Podcasts about Shange

You don't need more affirmations. But perhaps, like many of us, you are desiring tools, skills and strategies for navigating the seasons where your faith starts to feel foolish and the results you wished for are taking longer than the ego can bear. In this episode we explore navigating suspicion around our creative commitments and the temptation to give up inside the messy middle. We remember the potency of our creative power activates when we're lost, not when we know the way. How do we remain steadfast inside our commitments while facing the grief, fear and uncertainty of our time? How do we trade the misleading allure of instant gratification with the sturdy sense of alignment that arises when we choose the practice of closing the gap between our values and our actions everyday, as Mariame Kaba invites us to do? How do we release all our “shoulds” and stay in the game long enough to learn what comes next? These are the questions we explore inside today's episode.ResourcesRegister for the Free 2-Part Worldbuilding Workshop Series and Download the Spring 2025 Syllabus: https://www.seedaschool.com/programSubscribe to the Seeda School Substack: ⁠https://seedaschool.substack.com/⁠Follow Ayana on Instagram: ⁠⁠@ayzaco⁠⁠Follow Ayana on Threads: ⁠⁠@ayzaco⁠⁠Follow Seeda School on Instagram: ⁠⁠@seedaschool⁠Citations“for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf” is a 1976 work by Ntozake Shange. It consists of a series of poetic monologues to be accompanied by dance movements and music, a form which Shange coined the word choreopoem to describe. It tells the stories of seven women who have suffered oppression in a racist and sexist society.“What Does It Take to Sustain the Lives of Black Feminists While We Are Alive?: Defining Affirmation Banking & Overcoming the Expected Humility of Accepting It” by Kay Brown of Assemblage: Baby's BreathFaculty Spotlight: Graphic Designer and Musician Wesley Taylor, Emphasizes Design Justice, Community Building“It Is Working—You Just Can't See It Yet” (Substack) and “225: Stop Quitting Too Soon” (Podcast) by Myleik TeeleVictoria Monét on taking the streets instead of the highway and one of my favorite songs of hers, Hollywood feat. Earth, Wind and FireCover Art: Betelhem Makonnen, "conjugated keyboard" (2020) Materials: Keyboard, tumbled rocks, Dimensions: 12.6" x 14.8" x 1 “

Multi-talented Singer, Nkosikhona Shange (Nkosi) on his recently released his debut single “Ngithi Mi” after a remarkable journey in the 2023 Idols SA competition.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

KZN rising star cricketer, Mfanafuthi Shange, has made the most of the opportunity he has been given. Mfana is the epitome of what it means to have resilience in times of adversity. Coincidentally, our very own Sports Lead, Sky Tshabalala, knows Mfana from when he just started out his cricketing career. Webpage

KZN rising star cricketer, Mfanafuthi Shange, has made the most of the opportunity he has been given. Mfana is the epitome of what it means to have resilience in times of adversity. Coach, Mduduzi Mbatha, gives us the exclusive tale KZN's rising cricket star: “I wouldn't be here without this community” · Webpage

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The Feminine Touch with Mpume is having a chat with Ayanda Shange about his journey, his music career and what he is planning for the future. As you enjoy this may it teach you something..

Join us with Mxolisi who is an inspiration leader, who is very interested in personal development. He is all about leadership and sharing his knowledge with his friends and people around him.

The recent Tony-nominated Broadway revival of Ntozake Shange's for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf reflects a growing appreciation for a Black writer whose work gives voice to those who have been oppressed and marginalized because of their race and gender. But who was Shange, and what more do her theatrical works have to say to us today? Dr. Kim F. Hall of Barnard College joins us to explore Shange's life and work.

