All CAST Projects Archives

Dancers of the Oakland Ballet Company perform at the Dancing Moons Festival at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center in Oakland, California, Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022.

Ballet des Porcelaines

A story of magic, desire, and exotic entanglement

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MIT’s ‘It Must Be Now!’ advances social justice through music and media

Massachusetts Institute of Technology presented an immersive music and multimedia event with themes of racial injustice and healing.

May 12, 2022

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Things to do around Boston this weekend and beyond

Dr. Frederick Harris Jr.’s IMBN! Initiative presents a massive music and multimedia event featuring works exploring themes of racial and social justice by leading jazz artists Terri Lyne Carrington, Braxton Cook, and Sean Jones.

May 5, 2022

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MIT to Present IT MUST BE NOW! Featuring 125 Performers of World Premiere Compositions

Massachusetts Institute of Technology has announced It Must Be Now!, a unique immersive music and multimedia event featuring the world premieres of newly commissioned work of three leading jazz artists of our time.

April 29, 2022

Pianist Maki Namekawa in a leather jacket looking into the camera.

Maki Namekawa, Credit: Andreas H. Bitesnich

Maki Namekawa Presents Philip Glass, Keith Jarrett, Joe Hisaishi, Evan Ziporyn

Southeast Chicago Archive and Storytelling Project. Image courtesy of the artist.

Southeast Chicago Archive and Storytelling Project

History is made through the objects we save and the stories we tell about them

DesignEarth's Climate Inheritance, 2021. Courtesy of the artists.

Climate Inheritance

World Heritage at Risk

Installation view of Two Mobility Futures.

Two Mobility Futures, 2022, MIT. Courtesy of the artists.

Two Mobility Futures 0∞

Divergent futures where humans move constantly, or not at all

The Hammer and the Feather is an immersive audio and visual installation, developed at MIT by technical instructor Christian Frederickson and visual artist and filmmaker Greg King. Bridging humanistic and scientific inquiry, the piece uses gravity as a poetic and conceptual departure point for musical, visual, and sonic material. Photo by Danny Goldfield https://bit.ly/3a8YjxW Please ask before use

The Hammer and the Feather

Exploring the sonic poetry of gravity

Queer-Feminist-Antiracism Future and Design for the Future cotaught by Danielle Wood (top left) and J. Austin Eyer (bottom right) with guest artists Jennifer Harrison Newman (center top) and Paul Lieber (bottom center).

Queer-Feminist-Antiracism and Design for the Future

Exploring dynamics of intersectional identities in complex systems and theater

Visualizing the Proton

Illustrating the subatomic world

Water Wars: Episode 2, The Eternal Swamp. Illustration by Sarnath Banerjee

Water Wars

Demystifying social science through creative storytelling

Shige Moriya and Ximena Garnica. Credit: Brandon Perdomo.

Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya

Performance installation exploring the juxtapositions of multiplicities and the power of rising

Promesa Board Game: Understanding Puerto Rico’s debt crisis through play. Image credit: HErickson/MIT.

Promesa: Voicing Counter Colonialism Through Board Game Creation

Understanding Puerto Rico’s debt crisis through play

A photo of a child in a military uniform reads "How to become a dictator in 12 steps."

How to become a Dictator in 12 steps. Detail from the interface for the Anatomy of Revolution website (in progress). [Photo of child, courtesy the Arab Image Foundation]. 2020.

Anatomy of Revolution

Archiving movements of protest

Sean Jones, Jazz at the Bistro. Courtesy of the artist.

Sean Jones

Under the auspices of CAST’s MIT Sounding series, It Must Be Now!, led by Fred Harris, brings together three leading musicians to collectively compose a large-scale work for MIT musicians on the overall theme of racial justice.