Wanda's Picks Radio Show, Friday, March 15, 2019
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!
Visit https://www.onelifeinstitute.org/healing-black-lives. 2019 dates: Saturdays, March 16, June 8, Aug 17, Dec 7 (9:30 am-4:30 pm)
Rev. Hassan, OneLife Board Member and Spiritual Co-Director is also an educator, and community servant. He currently serves as Pastor/Teaching Elder at the Sojourner Truth Presbyterian Church in Richmond California, a position he has held since 2008. Before this call Reverend Hassan spent more than three decades as both a public and private school educator, community organizer and religious worker. Rev. Hassan is a founding member of both the New Afrikan People’s Organization and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement. He has worked for social justice and Human Rights locally, nationally, and internationally.
2. Deborah Santana, editor, All the Women in My Family Sing (recorded 07.03.2018).
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| Dina Zarif |
3. Dina Zarif, curator, Iranian artist, join us to talk about "Music of the Banned" concert March 16, 2019. Dina Zarif is a performer, vocalist, designer, and art manager whose sound combines Western classical singing
with Middle Eastern styles inspired from her Persian roots. She has performed in various festivals, venues, and productions such as SF Palace of Fine Arts, the chamber opera The Passion of Leyla in San Jose, the theatrical dance performance Home, and Golden Thread Theater Company’s staged reading of Layla and Majnun at BAMPFA. Zarif was also a featured singer in Syria Mon Amour, Golden Thread’s 2017 celebration of International Women’s Day that was dedicated to Syria.
As an actress, she performed in three of Iranian playwright and director Bahram Beyzai’s plays: Ardaviraf’s Report (2015), Tarabnameh (2015-2016) as the role of Dancer/Singer, and Crossroads (2018) in the Stanford Iranian Studies department. Additionally, Zarif is a costume designer and performer in the shadow production Feathers of Fire: A Persian Epic. As the character Princess Roudabeh, she has performed at SF Cowell Theater, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Harvard University, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Wallis Annenberg Hall, and has internationally toured in Poland, Taiwan, and Canada between 2015 and 2018.
As a working artist in the community, Zarif is the program director and a lead performance host at the Red Poppy Art House in San Francisco. She most recently curated the project Music of the Banned in response to the travel ban, highlighting the music of eight countries—the majority Muslim nations—Iran, Syria, Libya, Sudan, Yemen, Somalia, Venezuela, and North Korea. The project has been performed at the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival in June 2018 and Red Poppy Art House in August 2017. Zarif received her MA in Landscape Architecture from the University of Tehran, College of Fine Arts.
MARCH 16TH PROGRAM
SUDAN: Tarawa ft. Seoulstice
Sudanese Roots, Global Expressions
Tarawa – ukelele, calabash drum, ngoni, Sudanese bongos
Seoulstice – guitar, loop and effect pedal
IRAN: Emad Bonakdar & Mizuho Sato
Persian Music Meets Flamenco
Emad Bonakdar – tar, tanbur, guitar
Mizuho Sato – flamenco dance
VENEZUELA: Trio Caminos
Venezuelan Grooves in California
Carlos Caminos – acoustic guitar
Marlon Aldana – cajón flamenco, bongo
Angelo Tomandl – harmonicas
ABOUT MUSIC OF THE BANNED
Since January 27, 2017, President Trump has issued three travel bans to citizens from countries deemed by his administration: Chad, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Sudan, Yemen, Somalia, North Korea, and Venezuela. In the face of the president’s travel ban, Music of the Banned (MOTB) seeks to build a sonic bridge between peoples. The ten countries of the ban are a source of rich music and art that we can explore in a journey of peace and understanding.
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| Amara Tabour Smith |
4. Amara Tabour Smith, Nkeiruka Oruche, Amber McZeal join us to talk about: House/Full of Black Women's Black Women Dreaming "divine darkeness" March 24-April 14, 2019 Visit http://www.deepwatersdance.com/
Deep Waters Dance Theater is an ensemble of performing artists creating work that is rooted in ritual and explores the issues facing people of color and the environment. Drawing from the folklore of our cultural heritages and traditions we are committed to creating dance theater that promotes healing from environmental, sexual and racial oppression.
