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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220306T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220306T210000
DTSTAMP:20260627T124116
CREATED:20220308T163907Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220907T011015Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220227T230000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220227T235900
DTSTAMP:20260627T124116
CREATED:20211103T182837Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220224T175844Z
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SUMMARY:Parker Kitterman
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Liminal States\, a new 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. Organist Parker Kitterman will perform from on the pipe organ at Christ Church 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\nParker Kitterman is a keyboardist\, composer\, conductor and collaborative musician. Since 2010 he has served as Director of Music and Organist at Christ Church\, Philadelphia\, where he oversaw the installation and dedication of a splendid new pipe organ\, C.B. Fisk’s Op. 150. As soloist and accompanist\, Parker has performed with a wide range of artists\, including the International Contemporary Ensemble\, the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia\, and Singing City Choir. He holds degrees from Duke University\, the Yale School of Music/Institute of Sacred Music\, and the Brussels Conservatory\, where he studied on a Fulbright Fellowship. A recent winner of the King’s Singers New Music Prize for his setting of Malcolm Guite’s poem “The Singing Bowl\,” Kitterman is a composer with wide-ranging interests and influences. His writing is born out of a studied approach to improvisation\, a literary sensitivity\, and an ongoing commitment to providing fresh\, relevant material for musicians and audiences alike. One large-scale work\, Requiem for the Charleston Nine was described as “producing a seamless fabric in which plainchant\, modern classical\, and jazz styles not merely co-exist but come together to proffer a whole greater than the sum of their individual parts.” (Chestnut Hill Local)
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/parker-kitterman-liminal-states/
LOCATION:Online Livestream
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220218T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220218T220000
DTSTAMP:20260627T124116
CREATED:20220112T125410Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220223T172423Z
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SUMMARY:Franck Vigroux & Ulrich Krieger
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Franck Vigroux and Ulrich Krieger performing Dodécaèdre\, a new piece for electronics and amplified-processed saxophone at The Rotunda. Made of tectonic tensions\, beats\, and electronic textures the new work is a very personal approach to sonic exploration. Opening the evening will be a solo set by Philadelphia-based multi-instrumentalist Julius Masri. \n\nABOUT THE ARTIST \nUlrich Krieger is well known as a saxophone player in contemporary composed and free improvised music as well as a composer of chamber music and electronic music. His recent focus lies in the experimental fields and fringes of contemporary Pop culture: somewhere in the limbo between Noise and Heavy Metal\, Ambient and Silence. His original compositions go back and forth between Just Intonation\, Silent Music\, Noise\, Instrumental Electronic\, often asking for elaborate amplification\, and works in the limbo of Rock culture – not accepting stylistic boundaries. Krieger developed his own\, often amplified style of saxophone playing\, he calls ‘acoustic electronics’. He uses refined acoustic\, quasi-electronic sounds\, which then get processed\, the saxophone often becoming more an ‘analogue sampler’ rather than a traditional finger-virtuoso instrument. By amplifying his instrument in various ways\, he gets down to the ‘grains of the sounds’\, changing their identity and structure from within. \nFranck Vigroux is a multifaceted artist whose works range from experimental electronic music to modern composition and music theatre. Franck Vigroux‘s music is made of tectonic tensions\, beats\, electronic textures and a very personal approach to sonic exploration. He is equally prolific as a solo artist and as a collaborator\, he has worked with musician such as Elliott Sharp\, Mika Vainio\, Reinhold Friedl\, Ars Nova… Vigroux’s uniqueness comes from his artistic approach that integrates new media and performance arts. He designs transdisciplinary shows and audiovisual concerts\, collaborating with visual artists such as Antoine Schmitt and Kurt d’Haeseleer. \nJulius Masri is a Philadelphia based multi-instrumentalist\, performer and composer for the city’s dance community at large. His music focuses on improvisatory methods and syncretic/ linguistic/ somatic exchanges within various musical languages including Jazz\, Metal\, AfroCuban\, Experimental Noise\, and Arabic music. Born in Tripoli\, Lebanon\, he moved to the States in 1990 and began studying with Philadelphia instructors Carl Mottola\, Elaine Hoffman-Watts\, and as an undergraduate at Bard College\, with AACM’s Thurman Barker\, Richard Teitelbaum\, and Joan Tower. Julius plays drums\, circuit modified Casio keyboards\, Oud\, Kamancheh (aka Rabab\, Spike Fiddle)\, and various other instruments. In November 2021\, Julius released the album “The Arabic Room” under the project name Mephisto Halabi\, garnering international praise in music publications and websites including WIRE Magazine (Dec2021)\, PopMatters\, Radio al-Harra\, Foxy Digitalis\, and many others. \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.  \n\n \nDodécaèdre / the island has been made possible through Jazz & New Music\, a program of Villa Albertine and FACE Foundation\, in partnership with the French Embassy in the United States with support from the French Ministry of Culture\, Institut français\, SACEM (Société des auteurs\, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique) and the CNM (Centre National de la Musique).