Shange was born Paulette L. Williams on October 18, 1948 in Trenton, New Jersey to an Air Force surgeon and an educator/psychiatric social worker. She graduated cum laude with her BS degree in American studies from Barnard College in New York City. In 1973 she changed her name after a failed marriage and suicide attempts. Her new name is from the Xhosa language, Ntozake, meaning “she who comes with her own things,” and Shange, meaning “she who walks among lions.” She then graduated from the University of Southern California in 1973. After joining a dance company she created the Choreo poem: “For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf.” The work was first produced off-Broadway and then premiered on Broadway at the booth theater in 1976. The play went onto win the OB award, the outer critics Circle award, and the a UTELCO award. Originally conceived as a Choreo poem, it has been published in book form, and adapted into a stage play. In 2010, Tyler perry wrote, produced, and directed the film adaptation, for colored girls, starring Whoopi Goldberg, Phylicia Rashad, Janet Jackson, and Loretta Devine. In 1978, she released nappy edges, a collection of 50 palm celebrating the voices of independent woman. In 1979 she produced the trilogy three pieces of poems, which won the LA Times book prize. In 1982 she released her first novel, sassafras, Cypress, and indigo, which he followed with Betsy Brown in 1985 and little Lane: resurrection of the daughter in 1994. Her work appeared in the black scholar, yard bird, miss magazine, essence magazine, the Chicago tribune, vibe, and third – world women. In addition to poetry, novels, essays and screenplays, she published four books for children. She also served on the faculty of the department of drama at the University of Houston. And Emmy, Tony, and Grammy award nominee, she received an NDEA fellowship in 1974, two Obie awards, Guggenheim fellowship in 1981, the Paul Robeson achievement award in 1992, the Living legend award from the national Black theater festival in 1993. She was inducted into the St. Louis Walk of fame. She passed away on October 27, 2018 at the age of 70. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/katherine-hutchinson-hayes/support

02.05.2021 - Koketso Shange, Recording artist - Discussing the new single titled "More of

02.05.2021 - Koketso Shange, Recording artist - Discussing the new single titled "More of

Host Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle/Olomidara Yaya discusses the theme of retrieval. From discussing how retrieval can be a way to combat erasure to examining hegemony and how it can rear its head during studio visits and within classroom learning experiences. Hinkle/Yaya explores her retrieval methods and how they relate to what it means to be creative in the face of transgenerational trauma and erasure. She discusses the difficulty of what it means to retrieve and the concerns of repatriation that she discovered while on her Fulbright to Lagos, Nigeria 2015-16. She asks listeners to question what does it mean to emerge from erasure? What does it mean to learn new languages that have been extinguished from the land? What does it mean to embody the stories you want to tell and embody them as well? Hinkle/Yaya also reads an excerpt from Ntozake Shange's theatre piece For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow Is Enuf (dubbed a “choreopoem” for its highly original combination of music, poetry, and dance) performed on Broadway in 1976-1977. The featured passage recites the lines for lady in green as she talks about a thief that walked away with all of her shit (stuff). During this selected passage Shange paints a powerful portrait of theft in relationship to HIStory, colonialism, domestic abuse and so many other challenges that plague BIPOC womxn throughout various diasporas but with the main focus upon Black Womxn. Hinkle/Yaya meditates on this passage as resistance and call for repatriation and retrieval of one's self in the midst of navigating the Historical Present. *This episode includes expletives. Episode is LivePublished: Feb. 08, 2021 @ 6PM EditUnpublishAdd a TranscriptGet episode better indexed by search engines.Add Chapter MarkersListeners can tap through & see what’s coming up.Create a Visual SoundbiteBest way to share to social media for engagement.Share Episode OnFacebookTwitterLinkedInMore OptionsEmail Link to Episode CopyDirect Link to MP3 Copy Download MP3Embed this ONE EpisodeView Episode Stat in

Important LinksLouisville Community GroceryNAMI - LouisvilleAmpersand - Crisis Center of the BluegrassBlack Art Futures FundLouisville Bail Fund Play DiscussedFor Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange Bonus LinksInterview with Ntozake ShangeAloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets' CafeNuyorican Poetry: An Anthology (1975)Funny Fat Friend Podcast (Apple Podcast)Funny Fat Friend Podcast (Spotify)

28.06.2020 - Ayanda was introduced to the South African audience as part of Joyous Celebration and in 2017 he went solo with the album titled "The Praise Altar". With 3 solo albums, Ayanda has cemented his feet in the gospel musician industry. He chats to Mpumzi about being a musician during the COVID-19 pandemic.

28.06.2020 - Ayanda was introduced to the South African audience as part of Joyous Celebration and in 2017 he went solo with the album titled "The Praise Altar". With 3 solo albums, Ayanda has cemented his feet in the gospel musician industry. He chats to Mpumzi about being a musician during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Sho and Tyreke sit down with the talented and Charismatic Poet and Author Amena Brown to discuss her writing habits and favorite films from books. You will learn and laugh during this episode.

