Wanda's Picks Radio Show, Wed., March 13, 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!

1. Cheryl Fabio has been working in documentary film since 1976. She attended Fisk University, (BA/Sociology/Photography); then Stanford/Communications/Documentary Film program. Then freelancing when eventually she became a producer/director bringing many projects to fruition for KTOP TV and other community-based organizations. She was Program Director at Black Filmmaker’s Hall of Fame, Inc. (Oakland, CA), she taught at City College of San Francisco and Managed EATV, Operations Manager at KTOP TV – City of Oakland, and in 2009 she graduated from John F. Kennedy School of Law. Her non-profit, Sarah Webster Fabio Center for Social Justice, is co-producer of Evolutionary Blues … West Oakland’s Music Legacy.

She joins us to talk about her film and conversation series: Resilience, Resistance, Anticipation: A Fresh Look at the Black Arts Movement at the Oakland Public Library, 1021 81st Avenue.
https://www.swfcenter4sj.org/

2. Michael Wayne Rice (Geoffrey Dean) joins us to talk about Lucy Thurber's Transfers, directed by Ken Savage currently at Crowded Fire through March 23 at the Potrero Stage.
http://www.crowdedfire.org/transfers/

Music: Meklit Hadero's "Call."

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