- Soho Rep presents
- Toshi Reagon
Songs of
the Living
in collaboration with Wise Reagon Arts
October 21 - November 13
“It doesn’t matter if you can sing, it doesn’t matter if you’re melodic, you are a vibrational being. We are a vibrational species. What we call ‘music’ now is our communicative contribution as a species on and to planet Earth — and it’s one of our best contributions of all.” (Toshi Reagon)
Come sing with us this fall! Join Toshi Reagon and friends as we collectively learn to sing songs of resistance and resilience together. Over four weeks, Soho Rep will partner with an incredible coalition of artistic and civic centers across all five boroughs of New York City to produce eleven evenings of music and fellowship.
There is a song for everything! Songs are sacred, songs are history, songs are games, songs are recipes, songs are a technology for shaping our world. Not only will the first ten evenings each have their own themes – from Sacred songs, to Hip Hop, Disco, and songs for young people – we will have evenings inclusive of Spanish, Arabic, and American Sign Language. The eleventh night will gather all of the threads from the previous evenings into a single powerful congregation around these Songs of the Living.
DESIGN: STUDIO USHER & ADAM HAYES / PHOTO: EHUD LAZIN
Creative Team
Toshi Reagon
Songs of the Living Creator
Alsarah and the Nubatones
National Sawdust, 10/28
Taína Asili
El Puente, 11/13
The Bruces
Queens Public Library - Central Branch, 11/8
New York Arabic Chorus
Flushing Town Hall, 10/30
DJ Bill Coleman
Lincoln Center, 11/11
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden , 10/21
Nona Hendryx
Lincoln Center, 11/11
Baba Israel
Bronxlandia, 10/23
Yasmine Lee
Lincoln Center, 11/11
Legacy Women
El Puente, 11/13
Miguel Luciano
El Puente, 11/13
Nile Nights
National Sawdust, 10/28
Lizzie No
Another World, 11/3
DJ Leecy T
Bronxlandia, 10/23
Event Schedule
Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden
Tuesday 10/21 at 7pm
Waterways & Work Songs
with TOSHI REAGON
and special guest writer, scholar, and poet ALEXIS PAULINE GUMBS
The Carpenter’s Shop at Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden
Randall Manor, Staten Island
1000 Richmond Ter →
Bronxlandia
Thursday 10/23 at 7pm
Turntables Are a Must!
A Community Cypher
with BABA ISRAEL and DJ LEECY T
Bronxlandia
Hunts Point, The Bronx
910 Hunts Point Ave →
The Africa Center
Saturday 10/25 at 2pm
with THE SOAPBOX PRESENTS
The Africa Center
Harlem, Manhattan
1280 5th Ave →
National Sawdust
Tuesday 10/28 at 7pm
Field Recordings from Yousif Batil Camp: Aghani Albanat from the Warlines
with ALSARAH AND THE NUBATONES
and special guest NILE NIGHTS
National Sawdust
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
80 N 6th St →
Flushing Town Hall
Thursday 10/30 at 7pm
Toshi Reagon Meets the New York Arabic Chorus:
A Sonic Coming Together
with NEW YORK ARABIC CHORUS + TOSHI REAGON & BIGLovely
Flushing Town Hall
Flushing, Queens
137-35 Northern Blvd →
Another World
Monday 11/3 at 5:30pm
A New Song for Another World
with LIZZIE NO and AREWA BASIT
Another World
Crown Heights, Brooklyn
629 Nostrand Ave →
Weeksville Heritage Center
Thursday 11/6 at 7pm
A Sower Went Out to Sow Her Seed
with TOSHI REAGON and featuring songs and cast members from the opera Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower
Weeksville Heritage Center
Weeksville, Brooklyn
158 Buffalo Ave →
Queens Public Library - Central Branch
Saturday 11/8 at 1pm
Story of the Sky
with MORLEY & CHRIS BRUCE “THE BRUCES” + TOSHI REAGON
QPL Central Branch – Children’s Library Discovery Center
Jamaica, Queens
89-11 Merrick Blvd →
Lincoln Center
You’re Having Too Much Fun So We’re Gonna Have to Kill You: A Life Journey in Disco
with TOSHI REAGON
and special guests NONA HENDRYX and DJ BILL COLEMAN
Pre-show dance class with YASMINE LEE
David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center
Upper West Side, Manhattan
1887 Broadway →
El Puente
Thursday 11/13 at 7pm
Songs for Los Sures
with TAINA ASILI and LEGACY WOMEN
and special guest visual artist MIGUEL LUCIANO
El Puente
Los Sures (Williamsburg), Brooklyn
211 S 4th St →
BAM
Sunday 11/16 at 7pm
Songs of the Living Finale: Mapping a Path Forward in Song
with TOSHI REAGON & FRIENDS
The Adam E. Max Gathering Space (BAMcafé) at BAM
Fort Greene, Brooklyn
30 Lafayette Ave →
