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Celebrating Amina Claudine Myers' Lifetime of AchievementPianist, vocalist, poet, and actor Amina Claudine Myers will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award on July 23, 2021 at Vision Festival 25. Born in Blackwell, Arkansas, Amina Claudine Myers' career in music began in her preteens. Throughout high school she directed church choirs, singing, and playing gospel and rhythm and blues. After moving to Chicago in May 1966, Ms. Myers became an early member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), composing new works for voice and instruments and carving out a unique path unrestricted by any one genre.
Myers’ first recording was with fellow AACM artist, Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre, and she continued to develop her unique sound, performing and recording with Muhal Richard Abrams, Lester Bowie and Henry Threadgill. Over the decades she has been recording and collaborating with Archie Shepp, Charlie Haden’s Liberation Orchestra, James Blood Ulmer, Sonny Stitt, Anthony Braxton, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, and other well known artists. She has recorded 11 albums under her leadership. Her recording career combines her gospel and blues inspirations with an improviser's freedom and includes classic albums like The Circle of Time, Amina Claudine Myers Salutes Bessie Smith and her latest solo piano and voice effort Sama Rou (Songs From My Soul). Relocating to New York City in 1976, Ms Myer's further developed her work involving voice choirs, voice and instrumental ensemble, and a robust exploration of the pipe organ. Her compositions include large-scale works for orchestra and choir, and collaborations with writer Ntozake Shange and choreographer Dianne McIntyre. For press inquiries contact Carla Parisi at kidlogicmedia@gmail.com
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Support for the Vision Festival is provided by
Presented with support from the New York State Council on the Arts | Additional support provided by Council Members Margaret Chin and Carlina Rivera, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, Jacob and Ruth Epstein Foundation, Jerome Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, SMS Foundation, Tinker Foundation, Chamber Music America, the Henry Luce Foundation, the Willem de Kooning Foundation, The Givens Foundation for African American Literature, and Teiger Foundation through the Coalition of Small Arts New York.
Thursday, July 22 - Pioneer Works
159 Pioneer St, Brooklyn, NY 11231
6pm
Opening Healing Ceremony William Parker - bass Patricia Nicholson - text, dance Jean Carla Rodea - voice T.A. Thompson - drums |
7pm
Dave Sewelson's Music for a Free World Quintet Dave Sewelson - bari. sax Ava Mendoza - guitar Dave Hofstra - tuba William Parker - bass Marvin Bugalu Smith - drums |
8pm
Matthew Shipp String Trio Matthew Shipp - piano Mat Maneri - viola William Parker - bass |
9:00pm
Dave Burrell & Darius Jones Dave Burrell - piano Darius Jones - alto saxophone |
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Friday, July 23 - Pioneer Works - Celebrating Amina Claudine Myers
159 Pioneer St, Brooklyn, NY 11231
6:30pm
Amina Claudine Myers Voice Octet Janet Jordan, lyric coloratura Lisa Sokolov, mezzo-soprano Richarda Abrams - alto Fay Victor. -alto Clinton Ingram - counter tenor Chinyelu Ingram -tenor Cooper-Moore - baritone, bass Charles Carter - bass |
7:30pm
Patricia Spears Jones - poetry Jason Kao Hwang - violin |
8pm
Generation IV Amina Claudine Myers - voice, piano Richarda Abrams - voice Pyeng Threadgill - voice Luna Threadgill-Moderbacher - voice |
9pm
Reflections: A Portrait of Amina Claudine Myers Documentary film by Moon Lasso Produced by AFA |
9:30pm
Amina Claudine Myers Trio Amina Claudine Myers - piano, Hammond B3 Jerome Harris - bass Reggie Nicholson - drums |
Saturday, July 24 - The Clemente
114 Norfolk St, NYC 10002
3pm
Creative Vision Youth Ensemble |
4pm
Composers Workshop Ensemble Warren Smith - composer, drums, percussion Lloyd Haber - drums, perc. Rod Williams - piano Larry Roland- bass Joe Daley - euphonium Jack Jeffers - bass trombone Omar Kabir - trumpet Don Slatoff - bass clarinet Claire Daly - baritone sax Nigel Inniss - tenor sax Lee Odom- alto sax |