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/franck-vigroux-and-ulrich-krieger/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220210T230000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220210T235900
DTSTAMP:20260627T124116
CREATED:20211103T180216Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220214T193604Z
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SUMMARY:Lea Bertucci
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Liminal States\, a new 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 musician Lea Bertucci 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 ($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\nLea Bertucci is an artist\, composer and performer whose work describes relationships between acoustic phenomena and biological resonance. In addition to her longstanding practice with woodwind instruments\, her work incorporates multichannel speaker arrays\, radical methods of free improvisation and creative misuses of audio technology applied to field recording and sampling/collage techniques. She has performed extensively across the US and Europe with presenters such as The Museum of Modern Art New York\, Blank Forms\, Gagosian Gallery\, Pioneer Works\, The Kitchen\, The Walker Museum\, Tempo Reale in Florence\, Muziekgebouw Amsterdam\, Museo Reina Sofia Madrid\, Sound of Stockholm Festival\, ReWire Festival\, Borderline Festival\, and Unsound Festival Krakow. \n 
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/lea-bertucci-liminal-states/
LOCATION:Online Livestream
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220116T230000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220116T235900
DTSTAMP:20260627T124116
CREATED:20211101T175108Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220120T185500Z
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SUMMARY:Chaka Benson
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Liminal States\, a new 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. Electronic musician Chaka Benson 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 \nModular Excursions from Chaka Benson on Vimeo. \n\n\nABOUT THE ARTIST\nChaka Benson grew up on a diverse diet of Philly music ranging from Schooly D to Sun Ra.  The Philly streets thrum and echo with improvisation and DIY spirit.  This simple aesthetic informs his music and artistic approach.  He uses modular and video synthesis to execute his take on this vision. His live performances are well known on the local experimental electronic music scene; each having a new patch and an original improvisation.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/chaka-benson-liminal-states/
LOCATION:Online Livestream
CATEGORIES:Free Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211219T230000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211219T235900
DTSTAMP:20260627T124116
CREATED:20211101T170003Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211223T174819Z
UID:10001129-1639954800-1639958340@www.bowerbird.org
SUMMARY:Helena Espvall
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. Musician Helena Espvall will perform from her home in Lisbon\, Portugal. \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\nHelena Espvall started to play electric guitar as a bored teenager in northern Sweden\, and went on to take cello lessons and was never bored again. After having played in rock bands\, a silent movie orchestra\, an Arabian ensemble and being inspired to play free improvised music by a shocking Eugene Chadbourne performance\, she went on to live in the US between 2000-2012\,  where she performed with dancers\, recorded and toured with folk psych band Espers\, sang Swedish traditional songs\, played concerts at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival\, the High Zero Festival of improvised music in Baltimore\, MD\, at the Improvised and Otherwise Festival in Brooklyn\, NY\, at Big Sur experimental festival in California and at Terrastock among others. Espvall has received grants for artist residencies in Mojacar\, Spain\, at CESTA in Tabor\, Czech Republic\, and at Binaural / Nodar\, Portugal\, and she was the recipient of an Individual Arts Award from Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. She has worked with Lukas Ligeti\, Fursaxa\, Damon & Naomi\, Bert Jansch\, Masaki Batoh (Ghost)\, Vashti Bunyan\,  Marissa Nadler\, Pauline Oliveros and many more. Now residing in Lisbon\, she has collaborated with musicians like Norberto Lobo\, Manuel Mota\, Sei Miguel\, and Vitor Rua\, among others. She currently plays with the improv collective Lantana\, that has collaborated with Lula Pena\, and performed at Lisboa Soa Festival in the Estufa Fria\, at the Jazz Ao Centro Festival in Coimbra\, and at Jazz 2020\, Gulbenkian. She is also a member of the band Beautify Junkyards that released an album this year on British label GhostBox.  Espvall has done solo performances at Out.Fest\, ZDB\, Bar Irreal\, Damas and the Panteão\, and invited by Culturgest\, she recently created a solo piece for acoustic guitar\, as a part of the project Abrindo o Livro dos Sons\, a tribute to German composer Hans Otte.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/helena-espvall/
