Wanda's Picks

Rebroadcast of the Wanda's Picks Special interview (first aired 7/15) with creative musical team for "Great Integration: A Hip Hop Chamber Opera" about Golden Fetus Records: JooWan Kim, Christopher Nicholas, and Kirby Dominant in the first segment; we close with choreographer Raissa Simpson, PUSH Dance Company. She choreographed the movement for the "hip-hopera" which debuted at ODC Theatre. PUSH Dance Company is taking Great Integration renamed per the composer's request: "The Saga of the Black Swordsman," to New York next week, July 23-24.

We are joined by the creative team for the Hip Hop Chamber Opera: Great Integration: JooWan Kim, composer and President of Golden Fetus Records), Kirby Dominant: ft. MC on Great Integration, and singer, composer, Christopher Nicholas. JooWan speaks about the arrival of Bolon Yokte, the Mayan god of Nine-Dog Tree, and how it is marking the end/and or transformation of the world we know, and how Great Integration is related to this. At its core "Great Integration" speaks to a spiritual center that life is connected to and what happens when this is denied, ignored, severed or attacked. Visit http://goldenfetus.com/ During the second half we will be joined by choreographer Raissa Simpson, PUSH Dance Company, who will speak about her "Great Integration" evening length dance production next staging, this time at New York's Joyce SoHo, located at 155 Mercer Street, July 23-24, 2010. Great Integration Raissa's PUSH Dance Company and composer JooWan Kim's Mik Nawooj, had with sold out performances for both nights last month at the world premiere at ODC Dance Theatre. It is not everyday that two creative minds come together to collaborate on such an awesome project based on Kim's story of the Black Swordsman.

We open with a rebroadcast of an interview earlier this year with Jean Yvon Kernizan and Selena who talk about Haiti just after the earthquake. 7/12 marked the six month anniversary and the situation is still dire. Stay tuned for a live update in the coming weeks. Director, Israel Luna's "Ticked Off Trannies Trannies With Knives?' Better be nice to the girls, or they'll cut ya!" one reviewer states--closes the Another Hole in the Wall Film Festival, July 22 at the Roxie Theatre in San Francisco. He is joined by actor: Willam Belli. He plays the character Rachel Slurr. Festival programmer, Kelda McKinney, also joins us. Trannies also screens in Japantown at VIZ Theatre on July 23.Visit http://www.sfindie.com

Raye Mitchell, founder of I C HOPE: The Making a New Reality Foundation, Specific Community Change Programs and Projects in Development, and is launching the inaugural:G.U.R.L.S. Rock Summit, August 28, 2010 Oakland, CA. A program that focuses on supporting girls and girls of color to be global leaders and have local impact.Focus will be on leadership, self-esteem and self acceptance. An attorney who studied at Harvard Law School where she met President Obama. Ms. Mitchell is also a motivational speaker, activist in the change movement, change leadership, social entrepreneurism. Sheryle A. Grants joins Ms. Mitchell to talk about G.U.R.L.S. Rock and the skills she brings as a philanthropist with a passion for working with youth. Sheryl has raised 65K to support the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Inc., Oakland Bay Area Chapter’s Positive Steps Program (girls 12-17). She has also developed curriculum for Positive Steps. Visit www.ICHOPE2.com or call (925) 386-6781 or [email protected] We close with a conversation with Annette Ruah and Catherine, founders of Jiji la Watoto and the Taste of Africa Fundraiser, July 18 at Habitot Children's Museum in Berkeley, 12-4 PM, to raise funds for An African Village Project. Visit http://jijilawatoto.com/media/

Musical Tribute

Tubenu Productions presents: The African American Experience through Music (1600-1860s) with the Bryant Bolling Creative Art Ensemble, July 11, 2010 @ 5:00 PM at the First Congregational Church of Oakland, 2501 Harrison Street, Oakland, CA 94612, $20.00. Admission is $20.00. This production acts as a healing for all races in America. We will also rebroadcast our "Oscar Grant Special Report" with panelists: Rachel Jackson, organizing member of the New Years Movement 4 Justice, Oakland General Assembly for Oscar Grant, CA Coalition and Oakland Coalition; Frank B. Wilderson, III, creative writer, dramaturge, filmmaker, poet, and critical theorist, Ph.D. candidate at UC Santa Cruz in the History of Consciousness Dept. where he is investigating incarceration: bodies and spirit housed most often in black bodies; Mateen Kemet, director of Runaway Films shows “Oakland Be Mine,” a work-in-progress, to be screened at the Oakland International Airport for a year when completed. The show also featured conversations with Sonya Hopkins, an African American cowgirl and contestant in the Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo this weekend where she has been a finalist and BPIR emcee, country western singer, Miko Marks. The BPIR is July 10-11. Visit http://www.billpickettrodeo.com/schedule.html or call 510.864.2747 We close with Tuck and Patti (Patti Cathcart, vocals; Tuck Andress, guitar) perform at Stanford Jazz, Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Saturday, July 10, 2010, 8 PM. Visit http://www.stanfordjazz.org/jazzfestival/07_10.html

