Doors: 7:30pm
Music: 8pm

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Matteo presents a radio receiver scanning for signals that weren't meant for this. Noise, fragments of songs, an ad, voice. Static leaking between channels.  Broadcast into the air and caught out of context. A practice of reaching for things that aren't fully legible. An attempt to find what the illegible has to say.

Motherboard offers a stripped-down set of selected songs from their upcoming self-titled album. Celebrating their first single release, "Measures."

prosthesis - extended ad infinitum by itself by Maya Kaya is an electroacoustic piece for oboe and live electronics. Inspired by Jean Baudrillard’s The Transparency of Evil: Essays on Extreme Phenomena, prosthesis is an investigation of identity and alienation through repetition and noise. 

Olek will be presenting a new piece for unplugged amplified bowed electric guitar and pre-recorded electronics. Deciding against traditional guitar pick-up amplification, the performance will reveal the beautiful resonances and textures sounding on the surface of the strings and body of the instrument.

This is a collaboration with the Department of Electronic Production and Design at Berklee.

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Matteo is a Venezuelan-Honduran artist and electronic performer based in Boston. Raised part of his life around antenna technicians in Honduras, signals and static became a reference for his projects as N3blina. His practice centers on collaboration with circuits, radios, and machines, incorporating elements of drone and ambient. He is currently a student at Berklee College of Music.

Motherboard is a queer, non-binary vocalist, songwriter, producer, and sound designer from South Bend, Indiana. Their work explores the emotional complexities of navigating dynamics in queer relationships and identity through the perspective of a Midwestern upbringing in the U.S. They blend acoustic instrumentation with electronic textures and detailed vocal processing. Alongside performing with a live band, they play improvised ambient sets that include processed vocals and the Moog Grandmother, accompanied by generative drone sounds. Their musical palette values the delicate marriage between organic acoustic timbres and electronic soundscapes. They are deeply inspired and influenced by the music of Frank Ocean, Kate Bush, Beach House, and Fleetwood Mac. They are currently working on their self-titled debut album, as well as an experimental, groove-driven collaborative project with electric violinist Omer Kochba. They are currently attending Berklee College of Music in the Electronic Production and Design Program and serve as co-president of the Women and Nonbinary Producers Collective.

Maya Kaya is a Boston-based oboist, improviser, songwriter, and producer whose work explores the sonic possibilities of the oboe in acoustic and electro-acoustic improvisational settings. Beginning her classical training at age eight at the Istanbul State Conservatory, she developed a strong foundation in contemporary and classical performance practices while cultivating an interest in experimental music and electronic sound. Kaya is currently pursuing a double major in Oboe Performance and Electronic Production & Design at Berklee College of Music. Her practice combines improvisation, live electronics, songwriting, and production, often integrating acoustic instruments with digital processing and experimental textures. Working across genres and collaborative settings, she is interested in creating musical environments that blur the boundaries between composition, improvisation, and sound design.

Olek Nivette is a Polish composer, performer, music producer, and event curator, active in the experimental music scenes of East Coast USA and Poland. He performs on electric guitar, violin, and electronics, with various collaborators, as well as in solo sets. Olek’s practice is centered around the creation of unconventional live musical experiences, existing between theatre and concert, where he explores the possibilities of what a concert can be. A large part of his artistry revolves around collaborations, working on projects with choreographers, filmmakers, visual artists, and writers. He is also passionate about bringing together often separated musical styles and different art forms, as well as their respective communities. He runs a series of immersive intermedia art events called Jawa in Warsaw, as well as Allston New Music Festival, a cross-genre festival of creative music in Massachusetts. Olek’s most recent musical project is Everything, a newly formed band exploring genre-defying group improvisations, with their music ranging from and intertwining repetitive mantras, simple vocal melodies, and pop samples to wild drums, bowed guitar, overwhelming electronics, and multi-media explorations. He is also preparing several recording releases set to come out later this year, including his electronic productions, bowed guitar compositions, and duo improvisations.