LOCATION:Online Livestream
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211208T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211208T210000
DTSTAMP:20260627T124116
CREATED:20211101T152817Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211208T160952Z
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SUMMARY:Nam June Paik: Ridiculous Technology
DESCRIPTION:This event is SOLD OUT.  There will be no tickets available at the door.   \nAfter moving from his native Seoul\, first to Germany to study music alongside the likes of Karlheinz Stockhausen and John Cage\, and then to the United States\, Nam June Paik lived what seems like the romantic archetype of the post-war New York artist. He drifted easily between avant-garde music\, film\, and fine art and helped in turn to create two new disciplines: video art and video installation. By 1962 he was a member of Fluxus and would collaborate with a litany of bright lights from Cage and Charlotte Moorman to Shigeko Kubota and Jud Yalkut. \nRidiculous Technology collects some of Paik’s most important early works\, with special emphasis on his connection with the burgeoning experimental music scene. In Beatles Electroniques\, Paik distorts imagery of the Beatles using a video synthesizer alongside an electronic soundtrack by Kenneth Werner composed of Beatles loops. Video Tape Study No. 3 critiques Lyndon B. Johnson to a score by David Behrman. Electronic Fables is one of Paik’s more visually beautiful and minimal productions featuring the voices of Marcel Duchamp\, John Cage\, Allen Ginsberg\, and Moondog\, among others. Waiting for Commercials features found footage of international commercials originally used as part of a Charlotte Moorman performance. Global Groove is perhaps Paik’s single-channel masterpiece\, a collage of original video\, his past work\, commercials\, dance\, popular music\, and contributions by Cage\, Stockhausen\, and Moorman. Taken together\, these works begin to scratch the surface of one of the most wide-ranging artists of the 20th Century. \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 \nGlobal Groove​ / Nam June Paik & John Godfrey / 1973 / 29 min / Digital\nBeatles Electroniques / Nam June Paik & Jud Yalkut / 1969 / 3 min / Digital\nVideo Tape Study No. 3 / Nam June Paik & Jud Yalkut / 1967 / 4 min / Digital\nElectronic Fables / Nam June Paik & Jud Yalkut / 1965 / 10 min / Digital\nWaiting for Commercials / Nam June Paik & Jud Yalkut / 1966-1972 / 8 min / Digital \n\nNam June Paik – Global Groove (low res) \n\n 
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/nam-june-paik-ridiculous-technology/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211128T230000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211128T235900
DTSTAMP:20260627T124116
CREATED:20201223T042332Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211202T222755Z
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SUMMARY:Tatsuya Nakatani
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. Percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani will perform multiple bowed gongs from the desert near his home in New Mexico. \nCo-presented with The Rotunda. \n\nAdmission to this online event is Free / Pay What You Wish. 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 45 mins. \nThis event is part of the  Liminal States Series \n\n\n  \n\nABOUT THE ARTIST\nTatsuya Nakatani is an avant-garde percussionist\, composer\, and artist of sound. Active internationally since the 1990’s; Nakatani has released over 80 recordings and tours extensively\, performing over 150 concerts a year. His primary focus is his solo work and his large ensemble project\, the Nakatani Gong Orchestra. With his activity in the new music\, improvisation and experimental music scenes\, Nakatani has a long history of collaboration. He teaches master classes and lectures at universities and music conservatories around the world. Originally from Japan\, he makes his home in the desert town of Truth or Consequences\, New Mexico. Nakatani creates his distinctive music centered around his adapted bowed gong\, supported by an array of drums\, cymbals\, and singing bowls. In consort with his hand carved Kobo Bows\, it is an instrument he has spent decades developing. Nakatani approaches his orchestral project (NGO) as an arrangement of formations of vibrations\, incorporated in shimmering layers of silence and texture. Within this contemporary work\, one can still recognize the dramatic pacing\, formal elegance and space (ma) felt in traditional Japanese music.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/tatsuya-nakatani-liminal-states/
LOCATION:Online Livestream
