Performance + Conversation: When the Spirits Sing... an Offering

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When the Spirits Sing is an offering that invites audience members to bring their positive thoughts for each other and our collective future

Join artist Adama Delphine Fawundu as she activates and reflects on her year-long exhibition, <a href="https://newarkmuseumart.org/exhibition/adama-delphine-fawundu-in-the-spirit-of-a%e1%b9%a3e/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Adama Delphine Fawundu: In the Spirit of Àṣẹ</a>, with a performance and conversation.The artist, in collaboration with composer and violinist <a href="http://chebuford.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Che Buford</a> and marimbist <a href="https://www.stephdavismusic.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Steph Davis</a>, will create a space for imagination and manifestation through improvised sounds, movement, and energies. When the Spirits Sing… an Offering invites audiences to bring positive thoughts for each other and our collective futures.Following the performance, the Museum’s Associate Curator, Arts of Global Africa, Henone Girma will lead a conversation with Fawundu, photographer and adjunct professor at Columbia University, <a href="https://afamstudies.columbia.edu/content/c-daniel-dawson" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">C. Daniel Dawson</a>, and art historian <a href="https://arthistory.wisc.edu/staff/henry-j-drewal/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Dr. Henry J. Drewal</a>, Emeritus Professor in African Art at the University of Wisconsin, Madison._

Still from Adama Delphine Fawundu, Palii~Seat of the Ancestors and Water Spirits, 2022‑2023. © Adama Delphine Fawundu

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