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. The Drum and the Word: An evening of percussion and poetry with Dame Drummer and Tongo Eisen-Martin, Aug. 22, 2018, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM at The Lab, 2948 16th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
(415) 864-8855, thelabsf@thelab.org. $8 entry (no one turned away for lack of funds), free for members

A virtuosic combination of two liberation artists push the bounds of expression and resistance. Tongo Eisen Martin and Dame Drummer bring all facets of the diaspora to bare in a night of haunting and relentless percussion and poetry at The Lab.

2. Alita Henderson, Say I Love You To Yourself (SILYTY) workshop trainings. Contact: silytysinst@gmail.com and (510) 551-8987 and Facebook.com

3.  Mama Efia Nwangaza, Maverick Revolutionary Organizer in the Prison Human Rights Movement, Director, Malcolm X Center for Self-Determination, reflects on Marcus Mosiah Garvey and the Prison Movement (bio:"Invisible Giants" https://wmxp955.webs.com/staffandfriends.htm, MXGR blog and Facebook)

Music: Mama C: Voices of My Ancestors; Billy Harper's Knowledge of Self featuring Amiri Baraka; UpSurge: Ancestors

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