This program will take place twice on Thursday:
+ 1st performance: 3 – 5 p.m.
+ 2nd performance: 6 – 8 p.m.

+ Claire Elizabeth Barratt (artist moniker CillaVee) is a British interdisciplinary performing artist based in the USA. She is the director of international arts organization Cilla Vee Life Arts, established in the Bronx, New York, 2002, and has run The Center for Connection + Collaboration from her home in Asheville, North Carolina, since 2020. She has received a number of awards, including project sponsorship from JP Morgan Chase, NYSCA and the NEA. She served an apprenticeship with the Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation and holds an MFA in Creative Practice from the Transart Institute for Creative Research with Plymouth University where she developed the Living Art performance pedagogy.

+ Kimathi: Kimathi Moore is a sound artist, electronic composer, percussionist, and videographer born in Paris in 1966. Raised in a vibrant cultural environment across Paris, Nigeria, Senegal, and the French Antilles, he was immersed early on in literature, art, and music. Deeply sensitive to textures, colors, and sounds, Kima developed a lifelong passion for the arts, gravitating especially toward sound synthesis and immersive sonic storytelling. His work blends resampled synths and field recordings into rich, expressive soundscapes—what he describes as “narrative paintings” in sound.