Wed., Sept. 12, 2018, 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!
Show link: http://tobtr.com/10965175
1. Wanda Ravernell, Ominra Institute and promoter and manager for Awon Ohun Omnira, (Voices of Freedom), joins us to talk about the 5th Annual Black-Eyed Pea Festival, Sat., Sept. 15, 11-6, on the front lawn at Oakland Technical High School, 4351 Broadway. It is a free event.
A former journalist who worked for 20 years in the newspaper business at the Alameda Newspaper Group, the Sacramento Bee and The San Francisco Chronicle, she also was an activist for minority journalists including developing and implementing a workshop for minority high school journalists. From 2003 to the present, Ravernell developed and implemented a Juneteenth ritual commemorating the Emancipation Proclamation using that included all the faiths of the captives who would become slaves during the Slave Trade Era. Beginning in 2009 to the present, Ravernell developed and implemented several lecture demonstrations drawing on the African traditional knowledge and applied it to African American history using a choir comprised members of an African American church and the Lucumi community, who also provided the musical framework and expertise of the sacred drum tradition known as Bata.
The choir, Awon Ohun Omnira (Voices of Freedom) received the 2010 Negro Spirituals Heritage Award from the Friends of Negro Spirituals, a nonprofit dedicated to the preservation of the music. In 2015, through Ravernell, the institute received a Certificate of Recognition from California State Assemblyman Nate Thurmond. In 2014, Ravernell with Sauda Burch led the institute in developing and staging the first Black-Eyed Pea Festival, held in Oakland’s Mosswood Park. Concerned about the impact of the deaths of young, black men and women at the hands of the police, Ravernell, with Dennis Toabji Stewart, decided to bring healing through traditional music to the surviving families. They have worked with Cephus “Uncle Bobby” Johnson, the uncle of Oscar Grant who was killed by BART police in 2009 and Phelicia Jones with The Justice for Mario Woods campaign. Woods was killed by S.F. Police in 2015.
2. Judy Juanita, author and scholar, Homage to the Black Arts Movement: A Handbook, joins us to talk about her reading and panel discussion at AAMLO this Sat., Sept. 15, 2-4 p.m. on the Black Arts Movement and the 50th Anniversary of the School of Ethnic Studies.
3. Rev. Liza J. Rankow , Founder and Spiritual Co-Director, One Life Institute, joins us to talk Taking the Arrow out of the Heart, a celebration of World Peace Day with Alice Walker and Desert Rose, Lynne Holmes and Yusuf artistic ambassadors for peace from South Africa who are also joining us this morning via Skype. The event is Friday, Sept. 21, 7-
Rev. Rankow is an interfaith minister, educator, activist, and writer. Her work
centers the personal and collective healing that is essential to
authentic justice and social transformation. Liza has provided
counseling and offered classes and workshops on spiritual development
for over 25 years. As a scholar, her main interest is exploring the
powerful synergy between mysticism and social change. She draws great
inspiration from the teachings of Dr. Howard Thurman, and is producer
and co-editor of the six-CD audio collection, “The Living Wisdom of
Howard Thurman,” published by Sounds True in 2010.
Founded in 1999 by world music composer, Lynne Holmes, Desert Rose is based in Cape Town, South Africa and is widely regarded as leading composers, producers and performers of Universal Sacred World Music. In 2005 Lynne Holmes teamed up with her life partner, Yusuf Ganief, and started an exciting journey through diverse cultures and faith groups from Sufism, Gregorian Chanting to ancient languages including Aramaic, Sanskrit, Hindi, Hebrew and Gurmukhi.
The duo is at the heart of Desert Rose, constantly exploring the creation and emergence of universal world music that allows the listener to access their inner worlds, facilitating healing and shifting consciousness. Yusuf is currently the leading multilingual world music vocalist in Southern Africa and together with Lynne have performed to standing ovations throughout the world.
Lynne Holmes, (Music composer, Director, Pianist, and Keyboard/Harp player), is the winner of numerous awards including performing as a soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra for National Television at the age of 13. One of her performance highlights was composing and performing for Nelson Mandela in 1995. She has composed and produced 18 world music albums and received a 5-star rating for her album, ‘Silence of the Music’. She is recognized locally and internationally as one of the leading composers of sacred world music. Her last 3 albums reflect her love for the Sikh traditions and teachings.
Yusuf , lead multilingual vocalist and group manager, was born from a mother with Scottish descent and a father with Javanese descent, but was brought up with the spiritual teachings and traditions of Sufism, passed on from generation to generation by his ancestors who were brought to SA in the 1600’s as political exiles by the Dutch. At age 10 he joined a traditional Sufi group and became known in his community for his solo recitals.
In 2008 Lynne recorded him as a soloist on the album, The Prayer. It became a local hit and gave birth to Desert Rose as a live performance group. Since then his personal spiritual path has developed him into a sacred multilingual vocalist singing in Sanskrit, Arabic, Gurmukhi, Aramaic, Hebrew, Hindi, French, Spanish and English. In 2007 he gave up his professional career as CEO for the Cape Town Festival to pursue his dream as a sacred world music singer.
Desert Rose has been internationally acknowledged as ambassadors for peace, non-violence, interfaith and Climate Change awareness. Since 2013 they have been the only musicians invited as part of the International Interfaith Movement for the UN at the annual COP (Climate Change) conferences. They constantly strive to develop live performances, workshops and retreats to further their promotion of peace, social responsibility and common humanity through a unique universal musical signature. They follow a personal path of universal spirituality incorporating daily meditation, yoga, sacred chanting, veganism.
