Wednesday, October 19 at 7:00 PM
Cave Canem
’s 20th anniversary and the Schomburg Center, for our year-long
exploration of the Black Power Movement, will present an
intergenerational, interdisciplinary performance based on the musical
composition of jazz composer and drummer Max Roach’s 1961 Freedom Now
Suite. Freedom Now! will feature Cave Canem co-founders Toi Derricotte
and Cornelius Eady and Black Arts Movement icon Sonia Sanchez, with a
special appearance by New York City-based youth poets. The evening's
artistic director will be composer/performer and Cave Canem fellow Karma
Mayet Johnson. Members of the Burnt Sugar Arkestra Chamber will
furnish the piece’s musical foundation. Musicians and poets share the
stage for the duration of the performance to deliver their own original
compositions as well as
excerpts of texts from Audre Lorde and Henry Dumas.
This
event is funded in part by Poets & Writers with public funds from
the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor
Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
@SchomburgCenter #FreedomNow
Ticket prices vary: $25 (48-Hour Sale October 13-14 only), $30 (Schomburg Society Members), $35 (General Admission), $100 (VIP)
Purchase
here.
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