Author: Jared Michael Nickerson

For the eighth year in a row Ilhan Ersahin, the owner and creative mind in front of Nublu and the Nublu Orchestra, has assembled a super stellar lineup to see out the year with a major celebration of its jazz roots in December. Drawing from its regular roster of renowned  musicians who regularly grace its two stages such as Steven Bernstein, DJ Logic, Kenny Wollesen, Jay Rodriguez, Graham Haynes, Adam Rudolph and Craig Harris, as well as special guest performers of honor such as Eddie Henderson, Vijay Iyer, Billy Hart, Al Foster, Marcus Gilmore and the incomparable Sun Ra Arkestra, the Nublu Jazz Festival of 2017 promises to be one of the most action-packed to date!

There are Student Discounts available at the door and purchasing a ticket for one of the three time slots allows you access to each of the three performances that particular evening.

In Times Too Tight To Mention here’s a Festival providing More Music for your Buck! Let’s Go !!!

The newly opened Lewis Center for the Arts is designed to put the creative and performing arts at the heart of the Princeton experience. This mission is based on the conviction that exposure to the arts, particularly to the experience of producing art, helps each of us to make sense of our lives and the lives of our neighbors.

The Burnt Sugar Arkestra applauds Princeton University’s commitment to the performing arts and their wisdom in providing their student base access to the wonder that is the mind of the Burnt Sugar Arkestra’s founder … Gregory Stephen Tate.

The Burnt Sugar Arkestra performance on January 16th will be located in The Forum which can be found below the plaza level of the Lewis Arts complex.

PARKING
On-campus parking  |  TigerTransit shuttle routes  |  Downtown Princeton parking
Limited free parking is available adjacent to 185 Nassau Street in Lot 10 (after 4:30 p.m. on weekdays and from 6 a.m. to 2 a.m. on weekends) or in Lots 21 and 23 on the Princeton campus.
Metered parking on Princeton streets is limited to one or two hours in most cases and operates from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m., Monday through Saturday. There are some streets with longer-term parking meters that are within easy walking distance of 185 Nassau Street, the Lewis Arts complex, the Berlind Theatre, and New South. Parking regulations are strictly enforced.  Three municipal parking garages that charge a fee are located on Chambers, Hulfish and Spring streets in downtown Princeton.

PUBLIC TRANSIT
A train known locally as “The Dinky” connects campus (Princeton Station at Alexander Street) to Princeton Junction.
Northbound NJ TRANSIT trains passing through Princeton Junction provide direct service to New York City and Newark Liberty International Airport.   A southbound transfer to the SEPTA regional rail Trenton Line train at Trenton provides service to Philadelphia.  Amtrak trains connect Princeton Junction to Washington, D.C., Boston and the broader region.

Sugar Family  for public transportation directions to the Brooklyn Museum we suggest taking either the Two or Three Train to the Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum Stop/Station.  The Museum will appear across the roadway as you exit the station.  As you’ll notice … we get to kick out the jams right at the tippy top of the evening … Outer Spaceways Here We Come !!!

Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, New York 11238-6052

December 2, 2017

From Ancient Egypt to the Afrofuture

MUSIC: BURNT SUGAR THE ARKESTRA CHAMBER ~ 5 pm ~ Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber caramelizes an experimental soul/jazz/hip-hop tribute to the legendary Afrofuturist musician Sun Ra.

CURATOR TOUR: SOULFUL CREATURES ~ 5–6 pm ~ Exhibition curator Edward Bleiberg offers a behind-the-scenes look into our special exhibition Soulful Creatures: Animal Mummies in Ancient Egypt.

ARTIST TALK AND TOUR: AHMED MATER: MECCA JOURNEYS ~ 5:30 pm ~ Artist Ahmed Mater and curator Catherine Morris lead a tour of the new special exhibition Ahmed Mater: Mecca Journeys, and discuss the art of preserving multilayered histories in the rapidly changing environment of Mecca.

HANDS-ON ART ~ 6–8 pm ~ Create a headdress inspired by our ancient Egyptian collection, using different patterns and materials. 330 free tickets in Hands-On Art line at Admissions at 5 pm.

SCHOLAR TALK: MAKEBA LAVAN, “EVERYTHING IN THE FUTURE IS BLACK” ~ 6 pm ~ Ph.D. candidate Makeba Lavan (Graduate Center, CUNY) introduces the aesthetic and imaginative strategies of Afrofuturism, using our 2013 exhibition Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey to examine the speculative fiction of Octavia Butler and the music of George Clinton, Janelle Monae, and Erykah Badu, among others. 25 free tickets in Forum line at Admissions at 5 pm.

