by Suzanne Regterschot | Oct 19, 2020 | Pottery School
Last week, Yasmin Metz-Johnson, founder of Yasmin Tells, visited the Lettie Stuart Pottery Centre in Waterloo, where she led a workshop on how to market the pottery products! With the festive season (and its Christmas markets around Freetown) coming up in a few weeks,...
by Suzanne Regterschot | Oct 16, 2020 | Pre-Accelerator programme
Last Tuesday, October 13th 2020 to be precise, marked the day our first Cohort graduated from the Pre-Accelerator Program! All seven startups went through a rollercoaster over the past months – they started the program in February to develop their business ideas, but...
by Suzanne Regterschot | Sep 24, 2020 | Pre-Accelerator programme
Last weekend, Suzanne took a roadtrip to the Tonkolili district to visit two entrepreneurs from our Pre-Accelerator Programme! On Saturday, she visited Mohamed, who produces rice in the village Magbas, and on Sunday she visited Alie who has a pepper farm in Mangay...
by Suzanne Regterschot | Sep 24, 2020 | Freetown Music Week, Music Writing Week
‘’When Music Speaks, Everybody Understands’’ Music Diplomacy, founded by Paolo Petrocelli, shares stories on music diplomacy from all over the world. The blog community launched in May 2020, and so far it has featured stories from all over the world, including blogs...
by Suzanne Regterschot | Sep 14, 2020 | Music Writing Week
It’s exactly one year ago that the first song from USUSU was released! Artists from the UK, Iceland and Sierra Leone started their journey together in November 2018, when 17 of them met up in Sierra Leone during the Music Writing Week. This event was followed by the...
