In-Person: On the Legacies of Black Creative Arts / Spirit of the Ancestors

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Arts for Art & Rutgers Advanced Institute for Critical Caribbean Studies present:

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SCHEDULE:

10am | Ancestral Spirits from the African Diaspora

Moderator - Carter Mathes: Associate Professor, Department of English / Director, Rutgers Advanced Institute for Critical Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University, author of Imagine the Sound.

Panelists:

• Nelson Maldonado-Torres: Co-Chair of the Frantz Fanon Foundation / President Emeritus of the Caribbean Philosophical Association / Professor Extraordinarious at the Institute for Social and Health Sciences, University of South Africa / Honorary Professor at the University of KwaZulu Natal in Durban, South Africa.
• Sula Spirit Janet Evans: priestess, singer, songwriter, artist, author, and founding spiritualist of the Temple of Light - Ile' de Coin-Coin in New Orleans, LA.
• Maricruz Rivera Clemente, PhD: Corporación Piñones Se Integra (C.O.P.I.) Founder & ED / Corredor Afro - Co-Founder
• Marta Moreno Vega: CCCADI - Founder / Global Afro-Latino and Caribbean Initiative (GALCI) / Creative Justice Initiative (CJI) - Co-Founder / Corredor Afro - Co-Founder / Afro-Global Network - Founder

An audience Question & Answer session will follow panel discussion.

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12:30pm | Spirit Speaks through History and Present in Black Improvised Arts

Moderator - Jermaine Ross Allam: Professor, Union Theological Seminary—Social Ethics and Political Theology. Director of the Presbyterian Mission Agency’s Center for Repair of Historical Harms. Recipient of the Union Theological "Spirit of United" alum award

Panelists:

• Adam Zanolini: Executive Director, Elastic Arts Foundation / AACM member
• James Brandon Lewis: - musician, composer, and PhD candidate at UArts.
• Fay Victor: Sound Artist, improvising vocalist, composer, educator, member of We Have Voice
• Katea Stitt: WPFW/Pacifica Radio Program Director
• Mixashawn Lee Rozie: musician, author, educator in Indigenous & Black Creative Music
• William Parker: musician, author, activist, and educator

An audience Question & Answer session will follow panel discussion.

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3pm | Convergence Roundtable: Improvising the Future Together

Through honoring our spirituality and the ancestors and visionaries who laid the way, we now can begin to lay down paths that may heal some of our world’s brokenness. This roundtable brings together members of the first two panels for a free flowing conversation and exchange of ideas.

Moderators:

• Patricia Nicholson: founder of Improvisers Collective, RUCMA, & Artists for a Free World. Poet and dancer.
• Michael Heller: Associate Professor, Music Department, University of Pittsburgh, author of Loft Jazz, editor Jazz and Culture journal

Roundtable followed by Question & Answer.

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About Rutgers Advanced Institute for Critical Caribbean Studies

The Rutgers Advanced Institute for Critical Caribbean Studies aims to foster multi-disciplinary research about the Caribbean to allow a better understanding of the region and its people from a variety of perspectives. Affiliates conduct research on such diverse areas as diaspora and transnational studies, migration and immigration, literary, visual, sound and performance studies, cultural studies, black aesthetics, critical race theory, gender and sexuality studies, psychoanalysis, black Marxism, black internationalism, subaltern studies, critical feminist discourses, and more.

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About The Vision Festival

Founded in 1996, the Vision Festival is New York City's longest continuously running jazz festival. Now in its 27th year, this festival of music, dance, poetry, and visual art is heralded as “one of New York’s most essential art events” (New York Times). Performances feature legendary and emerging stars representing the free jazz, experimental, and avant-garde communities and include Lifetime Achievement honorees like Amina Claudine Myers, Andrew Cyrille, Dave Burrell, Peter Brötzmann, and Milford Graves. This year, we honor Joëlle Léandre.

artsforart.org/vision

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Vaccination and masks are strongly recommended but are not required for the Vision Festival.

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This event was supported by a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation. Thanks to Rutgers University - New Brunswick and the University of Pittsburgh for their support.

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