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Sonic Solace #3 : Auditory Alchemy / Soundwalk
2024-09-27 13:00 - 17:00 UTC | Busstation Rentenanstalt, Rentenanstalt, Zürich, Zürich, 8002 Zürich, Switzerland
Auditory Alchemy is created to guide participants through a series of sonic experiences and meditative prompts that will lead them to reflect on different layers of self and environment sounding and listening in an urban context. Participants will engage in exercises that encourage awareness of their inner and outer selves, exploring personal, cultural and collective auditory experiences.
Facilitated and conceptualized by tracy september and Siavash Namehshiri, the city of zurich is used as a canvas to paint an auditory environment through short recordings that will be used for a collective listening.
Please note that this soundwalk requires an audio recorder and headphones. If you have one, please bring it with you. If you would like to participate but do not have the equipment, please email us at info@migrart. We will provide a limited number of the necessary equipment.

Siavash Namehshiri / @siavash.namehshiri is a Kurdish Composer, musician, collaborative Sonic proposer from Iran, based in Zurich. over the years, he has been exploring improvisation and contemporary electronic music. Over the years, he has engaged in collaborative projects and experimented with different art contexts in studio and live performances and studied Electroacoustic Composition at Art University in Zürich. Through his sonic creations, Siavash channels his memorial experiences using music and sound to express and process specific moments of displacement in his works. Siavash maintains a keen interest in the intersectional dimensions of sound and collaborative practices.

tracy september is a South African musician, performer, DJ and music researcher based in Zürich, Switzerland. With influences of jazz, traditional Xhosa singing and electronic experimentation, tracy works around themes of memory, spirit and protest, with a particular passion for improvisation. For tracy improvisation is a way to surrender attachment to ideas and trust the capacity of one’s intuition. It is an invitation to let go. tracy uses her voice, electronics, texts, archive materials and field recordings, to tell stories that are deeply rooted in ritual, community and communion. Ritual as a transformative tool; community as the foundation for the co-creation of existence; and communion as a means for intimate fellowship.

Talk Talk Talk #6 - Audience Podcast - sharing m/othering practices
2024-09-22 18:00
Talk Talk Talk is a series of Audience podcasts that are a live moment with Audience in the MigrArt space as well as at a later time will be published on different online platforms as well as aired on local Zurich radio Radio LoRa on 97.5 MHz.

sharing m/othering practices

m/othering ourselves is a sharing about m/othering practices and their radical potential when seen as a possible action, more than a gendered identity. The act of m/othering – as a queer, radical and collective practice and a communal responsibility for caregiving – is imperative to building transformational change. tina omayemi reden has invited Serena Owusua Dankwa and Ivy Monteiro to share their m/othering ways, their caregiving practices and ideas on community spaces.

With
Ivy Monteiro
Serena Owusua Dankwa
tina omayemi reden

Ivy Monteiro ( Ivy is an educator and developer of practices and performative roles in Dance, Music and Theatre Performance, for small and big stages. They are a natural shapeshifter, re- imagining and re-conceptualizing femininity, gender, social and race through (dis)identification from a post-colonial perspective. Ancestrality and Spirituality are reshaped and envisioned in queer futuristic pieces, where the artist reclaims and questions their space in our apocalyptical future.

Serena O. Dankwa recently returned to academia as a lecturer and postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Social Anthropology in Basel. She holds an MA in African Studies from SOAS in London and earned her PhD from the U. of Bern. While working on these, Serena was affiliated to the U. of Ghana and held fellowships at Columbia University (NYC) and Yale University. She is the author of the award-winning ethnography Knowing Women: Same-Sex Intimacy, Gender and Identity in Postcolonial Ghana (2021) and a coeditor of Racial Profiling: Struktureller Rassismus und anti-rassistischer Widerstand (2019) and of Bildung . Macht.Diversität: Critical Diversity Literacy im Hochschulraum (2021).

tina omayemi reden is a Zurich-based artist, cultural worker, organizer and lecturer. She primarily works in collaboration and is involved in collectives that focus on themes of collective care, intergenerational exchange, social justice, and community building. Central to her practice are moments of deep listening and the act of making visible the intricate networks of relationships, power dynamics, resistance, longings, and desires. As part of the collective FUBU she has been organizing a variety of gatherings and solidarity events – from parties and dinners, to intergenerational exchanges and seasonal rituals, performance nights, nature walks and collective harvesting.

