Wanda's Picks

Today we will feature the director and cast from Chinaka Hodge's world premiere of "Mirrors in Every Corner," currently at Intersection for the Arts through Sunday, March 28, 2010.

Maureen Gosling, co-director with Maxine Downs, BAMAKO CHIC:WOMEN CLOTH DYERS OR MALI. There is a fundraiser Thursday, March 18, 7:30 PM at the Berkeley Hillside Club, 2286 Cedar @ Arch, (510) 843-8724. Ise Lyfe is up next, his "Pistols and Prayers," speakoutnow.org event, March 19, 2010, 8 PM at the Berkeley Rep Theatre, Thrust Stage, 2025 Addison Street. Also visit www.iselfye.com The 28th Annual Asian American Film Festival, March 11-21, 2010, directors Freida Lee Mock, "Lt. Watada," "Sing China!" and co-director, Mike Cheng, "Aoki." Visit www.asianemericanmedia.org Rhodessa Jones, Medea Project, Cultural Odyssey which is celebrating its 30th Anniversary, currently closing its season at the Burial Clay Theatre, 762 Fulton Street in San Francisco. "Dancing with the Clown of Love" closes this very successful home season. Catch this wonderful show tonight, Friday, March 12 & Sat., March 13, 2010, 8 PM and Sunday, March 14, 3 PM. Visit culturalodyssey.org We the show with the music of Rokia Traore "Dounia," on her "Tchamantche" (2008). Peace and Blessings.

Today we will rebroadcast an interview taped Feb. 6, 2010, with Ronald K. Brown, Evidence Dance Company, whose work is a part of Alvin Ailey Dance Company's tour currently at UC Berkeley's Cal Performances Tuesday, March 9 through Sunday, March 14, 2010. We start with a poem by Marilyn Buck from her Revolutionary Petunias. The show closes with an interview with directors of "Hold the Sun," one of the feature films at the San Francisco International Asian Film Festival, March 11-21 in venues throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.

"Edward 'Kidd' Jordan is probably the single most under-documented jazz musician of his generation, a fact that is even more remarkable when you consider that he is also one of the busiest musicians in the world. The list of bands and artists Jordan has performed with reads like a 40-year Grammy program, from Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder to Aretha Franklin and the Supremes. And the list of jazz musicians he has performed with is even longer, from Ed Blackwell and Ellis Marsalis to Ornette Coleman, Cannonball Adderley and Cecil Taylor. This fact has not been lost on his appreciative European audiences, as Jordan was recognized by the French government with a knighthood for his contribution to the European performing arts. In addition to his live performances, Kidd Jordan has long been associated with music education due to his position at Southern University at New Orleans, 1974-2006. The honesty in Kidd Jordan’s playing is only matched by a tone that has rarely been heard in the history of his instrument. When audiences talk about Kidd Jordan, sometimes it is necessary to stop and think for a moment...are they referring to Kidd the prophet, the artist, or the teacher? Fortunately for all those that are privileged to know and hear him, they are all the same, all one." http://www.indiejazz.com/ArtistDetail.aspx?ArtistID=122 We close with a conversation with curator: Julio Cesar Morales, adjunct curator of YBCA and subject and co-curator/collaborator with Morales of his "Kamau Amu Patton: Icons of Attention," up at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts through Sunday, March 7, 2010. Visit www.ybca.org Bay Area-based video and performance artist Kamau Amu Patton's "Icons of Attention" is a dialogue that addresses the development and intersection of the roots and tradition of the culture of electronic music.

We open the show with a conversation with Amy Muller, director of Marcus Gardley's …AND JESUS MOONWALKS THE MISSISSIPPI at The Cutting Ball Theater in residence at EXIT on Taylor,277 Taylor St., San Francisco. For tickets ($15-30) visit www.cuttingball.com or call 800-838-3006; discounts are available for students and seniors. Lorraine Hansberry Theatre's inaugural season, "Mahalia: A Gospel Musical," by Tom Stolz, directed by Stanley E. Williams, features our guests: Jeanie Tracy as Mahalia Jackson, Charlene Moore, accompanist, and John "Jambi" Borens as Cousin Fred, Blind Francis, Thomas Dorsey, Martin Luther King Jr. and others. LHT is now located at 450 Post Street @ Union Square in downtown San Francisco. Visit www.LHTSF.org or call (415) 474-8800. Closing weekend, Friday, March 5, 8 PM, Saturday, March 6, 2 PM matinee is a Target Family Matinee, all seats are $20. There is a free hot meal served afterwards. There is also an 8 PM performance March 6. Sunday, March 7, 4 PM closes this run. This interview is an extended one; our guests from Alvin Ailey canceled their interview due to rehearsal conflicts. Catch them March 9-14 at UC Berkeley's Zellerbach Hall. I think they are in LA country presently, so if you're in the area....We close with our third conversation with artists, Jimi Evins, Ronnie Prosser, James Reid, Ted Pontiflet, all four men featured artists in the "Art from the Heart: Love of Art," show at Studio 750A 14th St. @ Brush, Oakland, CA 94612. The gallery is open on Weekends & First Friday March 5th 5:00 p.m. to 8 p.m. (510) 853-2122. I did speak to Edward “Kidd” Jordan who is in town with Other Minds 15, Concert Two, 7 PM Panel Discussion, 8 PM concert. Call (415) 292-1233 and visit www.othermindsorg . Kidd is also performing at the Bach Beach House in Half Moon Bay on Sunday afternoon and at Kuumba in Santa Cruz on Monday, March 8, 2010. Listen up for the broadcast later today, along with a conversation with Kamau Amu Patton @ YBCA,PAUSE II.

