Saturday, July 12 (Day 1 of Brooklyn Free Spirit Festival) 5:00pm Improviser’s Workshop (open to all!) Lifelong ecstatic improvising pianist & 40-year Qigong practitioner Kazzrie Jaxen offers a qigong workshop for creative improvisers. Wuji Gong: Skill of Entering the Supreme Unknown (comfortable clothes suggested) 7:30pm Siren Xypher Melanie Dyer - Viola / Kyoko Kitamura - Voice / Mara Rosenbloom - Voice & Piano 8:30pm Kazzrie Jaxen SOLO Piano

Sunday, July 13 (Day 2 of Brooklyn Free Spirit Festival) 3:00pm Improvisation Workshop (open to all!) Anthony Braxton collaborators Kyoko Kitamura and Chris DiMeglio guide participants through Anthony Braxton’s Musical Systems and beyond. 90-minute workshop in two parts. Part I 3 PM to 3:45 PM: text and graphic scores by various composers including Anthony Braxton, open to all including non-musicians. Part II 3:45 PM to 4:30 PM: musical improvisation based on Anthony Braxton's concepts including Ghost Trance Music, open to all. Ability to read music recommended for Part II but not required. Score excerpts provided. Instruments welcome but not required. 5:00pm Listening Session & In-Person Interview: AMINA CLAUDINE MYERS 90-minutes of immersion into the luminary pianist/vocalist/composer’s multi-decade body of work. Conversation moderated by W.S. Tkweme, Pan-African Studies Professor at University of Louisville & 25 year radio programmer at stations across the US. Archival support from Ras Moshe Burnett. (Curated by Melanie Dyer) 7:30pm DoYeon Kim / Cooper-Moore / Satoshi Takeishi DoYeon Kim - Gayageum & Voice / Cooper-Moore - Homemade Instruments / Satoshi Takeishi - Drums & Percussion 8:30pm Mazz Swift & Ana Luisa Díaz de Cossío Violin + Violin

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