Daniel Carter & William Parker
Daniel Carter William Parker
What might Carter and Parker’s collaboration tell us about our own performances of responsibility and liberty, whether individual, social or musical?
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What might Carter and Parker’s collaboration tell us about our own performances of responsibility and liberty, whether individual, social or musical?
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The second in a series of workshops for workers and non-workers who care. What does the sharing of vulnerability entail? Can such a sharing inform progressive social relations?
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Three short performances involving social exchange (jumpers, hats, glasses…) and singing (ballads)
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A multi-media harp and spoken word tribute to the incalculable, the in-deducible, the suspicious static noise that accompanies the voice of truth, and the attempted aberrations in the domain of emergence.
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African American history, avant-garde jazz riffs and activism intertwine in experimental verse of extraordinary and affecting beauty that has to be heard.
Writing that shows us that, even in struggle, there is light to be let in.