About Charity Shop DJ
Established in 2001, Charity Shop DJ produces projects and events creating dialogue and communication.
We find and celebrate connections between people and communities, without borders and without boundaries.
It's about our entitlement to culture, and our right to create it. It’s about people, respect, justice, equality and peace. It’s about partying, and finding and celebrating the common ground.
We want to help re-define value
By celebrating the power of the creative choices and expressions of all people in everyday life, we are working to bring communities together in a spirit of solidarity and understanding.
By recognising and celebrating the common ground between communities and generations, communication can exist that can redefine our relationships, our cultures, and our futures.
We want to help re-define value –
“ You can’t always get what you want. But if you try sometime you find You get what you need" The Rolling Stones
Celebrating equality and
universality through music
Charity Shop DJ is about new ways to communicate
It is about celebrating our musical heritage, giving a voice to people from all backgrounds
Why we do it
BECAUSE WE WANT TO, and because we can
How we do it
By collaborating and talking through work to be done
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Some of our previous and existing partners
Arts Council England; London International Festival Of Theatre; WOMAD; WOMADelaide, Australia; Renaissance East Midlands; QUAD Derby; The Association of Charity Shops; Turner Contemporary; Derby City Museum and Art Gallery; Shire Hall Gallery, Stafford; The Horniman Museum, London; Hay-on-Wye Literary Festival / Film Four; Art Vinyl; Emerge Festival; NHS; Nottingham Trent University
"Bringing Back to Life the memories locked in vinyl"
John Humphrys, BBC Radio 4 'Today' programme
We're not just working with music
Working across the public, private, and third sectors, projects include work with the elderly, young people, the health sector, international charities, the recycling and re-use industry, higher education, and the entertainment industry.
"It is clear from the smiling faces of Jupp's subjects - and they're not all crumblies - that vinyl has a future; as a cultural artefact, it can't be beaten as a repository of memories and dreams"
Caspar Llewellyn Smith writes in The Observer: Review
Charity Shop DJ is Andy Jupp
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