Podcasts about kalamu

4.19.24 - Kalamu ya Salaam by Crosstown Conversations

Gazteen kalamu kontsumoaz eta horren ondorioez aritu gara. Gainera, haurdunaldian D bitaminak duen garrantzia ere aipatu digu Felix Zubiak, posturak zaintzeak duen garrantziaz... diabetesaren ateetan noiz egon gaitezkeen jakiteko arrastoak eman ditu Felix Zubiak....

Gazteen kalamu kontsumoaz eta horren ondorioez aritu gara. Gainera, haurdunaldian D bitaminak duen garrantzia ere aipatu digu Felix Zubiak, posturak zaintzeak duen garrantziaz... diabetesaren ateetan noiz egon gaitezkeen jakiteko arrastoak eman ditu Felix Zubiak....

Mradi mpya wa shule  nchini Jamhuri ya Kidemokrasia ya Congo, DRC uliozinduliwa na shirika la Umoja wa Mataifa la kuhudumia watoto,  UNICEF na wadau wake kwa ufadhili kutoka mfuko wa Umoja wa Mataifa wa kuchagiza elimu kwenye maeneo ya mizozo, Education Cannot Wait, ECW, au Elimu Haiwezi Kusubiri umewezesha watoto waliokuwa wametumikishwa vitani kuanza kurejea kwenye masomo na hata kutangamana na wenzao kwa amani.  Miongoni mwao ni Rachel mwenye umri wa miaka 17 ambaye katika video ya UNICEF anaonekana nyakati za asubuhi akiwa na mfuko wake wa madafari akielekea shuleni Lubile, kijiji cha Mpungwe, jimboni Tanganyika kusini-mashariki mwa DRC.  Maisha yake ni mapya kabisa kwani awali alitumikishwa vitani na waasi akisema,  “vitu ambavyo tulikuwa tunapitia tulikuwa tunaua watu. Tulikuwa tunakula kwa tabu mpaka twende tuibe. Kule tulikuwa hatuna  huruma ya kuhurumiana. Lakini hii ya hapa najikuta niko kwenye masomo na niko huru. Niko ninacheza na wenzangu na mwenzangu akinikosea na akiniomba msamaha najua jinsi ya kumsamehe.” Rachel amepata msaada wa kuondokana na kiwewe na wa kisaikolojia kupitia mradi unaofadhiliwa na ECW. Michel ni mnasisi wa kisaikolojia shuleni hapa na anasema, “mosi, tunawafundisha upendo na watu wote; ya pili tunawafundisha msamaha ndio tunajitahidi kuwasaidia kimafundisho ili wasahau yale maneno ya zamani. Kuna wengi wamesharejea shuleni. Kiwewe ni tatizo kubwa sana na kila mtoto ana changamoto yake.”  Kupitia mradi wa ECW shule ya Rachel sasa ina madawati mapya, huduma za kujisafi kama vile vyoo pamoja na maji.   Mpango wa muda mrefu ni kuhakikisha watoto wengi zaidi wa kike katika jimbo la Tanganyika wanarejea shuleni.   Yasmin Sherif, Mkurugenzi wa ECW akiwa ndani ya darasa hapa Mpungwe anasema, “Education Cannot Wait hadi sasa imewekeza dola milioni 22 na dola nyingine milioni 44 zinahitajika ili kufikia watoto na vijana wengi zaidi jimboni kote Tanganyika ambao ni wakimbizi wa ndani, au wako pembezoni na kufikia kila mtoto na kuwa na shule kama hii hapa kwenye kijiji kidogo cha Mpungwe. Hii inawezekana.”  

In Episode 23 of A Culture of Possibility, François Matarasso and Arlene Goldbard interview Carol Bebelle, cofounder of Ashé Cultural Arts Center in New Orleans, about her decades of work for cultural democracy. Carol “has to her credit a book of original poetry In a Manner of Speaking, and is presented among other New Orleans writers in the Anthology From a Bend in the River, edited by Kalamu ya Salaam. She has several published interviews, testimonies and a chapter in the recently published Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina, edited by Amy Koritz and George J. Sanchez”. This makes for a vivid and uplifting conversation that touches on Hurricane Katrina, racial healing, the power of art and culture to root us in heritage and envision a future we want to help bring about. Listen and be inspired!