Acousmo #5 _ Listining Session by Saba Alizadeh and Siavash Namehshiri
2024-08-31 21:00 - 23:30
Live Concerts
Saba Alizade
https://www.sabalizadeh.com/

Siavash Namehshiri
https://www.namehshiri.com/

Acousmo #4 _ Listining Seission by NÂR and Farida Amadou
2024-08-17 21:00 - 23:30
Live Concerts :
NÂR
Farida Amadou

Acousmo #3 _ Listining Session by Akram Hajj and F1_PV
2024-08-03 21:00 - 23:30
Live Concerts :
Akram Hajj
Akram Hajj is a self taught percussionist, mainly known for his unorthodox style and polyrhythm grooves. Since his breakthrough with his band Kinematk, he launched multiple improvisational acts with numerous musicians across europe and the middle east. Hajj’s recent works centre around electro acoustic drumming with an oriental sonic approach. Inspired deeply by Sufism culture, hajj merges the old vibrant trancy style of music with an avant garde industrial sensation . Through his drums, daf, electronics, and field recordings, the lebanese
multi instrumentalist addresses rhythms and sounds to form a complete palette of sounds .

F1-PV
F1-PV is a Zurich-based musician that has been leaving his mark on the local and national underground scene in recent times.

TALK TALK TALK #5 : Swiss Happens " Black Womxn from Elsewhere in Conversation"
2024-07-13 19:00 - 21:00
Swiss Happens: Black Womxn from Elsewhere in Conversation
Three Black womxen from elsewhere who moved to Zürich at different times in conversation about their experiences and realities navigating Zürich, Switzerland and Europe in the bodies they inhabit. One arrived over 40 years ago, another over 20 and the other 10. What has changed? What has remained the same? How has this place changed me? How have I changed this place? What is home? Where is home? Who am I, here, now?

Paula Charles, born in London in 1956, grew up in the Caribbean on the island of St Lucia and in London, sang in a soul band, worked as a go-go girl in Switzerland and is committed to the cause of black people in Zurich.
Brandy Butler is a contemporary arts performer, with a strong focus on storytelling. Brandy’s passion is change, and the instability that it brings. They believe firmly that change is necessary for growth, and are committed to supporting such opportunities whether through creative, pedagogical or community based projects(or some intersection therof!)
tracy september is a multi-hyphenate artist and performer who works around themes of memory, Spirit and protest, with a particular passion for improvisation. For tracy improvisation is a way to surrender attachment. She uses her voice, electronics, texts, archive materials and field recordings, to tell stories that are deeply rooted in ritual, community and communion.

Acousmo #2 : North Naim (live) & A R B Ë R E S H Ë (Live)
2024-06-15 21:00 | MigrArt Space, Allmendstrasse 93, Zurich, 8041, Switzerland
A R B Ë R E S H Ë (Live , CH /RKS)
Introducing A R B Ë R E S H Ë, the musical project of a versatile musician bridging Switzerland, Kosovo, and Albania. With a knack for different self-taught instruments and genres, she explores the depths of Albanian folk songs, interpreting them with her emotions and sentiments. For A R B Ë R E S H Ë, music isn’t just a passion— it gives her a feeling of being home.

NORTH NAIM (LIVE. CH)
North Naim is a genre-defying artist based in Zurich, encompassing roles as singer, rapper, producer, and instrumentalist. Embedded in many of Europe’s interesting sub-cultures, their self- produced music defies easy categorisation, inviting audiences into an intimate world of sonic and poetic introspection. The exploration of sound, poetry, and arrangement, merged into an avant-garde pop anatomy, has long been central to their creative process.

Sonic Solace #2 _ Workshop and Concert by Zainab Lax
2024-06-09 16:00 - 22:00 | MigrArt Space, Allmendstrasse 93, Zurich, 8041, Switzerland
Sonic Solace #2 , Sunday 09.06.2024
The workshop, concert, and afterparty are open to all.
The Workshop need Registration

16:00 Workshop
20:00 Concert Zainab Lax
21:00 Afterparty with MigrArt DJs : QR Code, youngseptember, Siyanur, m.k.moon & Sirena.

In music, we can express things more easily that we sometimes lack words for. On the one hand, music can help us to come into better contact with our own feelings, but it also offers the opportunity to come into contact with one another in a non-verbal way. Together we will create a space that should be as nonjudgmental as possible and in which everyone can try something new. No instrument or previous knowledge is needed, but you can bring your instrument if you have one

Sonic Solace is an interactive platform created by MigrArt, which facilitates the collaboration of musicians and individuals without musical expertise. It enables the transformation of sound into a tool for communication and healing.

Zainab Lax is a music therapist and multi-instrumentalist and specializes in music as empowerment for people who have experienced specialization. She has been playing the harp since she was seven harp since the age of seven, but is also at home. Her inspiring loop performances are characterized above all by improvisation and invite you to dream but also to groove.

