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John Handy is receiving the Beason Award at SFJAZZ Sunday, Nov. 1, 7 PM at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco. Visit www.sfjazz.org

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Kim made a comment about your link: "Wanda, I loved your show today on the Araceli Theater, and not just because I'm the publicist. Also, the spiritual music was just great. Thank you. The gentleman who lost his son to cancer had a very selfless, and loving story."

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King Sunny Ade in concert was one of the best birthday presents I could have given myself! We arrived just as the set was about to begin, and for the next 2-plus hours he danced and sang me into the next day-- He even has a song on the reissue of his Seven Degrees"Congratulations" (Happy Birthday). Yes, and the CD arrived on Juneteenth just before I left for the concert. I got it autographed...and now wait for 11 AM to arrive for an interview to be aired later. It was the best party ever!

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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!

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    We open with African Immigrants Social and Cultural Organization which is hosting a benefit Nov. 21, "Dance Until You Drop" 6-12 midnight, atthe Oakland Asian Cultural Center, 388 Ninth Street visit http://aiscs.org; Craftswomen: Belvea Sharp and Kysha Mitchell who are participating in the Women's Building's 31st Annual Celebration of Craftswomen, Nov. 28-29 and Dec. 5-6, 2009. The cast and director from "Drip" at Crowded Fire Theatre through this weekend, Nov. 20-21, 8 PM at the Boxcar Theatre in San Francisco. We close with: Dan Wolf, Tommy Sheppard, and Ellen Sebastian Chang, playwright, cast and director from "Stateless" at the Jewish Theatre in San Francisco.

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    Frameline 33 Part 2: Today's show features director Faith Trimel's "Family" screening June 24 and June 26; also featured is director John Young. His "Rivers Wash Over Me" screens June 24. Also featured is director Tim Daniels and producer Burton Rorie's "Standing N Truth". Unfortunately, this film already screened, June 21. Visit www.standntruth.com

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    Wanda's Picks Special featuring Mavis Staples, Ruthie Foster and Pedro Rosales of De Rompe y Raja

    Prior to speaking to Mavis Staples last week, I hadn't realized how revolutionary and tied to the Movement for Peace and Justice, Papa Staples and the Staple Singers, Miss Mavis, the youngest, were. She shared stories of her father's meeting with Dr. MLK Jr. and songs he wrote for the young leader and minister during that turbulent time in America as he and his children (the Staple Singers) were arrested and mistreated along with everyone else. Their resistance to injustice continued through the Vietnam War and this legacy is seen in benefit performances and compilations Ms. Staples has participated in as a solo artist for the past 30-40 years. She spoke of visiting her grandmother in Mississippi where people's hand clapping and foot stomping made the floor boards sing in the hills where they had church. Her latest recording, taped live in Chicago last June, but released the day of Obama's victory, November 4, 2008, "Mavis Staples Live: Hope at the Hideout" (ANTI-/Epitaph). Ms. Staples said the CD marks the end of a musical period for her, thought the songs of the Movement and those reflective of the struggles of black people for human rights would never grow old, she was ready to sing happy songs. Well hot dog! is all I can say. It's a short but lively conversation and you can see Miss Staples in concert this weekend, Sunday, June 28, 2009, at The Kate Wolf Memorial Festival in Laytonville, CA. Visit http://www.katewolf.com/festival/ The line-up is impressive: Friday Main Stage * Joel Rafael * Rosalie Sorrels & Ramblin' Jack Elliott * Chris Smither * Ruthie Foster Band * Blind Boys of Alabama Saturday Main Stage * Rita Hosking & Cousin Jack * Sherry Austin Band (with a Kate Wolf song set) * Riders in the Sky * Shawn Colvin * Railroad Earth * Dave Alvin & the Guilty Women * Patty Griffin Sunday Main Stage * Po' Girl * Girlyman *

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    Wanda's Picks for Frameline 33 Episode 1

    Today we are featuring interviews with directors: Kortney Ryan Ziegler: "Still Black: A Portrait of Black Transmen," and Florencia Manovil: "Fiona's Script." Both screen this evening, Monday, June 22 in San Francisco. Ziegler's at the Roxie at 7 PM and Manovil's at 7 PM also at the Roxie. Visit www.frameline.org

