Day 5 Of Vision Festival: A Heart To Resist at Vision Festival at Roulette

Vision Festival: 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

Friday Jun 6
5:00 PM CONFERENCE
7:00 PM The Fringe:
Francisco Mela - drums / George Garzone - sax / John Lockwood – bass
8:00 PM Shamanic Principle
Patricia Nicholson - dance, text / Val Jeanty - percussion /
Melanie Dyer - viola / Miriam Parker - video art
9:00 PM DoYeon Kim Quartet...

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Vision Festival: 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

Friday Jun 6
5:00 PM CONFERENCE
7:00 PM The Fringe:
Francisco Mela - drums / George Garzone - sax / John Lockwood – bass
8:00 PM Shamanic Principle
Patricia Nicholson - dance, text / Val Jeanty - percussion /
Melanie Dyer - viola / Miriam Parker - video art
9:00 PM DoYeon Kim Quartet
DoYeon Kim - gayageum / Mat Maneri - vola / John Hebert- bass /
Satoshi Takeishi - drums Boomi Choi - video art
10:00 PM David Murray Birdley Serenade
David Murray - sax / Luke Stewart – bass / Marta Sanchez – piano /
Russell Carter - 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).

In the current political and cultural climate, Arts for Art’s credo is felt more strongly than ever – using powerful music and art as expressions of commitment to life and justice. Past festival titles have included A Vision Against Violence, Avant Jazz For Peace, Studies in Freedom, The Revolution Continues, The Creative Option and Take a Stand.

The Vision Festival continues to honor and amplify the careers of legendary artists that are too often under-appreciated, such as Milford Graves, Kidd Jordan, Sam Rivers, Amina Claudine Myers, Connie Crothers, and many others.

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