Join OCM and YWMP (FKA Young Women’s Music Project) for this event marking a year of musical successes. YWMP’s pop-up space The Nest has been able to open up more events to the wider community and provide a hub for performances and workshops. The evening will feature a headline show by YWMP’s own Zahra Haji Fath Ali Tehrani, who will be performing material from her new album HĀLĀ – هال which combines steel pans and rumbling bass to create a hypnotic haze. Alsi introducing Wone Torin Wenda, a new live performance voice from the YWMP community, along with a playlist curated by project participants, as well as DJ Macaroni99 to keep the party going until late.

Zahra Haji Fath Ali Tehrani is an Iranian-Irish composer and multi-instrumentalist whose music explores the emotional terrains of intimacy, memory, and belonging through experimental sound. Based in Oxford and rooted in both Irish and Iranian heritage, Zahra creates genre-defying compositions that blend lo-fi jazz punk, shoegaze, and folk influences into raw, contemporary expressions of identity. For live performances, Zahra is joined by a powerful ensemble of collaborators: Jenny Moore, Hannah Lou Larsen, and Jilaine Wheatcroft. Together, they expand the sonic and emotional reach of Zahra’s compositions, creating immersive performances that are as defiant as they are tender.

Wone is a West Papuan instrumental soundscape artist and activist living in exile. Through live drums, layered soundscapes, and visuals, Wone explores themes of identity, exile, and resilience. Wone’s work reflects survival in relation to the ongoing genocide in West Papua, amplifying both personal and collective resistance.

Macaroni99 signed up for a course on how to DJ with YWMP back in 2023, and since then, they haven’t looked back. They have played at several YWMP events and at nights such as Hyperstition and Below the Belt. Their sets range from 2000s pop, hip hop and R&B to hyperpop, techno, donk and hardcore beats.

The Nest, run by YWMP, is Oxford’s first independent, inclusive music space centring young women, trans and non-binary people. The Nest has been designed as a safe, inclusive hub for people to make music, grow and connect. All are welcome!

OCM is supported using public funding by Arts Council England. OCM is a PRS Foundation Talent Development Network Partner supported by PPL. Supported with funding from Oxford City Council. Affiliate Organisation of Oxford Brookes University.

Accessibility info: https://ocmevents.org/venue/the-nest/

If you require the assistance of a carer to attend this performance, please contact Sofia ([email protected]) to reserve a free carer ticket.

Photo credit: Bethan Elford

£5 – £17