Tanfis III – Poughkeepsie Live Premiere
Fri, 20 Sep 2024 (EDT)
07:00PM - 09:00PM
Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center
12 Vassar Street
Poughkeepsie, New York 12601
Tickets Range from $15 to $35 plus fees
Join us Friday, September 20, 2024 for a transformative 2-hr live multimedia experience featuring 14 acclaimed NY-based artists – traditional musicians, remix artists, storytellers, and dancers – honoring and re-imagining their African and Indigenous lineages.
Join us Friday, September 20, 2024 for a transformative 2-hr live multimedia experience featuring 14 acclaimed NY-based artists – traditional musicians, remix artists, storytellers, and dancers – honoring and re-imagining their African and Indigenous lineages.
Summary
On September 2nd, Remix ⟷ Culture opened its latest artist residency (Tanfis III) with the following existential questions: “Where do we come from? What have we become? Who do we want to be?”
Since then, the 7 artists-in-residence from African-American, Colombian, Gambian, Guinean, Peruvian, and Senegalese communities have been creatively exploring their individual and collective responses to these questions, while sharing meals and learning to co-exist under the same roof.
The culmination of this communal, collaborative process is an entirely new live experience–designed and performed by the artists-in-residence, alongside 7 featured guest artists–that will take the audience on a “tanfis” journey through the seamless harmony of live acoustic music, remix, dance, storytelling, and video art.
Sacred chants, virtuosic West African drumming, stunning cinematography, honoring of ancestors and teachers, powerful spoken words and life-affirming storytelling, exquisite dance, masterful electronic music, live video remixing - these are just some of the incredible offerings you can expect at this transformative live experience.
September 20, 2024
7-9 pm
12 Vassar Street Poughkeepsie at the Cuneen-Hackett Arts Center
FEATURED LEAD ARTISTS
Araceli Poma • Conrad Clifton • Emir Fils-Aime • Malang Jobarteh • Martin Vejarano • Sidiki Conde • Sol
FEATURED GUEST ARTISTS
Moris Cañate • Carlos Chaparro • Cris Quimbay • Abdoulaye Toure • Kan Kaba • Mamoudou Konate • Moussa Drame
Event Details
- Doors Open at 6:30pm
- Show starts at 7pm and will last 2 hours
- N.B. Think of Tanfis III not just as a concert, but as a communal, multimedia journey that will honor everything from the solemn to the celebratory. We ask attendees to keep talking to a minimum and to turn off phones. Most of the show will be seated, but we will make room for dancing during some portions of the evening.
Ticket Options
- Regular tickets are $35 + fees.
- For those on a budget, we offer a discounted ticket of $25 + fees.
- And for those who can afford a little extra to support our work, tickets include a suggested donation of $20. While we would be grateful for any donation, this add-on is optional. Should you not wish to make a donation at this time, you can enter "0" when checking out.
- No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Please email [email protected] to discuss your needs.
Accessibility
We value inclusion and access for all attendees and will be happy to provide reasonable accommodations for this event. Please contact Danielle at [email protected] to request an accommodation or discuss your needs.
Tanfis III is presented by Remix ⟷ Culture (RC), a NY-based not-for-profit arts organization whose mission is to co-create spaces of belonging and mutual support by collaboratively documenting and remixing the musical traditions and stories of underrepresented communities, and is funded, in part, by the New York State Council for the Arts and by the National Endowment for the Arts.
We are also grateful for our community partner The Art Effect.
We are also grateful for our community partner The Art Effect.