Sound & Image as Language

Podium Mozaïek, in collaboration with Echobox Radio, Foam, and ADE Arts & Culture, presents a programme centred on sound, image and identity.The Wednesday program starts with Improvisation as Composition, a workshop by EIN L AQL introducing participants to Arabic maqam: modal thinking, microtonality and its connection to contemporary composition. The workshop opens with a listening session dedicated to pioneering women artists from the MENA region, including Munira al-Mahdiyya, Naima al-Masriyya, Fatma Serry and Kamilya Jubran, and builds towards a collective improvisation session.Feel free to bring your own instrument. Want to actively take part? Reserve a participant ticket. Coming to watch and listen? A regular ticket is enough.Following this, a lecture takes place, connected to Foam's exhibition Al Nisa / النساء, curated by Middle East Archive at MAQAM. Photographer Yomna El Beyaly, whose work is also on view at Mercatorplein, gives the lecture on identity, femininity and self-representation. She is then joined by Karmel and Noise Diva for a discussion moderated by Sarah Saleh. Together, they explore themes of representation, archiving, diaspora and the female perspective, drawing on photography, visual culture and music.The evening concludes with an open jam led by EIN L AQL, in which participants and visitors continue to improvise together, building on what the workshop and talk have brought forward.Info & Tickets:18:00 - Workshop: Improvisation as Composition - Free registration here.20:45 - Lecture: Sound & Image as Language - Free registration here.22:00 - Jam Session - Free registration here.Also worth checking out: ADE Thursday at Mercatorplein - The Sounds of In Here Own WayThose who want to experience more of this story can head to Mercatorplein on Thursday, where Foam and Echobox host an accessible daytime programme right next to the Foam exhibition.