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Echoes of Dammām - Friday, September 11 at 5:30 PM in Kensington, Old, Philadelphia

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Echoes of Dammām

Friday, September 11 at 5:30 PM·5:30 p.m.·Kensington, Old

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Echoes of Dammām

Echoes of Dammām - Friday, September 11 at 5:30 PM in Kensington, Old, Philadelphia

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Echoes of Dammām is a multimedia storytelling performance that follows fragmented stories gathered around dammām, a ritual drumming practice from Bushehr, a port city in southern Iran. On stage, live narration moves alongside projected video, field recordings, and layered sound. Drums, voices, images, silence, and memory appear in fragments, tracing how grief, resistance, and the struggle for free...

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