Wanda's 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!

1. We speak to Dameion Brown, "Pericles," at Marin Shakespeare Company through Aug. 5. Visit marinshakespeare.org

2. From the Archives: Townhall to End Incarceration of Women and Girls; "White" at Shotgun Theatre

Annoucements: Nia Wilson's funeral at 11 at Acts Full Gospel COGIC, 134 66th Ave, Oakland, CA 

http://abc7news.com/watch-live-today-nia-wilson-memorial-service/3871018/

 

Bay Area Chapter of the Association of Black Psychologists Invites YOU to:

 

Community Care and Responsiveness towards Collective Action

Friday 08/03/18: 2pm (After the services for Nia Wilson)

 

Family Life Center of Allen Temple

Address:

8501 International Boulevard

Oakland, California 94621

Phone: (510) 544-8910

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. Karel Sloane-Boekbinder, Ashe Cultural Arts Center's Programs Assistant, Theatre, Visual Art and Education along with guest curator Gason Ayisyin, join us to talk about the current exhibit: MAAFA: Creativity, Faith, Tradition and Resilience through August 23 at the Power House.

2. Cheryl Patrice Derricotte's Ghost Ships 

3. Britney Fraizer (God, Understanding) joins us to talk about Everybody, by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, currently at Cal Shakes (Tues.-Sun., Aug. 5) dir. by Nataki Garrett. Visit calshakes.org

Thursday 8/2- Public Viewing 1-4 pm

Fuller Funeral Home

4647 International Blvd

Oakland, CA 94601

 

Friday 8/3- Funeral Service 11am

Acts Full Gospel COGIC

134 66 Ave

Oakland, CA

1. Kristiana Rae Colón is a poet, playwright, actor, educator, Cave Canem Fellow, creator of #BlackSexMatters and co-director of the #LetUsBreathe Collective. She was awarded 2017 Best Black Playwright by The Black Mall.

2. Dennis Rowe, dir. Port Chicago 50, at SF State's McKenna Theater in Creative Arts Building, July 28, 3 p.m. and 8 p.m., has been producing for over twenty years under his company, Dennis Rowe Productions/ Entertainment. Rowe has an extensive theater background where he has written, produced, developed and directed over eight shows. He just finished producing his show Port Chicago 50 at the National Black Theater Off-Broadway in New York. portchicago50.eventbrite.com

3. Bay Area Playwrights Festival 2018 con't with Jon Bernson: When Lighting The Voids - Sunday, July 22nd, 2pm  & Friday, July 27th, 8pm; Lauren English (Director) and Roweena Mackay (Dramaturg)

We also speak to Madhuri Shekar: House of Joy, Saturday, July 21st, 8pm and Saturday, July 28th, 12pm

Daniel Banks (Director) and Vidhu Singh (Dramaturg). This play opens Aug. 17, 2019 at Cal Shakes in Orinda.

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. Julia Bacha, dir. "Naila and the Uprising" at SFJFF38

2. Ayanna Anderson, creative architect of Donor Network West & AAMLO's Giving Me Life multimedia-exhibit at AAMLO (06/09-08/31). Dr. Maisha Gray-Diggs (donor recipient); Eric Murphy, photographer, curator  https://www.donornetworkwest.org/about/

3. Dennis Rowe, dir. Port Chicago 50, at SF State's McKenna Theater in Creative Arts Building, July 28, 3 p.m. and 8 p.m., has been producing for over twenty years under his company, Dennis Rowe Productions/ Entertainment. Rowe has an extensive theater background where he has written, produced, developed and directed over eight shows. He just finished producing his show Port Chicago 50 at the National Black Theater Off-Broadway in New York. portchicago50.eventbrite.com

4. Othello Jefferson, Musical settings and Concept for BATCO's "I Too, Sing America,"

July 27-28: www.sfbatco.org/tickets (Use "Othello" in code for a discount)                                                 

http://tobtr.com/10896773

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!

9:00AM PSTSophie Huber, dir. BLUE NOTE RECORDS@ SFJFF38

The film will screen at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival 38, Sunday, August 5th at 4:05PM at the Piedmont Theatre in Oakland. Ambrose Akinmusire (subject) will be present at the screening.

9:20 AM: V. Scott Balcerek, dir., SATAN & ADAM @ SFJFF38

Screenings are: Saturday, July 28th at 6:20PM at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco, Sunday, July 29th at 6:55PM at the Albany Twin Theatre in Albany, and Friday, August 3rd at 6:00PM at the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center in San Rafael. Oakland based filmmaker V. Scott Balcerek will be present for all screenings of the film. Subject Adam Gussow will be present in SF and Albany.

