Doors at 7:30 PM / Program at 8:00 PM
$10 at the door (no one turned away for lack of funds)
Three Treasures to Hold and Keep is a film made of still images by photojournalist J.M. Giordano and live sound by composer‑performer Daoure Diongue. In each of its three sections, a modern injustice is paired with a fundamental virtue from the Tao Te Ching, forming the themes: Occupation/Mercy, Deportation/Economy, Dictatorship/Humility.
Daoure Diongue is a saxophonist, composer, and sound essayist. He evokes his homes of Baltimore and Senegal through sound. His work draws on world-class conservatory training as a saxophonist and the self-determining ethos of African American Music. Diongue has performed with Lafayette Gilchrist, Dan Deacon, Gary Bartz, UPENDO (Brandon Woody), Konjur Collective, Isiaiah Collier, Luke Stewart, Caroline Davis, and Sean Jones, and at venues including the Kennedy Center, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. In a 2025 article for Bandcamp on Baltimore's jazz scene, Andy Thomas wrote, “[Diongue] brought African rhythms and melodies from that tradition together with jazz, R&B, and glitchy electronics on his 2020 album. Featuring Diongue on sax, keys, and vocals, the record was, in the words of Micah E Wood, ‘a soft expansive masterpiece.’”
Joseph Mario (J.M.) Giordano is an award-winning photojournalist based in Baltimore and co-host of the photojournalism podcast, 10 Frames Per Second with Molly Roberts. His book, Trumpland: Carnival to Chaos (Nighted Life Press, 2024), documents the rise of Trump. This year, he was named a finalist for the prestigious National Gallery's Outwin Boochever Portrait Prize and will be featured in American Photography Annual 41 for his coverage of 10 years of police brutality in America. His work was featured in American Photography Annual 40 for his second book, 13-23 (Nighted Life Press), covering a decade of Baltimore's homicides. His international photographs covering the collapse of the steel industry are the subject of a solo show at the Museum of Industry in Baltimore. His first book, We Used to Live At Night (Culture Crush Editions), chronicles 25 years of the city at night and was called "a mix between Weegee and Brassai". His work has been featured on NPR, ProPublica, Al-Jazeera, GQ, Architectural Digest, Taste, The Observer New Review Sunday Magazine, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Daily Mail, Washington Post, The Baltimore City Paper, i-D Magazine, Discovery Channel Inc., and Rolling-Stone. His work, from the Struggle Civil Rights series, is in the permanent collections at the Reginald Lewis Museum.