Another Room x Etherealism

Another Room x Etherealism

East African Community, Ethereal Africans.

During ADE, Ethereal Africans presents a one-day cultural programme at Another Room with East African art, music and creativity at its centre. A stage for emerging and established East African artists & friends, DJs and performers, and an invitation to discover the diversity and coming together into the East African creative scene.

Ethereal Africans grew out of something small, a group chat, started a year ago by a handful of East Africans in Amsterdam who rarely came across each other in the city. Its founders carry stories of migration and flight, and of growing up between cultures. What they built together is a place where none of that needs explaining. Gatherings where people share stories, poetry and music, and where, as they put it, you don't have to do it alone.

That spirit, intimate, warm, close, is what they bring to Another Room for a day. A reminder of what this scene has always run on, cultures meeting, influences travelling, and the sound they bring when coming together.

The day moves from exhibition and talks in the afternoon to music and DJ-sets in the evening, in an intimate setting where the atelier, the collection and the community share one room.

Ethereal Africans (noun): "Community rooted in east african identy, created for meaningful connection, creativity and belonging"