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The Parlor Room School of Music Presents
Multisensory Performance to Activate Creativity for Musicians
at The Parlor Room
Sunday, May 28th
1pm - 2:30pm
Sliding Scale Tickets: $20 - $125 GA / $10 - $100 (members)
Multisensory Performance to Activate Creativity for Musicians
with Doctora Xingona Diana Alvarez
This workshop, with singer-songwriter, poet, filmmaker, scholar, and educator Doctora Xingona Diana Alvarez (they/she), features embodied creative writing, deep listening, music/sound, and visual/video art exercises to activate creativity for musicians and artists of all genres. Rooted in the liberatory practices of QTBIPOC (queer, trans, and gender expansive Black, Indigenous, and people of color) artists as well as their lived experience as a genderqueer Xicane themself, Doctora Xingona interweaves activist teachings into their nourishing learning spaces. Musicians and artists of all ages and levels of experience are invited to play, witness, create, share, and perform in a welcoming environment. All instruments and genres are welcome. Artists are especially encouraged to expand practice toward new creative disciplines.
Doctora Xingona Diana Alvarez
An expansive multimedia artist and educator, Doctora Xingona's music, poetry, performances, films, and gatherings center transcendence, kinship, and the co-liberation and nourishment of queer, trans, and gender expansive BIPOC artists. Doctora Xingona (they/she) is the creator/composer behind Quiero Volver: A Xingonx Ritual Opera, a multimedia living performance altar for QTBIPOC artists to convene and manifest futures. Quiero Volver has been awarded the Public Art for Spatial Justice Award from the New England Foundation for the Arts as well as multiple Massachusetts Cultural Council grants. In 2023, Doctora Xingona will present and create new multimedia performance work in collaboration with queer youth and the University of Skövde, Sweden. Doctora Xingona’s debut album Ser Artista was produced by Grammy-nominated multi-instrumentalist Seth Glier, and features songs from Quiero Volver: A Xingonx Ritual Opera. www.diana-alvarez.com / @brujajuana
The Parlor Room Nonprofit and School of Music's mission is to: Promote a vibrant musical community in downtown Northampton, MA for musicians of all abilities and at all stages of their career. The Parlor Room will bring nationally touring and local acts to our listening room to provide an exceptional experience for the artist and audience and guide musicians and anyone interested in a career in the music industry through our school of music. Learn more at parlorroom.org.
The Parlor Room is a BYOB venue. Tickets are non-refundable.
The Parlor Room is located at 32 Masonic Street Northampton, MA 01060
Date & Time
Sun, May 28, 2023 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Venue Details
The Parlor Room
32 Masonic StreetNorthampton, Massachusetts 01060
