Join us for this edition of First Free Friday Night, featuring multidisciplinary artist Minzi Roberta with a powerful evening of sound to kick off May Community Weekend.
Set within Jessica Stockholder’s exhibition The Squared Circle: Ringing and Justin Ming Yong’s installation Blur, Minzi layers ambiance, jazz, archival recordings, lectures, and intimate reflections to create an immersive listening experience.These sonic fragments explore migration, longing, and the weight of freedom, working in dialogue with both the surrounding architecture and Jennie C. Jones’ sound installation Year of Construction: 1970 in the South Stairwell.
This performance is part of MOCA’s Free First Friday Nights. Free tickets can be obtained ahead of time or at the door. Book in advance to reserve your spot!
About the Artist
Minzi Roberta is a multidisciplinary artist and cultural curator emerging from Hiroshima, Japan now based in Montreal, Canada. Her creative practice lives at the intersection of music, memory, and diasporic imagination — often shaped through sonic storytelling, spatial design, and experimental performance.
She is mostly known as the co-founder and creative director of Toronto’s community-driven platforms such as Kuruza and Amaproblem, known for curating rhythmic spaces that center African electronic music and alternative nightlife culture. Through collaborative events, sound installations, and archival gestures, her work reimagines how we gather, listen, and belong.
She spends her time immersed in her Japanese and Tanzanian cultural heritage while curating her own imaginative language and archival practices. She has opened for Janet Jackson, Amaarae, Bambii, Ezra Collective, Naomi Sharon and Uncle Waffles as a DJ.
Informed by the voices of the diaspora and the frequencies of global Black thought, her practice continues to evolve — tender, layered, and always in response.
Produced in collaboration with Repertoire Artists Group.
