Wanda's Picks: Recent Episodes
Wandas Picks
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
Meditation"The Invitation" in Ten Thousand Beloved Communities by Kristen Lynn Zimmerman, forward by adrienne maree brown (2023).We close with the poem: "Random Blessings" for Agu, by Wanda Sabir, performed to Agu's song, "Reaching In."Presentation:1. Grace Lee Boggs2. Beloved Community, Zimmerman3. Ethics of Knowledge Creation and Acquisition, FernandesModule 5Theme: Bringing Spiritual Activism into CommunityMaterials:Read select readings from Part 4: Direction of the Youth in Fleshing the Spirit (eds. Facio and Lara)Read Chapter 4: Knowledge in Transforming Feminist Practice (Fernandes)Read Part 2: Community Accountability and Transformative Justice in Feminist Accountability (Russo)Read first half of 10,000 Beloved Communities graphic novel (Zimmerman)Watch Zimmerman interview Watch American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee BoggsAssignments:Module 5 discussion postEach module students will review course materials, post 1 substantial reflection on the materials to Canvas, cite the sources of their reflection, and end your post with an engaging question by the Friday before the next class. Students will meaningfully respond to at least 2 questions posed by peers by the Sunday before the next synchronous class meeting. Some questions include but are not limited to, What are important, compelling, or confusing terms and concepts that you have encountered in the course materials or class discussions this module?Substantial post due 11/22, responses due 11/24.
Theme: Bringing Spiritual Activism into CommunityMaterials:Read select readings from Part 4: Direction of the Youth in Fleshing the Spirit (eds. Facio and Lara)Read Chapter 4: Knowledge in Transforming Feminist Practice (Fernandes)Read Part 2: Community Accountability and Transformative Justice in Feminist Accountability (Russo)Read first half of 10,000 Beloved Communities graphic novel (Zimmerman)Watch Zimmerman interview Watch American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee BoggsAssignments:Module 5 discussion postEach module students will review course materials, post 1 substantial reflection on the materials to Canvas, cite the sources of their reflection, and end your post with an engaging question by the Friday before the next class. Students will meaningfully respond to at least 2 questions posed by peers by the Sunday before the next synchronous class meeting. Some questions include but are not limited to, What are important, compelling, or confusing terms and concepts that you have encountered in the course materials or class discussions this module?Substantial post due 11/22, responses due 11/24.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!We continue our series on Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower: The Election Episode. We speak to Nube Brown, sister broadcaster, at KPOO 89.5 FM in San Francisco. Her series on CA prisons has a wide following. She joins us to talk about parallels between Butler's dystopian California, USA 2024 and California, USA now. There is an election and the protagonist Lauren Oya Olamina and her chosen family are headed to north, from LA. They settle in Humbodlt County, which happens to be where Nube raised her son and where her mother still resides. We talk about ballot measures, specifically 6, 33, and 36. Listen up. We'd love to hear your thoughts on the episode and other related themes or topics. Musically, we feature: Nana Sula Spirit's "Oya, The Transformer featuring Sunni Patterson (poet)."
We speak this afternoon with Deborah Vaughan, Artistic Director and Founder of DIMENSIONS DANCE THEATER about the premiere of a new work, HEALING TO JOY OCTOBER 12, 2024. This new work by Haitian-American Choreographer Laurie Fleurentin and Ms. Vaughan explores the transcendent power of joy to empower unity and growth.The work includes composer/performer Jeff Pierre and guest spoken-word artist and poet devorah major. The premiere performance marks the 51st season of Dimensions Dance Theater, one of the country’s longest-standing and most respected Black dance companies with a dual focus on creating and presenting relevant, contemporary choreography and traditional dance from many African cultures and dance of the African Diaspora. Dimensions presents a reminder of the fundamental importance of practicing culture to unite, uplift and educate community and foster positive social change. The premiere performance of Healing to Joy will be given Saturday, October 12, at 6 pm at the Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts in Oakland and will be followed by an audience Q&A. Tickets, priced at $15-$25 may be purchased at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/healing-to-joy-tickets-984554678547
Thursday, August 29, 2024, was the 19th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Ms. Wanda Sabir gave a talk at a BIPOC Al Anon principles meeting.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!Today we talk about the 19th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which is Thursday, August 29. Today is also the anniversary of Emmet Till's (July 25, 1941-August 28, 1955) killing in Money, MS. He would have been 83 this year. He was killed 63 years ago. We speak with veterans of the Civil Rights Resistance Movement: Dr. Robert H. King (https://www.kingsfreelines.com/), Mr. Malik Rahim, and Baba Kalamu Ya Salaam. (https://liberalarts.tulane.edu/nocgs/about/fellowship-alumni/kalamu-ya-salaam)Music: Nana Sula Spirit's "Humanity", Katrina Bamboula Crazy by Luther Gray.
What do Black-eyed peas have to do with Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower? Much! Join Iya Wanda Ravernell this morning and she will share about this African Disapora staple at The 9th Annual Black-Eyed Pea Festival, Sat. Sept. 14, 2024, 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. @Marston Campbell Park, 17th and West Streets, Oakland CA, 94607. Enjoy Jazz, Second line bands, Black entrepreneurs, soul food and a special pavilion for children at this free event. Wanda Ravernell, Executive Director of Omnira Institute After retiring from a 20-year career in print journalism, she embarked on creating programming that would lead to the creation of Omnira Institute in 2009. As its director, Ravernell has developed and implemented the program known as ‘Roots of Faith/Roots of Freedom,’ under the artistic direction of her husband, (Dennis) Tobaji Stewart. Held all over the S.F. Bay Area, the lecture demonstrations draw on the musical framework provided by African ritual bata drums, which is then applied to African American history using a choir comprised of practitioners of African spirituality. The Black-Eyed Pea Festival is her brainchild. Now in its 9 year, the festival celebrates the legacy of African and African American music, food and art.2. Rebroadcast Black August 2009. This is an early show. I'd just started broadcasting August 29, 2008. Hurricane Katrina Anniversary is August 29. This is the 19th Anniversary. Ashay!
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically, movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!This new season we will be looking at the work of Octavia Butler, Ibaye. Ancestor, visionary, and writer of the Parable of the Sower, Parable of the Talents series. In each episode, we will explore an aspect of this work. For our second show we will talk about another theme TBA (smile). Oya, the orisha is featured prominently in the story as the protagonist's name is Lauren Oya Olamina. When we meet Lauren, July 20, 2024, she is 15. Today we speak with devorah major, SF Poet Laureate Emeritus, scholar & activist. https://www.devorahmajor.comMusic: Oya The Transformer Sula Spirit feat. Sunni Patterson
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay! Today Norman Gee, founder, Oakland Public Theater, joins us to talk about the James Baldwin Centennial Project and play, INVENTORY/James Baldwin Abroad, which debuts this weekend, August 1-4, at the Potrero Stage in San Francisco in collaboration with Playground and BAM House. The play is also streaming live through Vemeo and tickets are pay-what-you-can. https://www.baldwincentennialproject.com/We are also joined by DiniZulu Gene Tinnie, a scholar, artist and culture worker in Miami, Florida. Other programs celebrating James Baldwin's Centennial:James Baldwin in His Own Words tonight at Mechanics Institute in SFhttps://www.milibrary.org/events/his-own-words-james-baldwin-centennial-celebration-aug-02-2024
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!This new season we will be looking at the work of Octavia Butler, Ibaye. Ancestor, visionary, and writer of the Parable of the Sower, Parable of the Talents series. In each episode, we will explore an aspect of this work. For our first show will talk about recovery, as in family dysfunction and disease. Oya, the orisha is featured prominently in the story as the protagonist's name is Laura Oya Olamina. When we meet Lauren, July 20, 2024, she is 15. We close with Val Serrant's "Te Mi Adoya."Music: The Transformerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FndKGoZxIG8&t=2sPowerful Oya:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U_lS_hfKqE
Today we speak with Dr. Zoe Franklin, an Africana Studies Professor at a community college in Chicago, Illinois. We speak by phone. Dr. Franklin and I discuss the inner child, her acknowledgment, reclamation, and healing. She shares a series of journal reflections (100 completed) to let us hear the voice of her inner child. What does repair or mending sound or look like? We appreciate Dr. Franklin's vulnerability and willingness to share her story with us today. We also appreciate the other women who have shared their Motherline Stories with us since March 2024. Dr. Franklin is our fifth participant.
This is a poem I wrote to document the end of my first two semesters in the Women's Spirituality Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco. I am working on a doctorate. I am supposed to complete the rest of my coursework in the next year. I have learned a lot. This semester we looked at Radical Birthing and Revolutionary Mothering. What a concept! I also took a Gender, Sacred Sex and Healing class and Critical Thinking.
We speak to Marcus Anthony Shelby about Zaccho Dance Theatre & Dancers' Group Co-Presentation of "The People's Palace" (World Premiere), a site-specific performance installation and artistic intervention inside San Francisco's City Hall, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, in San Francisco.Performances are Thursday & Friday, May 9, 10 and Sunday, May 12, 8-10:30 PM. It's free. On Friday, May 10, 7 PM there is a Haptic Tour and Audio Description. Free, however, reservations are required: https://dancersgroup.org/onsite-joanna-haigood/For more information: https://www.zaccho.org/?event_the-peoples-palaceMarcus Shelby is a composer, bassist, bandleader, and educator who currently lives in San Francisco, California. His work focuses on the history, present, and future of African American lives social movements, and music education. In 1990, Shelby received the Charles Mingus Scholarship to attend Cal Arts and study composition with James Newton and bass with Charlie Haden. Currently, Shelby is the Artistic Director of Healdsburg Jazz, an artist in residence with the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, and a past resident artist with the San Francisco Jazz Festival and the Healdsburg Jazz Festival.
We are hosting a series of conversations with women about their motherlines. We began in March this year and continue through March 2025. In these conversations over the next year, we will speak to Black women about their motherlines.Our guest today is Makeda Esi Ohemaa aka Sandra Hooper Mayfield. She is the youngest daughter of Ruby Mae, granddaughter of Evie, great-grandaughter of Hester, and great-great-granddaughter of Mary Magdalen. Ruby Mae passed away when she was 36 years old Makeda was 9. Makeda fell in Love with words when her first-grade teacher read a poem. She is grateful to report, that she is still in Love. Makeda is a retired mental/behavioral health counselor.At 50 years Makeda returned to academia and earned a BA in business management. Makeda is the former Editor of the South County Post Newspaper, Curator of Sugar Water (An artist support group for girls and women), and the "Third Saturday Open Mic." Makeda's work is published in three anthologies with the West Oakland Seniors. She is also published in the West Oakland to West Africa anthology. Makeda is a community activist who serves and promotes change through art and literacy in carceral institutions.She is a 7-year cancer survivor whose diagnosis set her free. . . . We open with Mary Mary's "Shackles," and close with Tracey Chapman's "Stand by Me."
We are hosting a series of conversations with women about their motherlines. Join us monthly. We began in March and continue through March 2025. We speak with Stephanie JT Russell, poet and visual artist, Poet Laureate for Dutchess County, New York. Poet,interdisciplinary artist, and cultural worker Stephanie JT Russell’s most recent creative nonfiction book is One Flash of Lightning, a poetic treatment of the classical Samurai Code (Andrews McMeel). Her poetry, essays, and visual art are anthologized in books and journals including Colossus: Body, Xavier Review, The Winter Anthology, Sequestrum, Lightwood, and ArLiJo. She has performed and exhibited at venues such as The New Museum, The Griffin Museum of Photography, The Albright Knox, Bowery Poetry Club, and The Berkeley Museum. A visiting teaching artist at New York University, Vassar College, The West Africa Network for Peacebuilding, and other noted institutions, Russell received the Overall Winner Award from the 2022 Wirral Poetry Festival, UK. As Dutchess County Poet Laureate, Russell is curating Stream of Life, a series of intercultural poetry and multidisciplinary events featuring diverse Hudson Valley artists. https://www.artsmidhudson.org/dc-poetlaureatewww.stephaniejtrussell.comwww.stephaniejtrussell.comWe close with Abby Lincoln and Max Roach's "Freedom Now." When do we want it? Now!
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!This afternoon we speak with playwright, Larry Americ Allen and director of the current production, James Brooks.Americ's current play is, "The Shadows of Love and Light, A Mother has dinner with the son she aborted 30 years ago." Directed by James Brooks, Americ joins us to talk about a reading this weekend in Richmond, CA, at the Corbiz Center, 1503 MacDonald Avenue, 2 p.m., $5. For information call: 510-309-7107. Americ is the author of more than 40 plays, and has won the Perry Award for best play "Shakespeare’s Lost Masterpiece." Some of his other plays include the magical realism play, "The Chef", the political drama, "The Expulsion of Malcolm X," and the psychological drama "Paradise Revisited/Gravity Is My Fate."
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!My Cancer Journey Part 1
As the series kickoff, I start with my own Motherline Story. Here is a brief bio: Ms. Wanda Sabir, is a poet, essayist, arts editor and retired professor. Wanda’s Picks column, podcast and YouTube channel are a local and national staple. Her interest is in Art for Social Change. A depth psychologist, Ms. Sabir’s area of research is on trauma and its impact on memory. Ms. Sabir served as board member for Legal Services for Prisoners with Children. An advocate of Diaspora Citizenship for descendants of formerly enslaved Africans, Ms. Sabir is also co-founder and CEO of the San Francisco Bay Area Maafa Commemoration in its 28th year this October 2023. Her recent initiative is Wombfulness Gatherings (March 2021-present). Summer 2022 she launched “Souljourning for Truth Project,” a wombful pilgrimage from California to New York, MA and MI, inspired by the life and work of Sojourner Truth, formerly enslaved Black woman, preacher, womanist, abolitionist, suffragette. Here is a link to the film and interview. Presently, Ms. Sabir is at the beginning of her doctoral journey in the Women's Spirituality program at CIIS. We close with Nina Simone's "Take Me to the Water."
In these conversations over the next year, we will speak to Black women about their motherlines.Our guest today is Kathryn Waddell Takara, Ph.D., who taught and developed the first Black Studies in the Ethnic Studies Department beginning in 1971. She transferred to Interdisciplinary Studies where she continued to develop new courses including Africana Studies. Her primary research was African American history, politics and culture. A winner of the (BCF) 2010 American Book Award, Kathryn Waddell Takara, PhD, poet, has published over 300 poems, 11 books of poetry and numerous academic articles. She is currently a writer and traveling performance poet since retiring from the University of Hawai’i (2007) after 31 years of teaching. She is recognized as a widely traveled professor, public scholar of ethnic and Africana Studies. She has travelled, taught and performed her poetry within the USA as well as in W. Europe, West and South Africa, and Eastern China. She was born and raised in Tuskegee, Alabama, educated at Quaker George School and Tufts University on the East Coast, and studied in France twice. She earned a Fulbright scholarship, an M.A. in French from the University of California, Berkeley and moved to Hawai`i in 1968, where she earned a PhD in Political Science from the University of Hawai’i at Ma̵noa. She has been of service to the community as a coordinator and producer of many socio-political and cultural events.We end with Nina Simone, "To Be Young Gifted and Black."
- We are joined by the erudite playwright, musician, and scholar Ishmael Reed, Carla Blank, director, and an illustrious cast tospeak about The Shine Challenge online at The Nuyorican Poetry Cafe in New York.Reservations and further information can be found at www.nuyorican.orgReed says: "In my grandmother’s brother’s house, the only painting on the wall was that of the Titanic. The sinking of the Titanic challenged the boasts of white supremacy. From the collective imagination of the Negro streets came the “toast” of “Shine,” who delivers a warning to the first- class passengers that the ship, thought to be invincible, was taking water. One might consider Shine to be the grassroots nomination for a member of the Black prophetic tradition."Ishmael Reed has lengthened the 40 or so lines of the typical Shine rap into a 100-page script in which he expands on the issues addressed in the original toast: race, class, immigration, engineering, and Edwardian morality by putting Shine on trial, in which he is both the accused and his own defense attorney. One of the reasons Reed wrote the play was he found that members of three generations of Blacks had never heard the story of Shine. He calls the play, The Shine Challenge, 2024, because he expects that a future playwright will expand upon what he has accomplished.Directed by Carla Blank, The Shine Challenge, 2024 cast includes Jesse Bueno, Maurice Carlton, Caridad De La Luz, Emil Guillermo, Rome Neal, Ishmael Reed, Tennessee Reed, Laura Robards, Monisha Shiva, and Brian Simmons as Shine.2. We close with an interview with Lola Hanif, womanist scholar, healer, activist, writer (3/8/2012).
Part I proceeds Part III In querying the text, Sacred Pleasure: Sex, Myth and the Politics of the Body (1995) by Riane Eisler, Ph.D., I spend too much time wading through Western dominator theories. The land is too far from the shore for safety. I do not swim. I respect water, and its power to interrupt and separate my spiritual home from me. If I board the ship, I am stuck, so I keep my body safe and stay away from floating ideas (with muscles). Eventually, they--these ways predicated on fallacy or untruth, will all evaporate and I will walk free again. I didn't know until looking at the copyright information that Eisler and David Loye did create The Partnership Way, a workbook, which might answer some of my questions here.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!Today we speak to Dr. Cathy "Iyabeji" Royal about the annual Ancestral Souls Rising, Dec. 21, 2023. Visit https://www.eventcreate.com/e/c4gar-asr To learn more about the council, see the brochure.We end the program with the song: "Hum" by Ayla Nereo.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay! The poem, "Untitled," came in a dream this morning. When I heard, “Returning” by Jennifer Berezan recorded in the underground oracle temple in the Hypogeum in Hal Saflieni, Malta a 6000-year-old Goddess site for healing, I recited a poem I wrote to it. In the YouTube video, the song is sung against a visual landscape with works of art by Nicholas Roerich. It is stunning. I then went to Berezan's website and bought the song which is 52 minutes long. it is deeply meditative and calls on the dieties from different traditions. Linda Tillery, historian, musician and scholar in African folk, spirituals, sings to Yemanja.I'd just read an essay, "Jesus and Mary Dance with the Orishas: Theological Elements in Intereligious Dialogue" by Clara Luz Ajo Lazaro (Cuba), last night from the collection, "Hope Abundant: Third World and Indigenous Women's Theology," edited by Kwok Pui-lan. In the essay, the scholar explains syncretism or the blending of African and Christian theologies in slave states. Yemonja and Yeye Osun are explored along with other orisha in the essay. Osun is reinvented to reflect rape culture, linguistic co-mingling and survival strategies.My poem is untitled and came to me when I awoke this morning.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!We speak to Ms. Deborah Vaughn, Dimensions Dance Theater, co-founder, Artistic Director, and Ms. Latanya d.Tigner, Dimensions Extensions, co-director, about this celebratory conclusion to an amazing year, Sat., Oct. 21 at 7:30 PM PT and Sunday, Oct. 22 at 4 PM PT at the Malonga Casquelourd Center, 1428 Alice Street, in Oakland, CA.The internationally acclaimed company closes its 50th anniversary year with performances of select signature works that have earned it a place as one of the country’s longest-standing and popular African American performing arts organizations. The program features dances that have help Dimensions become widely recognized for its presentation of both traditional and contemporary choreography drawn from African, Jazz, and Modern dance idioms. The diversity and inclusiveness of DDT’s repertoire is unique to the company and has contributed greatly to its reputation for innovative dynamism.Works to be performed include choreography by Deborah Vaughan, Latanya d. Tigner, Andrea Vonny Lee, Colette Eloi, Erik K. Raymond Lee, Justin Sharlman, Makaya Kayos, Denice Simpson Braga, and Alseny Soumah. Tickets: general $35, Seniors $25, Students $20, Youth under 12yrs $15, 4 tickets for $100 and may be purchased at www.eventbrite.com or www.dimensionsdance.org
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
Today we speak to Michael Gene Sullivan (he/him) (Head Writer, SFMT Collective), SF Mime Troupe about its current production, "Breakdown," July 1-Sept. 4. MGS has performed with all four of the Bay Area’s Tony award-winning theaters: American Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theater, TheatreWorks, and the San Francisco Mime Troupe (where he is also a Collective Member, director, and as Resident Playwright has written or co-written over 25 plays). He has also worked with SF Playhouse, California Shakespeare Theater, Denver Center Theatre Company, Marin Theatre Co., Aurora Theatre Co., Magic Theatre, TheatreFirst, Lorraine Hansberry Theater, African American Shakespeare Co., and the SF Shakespeare Festival. Michael is the author of the internationally produced stage adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984, of the critically-acclaimed The Great Khan, and in 2022 Michael was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship as a Dramatist. www.michaelgenesullivan.com
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
We speak to Ayodele Nzinga, Ph.D., Artistic Director, Lower Bottom Playaz about its 24th Season opening this weekend, with August Wilson's Radio Golf. August 10 is a preview. Say you are Dr. Nzinga's guest and you get in free.
Performances August 11-27, Friday and Saturday evenings at 7:00 pm and Sunday at 2 pm. Tickets can be purchased at https://our.show/radiogolf/66875. All performances are at BAM House (1540 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94612).
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
Today we speak to Charles Curtis Blackwell, playwright, artist, poet, about his new work, “When Struggle Gave Improvisation the Blues” in two locations, Sat., August 12, 3-5 PM at the Tenderloin Museum, 398 Eddy Street, SF and Sun., August 13, 3-5 PM at Joyce Gordon Gallery in Oakland.
Featuring Shavonne Allen, Howard Jennings Jr., Greg Pond, Sylvester Guard Jr., Sawyer Arkilic, Barbara Saunders, and Charles Curtis Blackwell. Made possible with support from Hospitality House. Free! All Welcome! Register via Eventbrite
Zaccho Dance Theatre and Bayview Opera House Inc. present:Flying to Freedom: Celebrating Juneteenth through Aerial Dance, Music, and Theater, a collective reflection on liberation created and performed by Bay Area music, theater, dance and aerial artists and curated by Joanna Haigood. Performances are at 8 pm on Friday, June 16 and Saturday, June 17. Tickets are $10-$35. To purchase tickets, go https://flyingtofreedom.eventbrite.com We speak to Joanna Haigood, Veronica Blair and Steven Anthony Jones. Juneteenth is a national holiday that celebrates the day (June 19, 1865) that the last enslaved people in Texas were informed of their emancipation, two years after Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. It became a national holiday in 2021. Each artists’ contribution is unique. For example, theater artist Steven Anthony Jones’ work Flying to Freedom examines the accounts of African Americans who were told stories of Black People who literally flew away to freedom. He explains, “I'll look at accounts that were heard by children and adults and I will draw on prose and poetry writing about ‘negroes who flew away.’” Aerialist Veronica Blair’s contribution is Thank You, Forgiveness!, an aerial silks performance exploring the unpacking of trauma created to heal people in a public space. “One of the most important components of liberation is healing,” she explains. “Having lived through generations of perpetual harm and rejection, we as Black people undoubtedly carry our stories and traumas in our bodies.”
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay! We are joined this afternoon by Jovelyn Richards and Damu Sudi Alii to talk about Mz. Pat's House, a performance this Monday in Oakland at the New Parkway Theatre. Tickets are available at Eventbrite.Jovelyn Richards, writer/performance artist and community theater/film director.Damu Sudi Alii is a musician, composer, educator, scholar, activist. Recent work: Serenity (2023); with Kamau Seitu: Blessings, Umoja, Dance of the Kalahari. Music: Blessings; Three Strikes ft. Willie G.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay! Professor Ampim has taken educational tours to North Africa and Central America. In addition, he has conducted an extensive 13-country research tour to all of the major museums, institutes and libraries throughout America, Europe and Canada, which house ancient Egyptian and Nubian artifacts. Since the 1990s, he has completed several field research projects in Egypt, Nubia, and the Sudan to continue his primary research at dozens of field sites to study ancient African social organization and spiritual culture, document modern forgeries, and to record the vanishing evidence of classical African civilizations in the Nile Valley. After visiting the King Ramses II exhibit at the deYoung Museum, I had to speak to Professor Ampim to get the truth about King Ramses and clarity on what I saw at the museum. Visit wandaspicks.com (January-February 2023) for a review.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!We speak to Donna Chang, L.Ac. (MSOM), founder, Alameda Community Acupuncture. She is a Licensed Acupuncturist and Herbalist, BodyIntuitive Practitioner, Holistic Nutrition & Lifestyle Counsellor, Transformational coach. This is the third conversation in a series on wellness practices.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay! Today we spoke with Aurora Theatre Company’s Associate Artistic Director, Dawn Monique Williams about Dominique Morisseau's "PARADISE BLUE," her Detroit Trilogy: Paradise Blue, Detroit ʼ67, and Skeleton Crew. All have been produced off-Broadway and around the country. Aurora produced a successful run of Morisseau's Detroit ʼ67 in their 2018/2019 Season. Tickets are pay what you can Januar 27-Feb. 1. The show opens Feb. 2. It streams online Feb. 21-26. For single tickets ($20-$75) or subscriptions ($200-$385), the public can call (510) 843-4822 or visit www.auroratheatre.org. There is an African Diaspora Affinity Night (though all are welcome) on Friday, February 10. Discussion host and director Dawn Monique Williams may be joined by the actors, community members, and local storytellers. Other post show discussions are: Friday, February 3, Tuesday, February 7, Wednesday, February 15 Thursday, February 23 Dominique Morisseau's "Paradise Blue." is the perfect play for the Bay, the geographic resonance will echo in one's hearts long after the final curtain. Check back for the Wanda's Picks Discount code.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
Today we speak to Thespians Nominated for AUDELCO @ 50 Celebration Awards Night - Monday, Nov 28th. We open with Jackie Jeffries, President of AUDELCO, followed by an interview with Rome Neal, Lifetime Achievement Award honoree. He is Artistic Theatre Director of the Nuyorican Poets Café theatre program.
Following this conversation we are speaking to other nominees in this order:
Mandela
James Garrett (supporting Actor)
Malika NZinga (Lead Actress)
Robert Greene (Mandela)
Black Love & Oya
Jade Mason (actor in both plays)
Fulton Hodges (actor in both play)
Aaron Watkins (actor in both)
Lambs To Slaughter
Keith Johnston (Music director)
Kahlil Kain (playwright)
Adiagha Faizah (lead Actress)
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
Today we speak to ELIJAH AHMAD LEWIS (David Ruffin) in "Ain't Too Proud, The Life and Times of the Temptations" opening tonight at Broadway SF’s Golden Gate Theatre (1 Taylor Street) November 9 – December 4, 2022. Tickets, ranging in price from $56 to $256, can be purchased at broadwaysf.com.
The multi-award-winning singer, actor, songwriter and arranger has appeared on Broadway: Motown, Tony Award®-winning Ain’t Too Proud. Tours: Motown (First and Second National), Mama, I Want To Sing(Japan). TV/Film: “Power Book III: Raising Kanan,” B-Boy Blues, Mama, I Want to Sing!, America (starring Rosie O'Donnell), The Grammys. Music: SZA, Chance the Rapper, Ariana Grande, James “JT” Taylor, Cissy Houston, Madonna.
He says: "Thanks to family & my team. To my mentor/friend Cicely Tyson, this is for you!"
IG:@elijah.ahmad.lewis elijahahmadlewis.com
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
SF Mime Troupe's "Back to the Way Things Were" up on vemeo through November 6. The shows are free. donations accepted.
https://www.sfmt.org/ (Code "Power to the People")
1. Michael Gene Sullivan (he/him) (Head Writer, SFMT Collective) has performed with all four of the Bay Area’s Tony award-winning theaters: American Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theater, Theatreworks, and the San Francisco Mime Troupe (where he is also a Collective Member, director, and as Resident Playwright has written or co-written over 25 plays). He has also worked with SF Playhouse, California Shakespeare Theater, Denver Center Theatre Company, Marin Theatre Co., Aurora Theatre Co., Magic Theatre, TheatreFirst, Lorraine Hansberry Theater, African American Shakespeare Co., and the SF Shakespeare Festival. Michael is the author of the internationally produced stage adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984, of the critically-acclaimed The Great Khan, and in 2022 Michael was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship as a Dramatist. www.michaelgenesullivan.com
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
Congratulations to Dimensions Dance Theatre on its 50th Anniversary Celebration this weekend, Oct. 22-23, at Mills College, Lisser Hall, Oakland, CA. Tickets are available online and at the door: dimensionsdance.org Today, we speak to Deborah Vaughn, co-founder and collaborators, laura elaine ellis and Nimely Napla.
Music: Delfeayo Marsalis, Jazz Party.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
- We continue our discussion with members of the cast in Ishmael Reed's latest play, "The Conductor," directed by Carla Blank, is a play in two acts. It has four (4) virtual live streamed readings this week, Thursday-Sunday, October 13-16 at Theater for the New City, https://theaterforthenewcity.net/shows/the-conductor/
When: Thursday Oct. 13, Friday Oct.14, Saturday Oct.15 at 8:00 pm & Sunday Oct. 16 matinee at 3:00 pm; Tickets $18.00; Phone 212-254-1109
Cast for The Conductor readings includes Emil Guillermo, Imran Javaid, Tennessee Reed, Laura Robards, Monisha Shiva, Brian Simmons, and Kenya Wilson. Joining us today are: Imran Javaid, Laura Robards, Monisha Shiva, and Kenya Wilson.
2. Mildred Inez Lewis, playwright, joins us to talk about the world premiere of her homage to George C. Wolfe, "The Museum Annex," directed by Elizabeth Carter, at Central Works in Berkeley, Oct. 15-Nov. 13 Visit http://centralworks.org/the-womens-annex/
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
- We speak to Ishmael Reed, playwright, and Emil Guillermo, actor as (Gabriel Noitallde), and Carla Blank, director, about Reed's latest work "The Conductor", a play, in 2 acts, performed October 13-15, in 4 live streamed virtual readings. Visit https://theaterforthenewcity.net/shows/the-conductor/
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
We speak to Malik Rahim, veteran, former Black Panther, environmentalist, community organizer on the 17th Anniversity of Hurrican Katrina (August 29, 2005-August 29, 2022).
https://www.southerncultures.org/article/malik-rahims-black-radical-environmentalism/
https://www.facebook.com/malik.rahim.330
Music and poetry: Phyllis Montana-Leblanc; Nana Sula; Baba Luther "Bamboula".
