Thursday October 1st, 2026, Amsterdam Bangs, voku & performances: “Sesten Sese”, “Tea and Land Stories”, “Soft-Boy Turkish Oil Wrestling”. Food served from 7pm, performances from 8pm, no reservation.
BANGS is an autonomous theatre and performance festival taking place for the third time October 1-4, 2026. BANGS receives no funding, BANGS raises funds! This year, for Palestine and Lebanon.
20:00 Sesten Sese: A Curated Evening of Shared Voices
This evening brings together three musical practices connected through voice, community, and collective memory. Opening with the intimate songwriting of Anllel Maria and Doğa Ak, followed by the mother–child musical practice of Dilden Dile, and concluding with the collective polyphony of Queer Choir Amsterdam, the programme moves between queer community, Anatolian folk traditions, diasporic memory, couragous worlds and intergenerational exchange. Together, these performances invite audiences to experience singing as a living practice of gathering, listening, and carrying stories forward. Doğa and Allel Doğa Ak and Anllel Maria are a kuir duo of songwriters and singers from Turkey and Ecuador, currently based in the Netherlands. Blending their voices through vulnerable songwriting, they compose in English, Spanish, and Turkish. […Lees verder]
