Name: Constantinopoliad, The Concert
Start: 2025-10-03T19:30:00
Location: National Sawdust

National Sawdust

“No harpist thus far has been more capable of combining all of the modern harp traditions — from Salzedo, through Dorothy Ashby, through Alice Coltrane — with such strength, grace and commitment.” - The New York Times

Brandee Younger

“The hyphen-rich vocalist-percussionist-speaker-producer-activist’s vibe isn’t so much “singer-songwriter” as “icon of empowerment.” Her frenetic odes to feminism, fluidity and freedom — carried off with the assistance of an entirely female or nonbinary band — mash together fragments of electro-pop, trap, Afrobeat and R&B, carried off with endless swagger.” – NPR

Madame Gandhi

‘Constantinopoliad, The Concert’ is a live narrative and sound event by sister sylvester and Nadah El Shazly. A response to the archive of the poet Constantine Cavafy, the story is inspired by the blank and torn out pages in a journal that the teenage Cavafy began when he and his family fled Alexandria; by lost and missing queer archives through time; and by the ghosts, both erotic and historical, that visit the older Cavafy in his poems.