# Event Details - **Event Name**: On Improvisation: Unbridled Freedom Movement and the Arts - **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 16 Apr, 2022 at 04:00 pm – Sat, 16 Apr, 2022 at 07:00 pm - **Event Description**: Russell Hamilton, Alfredo Colon, Joy Guidry, Jessie Cox, Vivek Bald, & Gaiutra Bahadur film screening, performances, and conversationsAbout this EventThe Ambedkar Initiative at the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, with the support of Africana Studies at Barnard, and AAADS and IRAAS at Columbia University presentsApril 14th-16th, 2022 at Columbia University and Barnard CollegeJoin our three day series of work study groups, presentations, film screenings and musical performances, showcasing, studying, and discussing global events and movements that have been understood as wild and incomprehensible, forms of ‘acting out,’ or as instantiating periods of disorientation.Saturday 4/16, 4-7pm EST“On Improvisation: Unbridled Freedom Movement and the Arts”OPEN TO THE PUBLIC: LOCATION IS THE SCHOMBURG CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN BLACK CULTURE, 515 MALCOLM X BLVDFeatured guests- Russell Hamilton, Alfredo Colon, Joy Guidry, Jessie Cox, Vivek Bald, & Gaiutra BahadurFilm screening, performances, and conversations on the imperative of improvisation in social movements, including features on Southern Black marching bands, jazz techniques/ traditions, and the reclamation of cultural and spacial geographies.The Undercommons is both a practice and place of fugitive freedom against logics of manufactured debt, racial capitalism, and neoliberal conceits.Powered by the Black radical tradition, spaces and moments of undercommoning are fundamentally international, studious, illogical, and borderless. https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events1/banners/98754ca0-b110-11ec-85a8-bda8f2c6ca77-rimg-w720-h1113-gmir.jpg - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/new-york/on-improvisation-unbridled-freedom-movement-and-the-arts/10000309894852847 - **Event Categories**: entertainment, art, music, theatre, literary-art, live-music - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: New York - **state**: NY - **country**: United States - **location**: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture - **lat**: 40.8145872 - **long**: -73.94092599999999 - **full address**: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: On Improvisation: Unbridled Freedom Movement and the Arts - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/f8d55ce1cbcf01658c11b3bbea9a4c28fc50014a5bdf8b2496267284bfba9b15-rimg-w912-h1410-gmir.jpg?v=1648744543 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is On Improvisation: Unbridled Freedom Movement and the Arts being held? - **A:** On Improvisation: Unbridled Freedom Movement and the Arts takes place on Sat, 16 Apr, 2022 at 04:00 pm to Sat, 16 Apr, 2022 at 07:00 pm at Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing On Improvisation: Unbridled Freedom Movement and the Arts? - **A:** On Improvisation: Unbridled Freedom Movement and the Arts is organized by Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. - **Q**: What has been the experience of attendees at Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University's events? - **A:** Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University has 183+ followers on AllEvents, reflecting a trusted and active community of event-goers who follow their events. 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