Welcome to the opening of Black History Month Norway 2022 with the band Peace Out to Revolution. Through music from the African diaspora, the band invites you to a historic evening filled with groovy music and thought-provoking stories. Soul, Afrobeat(s) and RnB are on the program - a tribute to black music and culture - an evening you will [...]
Lecture with Ian Almond and conversation with Tabish Khair What would world literature look like if we stopped referring to "the West"? Welcome to a lecture with Ian Almond on the topic of literature from the global south, with a focus on literature from Latin America, South Asia and the Middle East. Ian Almond is a specialist in post-colonial theories, South Asian literature, the representation of Islam in [...]
Masahat (formerly SPACE) is a festival that gives people in Oslo a whole week of music, art, culture and activism from the Arab world. From 20.-25. September holds Masahat around the city, and on Melahuset we have reading circles, workshops and magazine releases on 24 September. Program 15.00 - 17.00. Reading circle: Om hop! We read selected [...]
Plop! Rock concert for little ears The rock band PLOPP is Norway's toughest rock trio with energetic self-composed songs and lyrics designed for the age group 3 to 10 years. PLOPP is the band that makes you dig rock. Through humor and the joy of playing, you are led into a world full of surprises. Plopp plays songs about friends, the summer, about [...]
Skylar House Collective presents KOBE IV: Art and movement - Pop up exhibition Painting • Installations • Films • Uma Crompton • Thando • Abi Qadar • Pica Pau • Wawan Muhhamad • Alex • Aurora Aven • Solveig Hestholm • Lewis Scott DeWitt Duration: at 16.00 - at 23.00 Free entry More info: [...]
The British-Pakistani writer and historian Tariq Ali receives both criticism and widespread acclaim. More than anything else, he created debate with his latest book about the notorious former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Just with the title of the book "Winston Churchill, His Times, His Crimes", Ali shatters previous notions about Churchill. The Churchill cult calls Tariq Ali the cult [...]
Balli Beats started making his own beats for his favorite songs early on and has drawn musical inspiration from everything from rappers such as Karpe, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg and 50 Cent to Punjabi singers Chamkila, Manak, Bindrakhia and Grudas Mann. He is a versatile artist known for his original 'Balli Beats' as well as his Punjabi mixes. Bollywood Brass Band [...]
Teesri Dhun – The Third Tone is a documentary theater play from Pakistan, directed by Dr. Clarie Pamment with researcher and art scholar Iram Sana. The play is a dramatization of transgender people's lives and struggle to survive as a third gender category in a polarized society where the male/female dichotomy is the guiding principle. In the play we are introduced to [...]
Melahuset invites you to the Mela Fokus event series, where we highlight different cultural expressions and artists with roots in different countries. As Somalis make up the largest African community in Norway, this year's focus is Somalia. Concert: Dur Dur Band Int'l Dur-Dur Band Int'l is a revival band in exile in London that has resumed the legacy of Dur-Dur Band, a [...].
Congas and Cuban rhythms Luisón Medina Capote is a Cuban percussionist, singer and composer, who has also made a name for himself as a footballer and who has played several matches for the Cuban national team. Fortunately, he chose to bet on the music, and is ready to fill Melahuset with Cuban rhythms. Capote has lived in Norway in [...]
Release the music video SAMEBLOD + Concert Heimen is a trio fronted by songwriter, vocalist and drummer Kari Heimen. Last autumn, they released the album "Historier - Vi hentes hjem", which is based on Kari Heimen's own family history and depicts the consequences of the Norwegianization policy for an ordinary family in Finnmark. She has also received [...]
Gulla is a promising and outspoken rapper who creates songs with substance and where she portrays issues her generation has to deal with. Her interest in music started as a child, and it was Karpe who became her great inspiration and introduction to the Norwegian rap scene. After high school, she started writing sketches for her own songs, she learned [...]
