Prayer Circle for Courage and Perseverance

Through poetry, ritual mantras and rosary work, Lina Atallah and Priya Bains will lead us through prayer work for our martyrs and prisoners, for our people in Palestine and for wretched peoples elsewhere, for our activists and our witnesses to continue to have the courage to persevere in fighting for a world less brutal. The…

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Ultima x Masahat: Club night

Ultima, Blå and Masahat invite you to a club night with DJ Plead and Deena Abdelwahed. DJ Plead, a Melbourne/Naarm producer based in Berlin, takes the stage next, drawing on his Lebanese background, to create percussive club music that blends the rhythms, scales and timbres of Lebanese pop and traditional music with other contemporary dance…

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Djadba Ensemble

Masahatfestivalen og Riksscenen presenterer Djadba Ensemble, frontet av Khalid Laaouam. Djadba ensemble koker opp sin egne energiske fusion av Gnawa- og Isawamusikk, shaabi, ørkenblues og tilhørende uttrykk. Det Oslobaserte bandet er et nytt tilskudd til pulsen av suggerende beats fra den afrikanske og arabiske diaspora som trekker stadig flere lyttere til festivalscener og klubber –…

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Poems of Consumption / Hamed Sinno med live strykekvartett 

Det er med stor glede at Masahatfestivalen 2024 og Ultima presenterer den ikoniske libanesisk-amerikanske Hamed Sinno med deres solodebut Poems of Consumption på Riksscenen den 21. september. Hamed Sinno er tidligere vokalist i det legendariske indie-rock bandet, Mashrou’ Leila.  Det kritikerroste «Poems of Consumption» er en litterær sangsyklus og en multimediaforestilling som utforsker temaer som overforbruk,…

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Carnival of Grief: Songs of Anemone

Songs of Anemone – cries of the land and its people, is a series of events occupying grief practice as a radical form of protest and an act of defiance of all oppressive colonial systems prevalent in our world. Standing on the foundation of grief as the very fabric that holds us together, we will…

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Solidarity and its undersides

Listening in to a history on the sidelines, tracing overlaps between personal history and public history, witnessing a genocide and morphing through the witnessing, daydreaming of the moment the war will be over, remaking a home by the sea in Gaza, imagining a politics that defaces the universal but that is not stuck in the…

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