Sun April 24, 2022
FREE TODAY 2:30 PM | Bay Area Black Poet Laureates AfroSolo Presentation | Dr. Sheryl Evans Davis MC's
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Celebrate Bay Area Black Poet Laureates Today! A Free Presentation of the AfroSolo Arts Festival In Collaboration With The African American Center
Join us for a celebration of three Bay Area Black Poet Laureates on Sunday, April 24th from 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm, Dr. Sheryl Davis, Executive Director of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission is Mistress of Ceremonies. Our 2022 Arts Festival theme is STANDING OUR GROUND!
Featured are San Francisco's current 2021 Poet Laureate, Tongo Eisen-Martin, and devorah major who was the third in 2002-2006. Also, performing is Dr. Ayodele "WordSlanger" Nzinga, Oakland's first and current Poet Laureate.
"Being named a Poet Laureate symbolizes the outstanding achievement of the poet," notes AfroSolo Artistic/Executive Director Thomas Robert Simpson. "This presentation of Black Poet Laureates reflects proudly on AfroSolo's 26-year history of spotlighting Black arts and championing those who give voice to the best of the human spirit in their community."
Tongo Elsen-Martin has been described "as a necessary voice for those who are disregarded." Eisen-Martin is an educator and organizer whose work centers on mass incarceration, extrajudicial killings of Black people, and human rights. His published poetry collections include Someone's Dead Already, Heaven Is All Goodbyes, Waiting Behind Tornados for Food, Blood on the Fog. He co-founded the Black radical publishing group Black Freighter Press. https://www.blackfreighterpress.com.
devorah major was born and raised in California. major's sixth book of poetry "with open arms" was released in Italy 2019, as a bilingual edition. Her poetry collection Califia's Daughter was released as a Willow Press Editors Choice in July 2020. major has performed her poetry in France, the Bahamas, and Germany and often is presented at poetry festivals in Italy, Belgium, Bosnia, Jamaica, Venezuela and other international events. https://www.devorahmajor.com
Harpist Destiny Muhammad will accompany major during her performance. Muhammad is a jazz harpist and vocalist who follows in the footsteps of Dorothy Ashby and Alice Coltrane.
Dr. Ayodele "WordSlanger" Nzinga is Oakland's first and current Poet Laureate. Nzinga is variously described as an arts and culture poet,playwright, actress and a theoretician/practitioner working at the intersections of cultural production and wellbeing to foster transformation in marginalized communities. She is the founding producing Director of Oakland's Lower Bottom Playaz, Inc. The company's adaptations move among Ebonics, classic Shakespeare and the spoken word to express graphically the anger and anguish of living in violent conditions. https://www.ayodelenzinga.com
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Join us for a celebration of three Bay Area Black Poet Laureates on Sunday, April 24th from 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm, Dr. Sheryl Davis, Executive Director of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission is Mistress of Ceremonies. Our 2022 Arts Festival theme is STANDING OUR GROUND!
Featured are San Francisco's current 2021 Poet Laureate, Tongo Eisen-Martin, and devorah major who was the third in 2002-2006. Also, performing is Dr. Ayodele "WordSlanger" Nzinga, Oakland's first and current Poet Laureate.
"Being named a Poet Laureate symbolizes the outstanding achievement of the poet," notes AfroSolo Artistic/Executive Director Thomas Robert Simpson. "This presentation of Black Poet Laureates reflects proudly on AfroSolo's 26-year history of spotlighting Black arts and championing those who give voice to the best of the human spirit in their community."
Tongo Elsen-Martin has been described "as a necessary voice for those who are disregarded." Eisen-Martin is an educator and organizer whose work centers on mass incarceration, extrajudicial killings of Black people, and human rights. His published poetry collections include Someone's Dead Already, Heaven Is All Goodbyes, Waiting Behind Tornados for Food, Blood on the Fog. He co-founded the Black radical publishing group Black Freighter Press. https://www.blackfreighterpress.com.
devorah major was born and raised in California. major's sixth book of poetry "with open arms" was released in Italy 2019, as a bilingual edition. Her poetry collection Califia's Daughter was released as a Willow Press Editors Choice in July 2020. major has performed her poetry in France, the Bahamas, and Germany and often is presented at poetry festivals in Italy, Belgium, Bosnia, Jamaica, Venezuela and other international events. https://www.devorahmajor.com
Harpist Destiny Muhammad will accompany major during her performance. Muhammad is a jazz harpist and vocalist who follows in the footsteps of Dorothy Ashby and Alice Coltrane.
