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SEASON 9

  • REMEMBRANCE
    REMEMBRANCE
    Sat, May 18
    May 18, 2024, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
    Tufts University Distler Hall, 20 Talbot Ave, Medford, MA 02155, USA
    May 18, 2024, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
    Tufts University Distler Hall, 20 Talbot Ave, Medford, MA 02155, USA
    Lecture-performance with musicologist-pianist Dr. Samantha Ege, featuring works for strings and piano by Florence Price, Undine Smith Moore, Margaret Bonds and Frederick Tillis.
  • ORIGIN - PAMPI
    ORIGIN - PAMPI
    Sun, Jun 26
    Jun 26, 2022, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
    The Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston, MA 02130, USA
    Jun 26, 2022, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
    The Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston, MA 02130, USA
    Led by Bengali culture worker Pampi, this audience participatory workshop allows attendees to weave love letters into hand-crafted ceremonial vessels to their loved ones.
  • ORIGIN - DANIEL CALLAHAN
    ORIGIN - DANIEL CALLAHAN
    Sat, Jun 04
    Jun 04, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
    The Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston, MA 02130, USA
    Jun 04, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
    The Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston, MA 02130, USA
    Learn the origin, technique and meaning behind Daniel's artistic practice of MassQing, which uses the human face as a canvas to reveal one's inner state. Engage firsthand in the conception and creation of your own MassQ.
  • #BCMC 2.0 FLUTE & HARP
    #BCMC 2.0 FLUTE & HARP
    Sun, May 15
    May 15, 2022, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
    https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRkq76Ky
    May 15, 2022, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
    https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRkq76Ky
    Curated by Associate Artistic Director Emeritus & Composer Anthony R. Green, this #BCMC 2.0 challenged African diasporic composers to write 30 second miniatures for flute and harp!
  • ORIGN - DR. LISELI A. FITZPATRICK
    ORIGN - DR. LISELI A. FITZPATRICK
    Sat, May 14
    May 14, 2022, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
    The Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston, MA 02130, USA
    May 14, 2022, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
    The Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston, MA 02130, USA
    Dr. Liseli A. Fitzpatrick, a Trinidadian-scholar in the field of African Diasporic cosmologies and sacred ontologies, will lead an engaging lecture and discussion exploring African mythologies and folkloric cultures.
  • DR. SAMANTHA EGE
    DR. SAMANTHA EGE
    Thu, May 05
    May 05, 2022, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
    Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford ​, Parks Rd, Oxford OX1 3PW, UK
    May 05, 2022, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
    Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford ​, Parks Rd, Oxford OX1 3PW, UK
    Lectures, performances and recording projects with musicologist and pianist Dr. Samantha Ege as part of COOS' TORCH Visiting Fellow at Oxford University.
  • ORIGIN
    ORIGIN
    Sat, Apr 30
    Apr 30, 2022, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
    The Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston, MA 02130, USA
    Apr 30, 2022, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
    The Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston, MA 02130, USA
    Led by poet and Castle of our Skins’ Shirley Graham Du Bois Creative in Residence Marlanda Dekine, this participatory workshop will use writing and meditation to consider how our individual origin stories and ancestries influence our being.
  • THRESH & HOLD
    THRESH & HOLD
    Fri, Apr 29
    Apr 29, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
    PIERCE BUILDING, 1336 Beacon St, Brookline, MA 02446, USA
    Apr 29, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
    PIERCE BUILDING, 1336 Beacon St, Brookline, MA 02446, USA
    Thresh & Hold is the newest work by 2021 winner of the New Southern Voices Poetry Prize Marlanda Dekine.
  • NATHALIE JOACHIM
    NATHALIE JOACHIM
    Sun, Apr 10
    Apr 10, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
    Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 25 Evans Way, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Apr 10, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
    Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 25 Evans Way, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Seen explores the power of storytelling and one's authentic voice. Curated and featuring flutist and composer Nathalie Joachim
  • MASSQ BALL 2022 ORIGIN - CULTURE | IDENTITY | ARTS PANEL
    MASSQ BALL 2022 ORIGIN - CULTURE | IDENTITY | ARTS PANEL
    Sat, Mar 26
    Mar 26, 2022, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
    The Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston, MA 02130, USA
    Mar 26, 2022, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
    The Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston, MA 02130, USA
    A panel discussion featuring visual activist L’Merchie Frazier, dancer Jenny Oliver, and restaurateur Biplaw Rai, this conversation explores the deeply intertwined relationship between identity and artistic expression, and how both can be leveraged for cross-cultural connectivity.
