This Maafa Commemoration Month we continue to lift “A Love Supreme” as we organize a defense against state violence. Congratulations to Professor Aaliyah Dunn-Salahuddin whose community vigil and program honored the lives of the Bayview Hunter’s Point revolutionaries killed 50 years ago and more recently like Mathew “Peanut” Johnson.
The Maafa Commemoration Ritual is Sunday, October 9, 5:30 AM. Visit maafasfbayarea.com or call (510) 255-5579. We need monetary donations to defray costs, as well as volunteers for set up and clean-up. This is a commemoration for African Ancestors of the Middle Passage. Maafa is Kiswahili for great calamity and reoccurring disaster and references the Black Holocaust which continues as black life is devalued, desecrated and discarded. This is an opportunity for people of African Descent, a global people of black Diaspora to recognize our shared community despite the dispersement, to acknowledge the blood memories we all hold. We are still one people, one nation – as the Hon. Marcus Mosiah Garvey states and we can accomplish what we will. Congratulations and welcome to the new President General of the UNIA-ACL, the Hon. Mike Duncan, Queens, NY. Brother Akeem Jamal (LA Maafa Commemoration) says that the bones along the ocean floors are an indelible link between Africa and the West, between black people and their shared black culture.
California Institute for Women (CIW) Vigil October 1
Join the families of several young women who recently died in custody for a public vigil at CIW on Saturday, October 1st at 2:30 pm (1:30 pm meet-up nearby). Please RSVP for carpools, directions & prep: ciwvigil@gmail.com.
Demand that the State of California, the Corrections Department (CDCR) & CIW be held responsible for the rampant abuse, neglect & deaths in custody. Demand answers about the premature death of so many young women of color in particular.
Speak out against isolation, abuse & state-sanctioned death! Rally with us in support of the survival & release of people currently incarcerated at CIW.
Bring our loved ones home, ALIVE!
Haiti Rises! Haiti Solidarity Events in Oakland & Greater Bay Area:
Friday, Sept. 30, 4:30 pm – Demonstration, music, drums – 14th and Broadway
Sunday, Oct. 2, 3:00 pm – Inside Haiti’s Election – Eastside Arts, 2277 Internat’l Blvd. Visit www.haitisolidarity.net
Julie Dash Tribute with Screening of “Daughters of the Dust”
Sister Julie Dash, director of “Daughters of the Dust,” is being honored at the Mill Valley Film Festival, October 14, 7 p.m. at the Smith Rafael Film Center, San Rafael. Dash’s wonderful film which highlights the women in Gullah country, St Helena Island, in South Carolinas is poetic and beautiful in its majesty. Enslavement did not rob black people of their consciousness or humanity, quite the contrary as depicted in this iconic glimpse into the daily lives of these women.
Exquisitely cinematic and profoundly imagined, Julie Dash’s Daughter of the Dust is a lyrical story of family migration is unlike any other, establishing her as a strikingly original artist in the pantheon of American cinema. This seminal, award-winning work continues to inspire (notably, Beyoncé’s homage, Lemonade); its newly-restored digital print reveals the gorgeous visual palette. Not to be missed. US 1991, 112 min. Directed by Julie Dash
The MVFF Tribute will feature an onstage conversation with Julie Dash, a clip reel of her work, a screening of DAUGHTERS OF DUST, and the presentation of the MVFF Award. Program & Party | $50 general | $45 CFI members. Program Only | $25 general | $20 CFI members
Film
Matatu Film Festival opens Wednesday, October 5 with Damani Baker’s “THE HOUSE ON COCO ROAD Homecoming!” at the Grand Lake Theatre | 7PM. For information visit http://www.matatufestival.org/cocoroad
An intimate portrait of Fannie Haughton, an activist and teacher who moves her children from Oakland, California to participate in the Grenada Revolution – only to find her family in harms way of a U.S. military invasion. With an original score by Meshell Ndegeocello, filmmaker Damani Baker creates an intimate family portrait of nationalism, freedom and the dream of a more livable world. The evening features Fannie Haughton, Fania Davis and Angela Davis.
