Ari Robey-Lawrence
The Neighbourhood Character / Ari Robey-Lawrence, (she/they) is an electronic music producer / composer, vocalist, DJ, educator & researcher, and creative industries freelancer.
They are a co-curator of DICE Conference & Festival, and the founder of wood // work collective, an intersectional platform communicating through diverse forms of creative expression conceived with the purpose to create alternative avenues for socio-cultural mobility, professional self-empowerment, and transnational interchange in creative industries.
As a public speaker, Ari engages with issues of race, politics and community through the lens of the dance music community, and over the last three years has curated and organised a range of panel events and workshops, with topics ranging from strategies for mental health & preservation, legacies of DIY resistance, identity politics, and intergenerationality in the dance music scene featuring a range of Berlin & EU- based QTI/BPOC artists, cultural and community workers.
Since 2014, Ari has been a core team member, programming coordinator, and a resident DJ at one of Berlin’s few remaining intersectional, non-profit DIY spaces Raumerweiterungshalle, co- organising and leading a vinyl DJ workshop in collaboration with KILLA as part of the 2018-19 SWITCH music workshops, which provide free and accessible electronic music education to intersectional QTIBPOC in Berlin.
As The Neighborhood Character, Ari has released a number of collaborative and solo projects both digitally and on vinyl, is an active radio DJ, hosting shows on WAMH 89.3 FM (Amherst, MA) Berlin Community Radio and THF Radio, and appearing NTS and Radio80k, and has designed sound for a wide array of productions: Studio R’s Papa Liebt Dich directed by Suna Gürler (Maxim-Gorki Theatre), The Beginning of Our Endless Love, directed by SJ Rahatoka (CRCLR Berlin), and Barbara Gamper’s (Dancers Without Borders) Becoming Otherwise in the frame of 39NULL Magazine’s Aufbruch: Cosmology of the Boundless at Museion Bolzano.
Ari’s doctoral research pursues interventionist research around self-empowerment politics and praxes adopted by marginalised electronic and dance music producers at Goldsmiths College (UK).
Ari Robey-Lawrence
The Neighbourhood Character / Ari Robey-Lawrence, (she/they) is an electronic music producer / composer, vocalist, DJ, educator & researcher, and creative industries freelancer.
They are a co-curator of DICE Conference & Festival, and the founder of wood // work collective, an intersectional platform communicating through diverse forms of creative expression conceived with the purpose to create alternative avenues for socio-cultural mobility, professional self-empowerment, and transnational interchange in creative industries.
As a public speaker, Ari engages with issues of race, politics and community through the lens of the dance music community, and over the last three years has curated and organised a range of panel events and workshops, with topics ranging from strategies for mental health & preservation, legacies of DIY resistance, identity politics, and intergenerationality in the dance music scene featuring a range of Berlin & EU- based QTI/BPOC artists, cultural and community workers.
Since 2014, Ari has been a core team member, programming coordinator, and a resident DJ at one of Berlin’s few remaining intersectional, non-profit DIY spaces Raumerweiterungshalle, co- organising and leading a vinyl DJ workshop in collaboration with KILLA as part of the 2018-19 SWITCH music workshops, which provide free and accessible electronic music education to intersectional QTIBPOC in Berlin.
As The Neighborhood Character, Ari has released a number of collaborative and solo projects both digitally and on vinyl, is an active radio DJ, hosting shows on WAMH 89.3 FM (Amherst, MA) Berlin Community Radio and THF Radio, and appearing NTS and Radio80k, and has designed sound for a wide array of productions: Studio R’s Papa Liebt Dich directed by Suna Gürler (Maxim-Gorki Theatre), The Beginning of Our Endless Love, directed by SJ Rahatoka (CRCLR Berlin), and Barbara Gamper’s (Dancers Without Borders) Becoming Otherwise in the frame of 39NULL Magazine’s Aufbruch: Cosmology of the Boundless at Museion Bolzano.
Ari’s doctoral research pursues interventionist research around self-empowerment politics and praxes adopted by marginalised electronic and dance music producers at Goldsmiths College (UK).