Music for Healing and Dialogue
Code Listen is a civic arts project using the transformative power of creative music and music performance to support healing and dialogue on gun violence, race and law enforcement practices for Boston residents. Led by violinist and composer Shaw Pong Liu who initiated the project in 2016 as an Artist-in-Residence with the City of Boston in collaboration with the Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture, the Boston Police Department, and community organizations including the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute , Teen Empowerment and the Mattapan Teen Center.
Join us for a conversation about policing and community healing with members of the Code Listen ensemble: Boston police, homicide survivors, and youth. Moderated by Pascale Florestal on Facebook Live https://www.facebook.com/Code-Listen-105111964611208/
Honoring loved ones lost to homicide and their families, this event is a performance/memorial/dialogue collaboration of composer Shaw Pong Liu, homicide survivors, Boston Arts Academy teen dancers led by choreographer William McLaughlin, guest artists NEA National Heritage Fellow Balla Kouyaté, jazz trumpet Jason Palmer, and members of Code Listen ensemble of survivors, teen artists, and Boston Police musicians.
Join us in the Courtyard and Calderwood Hall for a free performance and dialogue. Admission is free but RSVP is required!
Schedule:
Courtyard Processional | 1 PM - 1:30 PM
Calderwood Hall performance/memorial/dialogue | 2–3:30 PM
RSVP now for free show to guarantee a seat. We expect this show to sell out.
Code Listen 3.0 reflects on the intertwining stories of Boston Police, teens, and mothers who have lost their children to homicide in a citywide series of musical-narrative performances and conversations during Homicide Survivor Awareness Month (Nov 20- Dec 20 2018).
Join us for a public-facing, free performance and dialogue featuring original music composition by lead artist Shaw Pong Liu; theatre direction by Pascale Florestal; live music performance by a collaborative ensemble of homicide survivors, Boston police, youth, and musicians Jason Palmer, jazz trumpet, Ashleigh Gordon, viola, and members of A Far Cry chamber orchestra; a public memorial of memorial posters for homicide victims; and community dialogue about violence, racism, and police practices.
In partnership with New England Foundation for the Arts, Celebrity Series of Boston, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Legacy Lives On, Teen Empowerment and A Far Cry.
RSVP now for free show! We expect to sell out!
Code Listen 3.0 reflects on the intertwining stories of Boston Police, teens, and mothers who have lost their children to homicide in a citywide series of musical-narrative performances and conversations during Homicide Survivor Awareness Month (Nov 20- Dec 20 2018).
Join us for a public-facing, free performance and dialogue featuring original music composition by lead artist Shaw Pong Liu; theatre direction by Pascale Florestal; live music performance by a collaborative ensemble of homicide survivors, Boston police, youth, and musicians Jason Palmer, jazz trumpet, Ashleigh Gordon, viola, and members of A Far Cry chamber orchestra; a public memorial of memorial posters for homicide victims; and community dialogue about violence, racism, and police practices.
In partnership with New England Foundation for the Arts, Celebrity Series of Boston, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Legacy Lives On, Teen Empowerment and A Far Cry.
RSVP now for free show - we expect to fill!
Code Listen 3.0 uses music and stories to engage a citywide conversation on violence, racism, and police practices by creating public music-memorial-dialogue events during Homicide Survivor Awareness Month (Nov 20- Dec 20 2018). The performance will include an original music composition by lead artist Shaw Pong Liu; theatre direction by Pascale Florestal; live music performance by a collaborative ensemble of homicide survivors, Boston police, youth, and musicians Jason Palmer, jazz trumpet, Ashleigh Gordon, viola, and members of A Far Cry chamber orchestra; a public memorial of memorial posters for homicide victims; and community dialogue about violence, racism, and police practices.
In partnership with New England Foundation for the Arts, Celebrity Series of Boston, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Legacy Lives On, Teen Empowerment and A Far Cry.
Join 15,000 people walking for peace and in support of homicide survivors on Mother's Day. The Musical Memorials project, part of Code Listen, will be organizing musicians and memorial posters to honor and remember homicide victims along the 6.8 mile walk route, in collaboration with Greg Mahony, director of multimedia at the Boston Police Department; Officer Marivelle Crespo and Officer Lissette Garcia, BPD homicide unit Victims and Witnesses Resource Officers; and dozens of professional, collegiate and amateur musicians from across the city and state. Sign up to donate a performance!
Join us for healing and dialogue with music! The second generation of Code Listen ensemble brings together Boston police, teens, and homicide survivors (who have lost a child or sibling to homicide) in a music performance featuring popular songs and original songs created by the participants.
Join us for healing and dialogue with music! The second generation of Code Listen ensemble brings together Boston police, teens, and homicide survivors (who have lost a child or sibling to homicide) in a music performance featuring popular songs and original songs created by the participants.
Performance by Code Listen's Citywide police officer-and-youth music ensemble, featuring original song, as part of Teen Empowerment's Community-Police Summit and police-youth dialogues.
Debut performance of original works by Code Listen teen and police officer musicians at Dorchester's National Night Out, featuring original songs! Entire event runs 5:30-8:30pm and includes appearances by Mayor Walsh, Police Commissioner Evans, and BPD command staff.
Come hear the debut performance of a talented band of police officers from around the City. This performance of favorite popular songs and a couple originals is part of an ensemble-building process among officers prior to a series of songwriting music-based dialogue workshops with teens.
Featuring:
Officer Steven Collette, C6 South Boston, guitar and voice
Officer Kim Tavares, D4 South End, voice
Detective Jeremiah Benton, BPD Academy, bass
Sergeant John Burns, C11 Dorchester, drums
We wlll also be partnering with Art Commons to engage passersby with onsite art-making during and after the performance.
We will be organizing a Memorial Way along the Mother's Day Walk for Peace, honoring and remembering family members lost to violence with large-scale photos and live music performances, in collaboration with Louis D. Brown Peace Institute and Legacy Lives On.
BPD musicians (and the musically-curious!) are invited to come meet lead musician Shaw Pong Liu and one another. Learn about the project and how you can get involved!
Please RSVP to codelistenboston@gmail.com.
Code Listen is collaborating with Riverview Chamber Players' Harmony and Hope: Responding to Violence With Music all-day concert (12-hours, 12 concerts), working with director Rebecca Strauss to honor and remember individuals lost to violence. Four families will be speaking about their loved ones lost to violence at four different concerts that day.
Code Listen artist Shaw Pong Liu will perform with colleagues Tanya Maggi and Julia Cash at the 3pm-4pm concert.
