Music Needs Community & Community Needs Music

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Felicia Ete Aghaye & Nour Sokhon, Lito & Carla Saad / As Per Casper

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What stories, memories, and traditions live on through sound? OFFKEY invites three musicians into conversation on musical roots, cultural heritage, and how music travels across generations and communities. After a shared meal, the evening continues with live performances.

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LITO (they) is an explorer of feelings, a teller of stories, a complainer and chaser of soft things. Migrant bird, self-proclaimed musician, apprentice of everything else. Music for the sad optimists, the angry but tender, the queers experiencing a second adolescence. Will you come and melt together in front of the beautiful and the painful?

As Per Casper is a Syrian-Palestinian female artist creating nostalgic fusion music inspired by 90s R&B, alternative and pop with touches of Arabic. 
Raw and emotionally driven, their music explores unconventional love, loss and resilience, desire, solitude, and self-liberation, resurrecting timeless sounds in a way that feels deeply familiar to both older and newer generations alike.

Based between Beirut and Berlin, Nour Sokhon’s practice draws on archival methods and the activation of inanimate matter as living narrators, taking the form of sound and music pieces, performances, interactive installations, and moving-image works. "Beirut Birds / طيور بيروت" , Nour Sokhon’s debut solo album was digitally released on aural conduct in 2024, and is a sonic memory capsule honoring (inter)personal stories of migration, displacement, and the cyclical turbulent circumstances in Lebanon.

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OFFKEY (Felicia Ete Aghaye & Ilo Toerkell) is an independent magazine and cultural platform for music journalism and conversations centering BIPOC and FLINTA perspectives. Rooted in Berlin's music scene, OFFKEY supports local artists and emerging voices while creating space for those who resist industry definitions and believe in the transformative power of music. Through both its editorial work and the OFFKEY Sessions, the collective fosters exchange, solidarity, and face-to-face encounters between artists and audiences who share a commitment to collective liberation and community-based mobilization.

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