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PORTLAND PROTESTS
March 18, 2022 | 7:30 PM
March 19, 2022 | 3:00 PM
Alberta House | 5131 NE 23rd Ave, Portland, OR
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On Saturday, March 18 and Sunday, March 19, 2023, Resonance Ensemble returns to the Historic Alberta House for “Portland Protests,” the third concert of their 14th season. Led by guest conductor Shohei Kobayashi, Resonance will offer an evening of vocal music and poetry in dialogue with visual art and photography of Portland’s racial justice protests of 2020–2021, and joined by a string quartet from Portland’s Fear No Music. A panel discussion with featured artists will follow.
Works by Margaret Bonds, David Lang, and Joel Thompson will be heard alongside newly commissioned poetry and music by acclaimed local poets and composers. With texts from writer A. Mimi Sei, Resonance Ensemble Poet-in-Residence S. Renee Mitchell, and spoken word artist Vin Shambry set to music by Judy A. Rose, Kimberly Osberg, and Fear No Music’s Kenji Bunch, audiences will be invited to consider and intentionally remember our city’s past, collectively grieve, and dare to envision more just futures.
Also featured:
Vanport Mosaic presents four large-scale oil paintings by Portland-based Dutch artist Henk Pander, created in response to 2020’s racial justice protests.
Portland-based media artists Jodi Darby, Julie Perini and Erin Yanke share an excerpt from their film Arresting Power.
A panel discussion will follow, inviting conversation and reflection.
Performers and Guest Artists:
Shohei Kobayashi, guest conductor
Kenji Bunch, composer
S. Renee Mitchell, poet-in-residence
Kimberly R. Osberg, composer
Judy A. Rose, composer
A. Mimi Sei, poet
Vin Shambry, poet
Fear No Music, string quartet
Vanport Mosaic, Art installation by Henk Pander
Resonance Ensemble
This concert is generously supported by
Ronni LaCroute
The Dinah Dodds Fund for the Creation of New Art
The Nguyen Family
The Regional Arts and Culture Council
Oregon Cultural Trust
Rachel Hadiashar, Photographer
