Events

Friday 7-9pm

13 March 2026

Tape Memories: Mixtape Sessions

As part of Tape Memories, Mixtape Sessions invites you into a shared space of listening, where sound becomes memory, gesture, and relation. Hosted by Ana Paz, this gathering centers the cassette as both object and encounter. Bring a tape from…

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Sunday 2-5pm

8 March 2026

Intergenerational Storytelling with Jimmy Touré and Cassette Collection Afternoon

As part of Tape Memories, join an Intergenerational Storytelling session centered on migration, memory, and cassette culture within Black communities in Sweden and across the diaspora. Alongside this, Cassette Collection Afternoon invites you to bring your tapes to Black Archives…

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Sunday 3pm

1 March 2026

BAS Film Club: Echoes of Empire, Sudan

BAS Film Club centers Black voices from the African continent and across the diaspora, showcasing independent filmmakers and Black auteurs working outside mainstream cinema. Join our first program focusing on Sudan with a screening of Khartoum (2025) followed by a…

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Saturday-Sunday

13-14 February 2026

Tape Memories: Presentation, Listening Session and Workshop with Dhaqan Collective

Welcome to the first public programmes of Black Archives Sweden’s cassette collection project, Tape Memories. We are joined by the UK-based Dhaqan Collective to explore the cultural importance of cassette tapes within Black diasporic communities.

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Saturday 12-4pm

31 January 2026

BAS Café Re-opening

BAS Café reopens with Camila Hidalgo Hernandez as master barista. Come through for baked goods, specialty coffee, and music by Amira Brown and DJ Boxcova, alongside a presentation of Kim Demåne’s temporary wall installation.

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Saturday 2-4pm

7 February 2026

Artist Presentation with Artist-in-Residence: Body_hacker

We begin the spring season with artist Body_hacker (aka Sall Lam Toro), who will be in residence at BAS from 2–8 February. Join us on for an artist presentation in which Body_hacker shares their practice, research, and minor unravelings encountered…

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Saturday 3-5pm

22 November, 2025

Artist presentation with Levi Appleton: Embodied Sonic Possibilities

Guided by the question “What if you could hear the world between your heartbeats?” Appleton invites you to an afternoon of collective listening and conversation to mark the close of the residency at BAS.

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Wednesday 6-8pm

3 December, 2025

Book Talk: Lọlá Ákínmádé in Conversation with Gertrude Chilufya

Join us for a special evening with international bestselling author Lọlá Ákínmádé, in conversation with Gertrude Chilufya, as they delve into Ákínmádé’s latest acclaimed novel, Bitter Honey.

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16-23 November, 2025

Artist-in-Residence

BAS is excited to launch our first residency, an opening gesture toward a program that imagines the archive as a living laboratory: experimental, alive, and shaped by the people who move through it.

Sunday 2-4pm

16 November, 2025

Capoeira Angola Workshop: A Body That Feels is a Body That Remembers

Through movement, rhythm, and reflection, Ana Paz invites participants to explore Capoeira Angola as an embodied practice that connects the self to community, ancestry, and the wider flow of African diasporic wisdom.

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Saturday 3-5pm

8 November, 2025

Performance Gathering with artist Halimatu Iddrisu

This performative gathering invites participants into the artistic world of Halimatu Iddrisu, current IASPIS artist-in-residence at Konstepidemin in Gothenburg. During the event, Iddrisu will paint with henna on the hands of willing participants. Through this shared and tactile act, she…

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Saturday 5 - 8pm

November 1, 2025

Detroit Techno & Dance: Detroit Jit Masters x Cypher Tales Malmö 

Cypher Tales Malmö, Detroit’s Jit Masters, and Black Archives Sweden invite you to move, connect, and celebrate the deep roots of techno and street dance.

