In Association with 27th Inffinito Brazilian Film Festival

Sunday, September 3, 2023

5:00 pm - 10:00 pm (Doors open 4:00 pm)

SummerStage, Central Park

Rumsey Playfield, Manhattan, 10021

In association with the 27th Inffinito Brazilian Film Festival, Central Park plays host to a performance from one of Brazil’s best-known MCs and a screening of the documentary that celebrates his career and the rich legacy of Black Brazilian culture. The first-ever Latin GRAMMY-winning Brazilian rapper Emicida has had his music featured in several video games; the 2020 film AmarElo: It’s All for Yesterday cuts between scenes from his concert in São Paulo’s Theatro Municipal, interviews, recording sessions for his 2019 album AmarElo, and animated sequences that illuminate the legacy of Black culture in Brazil. The film was nominated for the 2021 International Emmy Awards. With support from Goyo, the singer, producer, and co-founder of ChocQuibTown, the groundbreaking Colombian band that fuses salsa, jazz, hip-hop, and reggae.

This show will feature a special performance in collaboration with Works & Process. As part of this partnership, this season at SummerStage Ladies of Hip-Hop will perform at various shows. Ladies of Hip-Hop Dance Collective (LDC) is an all-female intergenerational dance collective that creates dance works illuminating the strength, power and diversity of women in Hip-Hop.

SpeakMyMind is commissioned by Works & Process and is supported from studio-to-stage in Works & Process Bubble and LaunchPAD “Process as Destination” residencies at Bethany Arts Community (2021, 2022 and 2023), Catskill Mountain Foundation (2022), and Millay Arts (2023). Iterative performances have taken place at Dancers Responding to AIDS Hudson Valley Dance Festival, Guggenheim Museum, Jacob’s Pillow, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. The work will premiere at Works & Process at the Guggenheim during the 2023-2024 season.

Photo: Titus Ogilvie-Laing