City of Asylum
Giving Voice.
Lifelong guitarist and imaginative jazz musician Mila Shadel presents original arrangements of some of her favorite hard rock & grunge songs.
Taras Filenko makes a long-awaited return to City of Asylum, joined by violinist Jennifer Orchard, pianist Pauline Rovkah, and Peter Fung and the Broad Street Collective, to perform a concert that connects North America and Ukraine.
This concert will feature all original compositions by Scott Boni in what will be his first performance as a bandleader at City of Asylum.
Opening night of Jazz Poetry 2025 features jazz trio Thumbscrew and poets Mahogany L. Browne, Camille Rankine, and Oleksandr Frazé-Frazénko.
City of Asylum welcomes jazz musician Nicole Mitchell and poets Chen Chen, Cameron Lovejoy and more for a collaborative, improvisational Jazz Poetry concert.
Jazz musician Stephanie Chou and poets Jan Beatty, Olena Boryshpolets, and Mubanga Kalimamukwento share the stage for a collaborative and improvisational Jazz Poetry performance.
Poets Reginald Dwayne Betts, Volodymyr Rafeyenko, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Volodymyr Rafeyenko, and Anouar Rahmani take to the stage with violinist Zara Zaharieva and her international quartet.
Grammy Nominated band House of Waters and poets Safia Elhillo, Haleh Liza Gafori, Nathan Osorio, and Rania Mamoun collaborate in this improvisational Jazz Poetry concert.
Jazz musician Jerome Jennings and his group iLL Philosophy perform in a signature jazz poetry collaborative, improvisational concert and reading.
Musician James Brandon Lewis and poets Huang Xiang, Doralee Brooks, and Haile Bizen present a jazz poetry concert of improvisational and collaborative performance.
This evening’s performance from The Happy Lovers will accompany contributions and readings from other City of Asylum writers-in-residence and visiting ICORN residents.
A dynamic DJ set from DJ Cielo (known in the literary scene as Aleksandar Hemon) featuring Afro House and Organic House music.
