In 2021, Found Sound Nation was invited to create a musical program for the Generation Equality Forum (GEF), a global gathering convened by UN Women and co-hosted by the governments of Mexico and France. Working with our partners at Compound, FSN convened the GEF Music Collective: musicians from Colombia, Ghana, India, Kenya and South Africa, who produced a series of digital performances, conversations and artist profiles for the Forum.

This work premiered at the 2021 Generation Equality Forum, placing the artists’ music and stories on a global stage at this first of its kind event.

Following the Forum, FSN provided the artists with small project grants to support their continued creative work in their home countries: Kasiva Mutua’s MOTRAMUSIC program and EP with a collective of drummers across Kenya; Dumama’s Still Hear residency for musicians and educators in South Africa; Poetra Asantewa’s work with Black Girls Glow, an annual artist residency in Ghana, and its You Are Cared For project using creative expression for health education; Jenn del Tambó’s traditional drumming workshops and recordings with a network of tamboreras across Latin America; and Sandunes’ short film on the sounds, people and ecology of India’s Western Ghats.