2024

FREE4ALL




FREE4ALL: a disorganized or unrestricted situation or event in which everyone may take part, especially a fight, discussion or trading market; a competition, dispute, or battle open to all comers and usually with no rules; BRAWL; the wish, the prayer, the demand, the dream, the search, the gut wrenching, burning meditation shared by people of conscience around the globe, an assemblage of time based media by artists of color for a community of color to explore personal themes of freedom, power, love, and spirituality through self, community, state, nation and world.

Inspired by Art Blakely and the Jazz Messenger’s 1964 album, “FREE FOR ALL,” a transcendent four-track album with the cut “CORE”, a dedication by Freddie Hubbard to the Congress of Racial Equality celebrating their persistence and resourcefulness in CORE’s work for total, meaningful, equality, FREE4ALL is an attempt to sustain the fires of freedom within.

As we move forward, as we prepare to vote, as we continue to live, survive and exist, what are we thinking? What are we saying? What’s are we doing for others? What are we making, packing and distributing for the world to consume?