claire rousay’s music cascades from a well of documented experience, reflections of the past that compose the present. A prolific multi-instrumentalist, producer, and composer, rousay gracefully crafts boundaryless music. From her frequent and acclaimed collaborations to her film scoring, from her own compositions to her solo pop work, rousay’s music is delicate yet powerful, carefully constructed with a casual intimacy.

claire's live show brings a singular reflexivity, unflinching honesty and adroit humour to the performance space, with an ever-burgeoning audience accepting the invite into her soundworld.

Support from Masa Nazzal.

Masa spent three months working in Bihać, Bosnia between October 2023 - January 2024 with a no-borders activist group where she collected testimonies of violence happening to people on the move to seek asylum in the European Union. It is in this space where Masa and Ilyas first met. Ilyas was staying at the transit camp and Masa was doing aid distribution work, when Ilyas spotted a guitar in Masa's hand, pointed at it, grabbed it and started playing. This is where their friendship and sonic journeys began. Her release on GLARC, Slovenia Inshallah, is an experiment in what borderless solidarities, borderless friendships, sounds like. It is an abolitionist sonic ethnography, through the contemporary violence of the EU border regime.

Tickets £13 general + a limited allocation of £8 concession tickets available for those who on low income or unemployed

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