longerr inheritances - ACT II
21 June | 19:30 | Venue TBC
longerr inheritances (curated by Otis Mensah) explores notions of jazz experimentation and what it means to bend genre and artistic expression as Black and artists of Colour. longerr inheritances will propose an expressionistic unveiling and exhibition of untold, mystified artistic practices of Black artists and artists of colour, linking regionality to universality through common diasporian connecting points whilst exploring varying perspectives on the body, dreaming and home through live performance. This programme is interwoven by interdisciplinary practices of live music expression at the intersection of poetry and sound.
longerr inheritances will take place across two venues and events
(Act II) hosted by DJ MYNA, will feature a headline performance from Savanna Morgan, multi-disciplinary, neo-traditionalist musician and performer from East Texas, classically trained in both European and American (jazz) vocal styles, featuring accompaniment from African American performer and composer Zaki Hagins. As well as performances from artist, musician, Yumé NET, who melds modern jazz and experimental electronic music to tell stories about the very personal and very human aspects of her life (platonic love, trans joy, identity, bigotry, community) and how technology has transformed them. As well as an opening performance from Hamza Mohamed Beg, Muslim artist whose mediums of expression span from performance and poetry to sound design and video collage. Care, labour, diaspora, and faith are consistent themes that weave within his works.
About Savanna Morgan
Savanna Morgan (she/her) is a multi-disciplinary, neo-traditionalist musician and performer from East Texas. Her upcoming project “marginal delicacy”—arriving in August 2024–will be the debut EP for her pop adjacent, jazz-influenced neo-soul band Savanna Morgan and the Lovers. She is classically trained in both European and American (jazz) vocal styles.
She came to Berlin in Fall 2020 to earn a Master's in Performance Practice, and has since joined the art publishing collective, Archive Ensemble where she is an editor and performance-researcher. Her recent publications include debut poetry book, "cow tripe" (Hopscotch Editions, 2022),“Parabolis Virtualis” (Querverlag, 2023), and “Togetherward” (Archive Books, 2023). Her performances, ranging from concerts to choreo-poems, have been presented at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (The Whole Life, 2022, O Quilombismo, 2023), Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien (Freistaat Barackia, 2021), Gropius Bau (GABAN, 2022) , ChertLuedde (Bungalow Berlin, 2022), VillaRomana Florenz, Saavy Contemporary (Weaving the Inner Bark Festival, 2023), TanzFabrik (Ko Shebeen, 2021), amongst other socio-cultural institutions. Blues for Mrs, a film written and performed by Savanna and directed by Dr, Anton Juan, recently had its Berlin premiere at Ballhaus Naunynstrasse in January 2024.
About Zaki Hagins
Zaki Hagins (they/he) is an African American performer and composer. As a performer, they have a passion for works that stretch the boundaries of a given art form. They have contributed to David Lang's symphony for a broken orchestra and the 2017 Bowerbird retrospective "That Which is Findamental" on the music of Julius Eastman. Zaki Hagins was trained as a viola player with Renard Edwards and Owen Brown, and studied composition and singing with Vykintas Baltakas with Yvonne Schiffelers, respectively, at Conservatorium Maastricht. They released their debut single, "Younger," in December 2022. They are currently based in Berlin, where they perform regularly with The String Archestra and House of Living Colors and are a founding member of the collective Everything Changes.
About Yumé NET
As our lives move more and more online, the boundaries between the natural and digital world become increasingly blurry. Yumé NET is interested in interrogating these boundaries. Whether it's in her research as a bioelectronics PhD student developing electronics that interface with the human nervous system. Or in her music, where she crafts coruscating and otherworldly musical landscapes that explore what it means to be human in an increasingly online society. Using a meld of modern jazz and experimental electronic music as her framework, Yumé sets out to tell stories about the very personal and very human aspects of her life (platonic love, trans joy, identity, bigotry, community) and how technology has transformed them. Tender but heavy, calculated but full of love, her music invites the listener to join her in exploring what lies between and beyond the 0s and 1s.
About Hamza Mohammed Beg
Hamza Mohammed Beg is a Muslim artist. He was born brown in London and claims heritage in Mauritius, Pakistan, and all the seas between. Hamza is self-taught in all artistic mediums he employs; his work functions in research cycles in which the topics of inquiry indicate the mediums of expression. Those mediums span from performance and poetry to sound design and video collage. Care, labour, diaspora, and faith are consistent themes that weave within the works. You can find them (and sometimes him) in museums, magazines, galleries, cafes, bedrooms, bars, buses, trains, lakes and forests – on the pitch, in the kino, in the mosque.
About MYNA
MYNA is a Sheffield-based Artist/DJ and curator, specializing in showcasing the best the African diaspora has to offer. MYNA is well known for her bouncy playful mixes traveling from afrobeat and afro house to baile funk and beyond and explores brooding percussive soundscapes, influenced by her heavier tastes in metal, hardcore and Gqom and her Nigerian heritage.
When not behind the decks, Amina is 1/6th of the core team at Mondo Radio and the founder of calabash! - a platform that seeks to centre and uplift black artistry.
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£10 | £7 | £3
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Doors open - 19:30
Running time - 19:30 - 20:30
Please note this is subject to change
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SADACCA
48 The Wicker
Sheffield S3 8JB -
To Be Confirmed
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To Be Confirmed
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Coming Soon
Friday 21 June, 2024
19:30 - 22:30
Tickets £10/£7/£3