Blackbox

DJ sets by OKRA Collective. A meeting place, exchage and networking with and for the community, including solibar. 

OKRA is a collective of Black multidisciplinary creatives, based in Basel and Amsterdam. We seek to address the issues of systemic discrimination faced by BIPoC, through creating communal practices and centering those among us who are being marginalized in multiple ways. Our aim is to create party spaces that are sensitive to different layers of discrimination, in collaboration with other BIPoC individuals and collectives working in the cultural and artistic sector.

One big senmbelek is the big mix that our workshop is offering. (Songwriting, Beat-making and concert)

At the Blackbox in Zürich we will be happy to present our work life. We will explain what it is to be a musician in Switzerland and give some insights on how we are working as musicians over the years.

Furthermore we would like to demonstrate the simplicity and difficulty of being creative and create something together on the spot with our  crowd.

Cali P will be explaining the musical journey from his point of view. How did he manage to become a Artist that is being listened to worldwide. How did he become a international touring artist?

Besides explaining the journey Cali P wants to engage with the crowd at the Blackbox and write a song on spot.

Mykel Costa is one of Switzerland best producers at the moment. His journey is very interesting. How did he even become a producer? What makes the difference of being a hobby musician and having music as a full time job.

What is the music market he produces for and what significance does the local scene of Switzerland have in his everyday work.

Mykel Costa will build a beat together with the crowd on big screen in shortest time and vibe up with our crowd at the Blackbox.

Stela is a real Newcomer Artist. She has released her first song ever in May 2021 and just started her music career here in Switzerland.

What are her goals? What does she aspire for? What is her challenge?

She will be presenting some of her works and explain what it is like starting up as Black Woman in Switzerland.

Talk with Zola and Badr about their work with LGBTQIA communities in Morocco, Soli Bar and Music. 

We are two friends who found each other through activism. Badr moved to Switzerland from Morocco, and Zola moved from Egypt in 2012. Part of our activism is to educate people (as much as our knowledge allows us) on queer issues in the Middle East and North Africa.
 

Magical black box in Zurich.

I feel compared to spent some time with you. The time has come to explore the outdoor space.The time has come to blur even more lines. Imagining a moment in time. Where a simple dream slips into realty. "it's okay to be okay, it's okay to not be okay

Let the music guide. Be the rabbit in the hole. Be the fairy in the night sky. 

SOLO X 2 comes in the form of a what the artist could only explain as a radio performance. The performer uses the space to encounter reality in an abstract way. Through sound, film, moving images and performance.

As a metaphor for exchange they conceive food, specifically the production of two breads, corn gorditas and wheat catutos, as a carry-bag of the memory of their community. Los Catutos y las Gorditas are the vehicles that carry the concern felt by Paloma and Carolina for their contexts of origin, currently forced to change due to violent processes of geopolitical and postcolonial displacement, changes that affect the local ways of reproducing culture, maintaining, sustaining and inhabiting their environment.

Paloma Ayala (MX/CH) and Carolina Opazo (CL/CH), both mestiza and migrant artists, narrate and intertwine stories from their territories of origin in the northeast border of Mexico and the rural south of Chile, projected in their present reality in Switzerland.

www.palomaayala.com

https://carolinaopazo.hotglue.me/

Shared Space - Music, Solibar 
 

Black hair, natürliches Haar, ist mit so vielen Emotionen verbunden. Es ist so besonders, dass es im Laufe der Geschichte missverstanden, gefürchtet, unterdrückt und sogar verboten wurde. Es liegt also in unserer Verantwortung, es zu schützen, indem wir darüber lernen, es gut pflegen und mit Liebe und Stolz tragen.
Beim Curly Hair Workshop feiern wir unsere Haare und unsere Locken und erforschen verschiedene Wege sie zu nähren und stylen. 

Limitierte Anzahl Plätze, Teilnahme mit Registration.

Open dance and Solibar 

Painting workshop, Solibar and Music.

Please register to attend as we have limited capacity (15 places).