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Aunties on Air Episode 25: Celebrating the Gifts of Mother Earth: Coastal Maine Botanical GardensThe Aunties welcome the love, values, and reciprocity to the studio today! We are forever grateful for all the gifts that Mother Earth provides. We welcome into the studio, Gretchen and Daniel, the leaders of the coastal Maine botanical gardens. These two leaders have been leading the way for many years. We work with them closely to celebrate the contributions of Wabanaki thought and learning. As we continue to grow in both inspiration and strategy, we welcome you to explore all the learnings that are present.Wabanaki Words Used:Apc-oc (again in the future, parting, good-bye, farewell) https://pmportal.org/dictionary/apc-oc Topics Discussed:  Gretchen Ostherr - https://www.dsgco.com/placed_leaders/gretchen-ostherr/ Daniel Ungier- Vice President of Guest Experience and EducationCoastal Maine Botanical Gardens - https://www.mainegardens.org/Martha Stewart Living Article with Daniel Ungier- https://www.marthastewart.com/things-never-do-at-botanical-garden-11720318Sheepscot River - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheepscot_RiverBoothbay, Maine - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boothbay,_MaineHorticulture - https://www.britannica.com/science/horticultureHorticulture, Education and Plant Science - https://www.mainegardens.org/plant-science-collections/The Doctrine of Discovery Historical Resources: https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/spotlight-primary-source/doctrine-discovery-1493https://upstanderproject.org/learn/guides-and-resources/first-light/doctrine-of-discoveryGuardians of the Seeds (Giant Trolls): https://www.mainegardens.org/events-exhibits/giant-trolls/Alfond Children's Garden - https://www.mainegardens.org/learn/family-activities/Butterfly House - https://www.mainegardens.org/gardens/gardens-key-features/#ButterflyHouseFirefly - https://umaine.edu/hudsonmuseum/firefly/Richard Silliboy - https://www.abbemuseum.org/attending-artists-profiles/richard-silliboyThree Sisters Garden - https://www.facebook.com/reel/1034076295236184Shopping with Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens - https://shop.mainegardens.org/?_gl=1*lyoecv*_gcl_au*MTIyOTExMDI1OC4xNzQxMjAzODg0Wabanaki Reach - https://www.wabanakireach.org/Darren Ranco - https://umaine.edu/anthropology/faculty-staff/dr-darren-j-ranco/Suzanne Greenlaw - https://schoodicinstitute.org/dr-suzanne-greenlaw-joins-schoodic-institute/Indigo Arts Alliance - https://indigoartsalliance.me/Daniel Minter and Marcia Minter - https://indigoartsalliance.me/about-previous/our-team/#iaa-boardRematriation - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RematriationShane Perley-Dutcher and Anna Tsouhlarakis Artist Statements - https://www.mainegardens.org/events-exhibits/indigo-arts-alliance/the-land-fights-back/Emerald Ash Borer - https://www.invasivespeciescentre.ca/invasive-species/meet-the-species/invasive-insects/emerald-ash-borer/Arisa White - https://arisawhite.com/Vayo Meditation Garden - https://www.mainegardens.org/gardens/gardens-key-features/#VayoNorma Randi Marshall - https://www.normarandi.com/Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences - https://www.bigelow.org/Robinson's Wharf - https://www.robinsonswharf.com/Boothbay Region Land Trust - https://bbrlt.org/Oven's Mouth Preserve - https://bbrlt.org/preserves/ovens-mouth/Barrett's Park - https://www.boothbayregister.com/article/let-s-go-barrett-s-park/182362Ocean Point Preserve - https://bbrlt.org/preserves/ocean-point/The House of Logan - https://www.houseoflogan.com/Dawn Avery - https://www.dawnavery.com/Salt Bay Chamberfest - https://saltbaychamberfest.org/ Wabanaki Tribal Nations:Houlton Band of Maliseet Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians | Littleton, ME (maliseets.net)Mi'kmaq Mi'kmaq Nation | Presque Isle, ME (micmac-nsn.gov)Passamaquoddy Tribe Indian Township Passamaquoddy Tribe @ Indian Township | Peskotomuhkati MotahkomikukPassamaquoddy Tribe Sipayik Sipayik Tribal Government – Sipayik (wabanaki.com)Penobscot Nation Penobscot Nation | Departments & Info | Indian Island, Maine Special Thanks/Woliwon: Guests: Daniel Ungier, Gretchen OstherrProducer: Gavin AllenPodcast Team: Becky Soctomah Bailey, Macy Flanders

