Songs to Quell the Monster: Program 2 of 4—The People’s Chorus

Tickets Presented by Nehal Vyas and Advik Beni If the first songs we hear are sung to us, what happens when we begin to sing together? A chorus is made not from a single voice, but from the many voices that gather, interrupt, contradict, and strengthen one another. In this second program, The People’s Chorus, we turn towards that collective voice, one that refuses to be silenced. In Vinay Shukla’s While We Watched, the primetime Indian TV journalist, Ravish Kumar, is famous for his takedowns of the ruling establishment during his long-running primetime news hour. He has become a regular fixture beaming from TV sets, but his nerves have begun to fray from carrying the torch of good journalism for too long. Songs to Quell the Monster is a four-part programming series that gathers films and live performances that channel the defiant spirit of songs across histories and borders. Moving between the intimate and the collective, these works confront authoritarianism, colonial violence and and erasure–transforming memory, voice and image into acts of refusal. A reminder that while the monster is vast, so too are our songs. Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live