Ossama Helmy aka Oz Oz - Sada (Echo)

On stage, Ossama Helmy sits at a table filled with objects and analog audio equipment. Like a DJ, he mixes memories: old home recordings, beautiful Arabic music by Oum Kalthoum, Fairouz, and Fadi Iskandar, among others, and fragments of spoken stories. An intimate multimedia solo performance by the Egyptian storyteller at the Bimhuis.
Ossama Helmy aka Oz Oz - Sada (Echo)
Dates
Sada (Echo)
At the center are tape recordings of a man who continues to send messages to his deceased wife, recorded on 70s reel-to-reel tapes. Oz Oz weaves personal thoughts and feelings together with sound effects. Technically, but also symbolically, as a way to make memory, time, and loss audible. Using analog means, he builds a new soundscape live. Sada (Echo) is a story about loss, about who you are with someone, and what disappears when that person is no longer there. Both the narration and the music are fully subtitled.
Accessibility
General accessibility provisions and information
Present, available or allowed
- Service dog allowed
- Wheelchair accessible entrance
Provisions for people with reduced mobility
Present, available or allowed
- Lift
- Passageways that are sufficiently wide
- Accessible restroom
- Mobile payment
Not present, not available or not allowed
- Personal assistant
- Guide lines
- Hearing loop (t-coil or headphones)
- Sign language interpretation provided
- Closed captioning
- Open captioning
- Hidden disability Sunflower-keycord recognised here
- Low stimulus hours
- Sensory experience
- Audio description
- Accessible information
- Material in Braille
- Stairs with handrail