Freedom Archives presents: Afro-Cuban filmmaker, Gloria Rolando, director of new film: “Dialogue with My Grandmother.” $10, no one turned away. Saturday, October 1st 7pm, 518 Valencia Street, in San Francisco.
Love Not Blood Campaign Fundraiser Screening of Kevin Pina’s #OO (Occupy Oakland)
Sunday, October 9, 2016 at the Omni Commons, 4799 Shattuck Ave, Oakland at 7pm
This coming October 9 is the eve of the 5th anniversary of the brave decision made by Oakland activists to say enough is enough by taking over the plaza in front of Oakland City Hall in solidarity with the national Occupy Wall Street movement. On October 10, 2011, they renamed the plaza “Oscar Grant Plaza” and Occupy Oakland was born by calling the world’s attention to the profound link between income equality, racism and police violence. The movement grew to challenge the status quo by marshaling the traditional progressive forces of the left including Oakland’s historical movements by uniting peace, labor and civil rights activists. Oakland’s unique history including the early struggles of the Black Panther’s against police violence in the black community, was the backdrop to the more contemporaneous movement that sought justice following the murder of Oscar Grant by a BART police officer on January 1, 2009. Many of the same activists from the Oscar Grant movement took up the banner of the Occupy Wall Street movement helping to give rise to Occupy Oakland. As a result, Occupy Oakland , foreshadowed the Black Lives Matter movement through its unflinching linkage of income equality with police brutality in the black community, not only in Oakland, but in cities across the United States. The documentary #OO (Occupy Oakland) represents my continuing efforts to retell this history in video and to preserve it for generations to come.
Cephus “Uncle Bobby” Johnson, Oscar Grant’s uncle most recently founded the Love Not Blood Campaign to End Police Terrorism, Mass Incarceration and Community Violence. Pina says he “would like to honor his work and the seminal role of the Oscar Grant movement within Occupy Oakland by using this screening to help raise funds for his organization and its important community work.”
Urban Storytellers Extravaganza!
The African American Art and Culture Complex, 762 Fulton Street in San Francisco, is proud to present The Urban Storytellers Extravaganza! Featuring, among others, comedian Luna Malbroux, storyteller Tureeda Mikell and performance poet Mack Dennis, this show is a celebration of the legacy of spoken word and live performances. This show is a part of the PRAISESINGER PROJECT SERIES, which is our series of Storytelling, Poetry, Jazz and Blues open-mics happening every 6 weeks over the next few months. The show is 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Tickets are $15 at the door for discount (buy tickets here: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2606017)
Queen of Katwe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4l3-_yub5A (trailer)
“Queen of Katwe” is another great film. It is the colorful true story of a young girl selling corn on the streets of rural Uganda whose world rapidly changes when she is introduced to the game of chess, and, as a result of the support she receives from her family and community, is instilled with the confidence and determination she needs to pursue her dream of becoming an international chess champion. Directed by Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding) from a screenplay by William Wheeler (The Hoax) based on the book by Tim Crothers, Queen of Katwe is produced by Lydia Dean Pilcher (The Darjeeling Limited) and John Carls (Where the Wild Things Are) with Will Weiske and Troy Buder serving as executive producers. The film stars Golden Globe® nominee David Oyelowo (Selma), Oscar® winner and Tony Award® nominee Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave) and newcomer Madina Nalwanga.
Theatre
NAKA Dance Theatre and Eastside Arts Alliance present: Live Art in Resistance featuring
Amara Tabor Smith’s “House/Full”, October 21 and 22 at 8 p.m.
This is a multi-site specific, ritual, dance theatre that addresses the displacement and sex trafficking of black women in Oakland. General admission $20-$5-$15.00 at Eastside Arts Cultural Center, 2277 International Blvd., Oakland.
The SF Olympians Festival VII: Harvest of Mysteries
October 5 to 22, 2015, W-Th-F-S, at 8 PM at The EXIT Theatre, 156 Eddy Street, San Francisco
$10.00 at the door, cash only; $12.00 online at Brown Paper Tickets, www.sfolympians.com
Jovelyn Richards has written a play about Auset or Isis. It runs Week Three: The Cradle (10/19-10/22)
Theatre
Colorstruct at Laney College
Donald Lacy’s Colorstruck continues at Laney College theatre, Sat., October 1, 2016, 8 p.m. Marvin X opens with a selected reading from a new play on the Black Panther Party for Self Defense. Listen to an interview with Lacy on Wanda’s Picks Radio.
