BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//BOWERBIRD ::: MUSIC, DANCE, FILM ::: Philadelphia, PA - ECPv6.16.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.bowerbird.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for BOWERBIRD ::: MUSIC, DANCE, FILM ::: Philadelphia, PA REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221207T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221207T210000 DTSTAMP:20260627T111906 CREATED:20221026T153209Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221214T174253Z UID:10001174-1670439600-1670446800@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Expo ‘58: A More Humane Art DESCRIPTION:Held in the Belgian spring and summer of 1958\, the Brussels Exposition was the apogee of World’s Fairs. With its slogan “evaluation of the world for a more humane world” celebrating a new post-war optimism about technology and progress\, it was also full of the contradictions of the age\, and was equally a celebration of nationalism\, corporate collaboration\, and ongoing colonialism. But it also served as the premiere of some of the most important and radical artistic works of the second half of the twentieth century\, previewing currents that continue to this day. \nThe Le Corbusier designed Phillips Pavilion was a masterpiece of modernist architecture where new works in the emerging idioms of electronic music and musique concrète by Edgard Varèse and Iannis Xenakis were first presented. Brussels was also the first major meeting place of the international film community following the second World War where not only did critics and filmmakers from dozens of countries vote on a list of the greatest films of all time but more than 100 novel experimental works from around the world were presented as a radical change in this young art form. These films included not only what we would typically label “experimental film” including early works by members of the American underground cinema movement as well as key figures of the European avant-garde tradition but also some of the first works of the coming New Waves of narrative filmmaking such as Agnes Varda\, Roman Polanski\, Ken Russell\, and Alain Tanner as well as some of the first independent animated films. Expo ‘58: A More Humane Art will survey the breadth of this incredible exposition drawing from all of these currents and celebrating the Brussels festival as the debutante ball of numerous cinematic forms. \nCo-presented with Nightletter. \n\nFILM PROGRAM \nAdebar / Peter Kubelka / 1957 / 3 min / 16mm\nThe Very Eye of Night / Maya Deren / 1958 / 15 min / 16mm\nAnticipation of the Night / Stan Brakhage / 1958 / 42 min / 16mm\nJamestown Baloos / Robert Breer / 1957 / 8 min / 16mm\nFree Radicals / Len Lye / 1958 / 5 min / Digital\nL’Opera Mouffe / Agnès Varda / 1958 / 16 min / Digital \n\nHEALTH & SAFETY\nThis is an “in person” event.   In consideration of the ongoing pandemic and the safety of those in our community\, Bowerbird is requiring all audience members\, staff\, and performers to wear a mask while inside the venue (please note that musicians will have the option to perform without masks once on stage). URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/expo-58-a-more-humane-art/ LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Bowerbird-Main-Img-20.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221202T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221202T220000 DTSTAMP:20260627T111906 CREATED:20220831T154839Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221205T155426Z UID:10001164-1670011200-1670018400@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Catherine Lamb's "Curvo Totalitas" DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Yarn/Wire performing the Philadelphia premiere of Catherine Lamb’s “Curvo Totalitas”. On the score\, Lamb describes the piece: “Synthesizer musicians play their material (which are filtered partials of the percussion recordings) in an unforced manner. Melodic contours unfold slowly\, relative to the total time. Tones in contours may occassionally be articulated more than once to discover a well situated phase relation in a given moment. Tonal development consists of blurring together to form harmonic densities from melodic contours\, more isolated highlighting aggregates\, as well as lingering sustain points being collected and released. Responsiveness and resonance is depending upon the width of the filter around particular partials in time. Shiftings are very gradual.” \n\nPROGRAM \nCatherine Lamb: Curvo Totalitas (2017 version)\nfor 2 synthesizers\, steel sheet\, tam tam \n\nABOUT THE ARTISTS\nCatherine Lamb (b. 1982\, Olympia\, WA. U.S.) is an active composer exploring the interaction of tone\, summations of shapes and shadows\, phenomenological expansions\, the architecture of the liminal (states in between outside/inside)\, and the long introduction form. She began her musical life early\, later abandoning the conservatory in 2003 to study Hindustani music in Pune\, India. She received her BFA in 2006 under James Tenney and Michael Pisaro at CalArts in Los Angeles\, where she first developed her research into the interaction of tone and continued to compose\, teach\, and collaborate with musicians (such as Laura Steenberge and Julia Holter on Singing by Numbers). \n\nYarn/Wire is a New York-based percussion and piano quartet (Sae Hashimoto and Russell Greenberg\, percussion; Laura Barger and Julia Den Boer\, pianos) dedicated to the promotion of creative\, experimental new music. The ensemble is admired globally for the energy and care it brings to performances of today’s most adventurous music\, and New York Classical Review states that “Yarn/Wire may well be the most important new music ensemble on the classical scene today.” Founded in 2005\, the ensemble seeks to expand the representation of composers so that it might begin to better reflect our communities and their creative potential. Yarn/Wire has performed internationally at festivals including the Lincoln Center\, Edinburgh International\, Rainy Days (Luxembourg)\, Ultima (Norway)\, Festival 20/21 (Belgium)\, Contemplus (Prague)\, and Wien Modern (Austria) Festivals\, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra Hall\, Dublin SoundLab\, Monday Evening Concerts (Los Angeles)\, Brooklyn Academy of Music\, and New York’s Miller Theatre. Their numerous commissions include works from composers such as Annea Lockwood\, Enno Poppe\, Michael Gordon\, George Lewis\, Ann Cleare\, Catherine Lamb\, Tyshawn Sorey\, Peter Evans\, Alex Mincek\, Thomas Meadowcroft\, Misato Mochizuki\, Sam Pluta\, Tyondai Braxton\, Kate Soper\, and Øyvind Torvund. The ensemble enjoys collaborations with genre-bending artists such as Tristan Perich\, Ben Vida\, Mark Fell\, Sufjan Stevens\, and Pete Swanson. Through the Yarn/Wire International Institute and Festival\, plus other educational residencies and outreach programs\, the quartet works to promote not only the present but also the future of new music in the United States. Their ongoing commissioning series\, Yarn/Wire/Currents\, serves as an incubator for new experimental music. Yarn/Wire has recorded for the WERGO\, Kairos\, New Amsterdam\, Northern Spy\, Shelter Press\, Distributed Objects\, Black Truffle\, Populist\, and Carrier record labels in addition to maintaining their own imprint. For more information\, please visit www.yarnwire.org. \n\n  \n\nHEALTH & SAFETY\nThis is an “in person” event.   In consideration of the ongoing pandemic and the safety of those in our community\, Bowerbird is requiring all audience members\, staff\, and performers to wear a mask while inside the venue (please note that musicians will have the option to perform without masks once on stage). URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/catherine-lambs-curvo-totalitas/ LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Bowerbird-Main-Img-16.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221118T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221118T220000 DTSTAMP:20260627T111906 CREATED:20221024T172321Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221130T165655Z UID:10001172-1668801600-1668808800@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Arc/Chora DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Philadelphia’s Bismuth Quartet in a special concert featuring compositions by quartet members Carlos Santiago and Veronica Jurkiewicz. For this performance the Bismuth Quartet welcomes special guests Tom Kraines and Matt Engle. \n\nPROGRAM \nCarlos Santiago: Arc for string quartet\nVeronica Jurkiewicz: Chora for string quartet \nArc/Chora sonically explores being alone and adrift\, in a barren landscape\, free floating in the cold darkness(Arc) …coupled with the promise of closeness\, warmth\, tranquility\, hope\, love\, and understanding (Chora) \n\nABOUT THE ARTIST\nOne of Philadelphia’s hidden gems\, Bismuth Quartet takes the string quartet into new territory as performers\, composers\, collaborators\, and improvisers. Past and future projects include cross-disciplinary collaborations\, diverse programming\, and performing original compositions. Equally at home playing modern\, classical\, experimental\, and improvised music\, Bismuth has performed at notable venues such as the Mann Center\, Union Transfer\, and the Mütter Museum\, among others. The Quartet presents a unique experience to its audiences and has partnered on productions across Philadelphia performing on the Moon Viewing Platform as part of the 2019 Site/Sound Festival\, playing spectral music presented by Fire Museum Presents at the Icebox Project Space\, and collaboratively composing and performing scores to silent films alongside Not So Silent Cinema. Bismuth Quartet maintains active projects across the Philadelphia music scene at-large and has been featured with Jazmine Sullivan\, Arcana New Music Ensemble\, Philadelphia Jazz Project\, indie rock bands Whitney\, and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah\, with NYC-based performer/improviser/composer Anaïs Maviel\, and video artist/choreographer Nora Gibson aka CHROMA. Bismuth encourages the creation of new work and is in the midst of a commission in collaboration with composer Adam Berenson to be recorded in the fall of 2022. \nBismuth Quartet \nCarlos Santiago – violin\nVeronica Jurkiewicz – viola\nTom Kraines – cello\nMatt Engle – double bass \n\n  \n\n\nHEALTH & SAFETY\nThis is an “in person” event.   