An evening of chatting and crafting with local Allston-Brighton artists interested in learning about creative civic engagement at the City of Boston. This event will include a craft + design intensive where Allston-Brighton artists explore how to use their “artistic thinking” to explore and solve hypothetical City issues.  Feedback from this session will help the City reimagine their Artist-in-Residence (AiR) program which pairs artists with City departments to uncover community needs and find creative solutions to City-wide infrastructure. 

Light refreshments will be provided. We can accommodate 25 people with priority to artists living and/or working in Allston-Brighton

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Doors: 7:30pm
Music: 8pm

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Stephen Marotto, Freya Downey, and Aaron Michael Smith present three pieces for strings and electronic sounds by composers exploring the paradoxical, the textural, and music’s uncanny ability to plumb the depths of inarticulability. All three pieces explore extended definitions of what one might recognize as harmony as well as new explorations of rhythm and how one could perceive beats and repetition. Utilizing the full range of the viola and the cello, the performers, with near-childlike curiosity, find ways to integrate their sounds and to bring noise and the repulsive into the realm of the vulnerable and the pleasurable.

Compositions:

James Tenney’s Two Koans and a Canon for viola with tape-delay system (arr. for cello) (1992)
Stephen Marotto (cello)

Lea Bertucci’s The Cepheid Variations for cello, viola, and electronics (2015)
Stephen Marotto (cello) and Aaron Michael Smith (viola)

Aaron Michael Smith’s a tendency to fill for two amplified violas, wooden dowels & electronics (2026)
Freya Downey (viola) and Aaron Michael Smith (viola)

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Stephen Marotto, Violoncello. A native of Norwalk, Connecticut, Stephen has received a Bachelor’s degree with honors from the University of Connecticut, a Master’s degree from Boston University, and a Doctorate of Musical Arts degree at BU under the direction of Michael Reynolds. Stephen’s formative teachers include Kangho Lee, Marc Johnson, and Rhonda Rider. A passionate advocate for contemporary music, Stephen is a member of the contemporary sinfonietta Sound Icon and performs regularly with new music ensembles such as Callithumpian Consort and Guerilla Opera. He performs frequently throughout Boston and across the greater New England region. Stephen has attended music festivals at the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada, SoundSCAPE in Maccagno, Italy, and the Summer Course for New Music in Darmstadt, Germany. Stephen has also played in master classes for artists such as the Arditti Quartet and JACK Quartet. Stephen has a wide range of musical interest that include contemporary chamber music, improvisatory music, and electronic music. Stephen has commissioned several new works for the instrument and is very interested in expanding the tonal palette of the cello both with and without technology. He has premiered new works for cello and electronics by composers such as Per Bloland, Kerrith Livengood, and Brian Riordan. He has also given U.S. premiers of solo works by Klaus Lang and Sarah Nemtsov. Stephen was a featured solo performer at the SEAMUS National Conference in both 2022 and 2026. Stephen is also the Director of Strings for the Summer Institute for Contemporary Music formerly held at New England Conservatory. Stephen recorded the complete works of Morton Feldman for cello and piano for Mode Records and can also be heard on New Focus Recordings. In his spare time, Stephen is an avid hiker, paddler, and outdoorsman. Stephen hopes to visit all 63 U.S. National Parks and climb all 50 state highpoints in his lifetime.

Freya Downey, violist, advocates for mindfulness, accessibility, and creativity in classical music through classical performance, improvisation, and composition. Her most recent performances include a solo recital entitled “All is Well,” a faculty recital at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, and solo improvisations at the Transporter Series in Boston, MA. Freya was awarded the Graduate Arts Research Grant from the Boston University Arts Initiative for her composition, Presence in Sound, a Deep Listening and improvisation-based viola concerto, intended to invite musicians and audience members alike to engage in listening as a form of creativity. Her work as a soloist was featured in Project Pause: 4 recitals in 8 months, founded in Oklahoma, to explore connective performances and expand awareness of her instrument as a soloist voice in a format that is welcoming and accessible for all. As a chamber musician, she has appeared at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall alongside the Fest Quartet as the winner of Baylor University’s Semper Pro Musica Chamber Music Competition. Additionally, she was also the founding violist of the Claeys Undergraduate String Quartet at the University of Oklahoma. Freya is currently a Doctor of Musical Arts candidate in Viola Performance at Boston University and holds degrees from Baylor University and the University of Oklahoma. Her primary instructors include Michelle LaCourse, Kathryn Steely, and Mark Neumann. In her free time, Freya enjoys painting, reading, fiber arts, and spending time with her dog. 

