On May 22, 2015, the University of Chicago held the Sun Ra Conference in honor of Black Arts Movement co-founder Sun Ra, who established the Black Arts Theatre/School in Harlem NYC in particular and the BAM in general, along with Amiri Baraka, aka LeRoi Jones, Askia Toure, Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, Barbara Ann Teer, Last Poets, Marvin X, Milford Graves, The Ayler brothers, Woody King, Larry Neal, Ted Wilson, Haki Maddhubuti, et al.
Marvin X participated in the symposium on Afro-futurisim joined with a group of young Afro-futurist scholars, see Youtub video. He performed in the concert with Sun Ra's surviving band members, Marshall Allen and Danny Thompson, along with local musicians, including David Boykin, producer of the Sun Ra Conference at the University of Chicago. David Boykin invited Marvin X to a Chicago recording session which he accepted and performed a one-take reading of his writings, plus his reading of Amiri Baraka's DOPE poem; Chicago poet Kasembe read as well. He opened the session with a libation poem. Marvin X opened with What If, his beyond religion, toward spirituality poem, based on his book by the same name Beyond Religion, toward Spirituality, essays on consciousness, Marvin X.
Marvin X is now available for lectures, readings, performances of the Black Arts Movement Poet's Choir and Arkestra. Send letter of invitation to: jmarvinx@yahoo.com. call 510 200 4164 Fees negotiable with a freedom of speech clause in contract: FYI: Marvin X is not politically correct. In fact, he is politically incorrect. Somebody said, "Donald Trump is Marvin X in white face and rich, but he cannot out do Marvin X in arrogance and politically incorrectness.