The Second Annual BROOKLYN FREE SPIRIT FESTIVAL is produced by Siren Xypher Collective with support from Alan Feller & Creative Music Studio. The Free Spirit Festival convenes improvised music creatives and audiences to promote freedom of expression, inventiveness, & social-bonding as an antidote to the oppression of all life forms.

3:00pm

Improvisation Workshop (open to all!)
Kyoko Kitamura guides participants through Anthony Braxton’s Musical Systems and beyond. (90-minute workshop in two parts: Anthony Braxton’s Language Music for beginners + further explorations at 3:45pm. Score excerpts provided. Instruments welcome but not required.)

5:00pm

Listening Session & In-Person Interview: AMINA CLAUDINE MYERS
90-minutes of immersion into the luminary pianist/vocalist/composer’s multi-decade body of work. Conversation moderated by W.S. Tkweme, Pan-African Studies Professor at University of Louisville & 25 year radio programmer at stations across the US. Archival support from Ras Moshe Burnett. (Curated by Melanie Dyer)

7:30pm

DoYeon Kim - Gayageum & Voice
Cooper-Moore - Homemade Instruments
Satoshi Takeishi - Drums & Percussion

8:30pm

Mazz Swift & Ana Luisa Díaz de Cossío
Mazz Swift - Violin
Ana Luisa Díaz de Cossío - Violin

$20 Admission / day | cash or Venmo  
Daily Admission includes access to all daytime and evening events