Aaron Michael Smith is a composer, violist and artist currently based in Boston, MA. Aaron is interested in exploring the way that various practices and mediums overlap, reflect and contradict one another. He is often engaged in collaborations with filmmakers, visual artists, philosophers, poets and other musicians. A large part of his practice since 2012 has been making experimental films which have gone on to be featured at numerous international film festivals. In 2023, Aaron did the music for their first feature-length film, Playland, which premiered internationally at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, and nationally at the Tribeca Festival. Aaron is a co-curator, along with Jordan Kokot, of field|guide, a collaborative multimedia art book project. Aaron is one third of grein, an experimental improv trio, with Jay Rauch and Jonathan Rodriguez, with one release on Dinzu Artefacts. In 2024 Aaron co-founded a music series/experimental curation space called TRANSPORTER with Jessica Hernandez, hosted at Boston Cyberarts Gallery in Jamaica Plain. They throw shows, host experiments and workshops, and foster community. Aaron completed a Master’s in music composition at Boston University with Joshua Fineberg and Rodney Lister. Previously he graduated from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, receiving degrees in music composition and viola performance, including a minor in electronic music. He is currently on the composition faculty at New England Conservatory for their Extended Education and Preparatory Schools, and teaches violin, viola and composition privately.

Brahmand is an 8-hour durational performance by Maithili Rajput.

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breathe tighten choke inhale exhale sweat blur freeze rush stop dizzy fall pull collapse hold pulse panic pressure cold heat noise silence crowd alone stuck trapped compress sleep break continue wait sit fight stand walk lie blink look listen shake touch hold shift turn move pause resume panic drift forget remember delay shrug sigh yawn stare smile repeat continue

For eight hours, a body remains within a sealed fragile structure that shifts and degrades over time. Actions within the interior do not produce stable or immediately legible outcomes; the effort toward emergence is delayed, partial, or met with resistance. The work inhabits a condition in which causality is obscured and the boundary between protection and confinement is indistinguishable.

Drawing from the concept of Brahmand, the installation approaches existence as a cyclical system rather than a linear progression. Formation and collapse operate as simultaneous conditions; transformation occurs only through the sustained labor of repetition and the eventual necessity of rupture.

The body is shaped not only by its own internal drive but by the accumulated stress of unpredictable external pressure. As the structure is breached whether from within or through the choice of the observer, agency becomes shared and responsibility difficult to locate. The work unfolds through duration and vulnerability, existing in the tension between a body’s impulse to persist and a system that withholds resolution.

Audience members are invited to engage with and gradually alter the structure throughout the performance using provided tools. While visitors may enter at any time, they are encouraged to witness the final stages of the work as the structure slowly breaks apart and the body emerges from within.

Brahmanda (Sanskrit: ब्रह्माण्ड) The cosmic egg. It represents the universe as a self-contained, cyclical totality where creation and dissolution occur simultaneously. It is the macrocosm mirrored in the microcosm of the body: a singularity that must rupture to expand.

Maithili Rajput (b. India) is a Boston-based interdisciplinary artist working across sculpture, performance, video, and installation. Her practice functions through the construction of controlled environments that subject the body to rigorous repetition, duration, and physical constraint. Through these labor-intensive systems, Rajput regulates movement and exposure to investigate the psychological architecture of endurance.

Doors: 7:30pm
Music: 8pm

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Contemporary music by MINK Duo combining trumpet, trombone, electronics, and improvisation featuring guest artist Syd Lane on electric guitar.

Contemporary viola and tenor viol by Laura Caridad Avila.

This is a benefit concert to raise funds for MINK Duo's upcoming participation in the Bang on a Can summer festival.

