The 22nd annual Vision Festival presents the world’s premier talents in Free Jazz music, dance, poetry, and visual art. Arts for Art is proud to honor multi-instrumentalist Cooper-Moore with a Lifetime Achievement Award for his uncompromising artistic vision over the past four decades.

The festival kicks off with an evening of social-political and music films at Anthology Film Archives, followed by 6 nights of music, dance, poetry, visual art, and community at Judson Memorial Church. 
Full schedule available at: 
www.artsforart.org/vf22

Thursday June 1
9 to 5: Conference at Columbia University: the Sound of Resistance

7 Odean Pope Saxophone Choir
Odean Pope - solo tenor / Gene Ghee - 1st tenor
Terry Lawson - 2nd tenor / Julian Pressley - 1st alto
Louis Taylor - 2nd alto / Robert Landham - 3rd alto
Joe Sudler - baritone / Lee Smith - bass / Tom Lawton - piano
Craig McIver - drums

8 Djassi DaCosta Johnson - dance / Shayna Dulberger - bass

8:30 Darius Jones & Farmers by Nature
Gerald Cleaver – comp. drums / William Parker – bass
Craig Taborn – piano / Darius Jones – sax

9:30 Jesus Papoleto Melendez - poet

10 Artifacts Trio
Tomeka Reid – cello / Nicole Mitchell – flute
Mike Reed - drums