CD Forum will once again provide a full roster of groundbreaking arts and humanities programs during our 12th consecutive season. The 2011-2012 season will feature a diverse series of events that will both challenge and entertain audience members. Our theme for the 2011-2012 season is Blues & The Funk.
Like these dynamic and migratory music styles, this season’s programs will explore a spectrum of genuine emotion, ranging from unbridled joy to deep sadness. Artists, authors, and thought leaders will wind us through stories of the fierceness that fuels the blues and the burdens that birth the funk. Check out what’s coming to the CD Forum this year.
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Freedom Rider Exhibition September 29, 7 pm, Museum of History & Industry Reexamine the remarkable story of the 1961 Freedom Rides, a pivotal event in the history of the national Civil Rights Movement, with a special event at MOHAI. Offered in conjunction with the traveling exhibit, Freedom Riders, this panel discussion will include clips from the PBS documentary, “Freedom Riders,” and feature Tacoma native, Benjameen Quarless, one of 40 college students across the country to have participated in the commemorative 2011 Student Freedom Ride. |
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Isabel Wilkerson Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson reads from her award-winning masterwork, The Warmth of Other Suns, which chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. |
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Sacred Steel Guitar: The Campbell Brothers with Earshot Jazz African-American gospel music with electric steel guitar and vocal. As the music moves from sanctuary to concert hall — including the Hollywood Bowl, the Kennedy Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music and Symphony Space — secular audiences are now able to appreciate a performance both devoted and rocking.
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The John Carlos Story Thursday, November 3, 7 pm, Northwest African American Museum Heroic, defiant and consequential, John Carlos and Tommie Smith’s iconic Black Power salute at the 1968 Olympics podium sparked controversy and career fallout. Listen to John Carlos read from his new autobiography, The John Carlos Story. |
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Hazelle Goodman
Friday, November 18 & Saturday, November 19, 8 pm, Erickson Theatre
If anyone knows how to get funky, if not downright scandalous, it is Hazelle Goodman. With feature films and an HBO Comedy Special under her belt, Hazelle packs a comedic punch as she bobs and weaves through some serious, but always hilarious commentary about our times. |
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Listen, Whitey! The Sights and Sounds of Black Power 1965-1975
Thursday, March 1, 7pm, Washington Hall (153 14th Avenue, Seattle) A chronicles the forgotten history of Motown Records. From 1970 to 1973, Motown’s Black Power subsidiary label, Black Forum, released politically charged albums by Stokely Carmichael, Amiri Baraka, Langston Hughes, Bill Cosby & Ossie Davis, and many others, all represented.
Food as Art |
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Friday, May 4 & Saturday, May 5, 8pm, Erickson Theatre The CD Forum’s CREATION Project artists always push the boundaries of aesthetic form and content. This year’s showcase will feature our two selected artists, as well as a work directed by our project mentor, Valerie Curtis-Newton, artistic director of the Hansberry project. |
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red, black, and GREEN: a blues Created by artist Mark Bamuthi Joseph, red, black, and GREEN: a blues is a full-length, multimedia performance designed to jumpstart a conversation about the environmental justice, social ecology and collective responsibility in the climate change era. Joseph last appeared in Seattle in 2009 with his critically-acclaimed work, the break/s. |
Tickets for all events go on sale September 19th and can be purchased in advance through Brown Paper Tickets at www.BrownPaperTickets.com or 1-800-838-3006.