Sho and Tyreke sit down with the talented and Charismatic Poet and Author Amena Brown to discuss her writing habits and favorite films from books. You will learn and laugh during this episode.

Savannah Shange in conversation with Patrick Camangian discussing the subject of Savannah Shange's new book, Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, Antiblackness, and Schooling in San Francisco, published by Duke University Press. In Progressive Dystopia, Savannah Shange explores the potential for reconciling the school's marginalization of Black students with its sincere pursuit of multiracial uplift and solidarity. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and six years of experience teaching at the school, Shange outlines how the school fails its students and the community because it operates within a space predicated on antiblackness. Seeing San Francisco as a social laboratory for how Black communities survive the end of their worlds, Shange argues for abolition over either revolution or progressive reform as the needed path toward Black freedom. Savannah Shange is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and principal faculty in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Patrick Camangian is an associate professor in the Teacher Education Department at the University of San Francisco. He has been an English teacher since 1999, beginning in the Los Angeles Unified School District where he was awarded "Most Inspirational Teacher" by former mayor Richard Riordan and the school's student body. Professor Camangian currently volunteers in the Oakland Unified School District teaching English. He has collaborated with groups such as California's People's Education Movement, the Education for Liberation national network, and San Francisco's Teachers 4 Social Justice.

Hi, My name is Cecey and welcome to my podcast. I will be talking about Ntozake Shange’s For colored girls choreopem in relation to Joyce Scott, Faith Ringgold and a few themes from the course thus far. In Shange’s For Colored Girls only, there is a scene in which a black woman is coerced into marrying a man named Beau Willie who is verbally and physically abusive. He asks her to marry him and when she refuses, he ends up murdering her children by dropping them from a window of what seems to be a tall high rise apartment. Joyce Scott, an artist who makes art out of beads has a piece called “The sneak.” This piece is of a woman’s head detached from her and on her neck, bodies of men that are not her husband. This piece portrays a domestic violent situation in which a man kills his wife because he thinks she was sneaking around with other men. Both artists produce work that brings awareness to domestic violence by black men. They control their art and in doing so control what side of black women they want to show. In these specific pieces of art, they showcase the situations black women go through with their partners who you’d think would have their back but sometimes it turns out that black women suffer within their own communities and not just outside of their race which is why intersectionality is important. Intersectionality allows us to understand the struggles of black women in both aspects of gender and race. As you may recall from the group presentation, we talked about how Shange’s For Colored Girls choreopoem was not accepted as theatre because it was not made in the same style as other theatre material. This is ironic because the choreopoem is about giving voice to black women and their struggles. Faith Rinngold is another artist who made paintings inspired by the struggles and achievements she and other black women specifically black activists and leaders in her work experienced. She drew from various arts but one important thing she made use of was political texts inspired by Chinese art. She used political texts to confront issues that she and other black women went through one of them being lack of inclusion of political arts by black women at a political documenta in Europe As you can conclude, both artists use their platforms and works to give a voice to black women and both went through similar situations with lack of recognition of their works. As I briefly mentioned earlier, Shange’s For Colored Girls addresses issues of both racism and sexism in her work. From the scene where a woman is getting harassed in Harlem by black men to the scene where a black woman is sitting in an abortion chair uncomfortably with a white doctor, the theme of intersectionality is addressed throughout this choreopoem. The crooked room theme is also prevalent as Shange uses this choreopoem to highlight how black women are trying to find their upright. One of those uprights in the choreopoem is how the women are happy after making friends and companionship with other black women through similar experiences. Another is the women finding happiness within themselves. Note that she does not make an upright revolve around a man. The last theme I want to point out is the complexities of black women. By creating this choreopoem how she does, she allows for the audience to see the different types of black women and their struggles. She shows the women as lovers, mothers, friends and workers. She shows them happy, sad, angry, heartbroken and healing.

