We hope you will 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. We’re also excited to introduce 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

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.

Wone Torin Wenda

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 

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.

Venue: The Nest

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!

Photo: Helen Messenger

Co-promoted by OCM and YWMP.

Accessibility: Accessibility information is given on the venue page. If you require the assistance of a carer to attend this performance, please contact Sofia sofia@ocmevents.org or call the box office to reserve a free carer ticket. Box office hours: 11am-3pm, Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. Tel: 07549 344858