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Is a collaboration between sociologist and political theorist, John Holloway and composer Michael Pisaro-Liu. The hour-long spoken word and musical piece, performed by Holloway, Pisaro-Liu and a group of Los Angeles musicians – including Judith Berkson, (piano) Ivan Cunningham (saxophone), Grace Dashnaw (cello), Adam Lion (percussion) and MK Velsorf (samples and guitar) draws out the connections between silence and noise, and the ensemble and the commune, and speaks to the hope we might kindle for a future world in which value is measured not by money but by human dignity and the joys of a flourishing, inclusive, communizing harmony. 

Friday 8^th, Saturday 9^th May. New Theater Hollywood, 6500 Santa Mónica Boulevard, Los Angeles