Free public workshop by Sharmi Basu: Decolonizing Sound: Presence and Liberation

Sharmi Basu will facilitate a workshop that aims to create intersectional conversations around resistance,
music, race, gender, and spirituality. This workshop will work together to discuss what it means to create space
for our selves with sound and ways that our art practices intersect with greater political movements and our
own personal struggles. Ultimately this workshop will seek to redefine liberation through creativity and
presence. We will shed light on ways in which improvisation and playing music can help marginalized people
reclaim and create new identities and languages despite the distortion of and violence upon our cultures, work,
and genders that have historically oppressed us. Decolonizing sound can mean decolonizing our given
languages into ones we create for ourselves. What are the ways sound can be used to challenge capitalism, the
police state, heteronormativity, racism, and gendered violence?