In consideration of the ongoing pandemic and the safety of those in our community\, Bowerbird is requiring all audience members\, staff\, and performers to wear a mask while inside the venue (please note that musicians will have the option to perform without masks once on stage). URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/arc-chora/ LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Bowerbird-Main-Img-18.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221116T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221116T220000 DTSTAMP:20260627T111906 CREATED:20220919T155459Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221129T130658Z UID:10001169-1668628800-1668636000@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Ensemble Pamplemousse DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is thrilled to present Ensemble Pamplemousse in Philadelphia performing a brand-new collection of pieces about the elephant in the room\, the devil is in the details\, the cat’s meow\, The Whole Nine Yards\, and the bottom line. Using instruments new and old\, mechanical and human-operated\, digital and digitized\, some of the pieces explode various implications of system failure and its echoes into ecosystems of organized wiggling air molecules. Others explore the concept of shadow— shadows shorten and lengthen as time speeds up and slows down in reaction to situation and thought\, a useful analog for musical composition. New works performed and composed by David Broome\, Natacha Diels\, Andrew Greenwald\, Bryan Jacobs\, and Weston Olencki. \n\nABOUT THE ARTISTS:\nComposer/performer collective Ensemble Pamplemousse was founded in 2003 to provide a focal point for like-minded creators with a thirst for sonic exploration. The ensemble is a close-knit group of divergent artistic personalities\, emergent from training in disparate musical fields. Their collective love for the exquisite in all sonic realms leads the ensemble to persistently discover new vistas of sound at the frayed edges of dissective instrumental performance technique. Compositions aggregate each member’s unique virtuosic talents into extraordinary magical moments. In the flexible moments of performance\, the ensemble weaves together shapes of resonance\, clusters of glitch\, skitters of hyper action\, and masses of absurdity into impeccable structures of unified beauty. \nwww.pamplemoussies.bandcamp.com/album/shadows \n\n\n\n  \n\nHEALTH & SAFETY\nThis is an “in person” event.   In consideration of the ongoing pandemic and the safety of those in our community\, Bowerbird is requiring all audience members\, staff\, and performers to wear a mask while inside the venue (please note that musicians will have the option to perform without masks once on stage). URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/pamplemousse/ LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Bowerbird-Main-Img-17.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221022T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221022T220000 DTSTAMP:20260627T111907 CREATED:20220815T153921Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221107T153038Z UID:10001159-1666468800-1666476000@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:George Stavis DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present a rare performance by George Stavis\, an American banjo player perhaps best known for his 1969 album Labyrinths \, an album considered a landmark in the development of improvisational banjo performance. Opening the evening will be Elkhorn\, the Philadelphia based guitar duo Jesse Sheppard and Drew Gardner\, who are celbrating the release of their new album Distances \, out this September 2022. \n\nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nGeorge Stavis is a singular player\, among the finest 5-string banjo players of his generation. Although trained in the traditions of Pete Seeger and Earl Scruggs\, in the late 1960s Stavis developed a unique approach to the instrument which expanded it in both popular and exotic directions. His first solo album\, Labyrinths\, on the Vanguard label\, is considered a landmark for improvisational performance (“. . . one of the essential albums\, in any genre\, of the 1960s.” –Glenn Jones)\, one that brought the banjo into the “world music” category\, with its evocations of jazz\, classical and Indian music. Later\, Stavis developed the electric banjo\, fronting a popular West Coast band\, Oganookie\, who performed up to 160 nights per year. In the mid-’80s\, Stavis released a folk orchestral album\, Morning Mood\, which featured his long-time collaborator\, violinist / fiddler Robert Stern\, and included such notables such as Darol Anger and Mike Marshall on violin and mandolin\, respectively. Stavis has performed on eight recordings\, including four as principal\, and has opened for such artists as Richie Havens\, Neil Young\, the Grateful Dead and Jean-Luc Ponty\, as well as performing duets with the another of the banjo’s most notable innovators\, the late Bill Keith. His early work has recently been re-released in Italy and the UK\, and a recent solo piece can be heard on Imaginational Anthem\, Vol. 3 (Tompkins Square). Though he has not been an active performer in recent years\, he still plays out from time to time\, and recently performed to a rapt audience at the Thousand Incarnations of the Rose Festival of American Primitive Music. Stavis currently lives in Dobbs Ferry\, New York. \nThe guitar music of Elkhorn is rooted in the interplay of Jesse Sheppard’s twelve-string acoustic fingerpicking and Drew Gardner’s electric lead. Their music draws from folk\, psych\, blues\, and jazz sources. This evening they will be joined by Ian McColm on drums\, who plays on their new LP “Distances\,” available September 16th on Feeding Tube Records. As Byron Coley writes\, “This formation is capable of psyching-out with pure guitar force. The Ouroboran elements of open-form improvisation-based music really gel when the snakes are encouraged to eat their own tails.” \n\n\n  \n\n  \n\nHEALTH & SAFETY\nThis is an “in person” event.   In consideration of the ongoing pandemic and the safety of those in our community\, Bowerbird is requiring all audience members\, staff\, and performers to wear a mask while inside the venue (please note that musicians will have the option to perform without masks once on stage). URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/george-stavis-2022/ LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/GS.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221001T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221001T220000 DTSTAMP:20260627T111907 CREATED:20220831T154104Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221003T164028Z UID:10001163-1664654400-1664661600@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Telescoping DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present a double bill featuring Seattle’s Telescoping and Philadelphia’s Jesse Kudler.  Telescoping is a quartet of Dave Abramson (drums\, percussion)\, Al Jones (guitars\, electronics\, voice)\, Greg Kelley (trumpet\, electronics)\, and Robert Millis (guitars) that performs “dense\, nocturnal improvised music.”  Jesse Kudler will be premiering a new site-specific work developed on and for the pipe organ of University Lutheran’s sanctuary. \nABOUT THE ARTISTS\nTelescoping is an electroacoustic improvising quartet formed in early 2020 in Seattle & the Olympic Peninsula. Consisting of Dave Abramson (Diminished Men\, Spider Trio\, MMOB – drums\, percussion\,) Al Jones (Marginal Frequency\, MANKINDA – guitars\, pedal steel\, electronics\, voice\,) Greg Kelley (nmperign\, Heathen Shame – trumpet\, electronics) & Robert Millis (Climax Golden Twins\, Sublime Frequencies\, Idol Ko Si – guitars\, electronics\,) the group’s initial collaboration started in isolation in the nascent days of the COVID-19 pandemic. They recorded a self-titled album from their respective quarantine studios which Noise Not Music called “dense\, nocturnal improvised music” that is “gorgeous\, masterfully constructed\, and essential listening for anyone feeling any of the following: confused\, frightened\, bored\, sad\, alone.” Further recording took place in an abandoned generator building on Bainbridge Island in the Puget Sound in April of 2020\, after which Kelley relocated back to his native Massachusetts. Abramson and Jones released duo material under the name What earlier this year on the Eiderdown Records label thus continuing the trajectory that brings the quartet back together for a string of East Coast dates in late September/early October 2022. \nJesse Kudler is a musician\, composer\, performer\, and sound artist using improvisation\, collaboration\, and site-specificity to examine authorship\, intention\, agency\, ambiguous affects\, and modes and practices of listening. He works with guitar\, electronics\, recordings\, keyboards\, synthesizers\, radios\, tapes\, movement\, and text. \n  \n\nHEALTH & SAFETY\nThis is an “in person” event.   In consideration of the ongoing pandemic and the safety of those in our community\, Bowerbird is requiring all audience members\, staff\, and performers to wear a mask while inside the venue (please note that musicians will have the option to perform without masks once on stage). URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/telescoping/ LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Telescoping.