MoM2: “we got time.”

June 11-13, 2021
The Month of Moderns 2021
Presented by The Crossing and The Annenberg Center
with Ars Nova Workshop

MoM 2: "we got time."
world premiere by Matana Roberts
a work honoring the life of Breonna Taylor
Presented with Ars Nova Workshop
Performances June 11-13
a linear work, which the audience walks through, safe and social-distanced,
at The Woodlands in West Philadelphia
a winding ⅓ mile course through the trees and markers of this historic cemetery

“When grand jurors were told they wouldn’t be able to watch all the body camera footage due to time restraints, one juror shot back, loudly,
“We! Got! Time!” ”

Composer, sound artist, and jazz saxophonist Matana Roberts has created a collage of sound that reflects on the world we live in, positioning the loss of Breonna Taylor at the center of that world, as we ask questions about the meaning of words familiar to us through historic documents – the United States’ Declaration of Independence, the Preamble and First Amendment to our Constitution – the 19th-century hymn Pass Over to The Rest, event data related to Ms. Taylor’s death, and a roll call of the names of Black women lost in ways similarly. Matana writes of this sound quilt as a communal practice: “a scrap alone is of no use, but a scrap bounded together by others of its diverse kind will move beyond anything that it ever thought it could be.”

Friday, June 11, 2021, 6:30pm
Saturday, June 12, 2021, 3:30pm
Saturday, June 12, 2021, 6:30pm
Sunday, June 13, 2021, 3:00pm

Tickets will be available May 11th
at www.annenbergcenter.org/

All concerts in The Month of Moderns 2021 are performed with singers and audience spatially distanced, using our Echoes Amplification Kits, which allow an intimate aural experience, while observing pandemic-time protocols.

Concert Image – "Woodlands Fox Map" (2021) by Steven Bradshaw and Joka