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MINK Duo is an emerging new music collaboration between trumpeter Nick Hill and trombonist Mikayla Frank-Martin. They are strongly invested in the creation of an increased repertoire for trumpet/trombone through commissioning new works from composers all around the globe. MINK Duo values collaboration in many forms, having shared programs and worked jointly on larger works with other artists. MINK showcases Nick and Mikayla's shared fearlessness and sense of humor in delivering a body of work that brings a refreshing sincerity into today’s irony-washed world.

Laura Caridad Avila (they/she) is a Multi-Instrumentalist, Poet, Composer, and Multi-Media Artist from Albany, New York currently based in Boston, Massachusetts. They have a bachelor’s degree in Viola Performance with a minor in Art History and Creative Writing Concentration from Ithaca College, where she was known for curating recitals incorporating visual art, transforming traditional concert venues into engaging visual gallery spaces, one concert of which was entirely dedicated to Bob Ross’ show, "The Joy of Painting". In getting their master's degree from the Longy School of Music of Bard College, Laura has had the privilege of creating concert experiences that highlight underrepresented experiences within society like the femme, immigrant, queer, gender expansive, and experiences of people of color, respectively.  

As a composer, her work involves text and dialogue from the mundane. Her work aims to explore that which we covet yet think is not worth sharing with other beings with the belief that the mundane is the core of our life’s essence. In a literary sense, their work finds itself encapsulating what we learn in looking through the eyes of those around us, and how we relate to them on a spiritual and emotional plane. Accompanying their curated programming, Laura typically includes visual works of drawings with ink on canvas to provide a physical emblem of the mental pictures they associate with the auditory work that they present. In concert, Laura has had the privilege to perform with esteemed groups like Palaver Strings, brilliant composer-performers such as Daniel Bernard Roumain, and has had the honor of performing in spaces ranging from local art galleries to Troy Savings Bank Music Hall and Carnegie Hall.  

In addition to their Performance and Composition careers, she has also had the honor of establishing a career as an award-winning educator. With over two years of experience supporting public music educators both in and out of the classroom, in addition to a studio of their own viola and violin students, Laura has dedicated themselves to the fascinating process of understanding how we learn the way we do, and how to be kind to ourselves as we do it at every age.  

Laura has had the pleasure of studying Viola Performance with Matthew Johnson, Kyle Armbrust, and Ralph Farris, and Composition with Alexandra du Bois. Their art history mentors were Jennifer Jolly and Paul Wilson, and their writing mentors were Christine Kitano and Derek Adams.

Copenger x UVA is excited to invite you to a hot pot reception for A Shell, A Peel, A Pause. In the spirit of A Pause, we welcome visitors to take a seat with us and the work, slow down, and share space. Hot pot will be vegetarian and gluten-free.

Limited spots available, RSVP mandatory. Reserve your spot here.

A Shell, A Peel, A Pauseis a three person exhibition featuring works by Miguel Caba, An Hà, and Vivian Tran. The minimal, poetic, and rhythmic title gestures toward sites of protection, transfiguration, and stillness, among other possibilities. Drawing from familiar, everyday objects, imagery, and iconography, the artists breathe life into the mundane.

Caba’s wallpapers depict their grandmother’s distant home, the paintings bridge distance yet exist at a moment paused as their facade slips away. Tran’s wall collage wraps around the interior and stitches disparate narratives together through their horizon lines. Hà reanimates byproducts that are in the periphery of the everyday, echoing past narratives.

The works offer familiar space for daydreaming, inviting viewers to reconsider what might exist beyond the horizon.

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Doors: 7:30pm
Music: 8pm
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Performances by D. Wibowo and Isabella Febbroriello.

Isabella Febbroriello works with space and sound to articulate the percussions of capital and gross excess.

The performance will be a mixture of projection and usage of found objects turned assorted instruments.

D. Wibowo is a Jakarta-born woman, and just another artist — corresponding the acts of cultural sampling, walks, and site specific considerations into frame by frames, fabrication, and generative harmonies of signal flow.