Miah Jeffra is author of The Fabulous Ekphrastic Fantastic! (Sibling Rivalry 2020), The Violence Almanac (Black Lawrence 2021), the chapbook The First Church of What's Happening (Nomadic 2017), and co-editor, with Arisa White and Monique Mero, of the anthology Home is Where You Queer Your Heart (Foglifter 2021). Awards include the New Millennium Prize, the Sidney Lanier Fiction Prize, The Atticus Review Creative Nonfiction Prize, the Alice Judson Hayes Fellowship, Lambda Literary Fellowship, and 2019 finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Outstanding Anthology. Most recent work can be seen in StoryQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, The North American Review, The Pinch, The Greensboro Review, DIAGRAM, jubilat and Barrelhouse. Miah is a founding editor of Whiting Award-winning queer literary collaborative, Foglifter Press, and teaches writing and antiracist studies at Santa Clara University.  Support the Show.Instagram: GenderStoriesHosted by Alex IantaffiMusic by Maxwell von RavenGender Stories logo by Lior Effinger-Weintraub

Nia Patterson (they/them) went viral after taking a photo of themselves in a Torrid change room in a bathing suit. Since then, Nia has become an influencer, social media manager, singer, podcaster, and coach. In this conversation, they share their journey and also their top three tips for staying joyful while living in marginalized bodies and with marginalized identities. We also talk about fat secrets and podcast dream guests.Nia Patterson is a well-respected Black and Queer mental health advocate, writer, artist, and business coach. They are the creator behind @TheFriendINeverWanted and the artist behind @SelfLoveToolChest. They are also the host and producer of the Body Trauma Podcast. Their work mainly centers around Social Justice, Eating Disorder Recovery, Fat Activism, LGBTQIA+, and the Self Love community. Nia is passionate about advocating for people in marginalized bodies and seeks to bring resources to those who do not readily see representation and healthcare for themselves.Please connect with Nia through their website, IG, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube.This episode's poem is called “Will Know Nothing” by Arisa White.Bonus content with Nia through Apple Podcast Subscriptions and on Patreon.Please connect with Fat Joy on our website, Instagram, and YouTube (full video episodes here!). Want to share the love? Please rate this podcast and give it a review.Our thanks to AR Media and Emily MacInnis for keeping this podcast looking and sounding joyful.

Recorded by Arisa White for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on August 25, 2022. www.poets.org

Bridget “Biddy” Mason was born into slavery in 1818 in Mississippi but was able to secure her freedom in a California court after her owner tried to move her back East to Texas. Mason used her earnings from midwifery to buy property, establish the first AME church in Los Angeles, and build community as the wealthiest Black woman in LA.To learn more about Mason and her legacy, check out biddymasoncollaborative.com, laconservancy.org to learn more about Biddy Mason Memorial Park in Los Angeles, read Biddy Mason: A Place of Her Own by Camille Gavin and Biddy Mason Speaks Up by Arisa White and Laura AtkinsSources:https://www.nbclosangeles.com/local-2/descendants-of-biddy-mason-the-grandmother-of-la-want-her-honored/2832587/https://www.nps.gov/people/biddymason.htmhttps://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/09/418616/open-hand-conversation-descendants-biddy-masonhttps://la.curbed.com/2017/3/1/14756308/biddy-mason-california-black-historyhttps://www.aclunc.org/sites/goldchains/explore/biddy-mason.htmlhttps://laist.com/news/la-history/biddy-mason-free-forever-the-contentious-hearing-that-made-her-a-legend-los-angeles-black-historyhttps://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-jan-27-me-25048-story.html?fbclid=IwAR1H9m1KyFEyIncVYBAAUMX3Gv2zQLEWhLaVE5spnl0eg7JvGgclV6LM2-I

In this episode, Melina sits down with Arisa White, a poet and educator from the east coast, to talk about her connection to the Bay Area. What's the difference between the poetry scene on each side of the country, and how does it shape a poet's journey?

