FIRE!!: A Celebration of Radical Black Expression
Fri, Nov 06
|Longy School of Music of Bard College
Inspired by the revolutionary spirit of the 1926 magazine Fire!!, this interdisciplinary performance & artist salon brings musicians, writers, thinkers, & audiences together to celebrate Black artists who challenge convention, embrace creative risk, and imagine new possibilities for expression.
Time & Location
Nov 06, 2026, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Longy School of Music of Bard College, 27 Garden St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
About the event
Inspired by the revolutionary spirit of the 1926 literary magazine Fire!!, this event is part performance, part conversation, and part artist salon, bringing musicians, writers, thinkers, and audiences into dialogue. Drawing from a lineage of Black artists who have challenged convention and expanded the boundaries of form, FIRE!! creates space for experimentation, collaboration, and the exchange of ideas, celebrating artists who embrace creative risk and imagine new possibilities for Black expression.
More than a performance, FIRE!! invites audiences to step inside the conversation, where creativity becomes a catalyst for connection, curiosity, and new ways of imagining Black expression.
Music Program
Jessie Cox: Quantify for string quartet
Brian Raphael Nabors: Wonder for violin & cello
Errollyn Wallen: The Negro Speaks of Rivers for string quartet