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Saturday 7-10pm

November 1, 2025

Black Archives Sweden x Inkonst: Joy Guidry (US) + artist talk with Camila Borges

A bassoon isn’t supposed to sound like this—and that’s exactly the point. Joy Guidry bends tradition into vapor, forging sonic spaces where vulnerability becomes ritual and noise becomes balm. Joy Guidry will be in conversation with Camila Borges, historian and…

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Saturday 2-4pm

October 18, 2025

Counter Archives at Lund University: Documenting Pro-Palestine Protests

Black Archives Sweden invites you to a special talk with the Counter-Archive Collective for Lund Students’ Solidarity with Palestine. Join us as they share their work documenting pro-Palestine protests and the Palestinagården student encampment at Lund University, preserving a critical…

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Saturday 1-1:30pm

October 18, 2025

In Conversation with Christina Lehnert

We’re delighted to welcome you to a conversation between Jonelle Twum, artistic director of Black Archives Sweden (BAS), and Christina Lehnert, curator of the Gothenburg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (GIBCA 2025). This exchange begins with reflections on the biennial’s…

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Sunday 2-4pm

October 12, 2025

Workshop “Embodied Percussion” with Nyokabi Kariũki

Using the body as the primary sound source (“embodied percussion”) in combination with live electronics, Nyokabi’s new work, “Body, Bend”, investigates the contexts that, willingly or forcefully, have shaped the use of the body as a sound source within African…

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Friday 7-9pm

September 19, 2025

Opening: All Our Hands Combined

As part of Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art 2025 (GIBCA #13), Black Archives Sweden presents All Our Hands Combined — a two-part exhibition unfolding across Black Archives Sweden and The Gothenburg Museum of Art. Rooted in this year’s theme…

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Saturday 7-9pm

May 24, 2025

Archival Frequencies: Sonic Session III with Ayesha Hameed and Tom Hirst

In this third and last session for the season, artist Ayesha Hameed and musician Tom Hirst perform their new work ‘We are in flood’ (2024), exploring subaquatic bodies of water as sites of grief, suffering and kinship. Through these water…

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Saturday 2pm - 5pm

May 3 & 17, 2025

Black Female Form: Black Healing in Scorched Landscapes

Black Healing in Scorched Landscapes is a continuation of Black Female Form—an ongoing artistic project by Sarah Nakiito. The project explores minority stress and decolonial methods of recovery through spaces for rest, film, and installations.

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Saturday 2pm - 4pm

April 26, 2025

ÅTTIOSJUKT: A Book Talk with Stevie Nii-Adu Mensah

Join us for a book talk with Stevie Nii-Adu Mensah, author of the novel ÅTTIOSJUKT – a story about friendship, identity, and life in 1980s Stockholm. The event will feature readings from the book and a conversation with Stevie about…

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Friday 7-9pm

April 18, 2025

Archival Frequiencies: Sonic Session II with Tabideee

In this second session, Tabideee delves into the rich textures of traditional Sudanese sounds, exploring how these elements form the foundation for her love of contemporary electronic music and rave culture. She highlights the role of Sudanese sonic spaces, beyond…

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Friday 7-9pm

March 28, 2025

Archival Frequiencies: Sonic Session I with Lynnée Denise

Archival Frequencies is a podcast by Black Archives Sweden that explores the sonic echoes within the archive. For this new season, we invite three sound practitioners to engage with sound as a method and to explore the frequencies that shape…

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Friday - Sunday

February 28 - March 2, 2025

Fotografiska x BAS: Josèfa Ntjam – Futuristic Ancestry: Warping Matter and Space-time(s)

Black Archives Sweden activates Josèfa Ntjam’s exhibition, opening a dialogue with her visionary world—where time and space collapse and reshape. Questions about history arise: Who writes it, how, and for whom? Through three guided tours and a DJ and sonic…

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Monday 6pm - 7pm

10 February, 2025

Concert: Songs and Stories

Diane Emerita's first stop on her Songs and Stories tour is at Black Archives Sweden in Malmö. She will perform unreleased songs alongside her latest project, Indigo Bruised. This intimate concert features enchanting vocals, thoughtful lyrics, and a discussion on…

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Friday 6pm - 9pm

28 January, 2025

Book Release: Ackumulation av ursprung by Felicia Mulinari

Welcome to the celebration of Felicia Mulinari’s novel Ackumulation av ursprung, a novel about work and sleep, apathy, and resistance. A novel that dreams of the downfall of Europe, or something the white devil can’t manage to swallow.

