Sarra Wild
Sarra Wild is a cultural curator, producer, sound designer, and DJ currently based in London. They/She is founder of club night and arts platform OH141, performing at and curating events around the UK and internationally.
Heady non-Western melodies and rhythms, Afrofuturism and fearless experimentalism underpins Sarra’s approach to DJing and drives their dedication to exciting new music and artists from and of the diaspora.
With OH141, Wild has created a decade long celebratory space focusing on showcasing groundbreaking talent by/for women, BPOC and LGBTQ+ artists. Wild makes bold curatorial choices for their own parties, inviting forward thinking acts such as Flohio, Pan Daijing, Gaika, DJ Storm, Mica Levi and Hieroglyphic Being, crystal mess +++ many when they first started out to perform alongside local artists. Wild is also a proud champion of emerging talent and engages with local acts wherever they play, often by inviting them to share her billing and by encouraging other promoters to book neighbourhood talent.
Sarra’s vision and taste has also forged the musical output of H.O.T, the Glasgow collective that celebrates soundsystem culture, experimental music and the city’s working class art community, as well as programming stages at well respected festivals, most recently Jupiter Rising in Edinburgh.
With their own DJing, Wild has performed at countless club nights and festivals both in the UK and overseas, to name but a few; Closing out Berghain/ Panorama Bar, Nyege Nyege festival in Uganda, New York’s Dweller festival at Nowadays, The Trilogy Tapes events at London infamous Venue MOT, the infamous Unfold at Fold, Atlas Electronic in Marrakech, Rewire Festival in Amsterdam with many more to come.
Sarra currently holds a residency in Rinse fm and has also hosted radio shows on NTS, Dub-Lad Radio, Rinse, Redlight Radio Amsterdam with their FACT mix named one of the best mixes of the year by Mixmag, while Resident Advisor made their session for Radio Alhara one of the platform’s mixes of the day and Wild also recently completed a set for influential UK label, Nervous Horizon. They have also narrated, presented and co-produced online content for the likes of i-D magazine, Eventbrite UK, Glasgow Open Door Festival and ‘Black to Life’ series for the BBC.