Safika "We Arrived" Music, Migration and Memory

Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford. May 5 2022

Safika "We Arrived" was a panel discussion and Q&A focusing on music, migration, and cultural memory relating to people of African descent across the continent and diaspora, and to the experiences of the event's featured performers and speakers. The discussion was moderated by Dr Samantha Ege and the panel featured Ashleigh Gordon, Tiece, and Bongani Ndodana-Breen. 

Boston based string quartet Castle for our Skins performed with commentary from Dr Samantha Ege in the Museum

Dr Samantha Ege is a musicologist, pianist, and the Lord Crewe Junior Research Fellow in Music at Lincoln College, University of Oxford. She belongs to a new generation of practitioners who are redefining classical music and illuminating the diversity of its past, present, and future. Samantha released her debut album

Image Gallery. Pitt Rivers Museum 5 May 2022

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