🌟 Join us for a powerful 2-hour music and cultural workshop exploring the Sudanese genre Agani Banat and the Afro-Colombian tradition of Bullerengue.
Through conversation, rhythm, and collective participation, we’ll celebrate the deep roots and resistance embedded in both traditions—highlighting their roles in shaping identity, memory, and liberation.
The workshop will begin with a discussion with the artists followed by a Q&A. The second half will invite participants into a collaborative, hands-on session—engaging with heritage through music, chanting, rhythm, and movement.
✨ Why Join?
- Learn about Agani Banat and Bullerengue as living traditions of diasporic resistance
- Connect with the artists’ relationships to heritage music and reflect on your own
- Participate in a vibrant collective music-making experience grounded in rhythm, and cultural memory
🎶 About the Music
Agani Banat – A Sudanese genre created by women, for women, Agani Banat is sung in groups and accompanied by the dalooka, a drum rooted in Darfur. The songs adapt traditional rhythms with new lyrics to address social issues, making this genre a vital space of expression, resistance, and liberation—especially for women and queer communities in Sudan.
Bullerengue – An Afro-Colombian sung-dance tradition from the Caribbean coast of Colombia, Bullerengue blends call-and-response vocals, traditional percussion (like the llamador and alegre drums), handclaps, and movement. It is a powerful expression of Afro-Colombian resilience and cultural continuity, passed down through generations in communal settings.
🔹 Art Form: Music
🔹What’s Provided: All materials will be provided. Just bring yourself and your openness to explore and share.
🔹Who’s It For? This workshop is open to and prioritises individuals from North African/Arab, Latin American communities and Global Majority - (by “Global Majority,” we refer to people who identify as Black, African, Asian, Brown, Arab, mixed-heritage, Indigenous to the Global South, and/or those who have been routinely racialised as ethnic minorities.)
Come for the conversation, stay for the rhythm, and leave with deeper tools to connect, resist, and reclaim through music. ✊🏽🌍