“On Improvisation: Unbridled Freedom Movement and the Arts”
REGISTER HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/on-improvisation-unbridled-freedom-movement-and-the-arts-tickets-309894852847
Location: Schomburg Center, Langston Hughes Lobby and Mezzanine, 515 Malcolm X Blvd
In-person event. Saturday’s event will be open to the public for in-person attendance. Registration required.
Featured guests- Russell Hamilton (filmmaker), Alfredo Colon (musician), Joy Guidry(musician), Jessie Cox (musician and scholar, Columbia University), & Gaiutra Bahadur (Rutgers)
Film screening, performances, and conversations on the imperative of improvisation in social movements, including features on Southern Black marching bands, jazz techniques/ traditions, and the reclamation of cultural and spatial geographies.
Please note that this event will not be recorded.
This series is being sponsored by the Ambedkar Initiative at the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society with the support of Africana Studies (Barnard), the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities (CU), AAADS (CU), and IRAAS (CU)