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220921T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220921T220000 DTSTAMP:20260627T111907 CREATED:20220815T164202Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221003T164238Z UID:10001160-1663790400-1663797600@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Morton Feldman's "For Bunita Marcus" DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present New York City based pianist Adam Tendler performing American composer Morton Feldman’s (1926 – 1987) late period masterpiece For Bunita Marcus . Music critic James Pritchett describes the work: “For Bunita Marcus \, like all the late Feldman works\, is an adventure that takes a relatively long time to play out\, but which is remarkably lacking in heaviness. We may expect an epic\, but we get something much subtler. Indeed\, what we get is the present moment\, in all its beauty\, over and over again. If we surrender to the musical image that is right in front of us\, a piece like For Bunita Marcus  is an easy world to enter into and to explore with Feldman. We step into the silence after that first six-note motto\, and we wonder: What comes next? The next hour and a quarter is spent doing nothing more than discovering what comes next—and the next thing after that\, and the next after that.” \n\nABOUT THE ARTIST \nA recipient of the Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists\, “currently the hottest pianist on the American contemporary classical scene” (Minneapolis Star Tribune)\, a “remarkable and insightful musician” (LA Times)\, and “relentlessly adventurous pianist” (Washington Post) “joyfully rocking out at his keyboard” (New York Times)\, Adam Tendler is an internationally recognized interpreter of living\, modern and classical composers. A pioneer of DIY culture in concert music who has commissioned and premiered major works by Christian Wolff and Devonté Hynes alike\, at age 23 Tendler performed solo recitals in all fifty United States as part of a grassroots tour he called America 88×50\, which became the subject of his memoir\, 88×50\, a Kirkus Indie Book of the Month and Lambda Literary Award nominee. He has gone on to become one of classical and contemporary music’s most recognized and celebrated artists\, active as a soloist\, recording artist\, composer\, speaker and educator. He has curated and performed series for the Broad Museum and Little Island\, and in 2022 alone\, appeared as soloist at BAM and Carnegie Hall\, and with the LA Philharmonic. Tendler recently released an album of Liszt’s Harmonies Poétiques et Religieuses on the Steinway Label\, Robert Palmer: Piano Music on New World Records\, and published his second book\, tidepools. In 2022 he will premiere 16 newly commissioned works by composers including Laurie Anderson\, Nico Muhly\, Missy Mazzoli\, Christopher Cerrone\, Timo Andres and Pamela Z as part of a project called Inheritances. Adam Tendler is a Yamaha Artist. \n\n\n  \n\n  \n\nHEALTH & SAFETY\nThis is an “in person” event.   In consideration of the ongoing pandemic and the safety of those in our community\, Bowerbird is requiring all audience members\, staff\, and performers to wear a mask while inside the venue (please note that musicians will have the option to perform without masks once on stage). URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/adam-tendler-performs-feldman/ LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Tendler-performs-Feldman.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220914T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220914T220000 DTSTAMP:20260627T111907 CREATED:20220823T161844Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221003T164020Z UID:10001162-1663185600-1663192800@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Laraaji DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Laraaji in our home venue at University Lutheran performing an improvised solo piano set on our Steinway Model O. \nABOUT THE ARTIST\nPhiladelphia-born\, New Jersey-raised polymath Laraaji has maintained a pursuit of spiritual transcendence through music since the mid-70s. After several years of studiously developing an aesthetic informed by Eastern faiths and transcendental research in his long-time home in Harlem\, in 1979 Brian Eno stumbled upon him busking in Washington Square Park in New York\, improvising celestial meditations with his electric zither. The producer invited him to contribute to his influential Ambient series\, resulting in the 1980 album Day of Radiance. Ever since he’s remained an outsized figure in new age and ambient music\, eschewing synthesizers in favor of hand-made sounds\, consistently embracing a human presence in his ever-seeking performances. Whether using monochord instruments\, singing\, or deploying electronics-kissed percussion\, Laraaji’s music remains connected to cosmic African-American tradition\, and as hypnotically beautiful as his work has been he’s never been afraid to inject ripples of tension and dissonance into his trance-inducing journeys. \nPhoto: Daniel Oduntan \n\n\n  \n\n  \n\nHEALTH & SAFETY\nThis is an “in person” event.   In consideration of the ongoing pandemic and the safety of those in our community\, Bowerbird is requiring all audience members\, staff\, and performers to wear a mask while inside the venue (please note that musicians will have the option to perform without masks once on stage). URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/laraaji-solo-piano/ LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Laraaji-piano2.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220824T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220824T210000 DTSTAMP:20260627T111907 CREATED:20220725T153817Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220829T140954Z UID:10001158-1661367600-1661374800@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Kidlat Tahimik's Turumba DESCRIPTION:Commissioned by the German public service broadcaster ZDF\, Kidlat Tahimik shot this movie in Laguna in the Philippines in 1981 as a contribution to the ZDF teleplay series “Vater Unser” (“Our Father”). These comprised six 45-minute short movies by a group of international directors\, which interpreted key phrases from the lexicon of the Apostles’ Creed. Tahimik opted for the phrase “give us this day our daily bread”\, and shot a movie about a family in Pakil in Laguna\, a small town about 100 kilometers from the capital Manila reputed for its “Turumba” procession and its musical tradition\, which also play an important role in the film. The family earned their living producing paper mache figurines\, a handicraft for which the region is known nationwide. They sell the figurine-toys during the annual Turumba festivities and live off the proceeds throughout the year. An imperious\, German entrepreneur visits their market stall and commissions them to manufacture 30\,000 Olympic Waldi dachshunds\, the official mascot for the 1972 Munich Olympics. The family then embarks upon a quasi-industrial production of paper mache figures; suddenly\, time is money. Tahimik commented that Turumba is a movie about the “incursion of capitalism into a Philippine village”. \nTurumba / Kidlat Tahimik / 1981 / 95 min / 16mm \nCo-presented with Nightletter. \n\nThis is an “in person” event.   In consideration of the ongoing pandemic and the safety of those in our community\, Bowerbird is requiring all audience members\, staff\, and performers to show proof of Covid 19 vaccinations status *and* wear a mask while inside the venue (please note that musicians will have the option to perform without masks once on stage).  Proof of vaccination can be the physical ID card or a photo/copy (a photo on your phone is acceptable). URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/kidlat-tahimiks-turumba/ LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Bowerbird-Main-Img-8.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220727T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220727T210000 DTSTAMP:20260627T111907 CREATED:20220602T181907Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220811T192230Z UID:10001156-1658948400-1658955600@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Pat O’Neill’s Water and Power DESCRIPTION:NEW DATE \n\nPat O’Neill’s rarely-screened masterpiece of West Coast cinema is a dazzling synthesis of fast motion and superimposition\, appropriated footage and time lapse photography\, chroma keying and long exposures. Water and Power layers images drawn from urban Los Angeles\, its water source in the Owens Valley\, and an otherworldly interior space in increasingly complex permutations. What results is a fractured history\, not just of California and its environment but of the cinematic imagination. Through subtitles O’Neill also weaves a story of industrial expansion’s impact on the landscape from Sir Francis Drake’s exploration to situations that seem ripped from Golden Age Hollywood. \nIn the hands of O’Neill\, landscape becomes not just the industrial and natural world but the reflection of how humans have imagined it\, as the site of epics of silent film to ideal locations for resource extraction. The film abounds with visual rhymes\, becoming unclear where human architecture ends and nature begins. And this is to say nothing of the surreal dreamlike figures that litter O’Neill’s imagined Los Angeles. Shot on 35mm\, a rare luxury in experimental filmmaking\, and masterfully utilizing the optical printer\, Water and Power contains some of the most beautiful images in all of American cinema. \nWater and Power / Pat O’Neill / 1989 / 57 min / 16mm \nCo-presented with Nightletter. \n\nThis is an “in person” event.   In consideration of the ongoing pandemic and the safety of those in our community\, Bowerbird is requiring all audience members\, staff\, and performers to show proof of Covid 19 vaccinations status *and* wear a mask while inside the venue (please note that musicians will have the option to perform without masks once on stage).  