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The August Wilson Center for African American Culture established First Voice: A Pittsburgh International Arts Festival as an avenue for artists, inside the Pittsburgh region and outside of it, to express themselves whether it be with a whisper or with a shout.

It is one of our institutional goals to cultivate and nurture the great artists who are passionately striving to blossom from Pittsburgh’s rich soil. Towards that end, we are pleased to present our second class of AWC Fellows. Representing a variety of artistic disciplines, they are among the best of what the region has to offer within the breadth and scope of their talents and their desire to give back to this community. We are privileged to have had a part in their continuing evolution and we are committed to remaining an active and vital participant in the development of artists of color throughout the region and presenting them to the world.

We named our festival First Voice because the artists themselves conceived and produced these projects. The artist is essential to the creative process and often develops work independently, without the structure of formal institutions. Here, we have endeavored to provide a platform where new and provocative works are performed and staged. A platform that allows the artists’ voices to ring true.

First up, you will experience the heat of Grammy-nominated indie-soul duo The Foreign Exchange. After that is Pittsburgh-native choreographer Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion. No stranger to the August Wilson Center stage, he and his company will definitely provide great thrills for any first time viewers. The remainder of the week belongs to our dynamic 2010-11 Fellows.

Much of the festival programming is contemporary in nature, featuring both emerging and established artists working in a variety of music, spoken word, dance, hip hop, the visual and literary arts, education, social issues and more.

First Voice is a wonderful opportunity to truly experience a wide range of creativity all in one place, during one week.

Our hope is that you find your own resonance within First Voice.

Sincerely,

Shaunda Miles Director of Programming & Cultivation

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SATURDAY MAY 28 JAMESZIEGLER

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SPECIAL PERFORMANCE FRIDAY MAY 20 at 8 pm TICKETS: $20Opening Act: DJ Selecta Recently named one of “5 Rising Indie Artists” by JET Magazine, The Foreign Exchange is a R&B/electronica/hip hop duo consisting of American rapper/singer Phonte Coleman and Dutch producer Nicolay. The group’s new album, Authenticity, came out in October and extends the percolating and idiosyncratic rhythms of 2008’s Leave It All Behind.

The Foreign Exchange came together via the online hip hop community Okayplayer.com in 2002. After trading files through Instant Messenger for over a year, Nicolay (living in his native Holland at the time) and Phonte (a Raleigh, NC resident) completed their debut album before they ever met each other in person. The album, Connected, was released in 2004 to positive reviews, and was praised by legendary DJ’s such as Jazzy Jeff, King Britt, and DJ Spinna for its inventive mix of hip hop, R&B, and electronica.

Their sophomore album, Leave It All Behind (2008) found The Foreign Exchange much closer geographically (Nicolay becoming a resident of Wilmington, NC), but much further from their hip hop origins. On the strength of their exhilarating live show and several nationally programmed music videos, Leave It All Behind became the group’s most successful album to date, culminating in a Grammy-nomination for the album’s first single, “Daykeeper”.

Authenticity, released on October 12, 2010 on +FE Music, is The Foreign Exchange’s third album.

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THE FOREIgN ExCHANgE PHONTE + NICOlAy WITH LIVE BAND

PHONTEGrammy Award-nominated rapper/singer/songwriter/producer Phonte Coleman was raised in Greensboro, NC. Phonte got his musical start by singing in his grandmother’s church choir and making beats on a Gemini sampler in high school. After entering North Carolina Central University in 1997, Phonte met future bandmates Thomas Jones (Big Pooh) and Patrick Douthit (9th Wonder) and formed the group Little Brother in 2001. The group released four critically acclaimed albums before finally disbanding in early 2010. Afterwards, Phonte focused his career on singing, songwriting and producing with longtime Foreign Exchange partner Nicolay.

NICOLAYGrammy Award-nominated music producer/performer Nicolay was born and raised in The Netherlands. He played various instruments in various bands and got a formal music education before focusing on the production side of the music making process.

Around 2002, Nicolay met rapper/singer-songwriter Phonte (of Little Brother) on the Okayplayer.com message boards. They struck up a partnership under the name The Foreign Exchange and released their critically acclaimed debut album Connected, which was completed solely through the use of the Internet, in 2004. The success of Connected enabled Nicolay to move to the United States and further pursue his career in music. The Foreign Exchange’s sophomore album, Leave It All Behind (2008), was even more successful, culminating in the Grammy nomination for the album’s first single, “Daykeeper.”

