Abegondo music band where they leant to play.

Nicolas Castellano

(Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1977)

He is a Spanish journalist with Cadena SER, specializing in issues related to immigration, cooperation, and development. He holds a degree in journalism from the School of Information Sciences of the Complutense University of Madrid. He has worked for Cadena SER since 2000, starting at SER Las Palmas, where he was the news desk editor from September 2005 to October 2007. Since 2007, he has worked at the SER Madrid main news desk. For fifteen years, he has specialized in issues related to immigration, in the Canary Islands as well as in countries of origin, transit, and destination.

His work often takes him to North African locations such as the Moroccan cities of Nador and Tangier, where immigrants and refugees attempt to enter the Spanish cities of Ceuta and Melilla. He has covered natural disasters including the 2010 Haiti earthquake and the 2011 Japan tsunami, as well as humanitarian crises such as the summer 2011 famine in Somalia, considered the century’s first major famine. He has also worked in Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Mexico, Mozambique, and Democratic Republic of Congo. In 2015, he reported on several humanitarian crises, traveling to the Central African Republic, South Sudan, and West African nations affected by Ebola including Liberia and Sierra Leone. In April of 2015, he covered the Mediterranean’s deadliest migrant disaster ever, when over 800 persons lost their lives in an attempt to reach Europe from Africa. He continued his coverage of immigration with the arrival of refugees on the Greek islands of Lesbos and Chios from Catania, Sicily.
 
His articles have been published in newspapers including Canarias 7 and El País, and he has contributed to the books: Me llamo Adou, Mi nombre es nadie, De ida y vuelta, Fronteras 3.0 and Aquí pintamos y contamos todos. His professionalism and dedication to human rights have earned him several awards and honors, including the General Council of the Spanish Bars’ Ninth Human Rights Award, the Spanish Red Cross’s Gold Medal, the Berta Pardal Journalism Award and the 2013 Premio Periodismo Humano.

Consuelo Bautista

(Barcelona 1966)

Born in Barcelona, 9th of August of 1966.

Head of Radio Coruña Cadena Ser Information Services since 1993 until now.

Degree in Information Sciences –Journalism- from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 1984-1989.

Degree in Marketing and Advertising from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. 1984-1989.

Assistant doctoral dissertation on Banking Marketing 1985-1988.

Ondas Award in 2003 for the coverage of Prestige with the information services of the Cadena SER.

Director of the Professorship of Radio Coruña Cadena SER, University of Coruña.

Co-director of the postgraduate course in radio communication Radio Coruña Cadena SER, Faculty of Communication Sciences.

Juan Medina

Buenos Aires 1963
Reuter’s photographer resident in Madrid. Over the past years he has covered with special interest African migratory journeys to the Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla, covering also transit and origin countries as Mali, Senegal, Mauritania and Morocco.

He has participated and exhibited his work in the Forum “Enciende Africa”, the Tenerife Biennial of Photography, International Meetings of Photojournalism in Gijón, Oleiros, Vitoria, Caja Duero exhibition hall in Valladolid, Consulado del Mar in Burgos, La Casa Encendida in Madrid, Visa pour l’Image in Perpignan, Centro Internazionale de Fotografía in Milan, Exhibition Palace in Bamako, Fait et Cause Gallery in Paris, Host Gallery in London, Shombourg Center in New York, Biagiotti Gallery in Florence and Espacio Multiarte SIGEN for the Festival de la Luz in Buenos Aires, and others.

He was awarded with 3rd FotoPrés 2003 Prize, 3rd World Press Photo Award spot news 2005, 1st FotoPrés 2005 Prize, International Photojournalism Award City of Gijón 2005, Care International Award 2005, 1st Picture of the Year Lead Awards 2007, 3rd Award Arts and Culture news in the China International Press Photo Contest 2010 and 3rd Award Portraits category in the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar Contest 2014.

Sergi Cámara

Vic / Barcelona /1970

Documentary photographer, with experience in documentary works for media and cooperation organizations more than ten years in countries like Ruanda, Nigeria, Niger, Mali, Algeria, Sur Sudan, Ethiopia, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Panamá, Haiti, Yemen and Madagascar.
His work is focused in migrations from Africa to Europe, and also refugees. He had work for more than ten years in Spanish south border, in Melilla and Ceuta. In 2015 he performed the same route as refugees do from Greece, Macedonia, Serbia, Hungary, Croatia and Austria.
He worked for several organizations as: International Cooperation “Fundació La Caixa” where he worked documenting projects for expositions in Caixa Fórum Madrid and Barcelona. This work was performed in Ruanda, about Congo refugees displaced to Ruanda.