Today we'll play a prerecorded interview with Regine Zamor, who describes herself as a Haitian-American, Program Manager, Film Producer, Writer, turned Relief Effort Coordinator. When I spoke to her Tuesday evening it was 11 PM when we finished speaking. She was packing for her trip to Haiti the next day, where she is relocating to continue to help facilitate the rebuilding of her country one person at a time. Follow her at: http://twitter.com/regineparicia, visit the film site http://www.strangethingsmovie.com/ which connects one with the blog http://bagaydwol.wordpress.com/ which features Regine's posts, film footage and links to other reputable information on Haiti. We will speak to Ti Georges about a foundation he has established to plant fruit trees in his native Haiti. The chef has a restaurant in Los Angeles, Ti Georges' Chicken "Haitian Cuisine," www.tigeorgeschicken.com

Albirda Rose, Ph.D., talks about her "Journey of Love," new work in the SFSU faculty and guest showcase: Monumental Movement, March 4-6, 2010; call (415) 338-2467. Next we are joined by "An Idea Called Tomorrow at the California African American Museum: Sonia Manjon, John Halaka, Karen Seneferu and Asul Kwahuumba. Next up are poets featured in "Ayibobo! Amen for Haiti:" Al Young, Jack Hirschman, devorah major, Bodibo; Love of Art: Show and Sale, artists part 2: Jimi Evins, Ted Pontiflet, Ronnie, Prosser, and James Reid at Studio 750A in Oakland

We will speak to Ramona Africa about Mumia Abu Jamal, MOVE, and revolution. Visit http://www.onamove.com/contact/, http://www.freemumia.com/ and http://www.prisonradio.org The show closes with a conversation with Osagie Enabulele,who motivated by the need to bridge the gap between people of the world founded Education Development Opportunities (EDO). He will talk about EDO Inc.'s annual fundraiser, this year: "The State of Diaspora - A Vision of Opportunities," Celebrating Black History Month, Glaucoma Month and the PAN-African Community: A Discussion for a more Unified Africa and World. Special Guest and Key note Speaker, Nigerian Author & Activist, Professor Wole Soyinka, Nobel Laureate 1986, the first African to win a Nobel Prize in Literature and Honorary Adviser to EDO, INC. 4:30 PM - 11:30 PM, Saturday, February 27, 2010 at the Jack London Aquatic Center, 115 Embarcadero East, Oakland, CA 94606-5138. The dinner, reception, and fundraiser awareness on glaucoma and Ake Scholarship Drive. Tickets are $50 each. Please RSVP and mail checks to:P.O. Box 72294, Oakland, CA 94612 by February 21, 2010.

Website: www.edodevelopment.org, and www.edolive.org,

Jovelyn Richards's "Come Home" at La Pena Cultural Center, Friday, Feb. 26, 2010, 8 PM. Visit www.lapena.org; Wanda Ravernell, Omnira Projects present, "Roots of Faith: Roots of Faith, Roots of Freedom," Sunday, Feb.21, 2010, 2 PM, at the SF Main Library, 100 Larkin Street @ Grant, (510) 436-0658or [email protected]; "Love of Art" features artists: Jimi Evans, Ted Pontiflet, Ronnie Prosser, James Reid, at Studio 750A 14th Street @Brush in Oakland, (510)853-2122, every Sat/Sun 12 noon to 5 PM through March 21, 2010. We close with a conversation with Scott Braley and Mickey Ellinger, a photographer/writer team from Oakland who worked with Mrs. Alice Royal to produce the book: Allensworth the Freedom Colony, about a small African American Township founded in 1908 near Bakersfield. They went with Global Exchange to Cuba and will share with us the Cuban plan for sustainable development. Alicia Jrapko also joins us. Alicia is the National Coordinator in the US of the International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban 5, who has been involved since 2001.

This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the writing, visual and performing arts of African people in the Diaspora. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work filled with raw and unfettered passion. They are our true heroes. periodically we will rebroadcast shows, what we call, "From the Archives." In our first year, Wanda's Picks has had in its studio guests who have illuminated the airwaves.