“I decide to emphasize ongoing processes over fixed outcomes, using sound and motion as primary language to examine the collective experience; aiming to translate this notion through architectural formats, decolonizing the techno-logic by foregrounding our roots of improvisational experimentation, accessibility, sustainability, and learning through making.“

Wibowo’s work has been presented internationally at the Sundance Film Festival, SXSW, and Art on the Mart. She is currently a recipient of the Mitchell Grant for Sound Artists and Visionary Scholars Award.

Archival Divide - Arsip Terbagi

I will be performing a wall-separated diptych experience; composed of a body-visual composition with a generative sound set that unites the ambiance. I invite the audience to move around the space to complete the information that neither the performer nor the monitor will be able to witness / whether the monitor has something to witness is something up to the audience to decide.

This performance poses the question of importance when we talk about materiality, a dialectic on what truly magnetizes — a mixed signal of digital archive born out of physical production and visualization of history, or the present production of the body in time. Spatiality is especially unique at UVA’s landscape, we are entering the private public space, intimacy will be present.

Draw, sip, snack, and chat! Instructed by Lee Collilouri, this workshop is for anyone looking to expand their drawing skills and socialize. The event is open to any and all skill levels – no prior experience necessary!

Drinks, refreshments, and supplies provided, but feel free to bring your own materials or a project you're working on!

A special preview performance of "Under the Skin," a concert series debuting new compositions.

Under the Skin explores the complex relationships we hold with our physical, mental, and spiritual bodies, and how these deeply personal experiences can become points of connection with others. Through music, movement, and visual art, this program examines what it means to live inside a body: to negotiate pleasure, pain, agency, and self-perception.

The composers, performers, artists, and dancers featured in this recital represent a wide range of perspectives across the gender spectrum. Together, they celebrate the many intersections of the femme experience and invite reflection, conversation, and collective witnessing. Interactive elements, such as writing, coloring, and participatory music-making, invite the audience to share their experiences too.

Featuring world-premiers by Chloe Smith, Yangfan Xu, Athos Maelstrom, Manuela Cardona, Kayla Cashetta, and Mikayla Frank-Martin. Additional works by Jacob TV and Jane Rigler.

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Admission is a wishlist item for Rosie’s Place, where there will be another performance of Under the Skin on April 2nd. Please bring items from the Rosie’s Place wishlist. Free RSVP.

Please be aware that there is sensitive content mentioned in this recital: Body Dysmorphia, Eating Disorders, Depression, Anxiety.

Feel free to engage or disengage with this content in a way that is healthiest for you.

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Generously supported by the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture Opportunity Fund

Art of Intorsion presents a series of works produced by Maudegrasse from 2016 till present. Focusing on the structurally inherent tension and energy within twisted forms, Maudegrasse plays with notions of balance and framework. The use of patina and the interplay of light and shadow on the contorted bronze surfaces creates a sense of movement – snaking lines and connecting points, shifting from rigid lines to fluid curves. Even though Maudegrasse’s inspiration comes from observation of some natural phenomena, the work showcases some configurational mysteries which exist in organic forms, abstract poses, and movement dynamics.

Performances by Variant State and Isaac Roth Blumfield.

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Doors: 7:30pm
Music: 8pm

Variant State is a project originally instigated by Howard Martin (reeds), Jesse Kenas Collins (trumpet, reeds, feedback objects), and Michael Rosenstein (amplified surfaces and objects, modified field recordings.) Now primarily working as a duo, Collins and Rosenstein explore the interactions of acoustic instrumentation, electronics, multiphonics, abraded and degraded recordings, and feedback within performance spaces. Process is central to their approach. This includes building and modifying instruments, both traditional as well as those assembled from every-day objects, and investigating their use and misuse in open-form sonic investigation. They have performed for over a decade in spaces around New England.

Isaac Roth Blumfield is a composer from Saint Paul, Minnesota, currently based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He writes experimental music for acoustic and electronic instruments, exploring resonance, materiality, and affect through expanded approaches towards instruments, objects, and electronics. His music looks for uncanny places and expressions that embrace the beauty, pain, and strangeness of life.

