October 4th, 2014
Conversations on Self-Determination – Funk and Jazz
Black Radical Brooklyn: Funk and Jazz
Saturday, October 4
3:30 – 5:30pm
Explore music as a soundtrack for social justice. Leading contemporary Brooklyn artists reflect on their art while revisiting the anthems that fortified and consoled the African-American-led struggle for desegregation and equal rights.
Moderators: Una-Kariim A. Cross, artist, writer, and educator
Speakers: Willard Jenkins, jazz writer and radio/TV host; Toshi Reagon, activist, singer, songwriter, and musician working in genres from folk to blues and funk; and Carl Hancock Rux, interdisciplinary performative artist, writer, and playwright.
Performer: Martha Redbone, singer-songwriter and community activist
Presented and produced in partnership with the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Join us every Saturday at Weeksville Heritage Center (158 Buffalo Avenue, Brooklyn, NY) for a free series of Conversations on Self-Determination, presented and produced in partnership with the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Gather on the lawn for afternoon discussions on main exhibition themes Funk, God, Jazz, and Medicine. Free and open to the public.
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