ICA LIVE: aja monet

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Surrealist blues poet and community organizer aja monet performs selections from her debut album.

VCU Institute for Contemporary Art

“Who’s got time for poems when the world’s on fire?”Surrealist blues poet and community organizer aja monet performs selections from her debut album, when the poems do what they do, recorded with a roster of esteemed musicians including Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah, Samora Pinderhughes, and Lonnie Holley. Centered around themes of Black resistance and joy, her performances channel the legacy of jazz and blues greats and the revolutionary spirit of poets such as Audre Lorde, June Jordan, and Sonia Sanchez.For her ICA appearance, aja will be joined by pianist Javier Santiago and local Richmond musicians The Charles Owens Trio. Following the performance, aja will be joined for a conversation and Q&A with Valerie Cassel Oliver, the Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.Doors open at 6 PM with the performance starting at 7 PM. Space is limited and ticket holders will have priority seating. About the artist: aja was the youngest poet to ever win the title of Grand Slam Champion at the Nuyorican Poets Café, and went on to coedit Chorus: A Literary Mixtape alongside poet-actor-director Saul Williams, found the Smoke Signals music collective in Miami, and publish her first full-length book of poetry, My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter, with Haymarket Books.

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