Talk Talk Talk #3 : "Broken Crayons"
2024-05-25 19:00 - 21:00 | MigrArt Space, Allmendstrasse 93, Zurich, 8041, Switzerland
#3 “Broken Crayons”
This episode and the space is open for everyone.
Please Register
In the third edition of our public panel discussion and podcast series TALK TALK TALK, three LGBTQIA+ Indeginous and activists will dig more deeper the concept of the “broken crayons” with in indigenous communities. Some Indigenous communities always treasured and celebrated the beautiful diversity of Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and expression. Historicaly in colonialism perpetuates intersectional discrimination against non-heterosexual Indigenous individuals, This “Broken Crayons” systemic discrimination not only violates our rights being human and also us being part of our communities. This episode we want you to answer the vital questions: What kinds of challenges do members of the LGBTQI+ face in tribal communities?
With: “Shannet Clemmings, a resilient force from Jamaica with the tribal community Marron, fearlessly embraces her transgender identity. At 35, she exudes intelligence and determination, living by powerful mantra: I was not built to break; I didn’t know own strength. With unwavering resolve, shannet defies limitations, proving that strength knows no bound.”
With: Ahu Ozgur Sen, born and raised in Kurdistan. A trans Kurdish queer-activist. She belongs to Sayyid and Düderan tribes. Migrated to Switzerland 18 months ago due to some family and other issues. Currently Ahu is involved in a numerous number of queer-activist collectives and continue to do social rights activity.
Moderator: Reya Morgado, A Transgender and Manobo Tribe from Philippines. She is gender rights advocate, community development worker, radio commentator, broadcast and print journalist, creative Artist and book author based in Bern. A political asylum who continues to fight for human rights.

Reya Morgado
Shannet Clemmings
Ahu Ozgur Sen

Acousmo #1 : Vivian Wang & Yasmine El Baramawy
2024-05-18 21:00 | MigrArt Space, Allmendstrasse 93, Zurich, 8041, Switzerland
Live Concerts by
vivian wang & Yasmine Elbaramawy

Yasmine El Baramawy is an Egyptian musician, Sound Artist, Oud performer and Composer based in Malmö, Sweden.
Yasmine creates soundscapes with her Semi-acoustic Oud live manipulations and abstract/electronic sounds voicing as a dense auditory landscape of concrete music along with Egyptian vintage music creating her unique cosmic sonic experience.
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Composer, sound artist and musician Vivian Wang reconfigures intermediate spaces and develops transdisciplinary works across a range of sonic practices in art, culture and space. Her instruments vary between synth, voice and electronics, field recording and prepared instruments. A founding member of avant rock group The Observatory, Wang has toured and performed extensively as a noise and improv musician since 2001. Her multichannel sound installations and performances have been presented at the Sharjah Architecture Triennial 2019, Ekko Festival 2021 and Borealis – en festival for eksperimentell musikk 2022.
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Talk Talk Talk #2 : Commitment, Care, Community
2024-05-18 18:30 - 20:30
TALK TALK TALK #2
*Commitment, Care, Community*
In the second edition of our public panel discussion and podcast series TALK TALK TALK, three reseachers and activists navigate the paradox of promise through the construction of „safety“ by sharing their formative experience in queer and feminist circles. They look into what strengthening a balance between accountability, discomfort, and Community-Care would entail. Also they wonder about how they can learn from ancestry knowledge when creating afrofuturistic meaningfulness and belongingness. This talk reflects upon what it means to build caring communities that challenge themselves by addressing the notions of repression, power dynamics and the politics of space in and outside their margins.
With Niloofar Rasooli (Zanjan/Zurich)
Niloofar Rasooli (she/her) is a writer from Iran. Niloofar writes and teaches at the intersection of anti-colonial queer feminism, erased memories and archives, resistance, rebellion, revolution, and the reclamations of the built and lived environment.
FupaMagic (GHA/Vienna/Bern)
FupaMagic (she/they), MA., MSc., is a Black educational scientist, lecturer, musical artist, facilitator and genderqueer lesbian. They work at the Gender Research Unit at the University of Vienna. Her work revolves at the intersection of education & community care by creating anti-racist, self-empowerming spaces for people navigating anti-queer hostility, anti-fatness and white supremacy in white dominant societies.
Moderated by Marilyn Umurungi, an art and cultural researcher, examines the stories of Black people in her work, which reveal the entanglements of racism, sexism and exoticism in the Swiss and European context. As an expert outside the field of historical studies, she seeks to apply various approaches to intersectionality to historical research. This episode and the space is open for everyone. The episode will be broadcasted over the airwaves on June 15th at 11:30 AM on Radio LoRa 97.5 MHZ

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