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01 December, 2024 – 19 January, 2025

James Barnor: Transmissions

Black Archives Sweden is excited to present James Barnor: Transmissions, an outdoor exhibition celebrating the pioneering work of Ghanaian photographer James Barnor. This exhibition is the first large-scale public display of Barnor’s extensive photographic archive in Sweden. The presentation spreads…

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Friday - Sunday

29 November - 1 December 2024

Symposium Transmissions

Black Archives Sweden welcomes you to a 3-day international symposium for the exhibition Transmissions. The symposium is an opportunity to actively engage with the rich themes of the exhibitions through various events: a keynote speaker by renowned scholar Tina Campt,…

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15 November 2024 - 19 January 2025

Transmissions

A group exhibition that broadcasts connections across generations through photography, sound, video, installation, painting, and performance. The exhibition departs from Black Archives Sweden’s Family Archive collection, which is dedicated to sustaining diasporic life through experimentation, care, and communal activation. The…

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Wednesday 6-7.30pm

23 October 2024

Genklang / Reverberation: A portrait of Megafonen

Welcome to a screening of Genklang / Reverberation (2012), a film portrait of Megafonen, an organization that works for social justice and fair society. Following the screening there will be an open discussion departing from the film.

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Friday-Saturday 7-9pm & 1-3pm

18-19 October 2024

Things We Lost in the Fire

Abdalla Eltayeb invites us on a sensory journey of evocation, where he maps out the processes and thoughts behind the collection of linoleum cut prints of everyday objects of home. The event consists of a performance lecture and a workshop…

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Saturday 5-7pm

12 October 2024

Launch: The Swinging Town/ Affective Cartography of Malmö

The event will consist of a launch and presentation of the new map and conversations with some of the workshop participants: Madubuko Diakité, Herbert Washington, Lynnette Koyana Bjerstedt, and Jimmy Touré, who have helped shape the map with their stories…

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Saturday 5-9 pm

28 September 2024

Housewarming / Support Party

Black Archives Sweden has moved into its first-ever physical space in Malmö and you’re invited to help us warm up our new home at Falkenbergsgatan 4A, Malmö. It will be an evening of celebration with live concerts, music, food and…

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Saturday 1-3 pm

8 June 2024

Workshop #2: Affective Cartographies/Spatial memories of Malmö

What memory traces of black life exist in the city? Who has the right to the city? Whose image of Malmö do we remember and how do we remember? In this workshop we are interested in everyday and intimate memories…

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Saturday 1-3 pm

25 May 2024

Workshop #1: Spatial memories of Malmö

What traces of black life are there in the city? Who has the right to the city? Whose image of Malmö do we remember and how do we remember? We are interested in everyday and intimate experiences of the city…

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Friday-Sunday

23-25 February 2024

Moderna Museet Malmö x Black Archives Sweden

Welcome to a weekend of talks, performances, workshops and guided tours at Moderna Museet Malmö. We activate the exhibition "Moki Cherry - A Journey Eternal" through Black Archives Sweden's collection project - The Family Archive.

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Saturday-Sunday

25-26 November 2023

Community Gathering Stockholm

We are excited to invite you to our last Community Gathering of the year. Join us at Kulturhuset in Stockholm 25–26 of November! The events are being held in connection to Southnord’s Artfest with support from Kulturrådet. The weekend is…

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Friday-Sunday

2-4 June 2023

Community Gathering Gothenburg

After the premiere of Community Gathering in Malmö the 3-day event is coming to Gothenburg! In collaboration with Blå Stället, Afroinstitutionen and ABF Göteborg. Community Gathering will be held at Blå Stället between 2–4 June. The weekend is centered around…

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Friday- Sunday

14-16 April 2023

Community Gathering Malmö

Community Gathering is a 3-day-event centered around the Family Archive. Since 2021 Black Archives Sweden has collected materials from Afro-Swedes personal photo albums and archives to contribute to a broader representation of Black people and families in Sweden.

