“HYPOCRISY OF JUSTICE: SIGHTS AND SOUNDS FROM THE BLACK METROPOLIS” PERFORMANCES AND SYMPOSIUM
October 7 & 8, 2022
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The Hyde Park Jazz Festival, the Reva & David Logan Center for the Arts, and the University of Chicago Presents are pleased to present a collaborative commission to Dana Hall and Cheryl Lynn Bruce to extend and further develop their 2015 project with visual artist Kerry James Marshall titled “Hypocrisy of Justice: Sights and Sounds from the Black Metropolis.” Hypocrisy of Justice explores inequities within systems and institutions, along with lived experiences of confinement, redemption, hope, and home. In addition to two performances by Dana Hall’s Sextet with special guest actor Malcom Banks, there will be a free day-long symposium on October 8th. The project is inspired by Richard Wright’s 1940 novel, Native Son.
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The symposium is organized by Kate Dumbleton and the Hyde Park Jazz Festival in partnership with Dana Hall, the Logan Center, and University of Chicago Presents, with additional support from the Jazz Institute of Chicago, Department of Cultural Affairs, Envisioning Justice and the National Public Housing Museum.
Hypocrisy of Justice: Sights and Sounds from the Black Metropolis is co-commissioned by the Hyde Park Jazz Festival, Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, and UChicago Presents. This program is supported by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE), Dan J. Epstein, Judith Guitelman, and the Epstein Family Foundation, the Illinois Humanities Envisioning Justice initiative, the Jazz Institute of Chicago's Dr. Timuel Black Inspiration and Education Program, the National Public Housing Museum, the Revada Foundation with additional support from the Julie and Parker Hall Endowment for Jazz and American Popular Music, and the Reva and David Logan Foundation. Presented in partnership with Chicago Jazz Magazine, DownBeat Magazine, Jazz Institute Chicago, and WDCB 90.9 FM.
The 2015 premiere of Hypocrisy of Justice was commissioned by Symphony Center Presents Jazz series and made possible by the Dan Epstein and Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation.
KATE DUMBLETON
Kate Dumbleton is an educator, curator, and arts administrator. She is the co-Executive and Artistic Director of the Hyde Park Jazz Festival and an Associate Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Kate’s work in jazz, improvised music, and performance spans more than two decades and includes music direction for jazz clubs and festivals; curatorial direction of artist residences; direction of interdisciplinary projects in music, dance, theater, visual art, film; venue and record label management; executive leadership; and artist management. Since Kate joined the Hyde Park Jazz Festival in 2012, the organization has grown significantly, including the launch of a commissioning program, the development of neighborhood initiatives, and the cultivation of international artist exchange projects. Kate has been teaching at SAIC since 2008, where she designed and developed the arts leadership curriculum for the graduate program in arts administration and cultural policy. A component of her current research involves methodologies of cross-sectoral collaborations that work to address systemic injustice and the ways in which the arts do and might contribute to this work.
