Wanda's Picks Radio Show, Wed., February 14, 2018
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. We open with an interview with Wax Poet(s): Artistic Director Heather Stockton is a dance, video and sound artist who created Wax Poet(s) with hopes of cultivating an interdisciplinary community. Originally from Riverside, CA
1. We open with an interview with Wax Poet(s): Artistic Director Heather Stockton is a dance, video and sound artist who created Wax Poet(s) with hopes of cultivating an interdisciplinary community. Originally from Riverside, CA
Wax Poet(s) Executive Director Garth Grimball is a native of North Carolina where he received his BA in Anthropology and Dance at UNC Asheville.
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."
Susan Jackson (Opal Anne) has performed as Joan Crawford, Jackie Kennedy, British poet Stevie Smith and Sarah Bernhardt. Other roles include Ouisa, Six Degrees Of Separation; Dr. Bearing in Wit; Martha, Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?; “B” in Three Tall Women,and the mother in Look Homeward, Angel. Most recently, she performed the role of Marion Peallin in Death Be Not Loud! with the Southern Railroad Theatre /3Girls Theatre Co./Entropy Productions, (TBA recommended) and last year at the Capital Fringe, where it received a positive review in The Washington Post. She’s thrilled to be in Bamboozled, testing her North Carolina Liberal roots.
Jeunée Simon (Abby) has worked with Bay Area Children's Theatre Company, Shotgun Players, Bread Box, Ragged Wing, Aluminous, Town Hall Theatre and more. She is a board member at TheatreFirst, where she was seen most recently in the world premiere of HeLa. She is also a company member at the Custom Made Theatre Company, where she recently appeared in Isaac's Eye. Jeunée kicked off 2018 performing with Killing My Lobster in the San Francisco Sketchfest. And finally, she was honored to be the 2017 recipient of the RHE Artistic Fellowship from the RHE Charitable Foundation in partnership with Theatre Bay Area.
Patricia Milton is a Resident Playwright for Central Works and a long-term member of the Central Works Writers Workshop. Plays written for Central Works include: Bamboozled (2018), Hearts of Palm (2016), Enemies: Foreign and Domestic (2015), and Reduction in Force (2011). She is a recipient of the 2015 Outstanding World Premiere Play by Theatre Bay Area for Enemies: Foreign and Domestic, and Reduction in Force was voted 2011 “Best Local Play” in Broadway World’s annual poll. Her comedy Believers has enjoyed productions in Monterey and San Francisco, and has played for the past two years in Istanbul, Turkey. Her drama about the death penalty, Without Mercy, was presented at the Newfoundland Women’s Work Festival and was produced by Off Broadway West Theatre Company in San Francisco in 2017. Ms. Milton has had more than one hundred productions and readings of her plays internationally, including at the 3Girls Theatre, San Francisco Exploratorium, PlayGround SF, Woman’s Will, Women’s Theatre Project, Bay Area One Acts, and City Lights Theatre.
Additional Music and Audio:
We open with Zion Trinity: Opening Prayer for Esu Legba. We close with 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."
Link to show: http://tobtr.com/10583753
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."
Susan Jackson (Opal Anne) has performed as Joan Crawford, Jackie Kennedy, British poet Stevie Smith and Sarah Bernhardt. Other roles include Ouisa, Six Degrees Of Separation; Dr. Bearing in Wit; Martha, Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?; “B” in Three Tall Women,and the mother in Look Homeward, Angel. Most recently, she performed the role of Marion Peallin in Death Be Not Loud! with the Southern Railroad Theatre /3Girls Theatre Co./Entropy Productions, (TBA recommended) and last year at the Capital Fringe, where it received a positive review in The Washington Post. She’s thrilled to be in Bamboozled, testing her North Carolina Liberal roots.
Jeunée Simon (Abby) has worked with Bay Area Children's Theatre Company, Shotgun Players, Bread Box, Ragged Wing, Aluminous, Town Hall Theatre and more. She is a board member at TheatreFirst, where she was seen most recently in the world premiere of HeLa. She is also a company member at the Custom Made Theatre Company, where she recently appeared in Isaac's Eye. Jeunée kicked off 2018 performing with Killing My Lobster in the San Francisco Sketchfest. And finally, she was honored to be the 2017 recipient of the RHE Artistic Fellowship from the RHE Charitable Foundation in partnership with Theatre Bay Area.
Patricia Milton is a Resident Playwright for Central Works and a long-term member of the Central Works Writers Workshop. Plays written for Central Works include: Bamboozled (2018), Hearts of Palm (2016), Enemies: Foreign and Domestic (2015), and Reduction in Force (2011). She is a recipient of the 2015 Outstanding World Premiere Play by Theatre Bay Area for Enemies: Foreign and Domestic, and Reduction in Force was voted 2011 “Best Local Play” in Broadway World’s annual poll. Her comedy Believers has enjoyed productions in Monterey and San Francisco, and has played for the past two years in Istanbul, Turkey. Her drama about the death penalty, Without Mercy, was presented at the Newfoundland Women’s Work Festival and was produced by Off Broadway West Theatre Company in San Francisco in 2017. Ms. Milton has had more than one hundred productions and readings of her plays internationally, including at the 3Girls Theatre, San Francisco Exploratorium, PlayGround SF, Woman’s Will, Women’s Theatre Project, Bay Area One Acts, and City Lights Theatre.
Additional Music and Audio:
We open with Zion Trinity: Opening Prayer for Esu Legba. We close with 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."
Link to show: http://tobtr.com/10583753
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