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
Today we speak to Brother Jalil Muntaquim, Political Prisoner, Activist, Author, Poet. His seminal text: "We Are Our Own Liberators" was just released this week and is in its 3rd edition now. He's in town this weekend, Friday, he's speaking at the People's Programs, Friday, August 26, 2022, 95 Linden Street, Ste. !, 6 PM, Oakland, CA.
https://www.peoplesprograms.com/
https://blackdragonmme.com/new-releases/
We conclude with an archived Marcus Garvey Special, Aug. 17, 2011.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
- We have a freewheeling conversation with award-winning playwright, Cleavon Smith. "The Incrementalist" is up at the Aurora Theatre for a few more weeks-- through May 15. Discount code for $10 off: "wandaspicks." Don't miss it. https://auroratheatre.org/
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
We speak to Dr. Ayodele Nzinga, Oakland's Inaugural Poet Laureate, about her vision for the City. https://www.ayodelenzinga.com/about/
Upcoming Events: https://www.facebook.com/WordSlanger/
We spoke to Quincy Troupe, author, poet, about his latest work, "Duende." It is a collection that spans 50 years of a creative life fully embodied. Taped in Zoom, this audio only approximates the honor it is to speak to such a magnificent human being 3 months before his 83rd revolution around so(u)l.
He has a few more appearances this month:
- National Poetry Month: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NY Public Library, Iris Project, Thursday, April 14 (free, in person and virtual)
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/between-the-lines-duende-poems-1966-now-by-quincy-troupe-tickets-302280518167
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With Mildred Howard and David Murray at the close of the "The House that Will not Pass for Any Color than Its Own." Friday, April 16, from 4 to 6pm at Belvedere Plaza (just north of the North Cove Marina) to mark the end of the artwork’s stay in Manhattan’s Battery Park City.
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Poet, Quincy Troupe | DUENDE: Poems 1966- Now | Reading & Book Signing at the Carrie Chen Gallery on Saturday, April 23 from 4-5pm, 16 Railroad Street, Great Barrington, MA 01230
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NY Society Library, Apr. 28, 6 PM ET Livestream (free)
https://www.nysoclib.org/events/livestream-quincy-troupe-duende-poems-1966-now
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
We speak to Kathryn Seabron, curator, Bay Area Women's Theatre Festival BIWOC Play Reading Series, April featured Playwright: Alejandra Maria Rivas," La Paloma" has one more reading, Monday, April 18, at Aurora Theater Company, 2081 Addison Street , Berkeley.
May Featured Playwright, Tracy Baxter, "Kudzu 2012", goes up, Monday, May 2 @Brava Theater Center, 2781 24th Street, San Francisco and Monday, May 16, at the Aurora Theater Company, 2081 Addison Street, Berkeley. We have a wonderful and lively conversation which you can watch at FB.com/wandaspicks
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
- We speak to Yeye Luisah Teish about the Olokun Rising Ritual, April 8-13, 2022. http://www.yeyeluisahteish.com/
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
Virtual Interview podcast version: Theatre Rhinoceros's presents: "How Black Mothers Say I Love You", directed Tanika Baptiste, written by Trey Anthony; and Carla Banudejesus, actor join us to talk about this play at Theatre Rhino in SF https://therhino.org/
Dates: March 17 – April 3, 2022
Where: Spark Arts, 4229 18th Street, SF, in the Castro. West Coast Premiere. Meet Claudette, now in her late thirties, who travels to visit her dying mother Daphne in Brooklyn, but that doesn’t stop her anger and abandonment issues from bubbling up. It doesn’t stop Daphne from voicing her opinions on how Claudette lives her life, either. With Daphne, Claudette, and another daughter Valerie all under one roof again, each family member is forced to confront her emotions while there’s still time.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
We open with an interview with Jeffrey Robinson, producer/writer, and directors, Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler in conversation about the remarkable film, "Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America."
https://www.sonyclassics.com/film/whoweare/
- We speak to Yoruba Richen and Brad Lichtenstein, directors of "American Reckoning" on Frontline
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/american-reckoning/
Both films aired earlier this year and are screening online and in theatres now.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
- Jesse Douglas Allen Taylor made his transition this past weekend. It was rather sudden for all of us, especially his family, Tarika Lewis and Geoffrey Pete. There was a memorial for him Sunday, March 6.
I had a great conversation with Jesse, PEN Oakland honoree, about his first novel, "Sugaree Rising." This is a rebroadcast of that interview (4/5/2013).
https://www.blogtalkradio.com/wandas-picks/2013/04/05/wandas-picks-radio-show
"We open with an interview with Bay Area author, journalist and political columnist J. Douglas Allen-Taylor about his first novel, Sugaree Rising, set in the South Carolina coastal area Lowcountry in the late Depression years and discuss his well-crafted female characters like narrator Yally, Aunt Soo, Na'Risa, Nana'Timbi, Eshy. . . to hold the bridge between the past and the present as this community of Gullah people face an enemy threatening to end their collective lives. They resist while Yally feet in the middle of the path finds no rest, as her beloved community seems to be unraveling and withit her identity. Sugaree shows there are many ways to die, some more painful than others. And what do we do with the dead who refuse burial? http://www.sugareerising.com/"
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
Today we speak to Donna Chang, L.Ac. (MSOM), Licensed Acupuncturist and Herbalist, BodyIntuitive Practitioner, Holistic Nutrition & Lifestyle Counsellor, Transformational coach.
Visit: http://www.alamedacommunityacu.com/who-we-are/
Amy Alanes serves as the Executive Director for the Women’s Cancer Resource Center (WCRC) in Berkeley. Serving Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, WCRC provides comprehensive and coordinated services that include community-based cancer patient navigation, psychotherapy and affinity-based support groups, wellness programs, and emergency financial assistance.
Her work has spanned homeless services, substance abuse, HIV/AIDS, rape and sexual assault, mental health, and cancer support services. She previously served as the Executive Director of the Summit Bank Foundation, the Development Director of Cancer Support Community San Francisco Bay Area, Director of Administration for Community Violence Solutions, and in multiple positions with New Connections Behavioral Healthcare.
Dolores Moorehead is the Lead Client Navigator/Multicultural Client Support Clinician for the Women’s Cancer Resource Center (WCRC). Dolores began her tenure with WCRC as a volunteer and board member and has been on staff for 19 years. Previously, Dolores was employed for almost 14 years at the American Cancer Society as a Patient Services Manager. She received a Master's of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and a B.S. in Psychology with honors from Walden University. She obtained training from The Center of Mind Body Medicine as a facilitator in Mind Body Relaxation Skills.
For over 33 years, Dolores has passionately devoted her professional career to serving individuals with cancer in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2008, she received the American Cancer Society’s National Lane Adams Quality of Life Award in recognition of exemplary cancer care and ongoing support to cancer patients.
- L. Peter Callender & Leontyne Mbele-Mbong on Antony and Cleopatra (African American Shakespeare 2015-16). african-americanshakes.org/
We speak to Joanna Haigood, Artist Director, and Walter Kitundu collaborating multimedia artist, about Haigood's latest opus, "Love, A State of Grace," a performance ritual installation at San Francisco's Grace Cathedral. Performing Artists bio: http://www.zaccho.org/?bios_love https://vimeo.com/630195772
Since 1980 Joanna Haigood has been creating work that uses natural, architectural, and cultural environments as points of departure for movement exploration and narrative. Her stages have included grain terminals, a clock tower, the pope’s palace, military forts, and a mile of urban neighborhood streets in the South Bronx. Her work has been commissioned by many arts institutions. She has been honored with the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, the United States Artist Fellowship, and a New York Bessie Award. Haigood is a recipient of the esteemed Doris Duke Artist Award and she has had the privilege to mentor many extraordinary young artists internationally at the National École des Arts du Cirque in France, Spelman College, the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University, the San Francisco Circus Center, and at Zaccho Studio in San Francisco.
Walter Kitundu is a multidisciplinary artist with a focus on kinetic sculpture and sound installation, composition, public art, and teaching. He builds (and performs on) extraordinary musical instruments, while researching and documenting the natural world. Kitundu has created hand-built record players driven by the wind, rain, fire, earthquakes, birds, light, and the force of ocean waves. In 2008 he received a MacArthur Fellowship in recognition of his art practice and his capacity to make important cultural contributions. He was a Bay Area resident for 15 years.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
Today we have a special recorded show featuring artists: Mai Lingani (Burkina Faso), Seth Sharp (Iceland), Johnny Turco (Puerto Rico), who are performing this Sunday, Jan. 30, 2022, 3 p.m. ET at JAZZ: the International Connection, hosted by Rome Neal's Banana Puddin' Jazz. https://www.romeneal.com/banana-puddin-jazz
Music: "Where Have You Been & Crazy Medley." Acoustic by Shinuh and Johnny Turco
Ife: Submarine
Seth Sharp and the Black Clock perform "Georgia." He speaks about this song performance when he was on a US State Dept.Tour in South Africa, Namibia.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
- We begin with an archived interview (1/15/21) with Charles Curtis Blackwell, poet, playwright, artivist, subject of film: "God Given Talent" and Rev. Clarence Johnson, a veteran of the Civil Rights Movement, join us to talk about the legacy of Dr. MLK Jr. who would have been 92 in 2021.
- We conclude with an archived conversation with Dr. Clarence Jones, MLK Jr.'s speech writer and attorney (1/15/21).
From the archives, MLK Jr. Special Programming 2009 and 2021. Visit wandaspicks.com for 2022 Dr. King events.
- We begin this morning in conversation with Charles Curtis Blackwell, poet, playwright, artivist, subject of film: "God Given Talent" and Rev. Clarence Johnson, a veteran of the Civil Rights Movement, join us to talk about the legacy of Dr. MLK Jr. who would have been 92 in 2021.
- We speak to Marcus Shelby, who is participated in the MLK Music Tribute in 2009. He premiered an excerpt of a new work honoring Martin King. Ms. Faye Carol, featured in Marcus' new work, joined the musician/composer in the studio and then stayed on when Melanie DeMore joined us. We had a fun conversation, so much so, I could barely get a word in to welcome Clifford Brown Jr., into the studio. The three then had a great time conversing until Ms. Carol had to sign off. Okay, I am trying to let out my breath...whew!
- Miko Marks and Kev Choice came into the studio after this segment, to talk about their work, Miko as a country western singer, and Kev as a rap artist whose work seeks to uplift the community, his listeners. They both performed, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2009, 8 PM, at the Oaktown Jazz Workshop fundraiser at Yoshi's in Jack London Square in Oakland.
- We close with a conversation with Hodari B. Davis and Mike Turner. Mike is a student at Encinal High School, and Hodari is director of National Initiatives for Youth Speaks.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
Today we speak to members of the cast for Ishmael Reed's The Slave Who Loved Caviar, up through Jan. 9 at The Theater for The New City in New York. It is also streaming live. Tickets are just $10+ small fee. For in person and virtual tickets visit https://ci.ovationtix.com/35441/production/1091241
Shows are Thurday, Friday, Sat. 8 PM ET (5 PT) and Sunday at 3 PM ET (12 noon PT). Closes Jan. 9.
Guests include: Jesse Bueno, Robert Turner,Kenya Wilson, Laura Robards, Roz Fox, Brian Anthony Simmons, Monisha Shiva (about 9:30 am pst), and possibly Ishmael Reed.
- Wadada Leo Smith 10/21
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
Today we speak to Dr. Tescia Evans & Mrs.Tiana Jones-Bey about Ross Dance Company's Second Annual Praise Dance Festival in Davis, July 7, 2012, 7 PM at the Veteran's Memorial Theatre. Visit www.rossdance.com
Mr. Jesse Brooks joins us to talk about the debut on PBS's Frontline World, award-winning filmmaker Renata Simone's End Game: AIDS in Black America, 10 p.m. PST, Tuesday, July 10 (check local listings). Visit: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/social-issues/endgame-aids-in-black-america/aids-in-black-america-the-worlds-16th-worst-epidemic/
We close with a rebroadcast of an interview last Nov. with Rachelle Ferrell, singer, composer, musician, who is in town this weekend, July 6-8, 2012 in San Francisco.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of aArt on socAiety, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
1.Today we have the first of several conversations with Donna Chang, L.Ac. (MSOM), Licensed Acupuncturist and Herbalist; BodyIntuitive Practitioner; Holistic Nutrition & Lifestyle Counsellor; Transformational coach and founder of Alameda Community Acupuncture.Visit http://www.alamedacommunityacu.com/who-we-are/
- In "LIFE I SWEAR" by Chloe Dulce Louvouezo, she brings together twenty-five of today’s most influential Black female voices in an exploration of self love and healing. Chloe was in the SF Bay Area on November 19, 2021 for an event at Black Girls Greenhouse in Oakland. https://www.chloelouvouezo.com/events
Derek Walcott's affirming: https://allpoetry.com/love-after-love
- nialla rose, Tai Chi Chih teacher joins us to talk about her work.
1. Akilah Jaramogi, Forester, Environmental Consultant, Social Entrepreneur and Cultural Activist. is the Co-Founder and CEO of the Fondes Amandes Community Reforestation Project in St. Ann's, Trinidad and Tobago. The jeweler is a proud Merikin descendant, and the Co-founder, past president and CEO of the Merikin Heritage Foundation.
- Michael "Khubaka" Harris, Sasha Briscoe, Statewide President, Allensworth Friends; Carmen Setness, Community Outreach Coordinator, San Joaquin Regional Rail Commission (SJRRC) join us to talk about the Rededication, Sat., Oct. 9 @Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park.
3. Michael Burdette, President of Hylife-Ocity Productions based in Oakland and artist Anessa Strings.
4. Andrea Chung, Artist joins us to talk about her exhibit at Tyler Park in LA: "We Was Girls Together," through Oct. 30.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
- Lisa Ramirez, Associate Artistic Director, OTP, joins us to talk about her sAiNt jOaN (burn/burn/burn), a WORLD PREMIERE at Oakland Theater Project (OTP), directed by Michael Socrates Moran at Oakland Theater Project through Dec. 19, 2021
2. Claire Diao's Sudu Connexion presents: AfroFuturistik@ Roxie Cinema, Dec.14 and Smith San Rafael Film Center
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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We continue our discussion of Veterans Healing Veterans (VHV) @ the Veterans Transition Center in Monterey county and in CA State Prisons. We are joined by the founder, participants and facilitators: Sally McNeill, Craig Farrell, Randal Williams, Marcus Blevins-- participants VHV; Jenny Nesler, VHV; Ron Self, Founder, VHV; Bobby Emory, VHV; Alejandra Saldana, Caseworker, VTC/VHV
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Deodoceo Habi, veteran, joins us to talk about his healing journey outlined in his book: "Memoirs in the Moment" (2021).
3. David M. Massey, the first African American Filmmaker ever Oscar-Nominated for “Best Live Action Short Film” (for 1992’s “Last Breeze of Summer” which he produced,) joins us to talk about his newest Short Film Project: “Passage.” The film presents a West African culture that faces an unprecedented challenge in the year 1600.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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MalongaFest2021: Casting Our Light (Grand Finale) We speak to Muisi-kongo Malonga
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The First Wave, film, directed by Matthew Heineman, interview with Dr. Nathalie Douge.
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SF IndieFest Presents: 18th Annual Another Hole in the Head Film Festival, December 1 to 15 at New People Cinema, Eventive and Zoom https://www.ahith.com/ We speak with Romany Adams who was born in San Francisco in the late 1950s, grew up in East Side Daly City. She writes she is "currently back in SF until they drag me away." Romany is Producer/Programmer/Herder of Cats @ Another Hole in the Head Film Festival for the past 18 years.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
We start off the morning with a look at Black Theatre in NYC via the esteemed lens of Audelco Awards, coming up Monday, Nov. 29: https://www.audelco.org/
We are joined by Rome Neal, Ms. Vinie Burrows, Ishmael Reed and Ms. Bianca Lavern Jones.
We close the live program with SF Mime Troupe's "A Red Carol": Velina Brown, Michael Gene Sullivan, Mike McShane https://www.sfmt.org/a-red-carol
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
We start off the morning with a look at Black Theatre in NYC via the esteemed lens of Audelco Awards, coming up Monday, Nov. 29: https://www.audelco.org/
We are joined by Rome Neal, Ms. Vinie Burrows, Ishmael Reed and Ms. Bianca Lavern Jones.
We close the live program with SF Mime Troupe's "A Red Carol": Velina Brown, Michael Gene Sullivan, Mike McShane
https://www.sfmt.org/a-red-carol
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
1. In "LIFE I SWEAR" by Chloe Dulce Louvouezo, she brings together twenty-five of today’s most influential Black female voices in an exploration of self love and healing. Chloe will be in the SF Bay Area on November 19, 2021 for an event at Black Girls Greenhouse in Oakland. ("Love After Love" by Derek Wilcox.)
2. nialla rose is an accredited T'ai Chi Chih teacher. She has been practicing t'ai chi/ qi gong for over a decade. 2 years ago, she co-created a group for movement teachers determined to make movement increasingly accessible to everyone. nialla has worked in the health field for 25+ years, with a focus on marginalized communities and women with cancer.
- Amikaela Gaston from 07/26/2014
This morning we also mix it up with prerecorded or previously broadcast interviews with filmmakers and actors and activists. Be surprised for now. We will annouce and then update the website later.
- For our first hour we speak to veterans about their return to civilian life, some of whom made detours into CA Correctional facilities. The Veteran's Transition Center, Veterans Healing Veteran's program, facilitates the reentry for these men and women at the former Ft. Ord military base in Marina, Monterey County, CA. http://veteranshealingveterans.com
2. El-Hajj Mauri [pronounced Moor-e] Saalakhan is a Metro-Washington, DC, based writer, poet, and human rights advocate, who currently serves as director of operations for The Aafia Foundation, a Muslim led human rights organization. He joins us to talk about Dr. Aafia Siddiqui and Imam Jalil Al Amin and the rally Nov. 13, in Washington, DC for political prisoners: www.aafia.org
3. Sam Jackson (Risa/Miranda), a San Francisco based actor, vocalist and teaching artist and William Thomas Hodgson (Baldwin/Louis), an acting company member at the Oregon Shakespeare Company; co-Artistic Director, Oakland Theater Project, join us to talk about the World Premiere of Father/Daughter by Kait Kerrigan, Nov. 12 on stage, streaming Dec.7-12, at the Aurora Theatre in Berkeley, CA: https://www.auroratheatre.org/fatherdaughter
We close our March celebration of women with a look at the legacy of Sojourner Truth, Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman. We start with a conversation with Avery Sharpe, a visionary composer, educator and musician whose work “Ain’t I a Woman” consists of compositions based on formerly enslaved abolitionist and women’s rights advocate, Sojourner Truth’s life, the title of the project taking its title from a speech she made for woman suffrage in Seneca Falls, NY, in 1851.
Later in the show we continue this conversation with Paula M. Kimper, composer of “Truth, a New Folk Opera about Sojourner Truth, the ex-slave, fiery abolitionist and women’s rights pioneer, Linda McInerney, director/co-creator and co-conceiver, is also founder and Artistic Director of Old Deerfield Productions; and Mari-Yan Pringle, who sings the lead. Visit http://truthopera.com/
Between the two Truth conversations is a prerecorded interview with scholar and author, Dr. Jeanne Theoharis about her latest book: "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks." The full interview is broadcast April 3, 2013.
We close with a conversation about the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Monument as the 399th unit of the National Park System (to open in 2015) with Robert G. Stanton, former Director of the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, Senior Adviser to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C. Visit www.nps.gov/hatu
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
1. Tharwat Abbas, Save Nubia Project field director, joins us from Germany to talk about his native land, Sudan which had a coup Oct. 25.
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Adrianna Thompson, SOULSKIN Artistic Director, joins us to talk about her company performances and a film debut, Nov. 5-6 at Dance Mission in San Francisco. CLOSER is a dance film about relationships in a time of isolation, and THE AWAKENING is part disco celebration and part prayer. https://www.soulskindance.org/
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The playwright, director and lead actor, join us to talk about Theatre Rhinoceros current show: AT THE WAKE OF A DEAD DRAG QUEEN by TERRY GUEST, directed by TANIKA BAPTISTE, Thursdays-Sundays, through November 14, 2021 at Spark Arts 4229 18th St. in San Francisco Tickets at http://www.TheRhino.org
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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Iya Osotunde Fasuyi aka Mama C joins us to talk about her recent film NYATITI MEDICINE, the BPP at 55, UAACC, the recent We Cry Genocide Tribunal and her Heal the Community 2021 Tour.
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Destiny Muhammad, Harpist from the 'Hood, joins us to talk about The Destiny Muhammad Trio, three day digital residency next week, Nov. 3-5, 12-1 p.m. PT, Livestream to Facebook & YouTube
3. Jeanette Harrison, Producer, Founder, AlterTheater; Desdemona Chiang, Director; Iyvon E(debiri), Dramaturg, Artistic Director of The Parsnip Ship, a radio-play series and platform amplifying underproduced artists, join us to talk about the radio play: Br'er Peach by Andrew Saito. Visit https://www.altertheater.org/peach
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
1. CHARLOTTE HILL O’NEAL aka Mama C aka Iya Osotunde Fasuyi is an internationally known visual artist, musician, performance artist, ATR priestess, film maker, poet/writer of more than three decades experience. Visit UAACC
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Destiny Muhammad Trio, joins us to talk about her Digital Residency Nov. 3-5, 12-1 PM PT on YouTube and FB.
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Br'er Peach from archives, April 17. We speak to director, Andrew Saito and cast, Michael Gene Sullivan and Resa Mishina.
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Br'er Peach @ AlterTheater The season starts with an audio play by Andrew Saito, Br’er Peach, produced in collaboration with The Parsnip Ship and in association with Business Lunch Productions. We speak to Jeanette Harrison, Co-Founder, Artistic Director AlterTheater; Desdemona Chiang, Director, Iyvon E., Dramaturg.
The run is October 21 - December 12, www.altertheater.org/peach
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
We listen to presenters and the Artistic Director and Founder of the San Francisco International Arts Festival, Andrew Woods discuss the Autumn Season beginning this week with online and in person performances: October 20-24, 2021.
Michael Gene Sullivan, playwright, joins us to talk about his latest work, The Great Khan, a collaboration between SF Mime Troupe and SF Playhouse opening Oct. 20 for an person and a recorded online production.
We close with a conversation with Adia Whitaker, Ase Dance Theatre Collective, 2018 production of her "Have (K)no(w) Fear: A Blussical at ODC in SF. It was lovely (smile).
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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Andrew Woods, founder and Artistic Director, San Francisco International Arts Festival, joins us to talk about the Autumn Program which began, Oct. 18 and contonues through Oct. 24 at Ft. Mason Center and online. We are also joined by Michelle Jacques, CHELLE & Friends and Nkechi Emeruwa-Neuberg.
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Michael Gene Sullivan, SF Playhouse, The Great Khan. Opens tonight, Oct. 20, 2021. Visit www.michaelgenesullivan.com
Music: Amikaela Gaston's "Nature Boy."
- Rebroadcast Adia Tamar Whitaker re: "Have K(no!)w Fear: A Bluessical at ODC 10/19-20/2019
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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Margo Hall, Artistic Director, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre and Traci Tolmarie, join us to talk about SFBATCO Theatre Festival this weekend, Oct. 16-17 @ Brava Theater in SF's Mission District. Visit https://www.sfbatco.org/schedule
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Black Fire @The Magic Theatre in San Francisco's Ft. Mason Center, 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. PT, with Tongo Eisen-Martin and Ahkeel Mestayer. Visit www.magictheatre.org or call the box office: (415) 441-8822.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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Margo Hall, Artistic Director, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre and Traci Tolmarie, join us to talk about SFBATCO Theatre Festival this weekend, Oct. 16-17 @ Brava Theater in SF's Mission District. Visit https://www.sfbatco.org/schedule
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Black Fire @The Magic Theatre in San Francisco's Ft. Mason Center, 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. PT, with Tongo Eisen-Martin and Ahkeel Mestayer. Visit www.magictheatre.org or call the box office: (415) 441-8822
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
- Sis. Afia Raina Turner-Greenlea, joins us to talk about the 5th Annual Virtual Black Sustainability Summit, 10/23-25, 2020, as a teaser for this year's conference which begins tomorrow. For the $20 discount tix link.
She is followed by an interview with Andrew Woods, Founder and Executive Director of the SF International Arts Festival and Nkechi Emeruwa. The Festival this year is Wed.-Sunday, Oct. 20-24 with in person and online performances.
- With close with another reprise interview with Ms. Akilah Jaramogi who is Environmental Consultant, FACRP Co-Founder and CEO, Merikin Heritage Foundation CEO, Director - Maroon Women's Chamber of Cooperation. She talks to us about the Maroon Gathering or conference next month.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
Rebroadcast 10.6.21: Allensworth Rededication, Ladies of Soul Concert for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Maroon Gathering in Nov., Andrea Chung.Artist. Enjoy!
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
1. Akilah Jaramogi, Forester, Environmental Consultant, Social Entrepreneur and Cultural Activist. is the Co-Founder and CEO of the Fondes Amandes Community Reforestation Project in St. Ann's, Trinidad and Tobago. The jeweler is a proud Merikin descendant, and the Co-founder, past president and CEO of the Merikin Heritage Foundation.
- Sasha Briscoe, Statewide President, Allensworth Friends; Carmen Setness, Community Outreach Coordinator, San Joaquin Regional Rail Commission (SJRRC) join us to talk about the Rededication, Sat., Oct. 9 @Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park.
3. Michael Burdette, President of Hylife-Ocity Productions based in Oakland and artist Anessa Strings.
- Andrea Chung, Artist joins us to talk about her exhibit at Tyler Park in LA: "We Was Girls Together," through Oct. 30.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
Hurricane Ida Update, Electric Lady: The Ladies in the Life of Jimi Hendrix, We Cry Genocide, International Tribunal, Oct. 22-25, 55th Anniversary of the BPP
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BJ, Black Panther Party Alumni Museum, joins us to talk about the 55th Anniversary October 22-24, program in Oakland, CA. The big day is Oct. 23.
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Baba Jalil Muntaquim, POW, joins us to talk about JERICHO and the International Tribunal Oct. 22-25 (virtually).
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Update on Hurricane Ida with Nana Sula Spirit and Baba Malik Rahim.
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Electric Lady: The Ladies in the Life of Jimi Hendricks is Oct. 1 (5 PM PT/8 PM ET) virtually. Jerome Preston Bates, Rome Neal, Rosa Lee Brooks and Genia Lear Morgan, join us to talk about the production. Electric Lady (An Infinity of Jimi) is a BLACK REPERTORY GROUP (Berkeley) 59th. MAINSTAGE SEASON production.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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BJ, Black Panther Party Alumni Museum, joins us to talk about the 55th Anniversary October 22-24, program in Oakland, CA. The big day is Oct. 23.
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Baba Jalil Muntaquim, POW, joins us to talk about JERICHO and the International Tribunal Oct. 22-25 (virtually).
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Update on Hurricane Ida with Nana Sula Spirit and Baba Malik Rahim.
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Electric Lady: The Ladies in the Ladies in the Life of Jimi Hendricks is Oct. 1 (5 PM PT/8 PM ET) virtually. Jerome Preston Bates, Rome Neal, Rosa Lee Brooks and Genia Lear Morgan, join us to talk about the production. Electric Lady (An Infinity of Jimi) is a BLACK REPERTORY GROUP (Berkeley) 59th. MAINSTAGE SEASON production.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
1. Brother Manu Ampim and Sis. Mayada Mannan-Brake join us this morning to talk about an upcoming conference: Kushite Nubian Heritage International Conference: Perserving an African Legecy, Oct. 1-3; Her father Baba Nuraddin Abdulmannan (retired Sudan Ambassador to the U.S.) will not be available for the interview. Sister Mayada is a long-time Nubian activist with family roots in northern Sudan.
2. Delfeayo Marsalis joins us to talk about his beloved NOLA post-Ida.
- Lewis Jordan, musician, composer, artist, joins us to talk about his concert at The Freight and Salvage, Monday, Sept. 27
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
We are joined by Jerome Preston Bates, an American theater, film and television actor, director and playwright and Rome Neal, director, to talk about "The Jimi Hendrix Experiment."
This free virtual production, produced by Black Repertory Group in Berkeley (57th season) is followed by a conversation with the playwright and artists who knew Hendrix, Sat., Sept. 18, 8 p.m. (ET), 5 p.m. (PT).
The play streams live and free on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV2g19bOQ1Y
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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Lenard D. Moore, "Long Rain," and Earl S. Braggs, "A Boy Named Boy," join us to talk about their latest works. If you are in their vicinity, there is an opportunity to meet the authors, Sat., Sept. 25, at Quail Ridge Books, 4209-100 Lassiter Mill Road, Raleigh, NC 27609. (Mr. Braggs is not able to join us. We hope he feels better soon.)
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PlayGround is having a Gala Celebration of 20 years of the June Ann Baker Prize honorees 2002-2021, Monday, Sept. 20, 6-8 p.m. in person and online. Joining us are Genevieve Jessee, Rachel Bublitz, Evelyn Jean Pine and Jim Kleinmann, PG co-founder, director, arts administrator.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
Special Guests:
Cuban composer and pianist Omar Sosa is one of the most versatile jazz artists on the scene today. He fuses a wide range of jazz, world music, and electronic elements with his native Afro-Cuban roots to create a fresh and original urban sound – all with a Latin jazz heart. Omar Sosa’s musical trajectory has taken him from Camagüey and Havana to touring in Angola, the Congo, Ethiopia, and Nicaragua in the 1980s; to a sojourn in the African-descent communities of Ecuador in the early 1990s; to an extended presence on the San Francisco Bay Area Latin jazz scene; to his current engagement with artists from France, Cuba, Brazil, and several North, West, and East African nations.
https://omarsosa.com/short_biography/
Omar joins us to talk about his date, Sept. 16 @ SFJAZZ: Motherland Journey w/SCULPTOR-PAINTER GITHINJI WA'MBIRE & DRUMMER AMAURY ACOSTA.
