Songs of the Living: A Community Sing with Toshi Reagon

1 Middle Street,Brunswick ME 04011

11 April, 2023

Description

Join us on Tuesday, April 11 for Songs of The Living. Led by Toshi Reagon, this community sing-along will teach participants songs from Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower the Opera, exploring the beautiful restorative power that resides in our collective voices. Participants will be asked to arrive between 5:30 and 5:45 to take a rapid covid antigen test (tests will be provided), and masks will be required. The event will begin at 6 p.m. A world renowned musician and songwriter, Toshi Reagon is Bowdoin College’s Joseph McKeen 2022-23 Visiting Fellow. Reagon has previously been named Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Creative Futures Artist-in-Residence with the Carolina Performing Arts organization; other recent projects include her involvement in the Met Civic Practice Partnership; and Parable Path artist residencies at the University of Michigan, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, Strathmore College, and Emerson College, from which she received an honorary doctorate in 2022. Additionally, in 2021 Reagon received the Religion an Arts Award from the American Academy of Religion, The Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, and the APAP Award of Merit for Achievement in the Performing Arts. Songs of The Living is free and open to all. Space is limited, so please register soon. This event is a part of Parable Path Maine, a framework for community organizing and artistic engagement based on Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower. This initiative is led by multi-hyphenate musician Toshi Reagon and is supported by Maine Humanities Council, Indigo Arts Alliance and Bowdoin College.