The Magic City: Birmingham according to Sun Ra - på Aspen!

Schedule

Fri, 23 Oct, 2026 at 06:15 pm

UTC+02:00
Location

Hägerstensvägen 100A, 126 49 Stockholm, Sweden | Stockholm, ST

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Välkommen på visning av dokumentärfilmen The Magic City: Birmingham according to Sun Ra - fredagen den 23 oktober kl 18 :15 på Aspen!
On May 22, 1914, Herman Poole Blount arrived on Earth in Birmingham, Alabama. He would become known many years later as Sun Ra and would become one of the most extraordinary and prolific jazz musicians of his century, as well as the barer of a visionary cosmic philosophy.
“The Magic City” known as Birmingham was a industrial city in the segregated South. It was there that Sun Ra laid the foundations of his mystical thinking and his music, seeing in his city an incredible world full of signs.
He left it for Chicago at the age of 32 and did not return until late in his Life. Portraying this artist as a young man as much as portraying a city, The Magic City tells the story of Sun Ra’s early years in this urban universe that was both political and magical, common and fantastic, disturbing and fascinating.
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Hägerstensvägen 100A, 126 49 Stockholm, Sweden, Hägerstensvägen 100A, SE-126 49 Hägersten, Sverige, Stockholm, Sweden

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