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Mix Nights Online: Creating Inclusive Club Spaces w/ Sarra Wild
30th October 2024
7.30 pm GMT
£8.30 or free for sustainer & soulmate members (bursaries available)
Saffron’s monthly workshops are part of the Saffron Members Club, but non-members who are women, non-binary people, trans or gender non-conforming folks may also purchase a ticket.
CREATING INCLUSIVE CLUB SPACES
What does it really mean to create an inclusive club night? How can electronic music platforms connect and empower marginalised people? What could the future of the scene look like if we placed underrepresented people in decision-making positions?
Join Sarra Wild for an interactive workshop and discussion in which we will be exploring all of these questions and more. Drawing on a decade’s worth of experience running her celebratory platform, OH141, Sarra will hold a space for women, trans, non-binary and gender non-conforming people to think radically about the future of club culture and how they can create forward-thinking spaces that accommodate diverse needs.
Whether you’re a DJ, looking to start your own events platform, or simply someone who believes in the importance of democratising club culture, come along to connect and explore new possibilities.
ABOUT SARRA
Sarra Wild is a cultural curator/ producer, sound designer and DJ currently based in London. They/ She is founder of club night and arts platform OH141, performing at and curating events around the UK and internationally.
Heady non-Western melodies, rhythms and fearless experimentalism underpins Sarra’s approach to DJing and drives their dedication to exciting new music and artists from and of the diaspora.
With OH141, Wild has created a decade long celebratory space focusing on showcasing groundbreaking talent by/for women, BPOC and LGBTQ+ artists. Wild makes bold curatorial choices for their own parties, inviting forward thinking acts such as Flohio, Pan Daijing, Gaika, DJ Storm, Mica Levi and Heiroglyphic Being, crystal mess +++ many when they first started out to perform alongside local artists. Wild is also a proud champion of emerging talent and engages with local acts wherever they play, often by inviting them to share her billing and by encouraging other promoters to book neighbourhood talent.
Sarra’s vision and taste has also forged the musical output of H.O.T, the Glasgow collective that celebrates soundsystem culture, experimental music and the city’s working class art community, as well as programming stages at well respected festivals, most recently Jupiter Rising in Edinburgh.
With their own DJing, Wild has performed at countless club nights and festivals both in the UK and overseas, to name but a few; Closing out Berghain/ Panorama Bar, Nyege Nyege festival in Uganda, New York’s Dweller festival at Nowadays, The Trilogy Tapes events at London infamous Venue MOT , the infamous Unfold at Fold, Atlas Electronic in Marrakech, Rewire Festival in Amsterdam with many more to come.
Sarra currently holds a residency in Rinse fm and has also hosted radio shows on NTS, Dub-Lad Radio, Rinse, Redlight Radio Amsterdam with their FACT mix named one of the best mixes of the year by Mixmag, while Resident Advisor made their session for Radio Alhara one of the platform’s mixes of the day and Wild also recently completed a set for influential UK label, Nervous Horizon. They have also narrated, presented and co-produced online content for the likes of i-D magazine, Eventbrite UK, Glasgow Open Door Festival and ‘Black to Life’ series for the BBC.
INSTAGRAM – SOUNDCLOUD – OH141
ACCESSIBILITY
We never want money to be a barrier to people accessing music tech, so if you are unable to afford a ticket but believe you would benefit from attending these workshops, please email us on members@saffronmusic.co.uk.
Workshops are open to people worldwide, but will be running at 7.30 pm GMT so please bear differences in time zone in mind. If you purchase a ticket but are unable to attend live, you will automatically be emailed a recording of the workshop(s) after the event.
We are committed to making our online events as accessible as possible. We have created a guidance document about this – Click here to view the accessibility document. Alternatively, please email us with any access requirements you may have: hello@saffronmusic.co.uk
GENDER POLICY
The gender imbalance in the music technology industry is well-recognised. While we are absolutely not ‘anti-men’, we see that a shorter-term solution is to provide fellowship and learning environments that are not dominated by the cisgender male perspective. Therefore, these workshops are intended for women, non-binary, trans and gender non-conforming people to attend. While we do not ban cisgender men The gender imbalance in the music technology industry is well-recognised. While we are absolutely not ‘anti-men’, we see that a shorter-term solution is to provide fellowship and learning environments that are not dominated by the cisgender male perspective. Therefore, these workshops are intended for women, non-binary, trans and gender non-conforming people to attend. While we do not ban cisgender men from attending, we hope that they will respect that this event is not intended for them.
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