CONFERENCES | June 10 & 12, 2023
VISION FESTIVAL | NYC | June 10, 12-18, 2023
VISION FESTIVAL 2023 runs from Jun 10 - Jun 18, 2023. Go to artsforart.org/vision for information on the entire festival
June 10, 2023 from 10 AM - 5:30 PM
Arts for Art & Rutgers Advanced Institute for Critical Caribbean Studies Conference on the Legacies of Black Creative Arts / Spirit of the Ancestors
Addressing the profound unifying spirituality underlying traditional and cutting edge Black Creative Arts and the struggle for justice and non-erasure.
The Clemente Flamboyan Theater | 107 Suffolk Street, near Delancey in NYC
FREE in-person & streaming, but please register by clicking the buttons below:
Arts for Art & Rutgers Advanced Institute for Critical Caribbean Studies Conference on the Legacies of Black Creative Arts / Spirit of the Ancestors
Addressing the profound unifying spirituality underlying traditional and cutting edge Black Creative Arts and the struggle for justice and non-erasure.
The Clemente Flamboyan Theater | 107 Suffolk Street, near Delancey in NYC
FREE in-person & streaming, but please register by clicking the buttons below:
Organized by Carter Mathes - author, Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University; Patricia Nicholson - Arts for Art Founder; Artistic Director, Michael Heller - author, Associate Professor at University of Pittsburgh; Kehinde Alonge - PhD candidate in English at Rutgers University
SCHEDULE
10:00 AM Panel - 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.
Panel:
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.
Nana Sula 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
Followed by a Q&A
12:30 pm Panel - Spirit Speaks through History and Present in Black Improvised Arts
Moderator:
Anthony Jermaine Ross Allam, Director of Presbyterian Mission Agency’s Center for Repair of Historical Harms & recipient of United Theological Seminary “Spirit of United Award”
Panel:
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
Lee Mixashawn Rozie - musician, author, educator in Indigenous & Black Creative Music
William Parker -musician, author, activist, and educator
Followed by a Q&A
3:00 pm Convergence Roundtable: Improvising the Future Together
Through honoring our spirituality and the ancestors and visionaries who laid the way, we come together to find healing paths forward. This roundtable brings together members of the first two panels for a free flowing conversation and exchange of ideas
Co-Moderators:
Patricia Nicholson, Founder of Improvisers Collective, Arts for Art, RUCMA, Artists for a Free World, dancer, poet and Michael Heller, Associate Professor, Music Department, University of Pittsburgh, author of Loft Jazz, editor Jazz and Culture journal
Roundtable followed by Q&A
5:00 - Performance
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.
Organized by Carter Mathes - author, Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University; Patricia Nicholson - Arts for Art Founder; Artistic Director, Michael Heller - author, Associate Professor at University of Pittsburgh; Kehinde Alonge - PhD candidate in English at Rutgers University
SCHEDULE
10:00 AM Panel - 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.
Panel:
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.
Nana Sula 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
Followed by a Q&A
12:30 pm Panel - Spirit Speaks through History and Present in Black Improvised Arts
Moderator:
Anthony Jermaine Ross Allam, Director of Presbyterian Mission Agency’s Center for Repair of Historical Harms & recipient of United Theological Seminary “Spirit of United Award”
Panel:
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
Lee Mixashawn Rozie - musician, author, educator in Indigenous & Black Creative Music
William Parker -musician, author, activist, and educator
Followed by a Q&A
3:00 pm Convergence Roundtable: Improvising the Future Together
Through honoring our spirituality and the ancestors and visionaries who laid the way, we come together to find healing paths forward. This roundtable brings together members of the first two panels for a free flowing conversation and exchange of ideas
Co-Moderators:
Patricia Nicholson, Founder of Improvisers Collective, Arts for Art, RUCMA, Artists for a Free World, dancer, poet and Michael Heller, Associate Professor, Music Department, University of Pittsburgh, author of Loft Jazz, editor Jazz and Culture journal
Roundtable followed by Q&A
5:00 - Performance
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.
VISION FESTIVAL 2023 runs from Jun 10 - Jun 18, 2023. Go to artsforart.org/vision for information on the entire festival
June 12, 2023 from 12 PM - 5:30 PM
The Ecology of Media and MUSIC
This conference focuses on enhancing accessibility and inclusivity in the creative arts. A panel consisting of musicians and media professionals will discuss amplifying the impact of music through media channels, fostering diversity and inclusivity, nurturing emerging talent, and exploring the intersection of technology, media, and music.
