Roots & Riddims #2

For the second year in a row, Roots & Riddims returns as a gathering space for Black expression, ancestral connection, and collective celebration. A night of music and culture bringing Surinamese, Cabo Verdean, Angolan and Caribbean diasporas together.

LINE UP TBA but as of now...
Central Station
00.00 - 00.30 Ferre
00.30 - 02.000 Ahwlkunn / Prince Pasensi
02.00 - 03.30 Marfox & Chinnamasta
03.30 - 05.00 NIDIA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=VHNvhd2sc2Q&t=6s

Foyer
00.00 - 01.00 OPEN CALL - watch this space!
01.00 - 02.00 Funana Fernandes
02.00 - 03.00 April222.
03.00 - 04.00 Rav Fasi

In a multidisciplinary environment where music, art, history, politics, spirituality and performance meet, Black art becomes more than self-expression — it becomes transformation. A force that carries stories, resistance, healing, and possibility across generations.

This year’s edition is inspired by life and death through a decolonial lens. Guided by the wisdom of our ancestors, we ask: what are they trying to tell us?
How do they continue to move through us, protect us, and illuminate our paths, in a world that often disconnects us from our roots?

Through this journey, we draw inspiration from indigenous African spiritual traditions and the Afro-Brazilian religion Candomblé — a practice deeply rooted in ancestral reverence, rhythm, ceremony, and the presence of the Orishas. Percussion becomes language. Drum rhythms become memory.

Dance becomes ritual. Celebration becomes survival.

Expect a tapestry of rhythm and resistance. Kuduro shaking the floor. Bubbling calling the past into the present. Dub echoing through every room. DJs, performers, and artists tracing lineages through riddim, sweat, spirit and soul.