5pm ElectroFLUTTER Fay Victor - voice, compositions Nicole Mitchell - flute, electronics Angelica Sanchez - piano Jamaaladeen Tacuma - bass guitar |
6pm
Tracie Morris Tracie Morris - poetry Cecilia Smith - vibraphone |
Sunday, July 25 - The Clemente
*Due to weather, this event is now indoors. Tickets will not be sold at the door*
107 Suffolk St, NYC 10002
4pm
Whit Dickey Trio Whit Dickey - drums Rob Brown - alto sax Mat Maneri - viola |
5pm
Pheeroan akLaff Liberation Unit Pheeroan akLaff - drums Jun Miyake - tenor sax, flute Adegoke Steve Colson - piano |
6pm
Raymond Nat Turner Raymond Nat Turner - poetry |
6:30pm
Third Landing Ava Mendoza - guitar Abiodun Oyewole - spoken word Devin Brahja Waldman - alto sax Alexis Marcelo - keyboards Luke Stewart - bass Ches Smith - drums |
Thursday, July 29 - Pioneer Works
159 Pioneer St, Brooklyn, NY 11231
6pm
Elder Ones Amirtha Kidambi - voice, harmonium, synthesizer Matt Nelson - soprano sax, effects Eva Lawitts - bass, effects Lester St. Louis - cello Max Jaffe - drums, sensory percussion |
7pm
James Brandon Lewis Quartet James Brandon Lewis - tenor sax Aruán Ortiz - piano Brad Jones - bass Chad Taylor - drums |
8pm
Rock Paper Twister Julie Ezelle Patton - poetry Janice Lowe - piano Paul Van Curen - guitar William Parker - bass Vinie Burrows - special guest |
8:45pm
Mara Rosenbloom presents Flyways Mara Rosenbloom - piano Anaïs Maviel - voice, surdo Rashaan Carter - bass |
9:45pm
Trio 3 + Special Guest Oliver Lake - alto sax Reggie Workman - bass Andrew Cyrille - drums Special Guest - piano |
Friday, July 30 - Pioneer Works
159 Pioneer St, Brooklyn, NY 11231
6pm
López Trio Brandon Lopez - bass Gerald Cleaver - drums Steve Baczkowski - woodwinds |
7pm
Ingrid Laubrock's Monochromes Ingrid Laubrock - saxophones Jon Irabagon - saxophones Zeena Parkins - harp Tom Rainey - drums performing with pre-recorded tapes by Nate Wooley, Adam Matlock, and Tom Rainey |
8pm
fly or die jaimie branch - trumpet Lester St. Louis - cello Jason Ajemian - bass Chad Taylor - drums |
9pm
Moten / Lopez / Cleaver Fred Moten - poetry Brandon Lopez - bass Gerald Cleaver - drums |
9:45pm
David Murray Octet Revival David Murray - tenor sax D.D. Jackson - piano Mingus Murray - guitar Russell Carter - drums Rashaan Carter - bass Curtis Stewart - violin Lee Odom - alto sax, clarinet Josh Evans - trumpet Vincent Chancey - French horn |
Btwn 2nd & 3rd Sets
Patricia Nicholson "Knife & Rose" Patricia Nicholson - dance Jason Jordan - dance Miriam Parker - dance Ellen Christi - voice Jean Carla Rodea - art |
Between 3rd & 4th Sets
Miriam Parker "Black Emerging" Miriam Parker - video, movement, materials Luke Stewart - bass |
Saturday July 31 - The Clemente - Tributes to Milford Graves
114 Norfolk St, NYC 10002
5pm
Andrew Cyrille Andrew Cyrille - drum set |
5:30pm
Joe McPhee Octet Joseph McPhee - reeds, brass Jason Kao Hwang - violin Rosie Hertlein – violin James Keepnews - guitar Brandon Lopez – bass Michael Bisio - bass Warren Smith - vibraphone Jay Rosen – drums |
6:30pm
Shahzad Ismaily Shahzad Ismaily - multiple instruments |
6:45pm
John Zorn Duo John Zorn - alto saxophone Laura Cromwell - drums |
7:30pm
Tribute to Milford Graves William Parker - bass Lee Mixashawn Rozie - reeds D.D. Jackson - piano William Hooker - drums Francisco Mela - drums |
8:30pm
Drum, Horn, and Dance Finale Drums: T.A. Thompson, Michael Wimberly, Jackson Krall, Syd Smart, Tim Angulo, Dennis Warren Horns: Isaiah Collier, Aakash Mital, Peyton Pleninger, Matt Lavelle, James Brandon Lewis, Patrick Holmes, Isaiah Barr Dance: Miriam Parker, Jason Jordan, and others |
Visual Art Installations at VISION 25
At Pioneer Works
July 22 - August 1 At La Plaza at the Clemente July 24, 25, 31 |
We are excited to partner with The Clemente and Pioneer Works to present the work of 8 powerful artists which reaffirms community while daring to build a present through radical creative practices that sees into the history that has brought us here.
