Living Streams Connect at Handel Hendrix House

Time: Doors open 7pm, performance start 7:30pm

Blending ambient, electronic, experimental  and world-music traditions, Living Streams Connect is a bold and powerful live performance bringing together award-winning musicians and talented migrants. 

The project  turns the sounds and musicality of water into live music. Rivers and migration are at the heart of the work, celebrated as sources of life, movement and connection, and as powerful symbols of journeys between people, cultures and places. Led by composer Isa Suarez on keyboards and voice, the project features the Living Streams Ensemble: Arowah on bass and voice, Beibei Wang on percussion, Mercedes Maresca on flute, and Rihab Azar on oud. Special guest: Nia Tilli, bass.

Launching during Refugee Week, the opening performance takes place at the home of George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix, two migrant musicians. This venue is a reminder of how often Britain’s cultural life has been shaped and enriched by people who came from elsewhere. Living Streams Connect continues this conversation by bringing refugees, asylum seekers and migrant musicians together to create a musical experience among the museum’s collections, as it opens its new exhibition of Hendrix memorabilia to the public.

The Living Streams Connect compositions and performances have been developed through improvisation, co-creation and listening sessions with talented migrants and The Living Streams Ensemble, alongside composer Isa Suarez’s recordings of rivers from around the world and her music work in the studio.

Supported using public funding by Arts Council England, delivered in partnership with Shelter From The Storm, Southwark Day Centre for Asylum Seekers, Handel Hendrix House, InspiralLondon, St John’s Waterloo and Good Hotel, and supported by London Museum Docklands, Hear Me Out, Certain Blacks, Counterpoints Arts and the Royal Docks Team.

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