Githinji Wa'mbire joins us too.
https://www.sfjazz.org/tickets/productions/omar-sosa-motherland-journey/
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We are joined by Jerome Preston Bates, an American theater, film and television actor, director and playwright and Rome Neal, director, to talk about "The Jimi Hendrix Experiment."
This free virtual production, produced by Black Repertory Group in Berkeley (57th season) is followed by a conversation with the playwright and artists who knew Hendrix, Sat., Sept. 18, 8 p.m. (ET), 5 p.m. (PT).
The play streams live and free on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV2g19bOQ1Y
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
Dawn Elissa Fischer, also known as the “DEF Professor,” is an Associate Professor at San Francisco State University, where she teaches courses on black popular culture, information technology and virtual ethnography.
Dionne Bennett is an Assistant Professor in the African American Studies Department at the CUNY (City University of New York), New York City College of Technology. She is an Associate Director of the The Hiphop Archive and Research Institute at Harvard University Hutchins Center. She was previously the institute’s Director of Gender Studies and Social Advocacy and has been affiliated with the institute since its founding in 2002 by Marcyliena Morgan, Ph.D.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
1. Ms. Pamela Price, Esq., joins us for our monthly conversation about CA politics https://www.pamelaprice4da.com/
- Ashley O'Shay, dir., "Unapologetic," 2021
3. Malik Rahim and Kalamu Ya Salaam and Asante Salaam, join us to talk about New Orleans and the Gulf, post-Hurricane Ida.
https://loyolamaroon.com/10026234/showcase/new-orleans-activist-reflects-on-a-life-in-social-justice/
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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Ms. Pamela Price, Esq., joins us for our monthly conversation about CA politics https://www.pamelaprice4da.com/
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Ashley O'Shay, dir., "Unapologetic," 2021
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Malik Rahim and Kalamu Ya Salaam and Asante Salaam, join us to talk about New Orleans and the Gulf, post-Hurricane Ida.
https://loyolamaroon.com/10026234/showcase/new-orleans-activist-reflects-on-a-life-in-social-justice/
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
From the archives July 27, 2019.
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This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
- We rebroadcast an interview (2/8/12) with Ms. Delloreese Patricia Early "Della Reese" (July 6, 1931 – November 19, 2017) (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Della_Reese).
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
1. Hon. Pamela Price, Esq.,Justice with Compassion (pamelaprice4da.com/about)
2. ShakaJamal Redmond (Olu8); MXO and Don Dada join us from South Africa.
MXO’s debut single “Sista Kunjani” intricately showcased his distinct way of moulding afro soul, jazz, funk, traditional and pop, carving a post-modern eclectic genre which was emulated by many young musicians but never matched.
Menelik Nesta Gibbons also known as Don Dada is a Zimbabwean born South African citizen who is a multi-platinum selling reggae/hip hop artist on a quest to push convention and carve out a legacy as one of the motherland’s thought leaders and influencers whose music is not just entertainment but about consciousness, identity and pride.
Olu8 is a culturally innovative artist, producer and filmmaker from Oakland, California. @shakajamal @olu8films
- We close with an archived interview with ShakaJamal.
Link to register for the upcoming N'COBRA 2021 Conference, Friday-Sunday, June 25-27. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ncobra-32nd-annual-national-conference-tickets-150726116873
Rebroadcast from 7.29.2020
Today we speak to the male co-chair of N'COBRA, Nana Kwesi Jomoke Ifetayo about the 31st N'COBRA Virtual Conference, July 30-Aug. 1, 2020. Contact: reparationsj@gmail.com (678) 437-7882 2. Delfeayo Marsalis has launched a new non-profit – Keep NOLA Music Alive – designed to help keep New Orleans music culture thriving during these uncertain times. Delfeayo kicks off the fundraising effort with a “Double-Nickel Birthday Bash” virtual performance Sunday, August 2, 3 p.m. PT/5 p.m. CDT/6 p.m. EDT marking his 55th birthday..
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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Velina Brown and Michael Gene Sullivan join us to talk about SFMT's Tales of Resistance, Vol. 2: Persistence
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AfroSolo 26th Anniversary Program concludes this weekend, June 20. Listen to the rebroadcast of the June 9, show featuring artist participants and Robert Thomas Simpson, founder, artistic director.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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Dr. Lynne Morrow joins us to talk about James Weldon Johnson whose song or poem, Lift Ev'ry Voice is the Black National Anthem and is perhaps to become this year, the National Hymn.
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Audio from a Zoom interview with DeNeen Brown, awardwinning writer for the Washington Post. Her research and series of articles are the basis for "Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer, directed by Dawn Porter. The film premieres on National Geographic Friday, June 18, 9 PM ET/PT and available to stream on Hulu the same day. Visit https://films.nationalgeographic.com/riseagain
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We close with a conversation with two Tupac Shakur (June 16, 1971-Sept.13, 1996) scholars: Dr. Dawn Elissa Fisher & Dr. Dionne Bennett (9/11/20).
Music: Billy Harper's Knowledge of Self featuring Amiri Baraka; Tupac's Keep Ya Head Up; Committed's Lift Ev'ry Voice.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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Shazel Muhammad-Neain founded Eunoia Global, a leadership training and coaching firm joins Dr. Gina Paige, Co-founder & President, African Ancestry, Inc. to talk about the recent Sierra Leone Citizenship for Black People whose roots trace to this West African country April 29, 2021.
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We close with a rebroadcast of May 28, 2021 show, which features Kheven LaGrone, playwright, whose Pillow Talk, makes its world premiere, June 11-20 at Theatre Rhinoceros in SF. It is a virtual production.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay! Today we open at 9 AM PT with an interview with Thomas Simpson, AfroSolo and artists featured in the 26th Annual showcase, June 9-13/17-20. It is virtual and it is free. .
We close with Ben Vereen (6/12/2012).
Poor People's Virtual Weekend, 6/20-21, 2020
1. Nell Myhand is an Oakland based organizer, author and speaker whose work brings people together across age, race, class and other differences forming alliances to create powerful, effective solutions to common problems that leave no one out and no one behind. She is a member of the Bay Area Poor People’s Campaign Steering Committee working locally and nationally to amplify the voices of low/no wealth people and our demands for resources to meet our basic needs for housing, education, healthcare, and a livable climate. She also organizes with Women of Color in the Global Women’s Strike, an international organization calling on all governments for a Care Income Now that would recognize unwaged caregiving as work deserving of a wage. https://www.june2020.org/
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Vincent Terrell Durham, joins us to talk about theatre, writing, walking while Black and his Polar Bears. Black Boys & Prairie Fringed Orchids and Juneteenth Theatre Justice Project https://www.vtdisme.com/
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From the Archives: Bryan Keith Thomas@Joyce Gordon Gallery
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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Rebroadcast of the Rhodessa Jones's "Resurrection of She" from March 28-Apr.7, 2013.
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We close with an interview with Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, dir. "Toni Morrison: Pieces That I Am."
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Alonzo King, LINES Contemporary Ballet, Nov. 2012
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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Dedoceo Habi, author, Memoirs In the Moment: The Daily Walk with PTSD
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Dawn Troupe, Oakland Theater Project's Director of Education joins us to talk about this current season and the World Premiere of Kathleen Collins' Begin the Beguine: A Quartet of One Acts
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Kheven Lee LaGrone, playwright, joins, Tanika Baptiste, director, to discuss "Pillow Talk" up at Theatre Rhinoceros, June 11-20.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
Today we open at 9 AM PT with an interview with Thomas Simpson, AfroSolo and artists featured in the 26th Annual showcase. We close with archived interviews with directors and subjests at the Virtual Legacy Film Festival on Aging May 24-31.
We end instead with Ben Vereen (6/12/2012). The file was too large for the program. 5/7 was the original broadcast date for Legacy Film Festival.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
1. Professor Manu Ampim will join us to talk about the legacy of El Hajj Malik El Shabazz or Malcolm X -- 96 today (May 19, 1925-Feb. 21,1965).
2. Katina Letheule, Artistic Director at Altarena Playhouse and the director of Motherhood Out Loud, will join us with one of the cast members, Damaris Divito, to talk about this play going up May 20-21, 7 p.m.
- We close our live program with Dana King, sculptor, painter and activist, who will talk about "The 350 Ancestors arriving in Golden Gate Park, June 18, 2021 for Juneteenth-- A Monumental Reckoning https://www.monumentalreckoning.org/
4. We will close with an interview from the archives re: CAAM Film Festival which ends this weekend in SF. Visit www.wandaspicks.com
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
- Professor Manu Ampim will join us to talk about the legacy of El Hajj Malik El Shabazz or Malcolm X -- 96 today (May 19, 1925-Feb. 21,1965).
2. Katina Letheule, Artistic Director at Altarena Playhouse and the director of Motherhood Out Loud, will join us with one of the cast members, Damaris Divito, to talk about this play going up May 20-21, 7 p.m.
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We close our live program with Dana King, sculptor, painter and activist, who will talk about "The 350 Ancestors arriving in Golden Gate Park, June 18, 2021 for Juneteenth-- A Monumental Reckoning https://www.monumentalreckoning.org/
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We will close with an interview from the archives re: CAAM Film Festival which ends this weekend in SF. Visit www.wandaspicks.com
Legacy Film Festival on Aging Features May 24-31
1.Sam Hampton, Director, "Twelve Ingredients"; Adele Hampton
- Sandra Hubbard, The Giants Wore White Gloves (40 mins) (The Lost Years)
3. David Wild, director, "Today Was a Good Day" with KaTania “Kat” Brown (subject) was born and raised in Detroit. She is a small business owner, freelance virtual assistant of Virtually Possible 365, and newly launched business social media deactivation service Digital Footprint Consulting. Author of Love Notes: A Caregiver’s Journal (2019), in addition to being a caregiver for her mother since 1991 before her passing October, 2020. www.virtuallypossible365.com
- Mothers of Gynecology with Michelle Browder, JC Hallman
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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Masashi Niwano is the Festival & Exhibition Director at the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM). He is a Bay Area native who holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Film Production from San Francisco State University. Masashi has been associated with CAAM for over a decade, starting as an intern, then becoming involved in theater operations and, finally, being chosen as a selected filmmaker (Falling Stars, 2006). Prior to re-joining CAAM as Festival & Exhibition Director, Masashi was the Executive Director for the Austin Asian American Film Festival. He is also an active filmmaker, who has worked on numerous films and music videos that are official selections at Outfest, Newfest & South By Southwest.
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Br'er Peach Andrew Saito@AlterTheater (donate by May 9)
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Sheila Malkind, founder and Executive Director, Legacy Film Festival
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AMERICANISH director/writer/producer, Iman Zalwahry joins Aizzah Fatima (writer/producer) to talk about CAAMFest 2021 closing feature May 23. It is also their first feature film!
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay! 1. Brad J. Bennett, a Japanese-American filmmaker and award-winning producer based in Virginia. A co-producer, he joins us to talk about "Unmarked," a film that looks at the legacy of enslaved Americans. His award-winning first feature documentary, Forgive–Don’t Forget, chronicles the search for a family on the other side of the world in order to return an heirloom taken during World War II.
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Nell Myhand and Judy Greenspan join us to talk about May Day 2021 in Oakland at Lake Merritt BART at 2:30 p.m.
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Rebroadcast of "The Bluest Eye," a radio play, currently up at Aurora theatre in Berkeley through May 21.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
Join us at 9 AM this morning for a wonderful conversation with Ameha Molla and Rajal Pitroda, San Francisco filmmakers who won BLACK PUBLIC MEDIA’S PITCHBLACK for their documentary feature "Higher 15", which tells the story of Molla’s uncle, Kiflu Ketema, a former Ethiopian revolutionary turned lead witness in an FBI investigation against his murderous prison guard in war-torn Addis Ababa.
Our next guest is Cherilyn Parsons, Executive Director and Founder of the Bay Area Book Festival starting May 1. There is a free special tribute to Lawrence Ferlinghetti this evening 5:30-6:30 PM PT
We close with a rebroadcast of an interview with Dawn Monique Williams Associate Director, Aurora Theatre's production of Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye" (adapted by Lydia R. Diamond). Michael J. Asberry (actor) joins Dawn Monique.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
We rebroadcast April 14, 2021 show which featured ADRSA founder, Iya Funlayo, who tells us about the 9th Annual Conference which is happening right now, 4/23-25, 2021.
Register:http://www.adrsa.org/conference.php
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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Troy Williams, Communications Manager with Legal Services for Prisoners With Children (LSPC). He joins us to talk about the film Racially Charged: America's Misdemeanor Problem tonight, 5 PM PT/8 PM ET.
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Jeronimo Aguilar - An LSPC 2021 Ronald Elder Freeman Policy Fellow, joins us to talk about the 9th Annual Quest for Democracy, Tuesday, May 4, 2021.
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Chris Metzler serves as Associate Director of Programming for DocFest and Jeff Ross, curate of Livable Planet Film Festival by SFIndie Fest 4/22-5/2.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
1. Rob Kenner, author, THE MARATHON DON’T STOP: The Life and Times of Nipsey Hussle
- Jasmine Milan Williams (Pecola/Maureen) returns to Aurora for The Bluest Eye radio play (through May 21) after appearing in Bull In A China Shop (2019). Her recent work includes: Utopia (Cutting Ball Theater), The New Normal (By Ashley Smiley), Inked Baby by Christina Anderson (Crowded Fire Theater Company) and The Last Sermon of Sister Imani (Theater First). Companies she has shared space with include:Campo Santo (Family/Company Member), Theater First, Those Women Production Company, African American Shakespeare Company,and New Conservatory Theater Company.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
- Iya Funlayo E. Wood-Menzies, Ph.D. joins us to talk about the African and Disaporic Religious Studies Association (ADRSA) 2021 conference next weekend, April 23-24, "Raising the Dead."
http://www.adrsa.org/conference.php
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Andrew Saito, Michael Gene Sullivan joins us to talk about Br'er Peach at AlterTheater which opens April 17.
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Makeda Esi joins us to talk about love, poetry and recovery
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The Bluest Eye Conversation with Sam Jackson (Frieda/Darlene) and Cathleen Riddley (Mama/Mrs Breedlove) continues re: radio show at Aurora theatre April 9-May 21, 2021. Visit auroratheatre.org 510-843-4822
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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Br'er Peach by Andrew Saito, a radio play in three podcast episodes, April 17 is the digital launch party (free event) and fundraiser. Episodes play April 18-May 10. Visit altertheater.org/peach or call (415) 454-2787.
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Kelley Kali's, Oscar & DGA winner & Deon Cole's (Black-ish) critiaclly lauded indie feature, "I'm Fine (Thanks for asking)" set for SFIFF opening today, Fri., Apr. 9.
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Dawn Monique Williams, Aurora Theatre Associate Artistic Director, and director of The Bluest Eye, adapted from Toni Morrison's novel by playwright Lydia R. Diamond for stage and (audio drama) joins actor Michael Asberry to talk about the new production opening April 9-May 21. Visit auroratheatre.org or call (510) 843-4822. Discount code: BluestCNC50
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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Marquesha Babers, poet, That Girl; msbabers@gmail.com @LadyLyrics
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Tiny Garcia & Leroy Franklin Moore Jr., Poor News Network events: 1pm April 8th Humble Tree Planting Ceremony Honoring Revolutionary Poverty/Disability Skola Sheroes -Kiilu Nyasha,(Angel-versary of Kiilu coming up april 10th) Barbra Brust and Gerry Ambrose at Homefulness.
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KELLEY KALI's, Oscar & DGA winner & DEON COLE's (Black-ish) critically lauded indie feature, "I'm Fine (Thanks for Asking)" set for SFIFF opening day, Apr. 9th for steaming.
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Rebecca Haley Clark and Cree Noble join us to talk about Hindsight 2020, April 9-17.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
We rebroadcast a show which includes an interview with Michelle Browder and researcher, J.C. Hallman, about the Mothers of Gynecology Monument currently in SF at the Boxshop, 951 Hudson, SF, 94124, Sunday, April 4, 10 AM-11 AM. There will be Libations and Prayers and a Tour of the shop. Visit https://www.anarchalucybetsey.org/
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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We rebroadcast an interview with Margo Hall, Artistic Director, first woman Artistic Director of Lorraine Hansberry Theatre. Ms. Hall shares stories of LHT coproduction with SF Playhouse up through April 3, Erika Dickerson-Despenza’s [hieroglyph].
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We close with another interview with Margo from 2013 when she speaks about her play, BeBopBaby.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
- We play the audio from an interview with Margo Hall (3/12), Artistic Director, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, and director of the new play [hieroglyph] by Erika Dickerson-Despenza
For tickets to the co-production through 4/3 visit: San Francisco Playhouse and Lorraine Hansberry Theatre or call: (415) 677-9596. Involuntarily displaced in Chicago two months post-Katrina, 13-year-old Davis wrestles with the cultural landscape of a new city and school community while secretly coping with the PTSD of an assault at the Superdome. With her mother still in New Orleans committed to the fight for Black land ownership and her father committed to starting a new life in the Midwest, divorce threatens to further separate a family already torn apart. Will Davis be left hanging in the balance? [hieroglyph] traverses the intersection of environmental racism, sexual violence, and displacement, examining the psychological effects of a state-sanctioned man-made disaster on the most vulnerable members of the Katrina diaspora.
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Seenaa Jimjimo is an Oromo-American born in and raised in Ethiopia. She works as Environmental Health Specialist II and is the co-founder and Executive Director of Oromo Legacy Leadership, and Advocacy Association (OLLAA) formerly known as Coalition of Oromo Advocates for Human Rights and Democracy. Website: https://ollaa.org/
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Art Hazelwood on Ronnie Goodman at PS1 NY MOMA tonight, 6:30-8 PM ET (3:30 PM PT) Register https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/6998 A panel and short film screening Honoring Ronnie Goodman will be held at MoMA PS1 in an online presentation as part of the exhibition "Marking Time."
Nicole Goodman, Ronnie’s daughter, will be there, Nicole Fleetwood, curator of the exhibition will be speaking, Gary Harrell, recently “graduated" from the Prison Arts Project at San Quentin, Katya McCulloch, teacher at San Quentin, Frank Ruona, running coach at San Quentin, Laurie Brooks, William James Association, and myself, as well as other speakers.
- Jayson Johnson, director, co-writer; Sara Anders, co-writer, producer re: T.H.O.T.? a new film to look for in the theatres soon.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
We are speaking with Ms. Cathy Adams, CDA Consulting Group, about the 12th Annual Virtual Powerful Women of the Bay Luncheon last week, March 13.
We rebroadcast an interview with Albert Mazibuko, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, March 2013-- "Singing for Peace."
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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Zakiyyah G.E. Capehart, Ghana on My Mind. The international book party and reading is 3/13/21, 10 a.m. PT
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Christine Joy Amagan Ferrer (a.k.a. Tine) joins us to talk about "The Divine Coloring Book."
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Archived show March 3, 2021 and features: Steve Fiffer, Women's Voices Now Film Festival: Ariane Thielenhaus, diretor of programs; Natalie Cook, dir., "Backwards God;" Alyscia Cunningham, dir./prod., "I Am More Than My Hair"; Ingrid Rogers, "Liberate," writer and performer. We close with Mahasin D. Shamsid-Deen, playwright, "Carrying the Load . . . the life and times of Sister Clara Muhammad." (Feb. 27-March 21).
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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Mama Naomi Gedo Diouf, Artistic Director Diamano Coura West African Dance Company & Mama Mabiba Baegne join us to talk about the 26th Annual Collage des Cultures Africaines, Mar. 12-14
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Sandra Varner, Varner PR joins us to talk about her work and career. She is honored this year at the annual Women of Power Luncheon, Friday, March 12, 12-1:30 p.m.
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Michelle Browder, Hidden History Tours, and JC Hallman, historian and writer, join us to talk about the enslaved women, she calls The Mothers of Gynecology: experimented on by J. Marion Sims, credited as the father of gynecology. Ms. Browder is currently in SF creating the statues.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay! Shaunelle Curry is the Founder and CEO of Media Done Responsibly, a media and digital literacy organization that works to amplify humanity-centered and socially responsible media.https://mdrff21.eventive.org/welcome
2. Keisha Turner, EarthChild, Founderwww.iamearthchild.com D.I.R.T. Festival 2021 - Dance In Revolt(ing) Times presents: Harriet's Gun: Shapeshifting Towards a Radically Imagined Black Future A virtual arts festival March 5 & 13, 5pm PST/8pm EST Tix: DanceMissionTheater.org
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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Steve Fiffer, author, joins us to talk about the book he co-wrote with C.T. Vivian, It's In the Action: Memories of a Nonviolence Warrior (March 2021).
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Women's Voices Now Film Festival: Ariane Thielenhaus, diretor of programs; Natalie Cook, dir., "Backwards God;" Alyscia Cunningham, dir./prod., "I Am More Than My Hair"; Ingrid Rogers, "Liberate," writer and performer.
3. Mahasin D. Shamsid-Deen, playwright, "Carrying the Load . . . the life and times of Sister Clara Muhammad." (Feb. 27-March 21).
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
This morning we hosted in Zoom via Facebook.com/ wandasabir "Growing Up in the Nation of Islam." Today, Feb. 26, is a day known as Savior's Day, the day our Black God was born. The meeting included Wanda Sabir as host with childhood friends Verna Owens Brooks, Zakiyyah Mahasin and other members of the community who were our big sisters: Marva Reed, Raja Hayat, Sister Wafiyyah and Sister Nisaa Bismillah.
We will close with an archived show from Feb. 12, 2021 with Elisha Greenwell, Black Joy Parade 2021; Afiya Madzimoyo, M.S.W., joins us to talk about Black Love Day 2021, Sat., Feb. 13; Spell #7 @Celebration Arts in Sacramento, opens its season, Feb. 11, directed by Melinda Wilson Ramey, Ph.D., with choreography by Linda S. Goodrich, Ph.D., they join us to talk about playwright Ntozake Shange's remarkably astute work about Black identity.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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Randall Kline, SFJAZZ Founder & Executive Artistic Director joins us to talk about SFJAZZ & Race, Sun., Feb. 28, 11-1 p.m. PT (3/30-4/1/2001) https://www.sfjazz.org/jazzandrace
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From the Archives: Feb. 8, 2012 Black Choreographers Here & Now; Paula West closes this show. Again she is featured artist this Friday, Feb. 26@5 p.m. at SFJAZZ.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
Del Sol founder Charlton Lee with Genny Lim, featured poet at Sat., Feb. 20, concert
Stephanie Ann Johnson, Ph.D. joins us to talk about her work: "Binding Ties, The 16th Street Station," up at Oakland Theater Project through March 6.
We close with a conversation with David Johnson, co-founder of Umbra and the Black Arts Movement, poet, activist, journalist, historian, to talk about El Hajj Malik El Shabazz.
Music: Kerwin Young's In the Amazon; Kahil El Zabar & Archie Shepp's Brother Malcolm.
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This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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Elisha Greenwell, Black Joy Parade 2021
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Afiya Madzimoyo, M.S.W., joins us to talk about Black Love Day 2021, Sat., Feb. 13
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Spell #7 @Celebration Arts in Sacramento, opens its season, Feb. 11, directed by Melinda Wilson Ramey, Ph.D., with choreography by Linda S. Goodrich, Ph.D., they join us to talk about playwright Ntozake Shange's remarkably asute work about Black identity.
- Alita Henderson, STOP THINK AND RESTORE, founder/Lifestyle Coach, shares Say I Love You to Yourself workshop Feb. 28, 2021.
2 Kharyshi Wiginton joins us to talk about. RedZone film screening & discussion is Friday, Feb. 12, 6-8 p.m. ET This masterful choreographed tale of a Black woman survivor finding healing and liberation speaks to and honors the resilience and power of survivors. The theater performance, which debuted at the Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts in Oakland, California, was written by Survivor Healing Series panelist and singer Jennifer Johns and choreographer Kendra Barnes.
- gina breedlove joined me 2/14/13 to speak about 1 Billion Rising 6/22/12 (I think)
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
1. Belly of the Beast: This morning we are joined in the studio by director, Erika Cohn and attorney Cynthia Chandler to talk about a beast and women who were consumed by this beast, CDCR, women like Kelli Dillon to took the beast to court and won.
- Jeff Ross joins us to talk about 23rd Annual SF Indie Festival, Feb. 4-21, 2021.
Jeff has been an events producer for over twenty five years, ranging from nightclub shows, art openings, live music, performing arts and film festivals. In the past, he has served as Operations Manager at the SF International Film Festival (1997-2001) and as a member of the operations team at Burning Man (2006-2018). He founded SF IndieFest in 1998 and currently produces four annual film festivals a year in San Francisco which present nine weeks of programming and a combined annual attendance of over 20,000 patrons.
- Rebroadcast Feb. 3, 2021 show.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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We begin the morning with poets: Kim McMillion; Kim Shuck; Hassaun Ali Jones Bey (recorded) and Lenard Moore. There is always time for poetry.
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Playground Solo Performances:
Carla Vega in Grandma’s Hands, direction by Shyamala Moorty
Rayshawn Chism in Beethoven and Misfortune Cookies, written & directed by Joni Ravenna, original direction by Allison Bergman
- SF Indie Festival
Jeff Ross has been an events producer for over twenty five years, ranging from nightclub shows, art openings, live music, performing arts and film festivals. In the past, he has served as Operations Manager at the SF International Film Festival (1997-2001) and as a member of the operations team at Burning Man (2006-2018). He founded SF IndieFest in 1998 and currently produces four annual film festivals a year in San Francisco which present nine weeks of programming and a combined annual attendance of over 20,000 patrons.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
- Lisa Goshon is the President of LGI Branding Inc. and the first minority-woman in the U.S. to manufacture N95 surgical-grade face mask. She’s also the pioneer of the patented biometric authentication 2-way exchange software called “PECX” and founder of the Black Women of COVID Alliance. Lisa resides in Southern California. https://www.blactecfacemasks.com/
Nikcole Cunningham is an adoption social worker for Department of Human Services in San Francisco, California where she supports families with mental health services and ongoing difficult issues.
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Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival is this weekend, Jan. 30-31. We are joined by Joyce Jenkins, editor, Poetry Flash and Kim Shuck, SF Poet Laureate to talk about this event. PoetryFlash.org
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Diane Barnes joins us to talk about her latest work which is having an encore https://www.dianebarnes415.com/about
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
We begin this morning in conversation with Charles Curtis Blackwell, poet, playwright, artivist, subject of film: "God Given Talent" and Rev. Clarence Johnson, a veteran of the Civil Rights Movement, join us to talk about the legacy of Dr. MLK Jr. on what would have been his 92nd birthday. This is also the weekend of service.
- Sinjin Jones, Artistic Director, Pear Theatre in Mt. View, joins us to talk about his work and the new play that was getting ready to open. https://www.thepear.org/season-19 http://www.fusetheatre.org/co-exist-artists/
Today we speak to Faye Kennedy and Kevin Carter, Poor People's Campaign in Sacramento, CA
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Wallis Tinnie, Ph.D., & Dinizulu Gene Tinnie re:VIRTUAL Annual Seminole Maroon Spiritual Remembrance of the Two 1838 Battles of the Loxahatchee 1/9 & 1/17. FBHRPINC.org for links to programs
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Stacey Hoffman, ED, Living Jazz, joins us to talk about In the Name of Love: A Musical Tribute to Dr. MLK Jr. (2001), Jan. 17, 2021, 4 p.m. PT.
Poetry Jam: the Afrofuturist Edition. Thursday, January 14, 2021. Hosted by San Francisco’s Poet Laureate Kim Shuck. Sponsored by the San Francisco Public Library one can view from YouTube feature: Ishmael Reed and Dr. Glenn Parish.
- Ishmael Reed is the winner of the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship (genius award), the renowned L.A. Times Robert Kirsch Lifetime Achievement Award and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award. Ishmael Reed is the author of more than thirty titles including the acclaimed novel Mumbo Jumbo, as well as non-fiction, plays and poetry. Reed’s latest book of poetry is Why The Black Hole Sings The Blues. He is a Distinguished Professor at the California College of the Arts.
Dr. Glenn Parris writes cross-genre books in medical mystery, Afrofuturism, science fiction, fantasy and historical fiction. Dr. Parris’s short story "The Tooth Fairies: Quest for Tear Haven" is now available in the Outland Entertainment new faerie stories anthology, Where the Veil is Thin, edited by Alana Joli Abbot and Cerece Rennie Murphy. His Afrofuturistic novel, Dragon’s Heir is being republished by Outland Entertainment in 2021.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
Today we rebroadcast an interview with abolishionist attorney, Sharan Dhanoa who shares a series of workshops and community forums to discuss "Human Trafficking," this month.
Our second guest is Dr. Sade Turnipseed who joins us to talk about the Cotton Pickers Museum.
This show first aired Dec. 30, 2020.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
Habari Gani? Imani! Faith. Happy New Year. Today we rebroadcast of Dec. 23 show which features: Sara Biel and Karla Brundage, co-editors of the new anthology: HOME.
January is Sexual Trafickking Awareness Month.
Sharan Dhanoa, Director of Strategic Development for the South Bay Coalition to End Human Trafficking, joins us to talk about this public health emergency that flies to low on the radar, no one is aware of the danger our young Black and Brown girls and boys face. She has organized a series of conversations for the public to educate us about the problem, who's at risk and what can be done to stop it.