Wayne Goodman in conversation with Arisa White, poet, Cave Canem fellow, community event organizer, and professor of Creative Writing at Colby College

Listen to Black-Caribbean-African American poet Arisa White from Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, New York — now residing in Maine — share her experience working as a tenured-track professor from-home during the pandemic with her wife. Her experience as an adjunct professor teaching a hybrid-online-in-person course using Blackboard and Canvass prepared her to teach online in 2020. When Covid-19 spread and college campuses closed to prevent the spread of the virus, as a poetry professor Arisa focused on how to recognize the humanity of her students who were distance-learning on Zoom, without trying to teach them something: “How can we use this moment as an experience for learning language, about story, about the contours of our fear?”She shares about what her online book tour on Zoom was like for her poetic memoir, Who's Your Daddy?Arisa's words:On 2020“Thinking about life as a poetic performance.”“We're-all-in-this-together feeling.”On 2021“Everyone was all Zoomed-out.”“Everyone was falling apart.”“After spring of 2021 I just cried... All of these existential questions… What is the world coming to? What is my purpose?”On the Black Lives Matter movement:Arisa speaks on George Floyd and Briana Taylor… She speaks on the expectation of people of color to perform diversity and equity.On the mask-mandate:She talks about taking a road trip with her wife from Maine to Florida and seeing the change in the amount of people wearing masks indoors. She saw a prevalence of people wearing masks in the tri-state area and D.C. area, which changed to people not wearing masks in Virginia and Florida, which she was fine with. When she visited museums in Florida, she wore a mask inside.On the vaccine:She shares how being a person who is medically exempt from getting the vaccine she experiences negative reactions to her non-vaccination status, which she fears will lead to an apartheid system wherein she is disallowed into certain spaces regardless of her negative-Covid-19 status.On loss:Arisa shares about her cousin who passed away in June of 2020 and Cave Canum poet Kamilah Aisha Moon who passed away in September of 2021 and bell hooks who passed away in December of 2021.Check out Arisa's publications and awards here: https://arisawhite.com

I continue my reading of poems from books published by Virtual Artists Collective during the course of the past two decades. I read poems by Wally Swist, Larry Thomas, Judith Valente, Sarah Webb, and Arisa White.

Turtle Point Press House of AnansiBrooklyn Book FestivalLit & Luz FestivalWriters Bone Otherppl with Brad ListiPaul HoldengraberLauren Cerand is a  writer and  arts and literary publicist with twenty years of experience running her own thriving global communications consultancy, based in New York and driven by an intensive personal focus on each client's needs and desires, a vast network of relationships, and unparalleled expertise and creative ingenuity.Recent and current clients for strategic public relations campaigns and representation in 2021 include the authors Darien Hsu Gee, Charles Vidich, Jasmin Kaur, Arisa White, John Donohue, Melissa Scholes-Young, Kia Corthron, Jai Chakrabarti, Joy Castro, and the international independent publishers House of Anansi Press and Sandorf Passage.In July 2019, Lauren took a sabbatical year to immerse herself in the study of jewelry design and creation full-time in Florence, Italy, and learn more about the Italian language and way of life. Her writing while there was published in April 2020 in Dining in Place, the online food and culture magazine based in Melbourne, and shortlisted for the 2020 Mollie Salisbury Cup memoir writing competition, administered by the Garden Museum in London. She also wrote about her life with Toscano for a December 2020 feature at Girls and Their Cats.You can listen to podcast interviews recorded since September 2020 with Tranquility du Jour (”A Creative Leap”), Finding Favorites with Leah Jones (”Making Jewelry in Italy with Lauren Cerand”), and Lost Ladies of Lit (”Princess Marthe Bibesco –– The Green Parrot”).In April 2021, she was interviewed by Publishers Weekly about “Bookishness,” and was the inaugural guest on Rachel Syme's Instagram Live show, Running on Fumes. Her remembrance of her friend, publisher Giancarlo DiTrapano, was published online at Literary Hub and in print in the spring/summer issue of Northwest Review. Lauren serves on the advisory committee for Film Forum and the advisory board for Turtle Point Press in New York, and is a member of the City University Club in London. She holds a bachelor's degree in Industrial & Labor Relations from Cornell University, a certificate in Jewelry Design & Marketing from Pratt Institute, and completed the first year of the two-year BFA program at Alchimia Contemporary Jewellery School in Firenze. The music for this episode is from Karthik Nair.  He is a music producer attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and creating music under the alias “Ashgreen." Karthik produces electronic music that explores the idea of imagining a space or moment through music. In this piece named “Forest Plucks,” Karthik paints the sonic landscape of a surreal forest captured in the dead of night. Photo: Girls and Their Cats. Web design: Bud Parr. Music: Forest Plucks by Karthnik Nair. All Rights Reserved. 

