Wanda's Picks Radio Show, Friday, March 30, 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!

In this show we highlight directors who are telling visual stories whether the medium is film or paper, as in comics.

1. San Francisco International Film Festival featured directors: 
Erika Cohn, dir., THE JUDGE https://www.sffilm.org/2018-sffilm-festival/festival-calendar/the-judge and Denali Tiller, dir., TRE MAISON DASAN
https://www.sffilm.org/2018-sffilm-festival/festival-calendar/tre-maison-dasan

2. America ReFramed on The World Channel http://worldchannel.org/programs/america-reframed/:

Guests: Christopher Hastings, Executive Producer and directors:

Keith McQuirter MILWAUKEE 53206, Premieres April 3^rd

Jenny Phillips, BEYOND THE WALL Premiere April 10

and Annelise Wunderlich, THE CORRIDOR Premieres April 17

3. The Black Panther Film Dialogues Vol. 3: with Juliana “Jewels” Smith, the (H)afrocentric creator, is a writer, cultural worker, and educator and Alan Clark, who is a graphic novelist. Visit phantomelectrik.com

4. Rhonda Benin, 6th Annual Just Like a Woman Concert 3/31 at TheFreight & Salvage in Berkeley

Rhonda Benin, Just Like a Woman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImezLW85aGg