Sharan facilitates collaboration amongst over thirty-five member agencies. In May 2014, she began facilitating the largest multi-county workgroup in the Bay Area, No Traffick Ahead, which is unifying efforts in eight counties in order to effectuate collective impact across sectors. Prior to joining the Coalition, Sharan worked with women trafficked into sexual exploitation in Calcutta, India, by aiding their development through economic empowerment. She started her career in crime research, has worked in crime surveillance, and in an emergency psychiatric facility. Sharan holds a Master’s degree in Criminology from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a Juris Doctorate from Santa Clara University School of Law. Sharan was awarded “2015 Abolitionist of the Year” for Advocacy by the San Francisco Collaborative Against Human Trafficking, the "Unsung Hero Award" by the County of Santa Clara Valley in 2015, and the South Asian Bar Association’s “Community Impact Award” in 2016.
- We speak to the newly elected Mayor Ge'Nell Gary, City of Albany
3. C. SADE TURNIPSEED MBA/MS/PhD joins us to talk about the Cotton Pickers Museum and other projects that honor the legacy of enslaved Africans and their descendents.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
We speak to Benji Carver, programmer, about the 17th Annual Hole in the Head Film Festival Dec. 11-27, 2020 via Eventive.org and Zoom.us. W speak about several films with themes related to African and African Disapora interests and films with SF Bay area directors.
The festival will once again bring the freshest new independent genre films from around the world to San Francisco audiences. The festival will include over forty feature films, and over 250 short films - all available on demand through Eventive. Selected content will also screen live on Zoom during special weekend shows, featuring audience Q&As with the filmmakers.
Tickets are $10; a full pass is $125, ten film pass is $75 and five film pass is $40. There are also numerous free programs. For all festival information, visit https://ahith2020.eventive.org/welcome.
Music: Zion Trinity and Nana Sula: Humanity and The Ancient Mothers
Today we speak to co-editors of Colossus: HOME (2020), Sara Biel and Karla Brundage
colossuspress.org
Sara Biel is a poet, visual artist, and social worker. Her work combines original text with different art materials. She is passionate about collaborative art and performance processes, and focuses on art as a medium for building community. Sara’s work has been featured in Oakland’s Moondrop productions and sPARKLE & bLINK. She is the editor of Colossus: Bay Area Poets Challenge Immigration Injustice, Sara and Karla Brundage collaboratively edited Colossus:Home
Karla Brundage is a Bay Area based poet, activist, and educator. Born in Berkeley, California in the summer of love to a Black mother and white father, Karla spent most of her childhood in Hawaii where she developed a deep love of nature. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee and the founder of West Oakland to West Africa Poetry Exchange (WO2WA) and is a board member of the Before Columbus Foundation. http://westoaklandtowestafrica.com/ as well as on https://www.karlabrundage.com/
- Silicon Valley Dance Festival rebroadcast
Music: Zion Trinity; Imani Coppola
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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Ms. Adrian Williams, The Village Project presents: Kwanzaa 2020
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Rebroadcast "Sweet Dreams;" "House of Matter" opened Dec. 2013.
The Great Conjunction: Dec. 21, the union of Jupiter and Saturn https://www.fairbanksmuseum.org/blog/great-conjunction/
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
- As they push the Alameda County DA, Nancy O'Malley to reopen the case of Oscar Grant who was shot Jan.1, 2009 as he was detained and bound on the platform-- and charge Head Officer at the time, Anthony Pirone with "felony murder." Also the community is asked to call the BART Board and ask that "underlying documents from law firm Myers Nave be released to Grant's family. Uncle Bobby X, Rev. Wanda Johnson, Sis. Elaine Brown, Hon. Walter Riley, Brother Abdus Sabur Muhammad join us this morning.
To stay abreast of issues visit: https://www.lovenotbloodcampaign.comand https://oscargrantfoundation.org/
- Rebroadcast Dec. 11, 2020 show: Robert Moses, Sidra Bell and Babatunji Johnson, all of whom are involved in the Silicon Valley Dance Festival 2020.
Featured poet: Mama C
We speak to Benji Carver, programmer, about the 17th Annual Hole in the Head Film Festival Dec. 11-27, 2020 via Eventive.org and Zoom.us. W speak about several films with themes related to African and African Disapora interests and films with SF Bay area directors.
The festival will once again bring the freshest new independent genre films from around the world to San Francisco audiences. The festival will include over forty feature films, and over 250 short films - all available on demand through Eventive. Selected content will also screen live on Zoom during special weekend shows, featuring audience Q&As with the filmmakers.
Tickets are $10; a full pass is $125, ten film pass is $75 and five film pass is $40. There are also numerous free programs. For all festival information, visit https://ahith2020.eventive.org/welcome.
Free Preview on Zoom tomorrow night starting at 6 pm.
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KyiIe2_cSW-Y_Mcd18wHOg We'll be screening trailers and speaking briefly with each of the filmmakers in attendance. These are always a lot of fun, so I hope you can join us as well.
Music: Zion Trinity and Nana Sula: Humanity and The Ancient Mothers
Babatunji Johnson was born in Portland, Oregon but raised on the Big Island of Hawaii. He received his formal dance training from Center Stage Dance Studio and the University of Hawaii in Hilo before moving to San Francisco to train at the LINES Ballet Training Program on full scholarship. Currently, he is a dancer with Post:Ballet and SFDanceworks in San Francisco.
Sidra Bell Dance New Yorkis rapidly gaining an international profile for work that reveals aspects of the human condition through a distinctly female lens. The Company has performed extensively throughout the USA, Europe, Canada, and South America. Bell’s process is intuitive, collaborative, and emphasizes the integration of multiple design elements and languages. Her work combines design, media, and fashion creating a singular vision in contemporary dance.
Robert Moses’ KIN's mission is to produce work that speaks to what is specific and unique in human nature. Robert Moses' KIN uses movement as the medium through which race, class, culture and gender are used to voice the existence of our greater potential and unfulfilled possibilities. Moses' focus on the expressiveness of the human body and his desire to speak with the voices of his African American heritage have produced works with regional, national and international recognition.
We close with a treat from the Archives circa 2012.
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Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi is a Zimbabwean musician, businessman, philanthropist, human rights activist who recently made his transition Sept. 22, 1952-Jan. 23, 2019. We share a March 23, 2011 interview. Zimbabwe Music Festival in the Bay Feb. 1-2, 2019, at http://www.ashkenaz.com/
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Josh Folan, producer, Ask for Jane at SF Indie Fest 2019
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CHRISTOPHER GREENSLATE's film, SAVIOR, is at SF Indie Feb. 2 (9:30 PM) and 2/6 (9:15 PM) at the Roxie.
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Ellen Sebastian Chang is the Creative Director (11 plus years) for The World As It Could Be Human Rights Education Program, where we use the arts to teach the historical and current understanding of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This event, Feb. 14, 21, 23, is in celebration of the 70th anniversary of the drafting of this important document that only 7% of our population is aware of.
Sandy Sohcot is the director and originator of The World As It Could Be Human Rights Education Program. Sandy Sohcot holds a California Lifetime Teaching Credential. In July 2001, Sandy became Executive Director of the Rex Foundation and served as in that capacity through 2013, to help renew the Foundation in the absence of direct Grateful Dead concert funding.
Artist, Virginia "Nia" Jourdan, who also joins us, is hosting the programs and unveiling 24 works inspired by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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Min. Imhotep Alkebulan, founding member, Wo'se Community Church (1987). Senior Minister of Wo'se Sacramento..
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Demetri Broxton is the Senior Director of Education at Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco, CA. An Oakland native, Broxton has over 19 years of experience working in the field of education and the arts. Outside of his role at MoAD, Demetri is an independent curator and practicing artist. He served as a curator for the City of Berkeley (2013-2020) and his artwork is represented by Patricia Sweetow Gallery in San Francisco. Broxton holds an M.A. in Museum Studies from San Francisco State University (2010) and a BFA from UC Berkeley in Art Practice (2002).
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Baba Opesanwo Ifakorede Fadairo, Alagbigba Babalawo joins us to talk about ancestors and his work with herbs and nutrition as medicine (winter season)
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Riddim Doctors: Val Serrant and Sikiru Adepoju
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
The International Day to End Violence Against Women & Girls the 16-Day Campaign is Nov. 25-Dec.10
Dr. Kim McMillon is a producer, playwright and upcoming Willow author (Voyages). McMillon is a contributor to the anthology Some Other Blues: New Perspectives on Amiri Baraka (Ohio University Press, 2021). She also produced the Dillard University-Harvard’s Hutchins Center Black Arts Movement 2016 Conference in New Orleans, and with UC Merced’s Center for the Humanities, ASUCM, and the Office of Student Life, Ms. McMillon co-produced the 2014 UC Merced Black Arts Movement Conference, Fifty Years On.
Nina Serrano is a Vallejo poet. She has published 3 books of poetry and a novel She has also edited an anthology of bi lingual English Spanish poetry Poetry in Flight. Nina produces regular poetry radio programs on KPFAfm in Berkeley and Ozcat radio in Vallejo. Her work can seen on her website ninaserrano.com
Diarah N'Daw-Spech, the African Diaspora International Film Festival 2020, Inc., co-founder, Co-director ArtMattan Productions, Inc./General Manager (1993 to present) Friday, Nov. 27-Sunday, Dec. 13
We end with a special rebroadcast of Poets Unite Nov. 25, 2020, Dr. McMillon hosted.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
We begin with a show aired Nov. 26, 2008 featuring Rafael Jesus Gonzalez and Karla Brundage. We speak about Indigenous Rights and being Thankful.
We close with another show, first aired April 28, 2009. Today's show features: director, Tim Disney and subject, Regina N. Kelly, of the new film, "American Violet," which opens in the San Francisco Bay Area, Friday, May 1, 2009. There is a free screening Tuesday, April 28, 7 p.m. at the Metreon (4th and Mission Streets, San Francisco, 3rd level). Our next guest is Jean Marie Teno, director of the new film, "Sacred Places," which looks at African Cinema and the FESPACO film festival on its 40th anniversary and questions its goals and objectives. The film screens several times at the San Francisco International Film Festival. We close with an extended interview with Ra Un Nefer Amen 1, Hon. D.D., spiritual leader and founder of the Ausar Auset community, and author of the new novel: "Heru: The Resurrection."
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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We move to an interview with SFBV Assistant Editor Comrade Malik Washington. This weekend beginning this evening at 6 p.m. and continuing tomorrow afternoon in Bay View Hunter's Point will be a Block Party FundRaiser celebrating the diversity and culture that is SFBV, a community vital to the City and County of SF. As the SFBV makes important tactical moves, we thought it would be great to introduce Malik to tells us about this wonderful event and more about himself.
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From the Archives: We rebroadcast an interview with Ms. Colia Lafayette Clark (3/18/2015)
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We celebrate Jimmy Cobb, Aṣe, the only surviving member of Miles Davis's band on "Kinda Blue" on its 50th Anniversary. He was on tour with a stop in Oakland at Yoshi's. He made is transition this year, May 24, 2020. He was 91.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
Rebroadcast: Conversation with Slave Rebellion Reenactment Veterans (11/21/2019)
We open with an interview with author, Doris I. Mangrum, whose "A Soiled Identity: From Triumph to Tragedy and Back Again," tells the story of Darnell Cookson, former Marine and former felon as he rejoins society. However, this is not a typical rehabilitation story. Told in the protagonist's voice as if we were seated in his home one evening getting to know one another, we meet Darnell just as he arrives home from prison to new wife, new child and many relationships he has to restore, like that between he and his two older daughters by a prior marriage, and his kid brother who is making a bit too much money fast. Darnell tries to hold his head up when applications are rejected and interviews have no follow-up calls, but it is hard.
Darnell's reentry is a community venture; each chapter ends with what Mangrum calls, "Choice Moments" where her audience gets to imagine a "what if?" In "Live Your Life," the reader is invited to learn from Darnell's experiences while we also gear up to participate in an "Idea Infusion," which per chapter is a way to make the returning veteran or prisoner feel welcome and supported (171).https://www.facebook.com/LetsSaidiana
2. Musicians Damu Sudii Alii and Paul Tillman Smith join us to talk about the music, of course, but also a wonderful music series in two Oakland resturants. The Wednesday & Sunday, Jazz Jams sessions are free and open to professional musicians to sit in on and play. www.chumpchange.com 3. "The Village of Peace" (SFJFF 2014) tells the story of the Hebrew Israelites, African Americans who moved from America to establish a home in Israel. Directors and producers join us this morning to close the show: Ben Schuder, Director/Producer and his brother Sam Schuder, Producer. www.villageofpeacemovie.com
1. Living at the intersection of Blackness, womanhood, art, and activism, Nia McAllister is a Bay Area born poet, avid reader, and environmental justice advocate. She is the host and curator of the monthly open mic series at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco, where she is the Visitor Experience Manager. Through her work, Nia is dedicated to creating literary platforms for writers of the African Diaspora to be seen, read, and represented. Nia’s poetry has been featured on Poets of Color Podcast and the Nomadic Press Dial-a-Poet series. In her free time, she can be found performing at Open Mics, writing outdoors, and taking care of her plants.
2. Lenard D. Moore is a poet, fiction writer, essayist, book reviewer, public speaker, photographer, and the author and/or editor or co-editor of several books, including All The Songs We Sing (Blair, 2020), The Geography Of Jazz (Blair, 2020), One Window’s Light (Unicorn Press, 2017), and A Temple Looming (WordTech Editions, 2008). His literary works have appeared in African American Review, Agni, Callaloo, Colorado Review, North American Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Obsidian, Prairie Schooner, and Valley Voices. He is the founder and executive director of the Carolina African American Writers’ Collective and co-founder of the Washington Street Writers Group. He is recipient of several awards, including the North Carolina Award for Literature (2014); Haiku Museum of Tokyo Award (2003, 1994, and 1983); and Margaret Walker Creative Writing Award (1997).
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
- Dorsey Nunn, Executive Director, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children.
We close with a rebroadcast (10/29) of the interview with artists and co-founder, re: Bakanal de Afrique Nov. 6-20 (bakanaldeafrique.com).
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
- Bakanal de Afrique Festival Nov. 6-30 https://www.bakanaldeafrique.com/
Music: "Salaam Nubia from Aswan,"
The Nile Project http://nileproject.org/alsarah/
- Rebroadcast Wed., Oct. 28, 2020
1. Dr. Iyabeji Cathy Royal and Ohen Nedra T. Williams join us https://www.eventbrite.com/e/council-for-global-ancestral-reverence-presents-ancestral-souls-rising-tickets-124636468031?aff=erelexpmlt
- Jo Kreiter, Flyaway Productions at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco, join us to talk about "Meet Us Quickly Digital Exhibit, curated by Rahsaan "New York" Thomas" open presently.
- Sister Sheba Makeda Haven joins us to talk about the Stolen Lives Project (10/22) as well as Activism 101
4. We close with a gem, from the Archives, Stanley Nelson (2015) Free Gwendolyn Brooks Conference, 10/28-29: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/23rd-gwendolyn-brooks-black-writers-conference-2020-tickets-122767941217
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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Sister Sheba Makeda Haven joins us to talk about the Stolen Lives Project (10/22) as well as Activism 101
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Jo Kreiter, Flyaway Productions & Demetri Broxon, Senior Director of Education at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco, join us to talk about "Meet Us Quickly Digital Exhibit, curated by Rahsaan "New York" Thomas" open presently.
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Sis. Afia Raina Turner-Greenlea, 5th Annual Virtual Black Sustainability Summit, 10/23-25, 2020
4. Nkechi Emeruwa, joins us to talk about the SFIAF, this weekend, Oct. 24, at Ft. Mason in SF
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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Sister Sheba Makeda Haven joins us to talk about the Stolen Lives Project (10/22) as well as Activism 101
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Jo Kreiter, Flyaway Productions & Demetri Broxon, Senior Director of Education at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco, join us to talk about "Meet Us Quickly Digital Exhibit, curated by Rahsaan "New York" Thomas" open presently.
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Sis. Afia Raina Turner-Greenlea, 5th Annual Virtual Black Sustainability Summit, 10/23-25, 2020
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Nkechi Emeruwa, joins us to talk about the SFIAF, this weekend, Oct. 24, at Ft. Mason in SF
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
- Rebroadcast the Pan African Federalist Conference Oct. 15-19, 2020. Happening now.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
We are joined this morning by members of the Transformative Prison Working Group to talk about the TPW campaign to restore Rehabilitative Achievement Credits (RAC) and a call to CDCR to move ahead with our request. Visit www.thetpw.org
Kenneth E. Hartman
Ella Turenne
Ayla Benjamin
Edwin
Cecelia Perez
Allen Burnett
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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Brother Mwalimu K-Q Amsata (aka Bro. Edward H. Brown, Jr.) joins us to talk about the RCC -- North America of the Pan African Federalist Movement (PAFM) Conference, Oct. 15-19 via Zoom.
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Nick DeRenzi, organizer, and Maya Futrell, curator, join us to talk about Critical Resistance: Imagine Freedom: Art Works for Abolition through Oct. 14.
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Kim McMillon, producer, playwright, editor and devorah major, San Francisco's Third Poet Laureate (2002-2006), activist, scholar, join us to talk about Afrofuturism and Black Speculative Arts virtual series Oct. 11, Nov. 8 and Dec. 13, 2 p.m. PT.
Music: Jahahara Alkebulan's Rise Up Mighty Afrikans; Rocky Dawuni's Black Star
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
PUSHfest @ 15 Season starts Oct. 7 with guests: Antavius Ellison, a Los Angeles, CA based choreographer and educator. His work is premiering Oct. 28.
Bhumi B Patel, whose work opens the Festival programming, Oct. 7, is a queer, desi artist/activist who creates intersectionally feminist performances from a trauma informed, social justice-oriented perspective.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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We speak to theatre makers: Claudia Alick and Debórah Eliezer about BUILD from Here Virtual Conference, Sept. 12-13.
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Tanya Shaffer, playwright and Giovanni Rodriguez, director, join us to talk about Remote Theater and BA Playwrights Foundation production of Manatee on Mars, a free Virtual Reading, Sat., Sept. 26, 2 p.m. PT (5 PM ET). FREE REGISTRATION LINK: https://bit.ly/3kaavy8
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Alma Robinson, Executive Director celebrates her 40th Anniversary with CA Lawyers for the Arts, Sept. 30, 2020, at a gala fundraiser for a new initiative.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
Dezi Soley joins us to talk about Stepping into the New Paradigm, 23 day (beginning Oct. 3) film project. Dezi is co-founder of The Chrysalis Space: incubator, social club & performance space for Bay Area artists.
- David Roach, founder and director, Oakland International Film Festival 18th Edition, Sept. 17-27, 2020.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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A conversation with Dwight Tribble from the Archives. He came up from LA with his band to present Cosmos, his latest recording.
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Special interview with dir., Billy Woodberry "Bless Their Little Hearts" at PFA (10/11/2012)
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
Dawn Elissa Fischer, also known as the “DEF Professor,” is an Associate Professor at San Francisco State University, where she teaches courses on black popular culture, information technology and virtual ethnography.
Dionne Bennett is an Assistant Professor in the African American Studies Department at the CUNY (City University of New York), New York City College of Technology. She is an Associate Director of the The Hiphop Archive and Research Institute at Harvard University Hutchins Center. She was previously the institute’s Director of Gender Studies and Social Advocacy and has been affiliated with the institute since its founding in 2002 by Marcyliena Morgan, Ph.D.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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Khubaka Michael Harris joins us to talk about CA Admissions Day, Sept. 9, 1850.
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Archived Show featuring Khubaka and Akinsanya Kabon Wed., Nov. 13, 2019.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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Melissa Hazelip, co-director, Mr. SOUL!
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SOUL! Show with James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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We rebroadcast our Sept. 1, special broadcast with Chris Metzler, Associate Director of Programming for DocFest. He joins us to talk about the 19th Season for the now Virtual SF Doc Film Festival, Sept. 3-20, 2020.
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Michelle Rosewoman from the archives.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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Chris Metzler, Associate Director of Programming for DocFest joins us to talk about the 19th Season for the now Virtual SF Doc Film Festival, Sept. 3-20, 2020
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Michelle Rosewoman speaks about Ed Kelly, pianist, teacher, mentor to Rosewoman and others.
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Raissa Simpson PUSH, Sawyer Rose STONES exhibit Sept. events. Rebroadcast of Sept. 18, 2019 show.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
- Hurricane Katrina Report Back
Malik Rahim and Parnell Herbert, veteran, poet, playwright, prison abolition activist, are our first guests
We close in the second hour with Nana Sula Spirit, Baba Luther Gray and Sess 4-5
Visit the following link for Street Dance Activism for Black Liberation which sponsored the Aug.1-28-Day Meditation which is connected to the Virtual March on Washington (11 a.m. ET) and program this evening; and the M4BL National Convention 8/28.
Barbara Lee and Elihu Harris Lecture Series hosts a Tribute to Rep. John Lewis, 7 p.m. PT, 8/28
Guests: Parnell Herbert and Tracie Washington from Louisiana Justice Institute, Kenneth Cooper, CeCe Campbell Rock join us from New Orleans and California to discuss New Orleans six years after Hurricane Katrina. We conclude with two poets: Marta Sanchez, writer and artist from Panama who now lives in Oakland, CA, and Furaha Youngblood from Louisiana by way of Los Angeles and Oakland, CA who now lives in Panama (smile). We discuss their books: Cat-Eyed Woman from Louisiana (FY) and Beauty Unbalanced (MS). Music: Anthony Brown Orchestra's Afro-Blue, Babatunde Lea.
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Dr. Marta Moreno Vega, joins us to talk about the Creative Justice Initiative, available through Aug. 31, 2020
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Naru Kwina & Leroy Frankilin talk about their new film, The Joe Capers Legacy, airing Aug. 29, 2020, 7-9 PM PT
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We speak to Dr. Shemell Bell, Shalom Cook, Fountainetta Coleman, about the 28-Day Global Meditation for Black Liberation Aug. 1-28, 2020 and other events such as Movement for Black Lives National Convention 8/29 and the NAACP Virtual & Actual March on Washington, 8/27-28.
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We close with an interview with Rennie Harris, choreographer, "Lazarus," set on Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre 2018 for its 60th Anniversary. We spoke when the work came to Cal Performances last year.
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Dr. Marta Moreno Vega, joins us to talk about the Creative Justice Initiative, available through Aug. 31, 2020
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Naru Kwina & Leroy Frankilin talk about their new film, The Joe Capers Legacy, airing Aug. 29, 2020, 7-9 PM PT
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We speak to Dr. Shemell Bell, Shalom Cook, Fountainetta Coleman, about the 28-Day Global Meditation for Black Liberation Aug. 1-28, 2020 and other events such as Movement for Black Lives National Convention 8/29 and the NAACP Virtual & Actual March on Washington, 8/27-28.
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We close with an interview with Rennie Harris, choreographer, "Lazarus," set on Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre 2018 for its 60th Anniversary. We spoke when the work came to Cal Performances last year.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
- Today is the 49th Anniversary of George Jackson's killing at San Quentin State Prison. We honor his legacy here with a rebroadcast of a tribute aired in 2009.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
Today we open with an interview with Omar Sosa, who is in town for a special live streaming concert, today, August 19, at Piedmont Piano Company in Oakland.
We then rebroadcast our August 14 interview with Randall Kline, Founder, Executive Director, SFJAZZ to talk about the Jazz Masters NEA Awards Concert Collaboration, August 20, 5 p.m. PT
Music: Transparent Water: Omar Sosa: piano Seckou Keita: kora Gustavo Ovalles: bongos, cajón, maracas
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
Randall Kline, SFJAZZ Founder and Executive Artistic Director joins us to talk about NEA Jazz Masters concert honoring the work of Bobby McFerrin, Roscoe Mitchell, Reggie Workman, Dorthaan Kirk, is the first time the NEA has partnered with a West Coast organization, Thursday, August 20, 5:00pm PDT Tune in at SFJAZZ.org It's free
The Hon. Marcus Garvey's Birthday is Monday, August 17, 2020. Although the Pan African Flag day was 8/13, you can still fly your red, black and green flag this month. There will be a special program in Zoom 8/17 and the annual conference is this week as well beginning 8/20. 1st Assistant President General UNIA/ACL RC2020, Baba Senghor Baye is joining us to talk about this and more.
We close with a rebroadcast of the Tribute to Denise Adele Gums (8/6/20)
We open with Tupac Shakur's "The Rose that Grew from Concrete" featuring Nikki Giovanni
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
We will speak to 3-4 dynamic Oromo women artists, activists, politicians about the current movement for justice now in Ethiopia led by the youth: Hawi Itana, Merertu Kitila; Seenaa Jimjimo
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Continuing our conversation about Oromo activists in Ethiopia, we speak to 4 women scholars and artists about growing up Oromo and what is happening in Ethiopia following the killing of the beloved artist: Hachalu Hundessa. Guests are: Alby Ungashe; Marii Beshir; Eden Daniel.
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Political Organizer and Revolutionary Mother, Moya Mzuri Nana Yaa Offeibea Pambeli is a member of the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (A-APRP) and is currently serving on the Central Committee of the A-APRP as the Coordinator of the All-African Women’s Revolutionary Union (A-AWRU) for the U.S. Region of the A-APRP. Sister Mzuri is a long time activist and coalition builder. Some of her coalition work has included the Black August Los Angeles coalition (Political Prison Campaign), the Pan-African Diaspora Union (PADU) – Sixth Regional representing the African Diaspora, preparing to join the African Union.
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We close out with libations for Jonathan Jackson (17) who tried to set his elder brother free at the Marin Courthouse 50 years ago. We speak to Nathaniel Moore, educator and archivist at Freedom Archives and UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies Library. Freedom Archives has pulled together recorded material and visual documents commemorating this historic day.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay
Today we honor one of the Bay Area's local heroes: Ms. Denise Adele Gums. Friends and Family join us to talk about her life and work.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
Today we speak to the male co-chair of N'COBRA, Nana Kwesi Jomoke Ifetayo about the 31st N'COBRA Virtual Conference, July 30-Aug. 1, 2020. Contact: reparationsj@gmail.com (678) 437-7882
- Delfeayo Marsalis has launched a new non-profit – Keep NOLA Music Alive – designed to help keep New Orleans music culture thriving during these uncertain times. Delfeayo kicks off the fundraising effort with a “Double-Nickel Birthday Bash” virtual performance Sunday, August 2, 3 p.m. PT/5 p.m. CDT/6 p.m. EDT marking his 55th birthday..
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
Today we speak to the male co-chair of N'COBRA, Nana Kwesi Jomoke Ifetayo about the 31st N'COBRA Virtual Conference, July 30-Aug. 1, 2020. Contact: reparationsj@gmail.com (678) 437-7882
- Delfeayo Marsalis has launched a new non-profit – Keep NOLA Music Alive – designed to help keep New Orleans music culture thriving during these uncertain times.
Delfeayo kicks off the fundraising effort with a “Double-Nickel Birthday Bash” virtual performance Sunday, August 2, 3 p.m. PT/5 p.m. CDT/6 p.m. EDT marking his 55th birthday..
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
Bay Area Playwrights Festival concludes this weekend and we have Deneen Reynolds-Knott, playwright, and Jessica Bird Beza, Executive Artistic Director, and Director, joining us to talk about this season. http://playwrightsfoundation.org/2020-bay-area-playwrights-festival/
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
Middle Passage Walk, Theodore Rush, Fetch Clay, William Rhodes, broadcast August 29, 2014.
Today we rebroadcast Monday, July 13, 2020 show. The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival kicked off its 40th season with a wonderful film about our very own Congresswoman Barbara Lee, "Truth to Power," directed by Abby Ginzberg. It was at the Concord Drive-In. The feature was proceeded by a Q&A with festival directors Lexi Leban, the Congresswoman and the director. The theatre was packed and afterward, if the horns (read applause) were any indicator, everyone enjoyed the preview screening of a great film about a woman who has dedicated her life to the "people." There are many films screening online without cost which also have an interactive component, that is, Q&A. Visit jfi.org/summerdays for all the information and for tickets to other drive-in films through Sunday, July 19.
We feature co-directors, Marlon Johnson and Anne Flatté with Albert Shumake protégé and new director, River City Drum Corps. "River City Drumbeat" captures the story of Edward “Nardie” White’s thirty year run as leader of the dynamic Louisville, Kentucky River City Drum Corps, which OPENS AUG. 7-21, 2020 for a Two Week Virtual Engagement at Roxie Virtual Cinema: bit.ly/rcdatroxie
We close with an interview with Tamar Manasseh, African American resident in Chicago's south side and founder, MASK (Mothers/Men Against Senseless Killing). The mother of two adults is also a rabbinical student and the subject of "They Ain't Ready for Me," directed by Brad Rothschild, USA, 2020.
The film is a part of Cinegogue Summer Days, SF Jewish Film Festival's 40th Anniversary program, Sat., July 18, 12 p.m. in an online screening followed by a Q&A with Ilana Kaufman, director of the Jews of Color Field Building Initiative. For tickets: https://jfi.org/summer-days/day-3
This morning we talk about the SF Jewish Film Festival.
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Lexi Leban joined the Jewish Film Institute as Executive Director in 2011. A longtime member of the Bay Area film community, Leban has over 20 years experience in all aspects of film, from production to distribution to exhibition. Prior to her appointment, she served as the Academic Director of the Digital Filmmaking & Video Production at the Art Institute of California and creator of their Bachelor's degree program. As a documentary filmmaker, Leban has directed award-winning films that focus on women's rights, criminal justice and LGBT issues. Her films have screened widely at festivals in the U.S. and abroad. Her most recent film, Girl Trouble aired nationally on the acclaimed PBS series Independent Lens and an interactive game based on the film debuted at Sundance. She served for 8 years in the marketing and web operation department at New Day Films, a 40 year old filmmaker-run educational distribution company with over 230 award-winning titles. She earned a BA degree in Political Science from Barnard College of Columbia University and an MFA in Cinema from San Francisco State University.