JRS (Jesuit Services to International refugee), where he worked documenting projects in Colombia, Venezuela, Panamá, Dominican Republic and Haiti.

Entreculturas, communication department, about works performed in Sur Sudan, Ethiopia and Madagascar. Generalitat de Cataluña, Welfare department, where he worked in a communicative- expositive work “Refugees odyssey to Europe”.

Olga Rodríguez

Olga Rodríguez is a journalist and writer specialized in International Information and Human Rights She worked in Cadena Ser, Cuatro, CNN+ and she contributed to several newspaper like Público, Periodismo Humano, El Pais, RNE, La Marea, Tinta Libre and El Periodico.

She is one of the founders of “el diario.es” in which she writes regulary.

In 2003 she covered Irak war from Bagdad and she was a direct witness of the American offensive that killed the Spanish camera operator Jose Couso.

She had covered the main events during the last fifteen years in the Middle East, Europe and USA. She had also worked as special correspondent in Afganistan, Libanon, Palestine, Israel, Yemen, Siria, Libya and Egypt from where she covered the Arabic riots in 2011.

She is the author of several books, like “El hombre mojado no teme la lluvia: Voces de Oriente Medio”, (Debate, 2009, siete ediciones) and “Yo muero hoy: Las revueltas en el mundo árabe” (Debate, 2012).

She won Turia prize to the best news coverage for her work from Bagdad in 2003; Ortega y Gaset collective prize in 2003; Pluma de la Paz prize in 2005; International Press Club Prize in 2007 for her TV work from Gaza and Ciudad Juarez; Human Rights Journalism prize by the association for Human Rights in 2014; Focusing journalism prize in 2015 and Focused Journalist prize in 2016 for her commitment to journalism and human rights.

Santiago Hernández

Santiago Hernandez is Professor of the University of Coruna. He was visiting researcher at the Universities of Southampton (UK) and California (USA). He has collaborated with organizations of solidarity with Latin America and has been VicePresident of the NGO Entrepueblos and member of the Board of the NGO Paz y Solidaridad.

Fadile Chami Ahkar

Syrian, living in A Coruña since 2006. Activist for human rights, women rights and refugee’s rights. Vice-president of SAWT, a Syrian-Galician association for Syrian refugees in Galicia. Active member of Syrian Women’s Network (SWN) and the Syrian Feminist Lobby.

Mabel Pérez Simal

Mabel Pérez Simal studied philosophy. He is a feminist, expert in labor relations and has a wide training: Labor Relations Superior Course from Santiago de Compostela University; Gender and Equality for Men and Women Master from Rey Juan Carlos University; Gender, Citizenship and Work Courses; and Trainers Trainer in Gender Area.

Her education is completed with a wide list of courses, tutorials, and seminary. She travelled to refugee camps in Greece, where she worked as volunteer focusing her work in women and their double or even tripe discrimination.

Esteban Beltrán Verdes

He is director of Amnesty International Spain since June 1997, and he is responsible for coordinating Madrid Central Headquarters.

He lived in several countries of Latin America in the 90 (Argentina, Ecuador, Costa Rica…) where he worked as international consultant for Amnesty International development.

He lived in London and he worked in the International Section of the organization where he had different positions from 1992 to 1996. He was responsible for coordinating Amnesty International development in Latin America and the Caribbean from 1992 to 1993. He was Director of the International Section from 1994 to 1995, the highest position in the organization.

He worked as investigator of human rights violations in Guatemala, Costa Rica and Panama until June 1997. His work involved the documentation and investigation of human rights violations in these countries and design que lobby work of government. During the last years he performed several investigations for Amnesty International in Mexico, Argentina and Colombia, gathering proofs on the ground and talking to their respective governments. He is author of several books, some of them: “Guatemala: ¿hasta cuándo la impunidad?, “Panamá: el derecho a escapar de la muerte”.

He holds a degree in Development Studies by Birbeck College from London University, from 1993 to 1995. He also works as assistant lecturer in Human Rights and Cooperation Master´s Degree from Granada University and Pais Vasco University; Caring Action in Europe Master Degree from Carlos III University; Conflict Solving Master Degree from Open University of Catalonia and Sustainable Development and Humanitarian Aid Master Degree from Comillas University.

