SUMŪD صمود A COMPOSED SOUND WALK | Fighting Seeds

Sumūd - A Sound walk in rooted presence is a composed sound journey which invites listeners into an embodied ritual of walking, witnessing and remembering across Tempelhofer Feld, a site layered with histories of resistance, wild ecologies and personal stories. The sound journey was developed for the solidarity collective Fighting Seeds as a gesture of offering a grounding ritual leading into a collective act of planting Palestinian seedlings at Westfeld Garten on Tempelhofer Feld. A practice of remembrance and care. As participants move through six curated stations, they are guided by a composed soundscape of field recordings, composed sounds, poetry and spoken word. Drawing on the Palestinian concept of sumūd (صمود) = rooted presence, the walk explores how land-based practices - such as planting and remembrance - become acts of resistance in the face of displacement, settler colonialism and ecological erasure. These layered soundings offer not only a narrative of what has been lost, but of what persists: a relational ontology rooted in Indigenous and diasporic lifeways that center land as a living, communicative being.

Access the sound walk handbook and route here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nhsMy6efqcbmDSRbT6GE377eADztBZoI/view?usp=drive_link

This event is a fundraising effort for the "Revive Gaza's Farmland" project, which aims to rehabilitate Gaza's agricultural sector and restore local food systems to combat famine, counter the blockade, and build food sovereignty. As aid struggles to enter, food sovereignty within Gaza through seedlings becomes of vital importance - making our work not just symbolic, but urgently practical. https://www.paypal.com/pools/c/9h4jVuhjul

CONTRIBUTORS & CREDITS sound walk concept: Janine Kaselitz & Seif Elmasry sound design: Seif ElMasry narration: Janine, Seif, Diego contributors: Fightings Seeds - Fulvia, Aaron, Diego, Toomas featuring: Birds of Brandenburg, Kin of Tempelhofer Feld, Lynn Adib, Mahmoud Darwish, Riyad Alsunbati