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SPECIAL PERFORMANCE SATURDAY MAY 21 at 8 pm TICKETS: $20

Pittsburgh-native Kyle Abraham delves into identity and personal history in The Radio Show. Creating an abstract narrative around the loss of communication, he investigates the effects of the abrupt discontinuation of Pittsburgh radio station, WAMO on a community and the lingering effects of Alzheimer’s and aphasia on a family. A score infusing Alva Noto with recordings of classic soul and hip hop with contemporary classical compositions of Ryoji Ikeda.

THE RADIO SHOW Performers: Kyle Abraham, Rena Butler, Nigel Campbell, Chalvar Monteiro, Elyse Morris, Rachelle Rafailedes and Hsiao-Jou TangCostume Design: Sarah CubbageLighting Design: Dan ScullyLighting Supervisor: Seth Reiser

KylE AbRAHAM/AbRAHAM.IN.MOTIONTHE RADIO SHOW

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Kyle Abraham, professional dancer and choreographer, began his training at the Civic Light Opera Academy and the Creative and Performing Arts High School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He continued his dance studies in New York, receiving a BFA from SUNY Purchase and an MFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

Over the past few years, Abraham has received tremendous accolades and awards for his dancing and choreography including a 2010 Bessie Award for Outstanding Performance in Dance for his work in The Radio Show along with a 2010 Princess Grace Award for Choreography, a BUILD grant and an individual artist fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, a Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant, a Pennsylvania Council for the Arts Fellowship and 2009 was honored as one of Dance Magazine’s “25 To Watch.” Abraham was heralded by OUT Magazine as one of the “best and brightest creative talent to emerge in New York City in the age of Obama.” His choreography has been presented throughout the United States and abroad, most recently at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Danspace Project, Dance Theater Workshop, Bates Dance Festival, Harlem Stage, Fall for Dance Festival at New York’s City Center, Montreal, Germany, Dublin’s Project Arts Center, The Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum located in Okinawa Japan and The Andy Warhol Museum in his hometown of Pittsburgh, PA.

Abraham’s most recent work, The Corner, commissioned by Ailey 2, is currently touring internationally with great reception.

As a performer, Abraham has worked with acclaimed modern dance companies including David Dorfman Dance, Burnt Sugar Dance Conduction Continuum, Nathan Trice/Rituals, Mimi Garrard Dance Theater, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Dance Alloy, The Kevin Wynn Collection and Attack Theatre. In addition to performing and developing new works for his company, Abraham.In.Motion, Abraham also teaches his unique approach to post-modern dance in various schools and studios throughout the United States.

THE RADIO SHOW PROGRAM NOTES

PRESHOWMusic: Shirley Brown, The Chi-Lites, The Dramatics, The Emotions, Al Green, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Al Wilson, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Laura Lee, Dorothy Moore, The Shirelles, Sylvia, Dionne Warwick, Bill Withers, Betty Wright and The Velvelettes. AM 860Music: Alva Noto, Beyoncé, Mary J. Blige, The Brothers Johnson, Exile, Aretha Franklin, The Fugees, Ryoji Ikeda, Ann Peebles, Jonnie Taylor and The Velvelettes. INTERMISSION 106.7 FMMusic: Antony & The Johnsons, Alva Noto, J.S Bach, Michael Baysden, Beyoncé, Eiffel 65, Exile, Sophia Fresh (featuring Kanye West, HudMo, Ryoji Ikeda, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Klymaxx, Jena Knight, Lady Gaga, Mary Mary, Mtume, Eddie Murphy, Amber Lee Parker, Jay Sean, Slick Rick, Britney Sprears, Jonnie Taylor and The Velvelettes. Additional editing by Herman Soy Sos Pearl.

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The mission of Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion is to create an evocative interdisciplinary body of work. Born into hip hop culture in the late 1970s and grounded in Abraham’s artistic upbringing in classical cello, piano and the visual arts, the goal of the movement is to delve into identity in relation to a personal history. The work entwines a sensual and provocative vocabulary with a strong emphasis on sound, human behavior and all things visual in an effort to create an avenue for personal investigation and exposing that on stage. A.I.M. is a representation of dancers from various disciplines and diverse personal backgrounds. Combined together, these individualities create movement that is manipulated and molded into something fresh and unique. For more information please visit www.abrahaminmotion.org.

