MIGRART

Sonic Solace #2 _ Workshop and Concert by Zainab Lax
2024-06-09 16:00 - 22:00 UTC | 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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