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Abby Ginzberg, director, producer & Shola Lynch, consulting producer re: Truth to Power: Barbara Lee Speaks for Me https://jfi.org/summer-days/day-1 (7/16, 8:30 PM PT at West Wind Drive-in, Concord)
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Brad Rothschild, "They Ain't Ready for Us" http://theyaintreadyforme.com/the-team/ (online 7/18, 12 noon PT)
Guests today are: 10-Time Emmy-Winning Filmmaker Marlon Johnson and Award-Winning San Francisco Filmmaker Anne Flatté and Albert Shumake protégé and new director, River City Drum Corps. The film, River City Drumbeat, captures the story of Edward “Nardie” White’s thirty year run as leader of the dynamic Louisville, Kentucky River City Drum Corps and chronicles his passing of the baton to former student Albert Shumake. The film shows the love Mr. White has for his drum corps members and their families, his belief in African values and Black children. Seldom are success stories shown to a large national audience only the tragedies. This story is one that will make audiences move with delight and hope-- Roses do grow in the most difficult enviornments if they get enough sunlight and water and love.
The film OPENS AUGUST 7-21, 2020 for a Two Week Virtual Engagement at Roxie Virtual Cinema:bit.ly/rcdatroxie
We close with an interview with Tamar Manasseh, African American resident in Chicago's south side and founder, MASK (Mothers/Men Against Senseless Killing). The mother of two adults is also a rabbinical student and the subject of "They Ain't Ready for Me," directed by Brad Rothschild, USA, 2020. The film is a part of Cinegogue Summer Days, SF Jewish Film Festival's 40th Anniversary program, Sat., July 18, 12 p.m. in an Online Screening with a Q&A. For tickets: https://jfi.org/summer-days/day-3
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
This morning we speak to Oromo activists, scholars, and clergy about what is happening currently in Ethiopia in the youth movement since the assasination of one of its beloved leaders: Haacaaluu Hundessa.
Guests:
Pastor Temesgen Mengesha, Grace Lutheran Church in El Cerrito, Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Berkeley, and Good Shepherd Lutheran Church Afaan Oromo in Hayward. http://grace-lutheran.church/our-people
Ms. Najat Hamza, Minnesota based Human Rights Activist
Tisho Tefera, Ph. D
Chair Emeritus Northern California Oromo Community, and currently working as Oromo Community Youth Liaison; Materials and Biomaterials Science and Engineering at UC Merced
For more information visit:ollaa.org #oromoprotest
Music: Howard Wiley's "Amazing Grace" and Haacaaluu Hundessa.selections
This morning we talk about the SF Jewish Film Festival.
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Lexi Leban joined the Jewish Film Institute as Executive Director in 2011. A longtime member of the Bay Area film community, Leban has over 20 years experience in all aspects of film, from production to distribution to exhibition. Prior to her appointment, she served as the Academic Director of the Digital Filmmaking & Video Production at the Art Institute of California and creator of their Bachelor's degree program. As a documentary filmmaker, Leban has directed award-winning films that focus on women's rights, criminal justice and LGBT issues. Her films have screened widely at festivals in the U.S. and abroad. Her most recent film, Girl Trouble aired nationally on the acclaimed PBS series Independent Lens and an interactive game based on the film debuted at Sundance. She served for 8 years in the marketing and web operation department at New Day Films, a 40 year old filmmaker-run educational distribution company with over 230 award-winning titles. She earned a BA degree in Political Science from Barnard College of Columbia University and an MFA in Cinema from San Francisco State University.
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Abby Ginzberg, director, producer & Shola Lynch, consulting producer re: Truth to Power: Barbara Lee Speaks for Me https://jfi.org/summer-days/day-1 (7/16, 8:30 PM PT at West Wind Drive-in, Concord)
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Brad Rothschild, "They Ain't Ready for Us" http://theyaintreadyforme.com/the-team/ (online 7/18, 12 noon PT)
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay! 1. Regina Louise’s memoir, “Someone Has Led This Child to Believe” is a testament to how all of the aforementioned points contributed to a childhood of having no adult support or a loving family to guide her through the harrowing experiences of feeling unwanted by her family and being denied a loving home and adoption by the ONE person who showed her love because of race, and having to navigate the isolating and dehumanizing effects of that separation. We close with a conversation with Donte Clark, poet, actor, playwright, educator, activist. He joins us to talk about his new book, "Know Freedom". First aired Feb. 5, 2019.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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Dawn Porter, director, John Lewis, "Good Trouble" (2020), which opens July 3, 2020.
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Eugene B. Redmond, Ph.D., East St. Louis University Emeritus, scholar, publisher, Drum Voices Review in conversation with Kathryn Waddell Takara, Ph.D., poet, scholar, publisher.
We close with Billy Harper's "Knowledge of Self" featuring Amiri Baraka.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
We speak about "Race" this morning, "Race" as in David Mamet's play, "Race" produced by SF Recovery Theatre.
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Susan Heywood, ACT-SF's joins us to talk about Race @ ACT-SF, Nov. 4, 2011.
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Geoffrey Grier, Director, Executive Director, SF Recovery Theatre, which produced Mamet's "Race," June 19-21 with PianoFight.
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The cast of SFRT's Race joins us to talk about the work and their roles: Phoenyx – NRaca Rakshami (Susan); Richard Darnell May (Henry Brown); Robert Geshlider (Charles Strickland); Richard Wenzel (Jack Lawson). Jack Lawson (white, mid-40s) and Henry Brown (black, mid-40s) are attorneys at a burgeoning law firm. Charles Strickland (white, mid-40s), a prominent businessman, has been charged with rape.
Phoenyx's Stop Killing Us video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXdS3xcZqvY
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
- William C. Rhodes, III, Art in a time of Covid-19. Rhodes is a sculptural furniture designer who studied at the Baltimore School for the Arts. He then earned a BA in Furniture Building and Design from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and a Master's of Fine Arts from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. http://williamrhodesart.com
His work Threaded Souls of San Francisco features quilts and stories from residents at Dr. George W. Davis Bayview Senior Center.
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Ava Square LeVias, HHREC, Gay Pride in Alameda County https://www.hhrec.org/
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From the Archives: Thomas Allen Harris Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers @ Frameline 38 June 21, 2014 (for Jonathan Eubanks)Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukOBFD
Juneteenth 2020 http://wandaspicks.com/wandas-picks-june-2020/
Poor People's Virtual Weekend, 6/20-21, 2020
1. Nell Myhand is an Oakland based organizer, author and speaker whose work brings people together across age, race, class and other differences forming alliances to create powerful, effective solutions to common problems that leave no one out and no one behind. She is a member of the Bay Area Poor People’s Campaign Steering Committee working locally and nationally to amplify the voices of low/no wealth people and our demands for resources to meet our basic needs for housing, education, healthcare, and a livable climate. She also organizes with Women of Color in the Global Women’s Strike, an international organization calling on all governments for a Care Income Now that would recognize unwaged caregiving as work deserving of a wage. https://www.june2020.org/
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Vincent Terrell Durham, joins us to talk about theatre, writing, walking while Black and his Polar Bears. Black Boys & Prairie Fringed Orchids and Juneteenth Theatre Justice Project https://www.vtdisme.com/
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From the Archives: Bryan Keith Thomas@Joyce Gordon Gallery
- Aldo Billingslea, Ph.D., director, Juneteenth Theatre Justice Project, joins us to talk about Vincent Terrell Durham’s thrilling and timely play, Polar Bears, Black Boys & Prairie Fringed Orchids, Friday, June 19, 7 p.m. It is a free event. Tickets are required: https://tickets.playground-sf.org/TheatreManager/1/online?performance=931
From the Arrchives:
--Interview with Susan Heyward, a principle in ACT production of David Mamet's Race (2011)
--Rebroadcast of interview with two members of the cast in Berkeley Rep's production of Lynn Nottage's "Ruined" (2013).
- Geoffrey Grier, director, joins us to talk about SF Recovery Theatre's production of David Mamet's "Race," Friday June 19, Juneteenth weekend, in collaboration with PianoFight, 7:30 pm PT in Zoom. Subsequent shows will be re-broadcast Saturday and Sunday, June 20-21: https://www.pianofight.com/virtual-venue/
Suggested $20 Donation PayPal.me/sfrecoverytheatre
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay
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Baba Mpho, People of the Sun Collective, Tribute to African Ancestors, Brooklyn, NY
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Kali O'Ray and Katara Crossley, Virtual SF Black Film Festival Summer 2020 Ave Montague, founder (postponed)
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From the Archives: Oyafunmike Ogunlano, actress, "Sankofa," Apr. 4, 2012
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From the Archives: Libations for the Ancestors June 8, 2012
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
Gems from the Archives today as we continue to breathe and resist!
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
Music: Wadada Leo Smith's Don't You Remember; Kim Nalley's Cold Duck; Zion Trinity's Opening Prayer for Esu Legba
Archival Shows: Drs. Goddard and Nunley re: ABPsi's Webinar, Friday, June 5, 1-3:30 PM PST. Visit Facebook.com/TheABPsi.
We close with an interview with Joanna Haigood about a work that explores historic Black Bayview Hunter's Point: "Picture This."
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay! 1. Patrica Nunley, Ph.D., teacher-educator, Traditional African Healer who uses the medicine of education to fight against the disease of “Ignorance” and Lawford L. Goddard, Ph.D. , sociologist/demographer who received his doctoral degree from Stanford University with a minor in Education, join us to talk about ABPsi's Black by Design II: A Diaspora Experience, June 5, 2020, 1-3:30 PM PT. Visit baabpsi.com 2. Africa is More than Ebola, from the archives
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
- Ahjamu Umi is a longtime organizer for the All African Peoples Revolutionary Party on three continents and the Caribbean. He holds a Masters Degree in Econ/Political Science. He is a prolific blogger on issues impacting the world at www.abetterworld.me and he has written and published four books.
Brother Umi joins us to talk about Global African Liberation Day, May 25, 2020 https://www.facebook.com/AfricanLiberationDayWorldwide/
https://africanliberationday.net/
- Bertram Clark re:The African American Veterans (rebroadcast exceprt)https://www.blogtalkradio.com/wandas-picks/2019/02/06/wandas-picks-radio-show
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
Melanin Magic Sessions Take 16: A special series of shows featuring healers who will leave us with tools we can use to strengthen ourselves during a time when isolation is encouraged while the soul cries for communion.
We start with a conversation with Haitian attorney, writer, activist, playwright, poet: Ezili Danto (Marguerite Laurent (colonial name). http://www.margueritelaurent.com/bio.html (postponed)
We rebroadcast an interview with Amiri Baraka on Malcolm X.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
Join us for an evening of improvational storytelling with Yeye Luisah Teish and Ms. Jovelyn Richards as Voodoo Queen and Ms. Pat. Ms. Pat has a boarding house her friend, the Voodo Queen, likes to visit when she's in town. They let me record their conversation for a listening audience, if I promised to not interrupt.
This evening is part two of a three (3) part series, 7 p.m. 3rd Sundays through June 21. Pull up a chair, fill a cup with tea leaves and sit back and enjoy.
We reboradcast instead from eight (8) years ago a show which featured Jovelyn Richards https://www.blogtalkradio.com/wandas-picks/2012/07/11/wandas-picks-radio-show
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
- ADRSA Founding Director, Iya Dr. Funlayo E. Wood-Menzies and Gilbert Kobina Bouhairie, Founder of The God Box Foundation, join us to talk about the Film Fridays kick off Friday, May 15, 2020 at 8 pm est. https://www.facebook.com/AfricanDiasporicRSA
2.Quest for Democracy is May 18, 2020 https://prisonerswithchildren.ourpowerbase.net/2020DQ4DOrgRSVP
We are joined by London Croudy, Elder Freeman Fellow in COMMUNICATIONS and Succatti Shaw, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, STAFF ORGANIZER/HOUSING.
- Rene Marie rebroadcast
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
- ADRSA Founding Director, Iya Dr. Funlayo E. Wood-Menzies and Gilbert Kobina Bouhairie, Founder of The God Box Foundation, join us to talk about the Film Fridays kick off Friday, May 15, 2020 at 8 pm est. https://www.facebook.com/AfricanDiasporicRSA
2.Quest for Democracy is May 18, 2020 https://prisonerswithchildren.ourpowerbase.net/2020DQ4DOrgRSVP
We are joined by London Croudy, Elder Freeman Fellow, COMMUNICATIONS FELLOW Succatti Shaw, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, STAFF ORGANIZER/HOUSING
- Mr. Guy Forchion, Executive Director, Virginia Key Beach Park Trust with Board Member, Dr, Gene Dinizulu Tinnie join us to talk about the historic Virginia Key Beach's 75th Anniversary
https://virginiakeybeachpark.net/
2. Leroy F. Moore Jr., Founder of the Krip-Hop Nation, joins us to talk about two programs, Disability Justice and Covid-19, May 8, 4 p.m., and Corona19 Artistic Flow, May 16, 2-5 PM PT, featuring top names in Krip-Hop.
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Camellia Moses Okpodu (born January 24, 1964 in Portsmouth, Virginia), Professor of Biology and Dean of Arts and Sciences at Xavier University of Louisiana (XULA), New Orleans, LA, join us to talk about the Black Mother.
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Mrs. Sadie Williams, 96, born in Houston, TX, joins us to talk about being a mother.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
Melanin Magic Sessions Take 12: A special series of shows featuring healers who will leave us with tools we can use to strengthen ourselves during a time when isolation is encouraged while the soul cries for communion.
- Karla Brundage, Colossus and Anuj Nijhawan, co-founder of Shuffle, join us to talk about the Weekend of Words! Friday, May 8-Sunday, May 10. https://wow.shuffle.do
https://wandasabir.blogspot.com/2020/05/wandas-picks-radio-show-wed-may-6-2020.html
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
Melanin Magic Sessions Take 11: A special series of shows featuring healers who will leave us with tools we can use to strengthen ourselves during a time when isolation is encouraged while the soul cries for communion.
- Marvin X, editor, and Michael Satchel, screenwriter, l join us to speak about his new work, "Tariq,(the Moor)" an historic story of the African General in Spain. https://blackbirdpressnews.blogspot.com/2020/04/book-release-tarik-by-michael-satchell.html
- Dameion Brown had his first ever public performance as the title role in Othello at Marin Shakespeare Company in 2016, achieving what has never been done before by a first-time actor: the honor of “Best Lead Actor” from the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle. Since then, he has appeared in The Seagull at Utopia Theatre Project, Waafrika and The Farm at TheatreFirst (winning another BATCC award), Dance of the Holy Ghost with Ubuntu, and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing last summer at Marin Shakespeare. He formerly taught parenting classes at the San Francisco Sheriff's Department for at-risk-youth, now he's a teaching artist and mentor at Alameda Juvenile Facility at O.H.Close and Chad facilities in Stockton.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
Melanin Magic Sessions Take 10: A special series of shows featuring healers who will leave us with tools we can use to strengthen ourselves during a time when isolation is encouraged while the soul cries for communion.
We'd like to open the show with something about jazz, and McCoy Tyner and the improvisational nature of life-- Black life and Muhammad B. Hanif, Charles Curtis Blackwell, and Damu Sudi Alii join us to talk about it.
- Mina Morita, Crowded Fire joins us to talk about Mina Morita, Artistic Director, Crowded Fire theatre, director, Dustin Chin’s Snowflakes, or Rare White People, May 1-10, 2020
http://minamorita.com/aboutmina/
https://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/TDPS.html?event_ID=125989
- Jazz History Month concludes with a conversation with: Damu Sudi Alii
Charles Curtis Blackwell
Muhammad B. Hanif
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
Melanin Magic Sessions Take 9: A special series of shows featuring healers who will leave us with tools we can use to strengthen ourselves during a time when isolation is encouraged while the soul cries for communion.
We open the show with Tosin Aribisala, drummer, percussionist, singer, composer, who hails from Lagos, Nigeria. He joins us to talk about his single, released earlier this year, and Africa Rising (2016) and other projects.
This is the final Friday, National Poetry Month. It has been really lovely sharing the airwaves with poets throughout the country. Thanks so much to Kim McMillon, Ph.D., poet, playwright, scholar, for curating with her friend, Lucinda J. Clark is the founder of P.R.A. Publishing and the Poetry Matters Project from Augusta, GA. We close with a bang, an all women set featuring Bay Area poets: Joyce Young, Adrienne Oliver, Kathryn Takara, in Hawaii, and Karla Brundage.
Co-hosts, Kim and Wanda, will close the program with a poem.
We'd like to open the show with something about jazz, and McCoy Tyner and the improvisational nature of life-- Black life. However, at this writing that is an idea without flesh.
We open with guests: Deborah A. Wright, a retired Reference Librarian/Administrator from the College of Charleston’s Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture (Charleston, SC, USA; Dr. David L. Horne, the International Facilitator for the Sixth Region Diaspora Caucus (SRDC) and the Pan African Diaspora Union (PADU), an international umbrella organization of Diasporans & Nvasekie N. Konneh, a Liberian writer, poet, magazine publisher, community and cultural activist. We will talk about SEHWAH Liberia, Inc., a local Liberian NGO and the Sixth Region Diaspora Caucus (SRDC) its United States based Pan African counterpart's Proposal for COVID-19 Awareness and Food Assistance in Liberia beg. 4/20 so that families can stay safe during the crisis. Donations can be sent via Cash apps or Zelle @ $KDonzo or 571-237-9159, and Mr. Nvasekie Konneh 267-826-3952.
2. Zarinah Shakir is the Producer/Host of the award winning Perspectives of Interfaith, a TV program taped and aired at the Arlington Independent Media studios in Arlington, VA over 16 years. It airs at DCTV, Washington,DC, Manhattan Neighbourhood Network and other markets. She is also the former Producer/Host for six years of Islamic Perspectives, the longest running TV program about Islam and Muslims in the Washington, DC metro area. Ms. Shakir joins us to talk about Ramadan, the Islamic month fasting which begins this week.
- Queen Hollins, Earthlodge Center closes the show. Rafael Jesus Gonzalez's poetry for Earth Day is another highlight of today's show.
Join us for an evening of improvational storytelling with Yeye Luisah Teish and Ms. Jovelyn Richards as Voodoo Queen and Ms. Pat. Ms. Pat has a boarding house her friend, the Voodo Queen, likes to visit when she's in town. They let me record their conversation for a listening audience, if I promised to not interrupt.
This evening is part one of a three (3) part series, 7 p.m. 3rd Sundays through June 21. Pull up a chair, fill a cup with tea leaves and sit back and enjoy.
Soundtrack:
Cannonball Adderley Autumn Leaves 10:59 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpB7-8SGlJ0
McCoy Tyner & Ravi Coltrane - Walk Spirit Talk Spirit – LIVE (12:52 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dFtZbha29M
Chuck Mangione
Feels So Good (9:42 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FExBwfQHXlE Luisah Teish (also known as Iyanifa Fajembola Fatunmise) is a teacher and an author, most notably of Jambalaya: The Natural Woman's Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals. She is an African-American, born in New Orleans, Louisiana. ... She is an Iyanifa and Oshun chief in the Yoruba Lucumi tradition.
Jovelyn Richards is a writer, performance artist, instructor, radio host, film director, novelist.
https://www.jovelynrichards.com
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
Melanin Magic Sessions Take 7: A special series of shows featuring healers who will leave us with tools we can use to strengthen ourselves during a time when isolation is encouraged while the soul cries for communion.
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Rhodessa Jones, Medea Project: theatre for Incarcerated Women, Cultural Odyssey, joins us in a prerecorded interview to talk about The Ressurrection of She at Brava Theatre, March 28-April 7, 2013. Yes, it is an archived interviewed.
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We continue our celebration of National Poetry Month with wonderful poets. This portion of the show is curated by Kim McMillon and Lucinda Clark.
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We close with another rebroadcast, Adia Tamar Whitaker joins us to talk about Have K(no)w Fear, A Blusical at ODA, 10/17-20/2019.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
Melanin Magic Sessions Take 6: A special series of shows featuring healers who will leave us with tools we can use to strengthen ourselves during a time when isolation is encouraged while the soul cries for communion.
Rebroadcast the Bill Withers who passed April 3, 2020 and Dr. King, who was killed April 4, 1968, Special Radio Show aired 4/4/2020. https://wandasabir.blogspot.com/search?q=bill+withers
Melanin Magic Sessions Take 5: A special series of shows featuring healers who will leave us with tools we can use to strengthen ourselves during a time when isolation is encouraged while the soul cries for communion.
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Shekhem Samerit Kau (aka Marcus Gary) joins us to talk about Ausar Auset Society West Coast Chapter's workshop series: Ancient Tools for Successful Living-- Virtual Workshops, Sun., April 12, 12 noon PT. Based in Oakland, CA Shekhem Samerit Kau has 26 years experience in the application of holistic living and Wellness as a member of the Ausar Auset Society. Backed with 17 years experience with Qi gong and Chinese medical science, He is an Instructor of Qi Gong, Yoga, Meditation, Male Virility, Bazi Astrology and Digital Meridian Imaging. Shekhem is a graduate of UC Berkeley with a Bachelors Degree in Architecture and a minor in Structural Engineering. Also holds a Masters of Civil Engineering from Stanford University with a focus in Construction Engineering and Management. www.facebook.com/qigongbootcamp
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Leah Davis, Wealth & Wellness Coach. To register for the webinar on Women's Empowerment Stories visit https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_P4sR6_t6R361BkZdxuqZ0g
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National Poetry Month Celebration continues this week with poets from throughout the country
Melanin Magic Sessions Take 5: A special series of shows featuring healers who will leave us with tools we can use to strengthen ourselves during a time when isolation is encouraged while the soul cries for communion.
Wind & Fire: Honoring the Divine Feminine & Masculine in Africana Religions is the theme for the ADRSA 2020, April 17
Dr. Funlayo (foon-la-yo) E. Wood-Menzies (postdoctoral fellow at UC Santa Barbara) specialist in Ifa-Orisa, Yoruba indigenous religion. She is the founding director of the African and Diasporic Religious Studies Association (ADRSA) and of Ase Ire, an Ifa-Orisa temple and spirituality learning center.
Dr. Kyrah (keer-ah) Malika Daniels (Leadership council founding member ADRSA, professor of African and African Diaspora studies and art history, Boston College, specialist in Haitian Vodou and Congo traditions)
Stephen Hamilton (conference featured artist,visual artist itanproject.com, specializing in bringing indigenous techniques into his work, art education, African indigenous art techniques like weaving and dyeing in addition to painting)
2. Leah Davis,Wealth & Wellness Coach for WOC
3.Nathan Richardson,SC Publishing, Frederick Douglass Reenactment Actor
We celebrate William Harrison Withers Jr. "Bill Withers," today. Born in Slab Fork, West Virginia, July 4, 1938 in a family of 13, he the youngest, most people know him as an American singer-songwriter and musician who performed and recorded from 1970 until 1985. He recorded several major hits, including "Ain't No Sunshine", "Grandma's Hands", "Use Me", "Lean on Me", "Lovely Day", and "Just the Two of Us."
However, he was so much more and we learn about these other dimensions of a man who stopped recording for 33 years to have a family and a life with that family. The film, "Still Bill," co-directed by friends and colleagues, Damani Baker and Alex Vlack, is a wonderful portrait of this complex man's life from growing up in a coal mining town, to joining the navy to working in the air force making toilets, to fame in his 30s. I am going to play a little of the audio here this morning following an interview with director, Damani when the film was debuting in a free community screening at the Kabuki Theatre in San Francisco 11 years ago.
We open with Amikaeyla Gaston singing "Lovely Day." We then shift to a conversation with Simone Missick, who portrays the character Camae in Katora Hall's play "The Mountaintop" (2013) at TheatreWorks in Palo Alto, CA. We play Nina Simone's moving Why did they kill the man of peace? After that song, well what could anyone say? So we play about 30 minutes of "Still Bill." Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wdizl63aols In between the two segments I read a review of the play. The show is Wanda's Picks tribute to two great men from a generation of men and women slipping into other dimensions so quickly we need to pay attention and enjoy their gifts now before they return to the earth. .
Aṣẹ, Aṣẹ, Aṣẹ-o.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
Today we feature 20 poets who share words of inspiration and hope. Here is a link to their bios: https://wandasabir.blogspot.com/2020/04/national-poetry-month-special-friday.html
We also commemorate Dr. King, on the anniversary weekend of his death, April 4, 1968, a day he was taken from us before we were ready to let him go. I have a few poems from the canon to share. I'd like to start with one by Qwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000), Poet Laureatte of Chicago, author of the Maud Martha chronicles and the classic work, "We Real Cool."
'I don't like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.''Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917), African American poet. As quoted in I Dream a World, by Brian Lanker (1989).
Sonia Sanchez's Morning Song and Evening Walk; Aurielle Lucier's What Dream America?
The work is taken from Nadia Alexis's "Five Poets Honor Dr. MLKing"
This show is the 4th in a special series of shows featuring healers who will leave us with tools we can use to strengthen ourselves during a time when isolation is encouraged while the soul cries for communion.
- Wanda K. Whitaker, of Anchored In Spirit, is a certified hypnotherapist, spiritual life coach and visionary artist. She is the former owner of a cause-related marketing consultancy agency, Whitaker & Associates. Her purpose is to awaken people to their Higher Selves and greatest potential. http://www.anchoredinspirit.com/index.html
African American Virtual Townhall 11-1 4/2/20
- Dorsey Nunn, Executive Director, LSPC
https://prisonerswithchildren.org/staff-and-board/
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Nathan Richardson, SC Publishing joins us to talk about Frederick Douglass-- rescheduled
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Tajmal Payne, Zuni Designs Concepts, Inc. joins us to talk about Homeless Force Coalition. Oshalla Diane Marcus also joins us. She is Managing Director of Sekhmet Community Acupuncture Clinic in South Richmond.
https://wandasabir.blogspot.com/2020/04/wednesday-april-1-2020.html
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
This is part three of a special series of shows -- I call Melanin Magic, with healers who will leave us with tools we can use to strengthen ourselves during a time when isolation is encouraged while the soul cries for communion.
For complete bios visit: https://wandasabir.blogspot.com/2020/03/wandas-picks-radio-show-black-art-and.html
- Baba Opesanwo Ifakorede Fadairo, Alagbigba Babalawo
2. Queen Hollins is a sovereign being and founder of the Earthlodge Center for Transformation where she practices and teaches earth-based nature medicine and curriculum. To stay connected with Queen and the Earthlodge community sign up at earthlodgecenter.org
- Dr. V.S. Chochezi and Staajabu, a mother daughter poetry duo, originally from Camden, NJ, have self-published seven books of poetry, one Sci-fi Anthology, produced 2 spoken word CDs and produced many programs in Sacramento.They have made over 600 appearances as featured readers, speakers, presenters, panalists and workshop facilitators. Their writings have appeared in publications too numerous to name. Dr. V.S. Chochezi, is a college professor, writer, poet, editor, mosaic artist and photojournalist. Staajabu is a writer, editor, producer, poet, health advocate, graphic artist, Air Force veteran, UC Davis retiree and serves on the Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Commission. Both are members of ZICA Creative Arts and Literary Guild. straightoutscribes.com
Music: Zion Trinity's Opening Prayer Elegba; Marcus Shelby's We're A Winner (Soul of a Movement)
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
We have a special series of shows kicking off this morning with healers who will leave us with tools we can use to strengthen ourselves during a time when isolation is encouraged while the soul cries for communion.
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Michele Elizabeth Lee, author, Working the Roots: Over 400 Years of African American Healing, joins us to talk about how the literal earth is the best medicine.
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Sister Dr. Bisola Marignay joins us to share wisdom, poetry and mindfulness practice. Dr. Adeshima Penn joins Sister Bisola to share a guided meditation to help us to use our breath to keep grounded in heart and balanced in spirit.
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We close with a conversation with Major Joe Womack, Africantown, native. Visit http://africatownhpf.s442.sureserver.com/ and http://www.africatown-chess.org/
Short bio at: https://bridgethegulfproject.org/users/joe-womack
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
We rebroadcast the Tuesday, March 10 interview with the co-curator of Soul of a Movement at the DeYoung Museum. Also on this show is a rebroadcast of the Feb. 14, interviews with Black Joy founder and founders of Black Choreographer Festival, Here and Now. Music: Kahil El Zabar, Black is Back.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
In this special broadcast we speak to Lauren Palmor, co-curator of the "Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power" exhibition at the de Young museum through Sunday, March 15, 2020. Visit https://deyoung.famsf.org/exhibitions/soul-of-a-nation
- We close with a rebroadcast of the Feb. 14 show which includes an interview with Laura Elaine Ellis and Kendra Kimbrough re BCFHN 16 which closed last weekend. What is special about this broadcast is BCFHN's Izzy Award March 24, 6-7:30 p.m. at Brava Theatre in SF. Visit https://www.brava.org/all-events/2014/3/24/the-isadora-duncan-awards
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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Tiffany Littlejohn, director, The Perfect Sacrifice. We discuss her film in view of the recently pass Anti-Lynching Bill and https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/35/text
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Elaine Yau, co-curator, joins us to talk about Rosie Lee Tompkins: A Retrospective through July 19
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Kelly Savage, California Coalition for Women Prisoners, Drop LWOP Campaign and Rally, Monday, March 9, 2020. Visit https://womenprisoners.org/our-programs/events/
https://droplwop.com/ resources
- From the Archives: Skyler Cooper's One Man Show at TheatreFirst through this weekend, March 7-8, 2020.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
Today we speak to her Majesty Queen Mother Dowati Desir Hounon Houna II and Yeye Luisah Teis about their spiritual practices and how African Dispora Spirituality is best practice for Diaspora citizen well-being. They are a part of a series of events beginning Wed., March 4, to explore this topic.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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We feature the artist, Chanell Stone, whose work is featured in MoAD's Emerging Artists series. Her work "Natura Negra" closes with a reception and artist panel this weekend, Sunday, March 1, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Visit https://www.chanellstone.com/a and https://www.moadsf.org/exhibition/moad-emerging-artists-presents-chanell-stone/
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We close with an archived interview with the late Oliver Mtukudzi, (1952-2019) Zimbabwean artist, humanitarian
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Archived interview with Colette Winlock, Execuytive Director, HHREC, who joins us to talk about a magazine the Black Women's Media Project just published on Black Women and Depression. You can pick up a free copy at HHREC offices on 19th and San Pablo Avenue in Oakland. Visit https://www.hhrec.org/black-womens-s-media-wellness-proje
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
Rebroadcast Cheryl Finley and Liegh Raiford on Blackness & Belonging at BAMPFA in 2019.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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Colette Winlock, Director, Health and Human Resource Education Center. She joins us to talk about The Black Women's Media and Wellness Project magazine: "Crossing the Invisible Line III: Overcoming Depression." Visit https://www.hhrec.org/
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Black Choreographers Festival Here & Now 2020: Raissa Simpson, Jamie Ray Wright, Natalya Shoaf (rebroadcast)
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Brother Malcolm's Legacy with Adewale Ige, African studies scholar
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Mr. Charles Blatcher III, Chairman, National Coalition of Black Veterans Organization, joins us to talk about Brigadier General Charles Young, Buffalo Soldier
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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Black Church Productions rebroadcast
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Black Choreographers Festival Here & Now 2020: Raissa Simpson, Jamie Ray Wright, Natalya Shoaf
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Brother TurHa Ak, Community Ready Corps, joins us to talk about Black Solidarity Week, Feb. 17-24, 2020
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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Interview with Elisha Greenwell, Founder, CEO, Black Joy Parade creator, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2020
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From the Archives
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Black Choreographers Here and Now, Laura Elaine Ellis and Kendra Kimbrough Barnes
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Mr. Charles Blatcher, III, Chairman, National Coalition of Black Veteran Organization joins us to talk about General Charles Young
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This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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We speak to Albert Mazibuko about the late Dr. Joseph Shabalala, founder, Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Archived from March 2013.
