When the Land Speaks - صوت الأرض

Through a multi-disciplinary approach to foraging, When the Land Speaks was a guided excursion through Hackney Marshes, inviting migrant communities to explore their connection to the land they reside on through sound, poetry, and herbalism, as an exercise in alleviating the diasporic feeling of uprootedness. After gathering at The Hall, attendees built a collective soundscape, wrote poems, and created zines.

The trail through Hackney Marshes was guided by sound artist and researcher, Bint Mbareh; visual artist and landscape architect, Juliette Mourad; and poet and electrical engineer, Ola Elhassan.

This event sold out a capacity of 50.

Programmed as part of Shubbak Festival 2023.

Photos by @abdulisms.