Ken Burn 4-part Series on Muhammad Ali airs on PBS beginning, Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021
Wanda’s Picks Radio Show
Today, Sept. 1, 2021, on Wanda’s Picks Radio Show, we spoke to community activists: Baba Kalamu Ya Salaam and his daughter Asante Salaam and Baba Malik Rahim, former Black Panther and co-founder of Common Ground Collective about Orleans Parish and Jefferson Parish in the wake of Hurricane Ida. In sweldering heat — 101+ temperatures, people sit in homes without electricity. No ice, misquitoes — pandemic raging, schools out.
Earlier in the show we speak to Ms. Pamela Price, Esq., about the recent race for Assembly 18 seat and the pending governor recall.
Between the two conversations we speak to director, Ashley O’Shay, about her debut feature, “Unapologetic,” which opens this Friday at the Roxie Virtual Cinema in San Francisco virtually and in LA.
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 are joined by Jerome Preston Bates, an American theater, film and television actor, director and playwright and Rome Neal, director, to talk about “The Jimi Hendrix Experiment.” This free virtual production, produced by Black Repertory Group in Berkeley (57th season) is followed by a conversation with the playwright and artists who knew Hendrix, Sat., Sept. 18, 8 p.m. (ET), 5 p.m. (PT).
The play streams live and free on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV2g19bOQ1Y
Meeting ID: 884 8489 3144
Passcode: poetry
The Before Columbus Foundation presents the 2021 American Book Awards, celebrating outstanding literary achievement from America’s diverse literary community, honoring the winners: Ayad Akhtar (Homeland Elegies: A Novel, Maisy Card (These Ghosts Are Family), Anthony Cody (Borderland Apocrypha), Ben Ehrenreich (Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time), Johanna Fernández (The Young Lords: A Radical History), Carolyn Forché (In the Lateness of the World: Poems), John Giorno (Great Demon Kings: A Memoir of Poetry, Sex, Art, Death, and Enlightenment), Cathy Park Hong (Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning), Randall Horton ({#289-128}: Poems), Gerald Horne (The Drawing of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century), Robert P. Jones (White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity), Judy Juanita (Manhattan my ass, you’re in Oakland), William Melvin Kelley and Aiki Kelley, illustrator (Dunfords Travels Everywheres); the Lifetime Achievement Award winner: Dr. Maryemma Graham; the Walter and Lillian Lowenfels Award for Criticism winner: Shana Redmond (Everything Man: The Form and Function of Paul Robeson); and the Anti-Censorship Award winner: Jacob Soboroff (Separated: Inside an American Tragedy); celebrate these writers and their work, free, online, Sunday, Sept. 19, 2:00-4:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com)
and Jim Kleinmann, PG co-founder, director, arts administrator.
Alameda Island Poets
Alameda Island Poets is excited and honored to feature John Curl and Shizue Seigel, Sept. 1 at 7pm its 1st Wednesday reading. Hosts are Nanette Deetz, Cathy Dana, and Alameda Poet Laureate, Kimi Sugioka. Following features is our “famously friendly” open mic. Please RSVP to sign up.
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John Curl is the author of twelve books of poetry, including Revolutionary Alchemy and Yoga Sutras of Fidel Castro; his translations of Inca, Maya, and Aztec poets are collected in Ancient American Poets. His latest novels are The Outlaws of Maroon and The Co-op Conspiracy. He is author of Indigenous Peoples Day (a history of the new holiday) and For All The People, (a history of cooperative movements in America). Memories of Drop City is his memoir of the 1960s. He represented the USA at the World Poetry Festival in Venezuela, and lives in Berkeley. He is a member of the Revolutionary Poets Brigade of San Francisco. His author web site is johncurl.net
Shizue Seigel is a San Francisco writer, artist and activist whose prose, poetry and visual art is informed by her Japanese American family history and her own experiences in segregated Baltimore, Occupied Japan, California farm labor camps, inner city skid-rows, corporate high-rises and public housing.
Her nonprofit, Write Now! SF Bay (www.WriteNowSF.com) supports Bay Area writers and artists of color through multicultural workshops, events and anthologies. Her latest, Essential Truths: The Bay Area in Color, features 130 BIPOC writers and artists, as well as White allies. Her work is supported by the San Francisco Art Commission, California Humanities, California Arts Council and others Her seven books include the anthologies Civil Liberties United; Endangered Species, Enduring Values; and Standing Strong! Fillmore & Japantown, pl.usthree books on the Japanese American experience. www.shizueseigel.com.
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