Fundraiser for Lebanon

//Saturday, November 23rd at Eastmint 7pm//

Featuring performances by Rohan Ribeiro, Evelyn Ida Morris, Alissar Seyla and a special showing of video work by NP, the experimental electronic project of Jad Atoui and Anthony Sahyoun (Beirut).

Tickets $10 - $50 via Humanitix link in bio // First Nations tix free
Bar with non-alc options + Levantine delicacies from Rage Cafe available on the night

All money raised on the night will go to the urgent community work of Tunefork Studios and Beirut Synthesizer Centre supporting displaced people currently in the chaos of war.

الرحمة للشهداء والشفاء للجرحى

may the martyrs rest in peace, may the wounded recover

This event will be held on the stolen lands of the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation.

We pay our respects to Elders past and present. Sovereignty was never ceded.

FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA

ALWAYS WAS, ALWAYS WILL BE

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Omniversal Hum x Rage Cafe x Eastmint present

7pm Doors

7.30pm Evelyne Ida Morris

8.30pm Alissar Seyla and video work by NP (Jad Atoui and Anthony Sahyoun).

9.30pm R.Ribeiro

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Evelyne Ida Morris

Evelyne Ida Morris (He/Him) is a gifted composer celebrated for their dexterity across multiple instruments and for composition that is complex and structurally adventurous.In 2014, having already released several of their own albums under the name Pikelet, Morris co-founded LISTEN, an advocacy group focused on creating discourse around gender diversity and politics in Australian music.

In 2017, Evelyn Morris released their first self titled album under Evelyn Ida Morris. The album represents a significant departure from the looping pop of Pikelet, for which Evelyn is best known. It builds on the structural complexity of that project, but focuses wholly on piano – huge, wild, racing, dexterous piano. These new works are lush, postclassical compositions, frequently referencing Debussy and Ravel. Thematically, they deal with the experience of being non-binary and making sense of that experience.

Since working on Acute Misfortune in 2018, Morris has been working on two more feature film soundtracks, and a short film by Lucy Knox. Their first feature earned them an ARIA nomination - Australia’s premier peer-selected awards. Reviews for Acute Misfortune identified the soundtrack as having an ‘inimitable air.’

His remakable 2023 double LP 'Extended Air' has been described as an Impressive free flow of ideas over along form.

NP (Jad Atoui and Anthony Sahyoun).

NP is an electronic, experimental duo formed in Lebanon in 2019 by Jad Atoui and Anthony Sahyoun. It reflects on the current political transformation and its imposed uncertainties, as a method to explore musical futures. They have made a name for themselves performing extended experimental music, using guitars, acoustic objects, modular systems and programming. NP collaborated with Joe Saade on video works, having presented a film on introspection through extrospection for Lumens Stockholm. They’re expected to release their second LP in 2025.

Alissar Seyla

Levantine Arab visual artist and writer living on Wurundjeri country. Her art depicts experiences of violence and displacement in relationship with tender or disturbing aspects of nature and cultural fantasy. Alissar shares and performs her work around Naarm and curates Rage Cafe, a quasi-monthly community circle exploring art from South West Asia and North Africa.

R.Rebeiro

Rohan Rebeiro is an experimental musician whose work explores the boundaries of percussion and the potential of music as language. Typified by its highly dynamic and powerfully cathartic expressions of sound, Rebeiro’s work is rooted in deep listening, both to instrument and space. Instruments are used and misused amongst free improvisational and expanded percussion techniques, where silence is often at play with sound. Elements can appear familiar, but these are chameleonic – this is experimentation as a form of communication, with language as an unwieldy, frenetic energy. At its core, Rebeiro’s work forces confrontation with our primal cognitions, creating an ontological discussion towards how we can communicate, and understanding the spaces in which we do so. Whilst seemingly confronting and obtuse, this universal language of rhythm is persistently human, and is illuminated by Rebeiro’s deeply physical work.

ACCESSIBILITY Eastmint is accessible via wheelchair through the non main entrance, there is a small sliding door frame that needs to be negotiated. Please get in touch if you require this option. We regret we are unable to provide accessible toilet facilities at this time. Closest accessible toilets located at the Peacock Hotel 150m away.

Please contact eastmintrecords@gmail.com if you require any other info