An evening of global freedom music with the award-winning revolutionary jazz ensemble The Afro Yaqui Music Collective performing Mirror Butterfly: The Migrant Liberation Movement Suite, and poetry by Magdalena Gómez’s Erased: A Poetic Imagining on the Life of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg.

The Afro Yaqui Music Collective is a postcolonial big band which imagines a world where many worlds fit. The band is part of the legacy of the asian-american composer-activist Fred Ho, and their music draws from mainstream jazz, the avant-garde, and traditional forms from both Africa, East Asia, and American Indigenous nations. At times aggressive and caustic, it is deeply engaged in ongoing struggles for social justice and revolution.

photo by Renee Rosensteel and courtesy of the New Hazlett Theater

Featured Musicians:
Gizelxanath Rodriguez – Voice and Electric Cello
Yang Jin — Pipa
Ben Barson — Baritone Sax
Ben Opie — Alto Sax
Roger Romero — Tenor Sax
Samuel Okoh-Boateng – Piano
Beni Rossman – Bass
Hugo Macaho Cruz — Drums
Jason Gordon — Voice
Kelsey Robinson – Voice / Acting
Hope Anthony — Voice / Acting
Sydnee Turner — Voice / Acting
Alec Redd — Voice / Acting
Magdalena Gómez — Director, Playwirght, & Poet