CATEGORIES:Free Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210906T230000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210906T235900
DTSTAMP:20260627T124116
CREATED:20210524T152414Z
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SUMMARY:Chris Powell
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Liminal States\, a new 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. Electronic musician Chris Powell 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\nABOUT THE ARTIST\nChris Powell (aka Pow Pow) is a self-taught rhythm scholar\, producer\, and electronic music-maker living in Philadelphia\, PA. As a main contributor in the Philadelphia art and sound collective Need New Body\, which fused improvisation with popular song structures\, Powell began a career of international recording and performance\, creating music at the nexus of art and entertainment. Since 1999\, he has collaborated\, recorded\, and toured worldwide with a diverse spectrum of artists and musicians\, including the Sun Ra Arkestra\, Yoko Ono\, and the Boredoms. Powell’s work in the eclectic and high energy Philadelphia band Man Man has helped focus his talent as a leader in the live performance context. Powell’s body of work has most recently expanded to solo modular synth performances as well as creating instruments with NYC/Philly based synthesizer company Critter & Guitari.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/chris-powell-liminal-states/
LOCATION:Online Livestream
CATEGORIES:Free Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210822T230000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210822T235900
DTSTAMP:20260627T124116
CREATED:20210519T185046Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210904T121808Z
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SUMMARY:claire rousay
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Liminal States\, a new 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. Sound artist claire rousay will perform from her home in San Antonio. \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\nABOUT THE ARTIST\nclaire rousay is based in San Antonio\, Texas. Her music zeroes in on personal emotions and the minutiae of everyday life — voicemails\, haptics\, environmental recordings\, stopwatches\, whispers and conversations — exploding their significance. rousay has released music on a range of labels\, most notably Astral Spirits\, Second Editions\, Longform Editions and American Dreams\, who in 2021 released a softer focus\, a collaboration with visual artist Dani Toral. rousay’s music has received acclaim from NPR\, which writes that rousay “enchants the ordinary\,” and Pitchfork\, which calls her music “quietly devastating.” rousay has presented music at Audiograft Festival\, Casa Del Lago (CDMX)\, Issue Project Room\, Rewire Festival\, and Salon De Normandy (Paris)\, among many others\, held residencies at Rhizome DC and Elastic Arts Exposure Series\, and performed with musicians such as Ken Vandermark\, Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten\, Jacob Wick and Theodore Cale Schafer.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/claire-rousay-liminal-states/
LOCATION:Online Livestream
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210805T230000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210805T235900
DTSTAMP:20260627T124116
CREATED:20210519T183855Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210526T164749Z
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SUMMARY:Jupiter Blue
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Liminal States\, a new 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. Jupiter Blue (Tara Middleton and DM Hotep) will perform from their 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\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.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/jupiter-blue-liminal-states/
LOCATION:Online Livestream
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210801T230000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210801T235900
DTSTAMP:20260627T124116
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SUMMARY:Shahzad Ismaily
DESCRIPTION:*** THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED FROM JULY 25TH TO SUNDAY\, AUGUST 1 AT 11PM. *** \nBowerbird is pleased to present Liminal States\, a new 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 and composer Shahzad Ismaily will perform from his home in New York. \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\nABOUT THE ARTIST\nShahzad Ismaily was born in the States to Pakistani parents who emigrated here just before his birth. He grew in a bicultural household\, always following a multitude of paths and perusals. He is mostly self-taught as a musician\, composer\, recording engineer\, and producer. He primarily plays electric bass\, drums\, percussion\, guitar\, synthesizers\, and all manner of sound-makers procured in life’s