Ntozake Shange was a playwright, poet, activist and dancer. As a self-proclaimed black feminist, she addressed intersectional issues of race, gender, sexuality, and activism in much of her work. Shange was born Paulette Linda Williams in Trenton, NJ on October 18, 1948; she died in her sleep on October 27, 2018, aged 70, in Bowie, Maryland. Ntozake Shange was best known for the Obie Award-winning play, for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf. Publications: For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf (Shameless Hussy Press, 1976) Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo (1982) Betsey Brown (St. Martin's Press, 1985) The Black Book (1986, with Robert Mapplethorpe). Liliane (1994) Among her numerous honors and awards are fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Fund, a Pushcart Prize, the Barnard Medal of Honor, an honorary degree from Oberlin College, a certificate of Special Congressional Recognition, and several City Proclamations in honor of her work. In April 2016, Barnard College announced that it acquired Shange's archive. Movies: For Colored Girls, Whitewash, An Evening with Diana Ross (The Big Event) Her Plays include: From Okra to Greens/A Different Kinda Love Story (1983). Three views of Mt. Fuji (1987). First produced in San Francisco at the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre; first New York production at the New Dramatists. Daddy Says (1989). Whitewash (1994). Children's books Coretta Scott (2009) Ellington Was Not a Street (2003) Float Like a Butterfly: Muhammad Ali, the Man Who Could Float Like a Butterfly and Sting Like a Bee (2002) Daddy Says (2003) Whitewash (1997 Guests: Carol Marie Webster, PhD. Dr. Webster is a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life at Columbia University. She is also the conductor/Instructor/co-producer of AfrobeatRadio’s ongoing workshops on Critical Joy. Halifu Osumare PhD. Dr. Osumare is Professor Emerita in the Department of African American and African Studies (AAS) at University of California, Davis, and was the Director of AAS from 2011-2014. She has been a dancer, choreographer, arts administrator, and scholar of black popular culture for over forty years. Host: Wuyi Jacobs Credits Live broadcast 2018-11-07 on WBAI 99.5 FM, NYC Pacifica Radio #AfrobeatRadio #NtozakeShange.

In this episode we honor the late Ntozake Shange -- poet, author, playwright, artist. Her seminal work, the choreo-poem For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow is Enuf inspired generations of black women to see themselves differently and to question structures of power that tried to limit their boundless potential. The episode features excerpts of Shange's 2009 conversation with Alexs Pate as part of the NOMO series, a partnership between The Givens Foundation for African American Literature and the University of Minnesota Libraries. It also features Lissa's conversation with Penumbra Theatre Artistic Director Sarah Bellamy, who directed Shange's Choreo-poem in the fall of 2018, about the legacy of Shange's work and the importance of creating space in theatre that celebrates the work of Black artists. To listen to the full audio of Ntozake Shange's NOMO reading and conversation, visit blackmarketreads.com

Today we host a Tribute to Ntozake Shange. We open with a prerecorded interview with the late playwright, poet, novelist and co-director, Cassandra Henderson. October 18, 1948 – October 27, 2018)(PoetryFoundation.org). Our guests include: Claudia Alick, Lisa Brimmer, Nanna Mwaluko, Halifu Osumare  Shange is best known for the Obie Award-winning play for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf. She also penned several novels including Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo (1982), Liliane (1994), and Betsey Brown (1985), a novel about an African-American girl who runs away from home. Among Shange's honors and awards were fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Fund, and a Pushcart Prize. In April 2016, Barnard College announced that it acquired Shange's archive.[3] Shange lived in Brooklyn, New York (wikipedia). 

Ntozake Shange, Reid Lecture, Women Issues Luncheon, Women's Center, November 1978 We mourn the passing and celebrate the immortal contribution to our culture of Ntozake Shange, who, according to cultural critic Melissa Harris Perry, did more than any other artist to remind us that Black women's lives matter. Shange was unflinching in taking on domestic violence and patriarchy in the context of racism and classism, neither exempting African American men from critique nor allowing them to be scapegoated by white society. She was also groundbreaking in her creation of the “choreopoem,” combining poetry, dance and music in her classic work, “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf” and subsequent works, which anticipated what we now call “spoken word.” We'll listen to excerpts from readings by and interviews with Shange over the last 35 years. We'll also talk with Seattle socialist city council member Kshama Sawant, whose election in 2014 paved the way for Seattle's becoming the first large US city to adopt a $15 minimum wage (with some exceptions). Sawant breaks down how she has achieved policy victories without sacrificing either personal integrity or movement accountability and outlines some strategies for current candidates like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ayanna Presley to follow in her footsteps. And we will listen to moving reflections on the latest mass shooting, this one at a Pittsburgh synagogue, and consider how fighting the patriarchy can bring an end to hate violence. The post October 29, 2018 – Prophetic and Profound: Ntozake Shange, Kshama Sawant, and reflections on Pittsburgh appeared first on KPFA.

