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I Am Not Just Passing By…

June 2021

Article written by curator Harriet Zhang.

I am not just passing by…

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Artist, dancer, and five elements healer SERAFINE1369 joins 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘈𝘭𝘵𝘢𝘳 for 𝘊𝘖𝘋𝘈 – an offering of live art and music curated by @diasporas_now

London and Folkestone-based @serafine1369 works with dance as a philosophica

Introducing Princess Trium (@princess_trium), an Italian artist with Nigerian and Congolese roots, reshaping electronic music with her fearless fusion of electro, hip-hop, funk, global rhythms, and house

📍Princess Trium will be DJing on 12/12 at Pr

Introducing Tif Wellington (@tifwellington), who tells stories of the non-Western “other” through object and narrative, folklore and reality – interweaving their London upbringing and Afro-Caribbean heritage toward site-specific, au

Introducing Mahsa Salali (@mahsasalali), a queer Iranian performance artist whose practice engages long-durational live art as a strategy of resistance, archive, and protest

📍Mahsa will be performing on 12/12 at Primary (@weareprimary) for the firs

Looking back to our October event 𝑶𝒏 𝑨𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒕 𝑪𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔, Diasporas Now was in conversation with collectives and communities from RESOLVE (@resolvecollective) and B.O.S.S. (@blackobsidian_soundsystem)

Through shared insights of com

📍NOTTINGHAM: Announcing our first stop at @weareprimary for our 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘰𝘴𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘍𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 tour

12 December, 19:00-22:00 (18:30 doors)

Lineup:

🚨 Mahsa Salali (@mahsasalali)
🚨 Tif Wellington (@tifwellington)
🚨 DJ set by Princess T

Congratulations to the selected artists who will be touring nationally with Diasporas Now across @vamuseum @southlondongallery @spikeisland and @weareprimary:

🚨Omar Gabriel (@ramogabriel)
🚨Hannan Jones (@hannannannanananannnn)
🚨Emma Korantema (

🚨LAST DAY OF OPEN CALL🚨 Meet @diasporas_now’s 2023-2024 U.K. tour artists Collectif Echoes (@echoes.intl), ahead of the 2025-2026 tour in partnership with @vamuseum @southlondongallery @spikeisland @weareprimary

“Diasporas Now opened

🚨OPEN CALL🚨 Meet @diasporas_now’s 2023-2024 U.K. tour artist ZINZILE (@zinzile3.0), ahead of the 2025-2026 tour in partnership with @vamuseum @southlondongallery @spikeisland @weareprimary

“It feels special to contribute to a growing

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