Olga Rodríguez

Olga Rodríguez is a journalist and writer specialized in International Information and Human Rights.

She worked in Cadena Ser, Cuatro, CNN+ and she contributed to several newspaper like Público, Periodismo Humano, El Pais, RNE, La Marea, Tinta Libre and El Periodico. She is one of the founders of “el diario.es” in which she writes regulary.

In 2003 she covered Irak war from Bagdad and she was a direct witness of the American offensive that killed the Spanish camera operator Jose Couso.

She had covered the main events during the last fifteen years in the Middle East, Europe and USA. She had also worked as special correspondent in Afganistan, Libanon, Palestine, Israel, Yemen, Siria, Libya and Egypt from where she covered the Arabic riots in 2011.

She is the author of several books, like “El hombre mojado no teme la lluvia: Voces de Oriente Medio”, (Debate, 2009, siete ediciones) and “Yo muero hoy: Las revueltas en el mundo árabe” (Debate, 2012).

She won Turia prize to the best news coverage for her work from Bagdad in 2003; Ortega y Gaset collective prize in 2003; Pluma de la Paz prize in 2005; International Press Club Prize in 2007 for her TV work from Gaza and Ciudad Juarez; Human Rights Journalism prize by the association for Human Rights in 2014; Focusing journalism prize in 2015 and Focused Journalist prize in 2016 for her commitment to journalism and human rights.

Noelia García Rodríguez

Noelia García Rodríguez has a Bachelor Degree of nursing, Master of Tropical Medicine and International Health, Post-graduate of surgery nursing and Bachelor degree of Anthropology.

She began her professional experience with Doctors without Borders in 2004 working in mobile clinics in Angola. From there she was reconciling her work in different hospitals and clinics in Spain with outings on the ground with MSF, working in different positions, projects and places with the organization: Nurse Activity Manager of the Nutritional Ambulatory Program in Sudan (Darfur), Ethiopia and Yemen; Project Medical Referent (Set up of a Maternity) in Somalia; Nurse Activity Manager in Meningitis Outbreak (Mass vaccination campaign) in Nigeria; Project Medical Referent in Cholera Emergency in Haiti; Project Medical referent in regular project (Hospital, mobile clinics and nutrition) in Ethiopia; Hospital manager (Hospital with surgical capacity) in Syria; Medical Coordinator in Meningitis outbreak in South Sudan (Malakal); Nurse Activity Manager (Medical responsible for the OPD activities) and coaching/preparation of other nurses in carrying vaccination campaigns in Syria; Project Medical Referent in pediatric project in Guinea Bissau, in South Sudan and in Dignity I; Medical Coordinator in Yellow Fever outbreak in Angola.

In addition, she has also carried out training in the course of meningitis, in the course of Emergency Response. She is currently working as a support for the learning referent of the Medical Department.

Jorge Quindimil

Jorge Quindimil is a professor of Public International Law, European Community Law and International Relations in Coruña University and he has got a doctorate in Law from Coruna University.

He is member of European Studies University Institute “Salvador de Madariaga” and he is member of the group of investigation about current matters of international and European law of Coruña University.

He is the author of several publications about international law, European Community Law and Integration Law. Related to his Latin American publications, Instituciones y Derecho de la comunidad andina monography stands out, as well as articles and chapters in books related to integration as a factor of development, international migrations, cultural dimension of integration, national appreciation margin, communitarian judicial system, native nations, people freedom of circulation, communitarian citizenship, relationship with European Union and security in maritime borders or maritime delimitation.

Javier Bauluz

(1960, Spain. Photojournalist)

Pulitzer Prize 1995, Human Rights in Journalism Award 2008 and in 2016 forhis work “Seeking refuge for my children”.

He covered wars and conflicts in Bosnia, Rwanda, Chiapas, Berlín, Chile, Perú,Guatemala, Spain, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Panama, Palestine, Israel,Marruecos, Sahara, Kosovo, Senegal, Cuba, Lebanon, Mauritania, etc. He iscovering migration and refugees since 1996.
He worked for international news agencies such as Associated Press, Reutersand Gamma. Publications in The New York Times, Washington Post, Liberation,The Independent, Der Spiegel, El País, El Mundo, La Vanguardia, Cambio 16,Interviú, Newsweek, Time, GEO, Magazine, Courier International, Veja, Stern,Univision…

Director and founder of Periodismo Humano. (Human Journalism) A winningaward professional media focusing on Human Rights since 2010.

