A multimedia performance of Langston Hughes’ “Ask Your Mama: Twelve Moods for Jazz” comes to the UCLA Faculty Center on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 5-8 p.m.

A reading of the poem will be accompanied with live music performed by the Ron McCurdy Quartet and a slide presentation of Harlem Renaissance-era photos. The evening will conclude with a discussion with McCurdy.

Hosting the event are professor emerita Claudia Mitchell-Kernan; UCLA Institute of American Cultures; Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA; African American studies professor Robin D.G. Kelley; UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture; musician John Densmore; UCLA Department of English; and UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.

This event is free and open to the public, but an RSVP is required.