Bala Raghavan: At Odds With Even Love + Roco Córdova // At Odds With Even Love is an evening of poetry and prose: the amorous song of the courtesan and queer stories from the Indian Subcontinent. This labor of love, shared in an intimate gathering, juxtaposes amorous songs from the Indian musical tradition and stories of love, longing, passion, and pain from the queer community.
Balakrishnan Raghavan is an accomplished musician, researcher, and educator. His research encompasses South Indian Classical Music (Carnatic Music), mystic traditions, poetry, translation, temple art, gender, caste, South Asian performance traditions, and the politics of spirituality.
Roco Córdova is a vocalist, composer, and improviser born in San Juan, Puerto Rico and currently established in the San Francisco Bay Area. Their work fuses diverse influences with electronic media, chance operations, gradual processes, noise, improvisation, extended vocal and timbral techniques of composition. Córdova also explores intersections with literature and visual arts and engages with issues of colonialism, gender, geopolitics and migration.
Cost: $16 General / $12 Members