With an ensemble of more than 20 musicians, Parable transforms the operatic form, fusing African-American spiritualism, deep insights into gender and race, and climate activism into a new musical experience that thrills and inspires. Written by Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon, Parable chronicles the spiritual awakening of Lauren Olamina amidst an America plagued by the products of unrelenting greed, systemic injustice and climate change denial. Magnificent Homespun Brown Doyon, Samara Cole This exploration of the natural world and family bonds through the eyes of a young mixed-race narrator is a living, breathing, dazzlingly multi-faceted, exuberant masterpiece, firmly grounded in her sense of self-worth and belonging. Butler, Parable of the Sower is a genre-defying, modern congregational opera that celebrates two centuries of Black music. Based on the landmark sci-fi novels by Afrofuturist author Octavia E. Participants in all four parts of the Community Read series will receive a complimentary ticket to this performance.Īll that you touch you change. Butler’s Parable of the Sower, created by Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon, at Merrill Auditorium. She’d just published Magnificent Homespun Brown, a lyrical picture book in which a series of brown-skinned girls extol shades of brown they find around them: in beach sand, on caramel apples, in autumn leaves. On April 14, 2023, Indigo Arts Alliance and Portland Ovations, in association with Bowdoin College present Octavia E. Poet and children’s author Samara Cole Doyon moved with her family last year from a Portland apartment to a small Cape in Lewiston.
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