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. Del Sol founder Charlton Lee with Genny Lim, featured poet at Sat., Feb. 20, 6-7:30 p.m. concert
Free Del Sol concerts on Sunday, Feb. 21:
1:30 pm at the Bandstand in Lake Merritt.
2. Stephanie Ann Johnson, Ph.D. joins us to talk about her work up at Oakland Theater Project through March 6.
3. We close with a conversation with David Johnson, poet, activist, journalist, historian, to talk about El Hajj Malik El Shabazz. Del Sol founder Carlton Lee with Genny Lim, featured poet at Sat., Feb. 20, concert
Stephanie Ann Johnson, Ph.D. joins us to talk about her work up at Oakland Theater Project through March 6.
We close with a conversation with David Johnson, co-founder of Umbra and the Black Arts Movement, poet, activist, journalist, historian, to talk about El Hajj Malik El Shabazz.
David Henderson was connected to the Black Arts Movement through the Umbra Workshop, where he served as an editor of their magazine and editor of the three Umbra anthologies. De Mayor of Harlem and Neo-California are his best-known books of poetry. He has read a selection of his poetry for the permanent archives of the Library of Congress. Author of the lyrics to Sun Ra's composition “Love in Outerspace,” he h also recorded with the saxophonists and composers Ornette Coleman and David Murray and the cornetist and composer Butch Morris.
Author of the biography ’Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky. Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child, he wrote and produced an award-winning two-hour documentary on the African American Beat poet Bob Kaufman for National Public Radio and Pacifica Radio, which inspired a critically acclaimed film, And When I Die I Won’t Stay Dead, directed by Billy Woodberry.
Was a poet-in-residence at The City College of New York, he has taught in CUNY’s SEEK Program and has been a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley; UC San Diego; the State University of New York at Stony Brook; and Wesleyan University. Most recently he became the first Fellow of the Lost and Found Poetics Initiative out of the Center for the Humanities at CUNY’s Graduate Center, New York
David Henderson was connected to the Black Arts Movement through the Umbra Workshop, where he served as an editor of their magazine and editor of the three Umbra anthologies. De Mayor of Harlem and Neo-California are his best-known books of poetry. He has read a selection of his poetry for the permanent archives of the Library of Congress. Author of the lyrics to Sun Ra's composition “Love in Outerspace,” he h also recorded with the saxophonists and composers Ornette Coleman and David Murray and the cornetist and composer Butch Morris.
Author of the biography ’Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky. Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child, he wrote and produced an award-winning two-hour documentary on the African American Beat poet Bob Kaufman for National Public Radio and Pacifica Radio, which inspired a critically acclaimed film, And When I Die I Won’t Stay Dead, directed by Billy Woodberry.
Was a poet-in-residence at The City College of New York, he has taught in CUNY’s SEEK Program and has been a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley; UC San Diego; the State University of New York at Stony Brook; and Wesleyan University. Most recently he became the first Fellow of the Lost and Found Poetics Initiative out of the Center for the Humanities at CUNY’s Graduate Center, New York.
Music: Kerwin Young's In the Amazon; Kahil El Zabar & Archie Shepp's Brother Malcolm.
Show link: http://tobtr.com/11896012
