While the US government signs an executive order to literally disappear houseless comeUnities from cities across the Nation houseless bodies - A powerful new movie is created by houseless/formerly houseless artists, cultural workers, poets and survivors that tells the stories of the people he is trying to disappear.
Benefit Showings of the Trailer (more dates to come):
6pm Saturday, BlackAugust 2nd Swim Gallery 509 Ellis Street, San Francisco, Ca
8pm Thursday, BlackAugust 7th - Outside at East 12th Street and 16th ave Huchiun (oakland) - the site of one of the most violent “sweeps” of one of the largest street comeUnities in Oakland
8pm Thursday BlackAugust 28th at the corner of 61st and Adeline (Self-Help Hunger Program)
Spins a Classic Hip Hop set and tribute to marcus garvey
Aug 11 @7pm
International Hip Hop artist Jahi, in the spirit of John Amos' one many play Halley's Comet, has created a tribute to Marcus Garvey in three acts. Garvey, who organized the largest group of Black people in the United States, still reigns in the spirit of the red, black and green flag, and his message about global Black Unity. This play is a tribute to Garvey using word, power, sound and the colors of the flag he created in 1929 to inspire, activate, and remind Black people who and whose they are.
Saltwater Moonshine is Alie Jones’ debut poetry book and a choreopoem that honors her matrilineal Creole heritage through poetry, music, and reflections of love. Utilizing movement, color, and spoken word poetry to honor her brilliant ancestry. Her family migrated from Ville Platte, Louisiana to East Palo Alto in the California Bay Area. We don’t always talk about what we lost, what we found, who we became, and what remains.
