Day 4 Of Vision Festival at Vision Festival at Roulette

Vision: A heART to RESIST
At Roulette Intermedium, 509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY
June 2-7, 2025
artsforart.org/vision
General Admission: $100, Student Discount (must show ID): $30, Senior Discount (must be over 65): $50

Thursday Jun 5
6:30 PM Davalois Fearon Dance
Davalois Fearon - dance, Artistic Direction
Mike McGinnis - clarinet, sax / Adriel Vincent-Brown - drums
Peter Applebaum - piano / Patricia Smith – poet
Jalisa Wallerson, Marýa Wethers - dance / Myssi Robinson - dance, video art
7:30 PM Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp String Trio...

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Vision: A heART to RESIST
At Roulette Intermedium, 509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY
June 2-7, 2025
artsforart.org/vision
General Admission: $100, Student Discount (must show ID): $30, Senior Discount (must be over 65): $50

Thursday Jun 5
6:30 PM Davalois Fearon Dance
Davalois Fearon - dance, Artistic Direction
Mike McGinnis - clarinet, sax / Adriel Vincent-Brown - drums
Peter Applebaum - piano / Patricia Smith – poet
Jalisa Wallerson, Marýa Wethers - dance / Myssi Robinson - dance, video art
7:30 PM Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp String Trio
Ivo Perelman - tenor / Matthew Shipp - piano
William Parker - bass / Mat Maneri - viola
8:30 PM Oliver Lake poet & DJ Jahi Sundance Lake
9:00 PM Spirit World
Michael Wimberly - drums / Oluyemi Thomas - alto / Joe McPhee - tenor /
William Parker - bass / Lisa Sokolov - voice
10:00 PM Mary Halvorson’s Canis Major:
Mary Halvorson- guitar / Dave Adewumi- trumpet
Henry Fraser- bass / Tomas Fujiwara- drums

About the Vision Festival
In 1996 Patricia Nicholson Parker put on the First Annual Vision Festival, presented at The Learning Alliance on Lafayette near Houston. The idea was to bring together luminaries from the different creative music scenes and, for the first time since the Sound Unity Festivals in the mid ‘80s, celebrate the important African American leaders of the music. Featuring artist Milford Graves, that first Vision Festival was unique in its multi-arts focus featuring poets such as Amiri Baraka, dancers such as Rod Rogers, and visual artists such as Jeff Schlanger, in collaboration with the music.

Each year the Vision Festival also brought attention to issues of social justice by curating panel discussions, such as “Decolonizing the Music: Reclaiming the Power of Creative Music in Communities of Color” or “How Funding Affects Creative Choices.”

In its totality the Vision Festival created and guaranteed a space for improvisation as a leading creative language, heralded as “one of New York’s most essential art events” (New York Times).

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