Curation: This year’s festival has a large visual component curated by three women artists: festival founder Patricia Nicholson, Jo Wood-Brown and Jean Carla Rodea. All three artists work across media and disciplines. |
All of the artists stand together as we struggle to Break Free of the pandemic and Break Free of an oppressive environment of Hate and Lies.
The different artworks speak collectively of Migrations, Identity, Community & Encounters and how these things effect the culture of our humanity. They reflect our histories. The proximity of the arts amplifies a message of hope and determination. We cross paths and leave impressions of who we are, where we have been and of our encounters. The work makes us visible to each other. We carry our history into the present. |
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Installations at Pioneer WorksNorth Hall
In Miriam Parker’s “Black Emerging” she works with video, movement and materials to explore how distance and time affects our response to violence. Parker lets the video project onto her moving body, erasing the distance between herself and the experience. Performances with Merche Blasco 7/22, Joanna Mattrey 7/23 and Luke Stewart on 7/29, 30 Over Head Main Performance Space Jo Wood-Brown & Jean Carla Rodea: “Sailing Through Cosmic Space” takes this idea of encounter to the future and into the creative space of our shared imagination. It taps into the history of the specific location, in and around Pioneer Works to explore the idea and reality of encounter. Main Hall Stage Projection Jeff Schanger CHILE NEW YORK GAZA 2021 - this will be a short film on the wall of stoneware ceramic Faces fired in New York. Main Hall Under Balcony Benjamin “Mincho Vega” Rojas’ banners, paintings of iconic figures and symbols that speak of his roots in El Salvador and his life in the US, shares his vision of humanity in sync with its surroundings and nature. Garden + Tunnel Jean Carla Rodea and Jo Wood-Brown’s “SEAsaw” occupying the garden space, speaks to the past of the Red Hook waterfront and the encounter between the Dutch and the Lenape and brings this into the present encounters that we struggle with today. Jo Wood-Brown & Jean Carla Rodea join Mincho Vega’s explorations on the world of ofrendas (altars for the ancestors) to honor and remember our communities who have struggled greatly over the past year. Mincho’s ofrendas have been portals for community healing and ancestral meditation. For this iteration, audience members will be encouraged to bring a picture of a loved one and write a memento. Jackson Krall’s iron bells reflect Pioneer Works origin as an iron work factory. He will present some of his larger bells to wake up our ears and minds to art and justice. Patricia Nicholson's “Knife & Rose” | Dance Installation with Ellen Christi, Jean Carla Rodea, Miriam Parker, and Jason Jordan Performances on July 23, 29, 30 |
Installations at The ClementeMetal sculptures
Amir Bey’s 4 galvanized metal pieces are in progress for Vision 25. The number 4 determined how the 4 pieces interact. Inspired by the social theme, the project evolved to 4 individuals, 2 female, 2 male, whose textures and interactions suggest the movements and energies between people as individuals and as an ensemble. Jackson Krall’s bells wind around like vines and invite playing. Banners Mincho Vega’s paintings made into lifesize banners portray iconic figures and symbols that speak of his roots in El Salvador and his life in the US, Together they also. speak a proud defiance. Jeff Schlanger CHILE NEW YORK GAZA 2021 - a continuing wall of stoneware ceramic Faces fired in New York, presented as an 8 x 12-foot photomural in collaboration with photographer J. Maya Luz. Totems Jackson Krall, William Parker, Patricia Nicholson, Amir Bey and Jo Wood-Brown & Jean Carla Rodea. The artists designed totems that honor our unique and collective heritage. They will be featured in La Plaza and are designed to connect us with the spirits that protect. Geodesic Dome Matt Mottel is constructing a Geodesic dome as an artist built social sculpture and supportive architecture to create space for artwork in and around the dome. |
About the Artists
