2022-2023 season

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For Black People

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Featuring solo and chamber music works for flute, cello, soprano and piano by Tania León, Andre Myers, Zenobia Powell Perry, Coleridge Taylor-Perkinson, Undine Smith Moore, and Daniel Bernard Roumain. 
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November 27, 2022, 3:00pm @ Linde Center for Music and Learning, Lenox/Stockbridge, MA

Her Phantom happiness: Anthony R. green portrait concert

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Castle of our Skins is excited to be back in residence at the Longy School of Music of Bard College! As part of our fourth annual residency, we will feature an immersive three-day residency focused on the music of Anthony R. Green complete with lectures, master classes, open rehearsals and concerts culminating in our portrait concert: Her Phantom Happiness.
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December 9, 2022, 8:00pm @ Pickman Hall, Longy School of Music
Castle of our Skins is an Ensemble in Residence at the Longy School of Music at Bard College.

It must all be done in darkness...

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It must all be done in darkness ... is a multimedia performance project examining the seven years of isolation endured by abolitionist and writer Harriet Jacobs. Created by Anthony R. Green, this world premiere critiques racial and scientific practices that “other” Black physiologies while celebrating Jacobs through film, spoken word, performance art, audience participation, music and more.
 
April 15, 2023, 7:00pm @ Boston Center for the Arts Plaza Theatre

time is an impatient thing

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The concept of time being impatient touches on each piece of this program in a distinctly unique way, from the asymmetrical and ever-shifting to the mysterious and provocative. Featuring a world premiere work by Allison Loggins-Hull written in honor of our 10th anniversary featuring coloratura soprano Dr. Louise Toppin.
 
May 17, 2023, 7:30pm @ Philadelphia Chamber Music Society

2022-2023 ​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.
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Meet our 2022-2023 Creative in Residence: Angel C. Dye

Celebrating Black Artistry Through Music

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Massq Ball 2022 origin - the massq ball

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The MassQ Ball will feature the diverse artistic expressions of and for Boston’s communities of color. A space for connection and healing, this intergenerational, cross-cultural exhibition of the arts asks the question “If we, together, could author our own creation story, what would we create?

MassQ Ball 2022: Origin is co-produced by Castle of our Skins, visual artist Daniel Callahan of Create & Record, and the Arnold Arboretum. A series of lectures, panels, and interactive experiences designed to deepen our collective understanding, MassQ Ball 2022: Origin will culminate in a final, large-scale celebration called MassQ Ball that will take place on July 9, 2022, at the Arboretum.
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July 9, 2022, 2:00-7:00pm @ The Arnold Arboretum
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Learn more about MassQ Ball 2022: Origin at MassQBall.com
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For black people

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Featuring the world premiere of Daniel Bernard Roumain's Music for Black People as part of Celebrity Series of Boston's Solo(s) Together project. Rescheduled due to COVID-19. FREE!
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September 10, 2022, 3:00pm @ Arlington Street Church
September 22, 2022, 4:00pm Digital Premiere
​Castle of our Skins is a Neighborhood Artist

Walker at 100

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In collaboration with violinist and composer Gregory Walker, Castle of our Skins is honored to present lectures, master classes and performances centering Black artistry and the life and works of Pulitzer-Prize winning composer George Walker. 

October 3, 2022, 2:30pm @ ​Boston University College of Fine Arts Marshall Room
October 4, 2022, 9:30am @ Boston Univestiy College of Fine Arts Room 171
October 5, 2022, 2:30pm @ Boston University College of Fine Arts Marshall Room
October 7, 2022, 8:00pm @ Boston University College of Fine Arts Concert Hall and streaming on YouTube.

Hardened beauty

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Featuring music by Derrick Skye, Yaz Lancaster and world premieres by Bongani Ndodana-Breen and Renée C. Baker, Hardened Beauty showcases works that touch on global identities, histories, stories, and subjects that are both personal and universal. 
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October 23, 2022, 1:30pm @ ​Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Love Affects

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A reprise of our first concert EVER, Love Affects, pairs music with text to explore how love influences our sense of self, humanity, heritage, and future. Co-curated with Shirley Graham du Bois Creative in Residence Angel C. Dye.

November 17, 2022, 6:30pm @ The Boston Athenaeum
November 18, 2022, 7:00pm @ The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, presented by 5 Boroughs Music Festival
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