This weekend in downtown Los Angeles, CAP UCLA kicks off its 2018–2019 season with BLIND SPOT, a collaboration between pianist-composer Vijay Iyer and writer-photographer Teju Cole, based on Cole’s 2017 book of prose and images.

Iyer, trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire, mallet percussionist Patricia Brennan, and cellist Tomeka Reid will play Iyer’s score and accompany Cole’s spoken-word performance.

BLIND SPOT—VIJAY IYER and TEJU COLE

Saturday, September 22, 8 pm.

Theatre at Ace Hotel, 929 South Broadway, downtown Los Angeles.

Image credit top: Penguin Random House.

Above: Vijay Iyer, photograph by Barbara Rigon.

Below: Teju Cole, photograph by Martin Lengemann.

Performers’ image credit: CAP UCLA.