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Ras Moshe Burnett & Patricia Spears Jones - December 10, 2023

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375 Lorimer St

Brooklyn, NY 11206, USA

Live at

Scholes Street Studio

 

and live-streamed

 

NOTE: Seating for the live event is extremely limited - get your tickets now.

Also, doors open at 4:00 and will close at 4:30, so please arrive early.

For information on directions and parking, click HERE.  



Ras Moshe Burnett is a Brooklyn born saxophonist; composer; educator and musicologist. His father and grandfather played saxophones and Ras studied with them, concurrent with performance in public school bands from 5th grade throughout high school.  He began playing with reggae and free jazz groups in 1987 and received his BA in music studies from SUNY/ Empire State College later in 2018. In August 2023 he graduated from Vermont College of Fine Arts with an MFA in music composition. His other occupations are music therapy work, also lectures on free jazz and social movements. He is a recipient of scholarships and artist grants from The Jerome Foundation, New Music USA, The Yip Harburg Foundation and Sanctuary For Independent Media.

Ras believes in the power of the creative arts and their role in social and personal change.


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Arkansas-born PATRICIA SPEARS JONES has lived and worked in New York City since 1974. She is a poet, playwright, educator, cultural activist, and anthologist and has been appointed New York State Poet (2023-25). She is the recipient of 2017 Jackson Poetry Prizefrom Poets & Writers. She is author of The Beloved Community and A Lucent Fire: New and Selected Poems, 3 full-length collections and five chapbooks. At the Rauschenberg Residency, she published Collapsing Forrest City, PhotoGiclée. Her poems are widely anthologized among them: 250 Years of African American Poetry: Why African American Poetry Matters Today, Plume Poetry 8; 2017 Pushcart Prize XLI: Best of Small Presses; WORD: An Anthology A Gathering of the Tribes; Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin, and Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African-American Poets, and in journals such as About Place Journal; Paterson Literary Review; Cutthroat Journal; alinejournal.com/convergence; The New Yorker and The Brooklyn Rail. She co-edited ORDINARY WOMEN: An Anthology of New York City Women Poets (1978) and edited THINK:Poems for Aretha Franklin’s Inauguration Day Hat (2009). Her plays, “Mother” (music by Carter Burwell) and “Song for New York: What Women Do When Men Sit Knitting (music by Lisa Gutkin) were commissioned and produced by Mabou Mines. She curated programs as Program Coordinator for The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church and created WORDS Sunday series in Brooklyn. She has taught Creative Writing at Hunter College, Barnard College, Adelphi University and Hollins University asthe 2020 Louis D. Rubin Writer in Residence.She has taught summer poetry workshops for the Community of Writers, Fine Arts Work Center, Naropa, Rutgers University, Truro Center for the Arts, and Wild Seeds Workshop for Medgar Evers College.In New York City she has lead workshops for The Poetry Project, Poets House, Brooklyn Poets, and Parachute Literary Arts. She is Emeritus Fellow for Black Earth Institute and organizer of the American Poets Congress.