Pop-up Evolving: Blacklivesmatter at The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center

Arts For Art presents an Evolving POP UP venue honoring #BlackLives, Roy Campbell & Amiri Baraka who we lost in January, 2014. January 23 to 30th, 2015 we will celebrate #BlackLivesMatter & the multiple creative outcomes of this statement. Please join us for an epic journey of FreeJazz, music, poetry, dance, visual art & conversations.

Program:

Friday January 23
7:00 CLIMBING PoeTREE
Naima Penniman, Alixa Garcia - spoken words
8:00 William Parker - strings, percussions and flute / Cooper-Moore - strings and percussions
9:30 Chris Speed - clarinet, sax / Trevor Dunn - bass / Kate Gentile - drums...

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Arts For Art presents an Evolving POP UP venue honoring #BlackLives, Roy Campbell & Amiri Baraka who we lost in January, 2014. January 23 to 30th, 2015 we will celebrate #BlackLivesMatter & the multiple creative outcomes of this statement. Please join us for an epic journey of FreeJazz, music, poetry, dance, visual art & conversations.

Program:

Friday January 23
7:00 CLIMBING PoeTREE
Naima Penniman, Alixa Garcia - spoken words
8:00 William Parker - strings, percussions and flute / Cooper-Moore - strings and percussions
9:30 Chris Speed - clarinet, sax / Trevor Dunn - bass / Kate Gentile - drums

Saturday January 24
7:00 Patricia Nicholson Parker - dance / Jason Hwang - violin / TA Thompson - drums
8:00 Joe McPhee Solo - sax, trumpet
9:30 Connie Crothers- piano / Warren Smith - drums

Sunday January 25
5:30 Art Opening with Dick Griffin and Michael Wilderman,
7:00 Yuko Otomo / Steve Dalachinsky - poetry
8:00 Miya Masaoka - koto / Robert Dick - flutes
9:00 Tom Buckner – voice / Earl Howard – sax, synth / Steve Swell - trombone

Monday January 26
7:00 MUSIC NOW UNIT
Ras Moshe - tenor sax, flute / Bill Cole - sona, hojok, piri, nagaswarm, didgeridoo, flutes / Larry Roland - bass, poetry
Lisette Santiago - congas, bata, theremin
8:00 James Brandon Lewis - sax / Dominic Fragman - drums
9:30 ANA ISMA VIEL'S CROSS BREATH
Ana Ïsma Viel - voice / Daro Behroozi – tenor sax / Pascal Niggenkemper - bass

Tuesday January 27
7:00 Yoshiko Chuma
8:00 Yoni Kretzmer - sax / Jason Ajemian - bass / Kevin Shea - drums
9:30 NATE WOOLEY QUINTET:
Harris Eisenstadt - drums / Nate Wooley - trumpet / Matt Moran - vibraphone / Eivind Opsvik - bass / Josh Sinton - bass clarinet

Wednesday January 28
7:00 Henry Grimes
8:00 MOVIN: Andrew Lamb - tenor sax / Larry Roland - bass / Juan Pablo Carletti - drums
9:30 BAUDOLINO'S DILEMMA: Warren Smith - vibes, percussion / Stephen Haynes - trumpet, flugelhorn, corne / Michael TA Thompson - SoundRhythium / Ken Filiano - bass, effects

Thursday January 29
7:00 David Mills - poetry
8:00 Lafayette Gilchrist Solo - piano
9:30 Tony Malaby TubaCello Quartet
Tony Malaby - tenor sax / Bob Stewart - tuba
Christopher Hoffman - cello / Billy Mintz - drums

Friday Jan. 30
7:00 Poetry
8:00 Joe Morris - guitar / Daniel Levin - cello
9:30 FV WordImprov ENSEMBLE: Fay Victor - voice, text / Daniel Carter – reeds, trumpet / Reggie Nicholson - drums

TICKETS (sold at the door):
one set: $11 / two sets: $16 / 3 sets: $22
Students/Seniors: one set: $8 / two sets: $12 / three sets: $16

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