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Photo: Hendrik Schenider
I want to move people to themself. I want them to feel the same way that I felt when I had a taste of a higher power and felt there was a presence over me. I want people to feel that.
London-based artist and singer-songwriter Alewya, with special guest Fred Jones, will fill the ICA with an electric mediation of flutes, hip hop lines and rasping, energetic vocals, paying homage to an ancestral land with a deep dub bass.
In her process Alewya cites the dance music culture of west London, reading the works of political revolutionary Eldridge Cleaver, Malcolm X, Haruki Murakami, Audre Lorde, George Orwell, spiritual healer Queen Afua, and the ten-note ragas of folk Indian sitar-singing mantras from gurus like Sadhguru consumed via YouTube.
The 26-year-old artist, illustrator and sculptor describes her work as a homage to a moment in time, where sonic vibrations cross borders in the form of London’s grit, East African folk instruments, Arabian scales, Grunge riffs, club culture and realms to form a universal heartbeat.
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The Theatre is wheelchair accessible. This event includes loud music, bright lights, and is expected to be at full capacity.
£13 Full, £10 Concessions, £6 Green/Blue Members
no. 236848.