Resonance Ensemble: Portland Protests
$35 ($30 senior, $10 student/artist/veteran, $5 Arts for All – door only)
- S. Renee Mitchell, poet-in-residence
- Shohei Kobayashi, guest conductor
David Lang — Selected works
Joel Thompson — Selected works
Judy A. Rose — Selected works
Kimberly Osberg — Selected works
Kenji Bunch — Selected works
On Saturday, March 18 and Sunday, March 19, 2023, Resonance Ensemble returns to the Historic Alberta House for "Portland Protests," the third concert of their 14th season. Led by guest conductor Shohei Kobayashi, Resonance will offer an evening of vocal music and poetry in dialogue with visual art and photography of Portland's racial justice protests of 2020–2021, and joined by a string quartet from Portland's Fear No Music. A panel discussion with featured artists will follow.
Works by Margaret Bonds, David Lang, and Joel Thompson will be heard alongside newly commissioned poetry and music by acclaimed local poets and composers. With texts from writer A. Mimi Sei, Resonance Ensemble Poet-in-Residence S. Renee Mitchell, and spoken word artist Vin Shambry set to music by Judy A. Rose, Kimberly Osberg, and Fear No Music's Kenji Bunch, audiences will be invited to consider and intentionally remember our city’s past, collectively grieve, and dare to envision more just futures.
Also featured:
- Vanport Mosaic presents four large-scale oil paintings by Portland-based Dutch artist Henk Pander, created in response to 2020's racial justice protests.
- Portland-based media artists Jodi Darby, Julie Perini, and Erin Yanke share an excerpt from their film Arresting Power.
- A panel discussion will follow, inviting conversation and reflection.
About Resonance Ensemble
Resonance Ensemble, a professional vocal ensemble based in Portland, Oregon, creates powerful programs that promote meaningful social change. Resonance works to amplify voices that have long been silenced, and they do so through moving, thematic concerts that highlight solo and choral voices, new music by composers and poets whose stories have been underrepresented on the concert stage, visual and other performing artists, and community partners.
https://www.resonancechoral.org/About S. Renee Mitchell, poet-in-residence
About Shohei Kobayashi, guest conductor
https://www.reed.edu/music/instructors/shohei-kobayashi.html