Till It's Done: A Music & Poetry Workshop

In this month's workshop Till It's Done: A Music & Poetry Workshop, participants will explore sound and song as carrier of code and caution, and liberatory instruction.

Participants will be guided through the codes found inside of call and response, simple blues chords that act as maps, and calls for rebellion and evolution disguised in beloved dance songs. Attendees will work with Arsimmer to craft lyrics and King to compose a melody, culminating in a final collective song creation; transforming personal experience and tales into powerful expression.

Workshop materials and refreshments will be provided, and those attending are encouraged to bring personal archival materials, and musical instruments with them to inspire their own process, and contribute to the collective's.

Items can include but are not limited to;

• photographs
• letters
• figurines/toys/sculptures
• tambourines
• kalimba/mbira

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Join Hued Songs at the African-American Research Library & Cultural Center. Every month we curate a creative placemaking workshop featuring artists within our ecosystem who will guide participants to engage with Black history and artistic expression in meaningful, interactive ways.

Expect to explore and activate YOUR creativity through; writing, movement, sound, instrumentation and visual artistic mediums to be activated.

Info: Informed by the legacy of plantation field songs, later transforming into the blues, Black songs have always carried stories of caution, instruction, and how to get, then stay free. This workshop will look to D'Angelo's "Till It's Done" as inspiration, deconstructing it's structure, meaning, cadence and style to then write (y)our own, using the style of poetic Ode, and call & response.

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