Alex Wong + chatterbird present PERMISSION: A Multi-Sensory Experience

Join chatterbird at the Darkhorse Theater on Sunday, 11/24 at 7 PM for a presentation in partnerships with Alex Wong's PERMISSION, an immersive concert experience celebrating and exploring Asian American identity.

Wong’s latest album, PERMISSION, is an honest, personal, and at times uncomfortable look at Wong’s journey as a person of color learning how to take up space in America and exploring what Asian-American music can sound like.

To bring the album to life, Wong has developed a multi-sensory live experience called PERMISSION, which uses food as an on-ramp to his cultural memory. He created a first-of-its-kind listening and tasting performance, pairing each song from the album with a Chinese-inspired dish that shares a common emotion.

Audiences will move throughout multiple spaces at Darkhorse to experience music, projected imagery, and food, all related to themes from the work.

PARKING: Street parking is available along 47th Avenue N, and in various paid and free lots surrounding the venue.

TICKETS: Tickets are offered on a Pay-Your-Wage system. Pay-your-wage is a progressive, honor-system based sliding scale admission model for live events. The notion: pay what you make in an hour. With this model, artistic revenue rises as average wages rise, but performances remain accesible and affordable for all.

This concert is made possible thanks to support from the Tennessee Arts Commission's Arts Build Communities grant, along with New Music USA's Organizational Development grant.

DOORS OPEN @ 6 PM, CONCERT @ 7 PM

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ABOUT ALEX WONG: Alex Wong is a Latin GRAMMY®-nominated artist, producer and advocate who creates music to empower everyone, especially those on the margins, to take up space. Alex established The Quiet Voice nonprofit around the idea that our voice doesn’t have to be loud to be strong, which has raised more than $27,000 for BIPOC charities. He’s appeared on NPR’s Mountain Stage, Kerrville Folk Festival, SXSW, 30A, Americanafest, and Musicians Corner, and has produced records for Delta Rae, Vienna Teng, and others.

ABOUT CHATTERBIRD: chatterbird is a chamber music ensemble that explores alternative instrumentation, stylistic diversity, and interdisciplinary collaboration in order to create thoughtful, intimate, and inventive musical experiences. Formed in 2014, chatterbird performs classical music that skirts traditional boundaries, sliding between classical, jazz, hip-hop, rock, avant-garde, and country, creating a thoughtful and inventive way to discover and experience modern classical music.

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