17h Film screening and Q&A with Mo’min Swaitat (founder of Palestinian Sound Archive) and Ahmed Al Rokh (Basel-based Palestinian actor)
19h Sunday rave with soli-market by Students for Palestine
About the Palestinian Sound Archive
The Palestinian Sound Archive was founded to preserve Palestinian audio history through different mediums: by re-releasing music/sound recordings, through club nights and radio sets, audio-visual installations, live performances and storytelling sessions which situate the music in their cultural, social and political contexts.
In the past five years, it became clear that not only these sounds needed to be safeguarded, but the extraordinary histories and experiences of the musicians who made them. The Palestinian Sound Archive therefore uncovered hundreds of stories of Palestinian artists and shares them through live performances, counting how they made and distributed their work in the face of displacement, censorship, exile, persecution, arrests, the First and Second Intifadas and other major events.
This event explores archival practice as a decolonial methodology and act of resistance, through sharing archival sounds and images that preserve and document Palestinian heritage, culture, celebrating, dance and resistance.
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17h Film screening and Q&A with Mo’min Swaitat (founder of Palestinian Sound Archive) and Ahmed Al Rokh (Basel-based Palestinian actor)
19h Sunday rave with soli-market by Students for Palestine
About the Palestinian Sound Archive
The Palestinian Sound Archive was founded to preserve Palestinian audio history through different mediums: by re-releasing music/sound recordings, through club nights and radio sets, audio-visual installations, live performances and storytelling sessions which situate the music in their cultural, social and political contexts.
In the past five years, it became clear that not only these sounds needed to be safeguarded, but the extraordinary histories and experiences of the musicians who made them. The Palestinian Sound Archive therefore uncovered hundreds of stories of Palestinian artists and shares them through live performances, counting how they made and distributed their work in the face of displacement, censorship, exile, persecution, arrests, the First and Second Intifadas and other major events.
This event explores archival practice as a decolonial methodology and act of resistance, through sharing archival sounds and images that preserve and document Palestinian heritage, culture, celebrating, dance and resistance. The album features rare 1970s field recordings made by Atef Swaitat (yarghul) and Abu Ali (lead vocals), popular bedouin wedding musicians in Jenin and the north of Palestine.
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