October 19, 2016: The Midwife
ANUBIS by David Templeton, directed by Adam Palafox
When Anubis, the Egyptian Lord of the Dead, drunkenly crashes the annual camping trip of four middle-aged guys, will the result be our creaky band of brothers’ best male bonding weekend ever? Or its last?
October 20, 2016: The Mother
ISIS by Jovelyn Richards, directed by Jovelyn Richards
You’ve likely heard of the idiom, “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned”. Well, here’s another for you consider: “Only the spirits of the heavens can offer answers to a woman after her husband is brutally murdered in the hellish fires of southern racism!”
NEPTHYS by Veronica Tjioe, directed by Nicole Menez
This play is for those who live with a perennial cloud above their head. It is also good for sisters, klutzes, and people who still do laundry at their friend’s house.
October 21, 2016: The Father
OSIRIS by Tonya Narvaez, directed by Charles Lewis III
A therapy session reveals suspicious details which make us question each character, their twisted relationships with one another, and the circumstances surrounding Cyrus’s death.
SET by Nirmala Nataraj, directed by Adam Odsess-Rubin
Tallulah Beltran is a scientist who has made a career out of studying murderers, rapists, and other societal “anomalies.” But never has she confronted the true nature of evil…that is, until meeting a seductive psychopath who calls himself Set.
The Brothers Size at Theatre Rhinoceros
Theatre Rhinoceros presents, “The Brothers Size” by Tarell Alvin McCraney, directed by Darryl V. Jones, Sept. 24 – Oct. 15, 2016 for a limited engagement at the Eureka Theatre – 215 Jackson St., (at Battery St.) San Francisco. Visit www.TheRhino.org
In the Brothers Size, two brothers, the Louisiana bayou, and West African mythology swirl together in this treasured theatrical event that will leave you breathless. A hot-blooded, music-filled drama from one of the country’s most exciting African-American voices.
The Last Tiger in Haiti at Berkeley Rep
There once lived five kids in modern-day Haiti, all entangled in a dark history of servitude. Huddled in a tent on Mister’s land, they’d spin spellbinding folktales, vying for the title of best storyteller—and dreaming of their freedom. When two of them reunite 15 years later, the boundary between reality and fiction vanishes, revealing secrets of their past more haunting than any of the tales they told. In The Last Tiger in Haiti, Jeff Augustin weaves a remarkable and gripping narrative of survival, betrayal, and the power of a story.
The Last Tiger in Haiti was developed in The Ground Floor: Berkeley Rep’s Center for the Creation and Development of New Work. It runs October 14-November 27 at Berkeley Rep: Peet’s Theatre, 2025 Addison Street @ Shattuck and Addison, Berkeley.
Art
In celebration of Halloween and Day of the Dead Dance Bridge presents:
The Great Liberation Upon Hearing: A Multi-media Dance Journey based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Friday, October 28, 7 p.m., Saturday, October 29, 7 and 9 p.m. and Sunday, October 30, 6 p.m. at Dance Mission, 3316 24th Street, San Francisco.
The 17th Annual Dia de los Muertos at SOMarts, “A Promise Not to Forget” opens Friday, October 7 and continues through Nov. 5. The Gallery is located at 934 Brannan St. (between 8th and 9th), in San Francisco.
OMCA 22nd Annual Days of the Dead Community Celebration, 1000 Oak Street, Oakland, Sunday, October 16, 2016, 12–4:30 pm
Art Exhibits
I Am San Francisco: Black Past and Presence
Congratulations to Jarrel Phillips whose “I Am San Francisco: Black Past and Presence” had a very successful opening reception Sept. 22 at City College of San Francisco, Ocean Campus. The exhibit continues in the Rosenberg Library, 50 Phelan Avenue, 3rd and 4th floors through Nov. 3.
