Kennedy Center: Arts Across America – Maine
10Nov
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Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ Arts Across America: Sacred Resonance. Portland Ovations & Indigo Arts Alliance produce an original performance event featuring three Maine artists to be featured in this Kennedy Center national series. Part of the Washington, D.C.-based John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Social Impact Initiatives, Arts Across America is a program to uplift artists and showcase art from communities and regions across the country. This free, online programming will be available on Facebook Live, YouTube, and the Kennedy Center website.
The Kennedy Center hosts weekly online performances curated by arts organizations in each United State presenting artists and their works, and Maine will air their contribution on November 30th, 2020 @ 4 pm ET / 1 pm PT.
RSVP NOW!
Featured Maine artists include:
- Firefly, a member of the Penobscot Nation and raised in his people’s ancient village at Indian Island, Maine in Firefly: Sacred Fire. A journey through sound, light and emotion from the ancient to the unknown. Deeply influenced by the traditions of his ancestors, Firefly performs both traditional hand drum, shaker and vocal songs as well as cutting edge musical compositions rooted in his ancestral traditions. A hyper creative, Firefly’s artistry involves powerful vocals, eye popping visuals and cutting-edge costumes created by himself and his team.
- Maya Williams (pronouns they/she), Definitions of Home, a showcase of poems touching on mental health, suicide, and racism. Originally from Greensboro, North Carolina, Maya is a Black and Mixed Race suicide survivor residing in Portland since 2017. She has published poems with glitterMOB, The Portland Press Herald, Black Table Arts, Occulum, Littoral Books, Homology Lit, and more. Her work has garnered a Best of the Net Nominee and a PortFringe’s Audience Choice Award as well as residencies with Hewnoaks, Sundress Academy for the Arts (SAFTA), and Voices of Our Nation Arts (VONA) Foundation. Maya hosts open mics on most Tuesday nights with Port Veritas.
- Atiim Chenzira’s work titled ‘Destiny Manifest’ is a seven-part multi-media art piece utilizing his poetic spoken-word and Hip Hop lyricism to explore his ancestral experience. His expressive storytelling highlights this familial journey from the East Coast to the West and back. ‘Destiny Manifest’ interweaves Atiim’s personal journey as a husband, father, and “new Mainer,” into his American experience with the larger issues of racism, colonialism, capitalism, and displacement.
My newest project, FRBRS aka FatheR BrotheR Sun.
1May
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The mixes for our album ‘The Dawn’ are done. We have spent quite a bit of time recording at Skyline Studios in Oakland, CA., and then mixing at Whoville Studios in Berkeley, CA. with the legendary JasWho? Now, the mixes are off to the Master himself, Pierre Allard in San Mateo, CA. We can’t wait to share our polished versions of the music we’re allowing you to listen to early.
In the meantime, stop by our website and take a look around:
Upcoming Shows: Calendar
We are scheduled to play in Oakland on 5/23/2015 at Awaken Cafe, so come out and be ready to dance!
Soundcloud:
Finally Here!
5Jun
Aspectz Of Me
Volume Atiim & Volume Bomani
Online Music Release TBA
2 volumes of music
11 tracks each
v. Atiim
v. Bomani
Artwork & Design:
The Grammy Award Winning Company, EastRand Studios.
O.I.M. Presents: 5.9.14. @ Awaken Cafe
21Apr
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Atiim Chenzira & FatheR BrotheR Sun will continue their CD release PART II on May 9th, 2014 at Awaken Cafe, by opening the show up for two wonderful Bay Area Bands, Future Perfekt & Last Dragons (headliners). So, come out if you just missed their PART I at the Oakland Drops Beats Music Crawl, and prepared to be blown away by some magnetic energy and magical vibrations!
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