Sunday, April 26, 2026 - Radical Reversal

Radical Reversal is a creative justice initiative dedicated to transforming how incarceration is understood and addressed. Through the installation of flexible performance, recording, and learning spaces inside detention centers and correctional facilities, the organization uses poetry, music, and collaborative artmaking to advance racial equity, rehabilitation, and self-determination. Centering the languages, cultures, and creative practices participants already hold, Radical Reversal empowers incarcerated artists to shape narratives, build skills, and imagine futures beyond the carceral state.

Read More →

Sunday, March 15, 2026 - Tara Betts

Tara Betts is the author of Refuse to Disappear, Break the Habit, Arc & Hue. Betts teaches at DePaul University’s Peace Studies Program and serves as poetry editor for The Langston Hughes Review. Her poems, essays, and short stories have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies.

Read More →

Sunday, February 8, 2026 - Dante Micheaux

Dante Micheaux is a poet and translator whose work combines formal rigor with musical insight. He is the author of Circus, winner of the Four Quartets Prize, and Amorous Shepherd. His writing appears in leading international journals, and his honors include the Oscar Wilde Award, the Ambit Poetry Prize, and an Amy Clampitt Residency. Micheaux is a Fellow and Director of Programs at Cave Canem Foundation and recently wrote the libretto for Rolf Hind’s opera Sky In a Small Cage.

Read More →

Sunday, January 25, 2026 - L. Lamar Wilson

L. Lamar Wilson moves fluidly across poetry, film, and music, crafting work that braids documentary rigor with lyric urgency. His creative practice insists on witnessing—amplifying Black, Brown, and Indigenous lives in the rural South, especially femmes, not as relics of survival but as architects of joy, resistance, and continuity. From award-winning poetry collections and collaborative literary projects to PBS-aired documentaries and staged musical adaptations, Wilson’s art interrogates faith, history, and the afterlives of colonial violence while honoring communal imagination

Read More →

Sunday, December 14, 2025 - Gha'il Rhodes Benjamin

GHA'IL RHODES BENJAMIN, poet, actress, singer, and storyteller, writes and performs her one-woman show "Spiritual Eclipse" in the New York tri-state area, Detroit, and Chicago. She has graced the stages of nightclubs, theatres, schools, churches, and homeless shelters with her homegrown lyrics, infused with survival, dignity and humor.

Read More →

Sunday, November 9th, 2025 George Gray & Sharif Kales Quintet

Master drummer George Gray of the legendary Sun Ra Arkestra joins dynamic trumpeter Sharif Kales in a powerful celebration of “Music of the Spirit.” From Gray’s roots in Baltimore funk and collaborations with icons like Earth, Wind & Fire and Pharoah Sanders, to Kales’ New York-bred fire shaped by Charles Tolliver and Wallace Roney, this duo bridges generations of sound—merging groove, soul, and spiritual energy into one unforgettable performance.

Read More →

Sunday, October 26th, 2025 The Makanda Project

We are thrilled to bring back the Makanda Project, a 13-piece ensemble that has become an important part of the Boston jazz scene. Led by pianist, bandleader and arranger, John Kordalewski, the Makanda Project explores and celebrates the richness of the unrecorded music of multi-instrumentalist, composer and educator Dr. Makanda Ken McIntyre.

Read More →

Sunday, Sept 14, 2025 Akua Dixon, Cellist with Betty Neals, Poet

Read More →

Sunday LIVE June 08, 2025 Ahmed Abdullah's Diaspora

Read More →

Sunday ZOOM May 18th, 2025 Nadia Alexis

Nadia Alexis is a poet, writer, and photographer born to Haitian immigrants in Harlem, NYC…

Read More →

Events

World class artistry in an intimate setting.

Our Upcoming Events