Amara Tabor-Smith is San Francisco born choreographer/performance maker who lives in Oakland. She describes her work as Conjure Art, and her dance making practice utilizes Yoruba spiritual ritual to address issues of social and environmental justice, race, gender identity and belonging. Amara is a 2018 USA Artist Fellow, a 2017 UBW Choreographic Center Fellow, and is a 2016 recipient of the Creative Capital Grant along with collaborator Ellen Sebastian Chang. Amara is the artistic director of Deep Waters Dance Theater and was the co artistic director of Headmistress with dance artist Sherwood Chen. Her latest work, House/Full of Blackwomen is a five-year, multi-site specific ritual performance project that addresses the displacement, well being, and sex-trafficking of black women and girls in Oakland. Created in collaboration with director Ellen Sebastian Chang and a group of black women artists and abolitionists, House/Full of Blackwomen asks the question, “How do we as black women and girls find the space to breathe, rest and be well in a stable home?” Amara is a lecturer at UC Berkeley, and is an Artist in Residence teaching at Stanford University. www.deepwatersdance.com
Nkeiruka (Nkeeraka) Oruche is an Igbo cultural producer and multidisciplinary performer specializing in the expressions of urban culture of the African Diaspora and its intersections with personal identity, public wealth and sociopolitical action. Since 2002, Nkeiruka has played a crucial role in ushering African culture unto the global stage from working as Editor-in-Chief of Nigerianentertainment.com, a digital magazine, and as co-founder of One3snapshot, an art collective. Currently, Nkeiruka is focused on expanding and sustaining grassroots change-making and community health through the production, performance and embodiment of art and culture. She is a co-founder of BoomShake, a social justice and music education organization, and Director of Afro Urban Society, a meeting place for urban African art, culture and people. Learn more about her work on nkeioruche.com
Amber McZeal is a writer, vocalist, sacred scholar, liberations arts practitioner and cultural change-agent weaving somatic practice with social justice and spirituality. Amber has been heavily influenced by her lived experience in the post-Hurricane Katrina social and political climate; navigating historical systems of oppression and white supremacy exacerbated by the conditions of a natural disaster and dominated by a disaster capitalism agenda.
As an activist, artivist, and organizer, Amber’s approach centers on the imagination as foundational in our movements to end racism, oppression and injustice. As an imaginal midwife, she encourages our collective movement beyond what we wish to disrupt and deconstruct, toward what we want to create. Her commitment to radical utopian futurity is an expression of her embodiment of love-driven politics, rooted in the radical love tradition of African American mothers.
Amber has studied sound therapy, trauma, somatic, community, liberation and ecological depth psychology at Goddard College and Pacifica Graduate Institute. Through a decolonial lens, Amber’s work focuses on the ways that systems of oppression distort relationships—interpersonal and collective—in order to personally and collectively re-imagine strategies for transforming both relational dynamics and the social constructs that they exist within.
Workshop Title(s):
- Centering Post-Traumatic Growth: Moving From Damage-Centered Narratives to Promote Resiliency and Integration || This workshop explores the somatic, psychological and social conditions that facilitate and support the resiliency and innate healing capacities of individuals. Through mindfulness practices, storytelling and group discussion, this workshop will explore the ways that practitioners can interrupt the cycle of damage-centered narratives to support the rewiring of the nervous system and promote integration, healing and growth.
- Locating ourselves within the landscape: How systems of oppression affect and distort interpersonal relationships || This workshops explores the ways that systems can contribute to the marginalization of minority communities. It emphasizes methods for cultivating cultural sensitivity to disenfranchised populations through experiential practices that explore the ways in which communities are impacted by unequal distribution of resources. This is a full day retreat that will utilize liberation arts practices, decolonial philosophy, and reflective writing to explore the psychological and somatic impacts of institutional racism on individuals and communities.
- Transforming Rage: Tending the Anger that Accompanies Loss and Grief for African American Youth || This workshops explores rage from a depth perspective. It re-centers rage as inherently connected to love and explores the socio-historical context within which African American anger has been distorted and misunderstood. The goal of this workshop is to unpack rage as an archetypal dynamic and reposition caregiver's understanding and reaction to rage through a deepened analysis of the socio-historical factors which accompany it. The workshop will focus on the transition from individual to collective contexts as essential to understanding and tending to rage and grief.
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