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You are warmly invited to Fluid Echo-Systems: A Soundscape Journey Through West African Wetlands, an intimate listening session exploring sound ecology, wetlands, memory, and the environmental knowledge of African and Afrodiasporic women*. Through immersive field recordings taken across Ghana’s most precious wetlands, from Lake Bosomtwe in the Ashanti region down to Asokore Dabiasem, in the Eastern region, through to the Busua mangroves of the Western region, to the Densu Delta of Accra, the session invites you to reflect on sound as a carrier of ancestral memory, spirituality, ecology, and relationships to land and water. Together, we will move through layered sonic ecologies where voice, environment, and memory intertwine. Produced in collaboration by DēpART and Ɛdan and supported by Marshall, this evening is led by: Abeni Asante, an ecologist who uses visual & sound art as mediums to tell stories of speculative afrocentric futures, and Abigail Baffoe, the project leader of Women In Soundscape Ecology Africa. 📍 Location: Ɛdan Spatial Studios, opposite Sandton Court, Osu, Ghana 📅 Date: 21 May 2026 ⏰ Time: 4:00pm–6:00pm (Session starts promptly) The event is free, tickets are available at: https://tix.africa/discover/fluidechosystems @edanghana @wisea_official @abigail_csemghana @asantewaa.lineage @marshall

This Saturday at TPStudio! #sonicportals

Listening Session 'The Love for Music' West African rhythms & food Highlife, Afro House & Forest Soundscapes 28.03.2026 2pm to 7pm AT ODO VALLEY, BUSUA, GHANA Vinyl & Live performance with Spc.Ghst, Moone, Kumanini records & Abeni Asante

African-futuristic Listening Session with Abeni Asante @asantewaa.lineage & Kumanini Records @kumaninirecords 6th March 2026 6:30pm to 8:30pm at Ahanta Eco Ecolodge Asa Baako Festival Western Region, Busua, Ghana Listen to Atlantic underwater recordings, African vinyl records & histories of Black electronic music The listening session blends Black electronic music records, traditional African records, with hydrophone recordings and whale calls on vinyl. In the session, listeners are invited to hear about the African origins of electronic music. The Atlantic theme is inspired by the Detroit techno duo Drexciya, who shaped early creations of techno sounds. In the Drexcyen mythology enslaved African women gave birth to children in the Atlantic Ocean who could breathe underwater, building their own innovative society under the sea. The listening session builds upon this mythology, weaving in themes and rhythms of West African fluid water deities, ocean ecology and the African origins of electronic music and journeying to classic African records of memory and resistance. A reflection on resilience, transition, and imagination beyond the known. Entry donation based. 📷 @kimjimlives

In honour of Yemanjá Month February 🌊 Underwater: A sound project based on Drexciya - Detroit electronic music, African-Futurism and Transition Vinyl Storytelling Hydrophone Recordings 'Underwater' is inspired by the Detroit techno duo Drexciya. In the Drexcyen mythology enslaved African women gave birth to children in the Atlantic Ocean who could breathe underwater, building their own innovative society under the sea. 'Underwater' builds upon this mythology, weaving in themes of West African water deities, gender expansive underwater life and commemoration of lives in the Mediterranean Sea. A reflection on resilience, transition, memory and imagination beyond the known. The soundscapes blend electronic music with hydrophone recordings and whale calls on vinyl. Tracklist Drexciya - Song of the Green Whale Drexciya - Birth of new life Grupo Ofa - Yemanjá Francis Bebey - Sanza Nocturne Drexciya - Drexcyen Star chamber Field Recordings from Berlin & Cape Coast Actress: Angel Maxine @angelmaxinetv Directing, Text: Sarah E. Braun @___penthesilea___ Sound, Concept, Editing: Abeni Asante @asantewaa.lineage Camera: Studio: Nadia Otshudi @nadiaotshudi Aquarium: Abeni Asante Ocean Waves: Patricia Adwoa Aidoo #africanfuturism #mamiwata #hydrophone #soundecology #drexciya

“From bio-acoustic plant stories to mer-being resonances and the astral” 💫 Live radio session on TUESDAY 23.09 from 15.00 at @refugeworldwide with @nze_bikoro & @asantewaa.lineage for @plant.stories_ 👉🏾 In this session, artists Anguezomo Nzé Mba Bikoro and Abeni Asante share their practices on para-ecology and echo-location strategies to re-imagine Black feminist histories of the Diaspora in resistance and resilience. Through medicinal plant-based herbalist knowledge, they navigate the world through trans-species communions, ocean bio-mythographies, forensic para-echo-logies, civil rights & refugee movements, and feminist African liberation movements. From story-telling, poetry and testimony, both artists archive sonic ancestral testimonies reflecting on works by Saidiya Hartman, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, colonial and radio sound archive recordings, and sonic works by Stevie Wonder and Drexciya to amplify the histories of anti-colonial women fighters. Anguezomo and Abeni share their collective interdisciplinary practice through herbalism, sonic and visual arts to archive historical events and create modes of remodeling care work and ways of protest practice through anti-psychiatric methods. 🌱 🌊 🌱 🌊 🌱 PLANT STORIES is a current summer programme, running from June - October at ZK/U. This radio show accompanies, documents, and reflects themes and activities in the series, and shares related sounds. PLANT STORIES examines human relations to/with plants, why these are political, and in which ways they could be different. the final public programme is on October 4th at @zku.berlin 📸 image 1: by @angelmaxinetv // image 2: by @asantewaa.lineage

