Wanda's Picks Radio Show

1. We open with an interview with Wax Poet(s): Artistic Director Heather Stockton and Wax Poet(s) Executive Director Garth Grimball. The two artists join us to talk about Swivel:Hinge:Return, a New Work in Two parts exploring What does your resistance dance look like? How is a radical body in a state of change? March 1-3 at CounterPulse, 80 Turk Street, in San Francisco.

2. Laura Elaine Ellis is Executive Director of the African & African American Performing Arts Coalition (AAAPAC) and co-founder with Kendra Barnes of the Black Choreographers Festival: Here and Now. She joins us to talk about the 14th Annual Black Choreographers Festival Here 2018: Feb. 17-March 4.  Visit bcfhereandnow.com
Cherie Hill (week 2 @ SAFEhouse Arts) is a creative artist, dancer, performer, teacher and scholar, whose art explores human expression and how it is conveyed through the body in collaboration with nature, music and visual imagery.

3. Central Works 2018 Season opens Feb. 17--March 18, with "Bamboozled: A New comedy about Family Valuables" by Patricia Milton, directed by Gary Graves. Shows are at the Berkeley City Club, 2315 Durant Avenue, Berkeley.

CW Resident Playwright Patricia Milton and actors Susan Jackson (Opal Anne) and Jeunée Simon (Abby) join us to talk about "Bamboozled."

Additional Music and Audio: Zion Trinity: Opening Prayer for Esu Legba; Mama C's "Hug a Thug or the Malcolm X Factor" and the speech by El Hajj Malik El Shabazz: "You Can't Hate the Roots of a Tree."