Party

The annual VLC Forum Dinner extends the festivities into the night with a free dinner and party for all–celebrating proppaNOW, recipient of the 2022–2024 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice; the 2022–2024 Jane Lombard Fellows: Another Roadmap Africa Cluster (ARAC), Colectivo Cherani, KUNCI Study Forum & Collective, and Khalil Rabah; and Forum participants and our communities. ARAC member Christian Nyampeta hosts, with a DJ set and karaoke to follow. 

Nyampeta’s set embarks on a journey through the sounds of Black lifetimes and afterworlds—animated by songs, samples, lyrics, beats, and rhymes, with interludes of citations, quotations, and invocations motioned through remixes, scratches, rewinds, slowdowns, and elongations. The offering includes Nyampeta’s own live improvisations and original compositions, conceived as an “echological” spacetime: it dramatizes the connective echoes and the joyful reverberations that lessen the distanced longings and separated belonging characterizing the makers’ own experiences.

Open to the public and The New School faculty, staff, and students.