“It doesn't matter if you can sing, it doesn't matter if you're melodic, you are a vibrational being. We are a vibrational species. What we call ‘music’ now is our communicative contribution as a species on and to planet Earth -- and it's one of our best contributions of all.” (Toshi Reagon) Come sing with us this fall! Join Toshi Reagon, Alsarah and the Nubatones, Taína Asili, The Bruces, New York Arabic Chorus, DJ Bill Coleman, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Nona Hendryx, Baba Israel, Yasmin Lee, Legacy Women, Miguel Luciano, Nile Nights, Lizzie No, The Soapbox Presents, DJ Leecy T, and more as we collectively learn to sing songs of resistance and resilience together.
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Over four weeks, Soho Rep will partner with an incredible coalition of artistic and civic centers across all five boroughs of New York City including Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Bronxlandia, The Africa Center, National Sawdust, Flushing Town Hall, Another World, Weeksville Heritage Center, Queens Public Library, Lincoln Center, El Puente, and BAM to produce eleven evenings of music and fellowship.
There is a song for everything! Songs are sacred, songs are history, songs are games, songs are recipes, songs are a technology for shaping our world. Not only will the first ten evenings each have their own themes – from Sacred songs to Hip Hop, Disco to songs for young people – we will have evenings inclusive of Spanish, Arabic, and American Sign Language. The eleventh night will gather all of the threads from the previous ten evenings into a single powerful congregation around these Songs of the Living.
DESIGN: STUDIO USHER & ADAM HAYES / PHOTO: EHUD LAZIN
This is a seated performance. If you require accessibility accommodations, please email boxoffice@nationalsawdust.org.
ABOUT TOSHI REAGAN
Toshi Reagon is a singer, composer, musician, curator, and producer engaged in a decades long practice of activating community through song. Notable examples of Toshi’s powerful ability to merge art, fellowship and activism include the congregational opera, Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower, which she created with her mother – activist, scholar, curator, composer, and singer – Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon. Alongside the Opera, Toshi created the Parable Path, an enduring community co-creation with organizations, scholars and activists that galvanized intergenerational community and shone a light on local issues in each place the Opera was produced. Similarly, Toshi started Word*Rock*Sword, an artist-led festival of community events and actions in response to growing attacks on our human rights after the 2010 midterm elections. Always collaborative, Toshi has worked with many musicians, choreographers, film and theater makers, including Nona Hendryx , Lizz Wright, Dorrance Dance, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Meshell Ndegeocello, and her band BIGLovely. Toshi has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the APAP Award for Merit in the Performing Arts, the United States Artist Fellowship, and an Andrew W. Melon Creative Futures Fellowship Carolina Performing Arts. Toshi received an honorary doctorate from Emerson College in 2022. More info and music can be found on her website: wisereagonarts.com