From Roulette’s site:

The illustrious trumpeter-composer WADADA LEO SMITH will present a complete version of the 5-hour work that stunned the jazz world last fall: The New York premiere of Ten Freedom Summers, a cycle of compositions about the American civil rights movement.

Ten Freedom Summers is the result of the research and reflection concerning the philosophical, social and political history of the United States of America. Ten Freedom Summers is programmed as three evenings of music, and is composed for Golden Quartet and the Pacifica Coral Reef Ensemble.

Location:  Roulette
509 Atlantic Ave.
Brooklyn, NY  11217

Tickets are $20:
May 1
May 2
May 3

HERE Arts Space
145 6th Avenue (one block South of Spring St.)
New York, NY 10013

Showtimes:
Jan 10th, 2013 @  11pm
Jan 11th, 2013 @ 7pm & 11pm
Jan 12th, 2013 @ 7pm & 11pm

To purchase tickets click here.

Text below is taken from the Festival website:

The dark glam opera band Timur and the Dime Museum presents a galactic multimedia show for the first time on the East Coast in HERE’s intimate Dorothy B. Williams Theatre.  Fusing avant-garde, pop & vaudeville sounds, Timur and the Dime Museum creates a rich amalgam of sensibilities with Bjork fierceness, and Screamin’ Jay Hawkins theatricality.  Led by the rising opera singer from Kazakhstan Timur Bekbosunov, profiled in LA Weekly’s BEST OF LA People Issue 2011, the band’s stunning intensity brings songs to cure the new depression with a post-punk bohemian attitude. Interactive multimedia, conceptualized and designed by World Technology Network fellow Jesse Gilbert, along with striking cinematic images by experimental LA filmmaker Sandra Powers, will further enhance this macabre evening of musical performance.

Formed as a result of collaboration with the Klaus Nomi songwriter Kristian Hoffman, dark glam band Timur and the Dime Museum, described by Los Angeles Times as “punk-operatic spectacle”, has appeared at the prestigious ALOUD series; on America’s Got Talent; opened for Tiger Lilies, The Red Paintings, DeVotchKa, Prince Poppycock; Un-cabaret (Margaret Cho); premiered operas “Zoophilic Follies” by Daniel Corral at Redcat Theater’s NOW festival, and “Crescent City” by Anne LeBaron. Led by “stratospheric tenor” (LA Times) Timur Bekbosunov, recently featured in LA Weekly’s BEST OF LA 2011, the band embraces multi-disciplinary collaboration as part of their ongoing work with composers and songwriters.

Immediately following their successful debut at the ALOUD series at the Mark Taper Auditiorium in LA, Timur and the Dime Museum established a strong following of fans, and received endorsements from artists, such as Amanda Palmer, DeVotchKa and Sondre Lerche.  The band performed in numerous venues around LA and beyond, including Portland, San Francisco, and Seattle.  The band creates unconventional and fascinating sounds, combining Timur’s “charismatic tenor” (LA Times) with electric guitar, upright bass, accordion, bass clarinet, viola, and drums.  Embracing the notion of multi-disciplinary contemporary projects, T&DM began a series of collaborations, directly working with composers on their music. Timur, a noted interpreter of contemporary and cross-cultural music, and the members of the band, all are graduates of California Institute of the Arts, and individually, have performed in countless major projects, productions, festivals and venues around the world.

Photo Credit: Dana Ross

Shows are at the following times:

Friday, November 16th @ 7pm
Saturday, November 17th @ 7pm and 9:30pm
Sunday, November 18th @ 7pm

Tickets are limited, and available here.

FURNACE is a site specific installation on both floors of Automata‘s space in Los Angeles’ Chinatown Arts District.  Conceived and Directed by Carole Kim, this immersive performance/installation features dance by Oguri, Roxanne Steinberg, and Morleigh Steinberg; Sound by Scott Cazan, Phil Curtis, Odeya Nini, Live video by Moses Hacmon, and Video /audio visualization by Jesse Gilbert.

Automata
504 Chung King Court
Los Angeles, CA 90012

phone: 213-819-6855

To reserve your ticket click here.

Directed by Maija Garcia, the project will trace New York City’s cultural evolution over five hundred years, from native land in 1512 to global metropolis in 2012. This interactive walk-through theater experience will educate and inspire cultural dialogue in New York City.

Location:  SESC Vila Mariana
São Paulo, Brazil

July 27th & 28th -  9pm
July 29th – 6PM

More information:

http://www.sescsp.org.br/sesc/programa_new/mostra_detalhe.cfm?programacao_id=224795

This major new opus by creative music luminary Wadada Leo Smith draws upon, and interprets, key events in the history of the Civil Rights Movement from 1954 through 1964. Ten Freedom Summers takes listeners on a probing journey of immense musical, psychological and spiritual scope—with social and historical resonances that reach well beyond the epochal struggles for African American civil rights in the 1950s and ’60s.

This concert will be the Canadian Premiere of the work, which was first performed at RedCat in Los Angeles, October 2011.

Wadada Leo Smith’s Golden Quintet

Wadada Leo Smith – trumpet
Anthony Davis – piano
John Lindberg – bass
Pheeroan Aklaff – drums
Susie Ibarra – drums
Jesse Gilbert – live visuals

Tickets/info:  http://fimav.qc.ca/en/artistes/wadada-leo-smith-en/

Motoko Honda’s Sound Escape

Motoko Honda – piano, electronics, composition
Alex Cline – Multi Percussion
Daniel Rosenboom – Trumpet
Jeff Gauthier – Violin and Electronics
Maggie Parkins – Cello
Steuart Liebig – Electric Bass

Jesse Gilbert – Live Visual/Projection Art
Moses Hacmon – Live Camera

Roxanne Steinberg – Dance

Thursday, May 03, 2012 at 8:00 PM
Aratani/Japan America Theatre
244 South San Pedro Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Phone: (213) 628-2725

Tickets are $25, $20 for JACCC members
First set by vocalist Mia Doi Todd

Food Forward has done incredible work around the Los Angeles region in fighting hunger and helping people to re-think their relationship to food and labor through volunteer service.  I am proud to support this organization and hope the community will come out to help celebrate their vision!

Tickets:   http://springmelt.eventbrite.com/

Elysian
2806 Clearwater St.
Los Angeles, CA 90039

Saturday, April 14, 2012 at 7:00 PM (PT)

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From FF’s website:

Food Forward’s vision is to reconnect our community with the abundance of food already present in our everyday lives, while creating change around the issues of urban hunger, food waste and food justice.

Food Forward’s mission is to reconnect people with people – through food – by bringing together volunteers and neighbors to share in the gleaning and distributing of locally grown food from private homes and public spaces which is then distributed to local food pantries and organizations serving those in need.

HARVEST FOOD • FIGHT HUNGER • BUILD COMMUNITY

We convene at properties we have been invited to and harvest their excess fruits and vegetables, donating 100% to local food pantries across southern California. Combined, our numerous distribution partners provide food to over 40,000 clients a month across Southern California.

Since forming in 2009, we have harvested hundreds of properties with 100% of what we pick going to feed the hungry.

WADADA LEO SMITH’S ORGANIC

WADADA LEO SMITH (trumpet)
ANGELICA SANCHEZ (piano)
BRANDON ROSS (electric guitar)
LAMAR SMITH (electric guitar)
MICHAEL GREGORY (electric guitar)
OKKYUNG LEE (cello)
JOHN LINDBERG (doublec bass)
SKULI SVERRISSON (electric bass)
PHEEROAN AKLAFF (drums)
JESSE GILBERT (live visuals)
MAILE COLBERT (live camera)