A PROJECT OF FIHI MA FIHI WORLDS
(In cultural partnership with Great Small Works)
Spaghetti Karevan
Culture. Economics. Politics.
Building the relationships for another world.
ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE
Spaghetti Karevan is a cultural project exploring how we can build a different kind of future through culture, economics, and politics.
We believe these three spheres are deeply connected.
Culture shapes what we imagine and value.
Economic choices shape what we are able to build and sustain.
Political power shapes the systems we live within.
If we want a different world, we have to work across all three.
EXPERIENCE THE GATHERING
See It For Yourself
Watch the main trailer from a past Spaghetti Karevan gathering — music, art, food, community, and the energy of people building something together.
Many rivers, One Ocean.
Spaghetti Karevan — Event Sampler
PAST PERFORMERS
Artists Who Have Graced the Gathering
Spaghetti Karevan has brought together artists from across traditions, cultures, and communities — hip hop, folk, classical, fusion, poetry, and more.
Legendary Cyphers
Hip hop, grassroots community building, and freestyle cypher
Mitra Khorsandi
Iranian folk music
Public Housing NYC
Bronx hip hop group
Salieu Suso
West African kora and traditional music
Yousef Tehrani & Friends
Iranian traditional music
Farah Barqi, Mehrnam Rastagari & Eleonore Weil
Arabic fusion
Aareeyan
Hip hop and poetry
OUR STORY
Spaghetti Karevan began as Spaghetti Ramadan, a gathering built around food, music, art, storytelling, and community. In 2016 New York City, we recognized the need to build long-term, inter-communal, interfaith solidarity work — creating space to deepen our bonds as the fires of political polarization and tribalism were being stoked. What began as a project between Muslims and Jews has since grown to include many communities.
Over the past ten years, it has grown into something larger: a space for artists, cultural workers, organizers, community leaders, and friends from across New York to come together, celebrate one another, and imagine what is possible.
Alongside the cultural work, we have increasingly explored questions of political power, leadership, solidarity, and economic alternatives. Through Unity Circle, we have spent the past two-plus years asking what it means to build collective power rooted in community, accountability, and care.
Most recently, we have undertaken nearly nine months of marketplace development research, building toward a values-aligned economic network — one organization and one leader at a time. Now we are bringing these pieces together.
THE THREE ARMS
Culture
How do we change what people imagine is possible?
We support artists, cultural workers, and spaces that create new stories, bring people together, and expand our sense of what a different world could look like.
Music. Art. Theater. Food. Comedy. Storytelling. Community.
Culture is where we begin.
Economics
How do we put our values into practice through what we support?
Where do we spend our money? Who do we invest in? Which businesses and organizations do we help grow? We are building relationships with businesses, organizational leaders, and funders who care about their workers, their communities, and the impact of their investments.
We believe economic power can help build the infrastructure for the future we want.
Politics
How do we build the collective power to change our systems?
We connect with grassroots organizers, community organizers, elected officials, and public servants who are working toward more accountable, responsive, and just systems.
We believe political change is strengthened by the cultural and economic ecosystems around it.
WHAT WE'VE BUILT
Ten Years of Cultural Programming
Continuous cultural programming and relationship-building across New York City.
Unity Circle
Two-plus years of developing collective power through research, key relationship building, and regular salons connecting community leaders and practitioners.
Marketplace Development
Nearly nine months of research toward a values-aligned vendor network, building relationships with businesses and organizational leaders one at a time.
Spaghetti Ramadan / Caravan
Our flagship cultural gathering and quarterly community convenings, bringing together artists, cultural workers, organizers, and friends from across the city.
BUILDING THE WEB
Building the Web
We are not trying to do this work alone.
There are already countless artists, organizers, businesses, community organizations, and leaders building pieces of this future. Our work is to connect them.
We are building a growing web of relationships across New York and beyond, where cultural power, economic power, and political power reinforce one another.
A place where we can discover one another, support one another, promote one another, and build together.
WHAT WE ARE BUILDING TOWARD
We believe another world is possible.
A world where leadership is rooted in integrity and accountability.
Where businesses are responsible to their communities.
Where artists and cultural workers have the resources to create.
Where political power is connected to the people it represents.
Where communities invest in one another rather than being divided against one another.
We do not have a blueprint for this world.
We are building the relationships that might make it possible.
THE INVITATION
Come Experience Spaghetti Karevan.
Come hear the music.
See the art.
Eat together.
Meet the people.
Feel the energy.
And if something resonates with you, let's talk about what we could build together.
FihiMaFihiWorlds@gmail.comWE ARE ESPECIALLY INTERESTED IN CONNECTING WITH
Artists & Cultural Workers
- ·Artists, musicians, performers, and writers
- ·Cultural organizers and producers
- ·People building creative and community spaces
- ·People using culture to bring communities together
Political & Community Leaders
- ·Grassroots and community organizers
- ·Elected officials and public servants
- ·Movement builders and civic leaders
- ·People working toward greater justice, accountability, and collective power
Businesses & Economic Leaders
- ·Business owners and entrepreneurs
- ·Organizational and institutional leaders
- ·Funders and philanthropists
- ·Businesses that want to invest in their communities
- ·People interested in building values-aligned partnerships
If you see yourself in this ecosystem and our vision resonates with you, we want to know you. Come to the gathering. Experience what we are building. And if it feels right, let's build together.
SPAGHETTI KAREVAN
Join the Karevan
Come to the gathering. Experience what we are building. And if it feels right, let's build together.
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Building the relationships for another world.