Slemani Sonic Horizon Festival - The 10th edition of the SPACE21 Festival in Slemani transforms the city into a living soundscape. Enjoy immersive sound installations, site-specific performances, and world premieres by local and international artists across historic and urban venues. Explore the city's acoustic and ecological dimensions through sound archive, contemporary music, experimental electronics, and participatory experiences.
SPACE21 Sound Gallery is housed on the second floor of the historic Yellow Building in the old tobacco factory in Slemani. Abandoned after the Kurdish [...]
SPACE21 launches a radio listening bus tour, transforming the city bus into a moving exhibition. Participants will tune into local radio frequencies—reviving memories of communal listening, shared news, and songs of freedom. This event rekindles the bus as a cultural space, uniting people through collective listening.
Amna Suraka Museum (Red Museum) -The next space that SPACE21 intends to revisit for listening, and to serve as the starting point for this year's [...]
SPACE21 revisits the historic Saray Building—Slemani’s oldest government structure, latera court and financial department—for this year’s festival, Slemani Sonic Horizon. Once the stage for political [...]
Hammam Mufti - SPACE21 explores the powerful connection between the sonic memory of the Hammam and the Kurdish audience, as well as the architectural qualities [...]
Paia Studio is uniquely located in a former public swimming pool, now transformed into a vibrant creative studio hosting a range of cultural activities. This [...]
The Maryam of Virgin Church, one of the oldest surviving houses in Slemani. This historic church is not only a testament to the city’s architectural [...]
