Sun Ra Arkestra and Theon Cross

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TICKETS
General Admission $42
Students $23

Presented in collaboration with FEaST Festival and Feed Me Weird Things

Part of Hancher's 51st season

Iowa's premier avant-garde presenting series Feed Me Weird Things returns with its adventurous, multimodal FEaST festival. Hancher joins the celebration as a programmatic partner during the festival's closing event featuring Sun Ra Arkestra and Theon Cross. 

Originally founded in the mid-20th century by jazz composer Sun Ra—and now led by saxophonist Marshall Allen—the Arkestra has been at the forefront of exploring new horizons in creative music and inspiring the ever-evolving tenets of Afrofuturism. 

Opening act Theon Cross has reinvented the tuba as the low-voiced leader of innovative and explosive—and hard to define—ensembles. A core member of Shabaka Hutching's Sons of Kemet ensemble, Cross's music often remixes jazz, dub, hip-hop, soca, grime, and other sounds from the Afro-Caribbean diaspora. 

Sun Ra Arkestra Website

Theon Cross Website


HANCHER EVENT PARTNERS
Sara & Sherwood Wolfson Educational Fund

Saturday, November 4, 2023 7:30pm
The Englert
The Englert Theatre / Auditorium Seating
221 East Washington Street, Iowa City, IA 52240
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