This Wednesday, May 1, Dr. Guy’s MusiQology returns to the stage as part of a fundraiser for One Art Community Center, a local arts and community space that uses creative art for personal and social healing. Dr. Guy—alongside MusiQ Department artists Vince Anthony and Bridget Ramsey and a group of special Penn student guests—will share music and conversation around the broader program of arts-fronted development. Interested parties can attend the show, held at the One Art space at 1431-39 N. 52nd Street in Philadelphia, for a suggested donation of $10.
The appearance is one example of the broader MusiQology Rx project, which encourages social and individual youth and community empowerment through the creative arts. One Art’s mission—creative healing with an emphasis on “21st century skills of communication, literacy, leadership, and problem solving through technology and the arts” and the One Art Oasis urban farm—shares the same goals and aims as our project, and we are excited to be partnering with them for this event, the proceeds of which will go towards their continued efforts to build a recording space called One Art Beat Studio. This space will give youth and artists in the local community a chance to realize their creative goals and dreams.
The performance is in partnership with Dr. Ramsey’s “The Music Industry Meets Activism,” an interactive, service-learning influenced course that explores the relationship between the popular music industry and the sound-worlds it comes from and returns to. “Not only do we think through the historical foundations of it, we examine the contemporary manifestations in songwriting and things of that nature,” Dr. Guy says, citing the cultural politics around industry efforts such as the GRAMMYs and their MusiCares charity sitting at the intersection of market forces, culture, and advocacy.
The One Art Beat Studio fundraiser represents that effort on a local scale, supporting a space near our home campus. “Part of identifying the city’s needs that MusiQology Rx can attempt to address is learning what is happening here in arts activism,” Dr. Guy says, noting that learning of the space concurrently with the planning of the course made a pairing serendipitous and sensible. “The organization being in West Philadelphia makes it feasible for students to be involved with its programming—and we all get to give back to the city that hosts us.”
The performance will feature Dr. Guy alongside MusiQ Department artists Vince Anthony and Bridget Ramsey and extended MusiQology band orbit members David Hackley on bass and Sadayah Roberts on drums.
The MusiQology One Art Beat Studio fundraiser concert will be held Wednesday, May 1, at the One Art Community Center space, 1431-39 N. 52nd Street in Philadelphia, for a suggested donation of $10. The event is BYOB and food will be available for purchase.
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