Wanda's Picks

This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!  1. We play the audio from an interview with Margo Hall (3/12), Artistic Director, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, and director of the new play [hieroglyph] by Erika Dickerson-Despenza For tickets to the co-production through 4/3 visit: San Francisco Playhouse and Lorraine Hansberry Theatre or call: (415) 677-9596.   Involuntarily displaced in Chicago two months post-Katrina, 13-year-old Davis wrestles with the cultural landscape of a new city