About Things Loved: Blackness and Belonging @BAMPFA

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!

Scholars Cheryl Finley, Ph.D. and Leigh Raiford, Ph.D., join us to talk about "Blackness & Belonging at BAMPFA, Dr. Finley's book, "Committed to Memory: The Art of the Slave Ship Icon", the Year of Return and the 400th Anniversary of the first enslaved Africans landing at Ft. Comfort, Virginia, August 1619.

The show co-curated by Leah at BAMPFA closes this weekend. Try to get by. We rebroadcast an interview with two women scholars and friends Cheryl Finley and Leah this morning.
http://tobtr.com/s/11372745

Wanda's Picks Radio Show, Wed., July 17, 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. Lesley Schisgall Currier, Managing Director, Director, A Midsummer Night's Dream, at Marin Shakespeare Company. As the MTC celebrates its 30th Anniversary Season we talk about the current production, "Measure for Measure," through July 21, and the theme: Playing for Good.

2. Elizabeth Jones, Motormouth Maybelle, Bay Area Musicals, July 6-Aug.11 at Victoria Theatre in SF. Visit bamsf.org/hairspray

3. From the Archives: End Game: AIDS in the Black Community with Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick

4. 2019 Bay Area Playwrights Festival Witness The Power Of Truth with Outgoing Artistic Director, Amy Mueller and Playwrights (this morning): Terence Anthony (The House of the Negro Insane), Candis C. Jones, dir.(HNI); Candrice Jones (FLEX); Claudia Alick, dramaturg (FLEX), Delicia Turner Sonnenberg, director, FLEX; July 19-28, Potrero Stage, 1695 18th St., San Francisco.
https://playwrightsfoundation.org/

Music: Meklit and Quinn; Zion Trinity

50th Anniversary of Apollo II

https://earthsky.org/space/space-scientists-apollo-anniversary-talk-program-july17-2019Music: Meklit &Quinn; Zion Trinity

Wanda's Picks Radio Show Special: James Ijames' Kill Move Paradise at Shotgun Players through Aug. 4, 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!

Today we speak to playwright, James Ijames, director, Darryl V. Jones, and set designer, Celeste Mortore about James Ijames' Kill Move Paradise at Shotgun Players (Berkeley, CA) association with Lorraine Hansberry Theatre (San Francisco, CA) through August 4, 2019.

Visit https://shotgunplayers.org

We close with a rebroadcast of the July 9, 2019 show: http://tobtr.com/11413841

Wanda's Picks Radio Show Special: SF Mime at 60; SF Botanical Gardens' Flower Piano; COLORISM@Root Division Gallery

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!

Daryl E. Stenvoll-Wells, Director, Art Responders, joins us to talk about a new exhibition at Root Division Gallery in SOMA, which is called "COLORISM: The Spectrum of Internalized Bias," July 11-Aug. 10, 2019.

2. Michael Gene Sullivan and Daniel Savio join us to talk about SF Mime Troupe's 60th Anniversary, Treasure Island which opened July 4, 2019
http://www.sfmt.org/company/members.php

3. Kash Killion and Stephanie Linder, Executive Director, SF Botanical Garden Society re: Flower Piano

Sunday, July 14, 12:30 - 2pm | Kash Killion & Killion’s Trillions: Exotic world instruments presentation and World Music

Listen: http://tobtr.com/s/11413841

Music:  Zion Trinity sing Opening Prayer for the African Deity Esu Legba; Africa Calling by Kash Killion

Friday, July 5, 2019 Wanda's Picks Radio Show, from the Archives: Donte Clark's "Know Freedom"

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. Regina Louise. Someone Has Led this Child to Believe (2nd bk. Lifetime film based on Somebody's Someone). www.iamreginalouise.com

2. Donte Clark with Dr. Khalid Akil White re: "Know Freedom" book event at Richmond Pulse, Bridge Art Space, 23 Maine Ave., Richmond, CA, 3-6 pm

3. Martin Luther, McCoy Actor, guitarist, singer/songwriter, producer joins us to talk about the Oakland Symphony's Swing and Soul – Let Us Break Bread Together, Sunday, Dec. 16, 4 p.m. at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland. https://www.oaklandsymphony.org/

4. Nathan M. Richardson, Poet / Author / Douglass Historian, joins us to talk about Frederick Douglass on his 200 birth year. https://www.scpublishing.com/events--workshops

Music: Martin Luther McCoy's Rize; Sara Smile

Link to show: http://tobtr.com/s/11407491  (First broadcast 12.2018)