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Nicholson
Lewis Barnes
Jo Wood-Brown
Whit Dickey
William Parker
John Schiek
Bradford K. Smith
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Patricia
Nicholson Parker
Dance, as an integral element of avantJazz, is the unique focus of
Patricia Nicholson’s dance career. She developed what amounts
to a new dance genre, working closely with some of the most highly
regarded musicians of the avantJazz world. Ms. Nicholson’s work
as an arts organizer began in 1981 when Patricia Nicholson Parker
directed and helped to organize A Thousand Cranes Peace Opera for
the opening of the UN Special Sessions on Disarmament. After working
with Peter Kowald and William Parker to help organize two Sound Unity
Festivals in ‘84 and ‘88, Patricia Nicholson Parker successfully
initiated and coordinated the Improvisors Collective, which ran from
1993 till 1995. The success of the Collective suggested the idea for
the Vision Festival. In 1995 she founded Arts for Art. This non-profit
organization has successfully presented 12 Vision Festivals, a dance/music
series, the Vision Collaboration Festival and a weekly Vision Club
series. Ms Nicholson received “Producer of the Year” award
from the JJA in 2003, was nominated in 2005 and won again in 2007.
info@visionfestival.org
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Lewis
Barnes
Lewis 'Flip' Barnes is Virginia born, NYC reared and Howard University
educated. Barnes plays trumpet with bassist William Parker's Little
Huey Orchestra, The Inside The Songs of Curtis Mayfield project (with
Amiri Baraka), and Parker's critically acclaimed quartet (which includes
Rob Brown on saxophone and Hamid Drake on drums). Barnes has also
lent his trumpet vocal and electric bass stylings to Greg Tate's collective
Burnt Sugar, saxophonist Jemeel Moondoc, guitarist Jean-Paul Bourelly,
The Holmes Brothers, singer Norah Jones, drummer William Hooker, the
JC Hopkins Biggish Band, and numerous other musical projects. He has
written and recorded original music for two films by Actress/Cinematographer
Sandye Wilson, So Many Things to Consider and notsoprivatethoughts.
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Jo
Wood-Brown
Jo Wood-Brown is a downtown New York City-based multimedia artist
who has exhibited her work widely, both as a painter and as an installation
artist. She is represented by PSCA (Paul Sharpe Contemporary Arts)
in Chelsea. Wood-Brown often collaborates with dancers, musicians
and filmmakers. She is the founder of Artist Exchange International,
an organization to promote an international dialogue in contemporary
art issues amongst artists in various countries. An AEI program Through
Our Eyes: Wuppertal/New York will be hosted by the Metropolitan Museum
of Art in New York this winter. More information can be found at her
web address www.jowoodbrown.com.
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Whit Dickey
The music, dance, poetry and visual art represented by the Vision
Festival is all about expression of a personal essence of the moment,
something that is a precious and rare cultural experience in our lives,
and something that I truly relate to for presence and peace of mind.
that is why I am on the board of directors of this great endeavor
and will help it to endure and expand uncorrupted in the city of its
birth. I could not live fully without the spirit behind the Vision
Festival.
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William Parker
As Steve Greenlee of the Boston Globe stated, “William Parker
has emerged as the most important leader of the current avant-garde
scene in jazz.” He is working in many of the more important
groups in this genre, some of the most prestigous being his own, ie.
The Curtis Mayfield Project, Little Huey Creative Orchestra, In Order
to Survive, William Parker’s Quartet and other groups. He was
awarded Jazz Artist of the year in Italy in 2005. Mr. Parker is one
of the most important composers in our time period, he is also a poet
whose words are beginning to be heard in various media: in print,
in song and in his theatre piece, “Music and the Shadow People.”
He has a history as an arts organizer helping to bring about 2 Sound
Unity festivals as well as the Lower East Side Festival and concert
series at a small loft in the East Village. www.williamparker.net
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John
Schiek
John is a Lake Tahoe, Nevada-based, retired business executive. Presently,
he is a partner in Tanner-Monagle, Inc., an audio/video production
and recording studio in Milwaukee. Previously, John was a founding
executive of a successful medical products company. John has fifteen
years experience serving on non-profit boards. He has served on the
board of directors for the American Heart Association in leadership
roles, both at the local and regional levels; and with the Petaluma
Phoenix Center, a California-based alternative music venue and teen
center. An avid supporter of avant-jazz since the early 1970’s,
John has attended countless live performances and still possesses
an extensive vinyl record collection. John is also happily married
and has two dogs, Muddy and Layla.
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Bradford
K. Smith
Bradford Smith is President of the Oak Foundation based in Geneva,
Switzerland, which provides grants for programs dealing with human
rights. It has offices in Switzerland, the United States, Bulgaria,
the United Kingdom, Denmark, Belize, Ethiopia and Zimbabwe. Prior
to joining the Oak Foundation Mr. Smith served as Vice President of
the Ford Foundation's Peace and Social Justice Program. Mr. Smith's
entire career has been dedicated to issues pertaining to social and
economic development. Mr. Smith has an M.A. in political economy from
the New School for Social Research and a B.A. in Anthropology and
Ethnomusicology from the University of Michigan.
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Francis
Greenberger - CEO Time Equities
Jan
Jaffe - Ford Foundation
Alain Kirili
- sculptor
Hiroko Takada
Phil
Hartman - The HOWL Festival / Two Boots Pizza
Thomas
Buckner - vocalist & head of Mutable Music
Wendy
Oxenhorn - Director of the Jazz Foundation of America
Rick
Theis - CEO, Amaru Interactive
George
Wein - CEO, Festival Productions, Inc. a division of The Festival
Network, LLC.
Joe Chonto - Musician;
Producer/Host of weekly TV series SOME REAL MUSIC on NYC public television;
Documentary Filmmaker
Roberto Barahona
- Director, Jazz Department, Radio Beethoven, Santiago - Chile. |
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