Proof of vaccination can be the physical ID card or a photo/copy (a photo on your phone is acceptable). URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/pat-oneills-water-and-power/ LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Bowerbird-Main-Img-6.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220714T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220714T210000 DTSTAMP:20260627T111907 CREATED:20220614T171801Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220707T174523Z UID:10001157-1657825200-1657832400@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Wildflower Composers: Concert of Faculty Works with Arcana New Music DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present a collaboration between the Arcana New Music Ensemble and the annual Wildflowers Composer Festival to present works by the festival faculty. The festival is open to composers who identify as part of gender-marginalized communities\, which includes cis-women\, trans-women\, trans-men\, and those who are nonbinary or gender-nonconforming. The summer festival is intended for composers between the ages of 13 and 19 who have not yet started college. \nPROGRAM \ninti figgis-vizueta: to give you form and breath\nAndy Thierauf\, Emily Roane\, Travis Goffredo – percussion \ninti figgis-vizueta: INBHIR (many waters)\nTom Kraines – cello \nRajna Swaminathan: Consilience\nRajna Swaminathan – mrundangum\, piano\, voice \nFlannery Cunningham: We are the same as we have always been\nSean Bailey – clarinet \nFlannery Cunningham: Songs of myself//songs for myself\nAlize Rozsnyai – voice \nErin Busch: refract (world premiere)\nCarlos Santiago – violin \n\nThis is an “in person” event.   In consideration of the ongoing pandemic and the safety of those in our community\, Bowerbird is requiring all audience members\, staff\, and performers to show proof of Covid 19 vaccinations status *and* wear a mask while inside the venue (please note that musicians will have the option to perform without masks once on stage).  Proof of vaccination can be the physical ID card or a photo/copy (a photo on your phone is acceptable). URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/wildflower-composer-concert/ LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Bowerbird-Main-Img-7.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220615T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220615T210000 DTSTAMP:20260627T111907 CREATED:20220524T150848Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220708T020341Z UID:10001155-1655319600-1655326800@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Babette Mangolte’s The Cold Eye (My Darling\, Be Careful) DESCRIPTION:By the time Babette Mangolte began work on The Cold Eye (My Darling Be Careful)\, her first overtly fictional narrative film\, she was already deeply enmeshed in the artistic vanguard of two continents. She had served as the cinematographer for the early groundbreaking films by Chantal Akerman and Yvonne Rainer\, photographed and filmed the development of postmodern theater and dance\, and directed her own experimental works. With The Cold Eye seeing Mangolte operate in a semi-autobiographical mode\, how then would an artist with a lifetime spent behind a lens inhabit a character? Mangolte’s answer: by constructing a film entirely out of shots from the subjective point of view of her protagonist. \nWe see The Cold Eye through the lens of Cathy\, an avatar for Mangolte’s early experiences after moving to the United States. Cathy is a young painter\, deeply self-conscious and insecure\, developing as an artist in the midst of her sentimental education. And we follow Cathy as she considers her own work and reflects on the role of the artist. Strikingly we also inhabit her gaze as she talks to friends and members of the art world often while her (or perhaps our) attention wanders around the room and we are struck when they look at her\, or rather us\, directly in the eye. As we stare at these characters\, portrayed by dancers James Barth (who also co-wrote the screenplay) and Valda Setterfield\, painter George Deem\, filmmaker Ela Troyano\, and character actor extraordinaire Powers Booth among others\, Mangolte offers up one of the most daring attempts to capture on film what previously seemed the domain of novels\, to describe a central character not just through what they do and say but through their observation and understanding of others. \n\n\nThe Cold Eye (My Darling\, Be Careful) / Babette Mangolte / 1980 / 90 min / 16mm-to-Digital \nCo-presented with Nightletter. \n\n\nThis is an “in person” event.   In consideration of the ongoing pandemic and the safety of those in our community\, Bowerbird is requiring all audience members\, staff\, and performers to show proof of Covid 19 vaccinations status *and* wear a mask while inside the venue (please note that musicians will have the option to perform without masks once on stage).  Proof of vaccination can be the physical ID card or a photo/copy (a photo on your phone is acceptable). URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/babette-mangoltes-the-cold-eye-my-darling-be-careful/ LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Bowerbird-Main-Img-5.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T220000 DTSTAMP:20260627T111907 CREATED:20211118T020751Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220524T203611Z UID:10001137-1653163200-1653170400@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:New Suns DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present vocal sextet Variant 6 in a concert celebration of their first full-length album\, New Suns. The album explores myriad universes of a cappella vocal music featuring works by Jeremy Gill\, Gabriel Jackson\, Joanne Metcalf\, Benjamin C.S. Boyle\, and Bruno Bettinelli. This album is a celebration of everything they love about the versatility and virtuosity of the human voice. \n\nThis is an “in person” event. All those attending must show proof of COVID 19 vaccination status (vaccination card or legible photo on your smartphone\, plus photo ID) and wear a mask during the entirety of the event. There will be no exceptions to this policy. Capacity will be limited – advanced tickets are strongly encouraged. \n\nABOUT THE ARTIST \nVariant 6 is a virtuosic vocal sextet that explores and advances the art of chamber music in the twenty-first century. The ensemble’s work includes concertizing throughout the United States\, commissioning substantial new works\, collaborating closely with other ensembles\, and educating a new generation of singers and composers. Variant 6 believes that the process of compromise achieved from the diversity of opinion and specialty of its six individual artists can create deeply impactful experiences for its audiences\, collaborators\, and students. URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/new-suns-variant-6/ LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/NewSuns_Main.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220520T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220520T220000 DTSTAMP:20260627T111907 CREATED:20220118T160636Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220524T202642Z UID:10001142-1653076800-1653084000@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:JJJJJerome Ellis DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present musician JJJJJerome Ellis and Philadelphia-based duo Jupiter Blue at The Rotunda. \n  \nABOUT THE MUSICIANS \nJJJJJerome Ellis is a blk disabled animal\, stutterer\, and artist. He prays\, reads\, gardens\, cycles\, wanders\, and plays. Through music\, literature\, performance\, and video he researches relationships among blackness\, disabled speech\, divinity\, nature\, sound\, and time. Born in 1989 to Jamaican and Grenadian immigrants\, he grew up and lives by a heron rookery in Virginia Beach\, USA. His diverse body of work includes: contemplative soundscapes using saxophone\, flute\, dulcimer\, electronics\, and vocals; scores for plays and podcasts; albums combining spoken word with ambient and jazz textures; theatrical explorations involving live music and storytelling; and music-video-poems that seek to transfigure historical archives.\n \nFrom the Sun Ra Arkestra’s engine room\, Jupiter Blue’s tone scientists DM Hotep and Jupiter Girl (Tara Middleton) emerge to reveal elements and precepts of another kind of language\, another tomorrow. Their collaboration is interstellar and unique\, granting passage through spacious\, jazz textured sonorties informed by Ra’s ever necessary mission of saving the world. \n  \nCo-presented with The Rotunda. \n\nThis is an “in person” event. Bowerbird is requiring all those attending to show proof of COVID 19 vaccination status (vaccination card or legible photo on your smartphone\, plus photo ID) and wear a mask during the entirety of the event. There will be no exceptions to this policy. Capacity will be limited – advanced registration is strongly encouraged. URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/jjjjjerome-ellis/ LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States CATEGORIES:Free Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Bowerbird-Main-Img-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220518T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220518T210000 DTSTAMP:20260627T111907 CREATED:20220317T151459Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220520T142430Z UID:10001153-1652900400-1652907600@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Raúl Ruiz’s The Golden Boat DESCRIPTION:Over the course of a half century long career\, Chilean-born Raúl Ruiz established himself as cinema’s greatest surrealist this side of Luis Buñuel. And like Buñuel\, Ruiz was a vagabond\, making films wherever funds