Name: Department of Transformation Presents ANOTHER PROTEST SONG: KARAOKE!
Start: 2025-05-01T20:00:00
End: 2025-05-02T01:00:00
Location: Francis Kite Club

Department of Transformation (DOT) and The Clemente are thrilled to announce our next Karaoke Practice! at The Francis Kite Club on May 1, 2025. In this ongoing series of experimental and participatory gatherings, collective voice, performance, and transformation take center stage.&nbsp;For this International Workers Day edition of Karaoke Practice!, interdisciplinary artist duo Angel Nevarez &amp; Valerie Tevere invite your participation in Another Protest Song: Karaoke, a series of experimental events that look to the karaoke songbook as potential for political enunciation through song. First initiated in 2008, this ongoing project invites the public to choose and sing songs of protest, along with pop songs re-contextualized to support the singer’s engaged interests or dislikes. Karaoke Practice! and Another Protest Song: Karaoke are organized by DOT and presented in partnership with The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural &amp; Educational Center as part of HISTORIAS, a citywide initiative to foreground Latinx narratives in the arts.<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://nevareztevere.info/">Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere</a>’s practice brings together music, sound, and the cultural complexities of the public sphere. They have exhibited their work at the Museum of Modern Art, Museo de Arte Raúl Anguiano in Guadalajara, Mexico, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, and elsewhere. Their fellowships include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Creative Capital fellowship, and an Art Matters grant. For more than two decades, the artists have collaboratively produced multimedia works with musicians, radio practitioners, students, and city agencies.<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://dept-of-transformation.org/">Department of Transformation</a> (D🌎T) is an artist-organized group that prototypes new formats for togetherness, learning, and collective healing. Through workshops, events, publications, and commissions (+ karaoke!), we support others in their own processes of change. We believe that by transforming the arts, we can transform ourselves, our communities, and our world.