Eastman Invocations I – 24 March
Elaine performs Memorial by George E. Lewis and an improvisation with George Lewis & Sean Griffin
Eastman Invocations II – 25 March
Elaine performs The Nude Voice [solo I]
Hawkins/Mitchener Quartet
SWEET TOOTH
SWEET TOOTH marks the culmination of five years’ research by Mitchener into our love of sugar and the historical links between the UK sugar industry and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
SWEET TOOTH has been supported with public funding from Arts Council England. Commissioned by Bluecoat in partnership with the Stuart Hall Foundation, London and The International Slavery Museum with further support from PRSF Open Fund, Edge Hill University, Centre 151 and St George’s Bloomsbury.
SWEET TOOTH
SWEET TOOTH marks the culmination of five years’ research by Mitchener into our love of sugar and the historical links between the UK sugar industry and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
SWEET TOOTH has been supported with public funding from Arts Council England. Commissioned by Bluecoat in partnership with the Stuart Hall Foundation, London and The International Slavery Museum with further support from PRSF Open Fund, Edge Hill University, Centre 151 and St George’s Bloomsbury.
New Voices: Ailie Robertson
Stay on it by Julius Eastman
Part of Apartment House 2 day residency
Alexander Hawkins/Elaine Mitchener Quartet
‘UpRoot’ Album Launch
Alexander Hawkins/Elaine Mitchener Quartet represents the first major collaboration of two of the most distinctive voices of their generation, and stakes out a remarkable common ground from the pair’s vast range of influences and experience.
Neil Charles double bass | Stephen Davis drums | Alexander Hawkins piano, compositions | Elaine Mitchener voice
Lecture presentation and workshop
Vocal Classics Of The Black Avant-Garde
Part of London Contemporary Music Festival
Elaine Mitchener turns to the black avant-garde and to the overflow of experiment that occurred within improvised music, often springing directly from lived experiences of racial injustice.
For Vocal Classics Of The Black Avant-Garde, highly charged and political works by Eric Dolphy, Archie Shepp, Joseph Jarman, and Jeanne Lee will be re-interpreted and re-presented by an ensemble of leading UK jazz musicians brought together for this event by Elaine Mitchener Projects.