were available. After the establishment of Chile’s military junta under Augusto Pinochet in 1973\, Ruiz fled to Paris\, making films in France\, Portugal\, The Netherlands\, among other locales. The Golden Boat brought him to the U.S. for the first time while the director hones in on an artistic mecca\, the downtown New York art scene of the 1980s. Produced in collaboration with The Kitchen\, the film takes the form of one of our homegrown police procedurals crossed with a telenovela. The film wanders through Manhattan as a murderer and a philosophy-student rock critic pursue the object of the cut-throat’s affection\, a Mexican soap opera star. But the meandering plot is mainly an excuse for Ruiz to engage in his love of dreamlike black comedy where streets are populated by a veritable who’s who of no wave New York including Jim Jarmusch\, Kathy Acker\, Annie Sprinkle\, Vito Acconci—featuring a score by John Zorn. \nCo-presented with Nightletter. \n\nThis is an “in person” event. All those attending must show proof of COVID 19 vaccination status (vaccination card or legible photo on your smartphone\, plus photo ID) and wear a mask during the entirety of the event. There will be no exceptions to this policy. Capacity will be limited – advanced tickets are strongly encouraged. \n\nPROGRAM \nThe Golden Boat / Raúl Ruiz / 1990 / 83 min / 16mm-to-Digital URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/raul-ruizs-the-golden-boat/ LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Bowerbird-Main-Img-4.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220507T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220507T220000 DTSTAMP:20260627T111907 CREATED:20211118T021720Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220517T200658Z UID:10001139-1651953600-1651960800@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:J. Pavone String Ensemble DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present the J. Pavone String Ensemble led by New York based composer and performer Jessica Pavone. \nThe foundation of Jessica Pavone’s recent ensemble compositions is research on the effects of sonic vibration on human physiology and emotional health. Sustained pitches and clusters of ensemble sounds generate specific physical and cognitive benefits intended to impact the audience physically and mentally\, existing within and beyond music’s canonical role. The compositional techniques borrow from and elaborate on traditional music notation. Pavone experiments with improvisatory techniques\, alternating between metered and time-based scores and improvised and notated instructions. The ensemble approach focuses on a vision of collective improvisation that prioritizes a collaboratively sewn musical fabric\, in contrast to the traditional improvisatory method that prizes the individuality and uniqueness of the soloist. The rehearsal method\, influenced by her solo work\, attends to how the body plays a role in sound and intention. \nIn 2019\, the string ensemble’s debut album\, Brick and Mortar\, was hailed by the Chicago Reader’s Peter Margasak as “the most assured\, bracing work of Pavone’s career.” Astral Spirits Records released their second\, Lost and Found\, in 2020 to critical acclaim from publications such as; The Wire\, The New Yorker\, NYC Jazz Record\, NPR\, Jazzwise\, and was named a “Best Contemporary Albums of 2020” by Bandcamp Daily. Chris Ingalls from Pop Matters described their music as “too stunning to lump into genres.” This tour celebrates the release of their third album\, …Of Late\, on Astral Spirits Records and features a new lineup consisting of Pavone on viola\, with Aimée Niemann on violin and Abby Swidler playing both violin and viola. \n\nThis is an “in person” event. All those attending must show proof of COVID 19 vaccination status (vaccination card or legible photo on your smartphone\, plus photo ID) and wear a mask during the entirety of the event. There will be no exceptions to this policy. Capacity will be limited – advanced tickets are strongly encouraged. \n\n\n  URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/j-pavone-string-ensemble/ LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Pavone.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220421T230000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220421T235900 DTSTAMP:20260627T111907 CREATED:20211108T153930Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220504T011419Z UID:10001134-1650582000-1650585540@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Bismuth Quartet DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Liminal States\, a series of late night\, live streamed concerts intended to be listened to as you fall asleep. Aiming to center and calm\, the musicians will seek to lead listeners to that magic space between awake and asleep. Tune in and bliss out. The Bismuth Quartet will perform from their homes in Philadelphia. \nCo-presented with The Rotunda. \n\nAdmission to this online event is Free / Pay What You Wish. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. SPACE IS LIMITED. A link will be sent to you the day of the event. The performance will start at 11:00pm Eastern Time and will run approximately 45 mins. \nThis event is part of the Liminal States Series \n\n\n  \n\nABOUT THE ARTIST\nOne of Philadelphia’s hidden gems\, Bismuth Quartet takes the string quartet into new territory as performers\, composers\, collaborators\, and improvisers. Past and future projects include cross-disciplinary collaborations\, diverse programming\, and performing original compositions. Equally at home playing modern\, classical\, experimental\, and improvised music\, Bismuth has performed at notable venues such as the Mann Center\, Union Transfer\, and the Mütter Museum\, among others. The Quartet presents a unique experience to its audiences and has partnered on productions across Philadelphia performing on the Moon Viewing Platform as part of the 2019 Site/Sound Festival\, playing spectral music presented by Fire Museum Presents at the Icebox Project Space\, and collaboratively composing and performing scores to silent films alongside Not So Silent Cinema. Bismuth Quartet maintains active projects across the Philadelphia music scene at-large and has been featured with Jazmine Sullivan\, Arcana New Music Ensemble\, Philadelphia Jazz Project\, indie rock bands Whitney\, and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah\, with NYC-based performer/improviser/composer Anaïs Maviel\, and video artist/choreographer Nora Gibson aka CHROMA. Bismuth encourages the creation of new work and is in the midst of a commission in collaboration with composer Adam Berenson to be recorded in the fall of 2022. \nBismuth Quartet \nCarlos Santiago\, Gabe Miller – violins \nVeronica Jurkiewicz – viola \nCarolina Diazgranados – cello URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/bismuth-quartet-liminal-states/ LOCATION:Online Livestream CATEGORIES:Free Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Bowerbird-Main-Img-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220415T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220415T220000 DTSTAMP:20260627T111907 CREATED:20220331T161105Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220503T210232Z UID:10001154-1650052800-1650060000@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Sound Mechanic DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present a sneak preview screening of Sound Mechanic by Skizz Cyzyk about Baltimore native Neil Feather. \nNeil invents new musical instruments and sound making devices\, frequently incorporating bicycle parts\, bowling balls and sex toys. His inventions are then used in live performances and installations. This observational documentary feature gives the audience a chance to spend some time with Neil\, getting to know him\, seeing him working\, and watching his performances. \nNeil and his instruments have been featured on a number of Bowerbird events in the past and this documentary will include footage of Philadelphia performances. \n \nThis is an “in person” event. Bowerbird is requiring all those attending to show proof of COVID 19 vaccination status (vaccination card or legible photo on your smartphone\, plus photo ID) and wear a mask during the entirety of the event. There will be no exceptions to this policy. Capacity will be limited – advanced registration is strongly encouraged. URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/sound-mechanic/ LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States CATEGORIES:Free Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Bowerbird-Main-Img-13.