MUSIC: DAVÍ ~ 7 pm ~ Multidisciplinary artist Daví spins a mix of the many acoustic iterations of Afrofuturism and explores its sonic legacy from funk to hip-hop and dancehall.

MUSIC: EVERYDAY PEOPLE ~ 8–10 pm ~ Everyday People, New York City’s daytime dance party phenomenon, takes the stage with a set by DJ mOma and a performance by Jade de LaFleur.

FILM: TERENCE NANCE ~ 8 pm ~ Brooklyn-based filmmaker Terence Nance screens a selection of his short films, including They Charge for the Sun (2016, 16 min.), Swimming in Your Skin Again (2015, 21 min.), and Univitellin (2016, 15 min.). Followed by a talkback with the director. 330 free tickets in Auditorium line at Admissions at 7 pm.

FILM: VISUAL AIDS PRESENTS ALTERNATE ENDINGS, RADICAL BEGINNINGS ~ 8 pm ~ In honor of World AIDS Day, Visual AIDS presents a series of film shorts for their annual Day With(out) Art, featuring new commissions by Mykki Blanco, Cheryl Dunye and Ellen Spiro, Reina Gossett, Thomas Allen Harris, Kia Labeija, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, and Brontez Purnell. Film program will be presented twice, at 8 and 9 pm.

FEMINIST BOOK CLUB WITH WELL-READ BLACK GIRL ~ 8:30–10 pm ~ In conjunction with Roots of “The Dinner Party”: History in the Making, Glory Edim of Well-Read Black Girl hosts a series of four Target First Saturday book clubs focusing on Judy Chicago’s favorite feminist reads. In the first session, read and discuss selections from Angela Y. Davis’s 1983 text Women, Race & Class.

*** Sponsored by Target. *** Made possible by the Wallace Foundation Community Programs Fund, established by the Wallace Foundation, with additional support from DLA Piper US LLP, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, The Ellis A. Gimbel Trust, National Grid, and other donors.

Sugar Family the debut of “Betty – They Say I’m Different” occurred on Friday, November 17th at IDFA to a sold-out house.  The next two screenings on November 18th and 20th are also sold-out.  Hence we are only listing the November 24th and 25th screenings.  If you have friends in Amsterdam and surrounding cities in The Netherlands who you think would be interested … we’d advise you please … let them know quickly.

More About The Film … this is project by director Phil Cox who has written this creative documentary after four years of conversing and spending time with Betty Davis.  We were approached by Damon Smith this past summer and after a few very excited conversations set up a filming session at Brooklyn N.Y.’s CMS Studios.  BSA performed a touch of Hendrix’s “Foxy Lady”, Betty’s “Steppin In Her I. Miller Shoes” and Miles’ “Mademoiselle Mabry”.  Along with a spoken piece by our esteemed founder Greg Tate, the BSA rendition of “Mademoiselle Mabry” made the current cut.

“BETTY – THEY SAY I’M DIFFERENT” Credits & Synopsis :

A NATIVE VOICE FILMS & LA COMPAGNIE DES TAXI BROUSSE film in Co-production with ARTE
 ~~ Directed and filmed by PHIL COX
 ~~ Produced by GIOVANNA STOPPONI, DAMON SMITH, LAURENT MINI
 ~~ Exectuive Producers: KARIM SAMAI, CATHERINE BAILEY ~~ Editor ESTEBAN UYARRA ~~ 
Associate Producer DANIELLE MAGGIO ~~ 
Animations  KASH

With her suggestive lyrics (“If I’m in Luck I Might Get Picked Up”) and audacious outfits, the funk singer Betty Davis is far ahead of her time. Too far, perhaps. “If Betty were singing today she’d be something like Madonna; something like Prince,” wrote jazz trumpeter Miles Davis in his 1989 autobiography. Davis married Betty in 1968, and she kept his surname after their divorce the following year. Betty – They Say I’m Different, named after her second studio album, which was released in 1974, focuses on the reasons why this “bold soul sister” left the music industry in the late 1970s. There are interviews with family members, friends and former band members. The voice-over, tinted with resignation as it describes her life and its directions, is inspired by interviews with Betty Davis and her song lyrics. Davis has various alter egos: besides Nasty Girl (the title of her third album), there’s also the more spiritual Crow. Regardless, she’s “happy my music is still alive.”

http://www.nastygalmovie.com