The 2009 Homeless World Cup starts TODAY! So why not watch this grassroots TV interview, commissioned by Irked last December and filmed at the Channel 31 studios in Melbourne, Australia
Written by admin2 on September 6th, 2009Filed under: Regular Contributors, Donna Williams, Themes, Auties & Aspies, Bum Deal, Interviews, Campaign Watch, Irked Videos
A doozy of an interview…after the jump!
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Written by Donna Williams, published on Irked December 5th, 2008:
Melbourne came alive this week to the glory and spectacle of the International Homeless World Cup and even I got swept up in it. Sacha Vais, founder and editor of Irked Magazine, contacted me offering me the opportunity to interview the founder of the HWC, Mel Young (also co-founder of The Big Issue Scotland in 1993). He arranged for a TV interview to be filmed with Mel, one of the athletes named Alan (who came from Liverpool where he had been homeless and was representing England in the Cup) and Louis, a coach from Manchester United who was out here to coach the England team. Mel, Alan and Louis arrived at the Channel 31 TV studio in Melbourne’s CBD (Central Business District), together with their publicist Kirsty, and were ushered into their seats for a whirlwind interview in a wildly hectic PR schedule. Parades, matches, workshops and PR were all part of the agenda for these guys. Cameras rolling and me in the interviewer’s seat (sure, I manage Exposure Anxiety and receptive language processing disorder as part of my autism but that’s never stopped me!) Mel, Louis and Alan answered my questions, discussing how the International Homeless World Cup came about, how it rose to success, how it has mobilised communities and brings homelessness into humanising visibility.
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Watch the (slightly offbeat, but entirely brave and wonderful) 3-part interview, filmed last December:
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The Milan, Italy 2009 Homeless World Cup starts TODAY, and takes place in the Arena Civica, Sempione Park from 6-13 September 2009. For more, please visit homelessworldcup.org.
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Donna Williams is an internationally best-selling author, painter, sculptor, and composer. She has autism, and a “fruit salad” of other disorders. To learn more about her work, visit DonnaWilliams.net. To learn about her band “Donna & The Aspinauts,” visit their MySpace page.
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