Celebrating Range and Creativity: New Residency Champions Ladies …
ASSA OI, a brand new regional musical residency that serves to attach girls artists from international locations overlooking the Indian Ocean, has been launched by the collaborative efforts of The Institut Français de Maurice (IFM), OXIDE Consulting Company and Kafe Kiltir Moris (KKM).
This initiative caters for recording artists from Mauritius, Rodrigues, Réunion, Seychelles, and Mozambique, bringing them collectively for a collaborative residency that seeks to empower feminine creatives and amplify underrepresented voices within the area’s music trade.
The residency will happen from 4th to ninth August 2025 at OBOĒ in Pereybère (a metropolis on Mauritius’ north coast), with the ensuing efficiency to be staged at IFM on sixteenth August. The programme is structured round three key pillars: Residency, Restitution Live performance, and Workshop.
5 artists, together with Assa Matusse (Mozambique), Christelle Zamir (Mauritius), Anjelly Legentil (Rodrigues), Vanessa Lucas (Seychelles), and Agnesca (Réunion), will co-create a novel repertoire mixing dwell instrumentation, electronics, and efficiency.
In keeping with the organisers, the challenge seeks to strengthen regional creative collaboration, present visibility {and professional} alternatives for ladies creatives, and promote a extra equitable music ecosystem within the Indian Ocean and throughout Africa.
“ASSA OI amplifies voices which have lengthy been marginalised, proposes new inventive instructions, and lays a basis for feminine sorority within the music trade,” the organisers mentioned in an announcement. “The Indian Ocean is an area of flows, hybridity, and shared rhythms. But its narratives are sometimes dominated and a few voices silenced. ASSA OI provides a brand new method to creative creation, female, rooted in regional realities, and unifying.”
The Residency is envisioned as the primary in a sequence of rotating residencies and coaching programmes throughout the Indian Ocean. Organisers plan to develop a sustainable platform providing shared assets, mentorship, {and professional} networks tailor-made to help girls in music.
As a part of its mission to create dialogue round gender and inclusivity in music, ASSA OI will host a workshop on 14th August on the Theatre, Movie and Performing Arts Lab of the College of Mauritius. The session will permit artists to share their profession journeys with college students and educational employees, sparking conversations about creative improvement, regional collaboration, and gender fairness within the trade.