Dr. Ayodele "WordSlanger" Nzinga is Oakland's first and current Poet Laureate. Nzinga is variously described as an arts and culture poet,playwright, actress and a theoretician/practitioner working at the intersections of cultural production and wellbeing to foster transformation in marginalized communities. She is the founding producing Director of Oakland's Lower Bottom Playaz, Inc. The company's adaptations move among Ebonics, classic Shakespeare and the spoken word to express graphically the anger and anguish of living in violent conditions. https://www.ayodelenzinga.com
Celebrate Bay Area Black Poet Laureates Today! A Free Presentation of the AfroSolo Arts Festival In Collaboration With The African American Center
Join us for a celebration of three Bay Area Black Poet Laureates on Sunday, April 24th from 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm, Dr. Sheryl Davis, Executive Director of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission is Mistress of Ceremonies. Our 2022 Arts Festival theme is STANDING OUR GROUND!
Featured are San Francisco's current 2021 Poet Laureate, Tongo Eisen-Martin, and devorah major who was the third in 2002-2006. Also, performing is Dr. Ayodele "WordSlanger" Nzinga, Oakland's first and current Poet Laureate.
"Being named a Poet Laureate symbolizes the outstanding achievement of the poet," notes AfroSolo Artistic/Executive Director Thomas Robert Simpson. "This presentation of Black Poet Laureates reflects proudly on AfroSolo's 26-year history of spotlighting Black arts and championing those who give voice to the best of the human spirit in their community."
Tongo Elsen-Martin has been described "as a necessary voice for those who are disregarded." Eisen-Martin is an educator and organizer whose work centers on mass incarceration, extrajudicial killings of Black people, and human rights. His published poetry collections include Someone's Dead Already, Heaven Is All Goodbyes, Waiting Behind Tornados for Food, Blood on the Fog. He co-founded the Black radical publishing group Black Freighter Press. https://www.blackfreighterpress.com.
devorah major was born and raised in California. major's sixth book of poetry "with open arms" was released in Italy 2019, as a bilingual edition. Her poetry collection Califia's Daughter was released as a Willow Press Editors Choice in July 2020. major has performed her poetry in France, the Bahamas, and Germany and often is presented at poetry festivals in Italy, Belgium, Bosnia, Jamaica, Venezuela and other international events. https://www.devorahmajor.com
Harpist Destiny Muhammad will accompany major during her performance. Muhammad is a jazz harpist and vocalist who follows in the footsteps of Dorothy Ashby and Alice Coltrane.
Dr. Ayodele "WordSlanger" Nzinga is Oakland's first and current Poet Laureate. Nzinga is variously described as an arts and culture poet,playwright, actress and a theoretician/practitioner working at the intersections of cultural production and wellbeing to foster transformation in marginalized communities. She is the founding producing Director of Oakland's Lower Bottom Playaz, Inc. The company's adaptations move among Ebonics, classic Shakespeare and the spoken word to express graphically the anger and anguish of living in violent conditions. https://www.ayodelenzinga.com
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Join us for a celebration of three Bay Area Black Poet Laureates on Sunday, April 24th from 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm, Dr. Sheryl Davis, Executive Director of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission is Mistress of Ceremonies. Our 2022 Arts Festival theme is STANDING OUR GROUND!
Featured are San Francisco's current 2021 Poet Laureate, Tongo Eisen-Martin, and devorah major who was the third in 2002-2006. Also, performing is Dr. Ayodele "WordSlanger" Nzinga, Oakland's first and current Poet Laureate.
"Being named a Poet Laureate symbolizes the outstanding achievement of the poet," notes AfroSolo Artistic/Executive Director Thomas Robert Simpson. "This presentation of Black Poet Laureates reflects proudly on AfroSolo's 26-year history of spotlighting Black arts and championing those who give voice to the best of the human spirit in their community."
Tongo Elsen-Martin has been described "as a necessary voice for those who are disregarded." Eisen-Martin is an educator and organizer whose work centers on mass incarceration, extrajudicial killings of Black people, and human rights. His published poetry collections include Someone's Dead Already, Heaven Is All Goodbyes, Waiting Behind Tornados for Food, Blood on the Fog. He co-founded the Black radical publishing group Black Freighter Press. https://www.blackfreighterpress.com.
devorah major was born and raised in California. major's sixth book of poetry "with open arms" was released in Italy 2019, as a bilingual edition. Her poetry collection Califia's Daughter was released as a Willow Press Editors Choice in July 2020. major has performed her poetry in France, the Bahamas, and Germany and often is presented at poetry festivals in Italy, Belgium, Bosnia, Jamaica, Venezuela and other international events. https://www.devorahmajor.com
Harpist Destiny Muhammad will accompany major during her performance. Muhammad is a jazz harpist and vocalist who follows in the footsteps of Dorothy Ashby and Alice Coltrane.
Dr. Ayodele "WordSlanger" Nzinga is Oakland's first and current Poet Laureate. Nzinga is variously described as an arts and culture poet,playwright, actress and a theoretician/practitioner working at the intersections of cultural production and wellbeing to foster transformation in marginalized communities. She is the founding producing Director of Oakland's Lower Bottom Playaz, Inc. The company's adaptations move among Ebonics, classic Shakespeare and the spoken word to express graphically the anger and anguish of living in violent conditions. https://www.ayodelenzinga.com
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