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220413T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220413T210000 DTSTAMP:20260627T111907 CREATED:20211101T163635Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220503T205928Z UID:10001128-1649876400-1649883600@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Trans-Pacific Partnership: Japanese Fluxus DESCRIPTION:Although founded in early 1960s New York\, the pioneering interdisciplinary art community Fluxus included participants from around the world\, notably several from Japan. Born out of the influence of John Cage and the Dada movement\, the loose group included composers\, conceptual artists\, filmmakers\, video artists\, sculptors\, and performance artists and resulted in new forms of visual and sound art. The names of the western members are in greater currency\, but the Japanese contingent\, most famously Japanese émigré Yoko Ono\, freely intermingled between the Tokyo avant-garde and the New York downtown art scene resulting in a number of arresting films. \nNever formally a Fluxus member\, Takahiko Iimura nevertheless collaborated with many Fluxus artists on both sides of the Pacific and shared roots in a Neo-Dada outlook. His first film Kuzu (Junk) features the trash strewn everywhere on Tokyo Bay to the music of Fluxus composer Takehisa Kosugi. Iro (Color) and Onan both feature collaborations with fellow Fluxus composer Yasunao Tone to explore abstract color and erotic desire respectively. And Ai (Love) breaks down sex and the body in extreme close up alongside the vocal experiments of Yoko Ono. Ono herself made numerous films\, most fruitfully as part of the Fluxfilm anthologies organized by Fluxus godfather George Maciunas. One\, the fourteenth film in the Fluxfilm series\, is an extreme slow motion record of a match striking in close up and a visualization of “Lighting Piece” from her classic book “Grapefruit”. Bottoms is perhaps Ono’s most famous film\, and is constructed solely out of the buttocks of artists and friends in her circle including Carolee Schneemann. The program will end with Cut Piece\, a documentation by Albert and David Maysles of Ono’s most influential performance in which she invited audience members to cut off articles of her clothing\, exploring issues of gender\, power and violence. \nCo-presented with Nightletter. \n\nPROGRAM \nKuzu (Junk) / Takahiko Iimura / 1962 / 12 min / 16mm\nIro (Colors) / Takahiko Iimura / 1962 / 10 min / 16mm\nOnan / Takahiko Iimura / 1963 / 8 min / 16mm\nAi (Love) / Takahiko Iimura / 1963 / 10 min / 16mm\nOne / Yoko Ono / 1966 / 4 min / digital\nBottoms / Yoko Ono & Anthony Cox / 1966 / 6 min / digital\nCut Piece / Albert & David Maysles / 1966 / 8 min / digital \n\nThis is an “in person” event. All those attending must show proof of COVID 19 vaccination status (vaccination card or legible photo on your smartphone\, plus photo ID) and wear a mask during the entirety of the event. There will be no exceptions to this policy. Capacity will be limited – advanced tickets are strongly encouraged. \n\nTakahiko Iimura “Kuzu” (low res excerpt) \n\n  URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/trans-pacific-partnership-japanese-fluxus/ LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/JapanFluxus.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220410T230000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220410T235900 DTSTAMP:20260627T111907 CREATED:20211110T215352Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220411T141324Z UID:10001135-1649631600-1649635140@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Sarah Hennies DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Liminal States\, a series of late night\, live streamed concerts intended to be listened to as you fall asleep. Aiming to center and calm\, the musicians will seek to lead listeners to that magic space between awake and asleep. Tune in and bliss out. Composer and performer Sarah Hennies will perform from her home in New York. \nCo-presented with The Rotunda. \n\nAdmission to this online event is Free / Pay What You Wish. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. SPACE IS LIMITED. A link will be sent to you the day of the event. The performance will start at 11:00pm Eastern Time and will run approximately 45 mins. \nThis event is part of the Liminal States Series \n\n\n  \n\nABOUT THE ARTIST\nSarah Hennies is a composer based in upstate New York whose work is concerned with a variety of musical\, sociopolitical\, and psychological issues including queer & trans identity\, love\, intimacy\, psychoacoustics\, and percussion. She is primarily a composer of acoustic chamber music\, but is also active in improvisation\, film\, and performance art. She presents her work internationally as both a composer and percussionist with notable performances at MoMA PS1 (NYC)\, Monday Evening Concerts (Los Angeles)\, Le Guess Who (Utrecht)\, Festival Cable (Nantes)\, send + receive (Winnipeg)\, O’ Art Space (Milan)\, Cafe Oto (London)\, ALICE (Copenhagen)\, and the Edition Festival (Stockholm). As a composer\, she has received commissions across a wide array of performers and ensembles including Bearthoven\, Bent Duo\, Cristian Alvear\, Claire Chase\, R. Andrew Lee\, Talea Ensemble\, Thin Edge New Music Collective\, Two-Way Street\, Nate Wooley\, and Yarn/Wire. URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/sarah-hennies-liminal-states/ LOCATION:Online Livestream CATEGORIES:Free Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/SarahHennies.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220330T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220330T213000 DTSTAMP:20260627T111907 CREATED:20220304T140354Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220410T161807Z UID:10001147-1648668600-1648675800@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Alash Ensemble DESCRIPTION:Philadelphia favorites Alash return to The Rotunda for a FREE concert. Alash are masters of Tuvan throat singing (xöömei)\, a remarkable technique for singing multiple pitches at the same time. Masters of traditional Tuvan instruments as well as the art of throat singing\, Alash are deeply committed to traditional Tuvan music and culture. At the same time\, they are fans of western music. Believing that traditional music must constantly evolve\, the musicians subtly infuse their songs with western elements\, creating their own unique style that is fresh and new\, yet true to their Tuvan musical heritage. \nPresented with The Rotunda. \nThis is an “in person” event. All those attending must wear a mask during the entirety of the event. There will be no exceptions to this policy. Capacity will be limited – advanced reservations are strongly encouraged. URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/alash-ensemble-2022/ LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Alash2022.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220323T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220323T210000 DTSTAMP:20260627T111907 CREATED:20211213T161920Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220410T160530Z UID:10001140-1648062000-1648069200@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Sons of Jack Smith DESCRIPTION:When Jack Smith transitioned from his relatively brief career as a director headlong into experimental theater in the late 1960s\, he already had multiple scandals and groundbreaking films under his belt and had appeared in many more as a muse to Andy Warhol\, Ken Jacobs\, and Ron Rice. These films capture Smith in amber as he pioneered an intellectually serious approach to camp performance and a low-budget trash aesthetic. But within a few years of his exit\, trends in experimental film shifted away from Smith’s obsession with artifice and performance toward something much more austere and theoretical. \nBut Smith’s transgressive\, baroque influence runs far deeper than as a shooting star or as a forefather of cheapo “cult classic” cinema. And it continued to be felt even while some of his contemporaries became more staid and cerebral. This program traces Smith’s immediate progeny in experimental filmmaking who followed his enthusiasm for gender performance and costuming\, the tension between trash and classical beauty\, and pre-assimilationist gay life. \nBill Vehr\, whose films starring Smith have entirely vanished\, leaves us with Avocada\, a decadent subversion of Hollywood that Smith himself praised as “possessed of gilded glamour.” José Rodriguez-Soltero’s Jerovi is a self-consciously homoerotic low-budget portrait that becomes an onanistic reverie of the body reminiscent of Smith. Takahiko Iimura’s Face is another body-study\, this time focusing on three faces in ecstasy to highlight the artifice of performance on screen and the gendered costuming and makeup of the actors\, including one of Smith’s great discoveries\, Mario Montez. Steven Arnold\, one of Smith’s clearest inheritors in the hippie generation\, directed The Liberation of the Mannique Mechanique as a dream of surreal androgyny\, with impeccable costuming and production design. \nCo-presented with Nightletter. \n\nThis is an “in person” event. All those attending must show proof of COVID 19 vaccination status (vaccination card or legible photo on your smartphone\, plus photo ID) and wear a mask during the entirety of the event. There will be no exceptions to this policy. Capacity will be limited – advanced tickets are strongly encouraged. \nPROGRAM \nAvocada / Bill Vehr / 1966 / 37 min / 16mm\nJerovi / José Rodriguez-Soltero / 1965 / 12 min / 16mm\nFace / Takahiko Iimura / 1969 / 21 min / 16mm\nThe Liberation of the Mannique Mechanique / Steven Arnold / 1967 / 15 min / 16mm URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/sons-of-jack-smith/ LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Bowerbird-Main-Img-6.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220317T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220317T210000 DTSTAMP:20260627T111907 CREATED:20211118T021150Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220303T174617Z UID:10001138-1647543600-1647550800@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:I Heart Artemis DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Variant 6 performing “I Heart Artemis”\, a new\, evening-length work by Wally Gunn and Maria Zajkowski performed at the Maas Building. \nIn the time before time\, Athena and Artemis meet\, fall in love\, and live a brief eternity of passion. But their paradise can’t last. On earth\, men wage war\, indulge their lusts\, and exploit the land. Athena and Artemis watch in horror as the world falls apart\, and must unite to defend what cannot defend itself. Is time running out? The deities are watching.