August 6, 2025
7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
California African American Museum
Cody Perkins and V.C.R closing performance will guide an improvisational reflection of J. Yolande Daniels’ solo exhibition To A Future Space-Time. Hosted within the gallery walls, the meditative performance explores the temporality and bass of “The Riot”. Explored through the vocals and violin of V.C.R “The Riot” is sonically discussed as a form, technology and meditative practice that has kept communities of color safe for decades. Featured in exhibition pieces There’s A Riot Goin’ On (2025) and 3 (Silent) Meditations on Black Reconstruction, Reparations, and Abolition (2021). Bring a yoga mat or blanket and join us in the collaborative effort between artist and audience as we close To A Future Space-Time.
Cody Perkins or Algorythm.Code is a Los Angeles Native, Composer, Producer, and interdisciplinary artist. He studied classical piano, voice, dance, and electronic music at Alexander Hamilton Music Academy in Los Angeles California. He has composed pieces for various ballet companies and partnered with performance artists, choreographers, and fashion designers to create soundscapes or scores for various projects. His work has been published in publications such as Vogue, Vice, and Office Magazine and has been featured at Art Basel, Outfest, and Sundance Film Festival in the New Frontier Gallery.
V.C.R, born Veronica Camille Ratliff, is a world-class multidisciplinary singer/songwriter, composer, violinist, and published author. The Memphis-bred recording artist blends cathartic lyrics combined with her powerhouse vocals that entrance the listener and leaves them breathless. As a storyteller, this transcendental soul-singer uses amalgamations of her rich southern gospel roots and classical orchestral training to produce songs rooted in vulnerability and truth.
IN CONVERSATION: J. YOLANDE DANIELS AND ZION ESTRADA
FIRST FRIDAYS EDUCATION TOUR: TO A FUTURE SPACE-TIME
FIRST FRIDAYS EDUCATION TOUR: TO A FUTURE SPACE-TIME (JUNE 2025)
WHEN WE GATHER: DISCUSSION WITH MIRA HENRY AND MATTHEW AU
FIRST FRIDAYS EDUCATION TOUR: TO A FUTURE SPACE-TIME (AUGUST 2025)
ARCHITECTURAL LISTENING WITH TRU SOUND
FIRST FRIDAYS EDUCATION TOUR: TO A FUTURE SPACE-TIME (SEPTEMEBER 2025)