THE JAZZ PHILOSOPHER’S CULTURE FACTORY
WRITINGS, MUSIC AND SPOKEN WORD ARTS
Enter The Zone Of The Brave New Word
Cultural action uplifting the spirit
Upward gravitating
Inner elevating
Hi, I’m Remi D, London’s original Windrush Maroon griot. It is my pleasure to welcome you to
ABRACADIA
Pushing the ceiling and raising the roof of UK cultural arts.
Culture
The
Factory
Cultural Action: Sparking the conversations that transform reality.
Recovering sources of value and meaning. Exercising positive mission and agency.
Abracadabra: chanting objects into being
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Arcadia: the ancient name for earthly utopia
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Abracadia: chanting utopia into being
‘Until the lion tells the story the hunter will always be the hero’.
(African proverb)
Hear the roar! Abracadia is the lion’s story!
More than any other field of human activity, the art of the griot has a history of creatively resisting the cultural genocide of colonialism.
This is because when intellect and soul combine, a form of wisdom is produced against which customarily genocidal colonialism is impotent. It is the power of humanity’s nobleness outshining corruption like a candle lights up darkness…
Mission Abracadia
Portal to a higher consciousness
A true revolution in style, content, strategy, vision and spirit, our mission is to bust fake negatives with real positives of art and culture.
The anti-human values we denounce represent a void of meaning and a lack of moral fibre that spells the downfall of the system that promotes them. Conversely, the integrity of the pro-human values Abracadia announces is as simple and irresistible as the arc of gravity.
Truth is a thing like music, like wind and water and fire, it is elemental. Truth flows and it will always seek a way out through the portals of the human heart. Truth will out.
Our heartbeat carries that eternal flame, each generation passes it on: James Baldwin and John Coltrane, Bob Marley and Benjy Zephaniah, Remi D and YOU! One truth, one love, one heart in Ubuntu.