travels. He has recorded and performed with a diverse crew of artMakers\, Yoko Ono\, Laurie Anderson\, Beth Orton\, Colin Stetson\, Ben Frost\, Bonnie Prince Billy\, Damien Rice\, Jolie Holland\, JFDR\, Secret Chiefs 3\, Sam Amidon\, further and further. He has been an integral member of festival/residency/collective experiences such as the People Festival (the brainchild of Bon Iver\, The National\, and the Michelberger)\, the Eau Claires festival\, the Moers Festival. He has done work for dance and theater pieces\, such as the film Frozen River (Oscar-nominated and Sundance award-winning)\, Inkboat (a butoh crew from California/Switzerland)\, and visual artist Laleh Khorramian. This year alone\, he’ll teach in residence at BANFF\, the Oklahoma Center for Contemporary Arts\, the Monheim Triennale\, and very happily\, the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Currently based in Brooklyn and working out of the recording studio collective he founded and created\, Figure 8 Recording\, he has studied music extensively in Pakistan\, India\, Turkey\, Mexico\, Chile\, Japan\, Indonesia\, Morocco\, and Iceland.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/shahzad-ismaily-liminal-states/
LOCATION:Online Livestream
CATEGORIES:Free Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210708T230000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210708T235900
DTSTAMP:20260627T124116
CREATED:20210519T171242Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210725T163012Z
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SUMMARY:King Britt
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Liminal States\, a new 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. Performer and composer King Britt will perform from his home in San Diego. \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\nABOUT THE ARTIST\nPew Fellowship recipient\, King James Britt (his real name) is a 30+ year\, producer\, composer and performer in electronic music. His position as Assistant Teaching Professor in Computer Music carries a unique perspective\, bringing a non-linear approach and knowledge to the department by focusing on various modern forms of electronic music pedagogy\, while continuing to be an active force in the music industry. As a composer and producer\, his practice has lead to collaborations with the likes of De La Soul\, Alarm Will Sound Orchestra\, Saul Williams\, director Michael Mann (Miami Vice) and many others\, as well as being called for remixes from an eclectic list of giants\, including\, Meredith Monk\, Solange to Calvin Harris. Most recently collaborating with MacArthur Fellow\, Tyshawn Sorey for an upcoming album project. In his role as performer\, he has travelled globally playing thousands of venues and festivals\, including\, AfroPunk (NYC)\, Berghain (Berlin)\, MoogFest (Durham)\, Le Guess Who Festival (Utrecht) and The Kitchen (NYC). King was also the original DJ for the Grammy Award winning Digable Planets. Blacktronika : Afrofuturism In Electronic Music\, is a new UCSD lecture course\, created by King\, researching and honoring the people of color\, who have pioneered groundbreaking genres within the electronic music landscape. Genres span from Chicago House\, Detroit Techno and Drum & Bass music. Using his position in the industry\, the class has been attended by many\, including Questlove\, Julian Priester and Goldie.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/king-britt-liminal-states/
LOCATION:Online Livestream
CATEGORIES:Free Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210630T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210630T210000
DTSTAMP:20260627T124116
CREATED:20210524T155007Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210706T164956Z
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SUMMARY:Coming Together
DESCRIPTION:AN ARCHIVE OF THIS PROGRAM IS AVAILABLE UNTIL JULY 7\, 2021.  Use the registration/ticket button to get the video url.   \nCONCERT PROGRAM \nRzewski: Shtick (1990) \nAaron Stewart\, saxophone \n\nRzewski: Sixteen Sneakers (2012) \nHannah Nicholas\, viola \n\nRzewski performs Rzewski \nRare archival footage of Frederic Rzewski at the piano \n\nRzewski: Coming Together (1971) *world premiere music video* \nMoor Mother/Camae Ayewa\, performer/speaker\nBob Sweeney\, video artist\nArcana New Music Ensemble\n– Nicholas Handahl\, flute\n– Dominic Panunto\, bassoon\n– Aaron Stewart\, saxophone\n– Tessa Ellis\, trumpet\n– Molly Germer\, violin\n– Erin Busch\, cello\n– David Hughes\, piano\n– Andy Thierauf\, percussion \n\n\nABOUT THE PROGRAM\nBowerbird is pleased to present an online virtual portrait concert of American composer and virtuoso pianist Frederic Rzewski. The concert will feature the world premiere of a new music video of Rzewski’s “Coming Together” made by Camae Ayewa (aka Moor Mother) and video artist Bob Sweeney. The video was shot this spring on site at Eastern State Penitentiary and features a