Wanda's Picks

Guests:

1. ART & RESOLUTION: Films of Afro-Cuban Life and History, Thursdays, 2/5, 12, 19 at 6:30pm @ MoAD

Cornelius Moore is Co-Director of the 46 year old Bay Area social issue film distributor/producer California Newsreel as well as a film programmer  focused on work from the Black World.  Mr. Moore joins us to talk about the Cuban film series her has curated for the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), Mission @ Third in San Francisco. www.moadsf.org

2. African American Educators Professional Development Summit, Jan. 30 (reception & awards), Jan. 31 (summit)

Bobbie Brooks, Board Member and Co-Founder of The African American Regional Educational Alliances www.theaarea.org & (510) 614-3000

Laura Babitt, 2015 Educational Service Award Honoree

3. Black Arts Movement West, Celebrating 50 Years @ Laney College, Sat. Feb. 7, 10 AM - 9 PM 510-200-4164

Marvin X is a playwright in the true spirit of the Black Arts Movement (BAM). His most well-known BAM play, entitled Flowers for the Trashman, deals with generational difficulties and the crisis of the Black intellectual as he deals with education in a white-controlled culture. Marvin received his MA in English/Creative writing from San Francisco State University, 1975. He has taught at San Francisco State University, Fresno State University, UC Berkeley and San Diego, Mills College, Merritt and Laney Colleges in Oakland, University of Nevada, Reno.

His latest book is the Wisdom of Plato Negro, parables/fables, Black Bird Press, Berkeley. He currently teaches at his Academy of da Corner, 14th and Broadway, downtown Oakland, Lakeshore on Saturdays, & Sundays at the Berkeley Flea Market: www.blackbirdpressnews.blogspot.com

Guests:

1. ART & RESOLUTION: Films of Afro-Cuban Life and History, Thursdays, 2/5, 12, 19 at 6:30pm @ MoAD

Cornelius Moore is Co-Director of the 46 year old Bay Area social issue film distributor/producer California Newsreel as well as a film programmer  focused on work from the Black World.  Mr. Moore joins us to talk about the Cuban film series her has curated for the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), Mission @ Third in San Francisco. www.moadsf.org

2. African American Educators Professional Development Summit, Jan. 30 (reception & awards), Jan. 31 (summit)

Bobbie Brooks, Board Member and Co-Founder of The African American Regional Educational Alliances www.theaarea.org & (510) 614-3000

Laura Babitt, 2015 Educational Service Award Honoree

3. Black Arts Movement West, Celebrating 50 Years @ Laney College, Sat. Feb. 7, 10 AM - 9 PM 510-200-4164

Marvin X is a playwright in the true spirit of the Black Arts Movement (BAM). His most well-known BAM play, entitled Flowers for the Trashman, deals with generational difficulties and the crisis of the Black intellectual as he deals with education in a white-controlled culture. Marvin received his MA in English/Creative writing from San Francisco State University, 1975. He has taught at San Francisco State University, Fresno State University, UC Berkeley and San Diego, Mills College, Merritt and Laney Colleges in Oakland, University of Nevada, Reno.

His latest book is the Wisdom of Plato Negro, parables/fables, Black Bird Press, Berkeley. He currently teaches at his Academy of da Corner, 14th and Broadway, downtown Oakland, Lakeshore on Saturdays, & Sundays at the Berkeley Flea Market: www.blackbirdpressnews.blogspot.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 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!

Guests: Lance McGee, MFT, a.k.a. Unique Derique, has been delighting audiences with his special brand of clowning for years. McGee joins us to talk about his latest show, FOOL LA LA! up at the Marsh Berkeley, Saturdays, Jan. 31, 2 p.m. through Feb. 28. Visit http://www.themarsh.org For a $5 discount use the code: LaFool 

Next we rebroadcast a bit of an interview with devorah major re: her latest project: Black Classic: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/black-classic-by-devorah-major

Choreographers and dancers from Dance Mission's D.I.R.T. -  Dance In Revolt(ing) Times, Jan. 23-Feb.1: sixteen choreographers in three distinct programs over two riveting weekends. What happens when artists revolt? brownpaptertickets.com / 1-800-838-3006

We close with a conversation with Tash Nguyen, Sin Barras (without prison bars) & CURB and Fox Sloan, mother of Amanda Fox Sloan, who died in the Santa Cruz County jail in July 2013, about a rally/march concerning the unjust incarceration of so many young people, poor people, people of color and members of gender minorities http://sinbarras.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!

Guests: Lance McGee, MFT, a.k.a. Unique Derique, has been delighting audiences with his special brand of clowning for years. McGee joins us to talk about his latest show, FOOL LA LA! up at the Marsh Berkeley, Saturdays, Jan. 31, 2 p.m. through Feb. 28. Visit http://www.themarsh.org For a $5 discount use the code: LaFool 

Next we rebroadcast a bit of an interview with devorah major re: her latest project: Black Classic: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/black-classic-by-devorah-major

Choreographers and dancers from Dance Mission's D.I.R.T. -  Dance In Revolt(ing) Times, Jan. 23-Feb.1: sixteen choreographers in three distinct programs over two riveting weekends. What happens when artists revolt? brownpaptertickets.com / 1-800-838-3006

We close with a conversation with Tash Nguyen, Sin Barras (without prison bars) & CURB and Fox Sloan, mother of Amanda Fox Sloan, who died in the Santa Cruz County jail in July 2013, about a rally/march concerning the unjust incarceration of so many young people, poor people, people of color and members of gender minorities http://sinbarras.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 feature interviews with Dr. Clarence Benjamin Jones Sr., a former speechwriter, attorney, and advisor to the late Martin Luther King Jr., on the occasion of Dr. King's 86th birthday.

Our second guest is Delfeayo Marsalis, awardwinning musician and arranger about his latest work: The Last Southern Gentlemen which features his father Mr. Ellis Marsalis on piano. This collaboration is a first for the two men.

Music: Linda Tillery & the Freedom Band's Celebrate the King and selections from Marsalis's TLSG.

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 feature interviews with Dr. Clarence Benjamin Jones Sr., a former speechwriter, attorney, and advisor to the late Martin Luther King Jr., on the occasion of Dr. King's 86th birthday.

Our second guest is Delfeayo Marsalis, awardwinning musician and arranger about his latest work: The Last Southern Gentlemen which features his father Mr. Ellis Marsalis on piano. This collaboration is a first for the two men.

Music: Linda Tillery & the Freedom Band's Celebrate the King and selections from Marsalis's TLSG.

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!