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Dean Doris Brown and Dean Kiel join us to talk about Law Day, May 1, and the fundraiser for the big day, Sunday, Feb.16.
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We close with Sara Marie Prada and Tami Rossell, two mothers who tell about public school education in Hayward.
1. Bay Area Musicals present The Full Monty Feb. 15-March 15 at SF Victoria Theatre. ALBERT HODGE (Noah Simmons) an Oakland native, joins us to talk about the play and his role. Rescheduled.
2. Dr. Arletha "Angel" Lands-McTair joins us to talk about The Black Church Production presents: "Only Three Fifths Human" at the Flight Deck, Feb. 16 (6 p.m.) and Feb. 22, 2020 (8 p.m.)
3. Skyler Cooper, an actor and writer, known for "Hero Mars" (2013), "The Grey Area" (2018) and the film "Worthy of Survival," joins us to talk about "A One Man Show" at TheatreFirst opening Feb. 15-Mar. 7 at TheatreFirst at its new Berkeley Location.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
Today we speak to Adewale Ige, College of Alameda Scholar in Professor Jody Campbell's African Diaspora History class, about Dr. Carter G. Woodson and African American Heritage Month.
We have a rebroadcast with two-time Grammy winner Todd "Speech" Thomas about the film, 16 Bars: One Jail, One Recording Studio, directed by Sam Bathrick, which opens Fri., Feb. 7- Tues., Feb.13, 2020 in San Francisco at the Four Star. The director will be present Friday at the screening. The film also opens at the Smith Rafael Film Center Feb. 7-13.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
Today we have a special broadcast with two-time Grammy Winner Todd "Speech" Thomas and Sam Bathrick, director, of the film, 16 Bars: One Jail, One Recording Studio which opens nationally Fri., Feb. 7, 2020. In San Francisco the Sam will be at the screening at the Four Star.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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ShakaJamal re: Roots2000
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Gritty City Theatre re: Black Salt
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
Rebroadcast January 15, 2020 Dr. King Tribute show featuring Rev. David Buford, Zach Norris, JD, Executive Director, Ella Baker Center; Chloe Hilliard, author; Mrs. Mildred Pitts Walter, author, Civil Rights Movement Veteran.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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ShakaJamal, filmmaker, Olu8.com joins us to talk about Roots2000 Tour
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Gritty City Theatre director and co-director join us to talk about the theatre's new production: Black Salt
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay! 1. Anne C. Bailey, author, "The Weeping Time, Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History."
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Joanna Haigood re: "Sailing Away" (2012)
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Dara Kell, director, joins us to talk about a sneak preview of her film: We Cried Power", here in the SF Bay tomorrow, Jan. 23, 2020 at the Red Stone Building, 2640 16th Street, in San Francisco, 6-8 p.m. It's free.
- W. Kamau Bell re:Oakland Symphony Playlist
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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Rev. Daniel Buford, Sculpturer, Community Organizer, Human Rights Avocate, retired from Allen Temple Ministry
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Chloe Hilliard, author, F*uck Your Diet and Other Things My Thighs Tell Me, plus catch her at Sketchfest (2020)
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Zach Norris, Executive Director, Ella Baker Center, We Keep Us Safe: Building Secure, Just, and Inclusive Communities (2020) Restore Oakland
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Mildred Pitts Walter, author, Something Inside So Strong: Life in Pursuit of Choice, Courage and Change, will be at the Unitarian Universalist of San Mateo, Sun., Jan. 19, 11a.m.-12:30 p.m. https://uusanmateo.org/events/mildreds-book-signing-something-inside-so-strong/
The Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project opens at the Roxie Theatre Jan. 17 in San Francisco, Roger Macdonald, TV collections director at The Internet Archive in San Francisco, joins us with Tevor Von Stein, who was a volunteer initially on the Marion Stokes Project at the Archive. They join us to unravel the mystery and wonder that is Marion Stokes and this over 70,000 VHS tapes and also writings and other documents in the MSP. Roger will be speaking this weekend at the Roxie at select screenings. Visit https://www.roxie.com/ai1ec_event/recorder-the-marion-stokes-project/?instance_id=38611
Marion Stokes (1929-2012) famously recorded TV news 24 hours a day for 35 years. When she passed away in 2012, she left behind over 70,000 VHS tapes containing hours and hours of footage. Filmmaker Matt Wolf set out to document this obsessive documenter in his new film, "Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project," which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival opens at the Roxie in SF Jan. 17-23.
2. MacKenzie Fegan interviews Matt Wolf on Bric TV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb00vGaWa6c
- The Rescue List, dir. Alyssa Fedele, Zach Fink (2018). On PBS 3.23.2020.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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Minister Daniel Buford joins us to talk about Art and Spirituality and his show at Colorlines Restaurant Feb. 2020 (reception 2/13, 5 p.m.) at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights.
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Emily Dickinson - In Her Own Words - Exclusive Solo Performance by Chetana Karel-Michaan, America’s Leading Theatrical Interpreter of Emily at Berkeley City Club, 7 p.m., Jan. 11, 2020. Directed by Andrea Adler. Co-written by Andrea Adler and Chetana Karel-Michaan. Music by Dale Zola.
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Living Jazz director, Stacey Hoffman, joins us to talk about "In the Name of Love: 18th Annual Musical Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Jan. 19, 7 p.m. at the Scottish Rite Center in Oakland. Visit livingjazz.org
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We conclude with a conversation with Maestro Michael Morgan, Oakland Symphony, about the Celebration of Bernard Tyson & His Playlist, Friday, Jan. 24, 8 p.m. at the Paramount Theatre. Visit OaklandSymphony.org
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
In honor of The 1811 German Coast uprising January 8-10, 1811, we rebroadcast interviews and conversations of Reenactors Nov. 8-9 with Dread Scott, artist, whose vision it was to restage a Reenactment of this historic event Nov. 8-9, 2019 along River Road into New Orleans.
This revolt of enslaved African men and women in parts of Orleans Territory on the east bank of the Mississippi River occurred in what is now St. John the Baptist, St. Charles and Jefferson Parishes, Louisiana.
There were three shows, Nov. 20-27. This is the second show, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019.
https://ushistoryscene.com/article/german-coast-uprising/
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
In honor of The 1811 German Coast uprising January 8-10, 1811, we rebroadcast interviews and conversations with Dread Scott, artist, whose vision it was to restage a Reenactment of this historic event Nov. 8-9, 2019 along River Road into New Orleans.
This revolt of enslaved African men and women in parts of Orleans Territory on the east bank of the Mississippi River occurred in what is now St. John the Baptist, St. Charles and Jefferson Parishes, Louisiana.
https://ushistoryscene.com/article/german-coast-uprising/
NCR article by Jason Berry: Beneath the gentility, a harsh, hidden past
Reading (pp 48-55) taken from On to New Orleans: Louisiana's Heroic 1811 Slave Revolt by Albert Thrasher. Purchase at Hidden History Tour
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
Rebroadcast May 11, 2012 "Tribute to Mothers." https://www.blogtalkradio.com/wandas-picks/2012/05/11/wandas-picks-radio-show
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay! https://wandasabir.blogspot.com/search?q=kwanzaa We rebroadcast a Kwanzaa Special 2012. https://wandasabir.blogspot.com/2012/12/wandas-picks-radio-show-habari-gani.html
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
We open with an interview with Steeve Valcourt, lead singer, Lokou Misik, from Haiti who are opening at the New Year's Eve concert at the Fillmore in San Francisco, 9 p.m., for The New Orleans Legends, The Preservation Hall Jazz Band. The two ensembles are serving textured gumbo, that is, African Disapora culture whether Hispanola or Orleans Territory, Nawlins or Citi Soliel, Jacmel or Nord, Lagos or Kinshasa, Kingston or Mantanzas it's all the same story, the rhythms remain. HaitiaNola (2019) is the latest project on Cumbancha.
From the Archives: Dec. 24, 2008
We open with poets: Mama C & Carlos Andrés Gómez: Why Do We Write?
http://tobtr.com/347132
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
From the archives: https://wandasabir.blogspot.com/2019/12/wandas-picks-radio-show-wednesday_11.html
http://tobtr.com/s/11626633
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay
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Ann Chinn, Middle Passage Ceremonies and Portmarker Project 2019Update
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Rozz Nash & RyanNicole Austin, founders, People's Conservatory's KOLA: Diasporic Remix of the Nutcracker, Nov. 19-21, 7 p.m., Nov. 22, 2 p.m. at Castlemont High School. Cancelled. Review: http://wandaspicks.com/wandas-picks-december-2019/
- Rozz Nash, People's Conservatory joins us to talk about KOLA: An Afro Diasporic Remix of the Nutcracker https://www.thepeoplesconservatory.org/events
2 Cinderella @ African American Shakes guests: Funmi Lola who is playing Cinderella and Jan Hunter who is playing the Grandmother https://www.african-americanshakes.org/productions/cinderella/ 3. Geronimo Whitaker joins his sons Joshua Bicaso Whitaker, SpirithausGallery owner and Justice Whitaker, filmmaker to talk about the closing reception, 12/15, for Trauma Cycle: the Art of Geronimo Whitaker
- Soulful Christmas Dec. 13-22 at Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, 762 Fulton Street, San Francisco, with Yvonne Cobbs, musical director; Bertram Watson, Rhonda: https://www.lhtsf.org/
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Oakland Ballet Company Presents Graham Lustig's The Nutcracker with the Oakland Symphony, Dec. 21-22, 1 and 5 p.m. at the Paramount Theatre. The Artistic Director and Paunika Jones (Marie) join us to talk about this year's production. http://oaklandballet.org/wp/performances/graham-lustigs-the-nutcracker/
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Ben Vereen excerpt (2012)
3. Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, co-founder, The Poor People’s Campaign joins us to talk about: A National Call for Moral Revival organized a 25-state “We Must Do MORE: Mobilizing, Organizing, Registering, and Educating” national tour from September 2019 to May 2020. This tour stops in SF today. https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/more/
- Gabriel Christian and Chibueze Crouch join us to talk about Performing Disapora at CounterPulse this weekend, Dec. 11-14, 80 Turk, 7:45 p.m. with Cherie Hill's SheVerse.http://counterpulse.org/event/performingdiaspora2019/
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
Rebroadcast of Dec. 4, 2019 show with Ben Vereen, Mbongui Square Festival with Byb Bibene, Nell Myhand re "Poor People's Campaign National Call for Moral Revival: We Must Do More Campaign Tour" (12/11); Dancing Diaspora with Cherie Hill, IrieDance at CounterPulse, 2019 Annual African American Conference: The Souls of Black Folks: Reclaiming Our Humanity from Racialized Trauma, Dec. 10 with Dr. Tony Jackson and Pastor Horacio S. Jones.
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Ben Vereen @ Rrazz Room 6/12/12 excerpt
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Byb Bibene, joins us to talk about 7th Mbongui Square Festival 2019 Dec.15-22 mbonguifest.org Venues include: Temescal Arts Center (12/19& 12/20). Shawl Anderson and The Flight Deck (12/21-22).
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Nell Myhand is a long time Oakland resident who has been working for justice since the 1970's who is also a member of the Poor People's Campaign:A National Call for Moral Revival Bay Area Steering Committee. Join her with artist David Solnit in Richmond at the We Must Do M.O.R.E. Tour’s Art-Build, Thursday, December 5th, 2019, 6PM - 9 PM at Bridge Storage and ArtSpace, 23 Maine Ave, Richmond. Visit www.poorpeoplescampaign.org to learn more and get involved.
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Cherie Hill, IrieDance and Chibueze Crouch join us to talk about their work this year at Performing Diaspora at CounterPulseThu-Sat, Dec 5-7 & 12-14, 7:45pm-9pmPay-what-you-can Thursdays: counterpulse.org/performingdiaspora2019/
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African American Steering Committee for Health and Wellness members, Dr. Tony Jackson and Pastor Horacio S. Jones join is to talk about the "2019 Annual African American Conference: The Souls of Black Folka Reclaiming Our Humanity from Racialized Trauma", Dec. 10. It is at capacity presently.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
We rebroadcast the third installation of the 3-part conversation with Slave Rebellion Reenactor Veterans. We start with sountrack from the 26 miles march over two days, Nov. 8-9, 2019 in Southeast Louisiana into New Orleans.
This is the third conversation in a series, Nov. 20 & Nov. 21, which looks at the historic Slave Rebellion Reenactment Nov. 8-9, 2019 in the places the German Coast Uprising January 1811 took place in Southeast Lousiana. The brainchild of artist provocateur Dread Scott, these conversations are an opportunity for the Army to reflect on the experience and where we go from here.
We are joined by: Jardyn Lake, aka Sweetboi, is a black/queer cultural activist, youth worker, and artist living in New Orleans; Kelsey Robinson is a Pittsburgh and Brooklyn-based actor-singer with an interest in global folk music and theater with a focus on racial/multiracial identity and empathy elevating immersion; Victoria Netanus Grubbs is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication and New York University. Nicole Eugene is an Assistant Professor at the University of Houston-Victoria. Camellia Moses Okpodu is Professor of Biology and Dean of Arts and Sciences at Xavier University of Louisiana (XULA), New Orleans, LA.; Carrie Hawks (they/them) is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker, animator, artist and performer who focuses on healing and queer narratives. Dread Scott, artavist (artist+activist), provocateur and visionary who pursued the Slave Rebellion Reenactment concept from idea to fruition Nov. 8-9, 2019 in Southeast Louisiana into New Orleans and beyond. https://www.slave-revolt.com/
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
This is a rebroadcast of the Slave Rebellion Reenactment: Conversations for the Army Part 2, hosted Nov. 21, 2019
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
We are joined by Ralph Abdul Aleem; Camellia Moses Okpodu, Ph.D.; Malik Hassan; Aretha Campbell, BA, MA.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
We are so excited to speak to participants in the historic Slave Rebellion Reenactment, Nov. 8-9, 2019. Visit https://www.slave-revolt.com/
We speak to Fred T. McWilliams, Baba Luther S. Gray and Camellia Moses Okpodu.
This is part 1 of series of conversations. The next: Thurs., Nov. 21, 12:30 PM PT and Wed., Nov. 27, 8 AM PT
- We close with a pre-SRR conversation with Dread Scott.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
Rebroadcast:
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Today we speak about Col. Charles Young and the legacy of the Buffalo Soldiers (https://www.nps.gov/prsf/learn/historyculture/buffalo-soldiers-in-the-national-cemetery.htm) with two veterans: Michael Khubaka Harris and Akinsanya Kabon who has an exhibit opening at the Crocker Museum Feb. 2020 in Sac: https://www.crockerart.org/press/kambon
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Adia Tamar Whitaker, Have K(no)w Fear: A Blussical at ODA 10/17-20/2019
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
- Today we speak about Col. Charles Young and the legacy of the Buffalo Soldiers (https://www.nps.gov/prsf/learn/historyculture/buffalo-soldiers-in-the-national-cemetery.htm) with two veterans:
Michael Khubaka Harris and Akinsanya Kabon who has an exhibit opening at the Crocker Museum Feb. 2020 in Sacramento: https://www.crockerart.org/press/kambon
Rebroadcast
- Adia Tamar Whitaker, Have K(no)w Fear: A Blussical at ODA 10/17-20/2019
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
Dread Scott, artist speaks to us about the January 1811 Slave Rebellion in New Orleans, La, and its reenactment this weekend, Friday-Sat., Nov. 8-9, 2019.
https://www.dreadscott.net/about/
https://www.slave-revolt.com/
- Rebroadcast of Fugitive Slave Act by Michael Gene Sullivan https://newplayexchange.org/users/159/michael-gene-sullivan
- Mina Morita joins us to talk about Crowded Fire's Matchbox Play Reading Series: http://www.crowdedfire.org/2019-Matchbox-Reading-Series/
Ms. Morita is the Artistic Director of Crowded Fire Theater, a critically acclaimed, intrepid, female-led company dedicated to developing a fierce contemporary theater canon that reflects the plurality of our world. Previously, she served as the Artistic Associate at Berkeley Repertory Theatre—and a founding member of its Ground Floor program; as Board President of Shotgun Players; as a 2014 Lincoln Center Director’s Lab participant; as one of the founding members of Bay Area Children's Theatre; as Community Arts Panelist with the Zellerbach Family Foundation; Panelist for the Getty Leadership Summit; and Guest Artist at UC Berkeley and Stanford University. She is a recipient of Theatre Bay Area’s 2014 award for Best Director of a Musical: Tier II and TBA's 2016, 40@40 award for her impact on Bay Area Theater. In 2015, Mina was honored to share her story on TEDx, and in 2016, she was chosen as one of the YBCA100, for "asking questions and making provocations that will shape the future of culture."
- We speak to Tamika Baptiste and Paige Mayers, Single Black Female 1 & 2, in Lorrianne Hansberry Theatre's production of Lisa B. Thompson's play, directed by AeJay Mitchell. Runs Friday-Sunday, 8 p.m. Sat. (matinee at 3 p.m. too) and Sun. matinee only. Visit https://www.lhtsf.org/single-black-female
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
We open the show with conversations with directors, curators, and dancers featured in the 10th Annual San Francisco Dance Film Festival, Nov. 2-4 and Nov. 9-10 at Brava Theatre.
Afia Thompson, dir. MAPENZI
Laura Ellis, moderator of a discussion about activism and the arts after the Raising Voices shorts program on Nov 9, 6pm at Brava (the program includes MAPENZI and the other If Cities Could Dance-- Oakland).https://www.sfdancefilmfest.org/festival-films/2019-program/raising-voices/
Kabreshiona Smith, dancer, in If Cities Could Dance: Richmond
2. We speak to Dr. Rachel Carrico, an Assistant Professor of Dance Studies in the School of Theatre + Dance at the University of Florida. Her research explores the aesthetic, political, and social histories of second lining, an improvisational dance form rooted in New Orleans's African diaspora parading traditions. She will give a lecture Friday evening, Nov. 1, on the intersection of New Orleans and Oakland Dance traditions. Program starts at 6:30 p.m. Visit performingarts.mills.edu
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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SF Doc Stories this weekend! Nov. 1-4 sffilm.org We speak to Rachel Rosen, Director of Programming for SFFILM since 2009. From 2001–2009, she was Director of Programming for Film Independent and the Los Angeles Film Festival.
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Top Shelf Classic's Royalty of Soul: A Tribute to Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight at Boxcar Theatre Friday-Sat., Nov. 8-9, 8 p.m., 644 Broadway, San Francisco
Guests: LaDonna Trotman: Director of Top Shelf Classics, as well as Corporate Executive IT Project Manager, Assistant Vice President for PMO, recently retired and focusing 100% on Production Company as well as a Residential Care Facility for the Elderly. With a genuine care for making a difference in one’s life by bringing joy, even if just for a moment, If Top Shelf’s performance can touch one person with positivity and take them to a place in time that brings them peace, then our job is complete.
Brenda Knight, Collaborative partner for event concepts and production
Wanda Diamond, Top Shelf’s featured performer for next week’s performance
Visit https://www.boxcartheatre.org/top-shelf-classics.html
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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Cathleen Riddley (Mary Tyrone) in Ubuntu Theatre Project's Long Days Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill extended through Nov. 3 at The Flax Building in Oakland. ubuntutheaterproject.com
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Barbara Lee and Elihu Harris Lecture Series will present something different, topical and engaging: Kenyan comedian and performance artist Anna Mwalagho’s one-woman show, Never Thought I Was Black Till I Came to America. Through comedy, storytelling, music and truth, Ms. Mwalagho looks at race and race relations in the US through the immigrant experience.
The performance will be given Thursday, October 24, at 7 pm in the James Moore Theater at the Oakland Museum of California, located at 1000 Oak Street. Popular Bay Area comedian and activist Don Lacy will introduce the evening.
Admission is free and due to the limited seating, reservations are required by calling the Freedom Center at 510-434-3988.
Check out the video of Anna Mwalagho, her work and what audiences have to say about her one-woman show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3i4duvKOYc
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
- Always in Season director, producer, writer, Jacqueline Olive joins us to talk about this remarkable yet tragic story about Black lives that seems to always be in season.
Roxie in SF, 10/23 (preview) and 11/1-7 screenings https://www.roxie.com
https://www.alwaysinseasonfilm.com/team
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Adia Tamar Whitaker, Have K(no)w Fear: A Bluessical: is an undoing spell that wants to untie all the knots that choke the future at ODC Oct. 18-19 https://odc.dance/Bluessical
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Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake shares information about Dr. Howard Thurman and The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples which is having its 75th Anniversary this weekend, Oct. 19-20 with a Forum and Convocation http://fellowshipsf.org/2019/10/75th-anniversary-jubilee-weekend-celebration/
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
- Adia Tamar Whitaker, Artistic Director of the 19-year old Brooklyn based dance theater ensemble Àse Dance Theatre Collective, joins us to talk about the West Coast premiere of "Have K(No!)W Fear: A Bluessical, Oct. 17-19, 2019, Thurs.-Sat., 8 p.m. at ODC Theater, 3153 17th Street, SF. odc.dance/Bluessical (415) 863-9834.
2. Jess Curtis/Gravity presents (in)Visible Oct. 10-13 at CounterPulse, 80 Turk Street, in SF. Jess joins us with Sherwood Chen and Gabriel Christian, dancers, choreographers, to talk about this new work. www.jesscurtisgravity.org/invisible or 415-626-2060.
- Rebroadcast 9/25/2019 with Stella Heath: The Billie Holiday Project at Feinsteins at Hotel Nikko in San Francisco, Oct. 10, 2019.
https://www.blogtalkradio.com/wandas-picks/2019/10/09/wandas-picks-radio-show
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
Rev. Dr. Dorsey Odell Blake joins us to talk about the 75th Jubilee of The Church for the Fellowship of All People this weekend, Sat.-Sun., Oct. 19-20. The free celebration includes the Dorsey O. Blake Forum for Social Transformation, 10/19, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and the 24th Annual Convocation, 10/20, 3 p.m. fellowshipsf.org
Dr. Blake has served as Presiding Minister of The Church for The Fellowship of All Peoples (San Francisco) since 1994. He also serves as Faculty Associate at Pacific School of Religion. Dr. Blake has extensive field ministry experience with interfaith groups addressing justice and peace issues. Dr. Blake has conducted seminars and workshops locally and nationally including one with Rajmahon Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi. He is the recipient of numerous community service awards. In 2000, he traveled to Morocco with an interfaith delegation of Muslims, Jews, and Christians in a quest to promote interfaith respect and cooperation. In October 2010 he met His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama and served on an interfaith panel responding to his teachings
We close with another conversation, from the archives, Howard Thurman Special with Rev. Liza Rankow and Rev. Dr. Blake, recorded Nov. 8, 2010. Howard Thurman interview with Landrum Bolling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGX4-Wv9UD0
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
- Billy X Jennings, It's About Time Black Panther Party, joins us to talk about Black Panther Party History Month, October 2019 http://itsabouttimebpp.com/
- Alan Clark Illustrator, Author, Coach, Supervillain, PhantomElectrik.com, DailyEarthPost.com joins us to talk about Rise of the Black Panther, Oct. 11, 7-9 pm at Alley Cat Book, 3036 24th Street, San Francisco
- Dr. Ayodele Nzinga joins us to talk about the run of Iya Iya's House of Burning Souls: "I will have what's mine. . ." Visit lowerbottomplayaz.com
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
- Adia Tamar Whitaker, Artistic Director of the 19-year old Brooklyn based dance theater ensemble Àse Dance Theatre Collective, joins us to talk about the West Coast premiere of "Have K(No!)W Fear: A Bluessical, Oct. 17-19, 2019, Thurs.-Sat., 8 p.m. at ODC Theater, 3153 17th Street, SF. odc.dance/Bluessical
(415) 863-9834.
- Jess Curtis/Gravity presents (in)Visible Oct. 10-13 at CounterPulse, 80 Turk Street, in SF. Jess joins us with Sherwood Chen and Gabriel Christian, dancers, choreographers, to talk about this new work.
www.jesscurtisgravity.org/invisible or 415-626-2060.
- Rebroadcast 9/25/2019 with Stella Heath: The Billie Holiday Project at Feinsteins at Hotel Nikko in San Francisco, Oct. 10, 2019.
http://tobtr.com/s/11530597
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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Billy X Jennings, It's About Time Black Panther Party, joins us to talk about Black Panther Party History Month, October 2019 http://itsabouttimebpp.com/
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Alan Clark Illustrator, Author, Coach, Supervillain, PhantomElectrik.com, DailyEarthPost.com joins us to talk about Rise of the Black Panther, Oct. 11, 7-9 pm at Alley Cat Book, 3036 24th Street, San Francisco
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Dr. Ayodele Nzinga joins us to talk about the run of Iya Iya's House of Burning Souls: "I will have what's mine. . ." Visit lowerbottomplayaz.com
http://tobtr.com/11530593
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
Today we rebroadcast Wed., Sept. 25, 2019, show.
- We speak to Michelle Lanier, Executive Producer, Mossville: When Great Trees Fall, officiel selection, San Francisco Green Film Festival 2019, 9/-24-9/29. Sat., 9/28, 1-3 join Ms. Lanier at the free Impact Film Forum at Manny's 1 p.m. (90 mins).
“Welcome to beautiful downtown Mossville,” Stacey Ryan says wryly. “Population: one.” At one time, Mossville, Louisiana, was a thriving, self-sufficient, historically black community, teeming with gardens, grand fruit trees, and families. But since petrochemical industries started snatching up affordable real estate nearby, the community has begun to wither. Ryan’s neighbors begin to leave—at first one by one, then in droves—but he boldly refuses to budge. Soon he finds himself all alone. Surrounded by a smoldering, hellish industrial wasteland that has gobbled up Mossville’s once bucolic neighborhoods, he is cut off from power, supplies, and community. But Ryan stands his ground, even while living rough in his own home. This story of one man’s valiant resistance is at once intimately personal and vast in scope, exposing the links between race and environmental injustice, not just in the U.S. but across the globe. TAW
- Rebroadcast Sept. 25, 2019 show: Andrew Saito, El Rio at Brava; Lesley Currier and Dameion Brown re: Marin Shakes's presents A Midsummer Nights Dream; Stella Heath's Billie Holiday Project at Feinstein's at Hotel Nikko, Oct. 10.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
1.Andrew Saito is an internationalist playwright who focuses on indigenous and cross-racial stories, hybridity, and struggles against colonialism and its long-lingering footprints. He has worked with Peru's legendary theater collective Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani, Cuba's Conjunto Cultural Korimakao, and the Asociación Xajooj Tun in Rabinal, Guatemala, culture bearers of the Rabinal Achi, named intangible cultural patrimony of humanity by UNESCO. He holds an MFA from the Iowa Playwrights Workshop, and was a Fulbright Scholar in Papua New Guinea. Andrew's passionate about learning languages, cultural exchange, cooking, Kung Fu, and underwater encounters with octopuses and manta rays. He is becoming a climate activist and encourages others to do the same.
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Marin Shakespeare Company closes with A Midsummer Night's Dream Thursday-Sunday, 9/26-9/29, with Lesley Schisgall Currier, director & Damieon Brown, Oberon. marinshakespeare.org
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The Billie Holiday Project, led by Stella Heath, celebrates the music of Lady Day! Thursday, October 10th, 8pm at Nikko Hotel, 222 Mason St., SF. Dinner and Full bar offered www.stellaheathmusic.com
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
- David Roach joins us to talk about the Oakland International Film Festival Sept. 19-29, 2019 https://www.oiff.org/schedule/
Bio https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-roach-b5a94a7/
- Emma Van Lare (Hamida) House of Joy by Madhuri Shekar, directed by Megan Sandberg-Zakian, at Cal Shakes extended Sat., Sept. 7, 8 p.m. and Sun., Sept. 8, 4 p.m.All seats are $40. 20 or younger, tickets are $20.
Emma grew up in the Houston area and moved here just over two years ago to pursue her MFA in acting from the American Conservatory Theater. She just started her third and final year there and House of Joy is her first professional show!
