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SUMMARY:Sidy Maiga presents: 12th Annual Afrika Nyaga Drum and Dance Festival
DESCRIPTION:Sidy Maiga returns to PVDFest with the 12th annual Afrika Nyaga Drum & Dance Festival\, a ground-shaking celebration of West African music and dance and its influence on the African diaspora. \nMaiga envisions Afrika Nyaga as a sonic synthesis of African traditions and Rhode Island’s diverse communities. The festival nurtures artistic exchange through the universal language of music across cultures\, ages\, and nationalities. Local acts brew their beats alongside world-class contemporary artists\, resulting in a fête that celebrates the vibrant variation of African rhythms. \nPerformers and Lineup: \nEmcee: Valerie Tutson from Rhode Island Black Storytellers\n4:30 – 5:00 PM: Manolo Mairena & La Pura Vida\n5:00 – 5:15 PM: The Providence Drum Troupe\n5:20 – 5:55 PM: Denis Graca\n6:10 – 7:30 PM: Sidy Maiga & The Bridge Where We Meet with Haus of Glitter
URL:https://firstworks.org/event/sidy-maiga-presents-12th-annual-afrika-nyaga-drum-and-dance-festival/
LOCATION:City Hall Stage\, 25 Dorrance Street\, Providence\, RI\, 02903\, United States
CATEGORIES:PVDFest,Season 2024-2025
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SUMMARY:FirstWorks Spectacle: Italy's eVenti Verticali
DESCRIPTION:After spellbinding performances at PVDFest 2019\, the gravity-defying Italian aerialists return with SPHERE\, a thrilling new 30-minute spectacle delivered by five aerial dancers suspended from a crane some 60 feet above the ground. The performance begins with the “stage\,” a transparent sphere\, deflated and shapeless with one aerialist suspended inside. The sphere is raised high overhead by the crane\, becoming a gigantic\, fully inflated and stunning globe\, transforming into a place where everything comes alive. Five aerialists take the audience on a journey reflecting on our miraculous lives here\, on our planet earth. \nPerformance Dates/Times\nFriday\, September 6\n4:45-5:15 PM\n7:00-7:30 PM \nSaturday\, September 7\n2:30-3:00 PM\n7:30-8:00 PM
URL:https://firstworks.org/event/firstworks-spectacle-italys-eventi-verticali/2024-09-07/2/
LOCATION:PVDFest Spectacle Stage\, Providence\, RI\, 02903\, United States
CATEGORIES:PVDFest,Season 2024-2025
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SUMMARY:Creative Conversation with Jake Blount
DESCRIPTION:This Creative Conversation features artist Jake Blount; Adrienne Taylor\, Resident Musician at Community MusicWorks; and Professor Jamille Pinheiro Dias\, visiting faculty at Brown University. Moderated by Sebastian Ruth\, Founder and Artistic Director of Community MusicWorks. \nJoin Community MusicWorks (CMW) and FirstWorks as panelists share insights about their creative processes and the meaning-making involved in their artistic practices\, which draw on their culturally specific histories and personal experiences. \nThis conversation is free\, open to the public\, and a great way to celebrate CMW’s new space!
URL:https://firstworks.org/event/creative-conversation-with-jake-blount/
LOCATION:Community MusicWorks Center\, 1326 Westminster Street\, Providence\, RI\, 02909\, United States
CATEGORIES:Season 2024-2025
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241010T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241010T193000
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SUMMARY:Jake Blount + Mali Obomsawin
DESCRIPTION:Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin are award-winning musicians who have joined forces on their Smithsonian Folkways release\, symbiont (2024). Blount (pronounced “blunt”) is a renowned interpreter of Black folk music who is recognized for his skill as a string band musician and for his unprecedented Afrofuturist work in sound archives and song collections. In his hands\, the banjo\, fiddle\, electric guitar\, and synthesizer become ceremonial objects used to channel the insurgent creativity of his forebears. Obomsawin (Odanak First Nation) is a celebrated composer\, bassist\, and vocalist in free jazz and experimental music. Obomsawin’s work as a composer and bandleader centers on the imprint of Indigenous music traditions in jazz and “American” genres\, using historical\, archival\, and community research as a spine for improvisation. \nOn symbiont\, Obomsawin’s and Blount’s “genrequeer” approach to their respective traditions has earned a place in some of the very same archives from which they extract their repertoire. In defiance of genre categories\, revisionist histories\, and linear time\, Blount and Obomsawin have fashioned an Indigenous and Afrofuturist folklore that disintegrates the boundaries between acoustic and electric\, artist and medium\, and ancestor and progeny.
