Council 400
Week 5 Theme: Resources
November 7th – 10th, 2024
Nerdy Thursday: The 100 Year Plan
11/7 | 6:30pm-9:30pm
Join founder of Mama Glow, Latham Thomas, in conversation with Lori Rodriguez for an important conversation on maternal health, birth justice, and community equity.
Office Hours: Seaport Sonics Salon a Future Coda installment
Date: 11/8 | 7pm-11pm
Experience the healing power of Black Diasporic sounds with DJ Jahmedicine. This evening we aim to soothe and inspire.
Reflections:
Date: 11/9
1pm-3pm Cheryl Boyce-Taylor “BUSH MEDICINE: Writing the entire body by honoring the spiritual and authentic language and customs of our ancestors past and present.”
3pm-4pm Yoga & Rhythm with Aura Soleil a beginner-friendly, vibrant and rhythmic exploration of breathwork and heat building postures featuring an Afrobeat mix.
Projections:
Date: 11/9 | 6pm-10pm
Driving The Green Book by Alvin Hall. Explore Black resourcefulness during Jim Crow with a film screening and discussion hosted by the filmmaker.
Reflections:
Date: 11/10 | 2pm-4pm
The Breath of Time with Amanda Gloria Valdes, a meditative walk to share stories from different periods of African history—from pre-colonial Africa to the transatlantic slave trade and into contemporary Black communities worldwide.
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FUTURE CODA
Saturday September 14th 2024 |6PM – 11PM
BGX Gallery | 192 Front Street NY, NY 10038
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FUTURE CODA is an experiment in programming. More than a brand or a business offering, we have an energy we recently touched that will be reprised in part with the meeting of two sonic wizards for a special evening.
6pm | lite bites + sorrel + DJ set w/ Jahmedicine
7pm | music + storytelling with Arsalan
8:30pm | DJ set w/ Jahmedicine
Arsalan Ibrahim was born and raised in Oakland, California. In search for the roots of African American life, he was led to Mali where he unexpectedly reconnected with some of his ancestral people, the Songhai and Mande. While there he was initiated as a Jeli of the Mande tradition – an ancient order that acts as the repository of knowledge of the Mande people of West Africa.
Jahmedicine is a Brooklyn native and keeper of many souls. His sonic alchemy connects people throughout the African Diaspora. He is a spiritualist and MC that bridges where Black people have been and where we are.
FUTURE CODA will be hosted by Kadiatou & Kamau Ware.
The music & storytelling of the Jeli, seamlessly weaves together traditional folk lore, history, spiritual wisdom, and the blues into a unique experience that informs the mind and moves the heart and stirs the soul.
This evening will take place at BGX Gallery of Black Gotham Experience, a 14-year institution that elevates the impact of the African Diaspora on New York City.
BGX Gallery
Front St between Fulton & John Street / Seaport District (Manhattan)
Train Access: A, C, 2, 3, 4, 5, J, or Z to Fulton Street.
*Segments of the experience may be live-streamed to and/or recorded.*
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