- Jewels from the Archives: Sister Act at Theatre Rhinoceros (May 2019)
- Dr. Megan Ebor joins us to speak about Upspoken created RoyalTea, a sexual health and wellness guide by Black women for Black women RoyalTea, Hot Tips to Sip for Sexual emPowerment -- Sip 1 – Our Secret
(Not For Long). https://upspokenwomen.com/
- Rebroadcast Sept. 6, 2019 show with Raissa Simpson, Push Dance Company founder and Artistic Director, joins us to talk about the 14th Home Season and Sixth Anniversary PUSHfest Dance Festival, Friday-Sunday, Sept. 20-22 at ODC Theater, 3173 – 17th Street, San Francisco. Visit https://www.pushdance.org/festival
The exhibit opens Thursday, Sept. 19, 6-9 p.m., with a performance at 7:30 p.m.
- Dawline-Jane Oni-Eseleh and Sawyer Rose join us to talk about Sawyer's new exhibition collaboration: Counting the Hours, Art, Data, and the Untold Stories of Women’s Work at Code & Canvas, 151 Potrero Ave., San Francisco, Sept. 19-Nov. 2, Tues. & Thurs. from 1-6 p.m., Sat. from 12-3 p.m. and by appointment. Free admission http://www.carrying-stones.com/counting-the-hours. The exhibit opens 9/18, 6-9 p.m. with a special dance performance at 7:30 p.m.
4. Titus and Androdicus at Theatre Lunatico, August 30-Sept. 29, 2019 at La Val's Subterranean Theatre https://theatrelunatico.wordpress.com/
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
- Rebecca Caplan, Director, SF Green Film Fest, Sept. 24-29, https://www.greenfilmfest.org/about
2.Alfonzo Washington and Michael Harris join us to talk about the 9th Annual African Global Trade and Investment Conference in Sacramento
https://www.panafricanglobaltradeconference.com/
- Chanon Judson, Artistic Director, and Samantha Speis, Artistic Director, Urban Bush Women to talk about the company's show, Hair and Other Stories, 8-10 p.m., Sept. 14, at the School of Arts and Culture at the Mexican Heritage Plaza, 1700 Alum Rock Ave.,in San Jose. urbanbushwomen.org
Music: Zion Trinity's Opening Prayer for Elegba; Desert Rose's Ubuntu
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Raissa Simpson, Push Dance Company founder and Artistic Director, joins us to talk about the 14th Home Season and Sixth Anniversary PUSHfest Dance Festival which features Mothership III by Raissa Simpson and a World Premiere by Gerald Casel within four different programs of local and visiting artists over three evenings Friday-Sunday, Sept. 20-22 at ODC Theater, 3173 – 17 Street, San Francisco. Visit https://www.pushdance.org/festival
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Dawline-Jane Oni-Eseleh is an Oakland based exhibiting and teaching Artist.
Sawyer Rose is a sculpture, installation, and social practice artist. She is a graduate of Williams College in Massachusetts and currently lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area, both women join us to talk about Sawyer's new exhibition collaboration: Counting the Hours, Art, Data, and the Untold Stories of Women’s Work, New art exhibition by Sawyer Rose and The Carrying Stones Project at Code & Canvas, 151 Potrero Ave., San Francisco, Sept. 19-Nov. 2, Tues. & Thurs. from 1-6 p.m., Sat. from 12-3 p.m. and by appointment. Free admission.
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Titus and Androdicus at Theatre Lunatico, August 30-Sept. 29, 2019 at La Val'sSubterranean Theatre directed by Tina Taylor, Shane Fahy (Titus); Bryce Smith (Aaron) https://theatrelunatico.wordpress.com/
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"Shakti Butler on Healing Justice" from The Wanda's Picks Archives
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
- David Roach joins us to talk about the Oakland International Film Festival Sept. 19-29, 2019 https://www.oiff.org/schedule/
Bio https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-roach-b5a94a7/
- Emma Van Lare (Hamida) House of Joy by Madhuri Shekar, directed by Megan Sandberg-Zakian, at Cal Shakes extended Sat., Sept. 7, 8 p.m. and Sun., Sept. 8, 4 p.m.
All seats are $40. 20 or younger, tickets are $20.
Emma grew up in the Houston area and moved here just over two years ago to pursue her MFA in acting from the American Conservatory Theater. She just started her third and final year there and House of Joy is her first professional show!
- Jewels from the Archives: Sister Act at Theatre Rhinoceros (May 2019)
Shortlink: http://tobtr.com/11491173
1.Kathy Cotton, director, "A Place at the Table: African American Pioneers of Silicon Vallery," screening at SFBFF XXI, 12 noon, June 15, at the African American Art and CultureComplex, 762 Fulton Street, SF http://www.kathycottondigitalstoryteller.com/news
- Nana Daffuor, SPRINT, June 20-21, 7:30 pm, $15-25 @East Bay Community Space, 507 55th Street, Oakland, CA https://www.sprintmovement.com/performance
Presented by Nana Duffuor and directed by Dazié Rustin Grego-Sykes, Sprint is a powerful stage performance blending film, theater, poetry, music, and dance to tell the coming of age story of Nana—a queer black child of Ghanaian immigrants, discovering herself (and her dignity) in White America.
In the era of #BlackGirlMagic, Sprint begs the critical question: "What happens when magical black girls break?"
Charles Curtis Blackwell
3. Jeff M. Giordano, dir."THE GOD GIVEN TALENT: THE CREATIVE LIFE OF CHARLES CURTIS BLACKWELL," screening tomorrow, June 15, 12 noon as a part of SFBFF XXI 2019, has been directing independent films since 2004’s "Among Garbage & Flowers". He has interviewed over 80 people for documentary productions. Giordano has completed 4 full-length documentaries. Most recently, "The God Given Talent: The Creative Life of Charles Curtis Blackwell" (2019): the 70 minute-documentary has its World Premiere at the San Francisco Black Film Festival XXI on June 15, 2019.
This tenth Anniversary Month (August 2018) ends with a MASH-up. . . clips from shows over the past decade. Can't play everything . . . there are so many shows (1061). Funny, August 2008, I only had 1 shows and the next month I had a few more broadcasts.
I have 1061 published episodes. This is 106 episodes a year. My average is 8 shows a month which is 2 shows a week. I remember sometimes having more than two shows a week and sometimes less.I am still interested in being syndicated. I just need to find my hours in the day. I am happy to have a dedicated audience who follow Wanda's Picks.
(2019 update: 1174 published episodes with 259,070 listens).
There are two clips August 29 & Sept. 5, 2008. We revisit the Gulf Region and see what's going on there on the ground in Louisiana and Mississippi by speaking to Jackie and King. Jackie lives in the 7th Ward. King lives in Austin. Katrina destroyed his home.
Next, Tayo Aluko joins us to talk about Call Mr. Robeson, a fundraiser for Mumia Abu Jamal, Sept. 5, and con't. Sept. 6-7 at 5 PM at the Phonenix Theatre.
Next Richard Talavera, playwright, and director, Norman Gee share Before the Dream: the mysterious death (and life) of Richard Wright. Coleman Domingo, playwright of "A Boy and His Soul" is next.
We are also honored to have the directors of the new film "Trouble the Water," which opens this weekend, Sept. 5 in the San Francisco Bay Area. Check your listings.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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Dr. Joseph L. Green,Chairman 400 Commission https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1892/africanamericanhistorycommission.htm
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Chadra Pittman, THE SANKOFA PROJECTS, Founder & Executive Director, www.thesankofaprojects.blogspot.com
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Lewis Campbell, Artistic Director, Multi-Ethnic Theatre in SF is joined by chantuse, Susie Butler who is Ma Rainy incarnate for August Wilson's seminal work in his Centennial Cycle "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom." The work is up Aug. 7-Sept. 1 at ACT's Costume Shop in SF.
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Cherie Hill, choreographer joins us to talk about Détente – Oakland Premiere, Thursday, 8/22 &; Saturday 8/24, 8pm, Temescal Arts Center, 511 48th St., Oakland, $10-20 Sliding Scale (no one turned away for lack of funds) https://detente-oakland.brownpapertickets.com/
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Kim McMillon will officially earn her doctorate in Interdisciplinary Humanities this summer at the University of California, Merced
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Joyce A. Joyce, Ph.D, Chairperson of the Department of English from 2012 to 2015 at Temple University and a 1995 recipient of an American Book Award for Literary Criticism for the collection of essays Warriors, Conjurers, and Priests: Defining African-American Literary Criticism, Joyce earned her Ph.D. in English from the University of Georgia in 1979.
She has published articles on Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, Gwendolyn Brooks, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, Arthur P. Davis, Toni Cade Bambara, Ishmael Reed, E. Ethelbert Miller, Askia Touré, Gil Scott-Heron, and Sonia Sanchez. Her current project is titled “Black Literary Essays: The Kaleidoscopic Imagination.” Her papers are housed in special collections at the Odum Library, Valdosta State University.
3. devorah major joins us.
Thanks to all who called in for this Libation to Toni Morrison. We close with Shamarr Allen, "I Love You." He is at SJ Jazz Summerfest Sunday afternoon, Aug. 11, summerfest.sanjosejazz.org
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
We open with a rebraodcast of the interview with Nambi E. Kelley, playwright for adaptation of Toni Morrison's Jazz for stage at Marin Theatre Company earlier this year.
Regina Evans & Rashida Chase in 52 Letters at UBUNTU
Next is a rebroadcast with playwright, James Ijames, director, Darryl V. Jones, lighting designer, Stephanie Ann Johnson and set designer, Celeste Mortore about James Ijames Kill Move Paradise at Shotgun Players (Berkeley, CA) association with Lorraine Hansberry Theatre (San Francisco, CA) through August 11, 2019.
Visit https://shotgunplayers.org/
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
- Dr. Patricia Nunley, ABPsi Western Regional Representative 2019-2021, joins us to talk about her new position (theme Dr. Theopia Jackson 2017-2019 President Elect) Fortifying for the Future and Beyond), recent conference where it was announced, and to introduce Dr. Zethu Cakata who currently works as an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of South Africa, in Tshwane (Pretoria) South Africa.
She is in town to present her workshop: Ubugqirha: A Healing Beyond the Western Gaze.
- We rebroadcast a segment of the Wed., July 31 show that features human rights activist and playwright Regina Evans who is performing her work, 52 Letters at Ubuntu Theatre Project over the next few weeks. She is joined by Oakland native, vocalist, and culture and wellness advocate, Rashida Chase.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, dir., Toni Morrison: Pieces that I Am
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Antoine Hunter, Deaf Arts Festival 2019 (Rebroadcast re: 3rd Annual Festival: Deaf Louder)
3. Regina Evans, playwright, 52 Letters at Ubuntu theatre, Aug. 2-23 at the FLAX Building in Oakland. Visit http://www.ubuntutheaterproject.com/letters
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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We speak to playwright, James Ijames, director, Darryl V. Jones, and set designer, Celeste Mortore about James Ijames' Kill Move Paradise at Shotgun Players (Berkeley, CA) association with Lorraine Hansberry Theatre (San Francisco, CA) through August 4, 2019 (Excerpt 7/16/2019).
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Elizabeth Carter, director, talks about "Citizen, An American Lyric" a part of the Champagne Staged Reading at Shotgun Players July 29-30, 2019
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"Black Male Alchemy" with Butterfly Williams and Michael Ansa Rebroadcast (7/24/2019)
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
The Alchemy of Black Manhood hosted by the Urban Healers is Sat., July 27, 1-4, at the Oakland LGBTQ Community Center 3207 Lakeshore Ave - Rand Ave entrance, Oakland, California 94610
We have two of the organizers: BUTTERFLY WILLIAMS and Michael Ansa, MBA, PCC on the air to talk about the program.
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Rebroadcast with Barry Shabaka Henley re: Mingus Revisited
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Playwright, James Ijames, director, Darryl V. Jones, and set designer, Celeste Mortore about James Ijames' Kill Move Paradise at Shotgun Players (Berkeley, CA) association with Lorraine Hansberry Theatre (San Francisco, CA) through August 4, 2019. Visit https://shotgunplayers.org/
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay! Scholars Cheryl Finley, Ph.D. and Leigh Raiford, Ph.D., join us to talk about "Blackness & Belonging at BAMPFA, Dr. Finley's book, "Committed to Memory: The Art of the Slave Ship Icon", the Year of Return and the 400th Anniversary of the first enslaved Africans landing at Ft. Comfort, Virginia, August 1619.
http://tobtr.com/s/11372745
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
- Lesley Schisgall Currier, Managing Director, Director, A Midsummer Night's
Dream, at Marin Shakespeare Company. As the MTC celebrates its 30th Anniversary Season we talk about the current production, "Measure for Measure," through July 21, and the theme: Playing for Good.
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Elizabeth Jones, Motormouth Maybelle, Bay Area Musicals, July 6-Aug.11 at Victoria Theatre in SF. Visit bamsf.org/hairspray
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From the Archives
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2019 Bay Area Playwrights Festival Witness The Power Of Truth with Outgoing Artistic Director, Amy Mueller and Playwrights (this morning): Terence Anthony (The House of the Negro Insane), Candis C. Jones, dir.(HNI); Candrice Jones (FLEX); Claudia Alick, dramaturg (FLEX), Delicia Turner Sonnenberg, director, FLEX; July 19-28, Potrero Stage, 1695 18th St., San Francisco. https://playwrightsfoundation.org/
50th Anniversary of Apollo II
https://earthsky.org/space/space-scientists-apollo-anniversary-talk-program-july17-2019
Music: Meklit &Quinn Zion Trinity
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
Today we speak to playwright, James Ijames, director, Darryl V. Jones, lighting designer, Stephanie Ann Johnson and set designer, Celeste Mortore about James IjamesKill Move Paradise at Shotgun Players (Berkeley, CA) association with Lorraine Hansberry Theatre (San Francisco, CA) through August 4, 2019.
Visit https://shotgunplayers.org/Online/default.asp
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
Daryl E. Stenvoll-Wells, Director, Art Responders, joins us to talk about a new exhibition at Root Division Gallery in SOMA, which is called "COLORISM: The Spectrum of Internalized Bias," July 11-Aug. 10, 2019.
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Michael Gene Sullivan and Daniel Savio join us to talk about SF Mime Troupe's 60th Anniversary, Treasure Island which opened July 4, 2019 http://www.sfmt.org/company/members.php
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Kash Killion and Stephanie Linder, Executive Director, SF Botanical Garden Society re: Flower Piano
Sunday, July 14, 12:30 - 2pm | Kash Killion & Killion’s Trillions: Exotic world instruments presentation and World Music
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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Regina Louise. Someone Has Led this Child to Believe (2nd bk. Lifetime film based on Somebody's Someone). www.iamreginalouise.com
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Donte Clark with Dr. Khalid Akil White re: "Know Freedom" book event at Richmond Pulse, Bridge Art Space, 23 Maine Ave., Richmond, CA, 3-6 pm
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Martin Luther, McCoy Actor, guitarist, singer/songwriter, producer joins us to talk about the Oakland Symphony's Swing and Soul – Let Us Break Bread Together, Sunday, Dec. 16, 4 p.m. at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland. https://www.oaklandsymphony.org/
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Nathan M. Richardson, Poet / Author / Douglass Historian, joins us to talk about Frederick Douglass on his 200 birth year. https://www.scpublishing.com/events--workshops
Music: Martin Luther McCoy's Rize; Sara Smile
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
- From the Archives
Bryan Keith Thomas, artist, joins us to talk about Heirlooms, an exhibit at Joyce Gordon Gallery
- Peaches Christ joins us to talk about her latest production: Bring It On Queen! at the Castro Theatre, Sat., July 13, 4 and 8 p.m. Visit www.peacheschrist.com
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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We open with a prerecorded interview with Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. director, "Toni Morrison: Pieces That I Am," which opens today in Bay Area Theatres
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Rebroadcast of interview with Idris Ackamoor & Rhodessa Jones and Lyrika Holmes re: 35th Anniversary of Cultural Odyssey Apr. 3-5, 2014
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Alma Robinson, Executive Director of California Lawyers for the Arts
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Cassidy Friedman and Eric Butler's "Circles" screening at SF Indie Doc Fest selection, Sat., May 1, 2:30 at the Roxie & Monday, June 3, 9 p.m. (Roxie). sfindie.com https://www.circlesmovie.com/
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Abdul Kenyatta, Speakeasy Storyteller Cafe at SFIAF, 9:00 p.m., Friday, May 31, & https://www.facebook.com/abdul.kenyatta
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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Michael Khubaka Harris, Regional Director, National Juneteenth Observance Foundation (www.njof.org)
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Ebony Iman Dallas
https://www.ebonyimandallas.com/about
- Rebroadcast interview with Oyafunmike Ogunlano (Mona) in Sankofa (1993), dir. Haile Gerima
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
- Michael Khubaka Harris, Regional Director, National Juneteenth Observance Foundation (www.njof.org)
https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1892/africanamericanhistorycommission.htm
http://sacobserver.com/2019/06/juneteenth-the-victory-of-black-courage-and-patriotism/
- Ebony Iman Dallas
https://www.ebonyimandallas.com/about
- Rebroadcast interview with Oyafunmike Ogunlano (Mona) in Sankofa (1993), dir. Haile Gerima
1.Kathy Cotton, director, A Place at the Table: African American Pioneers of Silicon Valley, screens at SFBFF XXI, 12 noon, June 15, at AAACChttp://www.kathycottondigitalstoryteller.com/news
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Nana Daffuor, SPRINT, June 20-21, 7:30 pm, $15-25 @East Bay Community Space, 507 55th Street, Oakland, CA 94609 https://www.sprintmovement.com/performance
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Jeff M. Giordano, dir. "THE GOD GIVEN TALENT: THE CREATIVE LIFE OF CHARLES CURTIS BLACKWELL," screening tomorrow, June 15, 12 noon as a part of SFBFF XXI 2019. Charles Curtis Blackwell also joins us this morning. Visit: https://www.jeffmgiordano.com/
- Paul Struthers, DIRECTOR OF EXHIBITION & PROGRAMMING @ Frameline43/ San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival June 20-30, 2019 www.frameline.org
2. Cornelius Moore. Co-Director at California Newsreel joins us to talk about CA Newsreel and special programming Carribean in Motion Film Series at MoAD in conjunction with Coffee, Rhum, Sugar, Gold: a Post-colonial Paradox.
- Cheryl Patrice Derricotte, GhostShips@ MoAD rebroadcast
4. Andrea Chung, artist, MoAD's Coffee Rhum Sugar, Gold http://andreachungart.com/about/
Proverbs 12:22, 2019. Sugar, beads, rice, herbs, spices and paper, site specific installation. Courtesy of the artist.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
Scholars Cheryl Finley, Ph.D. and Leigh Raiford, Ph.D., join us to talk about "Blackness & Belonging at BAMPFA, Dr. Finley's book, "Committed to Memory: The Art of the Slave Ship Icon", the Year of Return and the 400th Anniversary of the first enslaved Africans landing at Ft. Comfort, Virginia, August 1619.
http://tobtr.com/s/11372745
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
We will broadcast an interview with filmmaker Jeffrey Wolf: Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts, dir. Jeffrey Wolf, USA 76 mins, Sat. June 8, 2:30 PM at the Roxie sfindie.com
http://billtraylorchasingghosts.com/
http://tobtr.com/s/11372729
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Audrey Candy Corn and Peter Menchini, Directors of the film, "Soar Torian Soar," screening at SFDoc 2019, 6/9/19, 2:30 PM at the Roxie Theatre in SF. Visit sfindie.com
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William Rhodes, Artists, joins us to ta;lk about JUKE CITY: A Harlem of the West Immersive Art Experience, June 13, 6-9pm at the African American Art and Culture Complex, 762 Fulton Street; Artist Talk: July 25, 6-9pm at AAACC.
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Will Agee, Director, Producer, Cinematographer, Editor, "The Land of High Mountains," at SFDoc, Roxie Theater, 6/9, 12:15 p; 6/11, 7 p https://www.landofhighmountains.com/
4. Bridgette Auger, Director/DP/Producer, "We Are Not Princesses," at SFDoc, Roxie theater, 6/9, 4:45 p.; 6/13, 7 p
http://www.openartfoundation.org/we-are-not-princesses Music: Zion Trinity, Opening Prayer for Elegba; Amikaeyla Gaston, Lovely Day http://tobtr.com/s/11368807
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Lavar Munroe, artist from Nassau, Bahamas, joins us to talk about his work in the exhibition: Coffee, Rhum, Sugar & Gold: A Postcolonial Paradox, May 8-Aug. 11, 2019 at the Museum of the African Diaspora in SF. Visit moad-sf.org
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San Francisco Black Film Festival XXI, June 13-16 with a special tribute to Jeff Adachi, SF District Attorney, and panel on Prison Reform, June 12.
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Justin (actor) and Jeffrey Givens (director) join us to talk about their film selection, "Disparity," screening at the Special Tribute on June 12 and again later on in the Festival.
Meet Charlie, he’s white and has been arrested for selling cocaine. Meet Syd he’s black and has been arrested for crack. Despite being caught with the same drug the disparity in their treatment will open your mind about race and class in the broken u.s justice system.Tag line: Same story, different endings.
- "Soar Torian Soar" interview with co-directors: Audrey Candy Corn and Peter Menchini.
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East Bay Dances, hosted by Oakland Ballet Company, features among others, Linda Steele II, who is a improvisational dance artist and creator, formally trained at Marin Ballet and Marin School of the Arts before receiving her BFA from Dominican University of CA where she also studied Art History. You can see Linda Steele II's work Sunday June 2, 2019, 4pm at Laney College, Odell Johnson Theater, 900 Fallon St. (across from Lake Merritt BART). Visit www.oaklandballet.org
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Jackie Wright joins us to talk about the 21st Annual San Francisco Black Film Festival, June 12 (preview) to June 16, 2019 Visit https://sfbff.org/wordpress/official-selections-2019
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Wanda Ravernell, Executive Director is the visionary of Omnira Institute and promoter and manager for Awon Ohun Omnira, (Voices of Freedom) and serves as the narrator for its performances. She has been the administrator and booking agent as well as the publicist for all of its activities. She joins us to talk about the 2019 Juneteenth Ritual in Oakland at Lake Merritt Boat House,11-1, Sat., June 12 Visit https://www.omnirainstitute.org/
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Kanika Marshall, author, artist featured in the Sac Black Book Festival, May 31-June 1, 2019 https://www.kanikamarshall.com/
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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Peter Menchini and Audrey Candy Corn, directors of SOAR, TORIAN, SOAR (in DocFest, Sun., June 9, 2:30 p.m.) followed by a Q&A https://www.roxie.com/ai1ec_event/sfdocfest-soar-torian-soar/
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Janice Haaken, director of OUR BODIES OUR DOCTORS (in DocFest Sun., June 9, 7 p.m.; Mon., June 10, 7 p.m.) https://www.roxie.com/ai1ec_event/sfdocfest-our-bodies-our-doctors/
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"Sister Act, the Musical" at Theatre Rhinoceros through Sat., June 1 at the Shelton Theatre in SF. http://therhino.org/
http://tobtr.com/s/11358835
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Alma Robinson, Executive Director of California Lawyers for the Arts
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Cassidy Friedman and Eric Butler's "Circles" screening at SF Indie Doc Fest selection, Sat., May 1, 2:30 at the Roxie & Monday, June 3, 9 p.m. (Roxie). sfindie.com https://www.circlesmovie.com/
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Abdul Kenyatta, Speakeasy Storyteller Cafe at SFIAF, 9:00 p.m., Friday, May 31, & https://www.facebook.com/abdul.kenyatta
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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Chris Metzler, Associate Director of Programming, DocFest, 18th SF Doc Fest May 29-June 13, 2019 https://sfindie.com/
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Mary Gallagher Stout https://www.mgstout.com/about https://www.machinaartfest.com/exhibitingartists (see also calendar for JGG details)
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Faye Wilson Kennedy, curator, Sacramento Black Book Festival, May 31-June 1 https://www.sacramentoblackbookfair.com/
916-484-3749
Music: Zion Trinity: Opening Prayer, Elegba; Desert Rose: Ubuntu
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!?
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Jason Mendez, Supremacy @ EXIT on Eddy through 5/18
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Alma Robinson, Executive Director of California Lawyers for the Arts, expanded the organization in 1987 into a statewide agency with staff in San Francisco, Berkeley, Sacramento, Los Angeles and San Diego. In 2011, she began CLA's successful Arts in Corrections Initiative in collaboration with the William James Association to restore funding for California’s arts programs in prisons, which had been defunded in 2003. With support from the Art for Justice Fund, Alma produced a series of six Art for Justice Forums with co-conveners in Michigan, Texas, Alabama, Georgia, California and New York in 2018 while concluding a three-year project funded by the NEA that is demonstrating the benefits of arts programs in county jails throughout California. CLA's third conference on Arts in Corrections will be presented in June,2019 at Santa Clara University. A graduate of Middlebury College and Stanford Law School, Alma was a founding board member of California Arts Advocates and the Museum of the African Diaspora, and has served as a trustee for the San Francisco Opera Association, Mills College and the Urban School.
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Andrew Woods, Executive Director, SF International Arts Festival 2019; Jasmine Milan Williams, SFIAF artist: Us and the US (5/24, 7 PM;5/26, 6:30 PM); Abdul Kenyatta, SFIAF artist (5/31, 9 PM), Speakeasy Storytellers Series
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Ahjamu Umi, joins us to talk about African Liberation Day 2019. He has been an organizer for the All African Peoples Revolutionary Party since 1984. He has organized for the party on three continents and the Caribbean. He has a Masters Degree in Econ/Political Science and he has authored/published four books including the recently released political thriller "The Paradox Principles."
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We speak to Carol Leigh, founder and director and Jovelyn Richards re: Sex Workers Film Festival 20th Anniversary. http://www.sexworkerfest.com/events.html
Jovelyn D. Richards is an international performance artist, writer, film and theater director and radio host for Pacifica radio KPFA 94.1
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Rene Marie interview from June 29, 2011 (excerpt).
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Nambi E. Kelly's "Jazz" at MTC through Wed.-Sunday, May 19. She and C. Kelly Wright (Violet/Country Violet) join us to talk about the work.
Rebroadcast May 1, 2019 Show:
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Aminah Elsters, Family Unity Project Program Coordinator for LSPC, and joins us to talk about "Ain't I a Mother Too?" May 10, 2019, 6-8 p.m. at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center, 388 9th Street, Oakland. Register at this free event: https://www.prisonerswithchildren.org/2019/04/aint-i-a-mother-too/
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Lindsey Krumbein, founder, executive director, Gritty City Rep Youth Theatre re: The Taming of the Shrew, May 16-25 at the Flight Deck, 1540 Broadway, Oakland. She is joined by Nijzah Waterman, a junior at Envision Academy - a charter school in Downtown Oakland. This is her 4th show with GCRep - she has been performing with us for 2 years. She plays Lucentia in this production of Taming. https://www.grittycityrep.org/
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Jason Mendez (Playwright) is a content creator, making his debut as a playwright with Supremacy, directed by Amanda Ortmayer at the EXIT Theatre, 156 Eddy St, SF, May 3 - May 18, 2018. http://www.theexit.org/supremacy/
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Lisa Geduldig joins us to talk about the Thursday, May 9th installation of Comedy at Ashkenaz-- a Mother’s Day Comedy Show featuring a line up of Bay Area comedians who are moms (including a mom to a newborn): Diane Amos, Karinda Dobbins, Emily van Dyke, and Brandi Brandes, with de facto Jewish mother, Lisa Geduldig, as the MC. http://www.ashkenaz.com/eventcalendar/2019/5/9comedy-night-at-ashkenaz
While Ashkenaz is an all ages venue, the comedy shows are not recommended for kids under 16.
Rebroadcast May 1, 2019 Show:
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Aminah Elsters, Family Unity Project Program Coordinator for LSPC, and joins us to talk about "Ain't I a Mother Too?" May 10, 2019, 6-8 p.m. at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center, 388 9th Street, Oakland. Register at this free event: https://www.prisonerswithchildren.org/2019/04/aint-i-a-mother-too/
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Lindsey Krumbein, founder, executive director, Gritty City Rep Youth Theatre re: The Taming of the Shrew, May 16-25 at the Flight Deck, 1540 Broadway, Oakland. She is joined by Nijzah Waterman, a junior at Envision Academy - a charter school in Downtown Oakland. This is her 4th show with GCRep - she has been performing with us for 2 years. She plays Lucentia in this production of Taming. https://www.grittycityrep.org/
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Jason Mendez (Playwright) is a content creator, making his debut as a playwright with Supremacy, directed by Amanda Ortmayer at the EXIT Theatre, 156 Eddy St, SF, May 3 - May 18, 2018. http://www.theexit.org/supremacy/
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Lisa Geduldig joins us to talk about the Thursday, May 9th installation of Comedy at Ashkenaz-- a Mother’s Day Comedy Show featuring a line up of Bay Area comedians who are moms (including a mom to a newborn): Diane Amos, Karinda Dobbins, Emily van Dyke, and Brandi Brandes, with de facto Jewish mother, Lisa Geduldig, as the MC. http://www.ashkenaz.com/eventcalendar/2019/5/9comedy-night-at-ashkenaz
While Ashkenaz is an all ages venue, the comedy shows are not recommended for kids under 16.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!?
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Aminah Elster re: "Ain't I A Mother Too: a mother without housing is a mother without her child," event, Friday, May 10, 2019 (Register for the free event: https://www.prisonerswithchildren.org/2019/04/aint-i-a-mother-too/)
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F213 Writers and Artists Part 1 Lorraine Bonner
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Steven Anthony Jones in "How I Learned What I Learned" at Ubuntu Theatre Project through Sunday, May 5, 2019
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F213 continued Patricia Montgomery, artist, with writer, respondent, Khadijah O. Miller, Ph.D.