Amir Bey is a multi-disciplinary artist: a multi-media sculptor, curator of over 100 events, performance artist, sumi-e painter, set and costume designer whose silkscreen on fabric prints, and masks of leather, Papier Mache, have striking effects. A collaborator, his work was featured in the performances of Idris Ackamoor, Rhodessa Jones, Maria Mitchell, JD Parran, Saco Yasuma, among others. He has exhibited internationally: Japan, Turkey, France, Martinique, Germany, and Spain. An occult artist, he practices tarot, astrology, and coffee readings, and studied palmistry, handwriting, and face reading, like a multi-instrumentalist studies other instruments. Some events had occult-themes. His writings and imagery appeared in American Astrology, Art Voices Magazine, in publications of artists’ and musicians’ work, and in an anthology on Malcolm X, By Any Means Necessary, by Third World Press. His self-published work includes The Equinox Celebration Tarot, in English and Japanese, and The Equinox Celebration Tarot Reader.
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Jackson Krall, drummer, sound sculptor studied drums with Milford Graves at Bennington College. In the early 1970’s, he began living and working on Lower-East-Side, as part of the downtown avant jazz scene. Since the mid 1970’s Jackson Krall began making bells, and sound sculptures, He also began performing as a drummer with high-profile musicians such as Cecil Taylor, Bill Dixon, Alan Silva and William Parker and his own group “The Secret Music Society.” His work has been shown at Charas El Bohio and the former C.U.A.N.D.O. and at Windows on 8th Ave. as well as at former East Village Art Galleries. AFA began showcasing Mr. Kralls work in 2005 as part of a series of art exhibitions. He is a master craftsman and artist who has been hand making bells, drums, as well as sound sculptures for over 35 years. |
Miriam Parker is an interdisciplinary artist who uses movement, paint, video art and installation, collaborating with other artists equally concerned with social justice, experimental performance, and interdisciplinary creation. She has collaborated with Jo Wood-Brown, Luke Stewart and Merche Blasco, among others. Parker is a CBA Toulmin Fellow ’21. She has performed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; PS1 MoMA, NY; Fridman Gallery, NY; at the Every Women Biennial, NY; Survey Dover Plains, NY; Whitebox ArtCenter, NY; among others. She has had residences at École Normale Supérieure, Paris; FiveMyles Gallery, NY; and Center for Ballet and the Arts, NY and Governor's Island. |
A highly acclaimed musician, William Parker has received the Doris Duke Artist Award among many others. He has led his own bands and performed his own music around the world. He has authored numerous books of poetry as well as books on aesthetics. He has also been drawing and painting throughout his career. You can see some of his drawings published in his books such as Music and the Shadow People. This will be his first formal presentation as a visual artist. |
Jean Carla Rodea (b in Mexico City) is an interdisciplinary artist and educator currently based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work involves a variety of disciplines and mediums such as music, sound, poetry, vocal performance and performance art, photography, video, movement, and sculpture. Her artistic practice deals with spaces and instances where socio-political and cultural constructs are rendered visible through multimedia installations and performance. Jean Carla is also dedicated to perform a plethora of music in a variety of settings ––from solo to large ensembles. She has performed and recorded with William Parker, Darius Jones’ vocal quartet Elizabeth-Caroline Unit, Gerald Cleaver’s Uncle June, Anthony Braxton’s Syntactical Ghost Trance Music Choir, Cecilia Lopez’s Machinic Fantasies, and Talibam!. In addition to this, she leads her own multimedia projects; Looking for Marina, and Azares. She has performed extensively and shown work at Roulette Intermedium, Carnegie Hall, BRIC, Knockdown Center, Judson Church, Danspace, Center for Performance Research, Panoply Lab, Parallel, Rio ll Gallery, The Clemente, BRAC, WAAM, El Museo de Los Sures, Casul, The Graduate Center, and more.