Abraham.In.Motion is a proud supporter of Dancers Responding to AIDS. Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion is a member of Pentacle (Dance Works, Inc.) a non-profit service organization for the performing arts, Mara Greenberg and Ivan Sygoda, Directors. 246 West 38th Street, 4th, New York, NY 10018. Tel. 212-278-8111; Fax 212-278-8555. Web site: www.pentacle.org

For booking information, contact Sophie Myrtil-McCourty, at the above address or at sophiem@pentacle.org.

The Radio Show is made possible by the generous support of The Heinz Endowments and with funds from the 2009–2010 Danspace Project Commissioning Initiative with support from the New York State Council on the Arts.

Additional support for the commissioning and development of The Radio Show has been provided through The Kelly Strayhorn Theater and the Harlem Stage Fund for New Work, which has received support from the Jerome Foundation.

The Radio Show was created during a residency provided by The Joyce Theater Foundation, New York City, with major support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

The Radio Show world premiered at The Kelly-Strayhorn Theater in Pittsburgh in January 2010.

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AUGUST WILSON CENTER FELLOWMONDAY MAY 23 at 7 pm TICKETS: FREE

Fellow Alicia Wormsley’s multimedia installation The Transformation of Oshe in the REMIX Right Gallery explores Afro-Cuban themes. On this evening, Alisha will conduct an artist talk, exploring highlights of her work.

The exhibition represents the culmination of a year-long anthropological, psychological and artistic journey—between Cuba and the United States. Through the telling of an Afro-Cuban religious narrative, Alisha’s pieces explore issues of identity, social justice and duality. The exhibit incorporates operatic music, photography, collage and installation.

Alisha Wormsley is a multi-media artist, photographer, teaching artist and writer from Pittsburgh. After studying anthropology and documentary arts at UC Berkeley she began traveling, studying and creating different forms of art. Currently living between Pittsburgh and Brooklyn, Alisha has been engaged in myriad projects that both stretch and define her as an evolving artist.

Most recently, Alisha spent several months in Santiago de Cuba, exhibiting her work and leading a public art project with children named Found Art and EXCESS. She is currently working on Lilith the Succubus—a multi media opera that uses opera, choreography, photography, film and installation as equal mediums of expression.

AlISHA WORMSlEy EXHIBIT: THE TRANSFORMATION OF OSHE

DR. TAMEKA l. CAgEREADING FROM THIS FAR, BY GRACE

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AUGUST WILSON CENTER FELLOWTUESDAY MAY 24 at 7 pm TICKETS: FREEThis Far, By Grace, a novel-in-progress by Dr. Tameka Cage, is the story of the Jones family that begins in the early 1940s and ends in the early 21st century. Set in Shreveport, Louisiana, This Far, By Grace explores the “voices” and narrative perspectives of the father, husband and patriarch, “Brown Langston Jones”; mother, wife and matriarch, “Magdalena Tillman Jones” and their son, “Brown Jones, Jr.” (BJ). The novel incorporates elements of spirituality, the supernatural, sensuality and romance and the powerful ordeal of overcoming and resisting racism in the Jim Crow South. The novel also explores the trauma of racism and illustrates how “BJ,” as a “prodigal” son, finds his father, and returns to Louisiana after experiencing traumatic darkness in New York. Tameka will read from each narrative perspective. Q&A and post-reception to follow the reading.

Louisiana native Tameka L. Cage, PhD, has won writing awards in poetry and journalism, and is completing her first novel, This Far, By Grace, for which she received a residency grant from the Vermont Studio Center, the largest international artists’ and writers’ residency program in the United States. She uses the written and spoken word to transform, empower, tear down, build up, heal and elucidate. Tameka studied English at Dillard University, in New Orleans, and completed her doctoral degree in English at Louisiana State University, in Baton Rouge. There, she was awarded the Huel D. Perkins Doctoral Fellowship and the Lewis P. Simpson Distinguished Dissertation Award for her manuscript, Painful Discourses: Borders, Regions, and Representations of Female Circumcision from Africa to America.

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AUGUST WILSON CENTER FELLOWWEDNESDAY MAY 25 at 7 pm TICKETS: $5

Join August Wilson Center Fellow, Christiane D for a dark, intimate evening in the Café as she previews her solo studio album, Obliquity of the Ecliptic (OOTE), a collection of songs investigating the larger, astral influences affecting the human condition. Opening will be jazz pianist Anthony Leach performing original songs and beloved standards.

The live performance features well-known local musicians: Craig “Izzy” Arlet, Chris Belin, T Funk, Paul Cunningham, Stevee Wellons, Phat Man Dee, Gene Stovall, with special guest, up and coming guitarist Josh Boykins.

