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FRI. 07.05.2024 

First Friday’s poet, Mark K. Tilsen,  Oglala Lakota Poet / Educator, Standing Rock veteran, poet of resistance and resilience, 

       ... new / renewed wordsound from Tongo Eisen-Martin / Thurston Moore (San Francisco/NYC), Georgia Sea Island Singers (St. Simons Island, Georgia), Andrew Gurruwiwi Band (northeast Arnhem Land, Australia), Black Decelerant (South Carolina/Oregon), Lupe Fiasco (Chicago), Eve Crazy & Mar Yo (Senegal/Finland ), Valentina Magaletti / HIIIT (EEC, etc.), the Halluci Nation (Mohawk and Cayuga First Nations, Canada), 

+ …  the poet’s playlist 

…  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

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10a - 1pm Pacific

FRI. 06.28.2024 

Love week, without borders, 
all genders/genres/generosities

       ... loving and pride and celebration and community from Equipto (San Francisco), Dobet Gnahoré (Côte d'Ivoire), Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 and The Cavemen (both Lagos), Mabe Fratti (Guatemala/CDMX), K!mmortal (Vancouver: Musqueam/Squamish/Tsleil-Waututh territory), Linda Sikhakhane (South Africa), Flavia Coelho (Rio de Janeiro/Paris), Zeynep Erbay (Turkey), + …  dancing and big heart signs    

…  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

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10a - 1pm Pacific

FRI. 06.21.2024 

Solstice, and a full strawberry moon … 

       … the morning after the shortest night, dawn-exultations

       that glow on new fruit

       ... warm sunshine sounds from Kronos Quartet & friends (San Francisco), Mourning [A] BLKstar (Cleveland, OH), Sampa the Great (Zambia/Botswana/Australia), Mavis Staples (Chicago), Bosq & Kaleta (Benin/Medillin/Brooklyn), Jaubi (Lahore, Pakistan), Franck Biyong (Cameroon), Bixiga 70 (São Paulo), Hirahi Afonso (Canary Islands ), Sunny Jain (NYC/Punjab), … and some sweetness, truth, 

…  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

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10a - 1pm Pacific

FRI. 06.14.2024 

Wild plants and sound, a garden for all … 

       … of language without word, syntax of note and silence

       ...  old renewed and aged new breaths from Ensemble Hougaku Shijyuusoudan  (Japan), Violence Gratuite (Breton/Cameroon), Yann Falquet (Québéc), Meridian Brothers (Colombia), corto.alto (southside Glasgow), Hajda Banda  (Polesia/Poland ),  Beings (NYC), Odd Okoddo (Nairobi), Nubya Garcia (London), PLUS…

recent inspirations/elevations, some folk, some polyphony, some Meiji modernizations and a Chief Adjuah set … 

…  broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

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10a - 1pm Pacific
FRI. 06.07.2024 

First Friday’s poet LOURDES FIGUEROA, … in  reading and discussion, her poet’s playlist:  a Chicanx poet whose work is the dialogue of her lived experience when her family worked in el azadón—tilling of the soil under the blistering sun. Author of the chapbooks yolotl, Ruidos = Learn Speak, and Vuelta, and works in the Mexican journal Tierra Adentro. Lourdes continues to believe in your lung and your throat, celebrating our Pocha Marimacha Califa tongue

     AND celebrating the return of the 2024 The International San Francisco Flor y Canto Literary Festival (6/21-23), to La Misíon, with her FLOR Y CANTO co-organizers JOSIAH LUIS ALDERETE, a full blooded Pocho, Spanglish speaking poeta, co-keeper of the Medicina Para Pesadillas portal,  and NORMAN ANTONIO ZELAYA, Nicoya-rooted Mission District homeboy, master storyteller and the masked luchador known as Super Pulga.  ALL reading  … for the culture of the City and La Misíon,

    PLUS updates from the campaign to free Leonard Peltier and a feature set on old and new South African jazz,  groups Izithunywa and Dyertribe visiting the Bay this weekend , celebrating the 30th anniversary of the end of apartheid,

 …  and ALL broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.
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10a - 1pm Pacific

FRI. 05.31.2024 

 privilege of peace and music, and of drawing breath 

         Inhalation= liberation and love’s courage,  exhalation = singing to your neighbors and perhaps to random strangers…

New sonic sustenance without borders, without genres:     Pamela Badjogo (Paris/Gabon), Thandiswa (South Africa), Manu Chao (Catalonia/ Paris), Red Fast Luck (San Francisco), Aiofe O'Donovan (Boston), Leyla McCalla (NOLA/Haiti), Starry Skemes / Warm Spell (San Francisco), The Brkn Record (London) …  + others,

 …  ALL broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

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10a - 1pm Pacific
FRI. 05.24.2024

Celebrating CARNAVAL weekend, with some samba and salsa, cumbia and champeta (… and a whole afrobeat set) to dance in the streets and to make some change with.

Local and new music from Agua Pura,  Combo Tezeta,  Mild Universe,  ¿Qiensave?,  Jesus Díaz y su QBA,  Sambada,  Louda y los Bad Hombres

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… all broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.
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10a - 1pm Pacific

FRI. 05.17.2024 

Dancing in these longer days, darkness despite light, destroying time/silence

  new music from Sheherazaad (San Francisco/South Asia), Social Dance (Marseille),  LAIR (West Java), Blick Bassy (France/Cameroon), The Zawose Queens (Tanzania), musclecars (Brooklyn), Melanie Charles / Melissa Laveaux (Haiti/Brooklyn), Tidiane Thiam (No.Senegal), [+] other music to dance across borders from Cameroon to Korea to Congo (and not yet Colma)

…  broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

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10a - 1pm Pacific

FRI. 05.10.2024 

… spring songs, the joy for creation and for remaking the world.

…featuring music from QWANQWA (Addis Ababa) coming through the Bay Area next week, and a weekend of amazing shows (and some tickets),

and a noontime discussion with ARTHUR PYE (Emergency Committee for Rojava), writer/activist reporting on the Rojava Revolution in Northeast Syria, also in the Bay next week

Some new sunshine song and resistance rhythm from Teja Gerken (San Francisco),  Tiken Jah Fakoly (Bamako/Côte D’Ivoire),  Mas Aya (Toronto/Nicaragua),  Cyril Cyril & Meridian Brothers (Geneva/Bogotá), Peemaï / Gayam 16 (France/Java),  Nubiyan Twist (London),  Kamasi Washington (LA), [+]  other SWANA sounds

…  broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

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10a - 1pm Pacific

FRI. 05.03.2024 

…our first Friday’s poet Tonya M. Foster, reading and in interview. Brilliant poet and essayist, feminist scholar, on teaching from a liminal space between visual art and the written word, on creative process and place. Tonya is author of ‘A Swarm of Bees in High Court’, the bilingual chapbook  ‘La Grammaire des Os’, and the forthcoming ‘Thingifications.’  She is dancing despite what is.

+ LIVE in studio:
Neblinas del Pacífico,  Mission-based ensemble playing the Afro-Colombian ‘marimba de chonta’ music of Colombia's Pacific coast!  We’ll hear and dig into the legacy and traditions of the music and hear about their upcoming SF International Arts, and Yerba Buena Garden Festival performances .

And finally, Cristina Ibarra, director of the Yerba Buena Garden Festival previews all the amazing international summer freeness coming to SF

…  broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

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Neblinas del Pacífico.... is, on marimba, vocals, bombos, cununos, guasás:

Federico Ardila

Pipe Arrechea

May-Li Khoe

Juliana Mejía

Andrés Reyes

Stephanie Reist