In Conversation with spoken word artist, writer & librettist, and cultural strategist Marc Bamuthi Joseph
Zoom link: https://tinyurl.com/csusb-race-policing
(Photo Credit: Bethanie Hines)
Join us for a conversation with spoken word artist, writer & librettist, and cultural strategist Marc Bamuthi Joseph (website link).
Bamuthi is a 2017 TED Global Fellow; an inaugural recipient of the Guggenheim Social Practice initiative; an honoree of the United States Artists Rockefeller Fellowship; winner of the Herb Alpert Award in Theatre; and an inaugural recipient of the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award. In the Spring of 2022, he was elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was most recently welcomed into the 2023-24 Emerson Collective Dial Fellowship. An internationally renowned cultural strategist, Bamuthi is the co-creator of the paradigm-shifting allyship training HEALING FORWARD™ [sozoimpact.org]. He has lectured in 25 different countries and his TED talk “You Have The Rite” has been viewed more than five million times.
Bamuthi has most recently completed commissions for Yale University, the Albany Symphony Orchestra, The Minnesota Orchestra, The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, and the Washington National Opera. His new opera "Watch Night" with music by Tamar-kali and direction by Bill T. Jones premiered at PAC NYC in 2023, and his collaboration with NYC Ballet Associate Artistic Director Wendy Whelan "Carnival of the Animals [sozoartists.com]" premiered and will tour in 2024 and 2025.
While engaging in a deeply fulfilling and successful artistic career, Bamuthi also proudly serves as Vice President and Artistic Director of Social Impact at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. He forges collaborative partnerships and paths toward collective healing, empathy, and an equitable future in all aspects of his work. In this conversation with Bamuthi, our students and campus community will be able to cultivate visions of equity, and celebrate diverse voices uplifting justice and belonging.
Series organizers: Dr. Mary Texeira (CSUSB Sociology), Robie Madrigal (Pfau Library), Stan Futch (President, Westside Action Group), Dr. Jeremy Murray (CSUSB History), Matt Patino (Crafton Hills College Adjunct Faculty), Michael German (Brennan Center for Justice), Amber Broaden (CSUSB and CSU Dominguez Hills, Psychology). Click here to view previous panels in the Conversations on Race and Policing series (link).