for the listen to live here
28 February 2026
a sociality-making
workshop
a sociality-making
workshop
‘diverging polyphonies’ with Angelo Custódio
Saturday 4 April
14:00 to 17:00
Address: WG Plein 881, Amsterdam
Registration link
The next session of the ‘for the listen to live here’ series is guided by voice and sound artist, researcher, and performer Angelo Custodio. Through listening, Angelo facilitates processes that hold space for regenerative movement and nourish relational understandings of the bodymindvoice. His work develops sonic encounters with the vulnerable, opening “cracks” to wild(er) spaces that utterly invite freer ecologies of living.
This session emerges from a collaboration between Angelo and shy*play to explore diffractive practices of polyphony. This means composing in difference yet in relation, where each voice carries its own worlds, creating a multivocality that follows no hierarchy and seeks no unity.
Through various scores, a range of different possibilities of participation will be prompted, from the use of our voices for humming, murmuring, stuttering, etc., to engaging in spatial movement or stimming practices such as rocking and circling. The space will be arranged with hanging fabrics to create conditions that avoid the need for facial centering and other neurotypical conventions.
Those who feel marginalized or silenced in mainstream spaces are especially warmly invited.
Participants require no prior experience.
Drinks and snacks will be offered throughout.
Covid testing
To help everyone feel comfortable and safe, please take a Covid test before the event; if you have symptoms, please do not attend and let us know so we can offer your spot to someone else. Tests and masks will be available at the venue.
Accessibility
· If I Can’t Dance is on the second floor, unfortunately, without elevator access. There is also a narrow staircase inside the space.
· Two gender neutral WC on the first floor
· Language: English
Please reach out if you want a more detailed description of the space at shy.into.play@gmail.com
NEXT DATES:
25 April – Raoni/Muzho Saleh
23 May - shy*play
June TBA - shy*play
Flyer design: nor akelei
Drawings featured on the flyers were created by participants in a workshop led by Sam Metz at ATD in Amsterdam, as part of the “What If… Neurodiversity?” symposium in January 2025
The project is kindly supported by Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, Pictoright Fonds and If I Can’t Dance