Diasporic Life: A Lingua Franca of Black Aliveness

Friday 6. June at 18:00 - 22:00

Metro54, Amsterdam

Diasporic Life: A Lingua Franca of Black Aliveness is an ongoing artistic, collaborative research project that looks into the meaning, conceptualization, multiplicities and complexities of Black Aliveness across Europe. The project centers the Black imaginative world and the ways it enchants everyday Black life in Europe—beyond the shadows of violence. How do “we” keep each other alive? In what ways does Black Aliveness manifest itself in the visual and sonic cultures, Black people build for ourselves? And what methodologies, dreams and processes (re)shape the practices and daily lives of Black artists, activists and cultural workers?

Alive from June 6th – July 26th, 2025, the first iteration of this manifestation shape-shifts into a constellation of artworks, film screenings, artistic and research propositions, conversations, listening sessions, speakeasies and sonic lectures. Featuring a range of transgenerational Black diasporic artists, writers, thinkers, activists and organizers including Sonic WAVE Studio powered by Afrikadaa collective (Pascale Obolo and Flavien Louh), Sarah Maldoror, Sofia Yala, Alexandra Mitiku, Anthony Ngoya, Barby Asante, Momtaza Mehri, Juliana Huxtable, Sorana Munsya, Norman Ajami and many more. With Diasporic Life: A Lingua Franca of Black Aliveness we aim to divulge the conversations around Black cultural production by zooming into how Black Aliveness and social life in the Diaspora(s).

Metro54 • Westerdoksdijk 597, 1013 BX Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

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