Artists as Activists
Christal Brown
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Chad Stokes
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Kemp Harris
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Vincent Thomas
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This residency is designed to highlight artistic collaboration between musicians and dancers on themes of activism and using art as a platform for empowerment, political expression, social justice, and fighting oppression. During the residency, artists will offer master classes and clinics, working together to create a new work in real time, then demonstrate it in performance.
Artists as Activists features Kemp Harris, singer-songwriter, actor, and educator; Christal Brown (Urban Bush Women and program chair of Dance at Middlebury College), choreographer, educator, performer, and writer; Vincent Thomas (Urban Bush Women BOLD facilitator), dancer, choreographer, and teacher; and Chad Stokes, cofounder of Calling All Crows, a nonprofit organization. The residency also features Barry Lynn, American journalist and writer; and Jim Lucchese, former CEO of Echo Nest/Spotify.
Artists as Activists is cohosted by the Music Business/Management Department at Berklee College of Music and the Dance Division at Boston Conservatory at Berklee. It is made possible because of generous support from the AVK Foundation. All events are free and open to the public.