THE HOUSE OF HEARTS – LADEN LIVE STREAM#10

House of Hearts – May 21s great guests… THURSDAY NIGHT LIVE

VIENNA TIME CET 08/15pm via www.verein08.at LIVE STREAM

This episode of the House of Hearts will enter into the living rooms of a true New York City Village Voice and songwriter Andrew Vladeck, a wonderful performer and singer from New Orleans Renee Benson, a Swedish Austrian Writer, scriptwriter and graphic designer Caroline Bruckner, Mani Obeya performer, dancer, sofa surfer and Italian Matt Louis, singer, Gondoliere and Globetrotter.

For the first time live @the pond due to new regulations I welcome the executive director of groundtruthsolutions Nick van Praag to relevate his views and solutions for his humanitarian work in times and countries of crisis.

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House of Hearts Guests Description:

MANI OBEYA

Mani Obeya, born in Nigeria and raised in England, is a dancer, singer/songwriter and choreographer. He received a diploma from the Arts Educational School, Ballet Rambert and studied at the Dance Theater of Harlem with a degree in dance before becoming a soloist at the Stadttheater Heidelberg and Nationaltheater Mannheim as well as the UnterwegsTheater Heidelberg. He then worked for four years on the independent scene in Vienna, primarily with the TanzTheaterWien under the direction of Liz King, with guest choreographies by Catherine Guerin, Simon Frearson and Nigel Charnock, Christine Gaigg, Saskia Höbling and Michael Klien. He also created short pieces for TTW before becoming a soloist at the Volksoper Wien, where he danced and choreographed until 2002. After that he was a guest artist with the Forsythe Company.

He became a member of Michael Keegan Dolan’s Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre Company, with which he toured the world for more than a decade until Michael Dolan renamed the company Teac Damsa. He was Michael’s assistant and rehearsal manager for several years and was on a world tour with the award-winning play „Swan Lake / Loch na Heala“.

Since 2004 Mani has been the singer and songwriter of the well-known Viennese electronic/rock band Sofa Surfers, with whom he won two Amadeus Music Awards. Mani is also member of the soulful and powerful Band “INDUS TREE” with fellow “House of Heart” guest Matt Louis. They had their elegant premiere in the verein08 a couple of years ago. Very happy and honored about that.

Mani worked as a choreographer at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Deutsches Theater Berlin, the Stadttheater Hannover, in Bremen and at the Schauspielhaus Dresden.

He works for international youth programs, for example with young people living in the slums of Nairobi (Kenya) or creates pieces with asylum seekers who have recently arrived in Austria.

ANDREW VLADECK

Andrew Vladeck has been a fixture on the New York music scene since the 90s, known for his sharp songwriting and earnest performances in the tradition of Jonathan Richman, Elvis Costello, Randy Newman, Dylan. The Village Voice calls his music “nothing but fun“ and L Magazine writes, “The perfect blend of Midwestern thoughtfulness and New Yorker gruff.” 

Post-Americana Alt-Folk Rock www.andrewvladeck.com  

1st Place—International Songwriting Competition; NYC Band of the Month, The Deli Magazine

Performances at Bowery Ballroom, Rough Trade, Mercury Lounge, US/Euro tours & festivals. Shared bills with The National, Jeff Buckley, Norah Jones, Andrew Bird, Soulive, Moe., Ani DiFranco, & more.

RENEE BENSON

Renee „RaiE“ Benson is Soul Unleashed. Her voice has taken her into the home of millions and in front of 65,000 people live.  She is the Emcee for NO HOME FOR JOHNNY and one half of the Freudian Cabaret Duo, Cheating on New York.  Featured around the world on radio, film, tv and stage and plans to not stop there. Check out her feature in „The Moment“ with MOTSA, released on Southern Fried Records. She performed at Glastonbury Festival and many other places and spaces. Renee studied at the prestigious “Tisch School of the Arts” at the New York University. She is originator of the Youth outreach program “IN MY WORDS,” an arts empowerment workshop for young women in the South Bronx.   

NICK VAN PRAAG

Nick van Praag set up Ground Truth Solutions in 2012 with the goal of helping humanitarian agencies make good on their commitment to listen and react to people affected by humanitarian crises when designing and managing programmes. Nick’s focus at Ground Truth Solutions is on building the organisation’s team and its activities.

His prior career spans humanitarian and development work at the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, the Aga Khan Development Network, and the World Bank. His interest in accountability to affected people stems from his experience of change management as Director at UNHCR and his work on conflict, security and the development nexus at the World Bank.

Ground Truth Solutions is an international non-governmental organisation that helps people affected by crisis influence the design and implementation of humanitarian aid. We developed out of Keystone Accountability, which helps social change organisations improve their performance by harnessing feedback from the people they serve. We also capture the perspective of field staff and local partner organisations as a counterpoint to the views of those caught up in humanitarian crises.

CAROLINE BRUCKNER

Caroline Bruckner is a multi faceted personality with many talents. She is an internationally awarded Designer and illustrator and a relentless writer whose screenplay for „The Confession“ brought her a nomination for the Oscars. In her new book „Love Is A Magic Whisker“ she explores an entertaining love story that takes us into the world of nobility and snails penisses. (On Amazon)

MATT LOUIS

To open a pizzeria in a corner of Vienna that was still unhip at that time did not seem to be the smartest idea at the beginning. Matt Louis did not care. In the winter of 2010, the musician opened his CapaTosta (stubborn skull or „Sturschädel”) in the Vienna Urban Hotel on Sechshauser Straße in Fünfhaus, gave the restaurant a modern black and white pattern, integrated a powerful pizza wood oven, which was specially made in the workshop of Stefano Ferrera in Naples, and set up a stage for live acts that filled the eating public with jazz and soul rhythms. The wilful concept worked: The pizzeria filled to capacity every night. For the summer season, however, the neo-gastronomer saw a need for action due to the lack of a guest garden, went in search of a suitable open-air location and found one in the Vienna Stadtpark. Matt Louis moved into the pavilion only a few steps away from the park entrance Johannesgasse, gave the fully glazed building the typical CapaTosta design and transformed the guest garden with its old trees into a large stage for soul, pizza and bistecca. He hung colourful lamps and lanterns in the branches, simply took the furniture from the 15th district and set up a container from which he served the drinks. He gave up the location in the city park, where live musicians and DJs regularly performed, and now spends most his time writing music, producing and djing. 
Matt is a real globetrotter as well and a gondolier, he moved back for a while into the city where he was born, Venezia, an began to work for a license as a gondoliere…La Pizza, la Gondola and all over with Music….in the sense of Capatostare…I can only raise a toast to the Capo! seems like a real Italian Deal to me!

INDUS TREE IS THE CREATION OF VIENNA SOCIAL LIGHT MATT LOUIS AND SOFA SURFERS VOCALIST MANI OBEYA. THE GENRE SPANNING PROJECT ALIGHTS ON ELECTRONIC, THEN ACOUSTIC, NU-SOUL, FOLK, POP, JAZZ AND VERY OCCASIONALLY WORLD MUSIC. IT’S EMOTIVE, FRAGILE AND SIMULTANEOUSLY ROBUST. IT IS NOSTALGIC AND FORWARD LOOKING. THE EVOCATIVE LYRICS AND MATT’S FLAMENCO INFLUENCED GUITAR BLEND TOGETHER TO TRANSPORT LISTENERS TO A PLACE UNIQUELY INDUS TREE. SONGS OF LOVE AND PAIN AND WHAT LIES BETWEEN MAKE FOR A COMPELLING LISTENING EXPERIENCE.