SonicSolidarity

Join us for a night of radical joy and solidarity through sound at Reference Point on Tue 8th April 2025 at 19:00, in support of our friend's UK visa application.

Live music and performances from Channelling Sudan by Coby Sey, Tabideee, Tice Cin, Bint Mbareh, Lola Olufemi, Bridget Minamore and Bui

Originally from Sudan, our friend has been hugely impacted by the ongoing war, supporting family and friends fleeing the violence, losing relatives, the financial drain that comes with forced displacement and the help relatives need, as well as building her life in the UK. After such hardship, she should not have to face the overwhelming and unaffordable visa application process alone.

She needs financial support from our community to apply for an Artist Visa to stay in the UK. She has asked to remain anonymous. We ask you to please respect this. We know how much she means to everyone around her. She’s one of the most caring, special, and kind people we know. She’s deeply embedded in our communities, always offering her time, wisdom, and heart to so many.

Join us or donate what you can through the ticketing link.

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• Tickets from £10 - £20
• Solidarity Tickets are available to purchase for £25 - this is a donation
• You can also donate via the ticketing link - select Donate What You Can

*Ticket sales and donations will go directly to visa costs.

*Any excess will be donated to Sudan Solidarity Collective.

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• Channelling Sudan by Coby Sey (live set)
• Bint Mbareh (live set)
• Tabideee (DJ set)

• Bridget Minamore
• Tice Cin
• Buitumelo
• Lola Olufemi

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(Doors at 7pm)

Reference Point - 2 Arundel Street, London, United Kingdom WC2R 3DA

www.reference-point.uk

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About the artists

Coby Sey is a songwriter, producer, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and DJ who, after years spent navigating the DIY artist scene in South East London, has developed a distinctive presence as an artist and performer. Coby’s recorded work spans live instrumentation, sample-based productions, and experimental music, blending recognisable motifs of hip hop, noise, jazz, and grime into a dubbed-out anaesthesia.

Tabideee is a second-generation Sudanese DJ and co-founder of Space Black, determined to let everyone remember the origins of techno. Her sonic practice pays homage to the contribution of Black genres to techno and electronic music, with a distinct nod to Afro-Arab electronic sounds.

Bint Mbareh is a sound researcher with a focus on water in Palestine. Her interest in the physical parallel between the water wave and the sound wave leads her into questions of border dissolutions (between bodies, states, and tenses), and into the possibility of being enveloped by the voice, by sounding communally similarly to being enveloped by a water body. She challenges settler colonial epistemology by taking seriously Palestinian ways of knowing, from rain-summoning music to shrine pilgrimage as an instigator to political revolution.

Bui (B.U.I) is an artist poet and storyteller. Bui's poetry is directly a gift/load from Xhosa ancestry. They are Africanfuturist and their practice echoes themes such of temporal fracture, banNtu cosmology and being a Londoner.

Bridget Minamore is a writer from and based in south-east London. Her debut pamphlet of poems Titanic (Out-Spoken Press) on modern love and loss, came out in May 2016. She has been published in Five Dials, and anthologies New Daughters of Africa, and Smashing It: Working Class Artists in Life, Art and Making it Happen.

Tice Cin is an interdisciplinary artist from North London. She experiments in the space of portals. She is a writer, producer, DJ, filmmaker and journalist. Her novel Keeping the House was published in 2021 by andnotherstories and won the 2022 Somerset Maugham Award.

Dr. Lola Olufemi is a black feminist writer and researcher from London. She is author of 'Feminism Interrupted: Disrupting Power' (Pluto Press, 2020) and 'Experiments in Imagining Otherwise' (Hajar Press, 2021). Her writing has been published by many national and international magazines such as Afterall Journal, Architectural Review, Wasafiri, Stenberg Press, Aperture, and others. Her short story, "Red" was shortlisted for the 2020 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing prize.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Reference Point, 2 Arundel Street, London, United Kingdom