Freedom From and Freedom To
@ Chicago Justice Gallery
1344 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, June 27th, from 6PM - 8PM
This event is part of the UIC Social Justice Initiative’s free summer event series In Tandem: Solidarity, Solidarité, Solidaridad, curated by Lola Ayisha Ogbara, which explores themes of solidarity, collective work, and the process of building toward common goals through film, art, performance, workshops, and more. Join us this summer in asking, “How do our struggles for justice work in tandem?”
Join SJI on Friday, June 27 for a special performance of Freedom From and Freedom To in our Chicago Justice Gallery space, where musicians and dancers will perform surrounded by our current exhibition: Echoes of Ferguson.
Freedom From and Freedom To is an acclaimed performance series organized by Cristal Sabbagh that brings musicians and dancers together to create a fully improvised set.
Dancers and musicians for each set are selected at random. Their task is to make use of the chance encounter to fuse their diverse artistic backgrounds in relation to one another, working out their next move and their next musical note by studying each other in the moment and by drawing on their own training and stylistic traditions. The resulting performance invites the audience to consider the ways in which the performers’ solidarity and collective world-building through movement and sound might relate to working together in other contexts.
Space is limited, so kindly RSVP to attend.
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