![]() Join Indigo Arts Alliance’s 2021 Fall Artist-In-Residence, Maestra Isaura Oliveira for an Introduction to Brazilian Orixá Dance !Ī multidisciplinary artist and a Cultural Educator, Maestra Isaura’s expertise is in African Brazilian Cultural Dance. A moderated discussion and Q&A will follow. As a device to non-judgmentally enter the interior landscape of a woman who contemplates murder-suicide, Post Pardon employs Caribbean mythologies and West African cosmologies to explore the concept of inherited sorrow.įeaturing local artists and actors, Arisa’s reading of this text will focus on the libretto as a poetic literary form and the inherent musicality of language to amplify the ritualistic, performative, and evocative nature of the lyric. Adapted from Arisa White’s eponymous poetry chapbook, published by Mouthfeel Press in 2011, Post Pardon was inspired by poet Reetika Vazirani who killed her two-year-old son and then took her own life in the summer of 2003. With its concern for gendered and ecological violence, Post Pardon is the transgenerational apology needed to repair a Black woman’s soul. Presented in partnership with Mayo Street Arts, join us for a work-in-progress libretto reading of Post Pardon: The Opera, written by our current Artist-In-Residence, Arisa White. For the Parable Path Maine initiative, the McKeen Center will be working alongside Indigo Arts Alliance, and the Maine Humanities Council for the next two years to bring the work of Butler to libraries, correctional facilities, and community organizations across the state. Reagon will be joined by Judith Casselberry, Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Bowdoin College, Samaa Abdurraqib, Executive Director of Maine Humanities Council, and others in a discussion of the significance of Butler’s work, contemporary societal challenges, and the importance of community.Īn Evening With Toshi Reagon is part of Parable Path Maine, a framework Reagan is bringing to Bowdoin during the course of her fellowship that is based on Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower, a dystopian speculative Afrofuturistic fiction piece providing commentary on climate change and social inequality. ![]() These themes, which will guide her work as a fellow, are culled from Octavia E. Toshi Reagon, Bowdoin College’s Joseph McKeen Visiting Fellow, 2022-2023, will share an evening of music and conversation centered on racial justice, climate justice, gender justice, and faith. This initiative is led by multi-hyphenate musician Toshi Reagon, Bowdoin College’s Joseph McKeen 2022-23 Visiting Fellow, and is supported by Maine Humanities Council, Indigo Arts Alliance and Bowdoin College. Parable Path Maine is a framework for community organizing and artistic engagement based on Octavia E. You are welcome to rap, sing, dance, DJ, play instruments, create art, or just catch a vibe during a session. Participants are invited to engage in freestyle exercises and interactive materials that will help expand on the concept of “change” based on the chapters in Octavia E. ![]() This monthly cypher series encourages and centers global majority peoples to exercise their creative minds in a freestyled jam-like musical space that’s rooted in the communal aspects of Hip Hop culture.Ĭurated by Signature Soul and community friends, February’s Freestyle Friday is presented as a part of the Parable Path Maine Initiative.
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