Wanda's Picks Radio Show

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. Ann Chinn, Executive Director, Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project (http://www.middlepassageproject.org/)

2. Poets Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong & Victor Mavedzenge join us to talk about the inaugural, Boundaries without Bars, Free for All/ Freedom for Some: First Saturday Poetry Reading at the Oakland Main Library, 1-2:30 PM, in the Brad Walters Community Room, 125 14th Street

3. Musical Interlude with Bily Harper's Knowlege of Self, with Amiri Baraka; Dwight Trible Ooh Child; Aar Maanta's Deeqa; Karin Allyson's I'm Always Chasing Rainbows. 

4. Don Malcolm, curator, "The French Had a Name for It 2: Lovers & Other Strangers," Film Noir Festival Nov. 6-9 at the Roxie in SF
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