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Should be a once-in-a-lifetime evening.

Message from Lisbet:

Hello all!

After working on this event for almost a year; Sister Comrade: A Celebration of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker takes place this Saturday, November 3rd. By far, this is the largest event I’ve ever produced and I’m extremely proud of the lineup Haley and I have pulled together which includes Angela Davis, Melanie DeMore, Jewelle Gomez, Judy Grahn, Cherrie Moraga, Holly Near, Vicki Randle, Linda Tillery, Mary Watkins, Clare Coss, Blanche Wiesen Cook and more! Should be a once-in-a-lifetime evening…

This event is almost sold out and for those who don’t have tickets yet, the remaining advance tix are being sold at Black Oak books in Berkeley; Laurel Bookstore in Oakland; and Modern Times bookstore in S.F. There will be a small block of tickets sold at the door but they’ll go fast so show up early! The box office opens at 5pm.

Hope to see you there!

Have you seen Audre and Pat’s image gracing the streets of Oakland? Look for them at Park Blvd. @ 580, Grand @ Harrison, MacArthur @ Lakeshore, Telegraph @ MacArthur (thank you Peggy Moore!)

For more info visit: www.SisterComrade.com

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Poetry Should Ride the Bus
By Ruth Forman

poetry should hopscotch in a polka dot dress
wheel cartwheels
n hold your hand
when you walk past the yellow crack house

poetry should wear bright red lipstick
n practice kisses in the mirror
for all the fine young men with fades
shootin craps around the corner

poetry should dress in fine plum linen suits
n not be so educated that it don’t stop in
every now n then to sit on the porch
and talk about the comins and goins of the world

poetry should ride the bus
in a fat woman’s Safeway bag
between the greens n chicken wings
to be served with tuesday’s dinner

poetry should drop by a sweet potato pie
ask about the grandchildren
n sit through a whole photo album
on an orange plastic covered lazyboy with no place to go

poetry should sing red revolution love songs
that massage your scalp
and bring hope to your blood
when you think you’re too old to fight

yeah
poetry should whisper electric blue magic
all the years of your life
never forgettin to look you in the soul
every once in a while
n smile

Mario Savio Memorial Lecture Fund

Angela Davis. “From Jim Crow to Guantanamo: Prisons, Democracy and Empire”

November 1, 2007 · 7:00 PM · Pauley Ballroom, Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union, UC Berkeley

Admission Free

THE LECTURES
This free public lecture is given each fall on the Berkeley campus of the University of California. It is rebroadcast nationally on public radio stations. CDs and audiotapes of the lecture are also available.

Mario Savio Memorial Lecture Fund

Angela Davis. “From Jim Crow to Guantanamo: Prisons, Democracy and Empire”

November 1, 2007 · 7:00 PM · Pauley Ballroom, Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union, UC Berkeley

Admission Free

THE LECTURES
This free public lecture is given each fall on the Berkeley campus of the University of California. It is rebroadcast nationally on public radio stations. CDs and audiotapes of the lecture are also available.

Bette LaVette
R&B Vocalist

Nov. 12
Doors 7:30 PM | Show 8 PM
Tickets $23

The Independent
628 Divisadero Street
San Francisco, CA 94117
Box Office – 415.771.1422
http://www.theindependentsf.com/

Dionne Farris
R&B Vocalist

Nov 8, 2007 – Nov 11, 2007
Thurs 8pm & 10pm $26
Fri & Sat 8pm & 10pm $30
Sun 7pm $30 & 9pm $22

Yoshis east bay jazz club and restaurant

Dionne Farris came to the attention of the music world with her vocal contributions to Arrested Development’s breakthrough hit single “Tennessee,” plus other tracks on the group’s 1992 debut. Her solo debut, Wild Seed – Wild Flower, was released in the summer of 1994, spawning the hit singles “I Know” and “Hopeless”.

Everyone wants to know where she’s been and what she’s been up to. She’ll grace us once again in 2007 with her appropriately titled new CD, Signs of Life. If there’s one thing we know of Dionne and the music she makes, then we should prepare ourselves for the next level in the musical journey of the original soul rocker.

“Leda” by Jason Austin

African American Art and Culture Complex
Sargent Johnson Gallery and Hall of Culture
762 Fulton Street
San Francisco, CA 94102

Share in an artistic exploration into the complex splendor that forms the identities of an African American woman: her strengths, vulnerabilities, beauty, pain and peace.

Curated by: Samara Brown
Gallery hours: Monday thru Saturday 12pm-5pm
URL: www.aaacc.org

Big up the Zuna Institute and Francine Ramsey for organizing a superb evening out on the town in San Francisco. The evening was very special for me because my sister and niece traveled from Southern California to join in the festivities.

