KNOTS is a growing network of creatives collaborating with noise and sound art to fundraise for direct action groups, charities, and more to combat encroaching authoritarianism. Facilitated by Cuttfruit and vanchoked, KNOTS aims to divorce itself from the consumerist driven and barrier entrenched experimental music scene, while opening it up to
cross-disciplinary collaborations.

KNOTS: ICE Out! will be fundraising for the Immigrant Defense Network in
Minnesota, which supports over 90 immigrant, labor, legal, faith, and
community organizations dedicated to protecting and advancing the
constitutional rights of immigrant communities.
We are urgently fundraising for them after the recent surge of ICE agents
in Minneapolis, and the killings of Reene Good and Alex Pretti. The second
Trump administration has been equipped with unprecedented power given by a
Republican-filled Supreme Court, backed by Silicon Valley’s tech giants,
and empowered by politicians who bend at the knee of capital. The victims
of this second administration span political beliefs, race, and even
countries, attacking the working-class and impoverished the most.
As a scapegoat for an imperialist country in decline, this administration
has targeted our immigrant neighbours. A rhetoric which has spread across
establishment parties to appease ever growing ethno nationalist and
fascist movements in the U.S. and Europe. We must reject the notion that
anti-immigrant rhetoric is based in anything but racism.
KNOTS invites activists, organisers, poets, writers, playwrights, movement
artists, and more to collaborate with noise and sound artists to share
work that advocates hope, resistance, frustration, and encourages us all
to learn from lived experiences. Join us as we demand ICE Out! in America,
discuss how we can achieve it, and reject anti-immigrant rhetoric from our
governments.

Thank you for being here with us.