Session 6

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 room for sound, featuring curated music and live performance tailored for deep listening, contemplation, grooving, and feeling. session (6) will feature a set from Lovie and a live performance by Surya Botofasina, powered by KARLALA sound system. 

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. 

Lovie (summer school radio) – broadcasting from The Lot Radio, summer school radio started as a pandemic project for Lovie. now nearly 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 at Weeksville Heritage Center in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. the performance space at Weeksville becomes an experiential room for sound, with Lovie’s curation joined alongside guests such as Alex Rita (Calm Roots), muva of Earth, and Laraaji. 

Surya Botofasina — Botofasina’s upbringing at the Sai Anantam Ashram in the Southern Californian hills involved daily bhajans (traditional Hindu devotional songs) led by legendary jazz harpist and pianist Alice Coltrane. Her musical and religious teachings continue to have a profound effect on the keyboardist, whose career has since gone on to include a diverse range of musical collaborations with the likes of André 3000, Carlos Niño, Amel Larrieux, N’Dea Davenport, and Georgia Anne Muldrow. His work as the Music Director of the Sai Anantam Ashram Singers has seen him tour internationally honouring Swamini Turiyasangitananda Alice Coltrane’s devotional music. “The way I play the piano is not the way my friends play the piano” he says. “It forced me to find the place I truly dwell in – the place between the hip hop and jazz, but based in meditative and long form expressions of my spirit.”