Dance Against Racism

About

A sell-out Global Music night for Exeter’s sonically curious!

We would warmly like to invite you to our Dance Against Racism (No 10) where this time, we raise money for Mutual Aid Sudan. I’m sure we’ve all heard about the crisis as a consequence of the complex civil war, causing suffering, mass displacement, hunger and infrastructure destruction. We believe that, alongside supporting local causes, we should uplift others globally and counter the legacies of colonialism and dehumanisation of the Black Body…

As always, we are offering this dance as a space to be together in community as one and give a clear message of support to all our friends across the globe. We want to let them know that we see them, support them and hear their plight.

Many cultures around the World use movement, dance and song as a form of resilience and resistance. Movement is energy materialised. We can dance and welcome each other, dance our belonging, dance our connectedness, our grief, our sense of injustice, dance the truth as we know it, dance our sense of the possible, dance our deeper knowing of collective joy, dance our human way of simply being together….what we do here on the dancefloor matters and has a rippling impact elsewhere….

So come, bring yourself, your body, heart and mind as we dance together.

All profits will go to the charity Mutual Aid Sudan. They are doing some incredible work on the ground, agilely responding to the peoples needs, funnelling the resources to places where they know it is most needed. They also as far as we can see have quite transparent accountability.

Expect all the usual global musical goodness from Somatic, including; Afrobeat, Jungle, Bossa, House, Dub, Cumbia, Breakbeat, Funk, IDM, Electronica, Baile Funk
and everything in-between.

Somatic is a Sound Artist, Producer, DJ, Sound Engineer, conceive of the Sutra Sound System and Sound Designer.

Born and raised in Exeter, now based in London. His sound is a reflection of modern Britain and its multicultural sonic melting pot. Centred in Sound System culture & UK dance music, he weaves this with the myriad genres from around the world he was brought up.

Somatic is also a Daytimers & Windrush In Devon affiliate.

Sandhya Dave is a body-based therapist who has been in practice for 25 years. She works for Devon Development Education, delivering within the education sector. Sandhya has founded Devon Diversity Consultants, delivering anti-racism and EDI consultancy to organisations and Resilient Roots, a brave, safe space for POC.