Background

Turning Tables works to empower socially, politically and economically marginalized youth worldwide by providing them with the means to express their grievances, hopes and dreams through music and film.

Turning Tables taps into these media as an extremely effective language in areas where reaching out to marginalized youth is often wrought with obstacles and dangers. The aim is to build creative environments through inspiration, learning and transfer of technology that enable artistic self-expression in spaces where this would otherwise have been impossible.

In this talk, Martin Fernando Jakobsen, founder and international CEO of Turning Tables, will speak about the importance of giving a voice to vulnerable and oppressed global youth living on the streets or in camps.

Turning Tables’ unique approach is to produce creative content by inflicted youth rather than about them as a way of bridging abstract statistics of poverty, violence and climate change with the genuine stories of young people whose everyday lives are inflicted by such events.

Turning Tables has offices in Burma, Cambodia, Lebanon, Jordan, Kenya and Sudan and is an official partner of UNDP HQ for global promotion of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

Turning Tables has also set up social inclusion programmes for homeless youth, unaccompanied refugee youth and ghetto youth in Denmark and Sweden.

Speakers

Martin Fernando Jakobsen

Martin founded Turning Tables in 2009, establishing permanent music and film schools for marginalized youth and activists in Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Tunisia, Myanmar and Cambodia. He has also organized and supported rap and hip hop concerts for activist rappers in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Denmark.

Martin has been a professional DJ and producer with ‘Den Sorte Skole’ for more than a decade and holds a Master in political science from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Programme

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