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Benjamin Rojas, aka Mincho Vega was born to immigrants from El Salvador to San Francisco where he grew up. Benjamin is a visual artist and educator. After moving to Brooklyn, Benjamin has explored the world of ofrenda (altars for the ancestors) building and installation. His ofrendas are portals for community healing and ancestral meditation. Each year they are built with a group of community members and artists. Benjamin is also a painter, paper-based artist and sculptor and an illustrator. He has exhibited artwork and painted murals in: San Francisco, New York, Atlanta, New Orleans, Austin, Virginia Tech University, Trinity College in Connecticut, Puerto Rico, The Netherlands, Mexico and Central America. Mincho has also painted murals for Sprite, Google and the Discovery Channel. In 2014 he was awarded the Dr. Judith Temple Scholarship Fund to attend Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts.
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Jo Wood-Brown is a painter and multimedia artist who has worked in the Vision Festival community for 25 years. Her images move across all forms of two- and three-dimensional media, using painted canvas, photography, and installation to bring together many points of view around a subject. With a painter’s sense of eternal time, her forms detach from familiar notions of figure-ground to allow for the interweaving of historical, environmental, and cultural motifs. Wood-Brown’s work—a kind of living organism adapting and shifting across time, culture and collaboration—supports the role of art in culture and the creative expansion of ideas within and beyond the community |
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Admission (per program): $5
Free w/ VIP Pass |
Program 1
Points on a Space AgeDirected by Ephraim Asili
2011 Points on a Space Age explores the recent activity of the remaining members of the influential Sun Ra Arkestra since the passing of its founding member, Sun Ra, and examines their current work (in the physical absence of Sun Ra) under the direction of Marshall Allen. |
Many Thousands GoneDirected by Ephraim Asili
2015 Filmed on location in Salvador, Brazil (the last city in the Western Hemisphere to outlaw slavery) and Harlem, New York (an international stronghold of the African Diaspora), Many Thousands Gone draws parallels between a summer afternoon on the streets of the two cities. A silent version of the film was given to jazz multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee to use an interpretive score. The final film is the combination of the images and McPhee’s real time “sight reading” of the score. |
Amina Claudine Myers: ReflectionsDirected by Michael Lucio Sternbach
2020 Born in Blackwell, Arkansas, Amina Claudine Myers' music career began in directing church choirs, singing, and playing gospel and rhythm and blues, and her early jazz experience came in groups lead by Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt. After moving to Chicago in the 1960s, Ms. Myers became a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), began composing for voice and instruments, and appearing on classic AACM records. Now based in NYC, Myers has become well known for her work involving voice choirs, voice and instrumental ensemble, musical theater, and a robust exploration of the pipe organ, all while seamlessly blending the blues, jazz, gospel and extended forms. REFLECTIONS will include recent and archival performance footage, as well as interviews with Myers discussing her work and life. |
Program 2
Inside Out In The OpenDirected by Alan Roth
