abdu mongo ali presents: between every breath, there is atmosphere

Join us in the Meyerhoff Auditorium for a special BMA Violet Hour presentation by abdu mongo ali, the BMA’s inaugural Alice and Franklin Cooley Composer in Residence.

Experience a sonic and visual performance that considers how the atmospheric and ecological conditions of the Southern Atlantic state of Maryland affect contemporary Black Baltimoreans.

The phrase between every breath, there is atmosphere is derived from a collection of ali’s poems that speaks to the interconnectedness of Blackness, gay life, and the afterlives of slavery.