Isabel Lewis & Djibril Sall: Sip & Speak

This informal format is a hosted listening session arranged as an ataya tea ceremony, a Senegalese hosting ritual where strong green tea is continuously brewed over the course of a conversation and served over three rounds. Ataya can last up to three hours and is used as way to structure the temporal rhythm of a conversation.


Isabel Lewis is part of Sophiensæles’ Artistic Adivisory Board. Since the 2024/25 season Sophiensæle has an artistic advisory board at its side. It is important to us to sustainably integrate the perspectives of artists into our structures in order to further develop the artistic vision of our space in a mutual exchange, to review production conditions for artists and to strengthen the cultural-political situation of the Sophiensæle.


Four artists with different focuses and practices are appointed for two years at a time. The members for the years 2024-2026 are Simone Dede Ayivi, Isabel Lewis, Enad Marouf and Hendrik Quast, who will each host an artistic exchange format. Simone Dede Ayivi’s Schwarze Kantine took place February 28th, 2025.

• Hosted Listening Session, Tea Ceremony
  
• Duration: 5h
  
• English
  
• Relaxed Performance