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!

We open the show with conversations with directors, curators, and dancers featured in the 10th Annual San Francisco Dance Film Festival, Nov. 2-4 and Nov. 9-10 at Brava Theatre. 

Afia Thompson, dir. MAPENZI

Laura Ellis, moderator of a discussion about activism and the arts after the Raising Voices shorts program on Nov 9, 6pm at Brava (the program includes MAPENZI and the other If Cities Could Dance-- Oakland).https://www.sfdancefilmfest.org/festival-films/2019-program/raising-voices/

Kabreshiona Smith, dancer, in If Cities Could Dance: Richmond 

2. We speak to Dr. Rachel Carrico, an Assistant Professor of Dance Studies in the School of Theatre + Dance at the University of Florida. Her research explores the aesthetic, political, and social histories of second lining, an improvisational dance form rooted in New Orleans's African diaspora parading traditions. She will give a lecture Friday evening, Nov. 1, on the intersection of New Orleans and Oakland Dance traditions. Program starts at 6:30 p.m. Visit performingarts.mills.edu