Sound & Solidarity and SHUBZ

Sound & Solidarity provides space for collective explorations of music. Hosted by Sound Advice & Arman Nouri, the gatherings celebrate the power of music and discussion in articulating approaches to challenging colonialism and offering solidarity.

This will be a collective music listening session, in an intimate and relaxed setting, with each participant offering up a track or even a performance for discussion. This is a very limited capacity event.

Sound & Solidarity will be followed by a SHUBZ, taking over a space on SOAS campus, with DJ sets hosted by Houseplants and friends running into the night.

SHUBZ

Sound Advice uses the SHUBZ as a ritual of resistance within Spaces of Power. Through occupation of institutions we pay tribute to a predominately London phenomenon usually hosted in domestic spaces or small local social infrastructures to create a more informal night culture. The Shubz was a space predominantly for communities who struggled to be culturally represented or even allowed into formal nightclubs.

Sound Advice is a platform exploring new forms of spatial practice through music. Through experimenting with a range of projects in different media, designers and urbanists Pooja and Joseph debate issues of critical importance in the urban environment and develop alternative space for the future that speculate on how to make change. This is always accompanied with lyrical tips and music.

Arman Nouri is an artist, organiser and educator, working in and between the spaces of cultural and spatial practice. He is a co-founder of Kin Structures, an arts organisation exploring new approaches to building and sustaining cultural and community infrastructure. Arman teaches at Central Saint Martins where he leads the Critical Creative Practices unit in MA Cities. He is a founding member of Houseplants, a party and DJ crew based in London and Amsterdam.