Brooklyn Free Spirit Festival - Day 1

$20 / day includes access to all day & eve events WORKSHOP: KYOKO KITAMURA & RACHEL BERNSEN (open to all!) - 5:00 pm Vocalist/Improviser Kyoko Kitamura & Choreographer/Dancer Rachel Bernsen join forces for an integrated workshop that invites participants to rediscover the natural unity between sound and movement with two highly experienced artist-educators. Instruments welcome but not required. Selendis S.A. Johnson / Hans Young-Binter / Josh Matthews - 7:30 pm Selendis S.A. Johnson - vibraphone Hans Young-Binter - piano Josh Matthews - drums Janice Lowe’s Museotry - 8:30 pm Edmonia/WildFire, A SoundVerse Cycle Poems by Tyehimba Jess, Janice Lowe, Composer Edmonia Lewis was a Reconstruction-era Afro-Mississaugan sculptor who willed herself to Rome to practice her craft. This song cycle and improvisation are inspired by the sculptor’s dialogue with earth-hewn materials, their textural beauty and the complexity of shaping freedom from a hostile political landscape. Janice Lowe - piano, voice, composition / Olithea Anglin - voice & electronics / Yohann Potico - bass guitar