19h30 start of the Concert

21h30 end of the day

2200 doors close

Join us for an evening of queer collective care centering our plant-ally Saint-John’s-Wort (SJW). Sasa Ghanem-Chaney, Jules Davis-Dufayard will open the evening with an introduction to their research around the plant and its teachings, offering Saint-John’s-Wort tea and oil for hand massage. The audience will be invited into a collective sonic meditation followed by a concert by Queer Choir Amsterdam.

earthly suns is a multidisciplinary research project, developed by Jules Davis-Dufayard and Sasa Ghanem-Chaney, that departs from a shared love towards the plant Saint-John’s-Wort, and a shared love for communal singing. Together they have embarked on a long-term research around this plant-ally since summer 2025, inspired by the queer poetics it offers as it grows powerful and unnoticed between Amsterdam’s pavements. They hope to develop land and body based seasonal practices which are relevant to the current context of late-stage racial capitalism, and which can contribute to the physical, emotional and spiritual nourishment of current social change movements. This research takes form through herbalism, storytelling, trauma-informed care practices, and vocal somatics (Deep Listening).