His music has been influenced through work with performers such as Schallfeld Ensemble, Ensemble Proton Bern, SWR Symphonieorchester, Yarn/Wire, Ensemble Multilatérale, line upon line percussion trio, Ensemble Modern, and Quartetto Maurice at programs such as the Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik, Darmstädter Fereinkurse, Klangspuren Schwaz, Impuls, the Banff Centre for Creativity, New Music on the Point, and Ticino Musica Festival. His music has been broadcast on Swiss, Austrian, and Southwest German public radio and has received scholarships and residencies from the Hirschmann Stiftung, Fondation Nicati- De Luz, and the SWR Experimentalstudio. In addition to instrumental music, he is active as a performer of improvised electronic music, performing in duos with Rebecca Lawrence, Alec Toku Whiting, and as a solo artist. He studied composition and electronics in Boston, Basel, and Vienna with Stratis Minakakis, Timothy McCormack, Caspar Johannes Walter, Svetlana Maraš, and Clara Iannotta. He is currently pursuing a PhD at Harvard University, studying with Chaya Czernowin and Hans Tutschku.

A conversation with Kal Hart regarding their exhibition what could have flickered (on the cusp of a verge of a reality). Moderated by Jessica Hernandez.

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Kal is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice serves as the artist's own navigation. Their work aims to identify and reconsider what is the norm and open alternative possibilities of defining oneself in the existing system that we inhabit. To do so, they dissect, collect, and assemble familiar object(s) and graft the components together to a theme to create objects that are reminiscent of the original. These seemingly absurd objects—which are often humorous in nature—serve as a playful invitation into systemic disarray. These reconstructed objects are situated within a new system that is unfamiliar, creating a narrative that is continuously fluctuating. These narratives elude conclusions, asking the viewer to reconsider assumptions.

Kal is a Korean artist currently living in Boston. They moved to the U.S. in 2019 for their bachelor's degree, which they completed at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. They are currently based in Boston, where they are in the process of obtaining their MFA in Sculpture at Boston University.

Jessica Hernandez (she/her) is a DJ, sound artist, and curator. In terms of visual art, her interests include sculpture, installation, and textiles. She is also drawn to work that relates to archives, engages with text, and explores the ontology of objects, Blackness, and the Caribbean. As a musician and sound artist, her practice relies on the heavy processing of found samples and field recordings, often utilizing the sounds of industrial objects and materials for their sonic depth, brooding character, and conceptual resonances. In 2024, she and Aaron Michael Smith founded Transporter, an experimental music series located at the Boston Cyberarts Gallery. With Lori Martinez, she organizes WWL — a working group for queer and non-binary musicians. She runs Project One, a mix series mostly dedicated to techno. She graduated with a B.A. in Peace Conflict Studies in 2020 and an M.A. in History at the University of Virginia in 2022. She began working with UVA in 2022 and became Managing Director in 2024.

what could have flickered (on the cusp of a verge of a reality) is a collection of seemingly innocuous objects that evoke curiosity; one that lingers into uneasiness. The effect of these objects becomes a needle to poke at the gaps of normalcy, disrupting the accepted societal constructs. The logic of these individual objects question what is the norm, perceived information, and established value — introducing a queer reading.

Kal is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice serves as the artist's own navigation. Their work aims to identify and reconsider what is the norm and open alternative possibilities of defining oneself in the existing system that we inhabit. To do so, they dissect, collect, and assemble familiar object(s) and graft the components together to a theme to create objects that are reminiscent of the original. These seemingly absurd objects—which are often humorous in nature—serve as a playful invitation into systemic disarray. These reconstructed objects are situated within a new system that is unfamiliar, creating a narrative that is continuously fluctuating. These narratives elude conclusions, asking the viewer to reconsider assumptions

Guided Tours of our current exhibition The Lost Paintings: A Prelude to Return with members of the curatorial team.