A small group of us opted for a pre-show dinner at the Market Street Grill nearby the Orpheum Theater. The service for our dinner party was prompt and courteous, the food tasty and enjoyable. I absolutely love the magic of meeting familiar and new friends and immediately connecting soul-to-soul. It felt as if we had been socializing with one another for years.

It was an extraordinary evening for me. To attend an Afriles sponsored event in the presence of my family made for a memorable evening. I extend my heartfelt thanks and gratitude to my dinner and theatre companions and to the Zuna Institute for making the political, personal for me.

Chant peace.

San Francisco Chronicle Review | Photo Album

Below is an opportunity for fellow travelers to share your stories. Armchair travelers may want to take note of editors contact details so that you can stay informed about the anthology release date.

Cheers!

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BLACK WOMEN TRAVEL (edited volume)

Dear Colleagues

Travel writing traditionally has been a white male genre – white men writing about the rest of the world, often their colonies, or ex-colonies. Over the last fifty years, men of color have joined this fraternity: V.S. Naipaul, Richard Wright and Caryl Phillips are prominent examples, challenging its traditional Eurocentrisim. The catalog of women’s travel is also growing, with works by such authors as Robyn Davidson, Rosemary Mahoney and Mary South. But the voices of black women travelers remain largely unheard. Black women travel, and this volume aims to give voice and visibility to their travels and to their experiences and interpretations of the world. Contributors’ are invited to recount their experiences with humor as well as creative and incisive analysis.

The editors of this volume are two black women – one an African American woman from Ohio and the other an African woman from Nigeria – who have traveled extensively, learning and having adventures along their journeys. Sometimes their experiences were dangerous, sometimes hilarious, sometimes they felt that they were witnessing history. Sometimes they were students, sometimes researchers, sometimes practitioners and sometimes just plain tourists. They combine humor, incisive social and political commentary and more traditional travel journaling.

The goal of this volume is to present snap shots of the world, as different late twentieth century historical moments, from the perspective, and through the eyes of black women from around the world.

If you are interested in participating in this exciting venture, we invite you to submit an abstract to the co-editors, Lynette Jackson (lajackson@uic.edu) and Anene Ejikeme (Aejikeme@trinity.edu).

Abstracts are due November 3 and completed papers March 28, 2008.
Please feel free to circulate this call for abstracts/essays.

Best wishes,
Anene Ejikeme
Department of History
Trinity University
San Antonio, TX 78212
(210) 999-7897
(210) 999-8334
Aejikeme@trinity.edu

The announcement below targets WOC therapist however bay area residents seeking local WOC therapists may want to take note too.

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The Multicultural Vision Committee at Women’s Therapy Center is pleased to announce that we are hosting a no-fee, monthly peer consultation and support group for therapists of color.

Trainees, interns, pre and post-licensed therapists are invited to attend. We are welcoming all therapists of color in the Bay Area community and we thought the group would be especially appealing to therapists who have entered the profession in the last 5 to 10 years.

The second meeting will be on Saturday, November 3, 2007 from 2:00 – 3:30pm in the group room downstairs at WTC.

New people welcome.
One idea for the group is to encourage therapists of color to have an active voice in the psychotherapy profession. The group is also a chance to get to know each other and share our experience and expertise.

Margarita Molina, MFT Intern and ATP (Advanced Training Program) intern at Women’s Therapy Center, says, “I’ve had ‘my struggles’ of finding ‘my power and privilege’ as a Latina therapist. Am I the only one in the Psychotherapy field with this dilemma? I sure hope not! Come and share your experiences.”

Join us on November 3, 2007 and if the time and date are not going to work for you, please let Margarita know. We want to create this group together and together we will find our very powerful voice!

For information:
Call Margarita Molina, ATP Intern
at 510-496-3466, ext. 13
mmolinahink@aol.com
Women’s Therapy Center
501 Kearney (at Central),
El Cerrito, CA 94530

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When: November 28 12:15 p.m-1:15 pm.
Who: Angela Davis
(History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz)
What: UCSC Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series
Topic: The Prison: A Sign of U.S. Democracy?
Where: UCSC Humanities Bldg, Room 210

ANGELA DAVIS is Professor in the History of Consciousness Department at UCSC. She is the author of eight books, and most recently Abolition Democracy (Seven Stories, 2005) and Are Prisons Obsolete? (Seven Stories, 2003). She is currently completing a book on Prisons and American History. A persistent theme of her work has been the range of social problems associated with incarceration and the generalized criminalization of those communities that are most affected by poverty and racial discrimination.

She is especially concerned with the general tendency to devote more resources and attention to the prison system than to educational institutions. Having helped to popularize the notion of a “prison industrial complex,” she now urges her audiences to think seriously about the future possibility of a world without prisons and to help forge a 21st century abolitionist movement.