The Black Panther Party at 50
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Dance Theatre of San Francisco presents: Unspoken, a film, October 7-13 at Vogue Theater, in San Francisco
ODC Theatre for the month of October
Sins Invalid presents: Birthing, Dying, Becoming Crip Wisdom, Friday-Sunday, October 14-16, 8 p.m.
Nicole Claymoon’s “Embodiment Project,” Friday-Saturday, at 8 p.m., Sunday, at 7 p.m., October 28-30.
EAST BAY CANDIDATE & VOTER EDUCATION FORUM: Organizing for Power hosted by Bayard Rustin LGBT Coalition, Black Elected Officials of the East Bay, Black Women Organized for Political Action Oak/Berk and Niagara Movement Democratic Club
Monday, October 3rd 5:30pm until | Geoffrey’s Inner Circle
Members, friends, community join us for an educational evening to inquire the 2016 general election candidates on their perspectives to create and implement legislation, policies and resources to positively impact the black community and other communities of color. Voter education and registration information will be onsite.
INVITED CANDIDATES & REPRESENTATIVES
State Senate | Alameda County | Special Districts | City Council | School Board
| State & Local Measures |
Free to all | Refreshments | Networking | Voter Registration RSVP to www.organizingforpower.eventbrite.com
All Power to the People: Black Panthers at 50 opens at the OMCA, Oct. 8 and continues through Feb. 12, in the Museum’s Great Hall.
Organized by OMCA Senior Curator of Art René de Guzman and Experience Developer Lisa Silberstein, All Power to the People: Black Panthers at 50 explores the Party’s stories of human achievement and struggle to support the needs of the oppressed. The exhibition will delve into aspects of the Party that are not often told, such as its survival programs, the presence of women and rank and file members, its use of media and art, and its founding Ten Point Program that continues to inform and inspire contemporary movements of change today. A schedule of public programs and events has been planned in support of the exhibition and admission is free to Museum ticket-holders unless otherwise noted.
Other exhibitions of note include: The Point is . . . 2.0”: The Artwork in Honor of the Black Panther Party’s 50th Anniversary with Emory Douglas and the Oakland Maroons Art Collective at Joyce Gordon Gallery, 406 14th Street, Oakland, Oct. 7-Oct. 29; the Sepia Collective’s Iconic Black Panther opens at American Steel Studios, 1960 Mandela Pkwy., Oakland, Oct. 7-Nov. 6; The African American Museum and Library, Oakland, 659 14th Street, reception and book signing for Suzun Lucia Lamaina’s long awaited Revolutionary Grain: Celebrating the Spirit of the Black Panther in Portraits and Stories, 10/22 to 2/28/ 2017. Saturday, October 22 from 3-6 pm is the opening reception.
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SCHEDULE OF PUBLIC PROGRAMS, ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS
Makers & Tasters: Food Activism
Friday, October 7, 6-8 pm
October’s Makers & Tasters series will focus on food activism, inspired by the revolutionary free breakfast programs of the Black Panther Party and by new exhibition All Power to the People: Black Panthers at 50, featuring Rubicon Bakery, Sprouts Cooking Club, City Slicker Farms, and Acta Non Verba, organizations making a difference in the community through food.
Black Panther Party 50th Anniversary Commemoration & Conference
October 20-23, 2016
Join former members of the Black Panther Party this October for a conference and celebration marketing the 50th anniversary of the Party’s founding. Presented by the Host Committee for the 50th Anniversary Commemoration of the founding of the Black Panther Party, a historically significant organization that has had profound national and local impacts, the gathering takes place at OMCA and Laney College, both located in Oakland, California, home base of the Party. Review the Black Panther Party legacy and celebrate its historical significance in the black community, and consider the question Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. raised so long ago: “Where do we go from here?” Registration, ticket information, and conference details at bpp50th.com.
All Power to the People Dialogue Program
October 2016 – February 2017
An innovative new pilot program launching this fall will bring classrooms, businesses, and community organizations in small groups into the exhibition for facilitated dialogues on issues of equity, race, and social justice. The program will be accessible to organizations with fiscal difficulties, with the intention of offering connection, learning, and healing. Dates, details, and fee to be announced.
OMCA Family: Poster Making
Every Friday in November as part of Friday Nights @ OMCA, 5-8 pm
Make & Take social justice poster making art activity, inspired by the legacy of the Black Panther Party, and the contemporary issues that are still plaguing our society.