The battle for People’s Park in Berkeley has been going on for more than 50 years. Today, we’ll hear about how it all started. Then, poet Arisa White writes about her struggles growing up without her father in her newest book Who’s Your Daddy." And, we hear a reading from El Cerrito poet Maw Shein Win . Plus, today's local music features a new album from Oakland-based artist Javier Santiago .

Who's Your Daddy by Arisa White by Poets & Writers

As I have suggested in my past few programs, "remembering" and "memory" are major elements in the creation of poetry. There are essential focuses or common themes that poems that include memories often use. I take a look today at another one of those focuses, memories of people in our lives, particularly in our lives when we were children. This week I read poems about friends  -- especially as friends are remembered -- by James Wright, Derek Walcott, Arisa White, and Vytautas Bložė. I end the program with one of my own poems.

Wayne Goodman in conversation with Arisa White, poet, Cave Canem fellow, community event organizer, and professor of Creative Writing at Colby College

"She approaches words as reference points, rather than endpoints. By reimagining language, she exerts control over her sense of self.”—Los Angeles Review of Books ARISA WHITE is a Cave Canem fellow, Sarah Lawrence College alumna, an MFA graduate from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and author of the poetry chapbooks Disposition for Shininess, Post Pardon, Black Pearl, Perfect on Accident, and “Fish Walking” & Other Bedtime Stories for My Wife won the inaugural Per Diem Poetry Prize. Published by Virtual Artists Collective, her debut full-length collection, Hurrah’s Nest, was a finalist for the 2013 Wheatley Book Awards, 82nd California Book Awards, and nominated for a 44th NAACP Image Awards. Her second collection, A Penny Saved, inspired by the true-life story of Polly Mitchell, was published by Willow Books, an imprint of Aquarius Press in 2012. Her newest full-length collection, You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened, was published by Augury Books and nominated for the 29th Lambda Literary Awards. Most recently, Arisa co-authored, with Laura Atkins, Biddy Mason Speaks Up, a middle-grade biography in verse on the midwife and philanthropist Bridget “Biddy” Mason, which is the second book in the Fighting for Justice series. Arisa was awarded a 2013-14 Cultural Funding grant from the City of Oakland to create the libretto and score for Post Pardon: The Opera, and received, in that same year, an Investing in Artists grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation to fund the dear Gerald project, which takes a personal and collective look at absent fathers. As the creator of the Beautiful Things Project, Arisa curates poetic collaborations that center narratives of women, queer, and trans people of color. Selected by the San Francisco Bay Guardian for the 2010 Hot Pink List, Arisa was a 2011-13 member of the PlayGround writers’ pool. Recipient of the inaugural Rose O’Neill Literary House summer residency at Washington College in Maryland, she has also received residencies, fellowships, or scholarships from The Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep, Juniper Summer Writing Institute, Headlands Center for the Arts, Port Townsend Writers’ Conference, Squaw Valley Community of Writers, Hedgebrook, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Prague Summer Program, Fine Arts Work Center, and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Nominated for Pushcart Prizes in 2005, 2014, 2016, and 2018, her poetry has been published widely and is featured on the recording WORD with the Jessica Jones Quartet. A native New Yorker, living in central Maine, Arisa serves on the board of directors for Foglifter and Nomadic Press and is an advisory board member for Gertrude. As a visiting scholar at San Francisco State University’s The Poetry Center in 2016, she developed a digital special collections on Black Women Poets in The Poetry Center Archives. Arisa is as an assistant professor in creative writing at Colby College. For booking inquiries, contact Allison Connor at Jack Jones Literary Arts.

