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Black Power Conference and SPEAK Cafe |
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by Brian Dolinar
Email: briandolinar (nospam) gmail.com (verified) |
30 Mar 2006
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Black Power Conference and SPEAK Cafe |
The Black Power Conference is being held this weekend on the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party. Panels run throughout the weekend and are at the U of I Union.
My good friend Lisa Marie Rollins, a poet from Oakland will be running a workshop Saturday morning with local poet Amira Davis. Both will be performing Saturday night at SPEAK Cafe.
S.P.E.A.K. Cafe will be hosting a workshop during the upcoming Black Power Conference March 29-April 1. http://www.aasrp.uiuc.edu/conference/index.html
The workshop will be held on Saturday from 9-11 a.m. in the basement of the Krannert Art Museum, 500 East Peabody. I, along with West Coast poet, Lisa Rollins, will be tag teaming this 2 hour workshop. I have briefly outlined my agenda below as well as provided information on Lisa. Perhaps Lisa could reply to all and give a brief description of what her workshop will cover.
I encourage you all to come out for the exchange of energy and stimulating conversation. I hope the teens from the S.P.E.A.K. O.U.T. events will come to learn, teach & share. Participants in the workshop will have first shot at the slots for that night's S.P.E.A.K. Cafe which will run from 7-10 p.m. at the Krannert Art Museum. Please spread the word!!!
Amira Davis: Arts for Liberation
* from Black Power to Hip Hop: a brief history
* creating multi-discipline performance works, individually and collaboratively
* taking it to the streets i.e. SPEAKing OUT in public and private spaces & how to get paid
* depersonalizing the struggle - pan-Afrikanist and class liberation
Lisa Marie Rollins (co-founder) Ubwenge Arts Collective http://www.ubwengearts.org/who.html
Lisa Marie is a poet, producer and playwright currently working in the Bay Area of California. She is a Ph.D. candidate in African Diaspora Studies at University of California, Berkeley and co-founder of Ubwenge Arts Coalition (1995). Her work has appeared in The Ethiop’s Ear, Diaspora, The Drum Heart and others. She was co-host of Third Root, an open mic and poetry work shop in Pomona, CA from 1999-2001 and has performed up and down the West Coast at many spots including Common Grounds, Los Angeles’ World Stage, and been a featured artist on KPFA’s Los Angeles Inspiration House and Illphonix on Jazz 88 in San Diego. Her current work includes the development of a multimedia solo performance, Ungrateful Daughter and her work as the co-facilitator of Soul Lengua, a Writers Work Shop in Oakland, CA. She is also editing a collection titled, TRA Represent! a work that investigates the complex identities of Transracial Adoptees across the African Diaspora. Contact her at www.myspace.com/lisamarie9 or lrollins (at) berkeley.edu |
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