Golden Cherry Ball
MV & EE The Cherry Blossoms
An event exploring anarchic and communal situations of musical creation with MV, EE and The Cherry Blossoms.
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An event exploring anarchic and communal situations of musical creation with MV, EE and The Cherry Blossoms.
Ecstatic, intensely joyous experimental club music: like “the sound of our water ceremonies…40 bands playing their melodies at once to recreate the cacophony of the first aurora and the call of the morning star Venus”.
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What is happening when systems of repression try to grasp communities’ ways of being, living or surviving, applying laws of sexuality, gender or race to cast them as criminal?
A poet, playwright and activist, Sanchez emerged as a seminal figure in the 1960s Black Arts Movement, writing in the name of black culture, civil rights and women’s liberation.
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