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To celebrate the music of Sun Ra, two of Vancouver’s strongest creative voices join forces for a one-night only performance at the VIFF Centre, along with a rare screening of the revolutionary 1974 Afro-Futurist film Space is the Place, featuring Sun Ra.
Feven Kidane is a Vancouver-based trumpeter who has been selling out shows at the VIFF Centre, the Vancouver International Jazz Festival, and numerous other venues for the past few years. For this special perfomance she’ll be collaborating with Tiny Pyramids, a group of interstellar travellers who perform the music of Sun Ra, featuring Dan Gaucher on drums, Colin Cowan on bass, Mary Ancheta on keyboards, and Tom Wherrett on guitar.
Come join Feven & Tiny Pyramids on a journey of sonic expansion that will take you parsecs away from your troubles and deliver you back to a new and improved Nebula.
After their set, we’ll enjoy Sun Ra’s one-of-a-kind film Space is the Place, inspired by the concept album of the same name and a kind of Ur-text for Afrofuturism. It’s a wild, kaleidoscopic whirl of science fiction, sharp social commentary, goofy pseudo-blaxploitation stylistics, and thrilling concert performance, in which the pharaonic Ra and his Arkestra lead an intergalactic movement to resettle the Black race on their utopian space colony.
Feven Kidane & Tiny Pyramids
John Coney
Sun Ra
USA
1974
English
Book Tickets
Saturday February 01
Indigenous & Community Access
Credits
Screenwriter
Joshua Smith, Sun Ra
Cinematography
Seth Hill
Editor
Barbara Pokras
Original Music
Sun Ra
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