This is
City Slicker Farms'
annual fermented feast and celebration of urban agriculture to
benefit the urban ag heroes of City Slicker Farms! Bring your friends!
Bring your checkbook!
Bring a fermented food to share
─
or other home made delight that might be collectively devoured.
This celebration features local food activists and a huge fermented
food and drink potluck extravaganza. The most delectable
fermented food will win a prize. Entertainments will abound as
well:
a slide show of City Slicker Farms'
Backyard Garden
Program
activitiesand live music by
Zoyres Eastern
European Wild Ferment
and Madam
Jeanette Lewicki,
accordianiste. A Live Ferment Workshop and a plant sale will
be on hand too along with an abundance of fermented foods.
Help yourself
─
and feed food enthusiasts and community activists!
Bay Area Spark
Collective Workshops and
Chanting Circle
Presented by
James
Bianchi
415-824-4220
Come enjoy the FireDance
community and find another home in the Bay Area for
your heart songs, your dance, your poetry, your
music. You do not have to be a good singer. You do
not have to know a
single chant. Just bring your enthusiasm and your spark. The
Bay Area Spark
Collective is a new flame, kindled from embers carried home from
fire circles around the country
─ an intentional
community group that meets monthly to celebrate spirit, community,
and each other. Workshops begin at 1:00
pm. Pot luck
supper begins at 4:00 pm. The sacred circle opens the doors at
6:30 pm. Participants introduce themselves and share their
magic; the four directions are called in; a chant is sung; and a
sacred play begins. From here on out, anything can happen:
drumming, a song, a poem, dancing,
magic, drawing, writing, massage, deep trance. As participants take their turns
around the circle, they stir the container and mix in their magic to create a
synergistic miracle in the space. Everyone listens to what the moment needs. Around 9:30 pm the energy of the circle rises to a fever pitch and then sweetly
winds down. The circle is closed with a chant, an "Om," that releases the four
directions
─ and plenty of hugs.
Tonight
the
Sierra Club Bay
Chapter
celebrates
Earth Day
big time!
Their program is an inspired showcase of live eclectic
world music and performances featuring:Sharon
Knight,
Land of
the Blind,
Fontain’s M.U.S.E.,
and belly dancers dancing with snakes!
Wine and beverages will be served. The Sierra Club
Bay Chapter is producing this exciting event in order to
benefit their environmental work.
This is the monthly meeting of
the Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club (WDRC). The Club
works to renew and reform the
Democratic Party. The evening
begins with a social hour and delicious pot luck supper at 6:00 pm
─
bring your favorite healthy dish to share!
At 7:00 pm the Club begins its program
and all guests of the evening, members and non-members alike, are invited to participate in the discussions.
This evening's program
features
Linda Burnham,
co-founder and former executive director of the Women of
Color Resource Center.
The Women of Color Resource Center
is a community-based organization that links activists with
scholars and provides information and analysis on the social
and political issues that most affect women of color.
Linda founded the center to provide a strong institutional
base for an agenda that recognizes the crucial
interconnections between anti-racist, anti-sexist, and
anti-homophobic organizing. She is a long time Bay
Area progressive activist and has made her mark both as an
organizer and a strategic thinker. This evening's
discussion will undoubtedly prove to be a very timely and
provocative.
This day, April 24,
is Mumia
Abu-Jamal's
birthday!
Unfortunately, he still can't celebrate it on the outside
but it's nevertheless being celebrated in cities all over
the country. Mumia has written a new book, Jailhouse Lawyers:
Prisoners Defending Prisoners v. the U.S.A.
with an introduction by
Angela Y. Davis.
It's available in
City Lights Books
which is helping to sponsor this celebration at Humanist
Hall. In his new book, Mumia presents the stories and
reflections of fellow prisoners-turned-advocates who have
learned to use the court system to represent other prisoners
─
many uneducated or illiterate
─
and
in some cases, to win their freedom. In Mumia's words,
"This is the story of law learned, not in the ivory towers
of multi-billion-dollar endowed universities [but] in the
bowels of the slave-ship, in the hidden, dank dungeons of
America.… It is law learned in a stew of bitterness,
under the constant threat of violence, in places where
millions of people live, but millions of others wish to
ignore or forget. It is law written with stubs of
pencils, or with four-inch-long rubberized flex-pens, with
grit, glimmerings of brilliance, and with clear knowledge
that retaliation is right outside the cell door. It is
a different perspective on the law, written from the bottom,
with a faint hope that a right may be wronged, an injustice
redressed. It is Hard Law." Come celebrate
Mumia's new book and his birthday with his supporters and
hear a few of his advocates speak on his behalf:Angela Davis,
Ed Mead,
Avotcja,
Tony Serra,
Noelle Hanrahan
and Kiilu
Nyasha, JR, Mistah F.A.B., Chela Simone, Lynne Stewart,
Trycky the Annihilator, Adimu of Hairdoo, Franco, Jay, Lisa
Gray-Garcia, Molotov Mouths,
and
Chela Simone.
This will be an afternoon of
exciting, delightful, and incredible Middle Eastern drumming, music,
and belly dancing.
Mary Ellen Donald is a nationally
acclaimed Middle Eastern percussionist and instructor for over thirty years. She
is the prime mover of the gorgeous and exotic
Middle Eastern
Treasures
concerts. She shines not only as an expert and
thrilling player of Persian drums and cymbals, but she is also an
amazing jazz singer. Today Mary Ellen will perform music from
Egypt with an eight piece ensemble. She will play doumbec,
tambourine, frame drum, and cymbals with exquisite, breathtaking
precision.
The other eight artists in this afternoon's beautiful ensemble will
be:Nazir Latouf
of Syria on keyboard and singing as well;
theYoko Abe
on violin;Kevin Cloud
on the nay, mijwiz, mizmar, and saz;Susanna Goldenstein
on the tabla baladi;
Peter
Herbert on his drum
kit;Rose Craver
on qanun;Nathan Craver
on oud;
and Brian Nutson
on percussion.
Come see and experience these Middle Eastern instruments and sounds.
Belly dancing will be performed to perfection by
Hannah Romanza
and AllisonKenny.
It is impossible to have a more enjoyable
afternoon at Humanist Hall! Come and join Mary Ellen in raising the
rafters of Humanist Hall as high as the sky today!
Oakland needs a
solution for its economic crisis and the violence it
harbors. It needs economic development for its poor,
oppressed, and marginalized
─
NOT
police containment. The killing of four Oakland police
officers and Lovelle Mixon on March 21st has brought to the
surface the economic and political crises in our city.
A
solution to this madness and violence has to involve
economic development for the African community and an end to
Oakland's policy of police containment
─
for
starters. The
Uhuru Movement
invites members of the progressive community who are
concerned about generating peace and justice in Oakland to
join this discussion this evening at the Uhuru community
forum. Help develop Oakland into the model city for
shared prosperity and true social justice that Oakland can
really be and which it really is in its grassroots heart!
Speaking this evening will be:Wendy Snyder,
from the
Uhuru
Solidarity Movement,
Bakari
Olatunji,
from the
African
People's Socialist Party,
and
Shanrika
Turney a
local
Uhuru
Movement
organizer.