‘I heart Artemis’ is a story about a mythological love and a very real crisis\, which asks the most pressing questions about humanity’s future. \n\nThis is an “in person” event. All those attending must show proof of COVID 19 vaccination status (vaccination card or legible photo on your smartphone\, plus photo ID) and wear a mask during the entirety of the event. There will be no exceptions to this policy. Capacity will be limited – advanced tickets are strongly encouraged. \nFor this performance members of Variant 6\, who are vaccinated\, will be performing unmasked. The performers will be 6 feet away from audience seating \nThis performance will be recorded and available on-demand in the near future. Ticket holders for the live event will also receive a link for this video. Tickets for the video only will be available at a later date. \n\nABOUT THE ARTIST\nVariant 6 is a virtuosic vocal sextet that explores and advances the art of chamber music in the twenty-first century. The ensemble’s work includes concertizing throughout the United States\, commissioning substantial new works\, collaborating closely with other ensembles\, and educating a new generation of singers and composers. Variant 6 believes that the process of compromise achieved from the diversity of opinion and specialty of its six individual artists can create deeply impactful experiences for its audiences\, collaborators\, and students. URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/i-heart-artemis-variant-6/ LOCATION:Maas Building\, 1325 N Randolph St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19122\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/IHeart_Main.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220313T230000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220313T235900 DTSTAMP:20260627T111907 CREATED:20211101T174041Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220318T032347Z UID:10001130-1647212400-1647215940@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Bhob Rainey DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Liminal States\, an ongoing series of late night\, live streamed concerts intended to be listened to as you fall asleep. Aiming to center and calm\, the musicians will seek to lead listeners to that magic space between awake and asleep. Tune in and bliss out. Musician Bhob Rainey will perform from his home in Philadelphia. \nCo-presented with The Rotunda. \n\nAdmission to this online event is Free / Pay What You Wish ($20 suggested). REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. A link will be sent to you the day of the event. The performance will start at 11:00pm Eastern Time and will run approximately 40 mins. \nThis event is part of the Liminal States Series \n\n\n  \n\n\nABOUT THE ARTIST\nBhob Rainey works with sound\, both acoustically and electronically. He\, like a lot of people\, is interested in quite a few things\, but he is especially invested in matters relating to consciousness – its possibilities\, limitations\, absurdities\, threats and futures – how to “think” climate change\, how to “think” the nonhuman stuff that makes us. As a result\, ideas from philosophy\, technology\, psychology\, and the plain old grind worm their way into his work. Rainey has spent a lot of time in recent years working with theater company New Paradise Laboratories\, and with with choreographer JungWoong Kim creating the site-specific installation / performance\, SaltSoul.  Past collaborations include Nmperign with Greg Kelley and the Boston Sound Collective. \n  URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/bhob-rainey-liminal-states/ LOCATION:Online Livestream CATEGORIES:Free Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Bhob-Rainey.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220313T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220313T170000 DTSTAMP:20260627T111907 CREATED:20220128T140530Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220318T032231Z UID:10001144-1647180000-1647190800@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Xenakis: Persepolis DESCRIPTION:In 1971 composer Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001) was commissioned to create a piece for the opening day of the fifth edition of the Shiraz Festival. This edition commemorated the 2500th anniversary of the founding of the Persian Empire. The opening event took place at the ruins of Persepolis\, the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire (~550 – 330 BCE)\, situated about 45 miles northeast of the modern city of Shiraz. Specifically for this site\, Xenakis created an open-air spectacle called “Polytope de Persepolis”. The performance included a 55-minute long 8-track electroacoustic composition distributed over 59 speakers\, two laser beams\, army searchlights\, a choreography of 150 children carrying torches and several large bonfires on the surrounding hills facing the ruins. \nResearcher and Xenakis expert Daniel Teige will give a presentation into his recent research about the “Polytopes” and “Persepolis” and will include many unpublished archival documents. Following his talk will be a screening of “Iannis Xenakis\, Persépolis” (1971\, dir Pierre Andrégui)\, a fascinating and rare documentary that focuses particularly on the premiere of “Persepolis” in 1971 at the Shiraz-Persepolis Arts Festival. \n\nThis event is part of Beyond Borders: The Shiraz Festival \nPictured above: Iannis Xenakis in preparations for the premiere of “Persepolis” music and light spectacle\, at the ancient ruins of Persepolis\, 1971. (World Premiere\, festival commission for the opening event); Courtesy Les Amis de Xenakis / Archaeology of the Final Decade Archives \n \n\nPROGRAM \n2:00pm: Talk: “Dead or alive. Aspects concerning the performance and interpretation of Xenakis’ polytopes today” with Daniel Teige\n3:30pm: Screening: “Iannis Xenakis\, Persépolis” (1971\, dir Pierre Andrégui)\n*All times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)\, UTC -5* \nAdmission to this online event is Free / Pay What You Wish. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. (Use ticket link). A link will be sent to you the day of the event. \n\nABOUT THE SPEAKER \nDaniel Teige works as a researcher and audio scenographer on large-scale projects in contemporary music\, and sound art. He studied communication science and electronic music at the Technical University in Berlin with David Behrman\, Gerhard Eckel\, Gottfried Michael König und Hans Tutschku\, as well as musicology with Helga de la Motte-Haber. He is a renowned expert and performer of the electronic music of the composer and architect Iannis Xenakis. He has staged and directed numerous Xenakis concert performances in collaboration with ZKM\, EMPAC\, MASS MoCA\, Akademie der Künste Berlin and others. He has worked with contemporary music ensembles like Klangforum Wien\, Asko Schönberg Ensemble\, Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin and others. His research on Xenakis Polytope de Persepolis and Polytope de Cluny has been published in “Xenakis Matters” @ Pendragon Press. Over the last decade Daniel has been invited to teach at numerous Universities around the globe. As an audio scenographer and creative director at his company POLYTOPE Agency\, he has designed innumerable multichannel audio diffusion and interactive audio systems across Europe and the Middle East for EXPO 2010 & 2021\, Qatar Museums\, Dubai Future Foundation\, MASS MoCA\, and others. \n\nThis event is part of Beyond Borders: The Shiraz Festival \n\n\nMajor support for BEYOND BORDERS has been provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Presented in collaboration with Slought. URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/xenakis-persepolis/ LOCATION:Streaming Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Shiraz-Xenakis-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220306T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220306T230000 DTSTAMP:20260627T111907 CREATED:20220308T173634Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220907T010302Z UID:10001152-1646596800-1646607600@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:The Hip-Hop Waltz of Eurydice DESCRIPTION:The Hip-Hop Waltz of Eurydice (1990) 96 minutes. \nWriter/Director: Reza Abdoh\nCamera/Film Editor: Adam Soch\nVideo documentation of live performance presented at Los Angeles Theatre Center.\nCourtesy Reza Abdoh and Adam Soch \nReza Abdoh (1963 – 1995) was an Iranian-born American director\, and playwright\, founder of the theatre ensemble Dar a Luz\, known for large-scale\, site-specific experimental theatrical productions. His work often confronted issues such as race\, class\, and the AIDS crisis. He belonged to the next generation of Iranian theatre-makers who followed on from the legacy of the Festival of Arts\, Shiraz-Persepolis. He died from AIDS in New York in 1995. \nIn this piece\, Abdoh\, adapts the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. In the original\, Orpheus journeys to Hades and persuades the Lord of the Underworld to let his wife\, Eurydice\, go. The condition is that Orpheus mustn’t look back at her as they’re leaving. But he does . . . and loses her. \nAt the time labelled “a gut reaction to systemic repression and erosion of freedom”\, it is the director’s first production that was presented outside of the US. \n“What Reza’s done is tell a myth about the force of faith – faith in love – in a time of repression and fear\,” said LATC’s new dramaturg\, Morgan Jenness\, who came to LATC in September from New York\, where she had been literary manager at the Public Theatre. “Orpheus and Eurydice have a forbidden love\, and the Lord of the Underworld is a sort of fascist symbol. There are undertows of the Jesse Helms situation\, the connection of love and sexuality\, the fact that sex is (treated as) a bad thing.” \n– Janice Arkatov\, L.A. Times\, 9 December 1990. \n\nTrailer: \n \n  \n\nTHIS FILM IS AVAILABLE ON DEMAND \nAdmission to this online event is Free / Pay What You Wish. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. You will receive a link to view the film after registering online. \n\nThis event is part of Beyond Borders: The Shiraz Festival \n\n\n\n\nMajor support for BEYOND BORDERS has been provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Presented in collaboration with Slought. URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/the-hip-hop-waltz-of-eurydice/ LOCATION:online CATEGORIES:Free Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Bowerbird-Main-Img-12.