2021-2022 season
upcoming
2021-2022 SHIRLEY GRAHAM DU BOIS CREATIVE IN RESIDENCE
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The Shirley Graham Du Bois Creative in Residency program is generously funded by donors Arlene and Larry Dunn and invites creative artists to collaborate in various ways with COOS throughout the season.
Meet our 2021-2022 Creative in Residence: Marlanda Dekine-Sapient Soul |
Love and Justice
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Our season opener includes the debut performance of our Shirley Graham du Bois Creative in Residence, poet Marlanda Dekine-Sapient Soul! The virtual performance includes original poetry and songs for soprano and piano with music by Margaret Bonds, Undine Smith Moore, R. L. Owens, and Adolphus Hailstork's MLK-inspired art song "Songs of Love and Justice."
Musicians include pianist Julia Scott Carey and soprano Brianna J. Robinson. July 27, 2021 @7:30pm: Broadcast from Youtube & Facebook |
#BCMC 2.0
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Composers who identify as Black and part of the African diaspora are challenged to compose pieces for flute and harp!
Each piece must be approx. 30 seconds or less and scored for: - solo flute (piccolo, C, and alto) - solo harp - flute & harp duo Questions? Please email anthony@castleskins.org. Pieces are due August 1, 2021 by 11:59PM For MORE INFO, please visit our BIBA Blog |
Murenga Sororenzou
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In collaboration with the Boston Lyric Opera, we are excited to co-present the world premiere performance of an original musical narrative by Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa Nzou Mambano:
Muerenga Sororenzou, an ancient Ngano (sacred story). August 28, 2021, time TBA: DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum
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Miniature festival
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Join us for an evening nightcap of original poetry and bubbly, all from the comfort of your own home! Bring a drink to settle in; we'll provide the poetry.
In this special evening, we'll present poet Enzo Silon Surin who will read poems from his newly released book When My Body Was a Clinched Fist. September 23, 2020 @8pm: On Facebook & Instagram |
be still and know
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Featuring vocal and piano selections by Florence Price, Jacqueline B. Hairston, Margaret Bonds and Zenobia Powell Perry, interwoven with poetry readings and history sharing.
With soprano Brianna J. Robinson, pianist Julia Scott Carey and spoken word/history telling by Ashleigh Gordon. October 24, 2020 at 4:00pm - ZOOM Castle of our Skins is proud performing ensemble on Celebrity Series of Boston's Neighborhood Artist series. |
safika: dr. bongani ndodana-breen portrait concert
Castle of our Skins is an Ensemble in Residence at Roxbury's Hibernian Hall.
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Through multimedia, spoken word, dialogue, movement, and music, Black Love will explore themes of self-affirmation, self-care, healing and sexuality.
Black Love will also include a special month-long 3D digital healing space installation that will teach you how to build your own personal alter healing space, a virtual Black Love Market complete with 5%-15% off discounts to your favorite expressions of Black artistry, AND a post world premiere gathering space for healing led by The Wellness Collaborative, Inc. Month-long events + a YouTube streaming concert performance November 13 - 15, 2020: MORE INFO HERE |
sound & appliqué
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Inspired by The Phillips Collection’s "Riffs and Relations: African American Artists & the European Modernist Tradition," exhibit, Castle of our Skins presents In Black & White: a musical dialogue between African American composers of recent times and European composers with whom they were engaged. As Riffs and Relations seeks to draw visual connections, In Black & White showcases the lengthy and complicated intermingling with African American composers and European aesthetics.
January 15, 2021 @7:00pm Castle of our Skins is a Launchpad Resident at Boston Center for the Arts. Co-Sponsored by Boston Center for the Arts and The Phillips Collections. |
