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Homegrown Dialogues: Womanist Perspectives on Spirit, Sound, and Sustainability at Yale
Homegrown Dialogues: Womanist Perspectives on Spirit, Sound, and Sustainability is a one-day symposium featuring a live musical performance of and panel discussions about Andromeda Turre’s 2024 album From the Earth, featuring Turre (a vocalist, environmental advocate, and composer), members of her ensemble, scholars, and activists promoting African American and Indigenous cultural traditions in the arts, public education, and spiritual practices. “Homegrown Dialogues” foregrounds the connections between the invocation of these holistic knowledge traditions, ecological sustainability, and expressive culture in Turre’s project and the generations-old traditions of African American women’s community stewardship. As Turre’s collaborator Dr. Jifunza Wright-Carter says in Turre’s composition “Grandmother’s Permission,” “who the soil would speak to is the women who are tied to the Earth and therefore tied to this ancient way of [knowing] we’re all connected.”
Free and open to the public, but ticket registration is required
This symposium is convened by Dr. Mark Lomanno(Link is external), an esteemed ethnomusicologist, jazz historian, and pianist whose work critically examines the intersections between artistic performance, academic study, and sustainable community-building.