  • THRESH & HOLD
    THRESH & HOLD
    Sun, Mar 13
    Mar 13, 2022, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
    The Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02116, USA
    Mar 13, 2022, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
    The Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02116, USA
    THRESH & HOLD is a book of poems re-coded into a collaborative ceremony of composed and improvisational music, dance, poetry, and short film.
  • BSU INTERCOLLEGIATE FELLOWSHIP: WHAT IS BLACK CREATIVITY?
    BSU INTERCOLLEGIATE FELLOWSHIP: WHAT IS BLACK CREATIVITY?
    Sat, Feb 12
    Feb 12, 2022, 8:00 PM – Feb 13, 2022, 10:00 PM
    Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02116, USA
    Feb 12, 2022, 8:00 PM – Feb 13, 2022, 10:00 PM
    Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02116, USA
    Over the past five months, students from the Longy School of Music, New England Conservatory, and Boston Conservatory at Berklee's Black Student Unions gathered for fellowship, mentorship, learning, and creation.
  • SOUND & APPLIQUE
    SOUND & APPLIQUE
    Sat, Jan 22
    Jan 22, 2022, 1:00 PM – 9:00 PM
    ​Brattleboro Music Center, VT, 72 Blanche Moyse Wy, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
    Jan 22, 2022, 1:00 PM – 9:00 PM
    ​Brattleboro Music Center, VT, 72 Blanche Moyse Wy, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
    Featuring world premiere compositions inspired by African American quilting traditions by Elizabeth Brown and Lauren McCall, plus Florence B. Price's Five Folksongs in Counterpoint for string quartet.
  • SAFIKA: DR. BONGANI NDODANA-BREEN PORTRAIT CONCERT
    SAFIKA: DR. BONGANI NDODANA-BREEN PORTRAIT CONCERT
    Fri, Dec 03
    Dec 03, 2021, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
    Longy School of Music, Longy School of Music, 27 Garden St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    Dec 03, 2021, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
    Longy School of Music, Longy School of Music, 27 Garden St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    Castle of our Skins is excited to be back in residence at the Longy School of Music of Bard College!
  • BE STILL AND KNOW
    BE STILL AND KNOW
    Tue, Oct 12
    Oct 12, 2021, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
    An Die Musik, Baltimore, 409 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
    Oct 12, 2021, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
    An Die Musik, Baltimore, 409 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
    Lectures and a concert hosted by the University of Baltimore featuring works for piano quartet and subsets
  • #BPMC 1.0 BLACK POET MINIATURE CHALLENGE
    #BPMC 1.0 BLACK POET MINIATURE CHALLENGE
    Mon, Sep 27
    Sep 27, 2021, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
    Location is TBD
    Sep 27, 2021, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
    Location is TBD
    Curated by Marlanda Dekine-Sapient Soul, our 2021-2022 Shirley Graham du Bois Creative in Residence
  • MINIATURE [ ONLINE ] FESTIVAL
    MINIATURE [ ONLINE ] FESTIVAL
    Wed, Sep 01
    Sep 01, 2021, 7:00 PM – Dec 31, 2021, 11:00 PM
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRkq
    Sep 01, 2021, 7:00 PM – Dec 31, 2021, 11:00 PM
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRkq
    Featuring world premiere 30 second miniatures for flute and harp submitted as part of our Black Composer Miniature 2.0 Challenge, and many more.
  • MISODZI YAMARIMBA
    MISODZI YAMARIMBA
    Sat, Aug 28
    Aug 28, 2021, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
    DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, 51 Sandy Pond Rd, Lincoln, MA 01773, USA
    Aug 28, 2021, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
    DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, 51 Sandy Pond Rd, Lincoln, MA 01773, USA
    In collaboration with the Boston Lyric Opera, we are excited to co-present the world premiere performance of an original musical narrative by Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa-Nzou Mambano
  • LOVE & JUSTICE
    LOVE & JUSTICE
    Tue, Jul 27
    Jul 27, 2021, 7:30 PM – 8:00 PM
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qUprwAYmn8
    Jul 27, 2021, 7:30 PM – 8:00 PM
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qUprwAYmn8
    Featuring the debut performance of Shirley Graham du Bois Creative in Residence, poet Marlanda Dekine-Sapient Soul
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