Roulette Intermedium | 509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn NY
FREE in-person & streaming, but please register by clicking the buttons below:
The Ecology of Media and MUSIC
This conference focuses on enhancing accessibility and inclusivity in the creative arts. A panel consisting of musicians and media professionals will discuss amplifying the impact of music through media channels, fostering diversity and inclusivity, nurturing emerging talent, and exploring the intersection of technology, media, and music.
Roulette Intermedium | 509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn NY
FREE in-person & streaming, but please register by clicking the buttons below:
Music lifts us up. It is a healing force in times of trouble. When the media brings attention to the Creative Art, those arts become available to a more general public, not only for the privileged few. We need to identify ways to create broader accessibility through publications that already exist as well as building new more accessible spaces. This conference focuses on enhancing accessibility and inclusivity in the creative arts. A panel consisting of musicians and media professionals will discuss amplifying the impact of music through media channels, fostering diversity and inclusivity, nurturing emerging talent, and exploring the intersection of technology, media, and music.
12 PM Panel
A Point of Comparison - Media in the 1960’s, 70’s & 80’s
Moderated by Patricia Nicholson
Sharif Abdus-Salaam - WKCR-FM Columbia & WKNY-FM in Kingston
Gary Giddins- Journalist, Weather Bird column in Village Voice / Author
Herb Boyd Journalist at Amsterdam News, Down Beat magazine. / activist, academic,author.
Katea Stitt - Program Director, WPFW/Pacifica Radio
William Parker - musician, composer, author, activist
Bobby Hill - co-founder of Transparent Productions, radio producer at WPFW, WOWD
Followed by a Q&A
2 PM Panel
Media and Music Today
Moderated by Patricia Nicholson
Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky - artist in residence at Yale University Center for Arts and Media
Nabil Ayers - President, Beggars Group US, music industry entrepreneur, writer and musician.
Nate Chinen - Journalist on WRTI / NPR
Melvin Gibbs - musician, composer, author, activist
Naomi Extra - writer, scholar, poet and creator of Black Women in Jazz Oral History Project
Followed by a Q&A
4 PM Roundtable Discussion
Through a better understanding of how media functions and dysfunctions we will consider possible solutions that may create greater access to Music and the Arts for a larger more diverse public.
12 PM Panel
A Point of Comparison - Media in the 1960’s, 70’s & 80’s
Moderated by Patricia Nicholson
Sharif Abdus-Salaam - WKCR-FM Columbia & WKNY-FM in Kingston
Gary Giddins- Journalist, Weather Bird column in Village Voice / Author
Herb Boyd Journalist at Amsterdam News, Down Beat magazine. / activist, academic,author.
Katea Stitt - Program Director, WPFW/Pacifica Radio
William Parker - musician, composer, author, activist
Bobby Hill - co-founder of Transparent Productions, radio producer at WPFW, WOWD
Followed by a Q&A
2 PM Panel
Media and Music Today
Moderated by Patricia Nicholson
Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky - artist in residence at Yale University Center for Arts and Media
Nabil Ayers - President, Beggars Group US, music industry entrepreneur, writer and musician.
Nate Chinen - Journalist on WRTI / NPR
Melvin Gibbs - musician, composer, author, activist
Naomi Extra - writer, scholar, poet and creator of Black Women in Jazz Oral History Project
Followed by a Q&A
4 PM Roundtable Discussion
Through a better understanding of how media functions and dysfunctions we will consider possible solutions that may create greater access to Music and the Arts for a larger more diverse public.
VISION FESTIVAL 2023 runs from Jun 10 - Jun 18, 2023. Go to artsforart.org/vision for information on the entire festival
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Arts for Art's programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support provided by Council Members Chris Marte and Carlina Rivera, Howard Gilman Foundation, Jacob and Ruth Epstein Foundation, Jerome Foundation, Chamber Music America, Mid Atlantic Arts, Jazz Foundation of America and The Givens Foundation for African American Literature. This project is supported by New Music USA’s New Music Organizational Development Fund. Arts for Art receives support from the Henry Luce Foundation, the Willem de Kooning Foundation, and Teiger Foundation through the Coalition of Small Arts New York. Joëlle Léandre's Lifetime Achievement Award is underwritten by the Robert D. Bielecki Foundation.
