“I have a global garden. My garden’s not like people. You got all these people of different ethnicities, they live in their own communities – this don’t work like that. They all hang out together, right? I put them like that man, just to watch. So it don’t look like a farm. Let’s put’em together, know what I mean? One group, one culture here, one culture there, another culture there, spread them out, man. Plants are constantly picking up cosmic energy, just beyond photosynthesis. They may not have the machines to detect everything, but to me it’s just like humans, man. We’re constantly breathing in air. We’re breathing in all kinds of elements that are of nature. So what makes you think that plants are any different?”— Milford Graves

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Mondays with Milford

Mondays with Milford is an online screening series presented bi-weekly, in conjunction with Milford Graves: A Mind-Body Deal, an exhibition gathering the many-layered and multi-faceted works of free jazz pioneer and polymath Milford Graves. Scheduled screenings include rare digital footage from Milford Graves’s archives, along with additional video selections and dialogues that contextualize Graves’s practice.–>