URL:https://firstworks.org/event/jake-blount-mali-obomsawin/
LOCATION:Providence Public Library\, 150 Empire Street\, Providence\, RI\, 02903\, United States
CATEGORIES:Season 2024-2025
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SUMMARY:BALA-BILA
DESCRIPTION:BALA-BILA brings together two African master musicians–Balla Kouyaté on balafon\, calabash\, bass guitar and voice\, and Matchume Zango on timbila\, mbira\, percussion and voice–through a live concert framed as an intercultural musical conversation between the two artists. Kouyaté\, from the West African country of Mali\, and Zango\, from the East African country of Mozambique\, are leading exponents of their respective principal instruments–BALAfon and timBILA–two world heritage instruments that are played together for the first time. \nThis living-room-style concert features Kouyaté and Zango as composers and multi-instrumentalists sharing the joy\, beauty and complexity of their music but also provides a unique opportunity for the audience to get to know Kouyaté and Zango as human beings\, artists\, ambassadors\, and global citizens as they explore their connection to each other\, their art\, and their cultural patrimony.
URL:https://firstworks.org/event/bala-bila/
LOCATION:Providence Public Library\, 150 Empire Street\, Providence\, RI\, 02903\, United States
CATEGORIES:Season 2024-2025
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241125T173000
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Aretha Aoki and Ryan MacDonald
DESCRIPTION:Join Aretha Aoki and Ryan MacDonald for an evening of experimental performance and behind-the-scenes conversation about their lives as professional artists who blend dance\, music\, and theater. Together with their daughter\, Frankie Mayfield\, they will share segments of their new show\, IzumonookunI. \nIzumonookunI is a multidisciplinary and multigenerational dance inspired by Izumo no Okuni\, 17th century founder of the Japanese dance-drama form\, kabuki—a form that currently contains little trace of its female-centric\, grassroots\, counter-cultural origins. Choreographer Aretha Aoki and sound and visual designer Ryan MacDonald are re-imagining Okuni in conversation with post-punk/glam-goth/dark-wave within a hybrid\, contemporary landscape of live synthesizer\, digital design\, dance\, and taiko drumming. IzumonookunI premiered at the Bates Dance Festival in July 2024. \nARTIST BIOS\nAretha Aoki is a choreographer\, performer\, and educator. Her work in collaboration with Ryan MacDonald has been performed nationally and internationally\, with funding from the NPN Creation and Development funds\, the Kindling Fund\, Maine Arts Commission\, New England Foundation for the Arts\, and the Northampton Council for the Arts. She has performed and toured in the work of many award-winning choreographers\, most recently Heather Kravas. \nRyan Alexander MacDonald is a multimedia artist and author. He was a 2017 Bessie Award Nominee in “Outstanding Composition and Sound Design” for his work in Vanessa Anspaugh’s The End of Men. He is the author of the story collection The Observable Characteristics of Organisms (FC2) and the winner of the 2012 American Short(er) Fiction Award. He works in multiple forms with long-time collaborator and choreographer Aretha Aoki and has designed sound for choreographers such as Vanessa Anspaugh\, Devynn Emory\, Tristan Koepke and Rebecca Steinberg. He lives in Maine where he teaches sound design and digital art. www.ryanamacdonald.com
URL:https://firstworks.org/event/an-evening-with-aretha-aoki-and-ryan-macdonald/
LOCATION:Jacqueline M. Walsh School for the Arts\, 350 Division Street\, Pawtucket\, RI\, 02860\, United States
CATEGORIES:For Teachers,Season 2024-2025
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