Wanda's Picks Radio Show, Wednesday, April 29, 2020

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!

Melanin Magic Sessions Take 10: A special series of shows featuring healers who will leave us with tools we can use to strengthen ourselves during a time when isolation is encouraged while the soul cries for communion.

We'd like to open the show with something about jazz, and McCoy Tyner and the improvisational nature of life-- Black life and Muhammad B. Hanif, Charles Curtis Blackwell, and Damu Sudi Alii join us to talk about it. 

1. Mina Morita, Crowded Fire joins us to talk about Mina Morita, Artistic Director, Crowded Fire theatre, director, Dustin Chin’s Snowflakes, or Rare White People, May 1-10, 2020

http://minamorita.com/aboutmina/

https://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/TDPS.html?event_ID=125989

2. We rebroadcast an interview with Delfeayo Marsalis on the release of a new CD that features his father, Ellis Marsalis (2017). 

3. Jazz History Month concludes with a conversation with: Damu Sudi Alii, Charles Curtis Blackwell

Muhammad B. Hanif.

April 30, 2020 is International Jazz Heritage Day. Programming is 24 hours.