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    Wanda's Picks Special featuring curator, Constantine Petridis and Muisi-kongo Malonga

    Art and Power opened this weekend at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. Curator, Constantine Petridis's exhibition looks at the linguistic and aesthetic and cultural linkages between the four distinct African civilizations stemming from Bantu origins: Luba, Songye, Chokwe, and Luluwa. In the exhibit featuring rare work from throughout the country and the world he proposes that the connection between art and spirit are often invisible, that there is no separation, that the power inherent in the nkisi or bearer of potions used to invoke or call the spirit into being to help or assist the community or person is more the rule rather than the exception. These 59 sculptures from the Central African Savanna show us images of the people who lived then, who centuries later, despite colonial enslavement, reflect us now in the dress, the perception of beauty and in the powerful spirit these art pieces, even robbed or emptied of their potions, still possess. Also joining us this morning is Muisi-kongo Malonga, Artistic Director of Fua Dia Congo, which has a new work premiering the final week, June 27-28 at the Ethnic Dance Festival at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. The dance which comes from Central Africa, the place where Dr.Petridis did field study for six months, and where many of these pieces originate, is in the news a lot for its decades long battle with international exploitation, bloodshed, rape as a weapon of war, and displacement of people trying to escape the terror. Kongo-Kintourari links, Muisi-kongo says, the ancient spelling of Kongo and the word kintouri, a Kikongo word meaning "unity." The dance is a symbolic call for unity in the region. Whether it is Muisi-kongo's work with the all women dance company she founded, Diata Diata, "KOngo Odysssey," at the company's 25th Anniversary Concert, or the annual Congolese Drum and Dance Camp in July, she always includes this element--unity, unity between Africans and African Americans, unity betwee

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    Wanda's Picks Special with José Francisco Barroso and Santero

    Santero's "El Hijo de Obatala" CD Release Party, Friday, June 26 at the Shattuck Downlow in Berkeley is going to be the PLACE. I've got tickets to give away to the lucky blogger who writes something in the comment section that Santero said which intrigues, motivates or inspires. Joining Santero, whose spiritual name is "Crown of the Father," his dad, Obatala, on this special edition of "Wanda's Picks," is choreographer José Francisco Barroso, whose new work Obokóso debuts Saturday-Sunday, June 20-21 (2 & 8 PM Sat., 2 PM Sun.) at the Ethnic Dance Festival Week 3 at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Both men share a tradition more ancient that the African's brief sojourn in this hemisphere, a place marked with tears. Whether it is music or dance, what Barroso and Santero share in these conversations is the African ability to transcend adversity and evidence that art truly is revolutionary and a most powerful, perhaps the most powerful spiritual tool. Obokóso tells the story of Shango, the fifth king of Oyo, Nigeria who was hanged but didn't suffer. Shango represents one's ability to conquer death and he resides in the sky, thunder and lightning aspects of his ashe or life force which is eternal. That term, "everlasting life" is Shango. Shango is "unmatched," Barroso says, "in his mastery of the dance and is the owner of the sacred bata drums." The bata's roar shakes the heavens...its echoes bouncing between the two realms: heaven and earth. Even with one's head buried in the sand, one cannot escape Shango's song. The two: Shango and Obokóso represent, Barroso says, "connection and interdependency between heaven and earth, drum and the dance, dance and the spirit, community and tradition." Santero said he wanted to be like Bob Marley, take Santeria (Ifa) to a level of acceptance and honor it deserves, similar to the way Bob lifted the Rastafarian religion or spiritual practices through his insightful lyrics and music to a place of worldwide respect and admirati

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    Juneteenth Celebration in words and music, also Summer Solstice, Maafa Commemoration, and the continued need to reflect on African Liberation with: Diane Ferlatte, Parnel Herb, Kirk Waller, Karriem Riggins, Opal Palmer Adisa, Ayodele Nzinga, Marcus, Ausar Auset and Gene Tennie.

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