Perspectives at OMCA | Two Generations of Black Struggle
Saturday, January 21, 2017 at 2 pm
The day after the new US President is sworn in, the co-founder of the Black Panther Party, Bobby Seale, will share his stories, his reflections, and his strategies of the politics of the revolution, with Oakland’s poet, educator, playwright, and screenwriter, Chinaka Hodge. Tickets are $20 (all ages) and $18 for Members. Gallery admission purchased separately. Advance tickets will be available at museumca.org.
Other Mill Valley Film Festival Picks:
LAMB
Ethiopia 2016, 94 min Director Yared Zeleke
A tender piece of visual poetry from first frame to last, this impressive feature debut was honored as the first Ethiopian film ever named a Cannes Film Festival official selection. Lamb captures the devoted connection between a boy and the beloved pet that is his only anchor to home. In Amharic with English subtitles
Saturday Oct 8 5:15pm Rafael; Tuesday Oct 11 3:00pm Rafael
CALIFORNIA TYPEWRITER
US 2016, 103 min Director Doug Nichol
Weaving three stories—of a repair business, a collector, and an artist—and including interviews with famous typewriter devotees like Tom Hanks, Sam Shepard, and David McCullough, this documentary celebrates the creative virtues and tactile joys of the typewriter. With a click-clack and ping, it’s a love letter to this humble tool.
Monday Oct 10 8:00pm Rafael
DO NOT RESIST
US 2016, 72 min Director Craig Atkinson
Many have been alarmed by the recent spectacle of police in full riot gear and armored vehicles moving through peaceful demonstrations. Sure to spark debate, this disquieting documentary puts the viewer on the streets in the middle of the action and seeks to examine our growing culture of militarization in law enforcement.
Preceded by the DEAN SCREAM US 2016, 10 min Director Bryan Storkel.
Sunday Oct 9 3:45pm Rafael; Wednesday Oct 12 2:15pm Sequoia
FIRE AT SEA
Italy/France 2016, 114 min Director Gianfranco Rosi
Rosi’s beautiful and moving neorealist documentary takes the small Sicilian island of
Lampedusa as its focal point to address the European refugee crisis. Without emotional grandstanding or partisan politics, the film brilliantly juxtaposes the side-by-side relationship of Lampedusa’s residents with the desperate people trying to reach her shores. In Italian and English with English subtitles
Friday Oct 14 8:30pm Rafael; Saturday Oct 15 5:15pm Larkspur
LOVING
US 2016, 123 min Director Jeff Nichols
CLOSING NIGHT FILM
Based on real events, Jeff Nichols’ extraordinary film has a lyrical eloquence that honors the heart of the story of Richard and Mildred Loving (played with understated brilliance by Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga), the interracial couple whose quiet courage helped change the face of the law of marriage in the US.
Guests: Joel Edgerton, Ruth Negga, Jeff Nichols
Sunday, October 16, 5:00pm Rafael ; Sunday, October 16, 5:00pm & 5:15pm Sequoia
MAYA ANGELOU AND STILL I RISE
US 2016, 114 min Directors Bob Hercules, Rita Coburn Whack
This premier documentary unearths rare archival material to illuminate the life of Dr. Maya Angelou, American poet and performer. James Baldwin, Oprah Winfrey, Alfre Woodard, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Cicely Tyson, Angelou’s son Guy Johnson, and others offer deep insights into this phenomenal woman and the power of her liberated voice.
Tuesday Oct 11 7:30pm Larkspur; Thursday Oct 13 12:30pm Rafael
MOONLIGHT
US 2016, 110 min Director Barry Jenkins
DIRECTORS’ NIGHT IN MILL VALLEY
Barry Jenkins’ (Medicine for Melancholy) gritty yet poignant inner city drama presents a young life in three acts. Coming of age in Reagan-era Miami amidst the crack epidemic, young Chiron endures relentless bullying at school and stinging neglect at home while struggling to understand his own sexuality and the myth and meaning of masculinity.
Monday Oct 10 7:45pm Sequoia; Thursday Oct 13 11:30am Rafael