Meg Arenberg speaks with Swahili poet and journalist Mohammed Ghassani about how fellow Zanzibaris have received the news of Abdulrazak Gurnah's Nobel prize, Ghassani's experience living abroad, and how the themes of alienation and longing in Gurnah's novels overlap with Ghassani's poetry, in particular his collection N'na Kwetu (I Have a Home, There is a We), which won him the first Mabati Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature in 2015. At the close of the interview, Ghassani and Meg read together from the collection, a poem titled "Kama Wewe," interspersing the Swahili original with Meg's English translation titled, "Your Equal." Mohammed Khelef Ghassani was born in 1977 in Zanzibar and is author of several collections of poetry, including Andamo: Msafiri Safirini, Siwachi Kusema: Uhuru U Kifungoni, Kalamu ya Mapinduzi: Mapambano Yanaendelea, and N'na Kwetu: Sauti ya Mgeni Ugenini. In addition to his poetry, Mohammed Ghassani is a journalist living and working in Bonn, Germany. Meg Arenberg is a writer, translator and scholar. She is a postdoctoral fellow in AMESALL at Rutgers University and Managing Director of the Radical Books Collective.

Show Notes and Links to Cassandra Lane's Work and Allusions/Texts from Episode 53   On Episode 53, Pete talks with Cassandra Lane about her journalism career,  her literary sparks and heroes, and finding inspiration in her family's history and beautiful and traumatic events. Cassandra reads an excerpt from her upcoming memoir, We are Bridges: A Memoir, while discussing the stories and background that make up the book.   Born and raised in Louisiana, Editor in Chief Cassandra Lane made the transition from La. to L.A. in 2001. She was most recently community relations manager for the Los Angeles Dodgers, where she learned to cheer on her team like a real Angeleno. Cassandra has also served as a newspaper reporter, high school English and journalism teacher, college application advisor and senior writer for a nonprofit committed to improving the quality of early care and education for L.A. County children. She and her husband are having fun raising their son, who currently wants to be an astrophysicist, artist and video game developer. She has a BA in Journalism and an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University. Her writings have appeared in a number of publications and We are Bridges, A Memoir is set to be published on April 20 of this year. You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave me a five-star review. You can also ask for the podcast by name using Alexa, and find the pod on Spotify, Stitcher, and on Amazon Music. You can also find episodes on The Chills at Will Podcast YouTube Channel. Follow me on IG, where I'm @chillsatwillpodcast, or on Twitter, where I'm @chillsatwillpo1. This is a passion project of mine, a DIY operation, and I'd love for your help in promoting what I'm convinced is a unique and spirited look at an often-ignored art form. The intro song for The Chills at Will Podcast is “Wind Down” (Instrumental Version), and the other song played on this episode was “Hoops” (Instrumental)” by Matt Weidauer, and both songs are used through ArchesAudio.com.   At about 2:00, Cassandra talks about the busy and exciting time leading up to the publication on April 20 of this year of her memoir, We are Bridges   At about 3:45, Cassandra talks about her childhood love of reading, and how her family influenced her    At about 6:15, Cassandra talks about the influence of her uncle, a preacher, and how her childhood was influenced by the Bible as a literary and religious text   At about 7:50, Cassandra talks about writers who gave her “chills at will”   At about 8:40, Cassandra talks about the “revelatory” texts that affirmed her desire to be a writer, especially James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain and Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon   At about 10:30, Cassandra talks about when she gained the “sense of empowerment” to imagine herself as a writer, as well as how this spurred her on to working in journalism   At about 13:25, Cassandra talks about inspiring contemporary writers, such as Jesmyn Ward, Sharon Olds, Terrence Hayes, mentor Kalamu ya Salaam,    At about 15:50, Cassandra talks about texts that spoke to her high school students when she was a classroom teacher at traditional schools and alternative high schools   At about 18:50, Cassandra talks about getting kids to read in new and exciting   At about 20:10, Cassandra talks about her work with LA Parent Magazine   At about 26:00, Cassandra talks about her short pieces, some which figured directly in her upcoming memoir, including “The Seeker and the Artist”   At about 32:00, Cassandra talks about writing about personal/familial experiences   At about 33:40, Cassandra talks about “White Oak,” a fictional piece in which she memorializes the tragic lynching of her great-grandfather, Burt, and which has become part of We are Bridges   At about 36:00, Cassandra talks about her great-grandmother, Mary, and how her story informed Cassandra's life and her writing, as well as how Billie Holiday's “Strange Fruit” impacted Cassandra   At about 40:00, Cassandra talks about the connections between 1904 to 2021 and the generations in-between   At about 41:20, Cassandra talks about the “scars” and the “silence around the scars” in dealing with generational trauma in the process of healing   At about 42:20, Cassandra talks about the pre publication press and blurbs for We are Bridges   At about 43:30, Cassandra talks about the beginnings of the book, around 2001 at Antioch University   At about 47:00, Cassandra reads an excerpt from We are Bridges: A Memoir   At about 51:40, Cassandra talks about future projects   Buy We are Bridges: A Memoir on Bookshop.org! (Comes out April 20) Buy We are Bridges: A Memoir on Amazon.com   Buy We are Bridges: A Memoir at Eso Won Books in Los Angeles   Read Cassandra's short fiction and nonfiction on her website

