Venice in Harlem
August 23, 2021
LIGHT YEAR 78: Dream On… Dream Of
September 25, 2021A BLACKLIVES MATTER ODYSSEY
by Stanley Wayne Mathis
Monday Sept 13th, 2021 @ 6-8PM
Young BLM documentary student Activist Justice Jamal Obatala attends the Annual AfroPunk Festival in New York City. One of many black festivals he has frequented since he was a little boy. However this year’s celebration takes him on a unique path when he befriends a homeless woman known as Neighborhood Nana throughout the community. He documents the entire experience on his cell phone. Is he the documenter or the documented? Come! join the festivities and witness SANKOFA! Let’s all go back, and retrieve what is rightfully OURS!
Performances and Artist Reception
With the participation of Paul Ray and guest of honor Tunji Dada
Observer/Interloper/Guest is a sonic-visual serialized work examining the process of acceptance when encountering the so- called “other”. The audio only version aims to navigate sound as a manifestation of humanity and how sincerity driven persistence prevails as communion.
By Paul Steven Ray
WhiteBox @ El Barrio Artspace PS109 215 E 99th St, New York, NY 10029
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