Grandmother University
Welto and the Sacred Bush - Exhibition Opening
Learning from Caribbean Gardens — in Collaboration with Refuge Worldwide
6. June 2025
18.00-23.00
18.00-23.00
Save the Date
For free
all ages welcome
multilingual
Spore Initiative is delighted to launch the exhibition Welto and the Sacred Bush: Learning from Caribbean Gardens with a vibrant evening program in collaboration with Refuge Worldwide - a Berlin-based radio station, educational platform, and event series, amplifying underrepresented voices in music, culture, and social justice.
For the exhibition opening, Spore and Refuge Worldwide co-present an evening of shared learning, movement, and sound. The event includes a guided tour with participating artists, followed by two DJ sets inspired by Caribbean musical cultures and diasporic soundscapes.
Program
18:00 – Doors open
19:00 – Welcome by Antonia Alampi, Artistic Director, Spore Initiative
19:30 – Guided tour with artists Mawongany, Annalee Davis, and Isambert Duriveau
20:30 – DJ set: Ka Dansé
22:00 – DJ set: Jefe Marrón
About the exhibition
In collaboration with the Martinique-based association Permactivie, Spore Initiative presents Welto and the Sacred Bush, a group exhibition that engages with Caribbean gardening cultures as blueprints for ecological repair.
Rooted in the cultural and botanical knowledge cultivated at the margins of plantation systems, the exhibition brings together ancestral plant practices, communal land care, and artistic responses to environmental collapse. It also foregrounds the role of children—not as passive inheritors of crisis, but as active participants in imagining relational, land-based futures. Developed in collaboration with artists and thinkers from the Caribbean and its diasporas, Welto and the Sacred Bush considers the garden and the cultural practices surrounding it as a living archive of resistance, care, and regeneration.
Ka Dansé
Ka Dansé was created as a love letter to Caribbean music from a French Guadeloupean DJ ; a way of reappropriating one’s oppressed culture through music. It all started when growing up, their Dad would blast Zouk, Kompa, Reggae, or even Salsa every Sunday morning at home, and it ended up shaping their musical background and influences. Ka Dansé is a beautiful mix of retro Zouk, haitian Kompa, traditional Gwo Ka, sexy Dancehall, hype Shatta and energetic Bouyon that never leaves the dancers insensitive nor the dancefloor empty.
Jefe Marrón
Jefe Marrón is a passionate selector of Reggae and Dub , drawing inspiration from the strong influences of Black and Indigenous cultures in various musical genres. His connection to his Dominican roots is reflected in specific selected songs on his playlists. Growing up in a close-minded area in Southern Germany, Marrón often felt like an outsider. Roots and Reggae allowed him to discover cultural identity and political awareness. He loves the culture and movement of the sound system and is fascinated by the rhythmic bass sound and the socially critical lyrics. Since 2023, he hopped on the decks as a DJ, intertwining Roots with the new branches of Reggae and Dub music.
