{"id":322294,"date":"2026-08-15T23:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T23:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322294\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T23:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T23:24:07","slug":"listening-back-to-parley-to-do-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322294\/","title":{"rendered":"Listening back to Parley | To Do NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join us for a discussion with exhibiting artists Angel Nevarez &amp; Valerie Tevere and legendary hip-hop artist <a class=\"event-cta\" href=\"https:\/\/larokasoul.com\/%5D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">La Roka (Rokafella)<\/a>. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition <a class=\"event-cta\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wavehill.org\/calendar\/angel-nevarez-valerie-tevere-as-far-as-the-ear-can-hear\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">As far as the ear can hear<\/a>, this program revisits the artists\u2019 collaboration on Parley, one of four works in the exhibition that explores sound across the landscapes of the Bronx, New Orleans, and the Sonoran Desert.<\/p>\n<p>Originally commissioned for the 2015 exhibition When You Cut Into the Present, the Future Leaks Out at the Old Bronx Borough Courthouse, Parley, performed by pioneering Bronx b-girl Rokafella (Ana Garcia) and MC Lady L (Lynn Saunders) draws on the sampling techniques and lyrical traditions of early hip-hop to reanimate questions of truth, justice, and hope. Using the musical framework of call and response to form a multilingual dialogue between two voices, Parley reflects Nevarez &amp; Tevere\u2019s ongoing interest in framing sound and listening as a transformative practice that connects fragmented histories and collective memory to open new forms of relation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Join us for a discussion with exhibiting artists Angel Nevarez &amp; Valerie Tevere and legendary hip-hop artist La&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[1149,128,11894,2538,9,24,11893,63,122,124,123,1778,65500],"class_list":["post-322294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-art","tag-bronx","tag-default-tier","tag-music","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-metro-area","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-riverdale","tag-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}