10:00 AM: Tommy Shepard, Alphabet Rockers performing at Oakland's Art and Soul this weekend.http://alphabetrockers.com/about/

Music: Zion Trinity, John Coltrane, Alphabet Rockers (Walls)

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1. Ron Yassen (Director) of "Crossroads," a featured selection of the SFJFF, is an Emmy® Award-Winning sports documentary producer and director who began his career at Classic Sports Network and a founding member of Network of Champions. He has produced and directed numerous films, including Roger Maris: Reluctant Hero, Glory in Black and White, and Kareem: Minority of One. He is a partner at Roadside Entertainment.  https://jfi.org/sfjff-2018/film-guide/crossroads

2. Deborah Santana, ed. All the Women in My Family Sing  https://allthewomeninmyfamilysing.com/

3. Kristiana Rae Colón's "suspension" is a part of the SF Playwrights Festival July 2018. She is also a poet, playwright, actor, educator, Cave Canem Fellow, creator of #BlackSexMatters and co-director of the #LetUsBreathe Collective. She was awarded 2017 Best Black Playwright by The Black Mall. Amy Mueller, Artistic Director, Playwrights Foundation, gives an introduction, overview of this 2018 season, July 20-29. http://playwrightsfoundation.org/bapf2018/

http://tobtr.com/s/10894509

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. Ethnic Dance Festival Week 2: Ananya Tirumala, performs South Indian Kuchipudi dance form. The ten year old student joins us with her mother, Anupama Mahabhashyam

2. National Town Hall Meeting to End Incarceration of Women and Girls, Sat., July 21, 1 p.m. with Indigo Mateo, CURYJ, Alisha Coleman, CCWP, Amika Mola, YWFC and Julia Arroyo, YWFC.

3. Shotgun Theatre presents: "White" by James Ijames through Sunday, August 5. We speak to actress, Santoya Fields and Assistant Director Samira Mariama Hamid. https://shotgunplayers.org/

4. Joshua Moore, curator at SF Jewish Film Festival, July 19-Aug. 5

5. Amy Mueller, Artistic Director, Bay Area Playwrights Festival with Kristiana Rae Colón, playwright, "suspension." playwrightsfoundation.org

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1. Theodore Lush, Michael Jackson, Karen Jones join us to talk about: 7th Annual Montgomery MAAFA Commemoration, Sat. July 14. ReembertheAncestors.com

2. Gina Yashere, London born, Nigerian comedian opens at Freight & Salvage in Berkeley, July 8, 7 p.m.(thefreight.org)

3. Baba Luther Gray and Kalamu ya Salaam as Grand Griot joins us to talk about the 18th Annual MAAFA Commemoration in NOLA this Sat., July 7, 7 AM at Congo Square.  However, beginging tonight there are many programs scheduled from the Maafa Exhibit which opened June 29 to the series of cultural programs this evening, tomorrow and Friday afternoon. (https://www.ashecac.org/)

4. Alashe Michael OshoosiMichael F. Wright, Ph.D., JD and decorated veteran of the Civil Rights Movement, joins us to talk about his ancestors who established the first African village in America, a stop on Tubman's Underground Railroad. Loyalists, his grandfathers supported Britian in exchange for the promise of human rights and abolishion. At the end of the Civil War African Loyalists were moved to Nova Scotia and Chatham, Canada and then to Sierra Leone where they built what is know as Freetown. His late mother, Sarah E. Wright (poet and novelist) was former VP of the Harlem Writers Guilde. The conversation weaves ancestral past with present to form an intentional life dedicated to upliftment of African people. Visit http://oshoosi.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!

1. Theodore Lush, Michael Jackson, Karen Jones join us to talk about: 7th Annual Montgomery MAAFA Commemoration, Sat. July 14. ReembertheAncestors.com

2. Gina Yashere, London born, Nigerian comedian opens at Freight & Salvage in Berkeley, July 8, 7 p.m.(thefreight.org)

3. Baba Luther Gray and Kalamu ya Salaam as Grand Griot joins us to talk about the 18th Annual MAAFA Commemoration in NOLA this Sat., July 7, 7 AM at Congo Square.  However, beginging tonight there are many programs scheduled from the Maafa Exhibit which opened June 29 to the series of cultural programs this evening, tomorrow and Friday afternoon. (https://www.ashecac.org/)

4. Alashe Michael Oshoosi a.k.a. Michael F. Wright, Ph.D., JD and decorated veteran of the Civil Rights Movement, joins us to talk about his ancestors who established the first African village in America, "Wetitquin" (also sp. Wetipquin), Maryland, a stop on Tubman's Underground Railroad. Loyalists, his grandfathers supported Britian (1787, 1796-1812) in exchange for the promise of human rights and abolishion. At the end of the Civil War African Loyalists were moved to Nova Scotia and Chatham, Canada and then to Sierra Leone where they built what is know as Freetown. His late mother, Sarah E. Wright (poet and novelist) was former VP of the Harlem Writers Guilde. The conversation weaves ancestral past with present to form an intentional life dedicated to upliftment of African people.(http://oshoosi.com/tuskegee-movement-sncc.html)