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Celebrate Revolution w/ Ruby Dee, Maluca, Matthew Shipp, David Murray, reg e. gaines + More Apr 11th Harlem Stage at Aaron Davis Hall

April 7, 2011

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Join Ruby Dee, David Murray, Maluca, William Parker, Matthew Shipp + More  

“On the Occasion of the Publication of BAsics:

A Celebration of Revolution and the Vision of a New World”

April 11, 7pm Harlem Stage at Aaron Davis Hall, 135th St and Convent Ave

Maluca
Maluca, photo by Aviva Klein
Matthew Shipp
Matthew Shipp, photo by Lena Adasheva

BAsics cover

Outernational
Outernational, photo by King Colliwog
reg e. gaines
reg e. gaines, photo by Revolution Books

Read letters and invitations from the musicians, artists, and hosts:  http://www.revolution 

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 BrownRichard 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. gainesMoist Paula Henderson, baritone sax player and composer; Justin Long-Moton, poet; Maluca; jazz musician David MurrayOuternationalAbiodun 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 EvansRaul 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 AdamsWafaa BilalEmory DouglasRichard DuardoSkylar FeinKyle Goen,Guerilla Girls BroadbandSteve LambertWangechi MutuDread ScottSenOne 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 

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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