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15/07/2025

tomorrow is desert day.
Come together, watch the sunset from the rooftop, and just be.

⏰️ 6pm
📍 Social Addis
🗓 July 16, Wednesday
🎟 Free Admission

14/07/2025

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10/07/2025

available at the venue (sold separately)
📩 Limited spots! DM to save yours
Come as you are — express what you feel, create something you’ll love, and leave fulfilled.

09/07/2025

LIVE GIGS
Just before dropping her next single, "Ohio State," Rumi Solomon, a major voice among Addis's new generation of singer-songwriters, blesses us with a live performance at Social.
Her music, a beautiful weave of neo-soul, R&B, lofi, and indie folk, embraces a minimalist approach. With quiet confidence, Rumi lets the small cracks and unique personality of her voice and songwriting shine through.
The result is a sound that is vulnerable, intimate, and deeply soulful.
Join us to experience songs from her eagerly awaited EP.

📅 Date: Thursday, July 17th
📍 Location: Social Addis
⏰ Time: 8:00 PM
🎟️ Ticket: 300 Birr

01/07/2025

OPENING ON SATURDAY The Social Gallery is proud to present the debut exhibition by Yeabsra Yemru, a young printmaker and painter from the influential Alle School of Fine Art. Yeabsra's work features portraits of silent figures, often darkened with smeared charcoal and set against vibrant color backdrops. These ghostly figures, textured with emotion, pose in confined spaces, often pierced by a round window.
In Yeabsra's art, what is seen is less important than what is felt. The artist emphasizes a meaningful gaze and hands, suggesting something unspoken. The bold and sharp background colors cut through the monochrome like a scream in a silent room. The rough charcoal texture enhances the rawness of the image, giving it a physical, almost violent tactility. Unlike the faces, which are often obscured or darkened, the hands remain more defined, sometimes even exaggerated. Whether holding an object or gesturing, there’s something ghostly in the way the hands float, sometimes dislocated from realistic anatomy.
Yeabsra's compositions deliberately challenge perspective and continuity of physics and time. Drawing from the lineage of neo-expressionism and contemporary Afrosurrealism, the work speaks to generational memory, unspoken trauma, and cultural inheritance, yet resists easy interpretation.
Come to this powerful debut exhibition.

The Social Gallery is proud to support emerging artists and offer audiences the chance to discover the new, rising talent in our city.

30/06/2025

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16/06/2025

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08/06/2025

Last week's "Mesenado" pre-release with YD was straight fire! 🔥 on the hosting and the laughs was a vibe. Respect for both and for what it means for Addis hip-hop. Can't wait for the album to drop.

06/06/2025

What a day! Last week, Niqhu brought "Art in Practice" to Social Addis, and the space absolutely radiated creativity, expression, and togetherness. So much fun! 🎨 Here are some highlights, but you truly had to experience it to feel it. Don't miss the next one!

21/05/2025

This Saturday morning, we’re hosting a community bazaar with #ዋናው መተንፈስ ነው!! This event will feature micro entrepreneurs and handmade crafts. plus a top-secret musical guest! 🤫 We can’t reveal who yet, but trust us… you won’t want to miss this one. 🎶✨

📍 Social Addis Yard
🗓 Saturday, May 24th
⏰️ 10am
🎟 open for public

06/05/2025

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