ALL ticketing options HERE (In-Person and Livestream for both Individual and Full Festival Passes)
Full Vision Festival 2024 Schedule HERE.
Roulette Members may reserve a limited number of tickets using their member benefits by emailing development@roulette.org by June 17th.
Arts for Art is proud to announce that William Parker, legendary bassist, composer, improvisor, multi-instrumentalist, author, and community leader will be the recipient of the Vision 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award, taking place at Roulette Intermedium, on June 18, 2024.
Set 1, 6:00 PM: Invocation MANTRA – Lisa Sokolov – voice / text by William Parker
Set 2, 6:30 PM: ROOTS AND RITUALS
William Parker, Doson Ngoni – composition, text / Josh Abrams – gembri / Joe Morris – guitar / Mixashawn Rozi – tenor sax / Hamid Drake – percussion / Jackson Krall – Ibu Bells / Juma Sultan, Micheal Wimberly – percussion
Set 3, 7:15 PM Trail Of Tears Excerpts, The Blue Sky” Vanished Horizon”
Annemarie Sandy, Andrea Wolpe, Raina Sokolov Gonzalez – voice / Mara Rosenbloom Piano – piano
Intermission
Set 4, 8:30 PM Raining On The Moon
Leena Conquest – voice / Eri Yamamoto – piano / Rob Brown – alto sax / Steve Swell – trombone / William Parker – bass / Hamid Drake – drums
Set 5, 9:15 PM The Ancients
Isaiah Collier – tenor sax / Dave Burrell – piano / William Hooker – drums / William Parker – bass, composition
Set 6, 10:00 PM William Parker & Huey’s Pocket Watch
Isaiah barr – tenor saxophone / Alfredo Colón – tenor saxophone / Dave Sewelson – baritone saxophone / Rob Brown – alto saxophone / Masahiko Kono, Colin Babcock – trombone / Taylor Ho Bynum, Diego Hernandez – trumpet
Colson Jimenez – bass / Hans Young Binter – piano / Juan Pablo Carletti – drums / Ellen Christi, Kyoko Kitamura – voice / Patricia Nicholson – voice, spoken word / Special guests: Assif Tsahar – tenor saxophone / Taylor Ho Bynum – trumpet
“It is the role of the artist to dance, sing, shout and whisper about all that is wonderful, beautiful and majestic. To mirror and project the present and future, to tell us the stories inside little children’s hearts (giving us a view beyond the horizon). Communicating by the language of stone, wood, soil, the language of happiness, sadness and joy. It is the role of the artist to incite political, social and spiritual revolution. To awaken us from our sleep and never let us forget our obligations as human beings…The idea is to live strongly within this vision without compromises even after being met by a cold gray world that could care less about vision, a world that makes insensitivity and murder of idealism and individualism a standard.” – William Parker
In the words of Gargi Shindé, “To the community he calls home in the Lower East Side of New York City, the professional accomplishments of William Parker are not separate from his humanitarian vision to heal a world severed by greed and hyper commodification of culture. Global consequences of American imperialism, labor exploitation, disenfranchisement in literacy and education, and aggressive urban gentrification—William’s creative repertoire is an unceasing response to the perpetually shifting targets of socio-political disenfranchisement. As a world renowned bassist / multi-instrumentalist, improviser, composer, poet, writer, and educator, William Parker brings together music, words, sound and organizing through his innumerable recordings and live performances, operas, compositions for dance, plays and much more. His practice, in a single lifetime, encompasses a range that evades even the most accomplished artists. He is the very embodiment of an arts ecosystem, without the spectre of corporate artifice and arts bureaucracy.”