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Applications Closed - How to Apply   Atlantic Center for the Arts hosts Residency #187 with Mentoring Artists Nora Chipaumire - choreographer / performer, Kwame Dawes - poet / writer / critic, and Pamela Z - composer / performer / media artist, 12 Associate Artists, and 4 Visiting Artists from across the United States. During their three-week stay, the Associate and Visiting Artists will spend a portion of the day working with the Mentoring Artists, in group meetings, workshops, casual…

Presentation followed by Q & A. Venue, date, and time, TBD, please check back. Nora Chipaumire was born in 1965 in what was then known as Umtali, Rhodesia (now Mutare, Zimbabwe). She is a product of colonial education for black native Africans – known as group B schooling – and has pursued other studies at the University of Zimbabwe (law) and at Mills College in Oakland, CA (dance). Until the interruption by Covid-19, Chipaumire has been touring #PUNK 100% POP *NIGGA (verbalized…

Presentation followed by Q & A.Venue, date, and time, TBD, please check back. Kwame Dawes is a Pabst Endowed Chair for Master Writers Born in Ghana in 1962, Kwame Dawes spent most of his childhood and early adult life in Jamaica. He is a writer of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and plays. As a poet, he is profoundly influenced by the rhythms and textures of Ghana, citing in an interview his “spiritual, intellectual, and emotional engagement with reggae music.” Indeed, his…

Presentation followed by Q & A. Venue, date, and time, TBD, please check back. Pamela Z is a composer/performer and media artist who works primarily with voice, live electronic processing, sampled sound, and video. A pioneer of live digital looping techniques, she processes her voice in real time to create dense, complex sonic layers. Her solo works combine experimental extended vocal techniques, operatic bel canto, found objects, text, digital processing, and wireless MIDI controllers that allow her to manipulate sound…