2024
Friday 20 September
Evening concert
St John on Bethnal Green
Doors 7pm
Music 7.30pm
Ends 11pm
Thorayya Kaddoura ثريّا قدّورة, “Soufounan Banaha Nouh” (1925-26)
Spatial diffusionKareem Samara كريم سمارة
Live setSoosan Lolavar سوسن لولااور + Colin Alexander
Live setZeynep Toraman, Castle Terraces in Barry Lyndon (2023)
Co-commission with Ensemble Contrechamps, for electric guitar, clarinet, violin, cello & electronics, performed by Distractfold Ensemble (Rocío Bolaños, Daniel Brew, Linda Jankowska, Sergio Serra Lopez). Film by Burak Çevik. UK premiereSam Salem أسامة سالم, Waves of crashing blackness (2024)
For piano, electronics & fixed audiovisual media, performed by Mark Knoop. World premiereBINT بنت
Live audiovisual setSaturday 21 September
DIY as Resistance:
Short film programme & workshop
Cafe Oto
Begins 12pm
Ends 3.30pm
Short film programme Barzakh برزخ curated by Saeed Taji Farouky سعيد تاجي الفاروقي
Making and screening these films is a political act. Watching them together is an act of resistance.Workshop with Olivia Melkonian Օլիվիա Մելքոնեան & Sherif Dhaimish الشريف دهيميش
An interactive workshop designed to empower participants to harness the power of art as a form of resistance.Saturday 21 September
Evening concert
Cafe Oto
Doors 7.00pm
Music 7.30pm
Ends 11.30pm
Zein Majali زين مجالي, new work (2024)
Another Sky commission, for electronics & video. World premiereCerpintxt
Convolution of the King's Chamberأَسيرًا في مَصانعُ الحُلمُ
Dakn داكنْ, new work (2024)
Co-commission with BEK – Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts. World premiereSote صوت
Sound System Persepolis liveEl Kontessa الكونتيسة
Live setSunday 22 September
Another Sky Market
Cafe Oto
12-3pm
Free
Independent label, publisher, craft & gift fair, co-presented with The Mosaic Rooms Bookshop. With Afsana Press, Archive Khanah, Azl Collective, Bees & Refugees, CentreCentre, Discontent, Drowned By Locals, Injazero, LibLib, Mabrouklyn, Mangal Media, Maqam مقام, Medina Publishing, Morphine Records, Pendle Press, SkatePal and more sellers to come
Guest video installation:
Musiqa li Falasteen, موسيقى لفلسطين by Maqam.TV
A four-hour composition of songs of Palestinian joy, lament, longing, solidarity and resistance. Presented by As We Are, Might Have Been and Could Be from the Arab British Centre.
Sunday 22 September
Reading Group
SPACE FOR SWANA
3.30-5pm
Free with RSVP
Join Dirar Kalash for a reading session and discussion of Memory for Forgetfulness by Mahmoud Darwish. Co-presented with The Mosaic Rooms and Maqam Books مقام, and hosted in collaboration with SPACE FOR SWANA.
Sunday 22 September
Evening concert
Cafe Oto
Doors 7.00pm
Music 7.30pm
Ends 11.00pm
Nazanin Noori نازنین نوری
Live setGolnaz Shariatzadeh, root (2024)
Another Sky commission, for violin, viola, cello & electronics, performed by Explore Ensemble(David Ibañez López, Nicholas Moroz, Morag Robertson, Deni Teo). World premiere
Shakeeb Abu Hamdan + Sholto Dobie
Live setIdin Samimi Mofakham آیدین صمیمی مفخم, As I lay down (2024)
Another Sky commission, for violin, viola, cello & electronics, performed by Explore Ensemble(David Ibañez López, Nicholas Moroz, Morag Robertson, Deni Teo). World premiere
ãssia ghendir آسيا غندير
Live setHARRGA
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