Wanda's Picks Radio Show

Juneteenth in Oakland, CA: 562 Bellevue Ave., 11-1, 6/10; Friends of the Negro Spirituals, 1-4 p.m., 1801 Adeline Street, Oakland.

1. Wanda Ravernell, Executive Director is the visionary of Omnira Institute and promoter and manager for Awon Ohun Omnira, (Voices of Freedom) and serves as the narrator for its performances.June 10 is Omnira Institute's 10th annual Ritual of Remembrance commemorating the Emancipation Proclamation that includes acknowledging several of the faiths of the captives who would become slaves during the Slave Trade Era. 

Bisola Marignay, Ph.D., educator, performing artist, writer, and therapeutic facilitator and board member of Friends of the Negro Spirituals. FNS Juneteenth program is 6/17, 1 p.m. at the West Oakland Library Complex. 

2.  Micky Duxbury, Berkeley resident, is a freelance writer and an advocate for change in the criminal justice system conceived and developed the Welcome Home Project book project at John O’Lague Galleria, 777 B Street @ Hayward City Hall through 7/28. 
Reception:5:30-7:30 p.m. 6/9.

3. Laura Elaine Ellis joins us to talk about Soul to Soul, a part of ODC's Walking Distance Dance Festival, in San Francisco. The free program is at 12:30 p.m. in collaboration with Joanna Haigood's Zaccho Dance Theatre at Joe Goode Annex in SF. 

4. Jose Alfredo Ramirez Fuentes, professor and researcher at the University of El Salvador joins us to talk about Libations for the Ancestors this summer, the 4th Annual Celebration August 26.