Today’s program takes a look at how poems may consider the idea of “happiness” and how some poets may write “happy” poems. The focus, in that consideration, is that happiness may have to do with a sense of contentment. In that light, “happy” poems may reflect a certain contentment in a certain circumstance at a certain time.  That is today’s foundational theme.  I read poems by Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Kenneth Patchen, Gary Snyder (by way of Eliot’s “Little Gidding”), Katia Mitova, Arisa White, and Gina Athena Ulysse that resonate with such momentary contentment – with happiness – and I end with a poem of my own that presents a similar theme.

James introduces himself & Big Fight Feel before getting into the meat & potatoes of Stardom's recent Korakuen Hall show on 5.16.2019 with a double main event of Bea Priestley vs Hazuki for the red belt & Momo Watanabe vs Arisa Hoshiki for the white belt.

Wayne Goodman in conversation with Arisa White, poet, Cave Canem fellow, community event organizer and professor of Creative Writing at Colby College

[Poetry] Arisa continues the conversation with “Black Lesbians” contributors. Arisa is a Cave Canem fellow and MFA graduate from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and author of the poetry chapbooks Disposition for Shininess, Post Pardon, Black Pearl, Perfect on Accident (forthcoming), and “Fish Walking” & Other Bedtime Stories for My Wife. Her debut full-length collection, Hurrah’s Nest, was a finalist for the 2013 Wheatley Book Awards, 82nd California Book Awards, and nominated for a 44th NAACP Image Awards. Her newest full-length collection, You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened, was nominated for the 29th Lambda Literary Awards. Arisa is currently co-authoring a middle-grade biography on the midwife and philanthropist Bridget “Biddy” Mason– slated for publication in 2019.

HAPPY NEW YEAR! It’s the classic Bay-Area-transplant story or how Jay and Elena found themselves living and hustling in California. Is the West Coast the Best Coast? Our two hosts consider collectives, competition, and compassion within the Bay Area art scene. Shouting out some of their favorite things, like avocados, queer dance parties, and an abundance of plants, and their favorite people, like Erica Deeman, Lava Thomas, and Sadie Barnette, Elena and Jay both critique and celebrate the Golden State. Need millennial advice? Click the link to submit a question to Air Shrug https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Ga2m1MPKiZAtIpDwiUW4CMQ0g-yBFfoRtNXXGx_qSXE/edit?usp=sharing Follow: **everyone we mention in the episode** Erica Deeman - @erica_deeman Lava Thomas - @lavathomas Sadie Barnett - @sadiebarnette Lauren Halsey - @summaeverythang Angela Hennessy - http://www.angelahennessy.com/ Arisa White - @arisaawhite Music: Artist: wldflwr. & Nappy Nina Song: "run remix"

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This episode: ARISA WHITE is a Cave Canem fellow, Sarah Lawrence College alumna, an MFA graduate from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and author of the poetry chapbooks Disposition for Shininess, Post Pardon, and Black Pearl. She was selected by the San Francisco Bay Guardian for the 2010 Hot Pink List and is a member of the PlayGround writers’ pool; her play Frigidare was staged for the 15th Annual Best of PlayGround Festival. A native New Yorker, living in Oakland, California, Arisa is a faculty advisor at Goddard College and was a visiting scholar at San Francisco State University’s The Poetry Center, where she developed a special collections on Black Women Poets in the Poetry Archives. Published by Virtual Artists Collective, her debut collection, Hurrah’s Nest, was a finalist for the 2013 Wheatley Book Awards, 82nd California Book Awards, and nominated for a 44th NAACP Image Awards. Her second collection, A Penny Saved, inspired by the true-life story of Polly Mitchell, was published by Willow Books, an imprint of Aquarius Press in 2012. Forthcoming in fall 2016 is the full-length collection You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened from Augury Books. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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. This morning we speak to Mama Pam Williams, Council of Elders, about Wo'se Community of the Sacred African Way Spiritual Center located at 8924 Holly Street, Oakland, CA, (510)  which is having its 35th Anniversary celebration this weekend. 2. Our next guest is Dr. Sekham Heka Maat Ra of KRST Unity Center in Los Angeles. He is going to be speaking with Professor Manu Ampim, Sat., Dec. 5, 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on the topic: "Maat: Ancient Wisdom and Contemporary Strategy. The talk is at the Golden Gate Branch of the Oakland Public Library, 5606 San Pablo Ave., in Oakland.  Visit http://www.krstunitycenter.org 3. Amy Mueller, Bay Area Playwrights Foundation and playwrights: Arisa White, Michael Gene Sullivan, and Nick Nanna Hadikwa Mwaluko re:The FlashPlays Festival Dec. 6.

