Seating is limited. Reserve your seat in advance to pick where you sit ($6 fee per seat). Join the standby line for remaining seats on the day of the concert, free of charge.
Don’t miss the bold, contemporary BlackBox Ensemble as they perform an innovative and affecting new work: PIPA BOY: Three Scenes from the Post-Diaspora by Baldwin Giang. BlackBox is the only group performing this work in 2025, and they’ve scaffolded it with thematically resonant pieces by Anthony Cheung, Tania León, and Juhi Bansal.
In PIPA BOY, Baldwin Giang incorporates ensemble, pipa solos, and video installation to present portraits of three places—Taipei, Rome, and his home city of Philadelphia—that are central to his personal and family history. In his words, “contemporary identity needs to be interpreted and renegotiated given the forces behind 21st century globalization.” The creation of this work spanned three years and three continents, where Giang worked with local video artists to collect footage of the scenes each movement explores.
Program:
Anthony Cheung’s Clocks for Seeing
Tania León’s In the Field
Juhi Bansal’s Love, Loss and Exile
Baldwin Giang’s PIPA BOY: Three Scenes from the Post-Diaspora
Image credit to Kayla Miller
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