Rachel Jackson, New Years Movement 4 Justice, Oakland General Assembly for Oscar Grant, CA Coalition and Oakland Coalition, which meets each Thursday at 7 PM at the Continental Club, 1628 12th Street, Oakland. Next meeting, July 15. For information email: [email protected] The Oakland Townhall meets this Sat., July 10, 4 PM at Olivet Institutional Missionary Baptist Church, 807 27th St. @ San Pablo Avenue, (510) 452-4201. Frank B. Wilderson, III, author of Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile & Apartheid Red, White, & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms (Duke University Press 2010); and the director of Reparations…Now a film in progress. He is an Associate Professor of African American Studies and Drama, at the University of California, Irvine. Currently, he a visiting professor at UC Davis.

Gregory Caldwell works at the Richmond Youth BUILD Program. He is a Ph.D. candidate at UC Santa Cruz in the History of Consciousness Dept. where he is investigating incarceration: bodies and spirit housed most often in black skin. Greg’s pedagogic interventions with young people speaks to Oscar Grant’s murder and the spectacle or life he inherited, a life where even in death, he is blamed or held culpable for his demise. Mateen Kemet, director, screens a work-in-progress this evening, “Oakland Be Mine,” 7/09/10, 7 to 10:30 PM at Othe Humanist Hall, 390 27th St., Oakland: www.runawayfilmworx.com Sonya Hopkins, an African American cowgirl and contestant in the Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo this weekend where she has been BPIR finalist, [email protected] Named "Best New Country Artist" by New Music Weekly, Miko Mark serves as MC at the BPIR, 07/10-07/11/2010, 2:30 PM daily, at the Rowell Ranch Rodeo Grounds, 9711 Dublin Canyon Road, Hayward, CA. Visit http://www.billpickettrodeo.com/schedule.html or call (510)864-2747 Tuck & Patti perform at Stanford Jazz, Dinkelspiel Auditorium, July 10, 2010, 8 PM. Visit www.stanfordjazz.org/jazzfestival/07_10.html

Bishop Ernestine Reems celebrates her 81st Birthday with us on the air in a prerecorded interview. This evening is the kick off of a week long series of events at the Center of Hope Church, Center of Hope Community Church 8411 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland, CA, Host: Pastors Brondon and Maria Reems: Wednesday, July 7

7:00 p.m.: Vickie Winans in Concert; Friday, July 9,7:00 p.m. - "Celebration Service - Dr. Wanda Turner," Saturday, July 10, 10:00 a.m. - "Prayer Breakfast - An Appointment With God" (Women Only)

Dr. Wanda Turner," Sunday, July 11, 11:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. - Pastor Donnie McClurkin. For ticket information and service times, please contact Center of Hope Business Office at (510) 633-5133. We close with a live interview with Nicole Klaymoon regarding her new work: "Bloodline" at La Peña Cultural Center in Berkeley, July 10, 2010. The Embodiment Project's “Bloodline," is a street dance theater production that interweaves spoken word, video, and song, Saturday July 10, 2010, at La Peña Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck Avenue, in Berkeley. Tickets are: $10 gen. $8 students w/ID – 8 p.m.

If love is what we're all longing for, then why does it feel so difficult to receive? Embodiment Project invites you to witness ten performers use street dance, spoken word, video, theater, and song, unearthing the most intimate workings of their hearts, in an attempt to better understand our shared emotional reality. Drawing from love in all its forms - familial, romantic, esoteric, and abstract - "Bloodline" fuses process and performance highlighting the symbiotic nature of vulnerability and self-empowerment. "Bloodline" is the manifestation of the belief that self-healing is the most important step towards social change and a shift in global consciousness. Visit www.embodimentproject.org It's too easy to leave one's body, especially one filled with trauma and memories best forgotten. Escape feels good, yet, the real work is often found in the staying put: embodiment.

