This Is a Movement (TIAM) will host its first in-person event on June 12th, 2022. 

Audience members must show proof of a full COVID-19 vaccination series (and booster if eligible), ID, and remain masked at all times.

LIVE MUSIC - PRESENTATIONS - COMMUNITY BUILDING

FEATURING:

MELANIE CHARLES 

MUSIC WORKERS ALLIANCE 

THIS IS A MOVEMENT STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS 

The event will facilitate impassioned community dialogue and interactive brainstorming, ultimately seeking to harness collective radical imagination to create a more equitable music industry. Guided by an intersectional Black feminist lens, the TIAM steering committee, alongside Melanie Charles and the Music Workers Alliance, will address:

1.) Cultivating a network of trust to transform industry spaces. 

2.) Creating coalitions to share resources and build forward. 

3.) Normalizing an industry culture centered on humanity.

Vocalist, songwriter and producer Melanie Charles, alongside New School students, will begin the afternoon with live performance, as well as an introduction to her Make Jazz Trill Again Podcast (co-created with composer Yunie Mojeca), take on life, music and inspiration. This will be the first of many TIAM fellowships, intended to build community, challenge the status quo and imagine the futures we deserve into existence.

TIAM Steering Committee:

Aja Burrell Wood, Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice

Sarah Elizabeth Charles, The New School - School of Jazz and Contemporary Music I College of Performing Arts

Caroline Davis, The New School - School of Jazz and Contemporary Music I College of Performing Arts

Amanda Ekery, The New School - School of Jazz and Contemporary Music I College of Performing Arts

Gina Izzo, bespoken, Carnegie Hall

Niama Safia Sandy, NYC Winter Jazzfest, The Blacksmiths

Brice Rosenbloom, NYC Winter Jazzfest, Jazz Coalition, The Blacksmiths

Freda Knowles 

Hannah Beaumont

THIS IS A MOVEMENT IS A PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN NYC WINTER JAZZFEST

THE BERKLEE INSTITUTE FOR JAZZ AND GENDER JUSTICE and the SCHOOL OF JAZZ AND CONTEMPORARY MUSIC AT THE NEW SCHOOL.