Community Creation Session
Sunday, February 2, 4:00pm - 8:00pm (EST)
Imbolc Community Creation Session
At 27th Letter Books
3546 Michigan Ave, Detroit, MI 48216
February 2, 2025
4pm-8pm
New compositions, live poetry, jam session, and salon
With King Sophia, Indira Edwards, Michael Smith, Laina Martin, Jordan Smith, and more
Suggested $10-20 Donation
King Sophia is a multidisciplinary storyteller and world-builder. Classically trained with a degree from Frost School of Music - University of Miami, King Sophia's cellistic and compositional skills are their main processors for the world around them. They’re also an electric guitarist, vocalist, conductor, educator, disc jockey and poet. As a versatile creator with roots in many genres from blues to bossa nova to avant-garde, King Sophia is known for their multidisciplinary explorations of strategic resistance and radical joy. King is especially known for their live arranging and live composing — what others call ‘improvisation.’ Each new creation is grounded in their identities of Black Indigenous Queerness and a desire to preserve, showcase, and build upon non-hegemonic music history. Using these core cultural threads as a foundation for their practices, King Sophia explores art and intention through a holistic lens to concoct sonic experiences that motivate, illuminate, alleviate, and empower.
Indira Edwards is a Detroit-based violist, composer, music educator, and luthier's assistant living in Detroit. They are interested in making multicultural music education accessible and inclusive by lowering or eliminating the cost of entry to the artform. They provide sliding-scale instrument repair, instrument repair and maintenance instruction, private and group instrumental lessons, and community music theory and history classes through Wayne County Community College. In their free time, Indira is an avid bookworm, interested primarily in Cuban history, sustainability in architecture, and public health research.
Imbolc Community Creation Session
At 27th Letter Books
3546 Michigan Ave, Detroit, MI 48216
February 2, 2025
4pm-8pm
New compositions, live poetry, jam session, and salon
With King Sophia, Indira Edwards, Michael Smith, Laina Martin, Jordan Smith, and more
Suggested $10-20 Donation
King Sophia is a multidisciplinary storyteller and world-builder. Classically trained with a degree from Frost School of Music - University of Miami, King Sophia's cellistic and compositional skills are their main processors for the world around them. They’re also an electric guitarist, vocalist, conductor, educator, disc jockey and poet. As a versatile creator with roots in many genres from blues to bossa nova to avant-garde, King Sophia is known for their multidisciplinary explorations of strategic resistance and radical joy. King is especially known for their live arranging and live composing — what others call ‘improvisation.’ Each new creation is grounded in their identities of Black Indigenous Queerness and a desire to preserve, showcase, and build upon non-hegemonic music history. Using these core cultural threads as a foundation for their practices, King Sophia explores art and intention through a holistic lens to concoct sonic experiences that motivate, illuminate, alleviate, and empower.
Indira Edwards is a Detroit-based violist, composer, music educator, and luthier's assistant living in Detroit. They are interested in making multicultural music education accessible and inclusive by lowering or eliminating the cost of entry to the artform. They provide...
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3546 Michigan Ave, Detroit, MI 48216
King, kingsophiamusic@gmail.com