musical performance by the Arcana New Music Ensemble. The program will include rare archival recordings of Frederick Rzewski performing his own work\, as well as two rarely heard solo works – “Shtick” for solo saxophone and “Sixteen Sneakers” for solo viola. \nFrederic Rzewski’s minimalist masterpiece\, “Coming Together”\, was composed in response to the 1971 uprising at Attica Prison in upstate New York. Scored for narrator and open ensemble\, the work is based on a letter by Sam Melville\, one of the leaders of the Attica riots in which he was killed. The text reads: \nI think the combination of age and the greater coming together is responsible for the speed of the passing time. it’s six months now and i can tell you truthfully few periods in my life have passed so quickly. i am in excellent physical and emotional health. there are doubtless subtle surprises ahead but i feel secure and ready. As lovers will contrast their emotions in times of crisis\, so am i dealing with my environment. in the indifferent brutality\, incessant noise\, the experimental chemistry of food\, the ravings of lost hysterical men\, i can act with clarity and meaning. i am deliberate – sometimes even calculating – seldom employing histrionics except as a test of the reactions of others. i read much\, exercise\, talk to guards and inmates\, feeling for the inevitable direction of my life. \nFrederic Rzewski’s “Shtick” is a solo work for saxophone that contains allusions to folk and popular melodies\, including the Yiddish tune Yidl Mit’n Fidl (Yiddle with his Fiddle).  Also on the program is a “Sixteen Sneakers”\, a playful work for solo viola (or a small group of violas)\, that Rzewski composed for his daughter Esther. \n\nSupport for this project has been provided by the Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia. Special thanks to Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/coming-together/
LOCATION:Online Livestream
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210627T230000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210627T235900
DTSTAMP:20260627T124116
CREATED:20210519T165922Z
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SUMMARY:Loren Connors
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Liminal States\, a new 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. Guitarist Loren Connors will perform from his home in New York. \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\nABOUT THE ARTIST\nLoren Connors has improvised and composed original guitar music for over four decades. His music embraces the underlying aesthetics of blues\, Irish airs\, blues-based rock and other genres while letting go of rigid forms. He names abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko as his most important influence. Connors has performed solo and with many veterans of independent music such as Alan Licht\, Thurston Moore\, Daniel Carter\, Kim Gordon\, Samara Lubelski\, Jandek and Keiji Haino. Connors has collaborated over the years with vocalist Suzanne Langille\, including in an avant blues band called Haunted House with guitarist Andrew Burnes and percussionist Neel Murgai. His recordings have been released on Family Vineyard\, Recital\, Northern Spy\, Drag City\, and other labels.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/loren-connors-liminal-states/
LOCATION:Online Livestream
CATEGORIES:Free Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200718T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200718T130000
DTSTAMP:20260627T124116
CREATED:20200629T165447Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201223T033207Z
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SUMMARY:Tuvan Throat-singing Demo with Alash
DESCRIPTION:This year\, Alash was scheduled to perform at The Rotunda on April 2nd but had to instead cancel the rest of their tour and return home. While they cannot perform in concert right now\, Alash will present a throat-singing demonstration with Q & A\, from their homes in Tuva! This will be a fun way for you to get to know the ensemble\, their singing methods\, and some history behind the songs. \nPlease note the earlier-than-usual event time of 11am Philly time. Since Tuva is 11 hours ahead of Philadelphia\, we had to schedule this accordingly. The added bonus is that children can hopefully join as well! \nREGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. SPACE IS LIMITED. PLEASE RESERVE ONE SPOT PER HOUSEHOLD. Please register HERE. A Zoom link will be sent to you the day of the event. All guests will be muted for the demo and then unmuted for the Q & A. \n  \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nALASH are masters of Tuvan throat singing (xöömei)\, a remarkable technique for singing multiple pitches at the same time. What distinguishes this gifted trio from earlier generations of Tuvan throat singers is the subtle infusion of modern influences into their traditional music. One can find complex harmonies\, western instruments\, and contemporary song forms in A \nlash’s music\, but its overall sound and spirit remain decidedly Tuvan. \nCo-Presented with The Rotunda \n \n 
