Rehearsals underway for "Portland Protests"
Resonance musicians at a recent rehearsal. (pictured: Top Left: Brandon Michael, Tim Galloway, Claire Robertson-Preis, Erik Hundtoft, Les Green, Hannah Brewer, DeReau K. Farrar Center: Vakare Petroliunaite, Ethan Allred, Kevin Walsh, Front Left: Jessica Israels, Emily Lau, Chris Engbretson, Kathy FitzGibbon, Amy Stuart Hunn, Shohei Kobayashi, Jackie Cano (Mar 2023)
Rehearsals are underway for our next concert “Portland Protests” and the musicians are busy rehearsing music by Margaret Bonds, David Lang, and Joel Thompson alongside newly commissioned works from local poets and composers (Pairings by A. Mimi Sei/Kenji Bunch, S. Renee Mitchell/Kim Osberg, and Vin Shambry/Judy A. Rose)
“To share these new works with this ensemble is an honor,” adds Shohei Kobayashi, guest conductor and co-artistic advisor for Resonance Ensemble. “These new choral works, their texts, and the visual and film media all speak to shared humanity, loss and being lost, the courage and fearlessness of the protesters, deep emotional exhaustion, and resilient, insistent hope.”
Also featured on the concert:
Vanport Mosaic presents four large-scale oil paintings by Portland-based Dutch artist Henk Pander, created in response to 2020’s racial justice protests. As part of the exhibit, visitors will also be able to watch The Stain, a short documentary by Jacob Pander about his father’s work lifelong commitment to unmasking fascism, shaped by his childhood in Nazi-occupied Holland.
Images from the 2020 Portland protests by photographer Tojo Andrianarivo will be projected during the concert.
Documentary filmmakers and Portland-based media artists Jodi Darby, Julie Perini and Erin Yanke share an excerpt from their film Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, Oregon, documenting the history of conflict between the Portland police and community members.
A panel discussion with guest artists will follow the performance, moderated by Shohei Kobayashi, inviting conversation and reflection
“Portland Protests” takes place at the Historic Alberta House on Saturday, March 18 and Sunday, March 19, 2023. Audiences will be invited to consider and intentionally remember our city’s past, collectively grieve, and dare to envision more just futures.
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