Preview CD will be available for purchase.

Visual artist, performance poet, singer, songwriter, playwright, event producer and cultural instigator. Art Lover.

Crouching in the shadows, Christiane Leach approaches with diverse and ever-changing disciplines. Whether she is painting, writing, performing poetry, producing events, acting or singing, she uses any medium within her reach to tell a story. For more information about Christiane D, visit her new Web site: www.christiane-d.us.

CHRISTIANE DOBLIQUITY OF THE ECLIPTIC (OOTE)

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Christiane D is best known as the front woman for Soma Mestizo. Her lyricaland vocal talents have also been featured on Liz Berlin’s and Jack Erdie’s solo releases, as well as on the 3 Generations Walking album, heard in clubs in Paris, Italy, LA and Japan. Since 2004, she has contributed songs for Indigenous Resistance, a global musical project, which highlights the many issues facing Indigenous cultures worldwide. She recently collaborated with DJ Soy Sos and Solomon Islands musician Olovatu on the song, “Ivere…The Land,” which is featured on their first feature length album.

Her play Saffronia debuted at the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater in 2006.Another work, The Only Good Artist is a Dead Artist, premiered at the Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company in 2007 as part of their annual Theatre Festival in Black & White. Christiane D has also performed in several plays across the city.

Her visual work has been exhibited in numerous galleries and she also performs her poetry throughout the Pittsburgh region in programs including The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s “She Said” series, SWAN Day (a celebration of women artists) and shared the stage with Nigerian-born poet and spoken word artist Bassey Ikpi at the Three Rivers Arts Festival.In 2003, Christiane D received the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship for world/jazz/blues musical composition, and in 2002 received a Pittsburgh Magazine’s “40 Under 40” award. In 2002 Christiane D spoke about the importance of the arts as an economic engine at the annual Allegheny Conference on Community Development. In 2007, along with her peers, she was honored at the New Hazlett Theater’s Celebrating Women in the Arts Festival.

ARTIST’S NOTES OBLIQUITY OF THE ECLIPTIC (OOTE)

“The tilt of the earth’s axis is not fixed and immutable for all times”…accelerating Earth’s spin...Sumatran earthquake – 6.8 microseconds...Chilean earthquake – 1.26 microseconds...Japanese earthquake – 1.8 microseconds...changes length of days...

As the moon’s gravitational pull tugs on our water, how do the recent tilts slant us?

“...the tug of contradictory urges: to fall into the sun...or make a break for the outer darkness...”*

OOTE is a collection of intimate songs investigating the larger influences affecting the human condition. Tilting high and warm or low and cold. Interspersed with satellite transmissions that beam down and listen. It’s a drug addicted boyfriend, it’s hating what you see in the mirror, it’s finding the strength despite the disasters, it’s finding inner peace in the stars and space above your head.

OOTE features an impressive roster of over twenty musicians, friends. Christiane D brought together an eclectic assembly of musicians, who either didn’t know each other or haven’t performed together, whose genres span from jazz to heavy metal to electronica, to make music. With only a rough draft to work from, the recordings capture the power of improvisation and magic of spontaneity.

The musicians/producers featured on OOTE are: Craig Arlet, John Purse, Paul Quattrone, Ken Foley, Chris Belin, John Hall, Richard Gartner, Olivia Payne, Stevee Wellons, Paul Cunningham, Paul Thompson, T Funk, Eubela Bey, Ketan Bakrania, Oyo Ellis, Beau DeMonte, Noel Hefele, DJ Soy Sos, Jack Wilson and Dane Cosby.

“Christiane D’s lyrics tell unconventional stories in traditionally prose or poetic ways more extreme than the folk ballads of Johnny Cash or Bob Dylan.” - Justin Hopper, Pittsburgh City Paper

Recorded at Rackety House and engineered by John Purse.

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AUGUST WILSON CENTER FELLOWTHURSDAY MAY 26 at 7 pm TICKETS: FREE

This classically-trained opera singer will present a concert featuring music by African American composers, arias performed my famous African American sopranos and music by other well-known composers.

