Artists' Television Access

Other Cinema: THE BLACK SPIRITUALS + LAST DAY OF FREEDOM

Saturday, February 13, 2016, 8:30 pm, $8

For Black History Month, a benefit for the new radical videozine NOW!: Our annual celebration of Afro-American culture is inaugurated by the manic sonic dynamics of the world-renown 2-piece Black Spirituals. Zach Watkins and Marshall Trammell play out delicious Afrofuturist atmospheres shot through with irresistible polyrhythms, before UCSC’s Alex Johnston, co-editor of this first Journal of Urgent Praxis, steps up to illuminate his enlightened mission. He brings to our screen all-new Black Consciousness works that recount crucial histories: Billy Woodberry(!) on Ousmane Sembene(!), Kelly Gallagher on John Brown, Alex himself on Harlem Prison, Nomi Talisman’s (in person) Last Day of Freedom, and of course Soda_Jerk’s Sun Ra.

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