Crying for you, o dear Pen, for not sticking to my fingersWhy don't you stay there for me to write down - All that I wanted to, before I depart this world?Crying for you, o dear Time!Kalamu oo kalamu, mbona hukai vyandani?Mbona hukai ‘kadumu, kuyaandika bukuniYote niliyoazimu, sijauka dunianiWakati oo wakati!Shairi: Mohammed GhassaniMuziki: Ally Fadhil JumaDiwani: Mfalme Ana Pembe (Uk. 70-71)

1. Theodore Lush, Michael Jackson, Karen Jones join us to talk about: 7th Annual Montgomery MAAFA Commemoration, Sat. July 14, 2018. RemembertheAncestors.com 2. Gina Yashere, London born, Nigerian comedian opens at Freight & Salvage in Berkeley, July 8, 2018, 7 p.m.(thefreight.org) 3. Baba Luther Gray and Kalamu ya Salaam as Grand Griot joins us to talk about the 18th Annual MAAFA Commemoration in NOLA this Sat., July 7, 2018, 7 AM at Congo Square.  However, beginning tonight there are many programs scheduled from the Maafa Exhibit which opened June 29 to the series of cultural programs this evening, tomorrow and Friday afternoon. (https://www.ashecac.org/) 4. Alashe Michael Oshoosi a.k.a. Michael F. Wright, Ph.D., JD and decorated veteran of the Civil Rights Movement, joins us to talk about his ancestors who established the first African village in America, "Wetitquin" (also sp. Wetipquin), Maryland, a stop on Tubman's Underground Railroad. Loyalists, his grandfathers supported Britain (1787, 1796-1812) in exchange for the promise of human rights and abolition. At the end of the Civil War African Loyalists were moved to Nova Scotia and Chatham, Canada and then to Sierra Leone where they built what is know as Freetown. His late mother, Sarah E. Wright (poet and novelist) was former VP of the Harlem Writers Guild. The conversation weaves ancestral past with present to form an intentional life dedicated to upliftment of African people.(http://oshoosi.com/tuskegee-movement-sncc.html) Permalink: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/wandas-picks/2018/07/04/wandas-picks-radio-show Shortlink: http://tobtr.com/10852689

