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November 5, 2010http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8oFw4eyljY
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November 2, 2010
On Saturday, October 30th, the cast of Adia Tamar Whitaker’s “Ampey!” took to the streets of San Francisco in full costume and makeup for a fundraising Animation. “Ampey!” premieres at CounterPULSE on Thursday, November 11th. Even if you weren’t fortunate enough to see the cast in San Francisco, you can still pledge your support for […]
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October 22, 2009
With Performing Diaspora fast-approaching, some of the artists took a break from the stage and headed over to KPFA’s radio studios in Berkeley for a musical sneak-preview of their work on Stephen Kent’s show, “Music of the World.” In between tracks, our Executive Director Jessica Robinson Love joined them in the conversation about their performances […]
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September 29, 2009
now and then adia wrote: not heads, just faces april 13, 2009 In sidewalk cracks and florescent puddles, busted spindles stack grief and silence. Violent at the core a snake rises unraveling in a double helix born of war. A blank stare slips and falls into the wrong hands. Crimson bends black across corners in Brooklyn. The […]
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August 29, 2009
The Ewe say ” … you must cry into the song.” A man in the taxi said “… you are beautiful when you cry.” … But these things are not easy. To cry into the song when you are still so sad … To let your beauty shine thru when you feel as though there […]
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August 19, 2009
I didn’t get the memo. You know the one that breaks down the ways in which descendants of enslaved Africans have a different (but just as post traumatic stress disordered psychosis) than the descendants of colonized Africans. To be fair, I looked completely different when I’ve traveled abroad before (I had long hair), AND there […]