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/tuvan-throat-singing-demo-with-alash/
LOCATION:online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200402T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200402T220000
DTSTAMP:20260627T124116
CREATED:20200206T224656Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200314T230833Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELED - 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
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/alash-ensemble-2020/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200311T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200311T210000
DTSTAMP:20260627T124116
CREATED:20200130T195609Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200629T171415Z
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SUMMARY:Meredith Monk's Quarry
DESCRIPTION:This event was originally scheduled for Feb 26 but has been rescheduled for March 11. \nRightfully renowned as a composer\, vocalist\, choreographer\, and stage director\, Meredith Monk’s underseen films present their own inventive reflections on the cataclysms of history. Quarry began as a live multimedia opera in 1976 featuring a black and white short film of the same name directed by Monk. With the help of the New York Public Library’s initiative to document groundbreaking live performances\, Monk and Amram Nowak re-staged the work with Monk guiding the film’s camera movements and close-ups not normally found in “filmed theater.” In Quarry\, Monk continues her interest in abstracting her own Jewish history to create an anti-fascist narrative in which she portrays a sick child whose illness progresses in tandem with the rise of a dictator. Featuring not just Monk’s novel vocal and theatrical experiments\, Quarry is both a fascinating performance document and a shapeshifting film in its own right. \nCo-presented with Nightletter. \n\nPROGRAM \nQuarry / Meredith Monk & Amram Nowak / 1977 / 82 min / Digital \n\nMeredith Monk: Quarry: The Rally (Live\, 1977) \n\n 
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/meredith-monk-quarry/
LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200228T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200228T220000
DTSTAMP:20260627T124116
CREATED:20200130T195902Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200305T002441Z
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SUMMARY:David Hughes: Schubertiade
DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Philadelphia based piano virtuoso David Hughes performing a “Schubertiade” – a program that explores the music and spirit of Franz Schubert alongside work by contemporary composers inspired by his music. Victor Hugo famously wrote that “forty is the old age of youth\, fifty the youth of old age.” This program\, offered on the occasion of Hughes’ own 40th birthday\, emphasizes the coexistence of past and future\, a constant search for meaning\, and the eternal\, intense introspection emblematic of Schubert’s music. \n\nPROGRAM \nHelmut Lachenmann: Schubert Variations (1956)\nLee Hoiby: Schubert Variations\, op. 35 (1981)\nFranz Schubert: Impromptu in A-flat Major\, D. 935 no. 2\nEdison Denisov: Variations on a Theme by Schubert (1986) with Thomas Kraines\, cello\nSchubert: Gretchen am Spinnrade\, D. 118 with Anaïs Naharro-Murphy\, soprano\nEric Wubbels: gretchen am spinnrade (2016) with Thomas Kraines\, cello\nSchubert: Sonata in B-Flat\, D. 960 \n\nABOUT THE ARTIST \nDavid Hughes has performed at the Kennedy Center\, Amsterdam’s Muziekgebouw and the Spanish Embassy in Washington\, DC. He has been featured on Philadelphia’s WRTI radio station in an hour-long segment of solo repertoire. He can also be heard playing four different keyboard instruments on John Zorn’s violin concerto\, “Contes de Fées\,” on the Tzadik label. He is a founding member of Arcana New Music Ensemble\, a Philadelphia-based ensemble dedicated to presenting concerts of modern and lesser-known music. Mr. Hughes has a strong interest in contemporary music and received third prize in the Gaudeamus Interpreters Competition—one of the world’s premier competitions for modern music—as a member of Outer Banks Duo with saxophonist Stacy Wilson. This was followed by the release of their debut CD\, L’Incandescence. He is also a past recipient of a fellowship to the Tanglewood Music Center and a prizewinner in the MTNA National Chamber Music Competition. He holds a doctoral degree in piano performance from Indiana University.
URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/david-hughes-schubertiade/
LOCATION:Philadelphia Ethical Society\, 1906 Rittenhouse Square\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19103\, United States
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