Director of “International Festival of Photojournalism Gijon”, Spain since1997.Promoter of the Manifesto of Journalism and Human Rights in 2008.

Director of documentaries about human rights as “Noticias de los Nadies” 2008.
Associated professor in the IE University 2014- 2016, the Pompeu FabraUniversity 2012, director of the Oviedo University photojournalism workshop2000-2012 and lecturer in many others universities as Washington, Barcelona,Cádiz, Valencia, Sevilla, Cádiz, etc.

Ricard G. Vilanova

(Barcelona, 1971)
Has been a freelance photographer and video journalist for over 15 years. He specializes in conflict and humanitarian crises. Over the past 5 years, he has been a frontline witness to the Arab uprisings (beginning with Libya and, since 2011, devoting himself entirely to Syria 2011-2015), and also in Afghanistan, Irak, Yemen, CAR, Nigeria, Chad, Haiti .His objective has remained unchanged throughout his career: to bear witness, through his camera lens, to the violations of civilian human rights, children in particular.

Published in Life, Newsweek, The New Yorker, Time, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, The Boston Globe, The Daily Beast, Usa Today, The Palm Beach Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Star, The Huffigton Post, Foreign Policy, The Daily Examiner, The Chicago Tribune, The Financial Post, Le Monde, Liberation, Le Figaro, Paris Match, Express, Le Point, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Times, Die Welt, Der Spiegel, El Pais, El Mundo, La Vanguardia, Tiempo, Columbia Journalism Review, Days Japan, PDN, NPPA News Photographer, Russian Reporter.

Also has collaborated with organizations such as ICRC, UN, Msf, Human Rights Watch, Medicins du Monde.
As a freelance videojournalist has worked in CNN, BBC, ITN, Channel 4, ICRC, MSF, VICE, PBS, APTN, Reuters TV, Euronews, Cuatro, TV3 and his photographs have been used by CNN, Al Jazeera, BBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC and France24.

His work has been exhibited in New York, Washington, Paris, London, Madrid, Barcelona, Taiwan, Taipei, and he has several prizes like selected to exhibited en LOOK3 ( SLPS ), Honorable Mention IPA Editorial War/Conflict 2010, Honorable Mention PX3 ( War Photography ) in 2009 and 2nd Place Recipients of PX3 Competition ( War Photography ) in 2010, Honorary Mention in Global World: Through the lens of Human Rights 2010, Nominated in The New York Photo Festival 2009, Nominated in Nikon Thursday Award 2009, 3RD QUARTER 2010 NPPA, in 2010 WSJ presented the candidacy for the Pulitzer Prize, in 2013 Px3 Gold Medal, IPA War / Conflict, POY / Pictures of the Year, Bayeux-Calvados Award for War Correspondents Category photo, ANIGP Prize 2013, in 2014 International Journalist Miguel Gil, José Couso Journalism Award, International Press Club Award, Manuel Vázquez Montalban Journalism Award and the El Mundo Award for Reporters, in 2015 Mika Yamamoto International Journalist Award in 2016 Finalist Days of Japan and POY / Pictures of the Year; and as video journalist finalist in Media Awards FPA and win with Alberto Arce the Rory Peck Awards Features in 2012, year 2013 The Royal Television Society News Coverage International by The Syrian Uprising with team CNN, 72nd Annual George Foster Peabody Award with team CNN for its coverage inside Syria and with team CNN The Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA), and nominated to EMMY for its Coverage of the War in Syria with the team CNN.

Doa

Doa is one of the most well known groups of Galicia before 80´s. Their vanguard folk mix several trends of music and popular folk (not only of Galicia but also of other countries) in a personal and heterodox way. This features of their music means an own way of playing music that conformed their style during their lifetime.

