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. Guests this morning are participating in the inaugural PlayGround Solo Performance Festival January 11-28 at Potrero Stage - 1695 18th Street, San Francisco. Visit http://playground-sf.org/solofest/ for the entire schedule each day.

Lisa Evans: YOU REALLY SHOULD SIT LIKE A LADY (OR HOW I GOT TO FEMME)

Jan 12-7PM / Jan 13-6PM / Jan 21-3PM / Jan 27-2PM

Malcolm Grissom: ME, MY SONG AND I

Jan 13-8PM / Jan 18-7PM / Jan 20-2PM / Jan 26-8:30PM / Jan 28-5PM

Thomas Robert Simpson: COURAGE UNDER FIRE: THE STORY OF ELROY

Jan 14-7PM / Jan 20-4PM / Jan 25-7PM

2. From the Archives: Interview with OKA director, Lavinia Currier (2011).

Music: Zion Trinity's "Opening Prayer for Legba"; Climbing Poetree's "She Lives."

We close with a rebroadcast of an interview with director of the film OKA (2010).