Visit https://www.desertrosemusic.co.za/
Show link: http://tobtr.com/10965175
1. Wanda Ravernell, Ominra Institute and promoter and manager for Awon Ohun Omnira, (Voices of Freedom), joins us to talk about the 5th Annual Black-Eyed Pea Festival, Sat., Sept. 15, 11-6, on the front lawn at Oakland Technical High School, 4351 Broadway. It is a free event.
A former journalist who worked for 20 years in the newspaper business at the Alameda Newspaper Group, the Sacramento Bee and The San Francisco Chronicle, she also was an activist for minority journalists including developing and implementing a workshop for minority high school journalists. From 2003 to the present, Ravernell developed and implemented a Juneteenth ritual commemorating the Emancipation Proclamation using that included all the faiths of the captives who would become slaves during the Slave Trade Era. Beginning in 2009 to the present, Ravernell developed and implemented several lecture demonstrations drawing on the African traditional knowledge and applied it to African American history using a choir comprised members of an African American church and the Lucumi community, who also provided the musical framework and expertise of the sacred drum tradition known as Bata.
The choir, Awon Ohun Omnira (Voices of Freedom) received the 2010 Negro Spirituals Heritage Award from the Friends of Negro Spirituals, a nonprofit dedicated to the preservation of the music. In 2015, through Ravernell, the institute received a Certificate of Recognition from California State Assemblyman Nate Thurmond. In 2014, Ravernell with Sauda Burch led the institute in developing and staging the first Black-Eyed Pea Festival, held in Oakland’s Mosswood Park. Concerned about the impact of the deaths of young, black men and women at the hands of the police, Ravernell, with Dennis Toabji Stewart, decided to bring healing through traditional music to the surviving families. They have worked with Cephus “Uncle Bobby” Johnson, the uncle of Oscar Grant who was killed by BART police in 2009 and Phelicia Jones with The Justice for Mario Woods campaign. Woods was killed by S.F. Police in 2015.
2. Judy Juanita, author and scholar, Homage to the Black Arts Movement: A Handbook, joins us to talk about her reading and panel discussion at AAMLO this Sat., Sept. 15, 2-4 p.m. on the Black Arts Movement and the 50th Anniversary of the School of Ethnic Studies. 3. Rev. Liza J. Rankow , Founder and Spiritual Co-Director, One Life Institute, joins us to talk Taking the Arrow out of the Heart, a celebration of World Peace Day with Alice Walker and Desert Rose, Lynne Holmes and Yusuf artistic ambassadors for peace from South Africa who are also joining us this morning via Skype. The event is Friday, Sept. 21, 7-
Founded in 1999 by world music composer, Lynne Holmes, Desert Rose is based in Cape Town, South Africa and is widely regarded as leading composers, producers and performers of Universal Sacred World Music. In 2005 Lynne Holmes teamed up with her life partner, Yusuf Ganief, and started an exciting journey through diverse cultures and faith groups from Sufism, Gregorian Chanting to ancient languages including Aramaic, Sanskrit, Hindi, Hebrew and Gurmukhi.
The duo is at the heart of Desert Rose, constantly exploring the creation and emergence of universal world music that allows the listener to access their inner worlds, facilitating healing and shifting consciousness. Yusuf is currently the leading multilingual world music vocalist in Southern Africa and together with Lynne have performed to standing ovations throughout the world.
Lynne Holmes, (Music composer, Director, Pianist, and Keyboard/Harp player), is the winner of numerous awards including performing as a soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra for National Television at the age of 13. One of her performance highlights was composing and performing for Nelson Mandela in 1995. She has composed and produced 18 world music albums and received a 5-star rating for her album, ‘Silence of the Music’. She is recognized locally and internationally as one of the leading composers of sacred world music. Her last 3 albums reflect her love for the Sikh traditions and teachings.
Yusuf , lead multilingual vocalist and group manager, was born from a mother with Scottish descent and a father with Javanese descent, but was brought up with the spiritual teachings and traditions of Sufism, passed on from generation to generation by his ancestors who were brought to SA in the 1600’s as political exiles by the Dutch. At age 10 he joined a traditional Sufi group and became known in his community for his solo recitals.
In 2008 Lynne recorded him as a soloist on the album, The Prayer. It became a local hit and gave birth to Desert Rose as a live performance group. Since then his personal spiritual path has developed him into a sacred multilingual vocalist singing in Sanskrit, Arabic, Gurmukhi, Aramaic, Hebrew, Hindi, French, Spanish and English. In 2007 he gave up his professional career as CEO for the Cape Town Festival to pursue his dream as a sacred world music singer.
Desert Rose has been internationally acknowledged as ambassadors for peace, non-violence, interfaith and Climate Change awareness. Since 2013 they have been the only musicians invited as part of the International Interfaith Movement for the UN at the annual COP (Climate Change) conferences. They constantly strive to develop live performances, workshops and retreats to further their promotion of peace, social responsibility and common humanity through a unique universal musical signature. They follow a personal path of universal spirituality incorporating daily meditation, yoga, sacred chanting, veganism.
Visit https://www.desertrosemusic.co.za/
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