2001 Inside Out In The Open is a documentary focusing on the revolutionary developments in jazz music that evolved in the early 1960s, expanding boundaries in rhythm, sound, harmonics, and collective improvisation, with an expansive openness and deep emotion. It was one of the first feature documentaries to provide an overview of this musical tradition. The film revolves around interviews with eleven such musicians, whose words are complemented by their music and that of many others. The interviewees represent several generations: Marion Brown, Baikida Carroll, Daniel Carter, Burton Greene, Susie Ibarra, Joseph Jarman, William Parker, Roswell Rudd, Matthew Shipp, Alan Silva, and John Tchicai, with short performances by Roy Campbell, Denis Charles, and Glenn Spearman, among many others. Although the film was produced over 20 years ago, it is remains vitally relevant and illuminating, and represents a living document of the contributions and ideas of these great musicians. |
Fighting for the Sustainability of Black Improvised Creative Music
Tuesday July 27, 3pm
How Systemic Racism and Cultural Colonization Took Jazz From Black America
How Systemic Racism and Cultural Colonization Took Jazz From Black America
Wednesday July 28, 3pm
America’s Neglect of Black Improvised Creative Music (The Irony of Resolution 57: Jazz is a National Treasure)
America’s Neglect of Black Improvised Creative Music (The Irony of Resolution 57: Jazz is a National Treasure)
About the Vision Festival
This year, Arts for Art proudly celebrates 25 years of a collective artistic vision. Vision Festival 25: Breaking Free, Coming Home will bring together the buoyant voices of hundreds of artists of various disciplines—Free Jazz, poetry, visual arts, conversations— to speak the message of hope and justice with unfettered creativity. Since 1996, the Vision Festival has created and guaranteed a space for improvisation as a leading creative language, and has been named “one of New York’s most essential art events” by The New York Times.
Tickets
In Person Tickets: Daily $65 | Full Pass $300 | VIP Pass $750
Streaming Tickets: Daily $15 | Full Pass $75
Available at: visionfestival.eventbrite.com
Streaming Tickets: Daily $15 | Full Pass $75
Available at: visionfestival.eventbrite.com
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email info (at) artsforart (dot) org
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email Carla Parisi at kidlogicmedia (at) gmail (dot) com
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Venue Information
July 22-23 & 29-30
Pioneer Works
159 Pioneer St, Brooklyn, NY 11231
https://pioneerworks.org/
July 24-25 & 31
La Plaza at the Clemente
114 Norfolk St, Parking Lot, NYC 10002
https://www.theclementecenter.org/
Public Health Precautions
We are following recommendations laid out by NY State for outdoor gatherings. Seating will be socially distanced. Face masks are required indoors at Pioneer Works - we will have masks on hand. We are grateful to attendees for helping us maintain safety within our present public health context, and look forward to holding meaningful shared listening space together.
We encourage attendees to either get vaccinated or tested 72 hours before you come.
As public safety guidelines permit, event capacity may increase and we will release more tickets for the public.
Please stay home if you are feeling sick. For more information about COVID-19, check the CDC website.
July 22-23 & 29-30
Pioneer Works
159 Pioneer St, Brooklyn, NY 11231
https://pioneerworks.org/
July 24-25 & 31
La Plaza at the Clemente
114 Norfolk St, Parking Lot, NYC 10002
https://www.theclementecenter.org/
Public Health Precautions
We are following recommendations laid out by NY State for outdoor gatherings. Seating will be socially distanced. Face masks are required indoors at Pioneer Works - we will have masks on hand. We are grateful to attendees for helping us maintain safety within our present public health context, and look forward to holding meaningful shared listening space together.
We encourage attendees to either get vaccinated or tested 72 hours before you come.
As public safety guidelines permit, event capacity may increase and we will release more tickets for the public.
Please stay home if you are feeling sick. For more information about COVID-19, check the CDC website.