SECCA's monthly series of artist talks returns to the Hanes House living room!
Thursday, November 02, 2023 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Hanes House
Join us on the first Thursday of the month for smart, lively conversations with today's most innovative creatives. For our November event, neurologist Roger Beaty joins forces with jazz musicians Reagan Mitchell, Butler Knowles, and Brevan Hampden to unravel the mysteries of human creativity. The evening will close with a live jazz concert, further illuminating the profound connections between the mind and creative spirit. The event is free and open to the public.
Doors at 6:00 pm
Conversation at 6:30 pm
Music at 8:00 pm
Roger Beaty is the Dr. Frances Keesler Graham Early Career Professor and Director of the Cognitive Neuroscience of Creativity Lab at The Pennsylvania State University. His lab studies the psychology and neuroscience of creativity using a combination of psychometric, computational, and brain imaging methods. He is an Associate Editor for Creativity Research Journal, and he serves on the Executive Committee of the Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity.
Brevan Hampden was born instantly a member of a high-level musical family; his father Ivan, toured with Luther Vandross, Vanessa Williams, Jennifer Lopez, Roberta Flack, Grady Tate, and Ashford & Simpson, and his mother Brenda, performed on Broadway, with Dizzy Gillespie, Angie Bofill, Marian Anderson, and Jazzmobile. Brevan has performed with Branford Marsalis, Joey Calderazzo, Ani DiFranco, HISS Golden Messenger, Butcher Brown, Phil Cook, Tito Rojas, Richie Ray & Bobby Cruz, and many local groups in the Triangle Area. He currently serves as Artist in Residence and Jazz Combo Clinician within UNC Jazz Studies
Butler Knowles, a Durham, NC native, is a multi-instrumentalist with a heavy focus on Bass (electric, upright, synth, tuba). He is also a producer/engineer and founder of Worry Less Studios, based in Raleigh, NC. Knowles has performed in many famous jazz clubs in the Northeast, such as Dizzy's, Smalls, and Smoke. He has also held several residencies at The Black Cat in San Francisco.
Reagan Mitchell is a saxophonist and Associate Professor of Humanities at UNCSA. The merger of Mitchell's formal training and performance as a musician and pedagogical training as a curriculum theorist has an intrinsically interdisciplinary feel. Through his expanded course of study, Mitchell has laid the foundation for a program of research on the cultural and historical influences of race, space, gentrification, auditory architecture, and communal wisdom on education. His scholarship brings together curriculum theory, ethnic studies, Black diaspora studies, critical race theory, critical geography, and sound studies.
Free and open to the public.
SECCA's Fireside series is supported by Piedmont Wine Imports.
This edition of Fireside is made possible in part by support from the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts. The Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts was established in 1993 to strengthen the arts by initiating and incubating new ideas within the various constituencies and settings of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA). By leveraging the extraordinary talents and creative energies of students, faculty, staff, and alumni to bring distinction to UNCSA, the Kenan Institute acts as a springboard to the broader creative community.
Learn more at www.uncsa.edu/kenan
ABOUT FIRESIDE
Launched in March 2023, Fireside is an intimate and casual conversation series that invites some of today's most innovative creatives to share their work and discuss the state of art and design.
Held on the first Thursday of every month in the reimagined Hanes House, each Fireside chat features a different pairing of creatives who will explore a diverse range of perspectives and ideas. You'll enjoy lively dialogue and gain insight into the challenges and inspirations that drive these talented individuals.
Whether you're an art enthusiast, a design professional, or simply curious about the creative process, Fireside offers a unique opportunity to connect with exciting names in North Carolina's contemporary art and design scene.
Handicap parking for the Hanes House is located directly in front of the historic home, on the cobblestone driveway.