Program for Amiri Baraka Celebration at Jazz Heritage Center, SF

Program for Amiri Baraka Celebration at the Jazz Heritage Center
November 9, 2009, 3-7PM

Jazz Heritage Media Center (1330 Fillmore), San Francisco

Musical Interlude

Augusta Collins, Rashidah Mwongozi, Phavia Khujichagulia

Welcome Charlie Walker

Invocation Suzzette Celeste

Libations Mutima Imani

Words of Praise (2 min. max) Bay Area Writers
Facilitators: Art Sheridan, Ayodele Nzingha
Invited Writers:
Angela Davis
Al Young
Art Sheridan
Conyus
Devorah major
Opal Palmer Adisa
Paul Cobb
Bobby Seale
Emory Douglas
Charlie Walker
Geoffrey Grier
Wanda Sabir
Cecil Williams
Janice Miritani
Naru
Cecil Brown
Jerri Lange
Michael Lange
Avotcja Jiltonilro
Andriette Earl
Tarika Lewis
Dr. Julia Hare
Dr. Nathan Hare
Duane Deterville
Adam David Miller
Peter Labrie
Dorothy Tsuruta
Oba T'Shaka
Wade Nobles
Chinaka Hodge
Roxanne Hanna-Ware
Paradise


Introduction of Amiri Baraka by James Sweeney

Amiri Baraka

Panel Discussion on Black Studies and Community
“Black Studies Went to College and Never Came Home!”—Ptah Allah El

Amiri Baraka, Abdul Sabry, Mary Lewis, Rev. George Murray, Ptah Allah El,
Cecil Brown
Moderator: Marvin X

Q and A

Reception at Lush Life Gallery (1320 Fillmore)

Organizers, Supporters, Sponsors:

Post Newspaper Group (Paul Cobb, Jack Naidu, Conway Jones, Gene Hazzard, Adam Turner, Maxine Ussery), Jazz Heritage Center/Lush Life Gallery (Peter Fitzgerald), Black Dialogue Brothers (Aubrey Labrie, Abdul Sabry, Duke Williams, Saadat Ahmed, Al Young, Marvin X), Black Bird Press, San Francisco Recovery Theatre (Geoffrey Grier), Lower Bottom Playaz (Ayodele Nzingha), Dr. J. Vern Cromartie, James W. Sweeney, KPOO radio (Terry Collins, JJ), Afro-Solo (Thomas Simpson), Charlie Walker, August Collins, Khalid Waajib, Kamau Amenra, Kenneth Johnson, Paradise, Phavia, Raynetta Rayzetta,Ptah Allah el, Elliott Bey, Tony, Eugene Allen, Hunia, Rehema Ba.