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Kristine Mays's and Patricia Montgomery will be on the F213 exhibit artist's panel closing day, May 11: https://www.ncwca.org/f213-exhibition.html
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Aminah Elsters, Family Unity Project Program Coordinator for LSPC, and joins us to talk about "Ain't I a Mother Too?" May 10, 2019, 6-8 p.m. at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center, 388 9th Street, Oakland. Register at this free event at eventbrite.
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Lindsey Krumbein, founder, executive director, Gritty City Rep Youth Theatre re: The Taming of the Shrew, May 16-25 at the Flight Deck, 1540 Broadway, Oakland. She is joined by Nijzah Waterman, a junior at Envision Academy - a charter school in Downtown Oakland. This is her 4th show with GCRep - she has been performing with us for 2 years. She plays Lucentia in this production of Taming.
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Jason Mendez (Playwright) is a content creator, making his debut as a writer with The Exit. Jason knows the power of voice, striving to challenge and complicate social narratives by making space for un- and -underrepresented experiences. His written works range from commissioned readings for the San Francisco Olympians Festival to the graphic novels and has previously worked with Netflix on the set of 13 Reasons Why. Jason holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Playwriting from San Francisco State University.
Supremacy by Jason Mendez directed by Amanda Ortmayer, EXIT Theatre, 156 Eddy St, SF, May 3 - May 18, 2018
4. Lisa Geduldig joins us to talk about the Thursday, May 9th installation of Comedy at Ashkenaz-- a Mother’s Day Comedy Show featuring a line up of Bay Area comedians who are moms.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!?
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Alexza Gipson's show Not So Strange Parallels, at Joyce Gordon Gallery, 406 14th Street in Oakland through Monday, April 29, 2019.
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Dazié Grego-Sykes’s Nigga-Roo (daziegrego.com) month long residency at the EXIT Theatre, 156 Eddy Street, San Francisco through Friday-Sat.,April 26-27; http://www.theexit.org/nigga-roo/ 415-673-3847 http://www.theexit.org
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Dr. David Hardiman Sr. with special guest Joan Minor from Paris by way of SF Bay and Kansas. She has a concert this weekend, Friday, April 26, 8:30 p.m., at Angelicas (www.angelicasllc.com) in Redwood City honoring the great artist Nancy Wilson who passed last year. Use special promotional code: Nancytour
http://tobtr.com/s/11292771
1. Jo Kreiter, Flyaway Productions, Laura Elaine Ellis, Executive Director of the African & African American Performing Arts Coalition (AAAPAC), Catalina "Caty" Palacios and Tanea Lunsford Lynx who are both members of Essie Justice to talk about The Wait Room, a site specific dance honoring women with incarcerated loved ones, April 19-20, April 24-25, April 26-27 at 1125 Market Street, a vacant lot opposite UN Plaza at Civic Center.
- Howard Thurman Special with Rev. Liza Rankow & Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake, Nov. 8, 2010. Upcoming programs at OneLife 2/17 & 3/7, both at East Bay Church of Religious Science, 4130 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, California 94609.
Don't forget to watch: Backs Against the Wall: The Howard Thurman Story, dir. Martin Doblmeier, (http://journeyfilms.com/batw/) on Public Television's WORLD Channel this afternoon/evening, 3 p.m. & 6 p.m. PT, Feb. 8. There are also local screenings on Feb. 9 and Feb. 12.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!?
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Keith Josef Adkins rebroadcast, Apr. 17. He joins us to speak about his play on Dr. George Washington Carver: "Patron Saint of Plants."
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Saabir Lockett: Special Projects Coordinator for EBASE, joins us to talk about the film "City Rising: The Informal Economy", screening at Grand Lake Theatre in Oakland, Monday, April 22, 7 p.m. It is a free event.
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Flyaway Productions World Premiere of Jo Kreiter's The Wait Room, part 1 of The Decarceration Trilogy April 19-27, 2019. The site specific work honors women with incarcerated loved ones. We are joined in the studio with collaborators: Pamela Z, Composer and Sean Riley, Set Designer.
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Rev. Harry Louis Williams II joins us to talk about "When the Struggle Is Real" (2019). Visit www.IAmOGRev.com
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Arisika Razak RN, MPH is Professor Emerita, and former Chair of the Women’s Spirituality Program, at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). She has served as CIIS Director of Diversity, and currently is a core teacher at the East Bay Meditation Center in Oakland. For over twenty years she was an inner city midwife in the SF Bay Area, attending the births of women from over 70 countries. A regular contributor to books and journals, Arisika is also a dancer who has performed nationally and internationally for over thirty years; she has led healing and empowerment workshops for women for over 30 years and spiritual and movement workshops for beings of all genders for over two decades. Her film credits include Fire Eyes, the first full length feature film by an African woman on female genital cutting; and Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth where she is interviewed on Alice Walker's womanism. She joins us to talk about Destiny Art Center's Jewels at odell Johnson Theatre through Friday-Sunday, 4/12-4/14.
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Rennie Harris, choreographer, joins us to talk about his work, Lazarus, (Program A at Cal Performances 4/9 & 4/13) commissioned by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and Cal-Performances for AAADT's 60th Anniversary (1958-2018). https://calperformances.org/performances/2018-19/dance/alvin-ailey-american-dance-theater.php
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
- Rennie Harris, choreographer, joins us to talk about his work, Lazarus, commissioned by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and Cal-Performances for AAADT's 60th Anniversary (1958-2018).
Program A, performed Tuesday, April 9 at 8pm and Saturday, April 13 at 8pm at UC Berkeley's Zellerbach Hall, features the Bay Area premiere of hip hop dance pioneer Rennie Harris’ Lazarus (2018), inspired by the life and legacy of Alvin Ailey. The work is the company’s first two-act ballet and was a 2018 recipient of the New England Foundation For the Arts prestigious National Dance Project grant. With Lazarus, which has a score by Darrin Ross, Harris addresses the racial inequities America faced when Ailey founded this company in 1958 and still faces today. True to tradition, the program closes with Revelations, Ailey’s 1960 masterpiece celebrating the African-American experience.
- Rebroadcast of Wed., April 3, 2019: Erik Lee & Latanya Tigner, Mazin Jamal, Dr. David Campt, Shelley Davis Roberts
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Erik Lee and Latanya Tigner join us to talk about new work premiering at Dimensions Dance Theater this weekend: We Have Ourselves, April 5-6 at the Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts theatre. For tickets visit dimensionsdance.org or (510) 465-3363
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Mazin Jamal, Professional Life and Leadership Coach, is the founder and director of Holistic Underground (2014), a community organization providing personal and professional development to leaders, creatives, and change agents. This weekend he is at MAPP performing as Tarawa with Seoulstice
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Dr. David Campt, White Ally Toolkit designer, (@thedialogueguy) is a nationally renowned in the areas of civic engagement, dialogue and deliberation, and collaborative decisionmaking. Events
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Shelley Davis Roberts Lead Designer for “divine the darkeness” Originally from Las Vegas, Nevada, Shelley Davis earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Spelman College in Atlanta, GA and a Master of Architecture Degree from U.C. Berkeley. Her multi-disciplinary interests in architecture and continued dedication to the arts has guided her work and exploration in diversified community development, identity and culture while working as a visual & performing artist, designer, educator and project manager for twenty years.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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Jessica Hicks is the Programs & Community Partnerships Manager at Chabot Space & Science Center in Oakland, CA, joins us to talk about Tinkerfest, Sat., April 13.
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Darryl V. Jones (LHT Acting Artistic Director) joins us to talk about A. Zell Williams's The Urban Retreat Mar. 22-Apr. 6 at the Burial Clay Theatre, 762 Fulton Street, SF, at the AAACC. Visit lhtsf.org
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Michael Fried – In collaboration with Monday Night Playground, Co-Founder & Artistic Director, Planet Earth Arts & New Play Festival, joins us to talk about the 5th Annual event, Monday, April 1, 8 p.m. (7 p.m. artist talk), at Berkeley Rep. playground-sf.org/monday
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Alice (Aziza) Jefferson, Artistic Director, Sankofa Akili Dance Ensemble 2019 Spring Benefit, Sat., April 13, 12 p.m.-3:30 p.m. at deFremery Recreation Center, 1651 Adeline Street, Oakland www.BigPictureAnthems.com
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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NATALYA SHOAF & DAZAUN SOLEYN, GRAHAM LUSTIG re: Black Choreographers Festival 2019; Oakland Ballet's upcoming Jazz Vistas (4/5-6 at Berkeley High School's Florence Schwimley Little Theater.) Tickets are available at www.brownpapertickets.com. Call: 510-893-3132, info@oaklandballet.org, or visit www.oaklandballet.org
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Encore conversation with Mariam Diakite, lead vocalist, percussionist, dancer and Erich Huffaker, Guitar, orchestragold.com They have a EP release coincert at Ashkenaz Music and Dance Center, Friday. March 29, 8 p.m. (dance class), 9 p.m. (concert)
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This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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Leah Joki, No Joke Theatre at LAC-California State Prison, Lancaster, CA
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L. Peter Calender, Director, Black Eagles by Leslie Lee at African American Shakespeare at the Marine's Memorial theatre Sat.-Sun., through March 31. Visit https://www.african-americanshakes.org/productions/black-eagles/
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Rebroadcast of interview with Devin Cunningham and Robert Thomas Simpson re: Black Eagles (Feb. 20, 2019).
- Rev. Kamal Hassan, facilitator, OneLife Institutes' "Healing Black Lives": A special day of healing and renewal for people of African Descent" at Lake Merritt United Methodist Church. https://www.onelifeinstitute.org/healing-black-lives. 2019 dates: Saturdays, March 16, June 8, Aug 17 & Dec 7 (9:30am-4:30pm)
Kamal Hassan, OneLife Board Member & Spiritual Co-Director is also a spiritual leader, educator, and community servant. He currently serves as Pastor/Teaching Elder at the Sojourner Truth Presbyterian Church in Richmond California, a position he has held since 2008. Before this call Reverend Hassan spent more than three decades as both a public and private school educator, community organizer and religious worker. Kamal is a founding member of both the New Afrikan People’s Organization and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement. He has worked for social justice and Human Rights locally, nationally, and internationally.
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Deborah Santana, editor, All the Women in My Family Sing (recorded 07.03.2018).
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Dina Zarif, curator, Iranian artist, join us to talk about "Music of the Banned" concert March 16, 2019. http://redpoppyarthouse.org/event/motb-20190316/
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Amara Tabour Smith, Nkeiruka Oruche, Amber McZeal join us to talk about: House/Full of Black Women's Black Women Dreaming "divine darkeness" March 24-April 14, 2019 visit http://www.deepwatersdance.com/
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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Cheryl Fabio has been working in documentary film since 1976. She attended Fisk University, (BA/Sociology/Photography); then Stanford/Communications/Documentary Film program. Then freelancing when eventually she became a producer/director bringing many projects to fruition for KTOP TV and other community-based organizations. She was Program Director at Black Filmmaker’s Hall of Fame, Inc. (Oakland, CA), she taught at City College of San Francisco and Managed EATV, Operations Manager at KTOP TV – City of Oakland, and in 2009 she graduated from John F. Kennedy School of Law. Her non-profit, Sarah Webster Fabio Center for Social Justice, is co-producer of Evolutionary Blues … West Oakland’s Music Legacy. https://www.swfcenter4sj.org/ She joins us to talk about her film and conversation series: Resilience, Resistance, Anticipation: A Fresh Look at the Black Arts Movement at the Oakland Public Library, 1021 81st Avenue.
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Michael Wayne Rice (Geoffrey Dean) joins us to talk about Lucy Thurber's Transfers, directed by Ken Savage currently at Crowded Fire through March 23 at the Potrero Stage.
http://www.crowdedfire.org/transfers/
Music: Meklit Hadero's "Call." http://tobtr.com/s/11238443
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Nicia De'Lovely, Oakland native, is an acclaimed published Poetess, Multifaceted Artist, Antichild molestation/ trafficking/ exploitation ARTivist, spirited Survivor and Entrepreneur.
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Mariam Diakite –Lead Vocals, Percussion, Dance with Orchestra Gold and Erich Huffaker, guitar, multi-instrumentalist. They have a show 3/9 at Starry Plough & 3/29 an EP Party at Ashkenaz Music and Dance Center, both in Berkeley.
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25 Annual Collage des Africaines continues, 3/8-10, with a concert Sat. evening, 3/9. Naomi Gedo Diouf is the Artistic Director of Diamano Coura West African Dance Company. She is joined Mabiba Baegne, an internationally acclaimed dancer, dance teacher and choreographer of traditional and contemporary African Dance.
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Transfers through March 23, Crowded Fire Theatre cast: Caleb Cabrera (Christofer Rodriguez), David Everett Moore (David DeSantos), Victor D. Ragdale (Clarence Matthews).
- We speak to Zachary Whelan, ED, Avary Project, and director, John Beck, to talk about Invisible Bars, the effects of mass incarceration on children. The hour-long documentary Invisible Bars is a rare look at families caught in generational cycles of imprisonment - and those who are determined to break those cycles. The film debuts on KQED on March 19, 11 p.m., and screnes again on March 20 at 5 a.m. and on March 21 on KQED Plus at 10 a.m.
Black Choreographer's Festival Here and Now 2019: BCF Co-founder Kendra Barnes, (KKDE), who has made a dance for a quartet of women. Set to the sultry voice of Jennifer Johns, the piece, titled ReD zONE, explores various healing rituals for survivors of sexual violence, while tackling subjects like gaslighting, catcalling and the silencing of women. Shawn Hawkins, choreographer, joins us to talk about the duet for himself and Nafi Thompson titled "Stages of Love."
Julia Hughes, choreographer, together with her husband Julio Remelexo, directs a large ensemble of dancers, musicians, actors and capoeiristas called Tô Aí: We Are One People. The two set the choreography of Brazilian artist Dayse Brasil on their company. It's a dance and musical performance about the Orishas Exu and Pombagira, divinities in the Afro-Brazilian religious tradition, Candomblé.
We close with Laura Elaine Ellis re Soul to Soul at Walking Distance Dance Festival 2017 at ODC, 5/12-19/2019 this year.
http://tobtr.com/s/11191933
We speak to Ben Gilbarg, Creative Catalyst, Founder, Big Picture Anthems (2016). Gilbarg was at the helm of New Bedford-based non-profit 3rd EyE Unlimited from 1998-2011. “Taking Back the Power: The New Women’s Rights Anthem,” is debuting at Impact HUB Oakland, Friday, March 8, 7:00pm – 10 pm, 2323 Broadway, 510-858-2323. Iva Brito - spoken word artist who finishes the film, also joins us.
The premiere of “Taking Back the Power” will headline a night filled with artistic inspiration, valuable discussion, and great music. The launch event will feature performances from some of the anthem’s featured artists: Iva Brito, spoken word poet and talented rapper and Dakota Lopes, both traveling from the east coast (New Bedford, MA). There will be a panel discussion with topics including the role of the arts and how it can help enhance the women’s movement. Panelists include creators of the anthem and film, as well as activists on the front line. The event will be mc’ed by Angel Diaz. Doors open at 7 pm, 7:30 pm panel, 9 p.m. film screening followed by a discussion and music by Dj Anghelli. https://oakland.impacthub.net/things-to-do-in-oakland/
- Mama Naomi Washington
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
- From the Archives Nov. 4, 2011, Rochelle Ferrell. We open with "I can explain" live au theatre antique de Vienne le 12 juillet 2001.
TheatreWorks has selected two dynamic Bay Area actors to play the titular duo: Sister Rosetta & Marie Knight—Michelle E. Jordan and Marissa Rudd. Ms. Jordan, our guest this morning, is a musical icon and 2018 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Sister Rosetta Tharpe in TheatreWorks: Rosetta and Marie (with Marissa Rudd as Marie). Rosetta and Marie is up March 6-31 at the Lucie Stern Theatre, 1305 Middlefield Rd., in Palo Alto.
Jordan, a TheatreWorks veteran, received a Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for her performance in TheatreWorks’ Dreamgirls. She has also been seen at TheatreWorks in It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues, Crowns, Go Down Garvey, Hi-Hat Hattie!, Shakin’ the Mess Outta Misery, and Ain’t Misbehavin’. She also performed in Blues in the Night with Maurice Hines and Freda Payne at the Post Street Theatre and Bricktop at the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, and serves as the choir director of East Bay Church of Religious Science. For tickets and information visit: theatreworks.org or call (650) 463-1960.
- We rebroadcast the Special Tribute to Ntozake Shange (Nov. 23, 2018).
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Ricki Stevenson, founder of Black Paris Tours, has served as its creative thinker and CEO since its inception in 1998. She dreamed of life in Paris at three years old, when her mother, a former professional dancer, took her to see Josephine Baker perform in Los Angeles and later, at ten years old when her Mom took her to hear James Baldwin speak on Stanford Campus. Ricki says the idea for Black Paris Tours grew out of traveling the world as a television travel reporter...becoming a person of the WORLD...always looking and finding more Black history outside than at home!! http://www.blackparistour.com/
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Bryant B. Bolling holds a M.A. degree in African-Centric Musicology and a B.S. degree in Music Education. He joins us along with Mr. Jones, accompanist, and Zakiyyah Capehart Bolling, poet, to talk about TuBeNu Productions' "I Too Sing America – A Musical Journey through Slavery" for Black History Month 2019 at the Altenheim, 1720 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland, Feb. 22, 7 p.m. It is a free event.
3. Jacqueline Francis, Ph.D., joins us to talk about "Black Refractions Symposium at MoAD-SF," Sat., Feb. 23, 10:30 AM to 3:30 PM. https://www.moadsf.org/event/engage-black-refractions-symposium/
4. Actors, Devin Cunningham and Thomas Simpson join us to talk about Leslie Lee's Black Eagles at African American Shakespeare Company at the Marines Memorial Theatre, March 16-31 https://www.african-americanshakes.org/productions/black-eagles/
Related Event:
The Black History Month Blacks in the Military Exhibition has been extended to February 28, 2019. The Hours are 1:00 PM to 8:00 PM Mondays through Sundays- Veteran’s War Memorial Building- 401 Van Ness Avenue- Veteran’s Gallery- Room 102. Visit http://alwmcsf.org/gallery/2019-black-history
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Ricki Stevenson, founder of Black Paris Tours, has served as its creative thinker and CEO since its inception in 1998. She dreamed of life in Paris at three years old, when her mother, a former professional dancer, took her to see Josephine Baker perform in Los Angeles and later, at ten years old when her Mom took her to hear James Baldwin speak on Stanford Campus. Ricki says the idea for Black Paris Tours grew out of traveling the world as a television travel reporter...becoming a person of the WORLD...always looking and finding more Black history outside than at home!! http://www.blackparistour.com/
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Bryant B. Bolling holds a M.A. degree in African-Centric Musicology and a B.S. degree in Music Education. He joins us along with Mr. Jones, accompanist, and Zakiyyah Capehart Bolling, poet, to talk about TuBeNu Productions' "I Too Sing America – A Musical Journey through Slavery" for Black History Month 2019 at the Altenheim, 1720 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland, Feb. 22, 7 p.m. It is a free event.
3. Jacqueline Francis, Ph.D., joins us to talk about "Black Refractions Symposium at MoAD-SF," Sat., Feb. 23, 10:30 AM to 3:30 PM. https://www.moadsf.org/event/engage-black-refractions-symposium/
4. Actors, Devin Cunningham and Thomas Simpson join us to talk about Leslie Lee's Black Eagles at African American Shakespeare Company at the Marines Memorial Theatre, March 16-31 https://www.african-americanshakes.org/productions/black-eagles/
Related Event:
The Black History Month Blacks in the Military Exhibition has been extended to February 28, 2019. The Hours are 1:00 PM to 8:00 PM Mondays through Sundays- Veteran’s War Memorial Building- 401 Van Ness Avenue- Veteran’s Gallery- Room 102. Visit http://alwmcsf.org/gallery/2019-black-history
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
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Mark Lomax II, Ph.D. joins us to talk about 400: An Afrikan Epic
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Ifasina TaMeicka L. Clear is a Spiritual Coach and Elizabeth Jerde, community organizer and Events Coordinator at UUC Berkeley, join us to talk about the Soul Line-Dance Potluck Party, Sat., Feb. 23, 6-7 dinner, 7-10 dance, at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 1 Lawson Road, Kensington, uucbsoullinedance.eventbrite.com
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Watani Stiner is joined by his children, Larry Stiner Jr and LaTanya Stiner to talk about his incarcartion impacts children and their families. They will be in conversation, 2-4 p.m. at Sherith Israel, 2266 California, San Francisco, hosted by CA Prison Focus Newsletter.
Swingin’ At The Savoy is an event to celebrate Lindy Hop & Jazz, the joy of the dance and the music, their heritage and history. It takes place every year in February to follow on in the foot steps of the tradition established by the Northern California Lindy Society (NCLS) with the Frankie Manning weekends.
The event is open to dancers of all ages and promotes Lindy Hop & Jazz dance and music education, open-mindedness, playfulness, and creativity. Its goal is to help build and strengthen the Lindy Hop community.
https://swinginatthesavoy.com/ Feb. 22-24 in Oakland
Norma Miller (Dec. 1919)
If Frankie Manning was the king of Lindy Hop, Norma Miller is no doubt the reigning queen. Her position today is at an elevated throne, her background and career is without comparison. She’s the last of the classic Savoy Lindy Hoppers of the swing era, she’s a dynamite story-teller and lecturer.
Chazz Young
A spectacular dancer with a long and successful stage career, son of Lindy Hop master Frankie Manning, Chazz Young tours worldwide, spreading the gospel of Lindy Hop and Tap.
Chester Whitmore
Chester Whitmore is a man of many talents: tapper extraordinaire, master in karate, renowned drummer, bandleader, arranger, composer, songwriter, choreographer, stuntman.
1.Black Choreographers Festival Here and Now at 15. Today we speak to co-founder Laura Elaine Ellis, Executive Director of the African & African American Performing Arts Coalition (AAAPAC) and to presenting choreographer:
Dazaun Soleyn, artistic director of dazaun.dance, graduated from the University of South Florida with a BFA in Modern Dance Performance and Choreography. Soleyn is currently a freelance artist and an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco. For BCF 2019, Soleyn will show a work titled love me naked, which he describes as "a declaration of love of self through an exploration of vulnerability."
2.Kali Tambree is a PhD student in the department of sociology at UCLA. She received her BA in Sociology and Africana Studies from Vassar College in 2017. She reads and writes the Black Atlantic. Kali is a prison abolitionist and seeks to provide opportunities for inside education. She is from Baltimore.
thinkinggender@women.ucla.edu
- V-Day 2019: Archival Interview rebroadcast with Gina Breedlove, 1 Billion Rising 6/22/2012
V-Day 2019 Vagina Monologues https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vday-east-bay-the-vagina-monologues-2019-tickets-53896983328
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Jo Kreiter, Flyaway Productions, Laura Elaine Ellis, Executive Director of the African & African American Performing Arts Coalition (AAAPAC), Catalina "Caty" Palacios and Tanea Lunsford Lynx who are both members of Essie Justice to talk about The Wait Room, a site specific dance honoring women with incarcerated loved ones, April 19-20, April 24-25, April 26-27 at 1125 Market Street, a vacant lot opposite UN Plaza at Civic Center.
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Howard Thurman Special with Rev. Liza Rankow & Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake, Nov. 8, 2010. Upcoming programs at OneLife 2/17 & 3/7, both at East Bay Church of Religious Science, 4130 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, California 94609.
Don't forget to watch: Backs Against the Wall: The Howard Thurman Story, dir. Martin Doblmeier, (http://journeyfilms.com/batw/) on Public Television's WORLD Channel this afternoon/evening, 3 p.m. & 6 p.m. PT, Feb. 8. There are also local screenings on Feb. 9 and Feb. 12.
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Martin Doblmeier joins us to talk about his latest film, Backs Against the Wall:The Howard Thurman Story, airing nationally on PBS World Channel, Fri., Feb. 8, 9 PM PT. Since 1984 he has produced and directed more than 30 films focused on religion, faith and spirituality. Martin combines a lifelong interest in religion with a passion for storytelling. His films explore how belief can lead individuals to extraordinary acts, how spirituality creates and sustains communities and how faith is lived in extraordinary ways. Visit http://journeyfilms.com/media/
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Lisa Riley, One Degree of Separation Events and Travel, joins us to talk about Women of Color Entrpreneur Conference, at the Mexican Heritage Plaza in San Jose, March 16, 10 am-4 pm. Visit https://www.odostravel.com/events/entrepreneur-conference/
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Shola Adisa-Farrar, a Jamaican American Artist currently based in Paris, France is back for a three day residency, Feb. 14-16, the Black Cat in San Francisco for a three day residency. Her music is Jazz with Caribbean flavors and a touch of Afrobeat. Her debut album Lost Myself (Hot Casa Records, 2016) has been playing on international radio stations since 2016 and last Fall Spike Lee, personally selected one of her songs to be featured in his Netflix show, "She's Gotta Have It" season 1. Shola has served as an American Music Ambassador to 5 African countries and has headlined concerts in over 10 countries on 4 continents, including US, Russia and France
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Mr. Bertram Clark, Collector, historian and Vietnam Veteran, feat. African American soldiers from The Revolutionary War to WWII in an exhibit opening Saturday, Feb. 9th 2-5pm @ the SF War Memorial Veteran Building | Veteran Gallery RM 102. For more info visit: http://alwmcsf.org/gallery/2019-black-history
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Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi is a Zimbabwean musician, businessman, philanthropist, human rights activist who recently made his transition Sept. 22, 1952-Jan. 23, 2019. We share a March 23, 2011 interview. Zimbabwe Music Festival in the Bay Feb. 1-2, 2019, at http://www.ashkenaz.com/
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Josh Folan, producer, Ask for Jane at SF Indie Fest 2019
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CHRISTOPHER GREENSLATE's film, SAVIOR, is at SF Indie Feb. 2 (9:30 PM) and 2/6 (9:15 PM) at the Roxie.
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Ellen Sebastian Chang is the Creative Director (11 plus years) for The World As It Could Be Human Rights Education Program, where we use the arts to teach the historical and current understanding of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This event, Feb. 14, 21, 23, is in celebration of the 70th anniversary of the drafting of this important document that only 7% of our population is aware of.
Sandy Sohcot is the director and originator of The World As It Could Be Human Rights Education Program. Sandy Sohcot holds a California Lifetime Teaching Credential. In July 2001, Sandy became Executive Director of the Rex Foundation and served as in that capacity through 2013, to help renew the Foundation in the absence of direct Grateful Dead concert funding.
Artist, Virginia "Nia" Jourdan, who also joins us, is hosting the programs and unveiling 24 works inspired by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
1. Emily Kulhmann, director of exhibitions and Curatorial Affairs at the Museum of the African Diaspora in SF joins us to speak about Black Refractions: Highlights from the Studio Museum in Harlem
2. CHRIS METZLER, programmer, joins us to talk about the 21st Annual SF Indie, Jan. 30-Feb. 14, 2019 http://sfindie.com/festivals/sf-indiefest/
3. Sampson McCormick and Francesca Fiorentini join us to speak about Not My F--ing President's Day https://www.brava.org/all-events/2019/2/17/not-my-fing-presidents-day-2019
4. Pam S, (dir.) & Wendell Watkins, (subj.), join us to talk about the wonderful AmericaReframed film "Detroit 48202: conversations Along a Postal Route." https://worldchannel.org/episode/arf-detroit-48202/
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
8 to 9 AM Jo Kreiter, Flyaway Productions' The Wait Room, the first episode in her Decareration Trilogy
9 AM Vanguard Revisited: Poetic Politics & Black Futures at SF Art Institute Jan 21-Apr. 7. We speak to Jeff Gunderson who was the professor that led the class that developed the Vanguard exhibit which opens tomorrow evening: 5-8 p.m. SFAI’s Walter and McBean Galleries are open to the public Tuesday 11 AM – 7 PM and Wednesday – Saturday, 11 AM – 6 PM and are free. Visit sfai.edu or call (415) 749-4563. SFAI’s Walter and McBean Galleries are located at 800 Chestnut St., San Francisco, CA.
9.30 The Last Sermon of Sister Imani by Cleavon Smith at TheatreFirst in Berkeley.
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
- We open with a conversation with Julia Chigamba, founder and director of the Chinyakare Ensemble and Johnonoh Nyamuzuwe, board member, about the Mitambo Festival of Shona Music featuring Mafaro eZimbabwe and Chinyakare Ensemble at Ashkenaz Music and Dance Center, Friday, February 1, 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM.
This show is dedicated to Oliver Mtukudzi (Sept. 22, 1952-Jan. 23, 2019)
This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!
- OUSD Kehinde Salter, Oakland Unified School Teacher, LPAA Artistic Director / Co-founding member and Artistic Director of Lyric Dance and Vocal Ensemble, joins us to talk about the sick out today in Oakland Public Schools District. www.prlog.org/12748968-fremont-high-teachers-call-another-ousd-sick-out.html
Call Labor Director's Office: 510-879-4048
Superintendent Dr. Kyla Johnson-Trammell: 510-879-8200 (https://www.ousd.org/domain/4813) Mrs. Salter has served as an educator for the past 17 years, vocalist, dancer, percussionist, poet, writer and ordained minister with a bachelor’s degree in theatre arts with a minor in music. https://www.lyricperformingartsacademy.com/instructors 2. Stacey Hoffman, Executive director, Living Jazz, joins us to talk about the annual tribute to Dr. King, In the Name of Love, this Sunday, Jan. 20, 7 p.m. at Oakland Scottish Rite Center. http://jazzcampwest.livingjazz.org/about_StaceyHoffman.php https://www.livingjazz.org/mlktribute/ 3. Charles Blackwell, teacher at Youth Spirit Arts, in Berkeley, visual artist, playwright, poet--artivist, joins us to talk about Dr. King's legacy.
- Kathleen Dowdey, dir., John Lewis, Get in the Way