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 freedom can live inside sonic and bodily practices. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork in Bushehr, the performance does not tell a single linear story. Instead, it creates an intimate audiovisual space where ritual mourning, Black musical heritage, histories of circulation and loss, and personal memory echo through one another. Echoes of Dammām shows how a drum can carry memory, grief, resistance, and traces of collective life beyond a certain ritualistic and regulated setting.

Note: This perfomance schedule has been reworked since our guide was printed.