OUT Fest 2025 at Fridman Gallery: A Love Letter from the Past, RESIST
Monday, March 3, 2025
169 Bowery NYC
7:00 pm

The OUT Fest tracks the history of FreeJazz development on the LES and surrounding areas. It was where the music and art developed in an intensely creative unbounded scene. We will celebrate and make space for this creativity to bring Light into these times with older and younger artists, as we build a future from the best of our past.
Arts for Art is PARTNERING to bring cutting edge Music and Art into the Future:
NuBlu Classic
Artists Space
Fridman Gallery
For the 2025 festival, A Love Letter from the Past : RESIST, DAY 5 will be at the Fridman Gallery, a space that is home to many experimental and avante-garde artists.
7:00pm NuMBq
Michael Bisio – bass, composition / Melanie Dyer – viola /
Marianne Osiel – english horn / Jay Rosen – perc
8:45pm Cooper Moore – multi-instruments / DoYeon Kim – gayageum
9:30pm Studio We 3
Daniel Carter – horns / Juma Sultan – percussion / William Parker – bass, reeds
About our Collaborator
Founded in 1996, Arts for Art (AFA) is a New York City based nonprofit dedicated to the promotion and advancement of FreeJazz, which is recognized for its variety of highly developed and personalized improvisational languages. The music, dance, poetry and visual arts that AFA presents holds deep roots in Black and multicultural creativity. Moreover, it derives its energy from the tradition and power of free improvisation that was inspired by the Civil Rights struggle of the 1950’s and 60’s.