Join us Friday, August 22nd, 2025 for a 90-minute live multimedia, immersive experience featuring 9 acclaimed NY-based artists — traditional musicians, remix artists, and storytellers — honoring and re-imagining their Black and Indigenous lineages.

Summary

On August 4, Remix ⟷ Culture will kick off its fourth Tanfis artist residency, bringing together a new cohort of NY-based artists from underrepresented communities — African-American, Colombian, Mexican, Occaneechi-Saponi, Puerto Rican, Taíno, and Jamaican — to collaborate through a process guided by the following existential questions:

“Where do we come from? What have we become? Who do we want to be?”

The culmination of this 3-week communal-living, collaborative process will be the Tanfis IV live experience premiering on August 22nd, 2025 at the Hurleyville Performing Arts Centre (HPAC). Tanfis IV Live will be co-designed and performed by the artists-in-residence alongside four featured guest artists, and will take the audience on a journey seamlessly and harmoniously weaving in live acoustic traditional music, audio and video remix and storytelling.

With a unique, immersive arrangement that pays homage to pre-modern collective music practices, Tanfis IV live will be held within a ceremonial circle: the artists at the center, the audience gathered all around. This communal ritual space invites you to witness, move, reflect, and participate — immersed in 3D sound of live music and video projections.

This will be a shared space of ritual, resistance, memory, and imagination. We look forward to sharing it with you.

Lead Artists

Anna Jeffries • Daniela Serna •Juan Carlos Marin • Justine Lee Hooper • Nelson Bandela

Guest Artists

Erica Parra • Jamila Ravel • Kneeco Hanton • Mobéy Lola Irizarry

Event Details

Location: Hurleyville Performing Arts Centre @ The Ballroom
Date: August 22, 2025
Doors Open at 6:30pm
Show starts at 7:30pm and will last 90min
Food will be available for purchase before and after the show, at the Tango Café adjacent to The Ballroom
Alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages will be available for purchase at The Ballroom
N.B. Think of Tanfis IV not just as a concert, but as a communal, multimedia journey that will honor everything from the solemn to the celebratory. We will ask attendees to keep talking to a minimum and to turn off phones. The space will be arranged in concentric circles: a seated inner ring close to the performers, and an outer ring open for standing, dancing, and movement throughout the experience.

Ticket Options

Regular tickets are $20 + fees

Patron tickets are $35 + fees

For those who can afford a little extra to support our work, tickets include a suggested donation of $5. While we would be grateful for any donation, this add-on is optional. Should you not wish to make a donation at this time, you can enter "0" when checking out.

No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Please email community@remix-culture.org to discuss your needs.

Refund Policy
We do not offer refunds on tickets except for extenuating circumstances, but we do allow transfers of tickets to another attendee for the same event using this link. Please reach out to us at community@remix-culture.org if you need to discuss your circumstances or need assistance.

Accessibility

We value inclusion and access for all attendees and will be happy to provide reasonable accommodations for this event. HPAC’s facilities are ADA compliant and wheelchair-accessible. Individuals who need any other accommodations are encouraged to contact the Center at (845) 707-8047

Tanfis IV is presented by Remix ⟷ Culture, a NY-based not-for-profit arts organization whose mission is to co-create spaces of belonging and mutual support by collaboratively documenting and remixing the musical traditions and stories of underrepresented communities, and is made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Megan DeWitt

Megan DeWitt

Remix Culture

Megan DeWitt