5 Tips you need before you begin trading/investing in the market! Super excited about this episode as we talk how to make LONG money! I brought my friend Shange on, so that he can share some knowledge with us! Hope you enjoy --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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The Love Space Demands, is a choreopoem published in 1991, by Ntozake Shange. In it she returned to the blend of music, dance, poetry and drama that characterized For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide....Her work has been described as sexy, discomforting, energizing, revealing, occasionally smug, and fascinating.” This is true. Ntozake Shange forces the kind of reflection that creates discomfort...growth. The first time I heard the words "The Love Space Demands" I paused and dropped everything. That's it. The space, the time, the clarity, the beauty and the pain that holds the hand of growing. The process of creating a mix is an arduous one. I spend at least 3-6 months listening to each song repeatedly until I figure out the arrangement--the bigger picture. Driven by some of the hardest lessons learned by the heart, my house music rendition of Shange's choreopoem "The Love Space Demands" asks listeners to consider the inspiring and transformative range of emotions that one can feel when riding through that journey called love. And then there's the letting go and doing it all over again. And i'll do it again. Every time. Heartbreak is an opportunity. Each song tells a story of contradiction, understanding, betrayal, yearning, unconditional love, tenderness and surrender. Last night, around the same time I completed this mix, my best friend, Mr. Asadullah Saed created a new life with this poem. Divine Timing. I read his words and realized they were the liner notes for this mix. Enjoy. Press play, tune in. See track list at the end of the poem... The Feeling After (poem) I am fighting to be grateful no thank you grateful I'm trying to see you love me again still but again different maybe a friendly love an old love my love again thanks for everything kiss your hand for me because I can't may never will again getting out of bed slower than sleepy loved you to pieces maybe one day you can read this and laugh maybe one day we will laugh together even in rain even in hard times may there be few ancestors want us to be better than okay ashe I want us to be better than we waz better than we loved ourselves dancing in circles surviving doing our best at that particular time my dear darling. A. Muhammad 1. Love Cannot Eric Ericksson 2. Invitation to Dance (Vincemo Hang Sessions Mix) 3. Green & Yellow (Original)Arnaud D feat. Heidi Vogel 4. Linda (Da Capo's Touch) Ralf GUM feat. Oluhle 5. Move It (Original Mix) [feat. Mindgames] Dj Whisky 6. World Is Good [feat. Rona Ray] Chymamusique & DJ Claude 7. Alone (Zakes Bantwini Mix) Liquideep 8. Still (V Underground Mid-Day Mix) Monocles & Slezz ft Vusani 9. You Dont Deserve Me (Rosarios Touch Mix)Reel Skaps ft Man DO 10. Made Me A Fool (Abicah Soul Remix) Gino Brown feat. January 11. Violet Remix Pack - Chapter 1 (Hallex M & Loic L Remix) Oscar P & Marcus Pearson 12. Day By Day (Day By Day (Spigelsound Mix) Research 13. God's Message Marlon D pres. Ultra Nate 14. Heart Beat Zaki Ibrahim 15. Nozomi Yusuke Hiraoka

OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham OUR GUEST: Author, Jamal Ali The Heart Fire Rendezvous Trilogy More than a love story, it is an adventure of fulfilling destiny, engaging purpose, woven with several cultural threads and tapestries, across landscapes some myths do not know. The stories have been described as a M’aat centered, “Lord of the Rings”, a story for “the peoples of the tropics.” Three stories of love and history, to the more complex mind seeking to explore the mysticism and power of the golden fabric woven through time and souls. Ali brings the best of Shange’s relearning knowledge to Butler’s challenge to believe the unbelievable based on newly processed knowledge. They help us to begin to remember, hidden stirrings within ourselves, those moments of wonder and connection linking us to the planet, instead of the world. We are brought to layers of tropical human civilizations, thick with spirit and ritual, science, magic and powers which have no name. We discover history often overlooked, see time through the eyes of ancient cultures and taste destiny. For more information about the book SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER AND OURSELVES Saturday, December 11, 2010 10 pm ET