Toshi is foremost a singer and songwriter but also an accomplished music director for theater, dance and opera and in-demand producer for numerous recording artists.
Listed here are some of her recent projects.
- Carolina Performing Arts Creative Future
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Creative Futures Artist-in-Residence: Creating in-depth dialogues that help transform communities.
Through Creative Futures, Reagon is developing a series of short musicals exploring different aspects of the ideas of survival, economy, and music. She has engaged local artists and researchers in this work, with plans to collaborate with locally-based youth.
- The Met Civic Practice Partnership
The Met Civic Practice Partnership (CPP), launched in 2017, catalyzes and implements creative projects that advance healthy communities by bringing the skills and interests of neighborhood stakeholders together with those of The Met and artists who are socially minded in their practice. Invited CPP artists work in their own neighborhoods across New York City and at The Met to develop and implement ambitious projects and forge meaningful collaborations.
- Parable Path Boston
Parable Path Boston is Toshi Reagon’s year long artist residency at Emerson College.
Anchored by the creative process and presentation of her opera, Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower, renowned musician, composer, producer, and activist Toshi Reagon has created a framework for community organizing through artistic engagement. Based on the tenets of Octavia E. Butler’s novel The Parable of the Sower, Parable Path Boston will include community led activities surrounding the belief systems and interrelated social issues that impact climate justice and survival in Boston.
- Marine Mammal Meditations with Alexis Paulin Gumbs & Toshi Reagon
Long Water Song
- Octavia’s Parables Podcast Hosted by Toshi Reagon and adrienne maree brown
Listen to the podcast
You can support the project by becoming a Patreon.Octavia’s Parables is a podcast where hosts Toshi Reagon and adrienne maree brown read the works of Octavia Butler one chapter at a time, bringing a modern analysis and scholarship to the work, and offering listeners guiding questions for applying the lessons in their own lives and community work.