Amanda Robin Lewis is a classically trained singer, originally from Washington, DC. She graduated from Howard University in 2005 with a B.Mus. in classical voice performance and in 2008 with M.Mus. in the same concentration. While at Howard, Amanda traveled and performed as a member of the Howard University Choir under the direction of Dr. J.W. Norris. During the academic year of 2006-2007, Amanda studied at the Accademia dell’Arte in Arezzo, Italy, where she concentrated on opera and physical theater. Also while in Italy, Amanda performed a solo concert and trained vocally with various renowned teachers and coaches, including Francesca Francalanci, of Florence, and Jill Feldman. Amanda has been fortunate to perform as a featured soloist for such prestigious events as the 10th anniversary of the African American Civil War Memorial in Washington, DC, the Congressional Black Caucus’ Black Women’s Agenda (2008), and the National Walk for Epilepsy (2010) where she sang the National Anthem. Amanda has also been fortunate to perform as a part of The Joyce Garrett Choir for the 2007 and 2009 Kennedy Center Honors.

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AMANDA LEWIS PROGRAM NOTES Accompanied by Ray Blackwell, Pianist

Featured guest artist Howie Alexander

Lascia ch’io pianga G.F. Handel (1685-1759) from Rinaldo

Morgen Richard Strauss (1864-1949)ZueignungAllerseelen

Dove sono i bei momenti W.A. Mozart (1756-1791)from The Marriage of Figaro

Deep River H.T. Burleigh (1866-1946)Were You ThereLittle David Play On Your Harp

Ave Maria G. Verdi (1813-1901)from Otello

Intermission

Donde liete G. Puccini (1858-1924)from La Boheme Night Florence Price (1887-1953) Soliloquy John Work (1871-1925)Dancing in the Sun

Come Sunday Duke Ellington (1899-1974)In A Sentimental Mood

Lush Life Billy Strayhorn (1915-1967)Howie Alexander - Piano

Io sono l’umile ancella F. Cilea (1866-1950) from Adriana Lecouvreur

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AUGUST WILSON CENTER FELLOWFRIDAY MAY 27 at 7 pm TICKETS: FREE

Luqmon A. Salaam will perform selections from his spoken word album, blended blue.

A poet, educator, performer and writer who used to go by the name B-tree, Luqmon has been writing and performing around the Pittsburgh region since the early 1990s. He is claimed by many artists and performers in the area as the “big brother” of the performance poetry. Luqmon has performed for Kuntu Repertory Theatre and has won first place at poetry slams through out the region.

Luqmon has produced two spoken word CDs and has combined his community organizing work with his work as an artist. He has produced, written and performed a one-man play and has always directed one-man plays for poet Nathan James.

lUQMON A. SAlAAMPERFORMANCE FROM blended blue

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AUGUST WILSON CENTER FELLOWSATURDAY MAY 28 at 7 pm TICKETS: $10 Raised on Pittsburgh’s North Side, James Ziegler began to express musical talent at an age much later than his peers. It wasn’t until his junior year at Pittsburgh’s high school for the Creative and Performing Arts that James realized the trombone was not what fulfilled him the most. Always knowing he had the ability to sing, James decided to give the voice department a chance and as he suspected, he loved it.

Despite his success singing classical music, James always felt the desire to express his vocal talents in gospel music. As a high school senior, James started his own gospel group, Another Level. Under his direction, the choir has shared the stage with some of the best in the gospel music industry, including Tye Tribbitt, Micah Stampley, JJ Hairston & Youthful Praise and Donnie McClurkin. They have had the privilege of singing background with a variety of well-known gospel recording artists as Marvin Sapp, Karen Clark-Sheard, Tonex, Vanessa Bell Armstrong, Kim Burrell and even country music star Trace Adkins.

In successful efforts to merge his two favorite music genres, James has shared his love of classical music with his gospel group. James and many of his members now sing in the chorus with Opera Theater of Pittsburgh and have gone on to perform small roles with the prestigious opera company.

It is his experience thus far that makes him one of the most sought after gospel singers in the city of Pittsburgh and surrounding areas.

JAMES ZIEglERGOSPEL CONCERT & ALBUM RELEASE, I CAN’T THANk YOU ENOUGH

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JAMES ZIEGLER PROGRAM I CAN’T THANK YOU ENOUGH

SONGSClean HandsGrateful to You06 (Without You)BetterI Can’t Thank You EnoughThank YouJesus Is the Only God

Note: Musical selections are subject to change. All songs were written and composed by James Ziegler.

SINGERSDavid Jackson IV Matthew Mason Avery L. LawrenceKami Rose Small Tereasa Brown Zuliakha “Zuli” JonesDelana Flowers Kandise Long Jerome J Tim Sloan Krystyn Kirkland Faith R. Otey Amy Ziegler

BANDTone Kirkland, musical director/keyboardCraig Wade, organClaude Flowers, bassLoran Mann II, drums

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