JACK kicks off our Freedom Songs Festival (Feb. 18 - 22) with protest songs and poems from the current movement for racial and social justice.

Featuring:
The Peace Poets ("I can hear my brother crying, 'I can't breathe'")
JoAnn DeLuna
We Are Temporary
and more to be announced. . . 

The Peace Poets are a collective of artists that celebrate, examine and advocate for life through music and poetry. Their song "I can't breathe," written in fall 2014, has been sung in protests across the country and the world.  Their art can take you on a journey from the Boogie Down to Berlin, from the border to the bodega. Their style emphasizes lyricism, rhythm and authenticity. They hail from the Bronx and have been rocking the mic since 2005. 

JoAnn DeLuna is a bilingual journalist and poet originally from Texas, a self-described Texican. Her journalistic work has been published throughout the US, UK, Netherlands and India, while her poetry has been published in anthologies in New York and Texas. She regularly reads her poetry throughout NYC in events combining multiple art forms. She received her journalism master’s from City University in London, where she lived for three years before moving to New York City in 2010. Visit delunatic.me for more info. 

We Are Temporary draws from influences in electronic music, goth, dream pop, darkwave, EDM, ambient, and post-rock, oscillating without inhibition between musical violence and frailty, lyrical defensiveness and vitriol, bursts of optimism and crushing nihilism. A debut EP “Afterthoughts” released in July 2013 via Stars & Letters Records. A full-length album is slated for the spring of 2015. 

More artists to be announced soon. . .