Schwarzman Session - Love as Power

Schwarzman Sessions are peer-led gatherings where conversations generate collaborations and move ideas into action. Because seats are limited, registrants will be automatically placed on the waitlist and will be notified via email if they are selected to participate. 

Join artist and cultural leader Marc Bamuthi Joseph for an exploratory conversation using his new musical work currently in development titled TOMORROW, LOVE… 

Lunch will be provided.

Today it can feel as though power seems to equate with cruelty and a particular version of masculinity. "Strong Man" tropes, brute force, and disdain for empathy and dialogue are the operational modes. What if love were the ethic that undergirded masculinity as power? How might we position love as a radical inheritance for the future?

About TOMORROW, LOVE...

TOMORROW, LOVE... is a new work for voices, violin, and piano that considers the role of love as a transformational good. Inspired by bell hooks’ book All About Love: New Visions, Bamuthi moves the audience through memory, music, and American archetypes of love. TOMORROW, LOVE... investigates the lineage of men who have shaped Bamuthi and the icons we as a nation have adored. TOMORROW, LOVE... probes the ways our world teaches—or sometimes fails to teach—us how to love.

Directed by Kamilah Forbes, and with music by Daniel Bernard Roumain, audience members are invited to join the dialogue, a collective communion carrying the desire to choose love as an ethic. TOMORROW, LOVE... is an inquiry and a celebration, at once tender and monumental: a hopeful reckoning with how we might reimagine love as a radical inheritance for the future.