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CONFERENCES | June 10 & 12, 2023

VISION FESTIVAL | NYC | June 10, 12-18, 2023

ABOUT VISION FESTIVAL 2023
  • June 10 Conference
  • June 12 Conference
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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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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.
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The Clemente Flamboyan Theater | 107 Suffolk Street, near Delancey in NYC
FREE in-person & streaming, but please register by clicking the buttons below:
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​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
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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:
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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.



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ABOUT VISION FESTIVAL 2023
VISION FESTIVAL 2023 runs from Jun 10 - Jun 18, 2023. Go to artsforart.org/vision for information on the entire festival

Support for the Vision Festival is provided by
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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.  

MISSION: Arts for Art is dedicated to the exceptional creativity that originated in the African American multi-arts jazz culture that utilizes improvisation to express a larger, more positive dream of inclusion and freedom.
​​ARTS FOR ART, INC.
107 Suffolk Street, #300, New York, NY, 10002
212-254-5420 | info@artsforart.org

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  • HOME
  • ABOUT
    • Programs
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  • EVENTS
    • Vision Festival 2023, New York City
    • Vision Festival 2023 Conferences
    • Edward "Kidd" Jordan Memorial Concert
    • EVENTS ARCHIVE >
      • Special Events >
        • Joëlle Léandre: Life - Struggle - Music
        • Jo Wood-Brown's 'Dreaming Woman'
        • MARSHALL ALLEN & NYC ALL-STARS
        • Connie Crothers Tribute
        • InGardens 2022, FREE Outdoor Concert Series in NYC
        • FreeJazz on a Saturday Afternoon
        • No Joke! Record Release
        • Studio Rivbea Revisited 2023
        • Jazz Libre! Celebration
        • Outdoor Concerts
        • Vision Festival Healing Soul
        • Amina Claudine Myers Birthday Celebration
        • Bringing on the Hallelujah: Kidd Jordan Film
        • Artists for a Free World Protest Concerts
        • Earth Arrival Day Celebration >
          • Arts for Art at The Town Hall | March 4
        • Patricia Nicholson Birthday Benefit
        • Steve Cannon Tribute
        • Arts for Art at Weeksville
        • AFA at H0L0 Xennial
        • OPEN DOORS / OPEN STUDIOS
        • Arts for Art at the Kitchen
        • Cecil Taylor Memorial
        • FreeJazz at Weeksville
        • Vision at Tufts
        • Sonny Simmons Tribute Concert
        • Tribute to Hamiet Bluiett
      • Vision Festival Archive
      • Vision Festival 2022, New York City
      • On_Line Salons
      • Under_Line Salons >
        • Amina Claudine Myers Salon 1/07
        • Jemeel Moondoc Salon 4/18
        • Andrew Cyrille Salon 1/9
        • Under_Line Salon w/ Dave Burrell March 8, 2018
        • AFA Fundraiser Honoring Cecil Taylor
        • Under_Line Salon December 6
        • Canceled - Under_Line Salon ft. Eric Revis & Alvin Fielder
        • Under_Line Salon ft. Cooper-Moore
        • Canceled - Under_Line Salon ft. Alvin Fielder
        • Holiday Salon at the LOWLINE Lab
        • Under_Line Salon ft. Marshall Allen
      • Evolving >
        • Peace and Justice Celebration
        • Free Jazz on a Sunday Afternoon
        • Arts for Art at El Taller
        • Arts for Art at H0L0
        • Arts for Art at Nublu
        • Free Jazz on a Sunday Afternoon
        • Raza y Resistencia 2018
        • Justice is Compassion 12/7 - 1/12
        • Raza y Resistencia 2017
        • Justice is Compassion / Not a Police State
        • Raza y Resistencia
        • NYC FreeJazz Summit
      • Artist Meeting
      • InGardens >
        • InGardens 2021
        • InGardens 2019
        • InGardens 2018
        • In Gardens 2016
  • EDUCATION
    • Music is Mine
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