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Brent Hayes Edwards – Ornette Coleman on Prince Street
“In jazz history, the 1970s have habitually been overlooked or dismissed as a period when the music went into severe decline. But in fact there was a remarkable ferment of activity in the decade, especially in New York — much of it underground, in small clubs, musician-run “lofts,” and independent theaters — and jazz played a central role in the arts scene that developed in NoHo, SoHo, and the East Village.”
Writer and researcher, Brent Hayes Edwards presents “The Two Ages of Artist House: Ornette Coleman on Prince Street.”
Edwards teaches in the Department of English and Comparative Literature and the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University. His books include The Practice of Diaspora (2003) and the forthcoming Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination. His translation of Michel Leiris’s Phantom Africa will be published by Seagull Books in 2016. He is a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow.
Harmony Holiday – Astro/Afrosonics Archive
Now streaming live: Chimurenga Library resident, poet and choreographer Harmony Holiday presents words and sounds from her Astro/Afrosonics Archive, a collection of Jazz Poetics and audio culture. In her own words: “Since the 1950s, jazz music and the literary imagination have been inextricably linked, producing transcendent recordings and written work and many hybrids of the two – a new sonics, an AntiqueFuturism – From Langston Hughes and Kenneth Rexroth and Duke Ellington to Joseph Jarman to Michael Harper to Mos …
Rashida Bumbray with Dr. Segun Shabaka
“The primary driving force behind the International African Arts Festival is family – immediate, extended, community and global.” International African Arts Festival, Mission Statement Curator and choreographer, Rashida Bumbray hosts a conversation with Dr Segun Shabaka, Chairperson of the International African Arts Festival, Brooklyn (1971-2015). Started as a venture of independent African-centered education centres, The East and Uhuru Sasa Shule, the 43-year-old annual Brooklyn International African Arts Festival celebrates African art with music, dance, storytelling, handcrafted goods, and food vendors. …
Marilyn Nance on FESTAC ’77
Photographer Marilyn Nance has captured unique moments in the cultural history of the US and the African diaspora, which together amount to an archive of images of late 20th century African American life. She joins us to share tales from FESTAC ’77 in Lagos where she was photographer for the North American Zone.
Vivek Narayanan remixes Ramayana of Valmiki (earliest Sanskrit poet)
Live Sound Collab: Dyani Douze, Taja Cheek & Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa
Chimurenga Library NYC resident Nontsikelelo Mutiti curates a live sound collab between multimedia artist Dyani Douze, code-switcher and Throw Vision member Taja Cheek (Throw Vision) and musician and composer Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa. Dyani Douze is a multimedia artist. She has served as an editorial apprentice on Spike Lee’s documentary Bad 25, and has produced several personal projects, including a short documentary exploring architectural spaces in Paris. Dyani also produces music and DJs at local venues. Taja Cheek is a code-switcher who …
Chimurenga Library NYC residents in conversation
Chimurenga has occupied the Performa 15 Hub with the Chimurenga Library, a library-of-people that engage trade as both the process of buying, selling, or exchanging goods or services and the practice of exchanging ideas, imaginaries, perceptions and vocabularies. We kick off with a conversation between Chimurenga editor, Ntone Edjabe and Chimurenga Library NYC residents, Roger Francis of the Brooklyn-based African Record Centre and Yoruba Book Center (established 1971); artist and educator Nontsikelelo Mutiti, who has set up an African hair …
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African Futures Music Concert & Party: Spoek Mathambo / Batuk/Keziah Jones/Just A Band/Gato Preto
Nigerian musician Keziah Jones, South African Spoek Mathambo, Kenya’s Just A Band and German duo Gato Preto will join for an evening of music and the closing party of African Futures. Each of them will be performing music that relates to the theme of African Futures. Listen to this concert on PASS. 31/10/2015. 21hoo-late Keziah Jones, Nigerian singer-songwriter and guitarist, who accompanied Lenny Kravitz on his world tour, will present music from his latest album Captain Rugged, which was accompanied …
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Tags: African Futures, Gato Preto, just a band, Keziah Jones, spoek mathambo
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African Futures Knowledge Production: Where do we go from here?
“Who generates knowledge about Africa? How do past, present and future collide in representations of the continent? And what are the different languages we use to speak about Africa’s political, technological and cultural tomorrow?” Listen to this talk on PASS. 31/10/2015. 10hoo-13h00 While the world embraces information as both resource and currency, Africa is busy working on telling its story and imagining that story’s future. Will this shift the way in which we think about information or data? Can fiction …
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Tags: Achille Mbembe, African Futures, Keziah Jones, Ntone Edjabe, Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi
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back in the Kaapstad studio
Dankie all who contributed and tuned in to London sessions (and Paris before them). Next pop-up in New York.
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