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Theatre Works’s Once on This Island, a review, by Wanda Sabir
(l-r) Mama Euralie (Dawn L. Troupe), Little Ti Moune (Khalia Davis), and Tonton Julian (Berwick Haynes) Photo credit: Mark Kitaoka Rosa Guy and Maya AngelouTheatre Works’s production of Once on this...
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Oakland International Film Festival Opens with film about Haitian General...
Director Philippe Diang'Director Philippe Diang's Toussaint Louverture The 3 GeneralsWhen I ran into Danny Glover leaving the repast at Immamu Amiri Baraka's funeral in Newark this January, I asked him...
View ArticleWanda's Picks Radio Show Friday, April 4, 2014
Today we feature the director and founder of the Oakland International Film Festival, April 3-6, 2014 in multiple venues -- http://oaklandinternationalfilmfestival.com/ (510) 238-4734, and the kick off...
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Zaccho's "Dying While Black and Brown" free Performance
Choreography and Direction by Joanna Haigood • Music by Marcus ShelbyOriginally commissioned by Equal Justice SocietyFeaturing performing artists Antoine Hunter, Rashad Pridgen,Travis Santell Rowland...
View ArticleWanda's Picks Radio Friday, April 11, 2014
Dan Hoyle joins us to talk about his new play, written in collabiration with Tony Taccone, Game On, directed by Rick Lombardo, at San Jose Rep through April 19, 2014. https://www.sjrep.com/Bonnie...
View ArticleHandel’s Messiah, Palm Sunday, April 13, 2014, at Cathedral of Christ The...
It’s hard to follow the Messiahwithout a program, especially when it starts at 21. His Yoke is Easy, and His Burthen is Light. When I asked for a program when I entered and was told there was none, yet...
View ArticleThe Trials of Muhammad Ali, director, Bill Siegel, on Independent Lens,...
Bill Siegel's Trials of Muhammad Ali shows an evolution of consciousness rarely if ever seen when looking at an iconic figure, in this case the greatest boxer of the twentieth century Muhammad Ali. In...
View ArticleAugust Wilson’s Fences at Marin Theatre Company through May 11, 201
Carl Lumbly's embodies in his Troy a man conflicted, scarred, yet hopeful, as he keeps reinventing himself without a mirror reflection. There seems to be a man inside his skin quietly bursting at his...
View ArticleEvery Five Minutes in a free performance at Laney College in Oakland, CA...
The play Every Five Minutes by Scottish writer Linda McLean, is an unique look into the effects of solitary confinement on one Mo—recently released after 13 years behind bars. Captured by insurgents,...
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Protest Friday afternoon at UC Berkeley's Boalt HallFire, Disbar and Prosecute War Criminal John Yoo!, Friday, April 18, 4:30-6:00 PM at Boalt Law, Bancroft Way at Piedmont, BerkeleyAdvocating“No War...
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Fatoumata Diawara in San Francisco
California Institute for Integral Studies Public Programs, Performances 2013-2014 at Nourse Theater, 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, CA94102Performance Date: 04/18/2014, 8:00 pmPerpetuating Mali’s...
View ArticleWanda's Picks Radio Show: Nat'l Vegetarian Week; Free Albert Woodfox (Angola 3)
We open with a conversation with Jasmine Heiss, Senior Campaigner with Amnesty International USA's Individuals and Communities at Risk program. She advocates on behalf of the prisoners of conscience,...
View ArticleWanda's Picks Radio, Friday, April 25, 2014: African American Shakespeare...
1. David Minkus, Ph.D., Graduate Fellows Training Program Coordinator, has been a Research Associate and Coordinator of the Graduate Fellows training program at the Institute for the Study of Social...
View ArticleThe Suit on stage at ACT-SF
The Suit adapted by Peter Brook and Marie-Helene Estienne, from the short story by Daniel Canodoce "Can"Themba(1924-1968) takes place in Sophiatown in South Africa in the mid-1950s. It is the story of...
View ArticleWanda's Picks Radio Show, Friday, May 2, 2014
We have a really full program; make certain to listen to the archived program which features a special interview and update with spokesperson for MOVE, Ramona Africa. I speak to Ms. Africa the evening...
View ArticleWanda's Picks Radio: Wednesday, April 30, 2014
First we speak to Marie-Laure Vercambre Director, Water for Life and Peace Programme, Green Cross International Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland about Acqua for Life, launched in 2011, which has in...
View ArticleMarcus Books will rise again!
Landlords lock out and evict Marcus Books Refusing to accept anything less than a 100%, $1.6 million dollar profit on their April 2013 purchase in a bankruptcy auction of 1712 Fillmore Street. Suhelia...
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African American Shakes presents William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About...
Leontyne Mbele-Mbong and Ryan Vincent Anderson, as Beatrice and Benedict. Photo: L. Peter CallenderIn this closing performance of their 19th Season, African American Shakespeare Company couldn’t have...
View ArticleLibations for the Ancestors June 14, 2014
The Annual San Francisco Bay Area Libations for the Ancestors is Saturday, June 14, 2014, 9 AM at the Fountain at Lake Merritt (juxtaposed with Merritt Bakery and the tennis courts). It is an...
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Wanda’s Picks Radio Show, Friday, May 16, 2014 8-10:59 a.m. PSTFirst Guests:Playwright, Larry “Americ” Allen’s The Expulsion of Malcolm X at Laney College Odell Johnson theatre in Oakland, directed by...
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