"AFGHAN GIRL" EP
OUT NOW.

15th August 2021, the world collapsed for Afghan people.
For women and girls, it was their worst nightmare.

Music duo Zarifa Asghari & Eva Kearney have released an EP recorded at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios
www.beyondskin.net/afghan-girl-ep

#EarthDay
Artwork purchased from Shamsia Hassani

Painted by a Mother escaping a regime who wanted nothing more than getting her daughter to a safe shore.
Arrived in Northern Ireland protected by other mothers.

#welcome #mothersday❤️

"Unstoppable"
Sia featuring Miraculous Love Kids (Afghan Girls with Guitars Group).

The girls remain in a very dangerous situation about to be deported back to Afghanistan, and efforts are being made to resettle them in Northern Ireland, led by a consortium of friends in the music.

An Iranian artist Mozghan who escaped oppression with her daughter to Northern Ireland painted this.
She is also an interior designer and set up restaurants in Iran before restrictions on women got tighter.

#Nowruz celebrations take place this week, marking start of spring on the Persian calendar.

#stpatricksday teaser. The Persian, Kurdish, Celtic Connection
concert film. Released late Spring.

Sara Fotros
Cormac Ó Briain
Behnam Ghazanfaripour
Omid Asghari
Nasim Heidari
Conor Pelan
Swar Ahmed

Afghan musician and activist for the end of violence against women and girls, Sonita Alizadeh waiting in Canada for visitor visa to come to #Belfast to speak and perform at many events for #IWD2025
Afghanistan Mens Cricket Team got UK visas.
#AfghanWomen rights is not a game.

Afghan and Northern Irish songwriting duo Zarifa & Eva will join Sonita Alizadeh, musicians from the Ulster Orchestra, and other guests to be announced.

Afghan Women Solidarity Concert Belfast City of Music 8th March
To end oppression and violence against women & girls.

beyondskin.net/iwd25

ANNOUNCEMENT

Afghan Women Solidarity Concert and Fringe Programme
(To end oppression and violence against women and girls)

Our first special guest announcement is Sonita Alizada
Afghanistan's most famous rap star and girls rights activist.

Full press release
www.beyondskin.net/iwd25-pr-31jan

Beyond Skin is 21 today !

Sharing the love and best wishes to all who have been part of our journey.

If anyone wishes to donate to us as a birthday gift to support our projects, there are various options for how to donate on our homepage.
www.beyondskin.net

Photography: Liudmila Chernetska

Celebrating Tradition:
A Journey Through Folksongs.
A blog by Amita Ravikirana and link to Sound of Belfast concert footage.
beyondskin.net/amita

"What can be said in New Year rhymes,
That’s not been said a thousand times?

We rise up laughing with the light,
We lie down weeping with the night.

We hug the world until it stings,
We curse it then and sigh for wings.

We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear,
And that’s the burden of a year."

...and that was 2024

Sending you all love and hugs over the Christmas holidays ❤️

Artwork painted in secret by a young woman in Afghanistan.

#Belfast #CityofMusic will host #AfghanWomen Solidarity Concert on International Women's Day 2025 with special guests performing with Ulster Orchestra plus a fringe programme with guests and partners from business, community, arts, education sectors.

beyondskin.net/IWD25

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