CUNY Law Students for Justice in Palestine
May 20th, 2025
7pm-10pm
'vienna', a new release on Small Forms Records w FIM Basel Concert March 2023 Hypersurface is a NYC-based trio consisting of Drew Wesely (guitar/objects), Lester St. Louis (cello), and Carlo Costa (percussion). Hypersurface explores timbral, durational, and formal aspects of improvisation with lenses focused on their instruments' acoustic particularities alongside employing tiles, railroad spikes, ceramic plates and other objects to expand them further. In coming together Carlo, Drew and Lester wanted to create a music that puts emphasis on the erasure of sonic boundaries, embracing the liminal spaces between their instruments, their sounds and the greater sonic environment. Timbre, gesture, duration, particles, layers… a real time tapestry of its own. The trio has given performances throughout the United States and Europe in a diversity of concert settings from clubs to large halls and galleries; with each utilizing the acoustics to follow potent musical pathways. Kamau Amu Patton is an interdisciplinary artist and educator whose work examines history and culture through engagement with archives, documents, stories, and sites. Patton’s projects are dialogic and take form as expanded field conversations. http://kamaupatton.com
Join CUNY Law Students for Justice in Palestine for an evening of art and solidarity with all funds raised going to support the Al-Najjar family in Gaza. Come out for a performance of selected pieces from The Gaza Monologues and Letters to Gaza, stay for the silent art auction, sounds by Cleo Perez and ciringe, and a free community meal.
The Gaza Monologues are a collection of testimonies written by young people in Gaza that reveal the human cost of living under occupation through deeply personal stories. These monologues, raw and unfiltered, speak truth to pain, resilience, and hope in the face of genocide.
Letters to Gaza are a chorus of poems, songs, and prayers from around the world—voices that refuse to be silent in the face of injustice. These letters are addressed to Gaza’s people, pain, places, and resilience. They remind the world of the humanity that persists,
the courage that endures, and the justice that must be demanded.