Statement

At Space of Urgency, we stand at a fracture point. We speak from within Europe’s imperial core — a place of privilege, but also of responsibility. Since 2019, we have worked to defend and create access to spaces for culture. But today, with systems collapsing — ecocide, genocide — we must ask: What is the essence of art and free space? Who does it belong to? What does urgency mean now?

Arts and culture are being weaponized as distractions. Festivals and industries profit while frontline struggles are erased. In Berlin, we have seen artists and spaces silenced for standing with Palestine, Sudan, Congo, and beyond. Where is democracy? Where is night culture? Where is the industry when truth is under attack?

Turba تُرْبَة — the soil — grows from this rupture. It begins with the urgency to unearth complicity in the arts and cultural industries. It is a living system, rooted in care, redistribution, and defiance. It is about moving beyond boycotts — turning every act of culture, every shirt, every compilation, every festival, every gathering — into an act of resistance.

This is not curation. This is facilitation. A mycelial network of artists, spaces, and communities reclaiming space — not only physical rooms, but the very grounds of culture itself. Reclaiming what is already ours: space, voice, presence, survival.

We ask:

How can resources flow back into the communities that need them most?
How can spaces become infrastructures of care and resistance, not tools of exploitation?
How do we root cultural infrastructures that can live beyond systemic collapse?

Turba تُرْبَة invites you to join us. To seed together. To reclaim the arts as space for truth and justice. To make every seed we plant — through culture, gatherings, and care — a thread of solidarity.

This is Cultural Resistance. Turba تُرْبَة is the soil we root in.

Through arts and culture, we aim to reclaim spaces and restore their power as tools of resistance. By reclaiming both physical space and economic power, we seek to empower communities in urgency, helping them assert their presence and drive meaningful social change beyond the boundary of space.

We invite you to explore with us: How do we reclaim space for justice and equality? How can revenue flow back into communities? How can spaces become beacons of democracy, fostering self-organization and collective liberation?

Join us in reclaiming what’s rightfully ours through merchandise, music, and events—making arts and culture a powerful act of resistance again.