🎻FIRST FRIDAYS: Fred Moten & Brandon López 🌠 Join us on Friday, November 7 for the next First Fridays concert at The People’s Forum headlined by Fred Moten & Brandon López. Inimitable poet, cultural theorist, author, 2020 MacArthur Fellow, Fred Moten creates new conceptual spaces that accommodate emergent forms of Black cultural production, aesthetics, and social life. Moten is a professor of performance studies and comparative literature at New York University concerned with social movement, aesthetic experiment, and Black study. He is also a United States Artists Rockefeller Fellow and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Puerto Rican-American bassist Brandon López is the son of a gravedigger who himself put time in doing the same, developing muscles that serve him well in his thorough command of the upright bass. On moving to NYC, López made himself indispensable within numerous realms of creative music. As the Cleveland Review of Books noted, “This is virtuosity as vocabulary, a total command of texture, subtlety, and a depth that can be reached into.” Fred Moten: texts, voice, Brandon López: bass First Fridays is our monthly concert series at TPF, curated and co-presented by Artists Against Apartheid, spotlighting bold, urgent, electrifying cultural voices. Expect genre-bending performance, communal celebration, and art as resistance. 📆 Friday, November 7 📍 The People’s Forum (320 W 37th St, Manhattan) ⏰ Doors at 7:00 PM 🎟️ Tickets available at link in bio or peoplesforum.org/nov7