Emma Dayhuff Trio
Arts + Literature Laboratory 111 S. Livingston St., Madison, Wisconsin 53703
courtesy Arts + Literature Lab
Emma Dayhuff
In a grand opening shindig originally planned for fall 2020, Arts + Literature Laboratory is finally getting to celebrate its new space at 111 S. Livingston St., in the heart of Madison’s new culture hotspot on the near east side. The weekend kicks off with a Gallery Night reception (5-9 p.m. Nov. 12) for current exhibits by Jason S. Yi and Alice Y. Traore, also featuring Bridge Work artists and ALL studio residents. Concerts include the Arts Quartet (3 p.m., Nov. 13) and the Emma Dayhuff Trio (7 p.m., Nov. 14), and the Watershed Reading Series continues with poets Nikki Wallschlaeger and Ellen Samuels (7 p.m., Nov. 13). The weekend also includes workshops focusing on screen printing, Anishinaabe/Métis beadwork and medicine bundle making, hip-hop dance and fabric dyeing. Everything is free to attend; find more details at artlitlab.org.
media release: ALL's Open House Weekend closes with a special performance by acclaimed bassist Emma Dayhuff with Milwaukee’s Lenard Simpson, saxophonist, composer and educator along with Chicago’s Matt Gold, guitarist and composer. Emma is the most recent bassist and the fifth woman to ever participate in the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz Performance at the University of California in Los Angeles and she has most recently performed at the Newport Jazz Festival, the Sant’Anna Jazz Festival in Sardinia, and Dizzy’s in New York. Arts + Literature Laboratory, 7pm. Free event.