Upcoming events.
SOMETHING ELSE IN THE GARDEN at Cranbrook
Cranbrook Art Museum, Horizons-Upward Bound, and Cranbrook Upper Schools partner to host the creative research and performance collective Autophysiopsychic Millennium for a summer residency culminating with a public performance, “Something Else in the Garden,” at Cranbrook’s Greek Theatre. RSVP is encouraged, please sign up below.
APPM invites you to Intention.
APPM welcomes you to our Intention residency hosted Center for World Performance Studies, School of Music, Theatre & Dance, and the University of Michigan Arts Initiative.
Techtonic Black
APPM joins Techtonic Black, an Afro-Futurist Summer Programming at the LAWNDALE Arts Festival hosted by the NLCCC Arts and Culture Committee is a festival to bring artists and entrepreneurs from North Lawndale and South Lawndale together to showcase the Culture, Commitment, and Creativity in the community for three months
Sista’s Place
A Tribute to Dr. Yusef Lateef — 10 Piece Group! Jazz: A Music of the Spirit Lives and Culture is our Weapon, is in its 26th year with the music of Resistance, Resilience, and Resurgence. Sistas’ Place is a Historic Landmark Institution!
On Saturday, February 26, 2022, at 9 and 10:30 pm, we present a Tribute to Dr. Yusef Lateef with a presentation of his Autophysiopsychic Music of the Spirit. This exciting 10 piece group, featuring Angel Bat Dawid and LuFuki, combines forces of Dr. Lateef’s mentees from Detroit and Chicago.
Carnegie Hall
Angel Bat Dawid—the “blazingly original” Chicago-based clarinetist and bandleader who “captures the unbridled sound of obstacles overcome, history revered, and a future imagined” (Pitchfork)—joins forces with LuFuki and Dr. Adam Zanolini to form Autophysiopsychic Millennium, exploring the performance methodology of instrumentalist and composer Dr. Yusef Lateef in what they describe as an Afrofuturist Participatory Sonic Convocation. Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022
Wilkes University
Members of the Chicago- and Detroit-based collective Autophysiopsychic Millenium, led by Adam Zanolini, LuFuki and Angel Bat Dawid, will offer a workshop on the work of multi-instrumentalist and composer Yusef Lateef from 4 to 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2022 in the Henry Student Center Ballroom.
Lateef’s music explored African, Middle Eastern and Indian traditions, incorporating them into “jazz,” a term he rejected in favor of his own term Autophysiopsychic music.
The workshop will be interwoven with musical performance and discussion. The project explores Lateef’s work as a progenitor to the concept of Afrofuturism, which blends music, visual arts, science fiction and technology to imagine alternate realities and a liberated future viewed through the lens of Black cultures.
Charles H. Wright African American Museum
Curated by Detroit's LuFuki and Chicago’s Angel Bat Dawid and Dr. Adam Zanolini, Autophysiopsychic Millennium is a creative research music collective of ten artists that explore, experiment and study the music methodology and philosophical and spiritual works of the late Dr. Yusef Lateef. The collective is presenting musical workshops as a series conducted in Chicago, Detroit, and New York (Carnegie Hall).
Participants are invited to engage in intentional modalities: workshop, performance, and panel discussion. The workshop will develop into a collaborative composition session, and created compositions will be performed in what the group calls a sonic convocation, bringing Dr. Lateef's methodology into the new millennium. Saturday, Feb. 12, 2022
ELASTIC ARTS - AFROFUTURIST WEEKEND
Angel Bat Dawid, LuFuki, Adam Zanolini, Luc Mosley, Sojourner Zenobia, Tazeen Ayub, Ayanna Woods, NurMuhammad, Mike Monford, Sophiyah E. performing compositions developed as part of the Autophysiopsychic Millennium workshops -- continuing and expanding the philosophy, music, teachings, and writings of Dr. Yusef Lateef into the 21st century and beyond. October 22-24, 2021