Wanda's Picks Radio Show, Wednesday, October 31, 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. Ibrahima Seck is a member of the History department of University Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar (UCAD), Senegal. His research is mostly devoted to the historical and cultural links between West Africa and Louisiana with a special interest for religious beliefs, music, foodways, and miscellaneous aspects of culture. Dr. Seck is now holding the position of Director of research of the Whitney Plantation Slavery Museum located in St. John the Baptist Parish in Louisiana. He is the author of a book on this historic site entitled “Bouki fait Gombo: A History of the Slave Community of Habitation Haydel (Whitney Plantation) Louisiana, 1750-1860. [New Orleans: UNO Press, 2014].
http://whitneyplantation.com/

2.Gason Ayisyin is a New Orleans-based photographer who immigrated to the United States as a young child from Haiti, and Karel Sloane-Boekbinder Ashe Programs assistant For Theatre Visual Art And Education at Ashé Cultural Arts Center join us to talk about the new exhibit at the Powerhouse "Loa"

Here are the links to the FB Live videos from  the Ashé Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/ashe.cac/videos/2212135588851266/

https://www.facebook.com/ashe.cac/videos/593448371071675/

Didier Civil Slideshow

3. Graham Lustig, Artistic Director, Oakland Ballet, Luna Mexicana, Nov. 2-3 at the Paramount Theatre, Oakland oaklandballet.org


4. Tom Bruett, director and Nick Hadikwa Mwaluko, dramaturg, joins us to talk about Cardboard Piano by Hansol Jung: Playing Oct 26 - Dec 2 at New Conservatory Theatre Center, 25 Van Ness Avenue, Lower Lobby, San Francisco, CA 94102. nctcsf.org

Tom Bruett is a director and playwright based in San Francisco. Tom is happy to be returning to NCTC after directing Le Switch and Birds of a Feather. Other directing credits include The Marriage Equality Plays at Fort Mason, Playground and a season as the Acting Director of New Works and producer of the annual New Works Festival at Theatreworks. Tom is a member of the writing pool at Playground and has had plays developed and produced at PianoFight, Gritty City Rep, PCSF, and the Johnny Mercer Project at Northwestern.

Nick Hadikwa Mwaluko was raised mostly in neighboring Kenya and other East and central African countries and lives in the United States. Nick is trans, queer, nb, etc. Nick was part of The Public Theater's (New York City) Emerging Writers' Group (EWG), Crowded Fire Writers' Lab (San Francisco), and countless other residencies. Nick has also dramaturged for the National Conservatory Theater Center (San Francisco) and New Conservatory Theatre Center (San Francisco). Nick graduated Magna Cum Laude from Columbia University (B.A.) and was a Point Scholar during Nick's entire MFA at Columbia University. Nick’s award-winning plays include Waafrika, Waafrika 1-2-3, They/Them, Asymmetrical We, Blueprint for a Lesbian Planet, Brotherly Love, Trailer Park Tundra, Once A Man Always A Man, Mama Afrika, Queering MacBeth, Life Is About the Kill, Homeless in the Afterlife, Ata, 37, S.T.A.R: Marsha P. Johnson, Jizz, and others. Nick's plays have been produced in New York City, New Jersey, Florida, Berkeley, San Francisco, Wisconsin, Paris, South Africa, Italy and other countries.

Show link:  http://tobtr.com/s/11007677