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The Collective Voice




S for Sound, S for Solidarity: The Collective Voice, f.eks., Håndværkerhuset Aalborg, Denmark, Friday, October 31st, 2025 


Friday, October 31st:
Workshop & Gathering from 4:00 - 7:30 pm
Håndværkerhuset (Second Floor Meeting Room), Kattesundet 20, 9000 Aalborg

Program:
4:00 pm presentation & Group Discussion (with Scott William Raby & Kamilla Mez)
5:30 pm Collective Vocalization Exercises
6:30 pm Food & Drinks
Note: the event is free of admission and anyone can attend, no sign up is necessary. The event will be primarily in English (with some Danish). Free food and refreshments will be available.

f.eks. invites you to S for Sound, S for Solidarity: The Collective Voice - a site-specific sonic workshop and visual artist gathering featuring Aalborg Artist’s Association (AAAA).

The Collective Voice seeks to provide an experimental format for the collective expression of creative and critical voices in a welcoming environment. The gathering draws inspiration from speeches, songs, discussions, chants, people’s mics and other forms of sound utilized to express solidarity and unity across public protests, strikes, and other activistic and organizational contexts. The Collective Voice will provide a platform for understanding the local situation in Aalborg, in which artists often experience economic, social, and institutional challenges, as well as function to contextualize this in relation to wider artistic struggles and broader global frameworks.

The Collective Voice takes place at a time when artistic cultural policy in Northern Jutland is tenuous; funding is being cut, Kunsthal Nord has closed, Aalborg University is slated to remove entire cultural departments, and municipal studios are in jeopardy. This is in a climate where local artists stated they experienced exclusion, marginalization, and are lacking a seat at the table in many decisions that immediately affect their socio-economic and cultural positions. The Collective Voice seeks to provide a space for expression free from (self-)censorship, drawing on historical forms that share knowledge, create new awareness, and energize audiences.

The gathering takes place at Håndværkerhuset - an NGO dedicated to upholding many handicraft traditions that connect to early forms of organized labor. The recordings made during the gathering will be remixed into the fourth episode S for Sound, S for Solidarity, which will air on Radio alHara on November 29th, 2025. 

S for Sound, S for Solidarity (SfS, SfS) is an audio infrastructure for artists co-founded by f.eks. and artist Yazan Khalili in 2023. SfS, SfS seeks to utilize sonic and radio programming to highlight artistic, socio-political, and cultural conversations in relation to localized power dynamics and broader geo-political contexts, launching public sonic artworks, listening sessions, and radio broadcasts that connect Northern Denmark to wider global contexts in collaboration with partner Radio alHara.

f.eks. is kindly supported by The Danish Arts Foundation, Den Jyske Kunstfond, Aalborg Municipality, and Augustinus Fonden. A special thank you to Radio alHara, Huset i Hasserisgade, Korma, Håndværkerhuset, TWIIID, Morten Poulsen, and Nikolaj Legaard for helping in the realization of this project.

For more information:
www.radioalhara.net
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