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Saturday 11-4 pm

21 January 2023

The Family Archive: Physical Collection with Afroinstitutionen

What is your family archive? What and who forms part of it? What does your own personal archive say about you and your heritage? Black Archives Sweden invites you to a physical intake as part of our ongoing collection, the…

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An image of a mother holding her child in her arms on the beach. The text on the image says: Open Call. The Family Archives Physical Collection with Konsthall C 3-4 December

Saturday-Sunday 12-5 pm

3-4 December 2022

The Family Archive: Physical Collection with Konsthall C

Black Archives Sweden invites you to a physical collection event together with Konsthall C on the 3rd and 4th of December between 12-5pm. Contribute with photographs from your family archive, but we also welcome letters, diaries, posters, video and audio…

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Saturday-Sunday 12-5pm

22-23 October 2022

The Family Archive: Physical Collection with Konsthall C

Black Archives Sweden invites you to the Family Archive at Konsthall C 12- 5 pm on the 22nd and 23rd of October. Black Archives Sweden is creating a temporary scanning station for its project the family archive, which focuses on…

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Poster i färgerna blå och grå med text i färgerna svart och vit med texten Spatial Considerations Archiving Black queer life. Namnen på konstnärerna Evan Ifekoya och Ajamu X och logor på Black Archives Sweden, Plattform KcSyd och Skånes Konstförening.

Saturday 3-6 pm

26 November 2022

Spatial considerations: Archiving Black queer life

For this presentation and talk, we focus on the intersection between public space and archives, paying specific attention to Black queer lives and archives. We ask the question of how to archive Black queer life, sites of intimacy and their…

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Wednesday 7-8:30 pm

30 March 2022

Meditations of the Black Archive: Methods and Praxis

Meditations of the Black archive is a series of readings, conversations and gatherings focused on critical and creative contemplations of the black archive within a Swedish and European context. In a world organized around antiblackness and black unfreedom, the black…

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Wednesday 7-8 pm

23 March 2022

Online release: Black Space

Welcome to the online release of Black Archives Sweden’s zine publication: Black Space! During the release, the editors: Jonelle Twum and Abdul Dube will be in conversation about the theme of the zine, Black Space and with the contributors of…

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Poster for a writing workshop

Saturday 1-4 pm

12 February 2022

Writing workshop with Fatuma Awil and Felicia Mulinari

A writing workshop for Black women, trans people and non-binary of all ages. You will be guided by the poet Fatuma Awil and the author Felicia Mulinari as you explore your writing through play, conversations, exercises, storytelling, and collective forms…

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Saturday 1- 4 pm

27 November 2021

The Health Effects of Antiblack racism

Welcome to a workshop on the effects of antiblack racism on our health and bodies. The racism that Black people experience have an effect on both our mental and physical well-being. When a person endures persistent racism, every day or…

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Thursday 6- 7:30 pm

30 September 2021

Public Archives and Colonial traces

Public archives bearing of racist and violent histories have been under scrutiny in recent years. Around the world, many statues have been removed and some of those remaining have been transformed in new ways by the public. A question that…

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Thursday 6-7:30pm

23 September 2021

Artist talk with Ina Nian

Black Archives Sweden welcomes you to a digital artist talk with Ina Nian. Nian will be discussing their ongoing solo exhibition at Whose Museum, "The Weight of Silence", together with Samuel Girma.

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Friday 6-8pm

10th September 2021

The Weight of Silence – An Exhibition by Ina Nian

Welcome to the opening of Black Archives Sweden's first exhibition, "The Weight of Silence", in collaboration with Whose Museum on the 10th of September at 6pm. For this exhibition, the artist Ina Nian departs from the archives, specifically Sweden’s relationship…

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Sunday 10-2pm

17 October 2021

Zine Workshop

Are you interested in exploring the effects of Anti-Black racism using creative methods? You are welcome to sign-up for this zine workshop with a focus on how Anti-Black racism affects Black people's bodies and mental health. Sign-up for the workshop…

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Event: The Possibilities of the black archive

Wednesday 7-8.30 pm

31st March 2021

Meditations of the Black archive: Possibilities of the Black archive

Meditations of the black archive is a series of readings, conversations and gatherings focused on critical and creative contemplations of the black archive within a Swedish and European context. In a world organized around antiblackness and black unfreedom, the black…

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