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On April 11, prominent musicians, artists, writers,
revolutionaries, and people from the community, will
come together for an evening of poetry, dance, readings,
music, and visual art in a cultural celebration of revolution
and the vision of a new world.
This celebration is occasioned by the publication of
BAsics, from the Talks and Writings of Bob Avakian --
a book of quotations and short essays that concentrates
30 years of Avakian's work on questions of revolution
and human emancipation.
"This is a group of people coming together who are making
their own changes in their own ways, whether it's through
spoken word or music or art or themselves as revolutionaries,"
said Leah Bonvissuto, Director of the on-stage program
April 11. "So it's incredibly inspiring to see the way
that they're making a change forward and bringing that
to the audience."
Performers include: musician Guillermo Brown;
singer Maggie Brown; Richard Brown, former
member Black Panther Party and co-founder of The Committee
for the Defense of Human Rights, founded by the SF8;
Ruby Dee; poet and playwright reg e. gaines;
Moist Paula Henderson, baritone sax player and
composer; Justin Long-Moton, poet; Maluca;
jazz musician David Murray; Outernational;
Abiodun Oyewole from The Last Poets; Ted Rall,
cartoonist and author; Rebel Diaz; excerpts from
Tapsploitation; and jazz musicians Matthew Shipp
and William Parker. Readings of letters from
prisoners and others by Aladdin, Bridgit Antoinette
Evans, Raul Castillo, Brian Dykstra
and Nitya Vidyasagar. Directed by Leah
Bonvissuto.
A visual arts exhibition specially curated for the night
will include the work of Derrick Adams, Wafaa
Bilal, Emory Douglas, Richard Duardo,
Skylar Fein, Kyle Goen,Guerilla Girls
Broadband, Steve Lambert, Wangechi Mutu,
Dread Scott, SenOne and Hank Willis
Thomas.
Interviews about BAsics and the Celebration are available
with Aladdin, Herb Boyd, Richard Brown, Carl Dix, reg
e. gaines, Nicholas Heyward, Erin Aubry Kaplan, Dread
Scott, Matthew Shipp, and other performers, artists,
and hosts.
Bob Avakian is a revolutionary leader and wide-ranging
thinker; he is the chairman of the Revolutionary Communist
Party, USA. He is someone who, in the words of Cornel
West, "is a long distance runner in the freedom struggle
against imperialism, racism and capitalism."
Click HERE to listen to "All Played Out," a newly
released audio with words by Bob Avakian and music by
William Parker
from Matthew Shipp, musician: "...in times like these
the ideas of someone like Bob Avakian must be studied
and thought upon... we need voices like Bob to let youth
know there are alternatives within this system that
is corrupted to the core."
The April 11 Host Committee, in association with Revolution
Books, includes a wide range of artists, activists,
professors and community members. Read letters and invitations
from the musicians, artists, and hosts: HERE
Tickets: $35 general admission, $15 students (with ID)
and unemployed, $100 premium
Purchase tickets from Revolution Books or Harlem Stage.
212.691.3345 /
http://www.revolutionbooksnyc.org
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From the New Book:
BAsics, from the talks and writings of Bob Avakian
"There would be no United States as we now know it today
without slavery. That is a simple and basic truth."
Communism and Jeffersonian Democracy, 2008
"There is nothing more unrealistic than the idea of
reforming this system into something that would come
anywhere near being in the interests of the great majority
of people and ultimately of humanity as a whole."
Making Revolution and Emancipating Humanity - Part
2:
"Everything We're Doing Is About Revolution,"
Revolution #114, December 30, 2007
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