BRIC OPEN: Justice
Artist Irisdelia Garcia performing at A Pressing Conference.
A Pressing Conference was commissioned by BRIC Arts Media to participate in the third BRIC OPEN Festival. “BRIC OPEN: Justice, interrogates questions of justice and empathy and opens up spaces to find freedom in self-expression and witness others in their full humanity. These actions lay the ground for each of us to see our individual fates tied up with that of our communities, and to confront and correct injustices that deny others their complex wholeness.” A Pressing Conference held open-mic hours for the public every day, in addition to a Saturday program of speakers and performance curated by Macon Reed. Poet and educator Mahogany L. Browne was also invited to curate and host a special program of poetry and music. All programming was recorded for BRIC’s award-winning public access station, BRIC TV.
Rabbi and hospital spiritual care provider, Mackenzie Zev Reynolds, on the power of public ritual as political action and healing. For more info on their work go here.
Poet, organizer, and educator Mahogany L. Browne sharing her work and introducing a series of poets and musicians curated for BRIC Open and A Pressing Conference. More about her work can be found here.
Matt Roche from art collective “Whoop Dee Doo” performs Richard Nixon’s resignation speech. More on Whoop Dee Doo here.
Artist Amy Khoshbin performing a guided meditation in response to the political crisis of the 2016 election, entitled “A Moment With Amy,” created for A Pressing Conference,
BRIC TV recording A Pressing Conference live in their studios during BRIC Open: Justice.
Open mic at BRIC Open
Audience members listening to Mahogany Browne reading poetry. Chairs bear the names of journalists who have been harmed while doing their work.
Visitors were encouraged to read sections of the recently-released Mueller report from the podium.
Cyrus of The Black Hours Band performing from the podium.
Photo credit Jordan Rathkopf. Video credit: BRIC TV.