The 3rd Annual Brooklyn Free Spirit Festival!
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BROOKLYN FREE SPIRIT FESTIVAL
Produced by Siren Xypher Collective with support from Alan Feller & Creative Music Studio
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The Free Spirit Festival convenes improvised music creatives and audiences to promote freedom of expression, inventiveness, & social-bonding as an antidote to the oppression of all life forms.
July 11th & July 12th at IBEAM BROOKLYN
168 7th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215
DAY 1
Saturday, July 11
5:00pm WORKSHOP: KYOKO KITAMURA & RACHEL BERNSEN
*Vocalist/Improviser Kyoko Kitamura & Choreographer/Dancer Rachel Bernsen join forces for an integrated workshop that invites participants to rediscover the natural unity between sound and movement with two highly experienced artist-educators. Instruments welcome but not required. (open to all!)
7:30pm Selendis S.A. Johnson / Hans Young-Binter / Josh Matthews
Selendis S.A. Johnson - vibraphone
Hans Young-Binter - piano
Josh Matthews - drums
8:30pm Janice Lowe’s Museoetry
*Edmonia/WildFire-SoundVerse Sculpture & Departure,
A song cycle: Poems by Tyehimba Jess, Janice Lowe, Composer
Edmonia Lewis was a Reconstruction-era Afro-Mississaugan sculptor who willed herself to Rome to practice her craft. This song cycle and improvisation are inspired by the sculptor’s dialogue with earth-born materials, their textural beauty and the complexity of shaping freedom from a hostile political landscape.
Janice Lowe - piano, voice, composition
Olithea Anglin - voice & electronics
Yohann Potico - bass guitar
Melissa Almaguer - tap dance percussion
DAY 2
Sunday, July 12
3:00pm WORKSHOP: ZEENA PARKINS
FILLING THE HEARSPACE: NEVER TO SOUND AGAIN THE SAME
*Experience multi-valent modes of listening through improvisation and expanded musical entanglements: following energetic pathways, tuning our engagements, collective knowing, collaboration and generosity (Open to musical improvisers with some previous experience)
5:00pm Listening Session & In-Person Interview: COOPER-MOORE
*90-minutes of immersion into the iconic composer, pianist, instrument builder, storyteller Cooper-Moore’s multi-decade body of work, including rarely heard recordings from Cooper-Moore’s personal archive, and an in-person conversation moderated by pianist/composer/improviser Mara Rosenbloom
7:30pm Zeena Parkins / Nate Wooley / Ryan Sawyer
Zeena Parkins - Electric Harp+Objects
Nate Wooley - Trumpet+Objects
Ryan Sawyer - Drums
8:30pm Interstellar Duo
Jamal R. Moore - Woodwinds, Electronics, Percussion
Warren Crudup III - Drums
$20 Admission / day | cash or Venmo
*Daily Admission includes access to all day/eve events
Light food & beverages will be available on site FREE for all attendees!
Day 1 venue website: https://www.ibeambrooklyn.com/home/2026/7/11/brooklyn-free-spirit-festival-day-1
Day 2 venue website:
https://www.ibeambrooklyn.com/home/2026/7/12/brooklyn-free-spirit-festival-day-2
*graphic design by Barbara Majnarić
Produced by Siren Xypher Collective with support from Alan Feller & Creative Music Studio
-
The Free Spirit Festival convenes improvised music creatives and audiences to promote freedom of expression, inventiveness, & social-bonding as an antidote to the oppression of all life forms.
July 11th & July 12th at IBEAM BROOKLYN
168 7th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215
DAY 1
Saturday, July 11
5:00pm WORKSHOP: KYOKO KITAMURA & RACHEL BERNSEN
*Vocalist/Improviser Kyoko Kitamura & Choreographer/Dancer Rachel Bernsen join forces for an integrated workshop that invites participants to rediscover the natural unity between sound and movement with two highly experienced artist-educators. Instruments welcome but not required. (open to all!)
7:30pm Selendis S.A. Johnson / Hans Young-Binter / Josh Matthews
Selendis S.A. Johnson - vibraphone
Hans Young-Binter - piano
Josh Matthews - drums
8:30pm Janice Lowe’s Museoetry
*Edmonia/WildFire-SoundVerse Sculpture & Departure,
A song cycle: Poems by Tyehimba Jess, Janice Lowe, Composer
Edmonia Lewis was a Reconstruction-era Afro-Mississaugan sculptor who willed herself to Rome to practice her craft. This song cycle and improvisation are inspired by the sculptor’s dialogue with earth-born materials, their textural beauty and the complexity of shaping freedom from a hostile political landscape.
Janice Lowe - piano, voice, composition
Olithea Anglin - voice & electronics
Yohann Potico - bass guitar
Melissa Almaguer - tap dance percussion
DAY 2
Sunday, July 12
3:00pm WORKSHOP: ZEENA PARKINS
FILLING THE HEARSPACE: NEVER TO SOUND AGAIN THE SAME
*Experience multi-valent modes of listening through improvisation and expanded musical entanglements: following energetic pathways, tuning our engagements, collective knowing, collaboration and generosity (Open to musical improvisers with some previous experience)
5:00pm Listening Session & In-Person Interview: COOPER-MOORE
*90-minutes of immersion into the iconic composer, pianist, instrument builder, storyteller Cooper-Moore’s multi-decade body of work, including rarely heard recordings from Cooper-Moore’s personal archive, and an in-person conversation moderated by pianist/composer/improviser Mara Rosenbloom
7:30pm Zeena Parkins / Nate Wooley / Ryan Sawyer
Zeena Parkins - Electric Harp+Objects
Nate Wooley - Trumpet+Objects
Ryan Sawyer - Drums
8:30pm Interstellar Duo
Jamal R. Moore - Woodwinds, Electronics, Percussion
Warren Crudup III - Drums
$20 Admission / day | cash or Venmo
*Daily Admission includes access to all day/eve events
Light food & beverages will be available on site FREE for all attendees!
Day 1 venue website: https://www.ibeambrooklyn.com/home/2026/7/11/brooklyn-free-spirit-festival-day-1
Day 2 venue website:
https://www.ibeambrooklyn.com/home/2026/7/12/brooklyn-free-spirit-festival-day-2
*graphic design by Barbara Majnarić
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Where is it happening?
IBeam Brooklyn, 168 7th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215-3147, United States
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Host or PublisherMara Rosenbloom