Herb Way, author: Portraits of Eve: Women of Color Share Their Body/Soul Conversations. Visit http://portraits-of-eve.com/ Way says his objective is to graphically show that every body has a beautiful story to tell, even – especially -- the woman of color’s and that story encompasses the soul that animates, the beliefs and experiences that inform, the energy and spirit that drive. Parnel Herb, Robert H. King and cast member and director of the new stage play: ANGOLA-3 is up for one night only, FRIDAY JULY 23, 2010, 8 PM at the UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON CULLEN PERFORMANCE HALL. The play is a part of a weekend of commemorative activities celebrating the life of Black Panther, Carl B. Hampton (July 23-26, 2010). Visit WWW.ANGOLA3THEPLAY.COM, WWW.CARLLIVES.COM, kingsfreelines.com and http://www.angola3action.org/faction/index.html Feven Debas editor of "Winta," an East African feature film, directed by Mesfin Sinke, gives our audience a brief synopsis. Visit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQBHjz-516k

"Winta," (TRT 2-1/4 hrs.), will be screened at Samuel Merritt University Theatre, 400 Hawthorne Street in Oakland, Saturday July 3rd at 2 PM and 6 PM. Resident playwright Michael Gene Sullivan joined the San Francisco Mime Troupe in 1988 as an actor and began writing for the Mime Troupe in 1992; he directed his first Mime Troupe production in 1995, and became head writer in 2000. The Tony Award-winning San Francisco Mime Troupe opens its 51st season with POSIBILIDAD, or Death of the Worker. POSIBILIDAD plays July 3 through September 19 (press opening: July 4 at Dolores Park in San Francisco) throughout the Bay Area in San Francisco, the North Bay, East Bay, Peninsula, and Santa Cruz. All shows are free and open to the public (unless otherwise noted). For a complete schedule and more information, call 415.285.1717 or visit www.sfmt.org

We close with a song from Sarazino's "Yo Foy: 'One Big World.'"

Rebroadcast of Wanda's Picks Special featuring composer/artists: Mack Rucks (trumpet) and Muziki Roberson (piano). They speak about a new series that kicked off at Eastside Cultural Center in Oakland, Friday, June 4, 2010, continuing July 2 and August 6. Shows are at 8 PM. Visit www.eastsideartsalliance.org Director Marie A. Celestin joins us to talk about "Black Rainbows: The Colors and Self-Images of African American Girls. Two of the women subjects featured in the film will also be on the air. We close with Carolyn Brandy and Ava Square-Levias who will talk about the Women's Drum Camp: Born to Drum, this weekend, as well as the annual fundraiser at La Pena Cultural Center: Women Drummers International presents: BORN TO DRUM MAESTRA CONCERT: JULY 1ST AT La Peña Cultural Center, Berkeley, CA. Show starts at 7:30pm.

The incredible line up of women drummers who are

gathering for the weekend camp are: Edwina Lee Tyler, Ubaka Hill, Lora Chiorah-Dye, Sheree Seretse, Jackie Rago, Mabiba Baegne, Nydia Liberty Mata, Carolyn Brandy, Virginia Lopez, Las Bomberas De La Bahia, Afia Walking Tree,

Susu Pampanin, Michaelle Goerlitz, Suki, Elizabeth Sayre, Adwoa Tacheampong with dancers: Ava Square-Levias and Michelle ŒBuffy¹ Drysdale. Join us for

this incredible concert. All on one stage ¬ one incredible night! Purchase

tickets early!

Doors open at 7:00

www.borntodrum.org

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Join Mark Wright, Mack Rucks, Muziki Roberson to talk about a new series that kicked off at Eastside Cultural Center in Oakland, Friday, June 4, 2010, continuing July 2 and August 6.

Kim Nalley with Houston Person, who will be at the Rrazz Room, June 30-July 4, at Hotel Nikko in San Francisco open this Friday's show. Recently named one of the "Ten Most Influential African Americans in the Bay Area," Kim Nalley has an international reputation as one of world's best jazz blues vocalists. Described as "jazz's working class hero, a true man of the people," Houston Person came to national attention with a series of soulful albums recorded for Prestige in the 1960s. Person's fame grew still more with his successful 30-year musical partnership with vocalist Etta Jones. A passionate tenor saxophonist, alternately tough and tender, Person is now recognized as one of today's leading instrumentalists. Rikki Beadle-Blair, director of "FIT" which is screening at the 34th Frameline Film Festival, 1 PM Sat., June 26, at the Castro theatre in San Francisco, is our second guest. Next: Kim Shuck is one of two artists-in-residence at the deYoung Museum in San Francisco. The project: "Over and Out Past the Lines" concludes this weekend, with a reception, Friday, June 25 from 6–8:30 p.m. in the Kimball Education Gallery. Shuck and Michael Horse's project is an exploration of ledger art, poetry and beadwork. Shuck writes poetry and creates beadwork. Last: Interviews with choreographers for two companies appearing this last weekend of the Ethnic Dance Festival: Imani's Dream and Las Bomberas, June 26-27, at the Palace of Fine Arts. This original hip-hop piece, "A Rose That Grows From the Concrete," based on the Tupac Shakur's poem, was created in 2009 as a collaboration by the dancers & Artistic director, Caprice Armstrong, in Imani’s Dream. In "¡Hay bombazo en el batay!" Las Bomberas brings a contemporary Puerto Rican bombazo—a lively bomba gathering—to the stage.