The members of the current group are excellent musicians:

SUSANA DE LORENZO : Voice and Harmonium. She owns a unique technique full of emotion and different shades. She had a lot of works in Clasic music, rock and others.
XOAN PIÑÓN : Acustic guitar and co-founder of DOA, he had played in several groups of experimental music and he is a pioneer in contemporary galician music.
BERNARDO MARTÍNEZ : Percusion e clarinet, he is another co-founder of DOA. He is one of the most important musicians in Galicia and had played improvised music, jazz, folk and electronic music.
GERTRAUD BRILMAYER : Violin and voice. Symphonic orchestra of galicia. He is a great instrumentalist and plays diferent types of music: classic music, contemporary music, jazz, bossa, folk. Guest artist: Fran Castro (keyboards). He participates in several formations like “Turma Caipira” and “Electric Ladyland” (Voice, electric bass), composer and arranxista of diverse styles, Jazz, Rock, Bossa.

DISCOGRAPHY

“O son da estrela escura” (1979)
“Polaridade” (1984)
“Perfiles” (1986)
“Arboretum” (2002)
“A fronda dos cervos” (2011)

PRICES AND RECOGNITIONS

XI OPINION MUSICA FOLK PRICE TO THE BEST ALBUM IN GALICIA 2011
GLOBAL VILLAGE EE.UU 2012. “TOP 5”
SOAS RADIO LONDRES 2011 ALBUMS. “TOP 10”
RADIO NACIONAL RADIO EXTERIOR DE ESPAÑA MUNDOFONIAS. “FAVORITOS 2011”
WORLD MUSIC CHARTS EUROPE XANEIRO 2012. “TOP 20”
WORLD MUSIC CENTRAL EE.UU. “FINALIST 2011”
WORLD MUSIC.CO.INGLATERRA “BEST ALBUMS 2011”

Extrema Urgencia

Extrema Urgenca is a vocal music group of people that, even working in other matters, they have free time enough to play music in Extrema Urgenca and other groups.

Because they are amateurs, most of their activity is focused in caring society events. They have played in The Cavern, in Liverpool, in Euskalduna Theater in Bilbao, in Granada, Madrid etc. and they have played with Javier Gurruchaga, Manuel Manquiña and had also shared “jams” with The Quarrymen (the group created by John Lennon) in several occasions.

The kind of music they play tries to redo and remember the 60 music to the new generations, not only in blues style but also in rock, soul etc without pretensions.

Felix Arias

www.felixarias.bandcamp.com

Felix Arias holds a long career in music that got strengthen in 2000 because of Lovely Luna, publishing his first LP with Gerssen Records, a disc company from Lleida.

Their next LP were “Las cosas que nadie debe ver (2004)”, and “Chang y Eng (2009)”.

He is also a member of Guru Deva group and from 2002 to 2008 they published an EP and two LP, one of them was “After All” in 2003, being awarded in 2004 with the second place in Villa de Bilbao festival.

On his own he has published “Manchados de tinta” (2006), “Vals muy triste en Sol menor” (2013) and “Aves Zancudas”(2016)

Harakiri

www.harakiribanda.bandcamp.com

Facbook

Harakiri are a band based in the city of A Coruña that sharpen their katanas for the first time at the beginning of 2016 in the IX Festival Solidario En Directo. While there were several changes in the formation, in this time they toured different halls of the city tuning their art of getting their guts and not kill themselves in the attempt, giving form to a proposal that is drunk as a combination of the subtleties of Pop And the more primitive Rock & Roll rudeness. No dressing, direct and without artifice.

Harakiri son:

• Laura – Voz e guitarra
• Ray – Batería e voz
• Maka – Baixo

Bule na Campa

Group formed for this event by musicians of different styles from classical music, folk, rock or blues, make a mixture in their songs.

Formed by:

• Montserrat Cañas – voz and percusión
• Paco Lafuente – voz and percusións
• Pedro Ordás – baixo
• Xosé Taboada – frauta and saxo
• José Luis Yepes – Guitarra.

Paco Campos

Actor and dubbing director, in Galician and Spanish, he worked in “Platos Combinados” TVG, “Mareas vivas” TVG; “Nada es para siempre” A3; “Secuestrados en Georgia” directed by G. Balza T5; “Sara”; “Heroina” a film by Gerardo Herrero; “Sombe” a film by Isidro Ortiz; “Hospital Central”T5; “La bella Otero” TV series directed by Jordi Frades (zenit-antena3); “Matalobos”; “El Noreste”; “Padre Casares” etc.

He plays the guitar, piano, accordion, and the harmonica, and with Explanada Group has recorded two LP: “Al romper el dia” and “Laura, ojos de agua” in which he sings and composes most of the songs. He is now working on “Un atlantico de música”.