session (8)
Wed, Jul 8, 2026 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
sessions is a space for deep listening, curated by Lovie of summer school radio.
sessions will transform Weeksville Heritage Center’s performance space into an experiential sound room, featuring curated music tailored for deep listening, rest, and contemplation. For session (8), Lovie will be joined by Love From The Sun’s JADALAREIGN with sound provided by KARLALA soundsystem.
This will be a listening room:
- When the session begins, attendees will be asked to refrain from talking, and the space will be phone and photo free. This is a seated space, and you are welcome to bring blankets or pillows if you would like to get comfortable.
- Tea and refreshments will be served between 6 and 7 pm, with the listening session beginning at 7.
Host Bios
Lovie (summer school radio) – Broadcasting from The Lot Radio, summer school radio started as a pandemic project for Lovie. Now, five years old, the show boasts a community of listeners that tune in weekly to hear her discoveries, for a sonic range that spans ambient, spoken word, spiritual jazz, soul, alternative R&B, and more.
In 2024, summer school radio expanded to in-person deep listening sessions, with Lovie’s curation joined by guests such as Alex Rita (Calm Roots), Laraaj, Surya Botofasina, and more.
JADALAREIGN (Love From The Sun) — As a selector and an events programmer, Jada’s staunch effort to preserve the origins of Black American dance music has made her synonymous with the city’s emergent house renaissance. Her expansive mixes are suffused in an indefinable funk, rifling through house history, disco and techno—punchier sounds occasionally softened by hazy soul and sumptuous jazz.
In 2021, she started Love From The Sun: an Afro-modernist community initiative devoted to preserving and celebrating the legacies of Black American music and culture as living forces for survival, healing, and liberation. We honor the sounds, stories, and innovations that have shaped generations, treating music not only as expression, but as a tool for collective memory and future-making.