African-futuristic & Afro-futuristic Ecologies Black Imagination Lab This workshop is about the connections between ecology, ancestral knowledge, and Black futures. Through creative exercises, meditation and exchange, we’ll imagine sustainable & abolitionist rooted practices. We’ll touch on: The basics of Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism The role of African Indigenous ecological knowledges How ancestral practices shape care for the Earth The workshop... ...is for Black people (African-descendet, Afro-diasporic & African people) ...has limited spots, you can register via: [email protected] ...is free of charge @____afrodisiac @asantewaa.lineage @bildung_macht_rassismus #afrofuturism #africanfuturism #afrocentric #decolonialecology #sound #sunra

Dortmund Goes Black 2025: »the black universe« 10. bis 13. April 2025 @schauspieldortmund Liebe Communities, innerhalb des starken Programms zu Schwarzer, afrikanischer und afrodiasporischer Kunst & Kultur, können wir euch dieses Jahr auch drei wundervolle Ausstellung von drei exzellenten Schwarzen, afrikanischen, afrodiasporischen Künstler*innen und Fotograf*innen zeigen. Erlebt die wunderbaren Interpretationen, Interventionen und Kunstwerke von: 🌍 Abeni Asante's Ausstellung "Afrofuturistic Ecology in the Black Universe" – einer Neuinterpretation der ökologischen Zukunft des afrikanischen Kontinents, in der traditionelles Wissen mit modernen Technologien verschmilzt. Abeni Asante selbst ist in Bewegungen des Antikolonialismus, der Geschlechterbefreiung und der Ökologie verwurzelt. ✂️ Shade Habighorst-Isajinmi "AFRO SPACE AGE“ bewegt sich mit ihren Arbeiten innerhalb des analogen Raums der tradierten Collagetechniken und arbeitet meist mit Schere, Messer und gesammeltem Bildmaterial unterschiedlichster Art, aber auch Textilien, wie Wax-Print-Stoffen. Afrofuturismus, Subalternität, afrikanische Diaspora, Mythologie, Revolution und Kolonialgeschichte. 📸 Yero Adugna Eticha’s ( @yero_audgna_eticha ) Portrait-Ausstellung „Black in Dortmund“ versteht sich als Erweiterung seiner Serie @blackinberlin . Auf dem Festival erschafft Yero ein einzigartiges Archiv, welches einen Einblick in die facettenreichen Lebenswirklichkeiten Schwarzer Menschen in einer weißen Mehrheitgesellschaft geben soll. Lasst euch auch dieses Jahr von ihm kostenfrei portraitieren und werdet Teil dieser empowernden Sammlung. Seid dabei und erlebt ein Festival, das Horizonte erweitert und neue Universen entfaltet! 💥 #EverybodyIsWelcome 📅 10.-13.04.25 im Schauspielhaus Dortmund. Alle weiteren Künstler*innen und Kollektive sowie das gesamte Festivalprogramm, Tickets und Anmeldelinks findet ihr ab sofort unter: tdo.li/dortmundgoesblack. - gfx: @spreevongestern #tdodortmundgoesblack #dortmundgoesblack #dgb #tdodgb #tdofestival #festival #tdotheblackuniverse #theblackuniverse #dgbfestival #2025 #schauspieldortmund #theaterdortmund

In the Botanical Garden Berlin with @mawingu_xo 🖤 Knowledge systems and colonial botany A way of colonizing the plant realm, was the creation of a new nomenclature that categorizes plants by greek or latin names, utilizing a two-name format to describe the species and genus of each living being. The establishment of the binomial classification system, shows the colonial agenda of supremacy and ownership and systematically disregards the richness of African Indigenous linguistic heritage. On the continent a lot of the knowledge is passed on through storytelling in a variety of languages, this oral tradition is often not acknowledged as a source of knowledge. The colonial idea of botanical gardens The botanical garden is a concept that evolved during colonial times, serving as a physical manifestation of the domination over nature and knowledge. The gardens not only show a curated collection of plants divorced from their Indigenous contexts, but also perpetuate the narrative that reinforces colonial control over both the environment and the information that surrounds it. Excerpt from the Zine Decolonial plant knowledge. Further sources: Plants and Culture. /imperialtaxonomy Plants and the Black experience. Kofi Acree, https://guides.library.cornell.edu/blacks_plants

FRESHLY PRINTED! Decolonial Plant Knowledge Zine The zine begins with a short historical part of plant knowledge in different parts of the African continent. With references to ancient texts from Kemet and examples of connections between plant medicine and traditional religion in West Africa. The zine critiques colonial botany for erasing African Indigenous knowledge systems and imposing a eurocentric classification of plants and the natural world. The zine also connects plant knowledge to Black abolitionists like Harriet Tubman, who utilized her understanding of local flora in her escape and aid to others, and to the abolition movement. Also shown is the role of plants in anti-colonial resistance, emphasizing how the exploitation of land and Black people are interconnected. In the end there's a section on plant alliances in the Black diaspora for healing and survival. There is detailed information and recipes for plants like calendula and st. john's wort. Decolonial plant knowledge was one out of five workshops and zine contributions that formed part of the Little School, a project that took place in summer 2024 in Berlin Neukölln, @spore.initiative To download the full zine follow this link and scroll down to the very bottom and then scroll right to the print version of the zine: /en/programming/contributions/little-school The zines can also be viewed at the Spore library during the opening hours. For questions and requests regarding content, use of content and decolonial plant events send a dm to @asantewaa.lineage Image description zine cover: Harriet Tubman in a long black dress with cowrie shells and brass beads from Accra around her head and dried medicinal plants from Berlin growing from her feet. All materials are cast in ecological resin and scanned in black and white.