The Basement 6PM - 7PM:
Short Film Programme
    The evening unfolds through film, installation, conversation, and performance. A shorts programme gathers emerging filmmakers whose works resonate with Fela’s decolonial imagination and sonic politics.
        Iwoyi: within the echo (2024), directed by Tayo Rapoport and Rohan Ayinde, layers original footage, archival material, and poetry to explore Black British music as a site of diasporic feeling and futurity. 

       Practices in Building Black Queer Futurity (2025), by Sibahle Serpent Daniel, re-edited specially for this screening, uses generative AI, poetry, and voice to interrogate the future of Black queer being.

       REVO (2025), by Savannah Fuller (fat-lÏp), revisits the 1979 Grenada Revolution through archival montage and a soundtrack that fuses reggae and resistance.

        for kalakuta&kofifi (2025), by midnightswami, collages found footage, improvised sound, and drawing to link the military destruction of Lagos’s Kalakuta Republic and Johannesburg’s Kofifi, excavating the sonic genealogies of Afrobeat and Marabi.

        TIMELINEALCHEMY (2025), by Tamika Abaka-Wood, experiments with sonic time-travel as a mode of resistance and remembrance.

       A theme-specific work by ODERA will extend the programme’s conversation on diasporic sound and speculative histories through film. 




The Basement 7PM - 8PM:
Panel conversation
    bringing together those who knew Fela best:
        A special panel talk reunites those who knew Fela best—visual artist Lemi Ghariokwu, manager Rikki Stein, and keyboardist Dele Sosimi—to explore the intersections of music, politics, and visual culture, and to reflect on how Fela’s legacy continues to shape creative resistance today.



Hotel-wide from 6PM:
Installations & Activations
    Beyond the screen, installations and participatory activations extend Fela’s ethos into collective space.
        Adza Tarka’s 9jafuturhythmachine: soro soke is an interactive multimedia installation—combining sculpture, textbook, and performance video—that reflects on how history is made through acts of remembrance and forgetting. Expanding on Tarka’s DIY electronic instrument 9jafuturhythmachine: (re)sampler, the work explores how interactive theatre can memorialise Nigerian protest histories, especially the 2020 #EndSARS movement and the Lekki Tollgate Massacre. “Soro soke,” Yoruba for “speak up,” becomes a sonic call for accountability, amplifying both embodied and institutional memory.

       Tamika Abaka-Wood’s DIAL-AN-ANCESTOR is a long-term participatory audio installation activated by ancestors past, present, and future through their voices. Call (toll-free; carrier charges may apply) or visit www.dial-an-ancestor.com to listen, record, or contribute to the living archive. “You are somebody’s ancestor. What do you have to say?” The installation invites audiences to join a century-spanning conversation on inheritance, transmission, and sonic continuity.  



from 6PM:
Workshops & Performance        The programme continues with Turn by Turn, a vinyl DJ workshop by ETP and sweetestcape, offering participants a hands-on engagement with the craft and community of sound-making. A live performance by Dele Sosimi and his Quintet brings the night to a crescendo, translating Fela’s revolutionary frequencies into the present tense, followed by an afterparty at Jumbi, Peckham—a celebration of rhythm, resistance, and joy.