Invitation, Reader, Structure Of Belonging Creative Justice For this week's Common Good Reader, we engaged dozens of pieces of content that push the boundaries of the concept of justice. From the victory climate garden, to the rising…
Invitation, Poetry for Building Community, Reader “Counting Descent” Clint Smith is audacious. “I still believe we can build this world into something new,” he says in this reading of his poem “Counting Descent.” Perhaps so. The only way…
Invitation, Poetry for Building Community, Reader, Structure Of Belonging, Updates Dayramir Gonzalez at the Kennedy Center Tomorrow night at 9pm Eastern Time, we will be culminating Jazz Appreciation Month with a very special listening party. Cuban pianist and composer Dayramir Gonzalez will be joining writer and…
Invitation, Reader, Structure Of Belonging “Art for life’s sake” “Art for life’s sake,” is how percussionist John Santos describes the jazz tradition and the many African and Indigenous musical traditions that inform it. The work of improvisation is no…
Invitation, Reader, Structure Of Belonging Jazz meets Social Justice with SFJAZZ “The western concept of art for art’s sake is something that doesn’t exist in African and Indigenous forms and culture,” explains percussionist John Santos. “The art itself is functional. It’s…