5:30-6:45 PM: Gallery Time with Guidance from the Curatorial Team & Visiting Artists
6:45-7:00 PM: Light Dinner sponsored by Bread Thyme
7:00-8:30 PM: Artist Panel moderated by Michael Maria (Director of Programming, Boston Palestine Film Festival) featuring Joëlle Tomb (co-curator, Lost Paintings Project) and 5 exhibiting artists: Khaled Jarrar (NYC and Jenin), Nora Sayyad (Helsinki), Iman Jabrah (Cincinnati), Sama Alshaibi (Tucson) and Doris Bittar (San Diego)
8:30-10:00 PM: Performances by Songs of Liberation and El Ärkitekt

Light food and drinks will be provided by Bread Thyme

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Guided Tours of our current exhibition The Lost Paintings: A Prelude to Return with members of the curatorial team.

2/3 members of Moon Unit (Olivia Katz and Steph Tamas) will perform a set of free improv and premiere two new works: “(un)becoming” by Dylan Dukat and “Mapped of Scars Along Interior Skin” by Dani Elizalde.

Doors: 7:30pm

Music: 8pm

Suggested Donations: $5+

This multi-instrumentalist trio (Olivia Katz, Stephen Tamas & Robert Karpay) make up Moon Unit: a genre-bending and boundary pushing ensemble that specializes in free improvisation. Moon Unit’s beliefs are based upon questioning and challenging the unspoken expectations of modern art and music by expanding sonic possibilities and reimagining stage presence. By composing in real time, ​​Moon Unit creates an intimate and unrepeatable experience among the musicians, the audience, and the space. Moon Unit is grounded in sincerity, deep and active listening, absurdity, and unfiltered expression.

dylan dukat (b. 2000) is a korean-american composer, improviser, and educator. their work has been performed by departure duo, rhythm method, eugene difficult music ensemble, and boston conservatory wind ensemble, and selected works can be found in the catalog of dulcamara press. they are currently on faculty at the boston conservatory high school composition intensive, and are former faculty at the eastern u.s. music camp, where they worked as head counselor and composition instructor. dylan also performs as part of the improvisation duo pixelated labyrinth with saxophonist ryan waller.

Dani J. Elizalde is a digital noise musician and performance artist working primarily in the Boston area. She is grown from radical cyborg and mestiza politics. Her work seeks to imagine a perverse but liberated future as it will have emerged from within the broken pieces of our shared present. By working within and between various borders policed by the agents of racial capitalism she becomes a mystic nature digitalized. Documentations of her work can be found on her youtube channel (Dani J. Elizalde) and future performances are often announced on her instagram account (@dani.the.j).

Guided Tours of our current exhibition The Lost Paintings: A Prelude to Return with members of the curatorial team.

Facilitated by Gina Al-Karablieh to accompany our current exhibition The Lost Paintings: A Prelude to Return, this workshop will draw inspiration from Maroun Tomb's work and his themes of memory, displacement, landscape, and architecture. During the workshop, participants will receive an introduction to Tomb's work and recreate their own paintings in his aesthetic.

Guided Tours of our current exhibition The Lost Paintings: A Prelude to Return with members of the curatorial team.

Guided Tours of our current exhibition The Lost Paintings: A Prelude to Return with members of the curatorial team.

Lost Art of the Levant will explore themes of reclamation, fragmentation, and rediscovery through music, performance, and Palestinian contemporary art. The program includes:

4-5pm: Guided Exhibition Tour with the curatorial team (optional)
5-6pm: Panel moderated by Nisa Ari (MassArt Associate Professor of Arts of the Islamic World) with curator Joëlle Tomb and exhibiting artists Dina Khorchid, Noel Maghathe, Mado Kelleyan, RIDIKKULUZ, and Nardeen Srouji
6-7pm: Live Performance by local band Souq El-Jum3a

Light food and drinks will be provided.

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Guided Tours of our current exhibition The Lost Paintings: A Prelude to Return with members of the curatorial team.

Guided Tours of our current exhibition The Lost Paintings: A Prelude to Return with members of the curatorial team.

Guided Tours of our current exhibition The Lost Paintings: A Prelude to Return with members of the curatorial team.

Guided Tours of our current exhibition The Lost Paintings: A Prelude to Return with members of the curatorial team.

Guided Tours of our current exhibition The Lost Paintings: A Prelude to Return with members of the curatorial team.

Guided Tours of our current exhibition The Lost Paintings: A Prelude to Return with members of the curatorial team.