RSVP open now for our next FLINTA+ meet-up

On March 20th, we’re joining forces with SoundCloud for another evening dedicated to community-building, visibility, and artistic exchange within Berlin’s FLINTA+ creative scenes. Blending conversation, learning, and care, the event creates a space for artists and community members to connect, reflect, and uplift one another.

The event overlaps several key dates which our programme will acknowledge, namely Eid, Nowruz, and Women's History Month. There will be a complementary welcome drink on arrival, and Persian food provided by Noushe Joon - on the house for everyone who RSVPs to the evening.

Opening proceedings will be a relaxed DJ set from DumTak, as we create a space for people to network, share stories, and look together at creative pathways for artistic expression in Berlin and beyond.

Readings from Noushin Afzali and Amélie Baasner will follow, while we are delighted to welcome Faravaz for an interview on stage with SoundCloud's Clouds of Color Anchor, Alex Marin. Faravaz will also perform a couple of songs from her recent catalogue. At 20:00 we are then treated to a live performance from Vasylysa, playing the bandura and guitar, with their indie-emo ballad's powerful voice that evokes themes of longing and a lost home.

To close the evening, attendees are invited to continue connecting while listening to a vinyl set from beyond_bisetoon, playing gems she has been digging from the Gulf region for the last couple of decades.

Lindsey Marie White, the anchor for Women@SoundCloud, will be on hand during the event to share insights on current initiatives and opportunities for emerging artists navigating the SoundCloud platform.

Spots are limited, please RSVP here.

Date: Friday 20th March Time: 17:30 - 22:00 Address: Niemetzstraße 1, 12055 Berlin

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Line-up:

DJ sets: DumTak, beyond_bisetoon

Live performance: Vasylysa

Readings: Noushin Afzali, Amélie Baasner

Interview: Faravaz with Alex Marin

Catering: Noushe Joon

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beyond_bisetoon lives and works in Berlin as a curator and DJ. Her vinyl collection spans Iranian musical traditions from classical Asil and orchestral pre-revolution pop of the 1960s and 70s to post-1979 diaspora productions. She sources her records through research trips to Iran, friends’ and family collections, and record stores across the Gulf region. Her selections also include dubplates and recordings from the so-called Tehrangeles era — the Los Angeles–based exile industry that emerged after 1979 and circulated back into Iran through cassette culture and later media formats. Much of this diaspora production developed in response to cultural restrictions imposed after the revolution, including the prohibition of women’s solo singing in public.

beyond_bisetoon approaches DJing as a form of artistic research, engaging with questions of archive, transcultural circulation, media distribution, and political rupture.

DumTak is the musical alias of Palestinian, Berlin-based filmmaker Deema Amr and founder of Meshwar Mixtape. Her sets weave SWANA tunes with electro, creating a dancefloor journey rooted in rhythm, movement, and diasporic sound

Vasylysa (ukr.: Василиса) is a solo project by Ukrainian singer-songwriter Vasylysa Furmanova. 

Little to be said to explain seeing her live for the first time, as any expectations might be subverted in a second she picks the strings and starts singing. An heir to legendary traditional Ukrainian bards, she picked up bandura as her primary instrument, representing a symbol of strength, tradition and innovation, traveling both around Ukraine and Europe to sing the stories of lost pasts and stolen futures. You may see her at a charity event alone on the stage, hidden in the shadows, screaming into void; or sometimes with a guitar over the shoulder, breaking the speakers with the band of genre outlaws.

Vasylysa's debut single “Тичина” (“Tychyna”) is a delicate and touching story about longing for home, set to the poem “Ви знаєте, як липа шелестить?” (“Do you know how the linden rustles?..”). With a guitar in hand and a broken Midwest-inspired accompaniment, Vasya invites listeners to view the romantic classic from the school curriculum from a different perspective; what if you never get to see those same linden trees again? 

Followed by “Страх, Сором” (“Fear”, “Shame”) she finally presents her vision of bandura in a band: a haunting, hypnotizing ringing in the middle of choir, that lets you off guard, and a full-scale sonic assault of noise-driven, harsh drum and bass. We are yet to discover what’s next for her 2025 releases, but you can be the first to hear more of her songs live this summer in Europe.

Noushin Afzali is an Iranian writer and designer based in Berlin, whose research explores contemporary art and culture through the lenses of feminist and postcolonial studies. She is particularly interested in the intersections of creativity, social critique, and cultural discourse.

Amélie Baasner is a plurilingual journalist and researcher who has contributed to leading European outlets including Germany’s Der Tagesspiegel, Poland’s Gazeta Wyborcza, Italy’s L’Espresso, and France’s La Croix. Her work focuses on reshaping narratives around gender, migration, and polarisation. She is currently a researcher at Humboldt University in Berlin, where she examines the origins of gender-based discourse in European culture. 

Amélie’s poems move between private memory and public unrest. Across four languages, she reflects on war, inheritance, urban life and the quiet return of old shadows in contemporary Europe.

Faravaz is an Iranian singer, songwriter, and activist based in Berlin. Her music blends alternative pop, R&B, and Iranian influences, shaped by her experience of growing up under repression in Iran, where women were not allowed to sing solo in public. Her artistic voice is emotional, playful, and kinky, combining vulnerability with strength and political resonance. Alongside her artistic work, she is also the founder of Right to Sing e. V. and uses her music to speak about freedom, identity, women’s rights, and queer visibility.