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. 1. This morning we speak to Mama Pam Williams, Council of Elders, about Wo'se Community Spiritual Center located at 8924 Holly Street, Oakland, CA, (510)  which is having its 35th Anniversary celebration this weekend. Visit http://wosecommunity.org/ 2. Our next guest is Dr. Sekham Heka Maat Ra of KRST Unity Center in Los Angeles. He is going to be speaking with Professor Manu Ampim, Sat., Dec. 5, 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on the topic: "Maat: Ancient Wisdom and Contemporary Strategy. The talk is at the Golden Gate Branch of the Oakland Public Library, 5606 San Pablo Ave., in Oakland. 3. Amy Mueller, Bay Area Playwrights Foundations and playwrights: Arisa White, Michale Gene Sullivan, and Nana Mwaluko; The FlashPlays Festival will be held over two days on Sunday, December 6 and Monday, December 7, 8 pm at Brava Theater Center, 2781- 24th Street in San Francisco. The Festival features new short plays varying in length from 30 seconds to 2 minutes in order to tell riveting new stories in a quick flash. 

1. This morning we speak to Mama Pam Williams, Council of Elders, about Wo'se Community of the Sacred African Way Spiritual Center located at 8924 Holly Street, Oakland, CA, (510)  which is having its 35th Anniversary celebration this weekend. 2. Our next guest is Dr. Sekham Heka Maat Ra of KRST Unity Center in Los Angeles. He is going to be speaking with Professor Manu Ampim, Sat., Dec. 5, 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on the topic: "Maat: Ancient Wisdom and Contemporary Strategy. The talk is at the Golden Gate Branch of the Oakland Public Library, 5606 San Pablo Ave., in Oakland. Professor Sekhem is a disciple of Stokely Carmichael aka Kwame Toure and has been working over the last 35 years as a teacher of history, organizer and labor lawyer, championing the rights and dignity of the working class. Professor Sekhem is presently Executive Director of the Black Employees Association, a labor Union, and instructor of African Spiritual Science at KRST Unity Center. He is also the Director of the Sunday and Friday classes at KRST. He is a KMT focused researcher and Black Nationalist who posits that Nation Building, centered around the teaching and practice of MAAT, is the solution to the ills and malaise that besets the current conditions of  African descendants in 21st century America. Visit http://www.krstunitycenter.org 3. Amy Mueller, Bay Area Playwrights Foundation and playwrights: Arisa White, Michael Gene Sullivan, and Nick Nanna Hadikwa Mwaluko; The FlashPlays Festival will be held over two days on Sunday, December 6 and Monday, December 7, 8 pm at Brava Theater Center, 2781- 24th Street in San Francisco. The Festival features new short plays varying in length from 30 seconds to 2 minutes in order to tell riveting new stories in a quick flash.  

Interview with poet, author and playwright Arisa White

CK Ladzekpo (Co-Artistic Director of the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival), Emiko Susilo (Director of Gamelan Sekar Jaya), Nestor Ruiz (Artistic Director of El Tunante) and Kristina Ramsey (Dancer with Las Que Son Son) open the show's first hour. Our next guest is Arisa White, whose debut collection, Hurrah's Nest, is this year's winner of the San Francisco Book Festival Award for poetry. We close with  devorah major, former San Francisco Poet Laureate, who will speak about Incantations by the Bahia a free poetry reading tonight, June 1, 2012, 7:30 p.m., at the Luggage Gallery, 1007 Market Street, in San Francisco  featuring a stellar lineup of poets who will speak about the 1970s, a time of burgeoning voices from silenced communities of color: African American, Latino, Indigenous, Asian/Pacific Islanders. Featured music: Rene Marie's "Just My Imagination," Sweet Honey in the Rock, Umoja Our "Problem to Solve" & "Yesterday's Lettuce," Wunmi "Oya-O."