Afrovism

Echoes of Home

Where memory lives, and essence chimes in every note, strand, and blossom.

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This edition of Afrovism is a celebration of memory, identity, and artistry—woven together through music, visuals, and deeply personal acts of creation.

On the night of Echoes of Home, guests will step into an immersive floral landscape created by Garden of Nehemia, transforming the space into a living artwork that blends nature with design.
The evening opens with a performance by Ranie Ribeiro, a harpist who fuses classical, jazz, and electronic influences into a meditative live experience. After a short intermission, Arno Sacco brings soulful vocals and heartfelt lyrics to the stage, sharing music rooted in emotion and storytelling. Guests are then invited to explore the space and its installations before the next act. Peter Somuah, a Ghanaian trumpeter known for his warm tone and rhythmic flair, performs a genre-blending set of jazz, funk, and West African sounds.

Throughout the night, attendees can experience Marianne Costade’s visual art installation exploring African hair traditions, memory, and self-representation through photography and performance. ByGoldiie, a multidisciplinary jewellery designer, will present a pop-up featuring handcrafted pieces that reflect her Caribbean heritage and personal storytelling—merging culture, form, and wearability. Fashion and culture collective Showroom Ams will host a curated pop-up of books, highlighting emerging talent at the intersection of music and design. To close the evening, the 1.06 Library will create a sonic sanctuary with a curated DJ set and music archive, inviting guests to dive deep into sound.

Timetable

18.30 Doors open
19.30 Ranie Ribeiro
20.00 Intermission
20.15 Arno Sacco
20.45 Intermission
21.00 Peter Somuah
21.30 Sounds by 1.06 library

About Afrovism

Afrovism is an open source platform that celebrates the Afro diaspora. Throughout every move, the aim is to inspire and embrace shared experiences, traditions, and values that bind the different cultures together.

Line-up

Garden of Nehemia | Art
Garden of Nehemia is a floral studio founded by multidisciplinary creative Nehemia, known for her work in fashion. Garden of Nehemia extends her artistic expression into the realm of floristry, offering thoughtfully curated floral arrangements that reflect her unique aesthetic sensibility. Each bouquet is crafted to tell a story, blending natural beauty with intentional design. Garden of Nehemia serves as a space where art and nature converge, providing clients with floral pieces that are both visually striking and emotionally resonant. Through this endeavor, Nehemia continues to explore new dimensions of creativity, bringing her distinctive vision to life in every arrangement.

ByGoldiie | Pop up

Goldiie is a multidisciplinary artist who skillfully blends various forms of creativity. Drawing inspiration from her surroundings, family,veveryday interactions, and the stories that fill her world, she transforms these influences into art. For her, the creative process is a dialogue with her environment—one that merges culture, design, art, and music. Every piece Goldiie creates tells its own story, weaving together her Caribbean heritage with the rich and diverse influences of her life in The Netherlands.

Marianne Costade | Art
Marianne Costade is a Franco-Senegalese & Congolese visual artist and cultural archivist based between Paris and Dakar. Her work explores memory, identity and cultural transmission through photography, installation and performance. Since 2021, she has been developing a long-term body of work around ancestral and contemporary African hairstyles, using the photo booth as a ritual space of self-documentation.

She often works with analog photography and the photo booth, using repetition, framing and texture as tools to reclaim Black narratives and everyday rituals. Her work traces diasporic connections between African traditions and contemporary identities, weaving links across generations and geographies.
By grounding her work in personal memory, she highlights how the intimate becomes political, how hair, touch and image carry weight, silence and resistance. Through her visual practice, she seeks to build an evolving archive of Black beauty, care and memory, one that refuses erasure and celebrates legacy.

Her installations often include live braiding, soundscapes and gestures, creating spaces where the audience becomes part of the living archive. She recreates immersive environments that echo the texture, sound and memory of African hair salons, spaces of beauty, resilience and shared knowledge.

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Arno Sacco | Vocalist

Arno Sacco is an emerging singer-songwriter from Belgium, known for his heartfelt lyrics and intimate musical style. His sound, influenced by artists such as Frank Ocean and Daniel Caesar, blends soulful melodies with personal storytelling.
Arno’s music reflects his introspective nature, offering listeners a glimpse into his emotional world. With a presence on social media and a dedication to his craft, he continues to connect with fans and build his profile in the music scene.

Ranie Ribeiro | Harpist

Ranie Ribeiro’s artistic journey has taken on new dimensions and disciplines and he has currently solidified himself as one of the Netherlands’ most unique harpists.
He’s performed live across The Netherlands’ premiere venues and festivals, Paradiso, Le Guess Who?2024 and TivoliVredenburg using the harp to experiment with classical, electronica and jazz elements while creating and expanding upon existing compositions.

For Ranie, the act of performing and transforming music live is a meditative and vulnerable process inviting the audience to feel the same.

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Peter Somuah | Trompetist
Peter Somuah is a gifted trumpeter who learned to play by listening endlessly to his trumpet heroes Miles Davis, Freddie Hubbard and Roy Hargrove. Somuah stands out with his warm and melancholic sound, as well as the rhythmic prowess reflecting his upbringing surrounded by the music styles native to West Africa. He touches his audiences and makes them groove.

In 2021 Somuah won the Erasmus Jazz award for young jazz talent, and in 2022 he won the prestigious Edison Jazz Award with his debut album Outer Space. In June 2024, Somuah worked on a project with the WDR Big Band playing his own compositions, arranged and conducted by the musical cosmopolitan Michael Mossman. In his compositions, Somuah explores the boundaries between jazz, funk, soul and traditional Ghanaian music, sprinkled with a hint of electronic music. He has performed his music at many stages.

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Showroom Ams | Pop Up

Showroom Ams connects brands and culture-oriented media outlets with emerging talent. They are rooted in fashion and music, embedded in the underground networks of both scenes and work with some of today’s most interesting established and emerging artists. Their curation uplifts voices that challenge and redefine creative norms.

1.06 Library | DJ’s

1.06 library aims to stimulate, educate and enlighten all curious minds and supporters of music.A library, that holds on archive of physical music selections curated by DRKNGHTS. Patrons of the art can indulge in a catalog of vinyl, cassette, and CD’s (+other discs).

The library stimulates the mind and/or creative processes by the means of sound. lmagine being surrounded by a library filled with music, audio sound system and listening stations where you are encouraged to fully dig into the music & artist(s) and tease your mind for further creativity.

Faouziat Biera Faous
Faouziat Biera Faous is a social media coordinator and I am a fashion stylist and the founder of Afrovism. Born in Burundi but raised in the south of Holland, she currently call Amsterdam home.

During the 8 years of studying fashion, she began her career as a freelance fashion stylist, earning features in publications such as Vogue, Nataal Media and more. After graduating the course Fashion and Branding, Amsterdam Fashion Institute, she worked for brands such as Daily Paper, Calvin Klein, The New Originals and more.

Her passion for art led her to establish Afrovism, a platform where she celebrates Arts and Culture. So far, she has been able to host 9 beautiful editions at venues such as Soho House, Foam Museum Amsterdam, Felix Meritis Amsterdam, Oscam and Compagnietheater Amsterdam.

‘’In everything I do, my goal is to inspire those I meet — I aim for every interaction with people to feel like being captivated in ways you’ll never forget.’’

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