Run time for this concert is approximately 2 hours and 15 minutes without intermission. This event is part of Cal Performances’ Illuminations: “Human and Machine” programming for the 2022–23 season. “She’s saying that our destiny is to be amongst the stars…. Though the novels reveal some of our darker impulses as humans, in the end, the Reagons’ message is one of hope, expressed through the communal act of music making: “Don’t forget: Octavia is writing about the universe,” Johnson Reagon has said. Butler’s 1993 book and its sequel follow a young Black woman through a dystopian, apocalyptic American future, planting the seeds of a new religion that is fueled by empathy and collective action. Butler’s deeply resonant and startlingly prescient Parable of the Sower to life in an evening-length opera directed by Cal Shakes’ Eric Ting and Signe V. The Parable of the Sower film will be directed by Garrett Bradley, whose documentary Time was nominated for an Academy Award. Singer, composer, and activist Toshi Reagon and award-winning vocalist, composer, and scholar Bernice Johnson Reagon bring science fiction writer Octavia E. Deadline reports that A24the studio behind films such as The Green Knight, Midsommar, and Moonlight, to name just a fewwill finance and distribute the adaptation. In a dream pairing of artistic personalities, two titans of Black American music collaborate on a new “congregational opera” based on the work of an iconic and revolutionary Black author. He taught them many things by parables, and in his teaching said: Listen A farmer went out to sow his seed. The crowd that gathered around him was so large that he got into a boat and sat in it out on the lake, while all the people were along the shore at the water’s edge. 2020–21: Fact or Fiction, Music and the Mind The Parable of the Sower - Again Jesus began to teach by the lake.Institutional Giving: Institutional Partners.

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