Wanda's Picks Radio Show, Wednesday, March 8, 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. Nicia De'Lovely, Oakland native, is an acclaimed published Poetess, Multifaceted Artist, Antichild molestation/ trafficking/ exploitation ARTivist, spirited Survivor and Entrepreneur.



2. Mariam Diakite –Lead Vocals, Percussion, Dance with Orchestra Gold and Erich Huffaker, guitar, multi-instrumentalist. They have a show 3/9 at Starry Plough and 3/29 an EP Party at Ashkenaz Music and Dance Center, both in Berkeley.
 

Mabiba Baegne

3. 25 Annual Collage des Africaines continues, 3/8-10, with a concert Sat. evening, 3/9. Naomi Gedo Diouf is the Artistic Director of Diamano Coura West African Dance Company. She is joined Mabiba Baegne, an internationally acclaimed dancer, dance teacher and choreographer of traditional and contemporary African Dance.
 

(l to r) Victor D. Ragsdale (as Clarence Matthews) and Michael Wayne Rice (as Geoffrey Dean) break the interview ice with a shared love of Octavia Butler in the West Coast Premiere of Lucy Thurber’s TRANSFERS, running February 28 – March 23, 2019.

Photo by Adam Tolbert

 4. Transfers through March 23, Crowded Fire Theatre cast: Caleb Cabrera (Cristofer Rodriguez), David Everett Moore (David DeSantos), Victor D. Ragdale (Clarence Matthews). 

Show link: http://tobtr.com/11191939