1. Theodore Lush, Michael Jackson, Karen Jones join us to talk about: 7th Annual Montgomery MAAFA Commemoration, Sat. July 14, 2018. RemembertheAncestors.com 2. Gina Yashere, London born, Nigerian comedian opens at Freight & Salvage in Berkeley, July 8, 2018, 7 p.m.(thefreight.org) 3. Baba Luther Gray and Kalamu ya Salaam as Grand Griot joins us to talk about the 18th Annual MAAFA Commemoration in NOLA this Sat., July 7, 2018, 7 AM at Congo Square.  However, beginning tonight there are many programs scheduled from the Maafa Exhibit which opened June 29 to the series of cultural programs this evening, tomorrow and Friday afternoon. (https://www.ashecac.org/) 4. Alashe Michael Oshoosi a.k.a. Michael F. Wright, Ph.D., JD and decorated veteran of the Civil Rights Movement, joins us to talk about his ancestors who established the first African village in America, "Wetitquin" (also sp. Wetipquin), Maryland, a stop on Tubman's Underground Railroad. Loyalists, his grandfathers supported Britain (1787, 1796-1812) in exchange for the promise of human rights and abolition. At the end of the Civil War African Loyalists were moved to Nova Scotia and Chatham, Canada and then to Sierra Leone where they built what is know as Freetown. His late mother, Sarah E. Wright (poet and novelist) was former VP of the Harlem Writers Guild. The conversation weaves ancestral past with present to form an intentional life dedicated to upliftment of African people.(http://oshoosi.com/tuskegee-movement-sncc.html) Permalink: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/wandas-picks/2018/07/04/wandas-picks-radio-show Shortlink: http://tobtr.com/10852689

1. Theodore Lush, Michael Jackson, Karen Jones join us to talk about: 7th Annual Montgomery MAAFA Commemoration, Sat. July 14. ReembertheAncestors.com 2. Gina Yashere, London born, Nigerian comedian opens at Freight & Salvage in Berkeley, July 8, 7 p.m.(thefreight.org) 3. Baba Luther Gray and Kalamu ya Salaam as Grand Griot joins us to talk about the 18th Annual MAAFA Commemoration in NOLA this Sat., July 7, 7 AM at Congo Square.  However, beginging tonight there are many programs scheduled from the Maafa Exhibit which opened June 29 to the series of cultural programs this evening, tomorrow and Friday afternoon. (https://www.ashecac.org/) 4. Alashe Michael OshoosiMichael F. Wright, Ph.D., JD and decorated veteran of the Civil Rights Movement, joins us to talk about his ancestors who established the first African village in America, a stop on Tubman's Underground Railroad. Loyalists, his grandfathers supported Britian in exchange for the promise of human rights and abolishion. At the end of the Civil War African Loyalists were moved to Nova Scotia and Chatham, Canada and then to Sierra Leone where they built what is know as Freetown. His late mother, Sarah E. Wright (poet and novelist) was former VP of the Harlem Writers Guilde. The conversation weaves ancestral past with present to form an intentional life dedicated to upliftment of African people. Visit http://oshoosi.com/ 

1. Theodore Lush, Michael Jackson, Karen Jones join us to talk about: 7th Annual Montgomery MAAFA Commemoration, Sat. July 14. ReembertheAncestors.com 2. Gina Yashere, London born, Nigerian comedian opens at Freight & Salvage in Berkeley, July 8, 7 p.m.(thefreight.org) 3. Baba Luther Gray and Kalamu ya Salaam as Grand Griot joins us to talk about the 18th Annual MAAFA Commemoration in NOLA this Sat., July 7, 7 AM at Congo Square.  However, beginging tonight there are many programs scheduled from the Maafa Exhibit which opened June 29 to the series of cultural programs this evening, tomorrow and Friday afternoon. (https://www.ashecac.org/) 4. Alashe Michael Oshoosi a.k.a. Michael F. Wright, Ph.D., JD and decorated veteran of the Civil Rights Movement, joins us to talk about his ancestors who established the first African village in America, "Wetitquin" (also sp. Wetipquin), Maryland, a stop on Tubman's Underground Railroad. Loyalists, his grandfathers supported Britian (1787, 1796-1812) in exchange for the promise of human rights and abolishion. At the end of the Civil War African Loyalists were moved to Nova Scotia and Chatham, Canada and then to Sierra Leone where they built what is know as Freetown. His late mother, Sarah E. Wright (poet and novelist) was former VP of the Harlem Writers Guilde. The conversation weaves ancestral past with present to form an intentional life dedicated to upliftment of African people.(http://oshoosi.com/tuskegee-movement-sncc.html)      

First in a three-part journey into the soul of America, through the eyes of working people who happen to be artists. In this episode, David Slater in Sag Harbor, New York, and Kalamu ya Salaam in New Orleans. Retracing the 1960 journey by writer John Steinbeck for his book, “Travels with Charley in Search of America.” Produced by John Biewen.