Wanda's Picks Special Broadcast: Bryant Bolling

Musical Tribute Tubenu Productions presents: The African American Experience through Music (1600-1860s) with the Bryant Bolling Creative Art Ensemble, July 11, 2010 @ 5:00 PM at the First Congregational Church of Oakland, 2501 Harrison Street, Oakland, CA 94612, $20.00. Admission is $20.00. This production acts as a healing for all races in America. We will also rebroadcast our "Oscar Grant Special Report" with panelists: Rachel Jackson, organizing member of the New Years Movement 4 Justice, Oakland General Assembly for Oscar Grant, CA Coalition and Oakland Coalition; Frank B. Wilderson, III, creative writer, dramaturge, filmmaker, poet, and critical theorist, Ph.D. candidate at UC Santa Cruz in the History of Consciousness Dept. where he is investigating incarceration: bodies and spirit housed most often in black bodies; Mateen Kemet, director of Runaway Films shows “Oakland Be Mine,” a work-in-progress, to be screened at the Oakland International Airport for a year when completed. The show also featured conversations with Sonya Hopkins, an African American cowgirl and contestant in the Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo this weekend where she has been a finalist and BPIR emcee, country western singer, Miko Marks. The BPIR is July 10-11. Visit http://www.billpickettrodeo.com/schedule.html or call 510.864.2747 We close with Tuck and Patti (Patti Cathcart, vocals; Tuck Andress, guitar) perform at Stanford Jazz, Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Saturday, July 10, 2010, 8 PM. Visit http://www.stanfordjazz.org/jazzfestival/07_10.html