sunday jack

Featuring DJ’s Lee Clarke and Kingsley Ibeneche 

April 6th, 5:30-8:00pm 
at First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut
​Tickets: $15

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There is so much to learn from house music and culture. In the early days, house clubs were peace promoting, rejuvenating and inspiration hubs for all walks of life. 

Jack has always been at the center. Whether in the bumping lyrics of the music or ecstatic movements of joy and liberation, Jack is the soul and vibration of house. 

Sunday Jack is a new party brought to you by Urban Movement Arts featuring Sunday Jack’s resident DJs and party coordinators, Lee Clarke and Kingsley Ibeneche.

We aspire for this party to be a monthly event. We are inspired by the loft culture of the 70s through 90s that nourished the development of house culture, particularly on the east coast. We are reflecting the inspired artists that sought refuge, platforms and communion for expression whether through discourse, fashion, sound or movement. Growth, release and community were at the forefront. Sunday Jack prioritizes these elements over what characterizes more mainstream club and bar environments. The event also aims to make a departure from competition driven street dance culture, taking it back to the vibes when any moves and approaches were fair play on the dance floor. (Check You Body At The Door is an important historical record of the ruleless and boundless nature of house culture at its root). All of this is to say, everyone should be dancing at this event and if there are too many ciphers held up for too long, they are getting broken up. We want to see people dancing for themselves and with one another, not at one another(This is Sunday Jack’s rule aimed at reaching back to what Archie describes in the documentary)! 

This event aims to serve music lovers and dancers. 

Come get your Sunday Jack!

If you are just learning about Jack, read below

Lyrics from: Rhythm Controll - My House (vocal by Chuck Roberts)

“IN THE BEGINNING, THERE WAS JACK, AND JACK HAD A GROOVE,

And from this groove came the groove of all grooves,
And while one day viciously throwing down on his box, Jack boldly declared,
“Let there be HOUSE!”
and house music was born.
“I am, you see,
I am the creator, and this is my house!
And, in my house there is ONLY house music.
But, I am not so selfish because once you enter my house it then becomes OUR house and OUR house music!”
And, you see, no one man owns house because house music is a universal language, spoken and understood by all.
You see, house is a feeling that no one can understand really unless you’re deep into the vibe of house.
House is an uncontrollable desire to jack your body.
And, as I told you before, this is our house and our house music.
And in every house, you understand, there is a keeper.
And, in this house, the keeper is Jack.
Now some of you who might wonder,
“Who is Jack, and what is it that Jack does?”
Jack is the one who gives you the power to jack your body!
Jack is the one who gives you the power to do the snake.
Jack is the one who gives you the key to the wiggly worm.
Jack is the one who learns you how to walk your body.
Jack is the one that can bring nations and nations of all Jackers together under one house.
You may be black, you may be white; you may be Jew or Gentile. It don’t make a difference in OUR House.
And this is fresh.”

Lyrics from: Rhythm Controll - My House (vocal by Chuck Roberts)

Catch a beat records 1987

Also famously used on MR. FINGERS – CAN U FEEL IT 1988 re-release of the 1986 original Traxx Records (Larry Heard AKA Mr. Fingers & Fingers Inc.)
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