Vision Festival 25

This year, Pioneer Works joins Arts for Art in proudly celebrating 25 years of a collective artistic vision. Vision Festival 25: Breaking Free, Coming Home will bring together the buoyant voices of hundreds of artists of various disciplines—Free Jazz, poetry, visual arts, conversations— to speak the message of hope and justice with unfettered creativity.

Since 1996, the Vision Festival has created and guaranteed a space for improvisation as a leading creative language, and has been named “one of New York’s most essential art events” by The New York Times.

One of the first in-person music festivals to return to New York City, Vision 25 will take place over seven nights, July 22-23 and 29-30 at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, and July 24-25 and 31 at The Clemente in the Lower East Side, and all events will be in-person, outdoors, and livestreamed. Tickets are available now at Eventbrite.

Find more info below on the schedule of performances at Pioneer Works.

For the full schedule, please visit www.artsforart.org/vision.

VISION FESTIVAL 25
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE AT PIONEER WORKS

THURSDAY, JULY 22

6:00pm Opening Healing Ceremony

William Parker - bass / Patricia Nicholson Parker - text, movement / Jean Carla Rodea - voice / Michael T.A. Thompson - drums

7:00pm Music for a Free World Septet

Dave Sewelson – baritone sax / Aquiles Navarro - trumpet / Steve Swell – trombone / Dave Hofstra - tuba / Ava Mendoza - guitar / William Parker - bass / Marvin “Bugalu” Smith - drums

8:00pm Cooper-Moore Solo

Cooper-Moore - piano

8:45pm Dave Burrell & Darius Jones Duo

Dave Burrell - piano / Darius Jones - alto saxophone

9:45pm Matthew Shipp String Trio

Matthew Shipp - piano / Mat Maneri - viola / William Parker - bass

FRIDAY, JULY 23
Amina Claudine Myers Lifetime of Achievement Celebration

6:30pm The Amina Claudine Myers Voice Octet

7:30pm Poet Tyehimba Jess

8:00pm  Generation IV

Amina Claudine Myers – voice, piano / Richarda Abrams – voice / Pyeng Threadgill – voice / Luna Threadgill-Moderbacher - voice

9:00pm Reflections: A Portrait of Amina Claudine Myers

Documentary film by Moon Lasso, produced by Arts for Art

9:30pm The Amina Claudine Myers Trio

Amina Claudine Myers – piano, Hammond B3 / Jerome Harris - bass

Reggie Nicholson – drums

THURSDAY, JULY 29

6:00pm Elder Ones

Amirtha Kidambi - voice, harmonium / Matt Nelson - tenor saxophone / Eva Lawitts - bass / Max Jaffe - drums

7:00pm James Brandon Lewis Quartet

James Brandon Lewis - tenor saxophone / Aruán Ortiz - piano / Brad Jones - bass / Chad Taylor - drums

8:00pm Julie Ezelle Patton Rock Paper Twister

Julie Ezelle Patton - sound artist / Janice Lowe - piano / Paul Van Curen - guitar  / Nasheet Waits - drums / William Parker - bass / Special Guest - Vinie Burrows

8:45pm Mara Rosenbloom Presents Flyways

Mara Rosenbloom - piano / Anaïs Maviel - voice, surdo / Rashaan Carter - bass

9:45pm Trio 3 + Special Guest

Oliver Lake - alto saxophone / Reggie Workman - bass / Andrew Cyrille - drums + Special Guest - piano

FRIDAY, JULY 30

6:00pm Brandon Lopez Trio

Brandon Lopez – bass / Gerald Cleaver – drums / Steve Baczkowski – woodwinds

7:00pm Ingrid Laubrock’s Monochromes

Jon Irabagon – saxophones / Ingrid Laubrock - saxophones/ Zeena Parkins – harp / Hamid Drake – drums

Commissioned by NYSCA

8:00pm fly or die

jaimie branch - trumpet, voice, percussion / Lester St. Louis - cello, voice, percussion / Jason Ajemian- bass / Chad Taylor - drums, mbira, voice

8:45pm Moten / Lopez / Cleaver

Fred Moten - poetry / Brandon Lopez - bass / Gerald Cleaver - drums

9:30pm David Murray Octet Revival

David Murray – tenor sax, compositions / Lakecia Benjamin – alto sax / Terry Greene II – trombone / Josh Evans – trumpet / Mingus Murray – guitar / David Bryant – piano / Dezron Douglas – bass / Russell Carter – drums

Commissioned by Chamber Music America