Threads of Resilience | Workshop | Fabric of resistance songs

Voice workshop for resistance and restitution | Organized by Jamila and Pro

Jamila and Pro offer a voice workshop for resistance and restitution. In this workshop you will have the opportunity to sing and exchange songs from anti-colonial and anti-fascist resistance movements that you grew up with or that you composed yourself. Jamila and Pro invite participants to bring one or two songs or sing fragments. Together they will stitch a fabric of many resistance songs as a sonic collage and keep it as a record and archive of joint struggles.

Tickets: Donation-based | first come, first served
Language: English
Room: Kahina

Biographies

Jamila Al-Yousef

Jamila Al-Yousef is a singer, festival curator, and cultural activist from Berlin. Inspired by her Palestinian father who came to Germany as a refugee, she early started creating postcolonial projects to share diverse perspectives on West Asia and North Africa. Amongst others she established the Arab* Underground program at Fusion Festival. Since 2019 Jamila works as a trainer and consultant in the field of Empowerment, Powersharing & Racism Critical Cultural Work at various universities and cultural institutions. Besides that she tours with her psychedelic desert funk band "Jamila & The Other Heroes".

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This event is part of the Threads of Resilience Festival

Given the current situation and urgency to express, we decided to co-organize a community-led and collectively curated 3-day festival “Threads of Resilience” from 14-16 December at Oyoun.Those include a press conference, bazaar, panels, film screening, talks, exhibition, workshops, concerts, healing session, theater, puppet show for children, and parties. With this festival, we want to reflect on and learn from movements of resistance, resilience, and solidarity across the world and come together for three days of ephemerality and collaborative archiving. We want to address and speak out against repression, silencing, instrumentalization, and division. We need to continue to empower, promote, and celebrate pluralistic perspectives from, with, and intersectionally marginalized communities.Admission is based on free donation (nobody will be denied entry if they cannot donate). All proceeds will be given to organizations in support of victims of racist police violence and to organizations giving legal support to people threatened with deportation.

Accessibility:

Oyoun is constantly working to make access to all events offered in the building as barrier-free as possible. For this event a simultaneous DGS (German Sign Language) translation has been organised. Our team can guide you to the designated seating area. For individual information on accessibility, please send us an email to access(at)oyoun.de. We will get back to you as soon as possible. More info on this topic here.

Awareness:

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