04/25/2013 at 7:00pm
The Museum of Chinese in America
215 Centre Street New York, NY 10013
Please join Fred and MOCA for a celebration of his life and work with the launch of a major critical anthology, YELLOW POWER, YELLOW SOUL: THE RADICAL ART OF FRED HO (University of Illinois Press) edited by Roger Buckley and Tamara Roberts and a screening of DIARY OF THE DRAGON: THE (R)EVOLUTION OF FRED HO a documentary film that spans his early family life, tumultuous personal relationships, groundbreaking musical career and infamous revolutionary ideologies and praxis. The film features rare, exclusive footage, photos and candid interviews with a man poised to become one of the great contemporary treasures of our time.
About the artist:
Saxophonist Fred Ho is an unabashedly revolutionary artist who offers up music that is illuminating, daring, informative, scholarly, ambitious, brashly confident and vigorous, meticulous, extravagant, and emotionally sweeping. A foremost voice in the history of West Coast Asian American jazz, the East Coast avant-garde, and numerous antioppression movements, Ho has spent his life redefining the relationship between art and politics.
Free to public
http://www.mocanyc.org/visit/events/fred_ho_screening_and_book_signing