SPACE21 Youth Workshop engages youth in attentive listening walks, collaborative composition, and sound-making. These activities encourage participants to creatively explore Slemani’s sonic ecology and history through sound. By blending environmental awareness and artistic practice, the workshop fosters confidence and collaboration. Participants learn to map memory and place through listening, forging a deeper connection to Slemani’s past and present while inspiring new sonic perspectives. The program highlights how sound can shape cultural identity and imagination, making Slemani a living sonic environment for youth to explore and transform.
SPACE21 Sound Gallery, in Slemani’s historic tobacco factory, transforms industrial memory into a creative hub, inviting artistic collaboration and echoing the city’s sonic and cultural past.
The Saray Building explores how this historic site’s echoes, history, and transformation shape Slemani’s evolving sonic identity and collective memory.
Hammam Mufti’s unique acoustics and history inspire visitors to Kurdish memory and culture through listening, reflection, and site-specific works.
SPACE21’s Slemani Sonic Horizon conference at the University of Sulaimani explores sonic ecology, youth empowerment, and inclusive pedagogy through talks, panels, and creative workshops.
Bus Tour offers a collective radio listening experience, reviving Kurdish bus culture and unity through shared broadcasts, music, and stories aboard a moving exhibition space.
Maryam of Al Adra Church, among Slemani’s oldest buildings, preserves memory through unique acoustics, each sound connecting visitors to the city’s enduring spirit and history.
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