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220306T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220306T230000 DTSTAMP:20260627T111907 CREATED:20220308T172354Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220907T010320Z UID:10001151-1646553600-1646607600@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:The Color of Pomegranates DESCRIPTION:The Color of Pomegranates (1969) 78 minutes \nWriter/Director: Sergei Paradjanov\nEditors: Sergei Parajanov\, M. Ponomarenko\, S. Yutkevich\nCinematographer: Suren Shakhbazyan\nCourtesy Parajanov-Vartanov Institute. \nSergei Paradjanov (1924 – 1990) was a Soviet film director of Armenian descent who made a substantial contribution to Soviet cinematography through Ukrainian\, Armenian and Georgian cinema. He pioneered his own cinematic style by stepping outside socialist realism\, which was the only sanctioned art style within the USSR. His filmmaking and controversial lifestyle meant he was persecuted with his films regularly banned by Soviet authorities between 1965 and 1973.  \nThe Color of Pomegranates is based\, in part\, on the life and poetry of the eighteenth-century Armenian poet\, Sayat Nova (‘The King of Song’). Sergei Parajanov writes\, directs\, edits\, choreographs\, designs and creates every aspect of the film. It remains a masterpiece of cinema on account of being devoid of dialogue or camera movement and for its alluring imagery. The film was not seen internationally until 1977 due to Soviet censorship. It was screened at the Festival of Arts\, Shiraz-Persepolis in 1976 and subsequently smuggled to Paris where it was received to great acclaim. \n\n\n  \n\nTHIS FILM IS AVAILABLE ON DEMAND \nAdmission to this online event is Free / Pay What You Wish. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. You will receive a link to view the film after registering online. \n\nThis event is part of Beyond Borders: The Shiraz Festival \n\n\n\n\nMajor support for BEYOND BORDERS has been provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Presented in collaboration with Slought. URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/the-color-of-pomegranates/ LOCATION:online CATEGORIES:Free Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Bowerbird-Main-Img-11.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220306T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220306T230000 DTSTAMP:20260627T111907 CREATED:20220308T171330Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220907T011531Z UID:10001150-1646553600-1646607600@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Reza Abdoh - Theater Visionary DESCRIPTION:Reza Abdoh: Theater Visionary (2015) 104 minutes. \nDirector: Adam Soch\nCo-Producer: Sandy Cleary\nExecutive Producers: Alan Mandell\, Diane White\, Marta Holen\, Anita Durt\, John McDuffie\nAssociate Producers: Daniel Mufson\, Sid Montz\, Sarah and Peter Mandell\nCourtesy Adam Soch \nAdam Soch is a producer and director\, and long-time collaborator and video archivist of Reza Abdoh. His film Reza Abdoh: Theater Visionary is an intimate portrait of the world and work of Abdoh and his company. It features excerpts from Abdoh’s most important productions alongside interviews with Abdoh himself\, his collaborators\, critics\, friends\, and family\, including: Peter Sellars\, Alan Mandell\, Diane White\, Morgan Jenness\, Anne Hamburger\, Norman Frisch\, Tal Yarden\, Tony Torn\, Tom Fitzpatrick\, Ken Roht\, Peter Jacobs\, Sabrina Artel\, Tom Pearl\, Anita Durst\, Alix Hester\, John Jahnke\, Laurel Meade\, Alyson Campbell\, Sid Abdoh\, Salar Abdoh and other close collaborators. The film illuminates Abdoh’s legacy\, his ground-breaking work\, and his visionary\, theatrical genius.  \nSoch is award-winning filmmaker and producer who fled communist Eastern Europe in 1980 to seek creative freedom in the United States. He has worked on projects on Placido Domingo Jessica Lange\, Vanessa Redgrave\, Desmond Tutu and Mikhail Gorbatchev. He is a co-founder of the television channel Classic Arts Showcase.  \n  \n \n\nTHIS FILM IS AVAILABLE ON DEMAND \nAdmission to this online event is Free / Pay What You Wish. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. You will receive a link to view the film after registering online. \n\nThis event is part of Beyond Borders: The Shiraz Festival \n\n\n\n\nMajor support for BEYOND BORDERS has been provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Presented in collaboration with Slought. URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/reza-abdoh-theater-visionary/ LOCATION:online CATEGORIES:Free Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Bowerbird-Main-Img-10.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220306T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220306T230000 DTSTAMP:20260627T111907 CREATED:20220308T170205Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220907T011516Z UID:10001149-1646553600-1646607600@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Desert Equations: Azax Attra DESCRIPTION:Desert Equations: Azax/Attra (1986) \nPerformers: Sussan Deyhim & Richard Horowitz\nProducers: Sussan Deyhim & Richard Horowitz\nAlbum Released by: Crammed Discs \nSussan Deyhim (1958 – ) is an Iranian American composer\, vocalist\, performance artist and activist. Deyhim is internationally acclaimed for creating a unique sonic and vocal language imbued with a sense of ritual and the unknown\, encompassing music\, theatre\, dance\, media and film. Deyhim’s career began as an intern at the Festival of Arts\, Shiraz-Persepolis and training with the Iranian National Ballet Company before joining the Bejart Ballet School\, Mudra. Deyhim’s early iconic work Desert Equations: Azax/Attra combines her sublime voice and solo performance and the electronic wizardry of US composer Horowitz\, wonderfully blending the duo’s multiple sources\, including their experiences at the epicentre of New York’s early ‘80s avantgarde music and theatre scene. The haunting and futuristic Azax/Attra album prompted writer Paul Bowles to wonder: “Was this composed under the influence of Majoun?”. It led to a series of music/theatre performances including Desert Equations: Azax/Attra at New York’s important experimental La MaMa Theatre. In 2010\, the LA Times critic Mark Swed called Deyhim “one of Iran’s most potent voices in exile for the simple reason that she possesses a marvellously potent voice.”  \n\nTHIS FILM IS AVAILABLE ON DEMAND \nAdmission to this online event is Free / Pay What You Wish. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. You will receive a link to view the film after registering online. \n\nThis event is part of Beyond Borders: The Shiraz Festival \n\n\n\n\nMajor support for BEYOND BORDERS has been provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Presented in collaboration with Slought. URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/desert-equations-azax-attra/ LOCATION:online CATEGORIES:Free Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Bowerbird-Main-Img-9.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220306T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220306T210000 DTSTAMP:20260627T111907 CREATED:20220308T163907Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220907T011015Z UID:10001148-1646553600-1646600400@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:The First World Festival Of Negro Arts DESCRIPTION:The First World Festival of Negro Arts (1968) 40 minutes  \nWriter/Director: William Greaves\nProducer: Motion Picture and Television Service of the United States Information Agency\nCinematographer: Georges Bracher\, William Greaves\nCourtesy William Greaves Productions  \nWilliam Greaves (1926 – 2014) was a Harlem-born American documentary filmmaker\, writer\, producer and a pioneer of African American filmmaking. His film The First World Festival of Negro Arts is a Black history treasure and documents the landscape of the seminal performance festival held in Dakar\, Senegal\, in 1966\, one year prior to the inauguration of Shiraz-Persepolis. The festivals at Dakar and Shiraz-Persepolis shared a similar decolonising ethos. The film was officially commissioned to document the events that attracted over two thousand writers\, artists and performers from Africa and the African diaspora\, including: Duke Ellington\, Langston Hughes\, Alvin Ailey\, Aime Cesaire\, Leopold Senghor and other artists\, performers and dignitaries from thirty countries.  \nGreaves began his career as a Broadway actor and a member of The Actor’s Studio. He later served as executive producer and co-host of the Black Journal television programme for which he was awarded an Emmy in 1970. His recent film\, Ralph Bunche:  An American Odyssey (2001)\, documents the life and historic achievements of Dr. Ralph Johnson Bunche (1903-1971) the legendary African American Nobel prize-winning\, scholar turned statesman who contributed to international diplomacy\, decolonization\, peacekeeping\, and human rights in pre-civil rights America. His film From these Roots (1974) provides an in-depth study of the Harlem Renaissance. \n\n\n\n\n\nTHIS FILM IS AVAILABLE ON DEMAND \nAdmission to this online event is Free / Pay What You Wish. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. You will receive a link to view the film after registering online. \n\n\n\nThis event is part of Beyond Borders: The Shiraz Festival \n\n\n\n\nMajor support for BEYOND BORDERS has been provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Presented in collaboration with Slought. URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/the-first-world-festival-of-negro-arts/ LOCATION:online CATEGORIES:Free Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Bowerbird-Main-Img-8.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR