Join us in-person for an Artist POV Tour of Jamal Cyrus: The End of My Beginning with Harmony Holiday.

Harmony Holiday is a writer, dancer, archivist, director, and the author of four collections of poetry: Negro League Baseball, Go Find Your Father/ A Famous Blues, Hollywood Forever, and A Jazz Funeral for Uncle Tom. Her latest publication is Maafa (2022). She is currently a resident programmer of 2220Arts where she is active in the preservation of poetry and jazz archives through Afrosonics, an archive of jazz and everyday diasporic poetics, and, Mythscience Archives, a publishing imprint that reissues and reprints work from the archive. Her work is deeply rooted by Black music and collective improvisation with Black people. In 2020-2021, she was featured in the Hammer Museum’s Biennial Made in L.A. 2020: a version.

Holiday studied rhetoric and at UC Berkeley and taught with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre. She has received the Motherwell Prize from FenceBooks, fellowships from Ruth Lilly, NYFA, a Harvard research fellowship, and a California Book Award. She received her MFA from Columbia University.

This event is on site and in-person. All guests will be required to provide proof of vaccination and wear a mask.