On Black Creativity: A Conversation with Toshi Reagon + Daniel Bernard Roumain + Kamilah Forbes

'Composers Toshi Reagon and Daniel Bernard Roumain, Apollo Theater executive producer Kamilah Forbes and vocalist and Helga podcast host Helga Davis in conversation about the contributions of black artists to contemporary opera and the narratives they are driving in American culture. The evening includes performances from new works, including Reagon's "Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower," an operatic adaption of the science fiction novel, and Roumain's "We Shall Not Be Moved," an interdisciplinary opera co-commissioned and co-produced by Harlem's Apollo Theater, Opera Philadelphia and London's Hackney Empire, which will have its New York premiere on Friday, October 6 at The Apollo.'