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Queen Dee on a final dream of flight Denise Wooten on crazy((NPM2017 # 8) August Wilson and Fe… on The American Century Cycle platonegro on shoestrings chelleechauxnuff – United States – I do Inter-disciplinary Performing Arts such as Theater, mixed media works, found object collage, palm shard mask making and photo journalism, all while vocalizing all genres of music.I also grow plants and rag-up denim clothing into new designs. I love the oceans, Black cats , Black dogs and good food! chelleechauxnuff on shoestrings
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Cotton and the Lynching Tree Gang
Advertisements there was a gang of them holding us down we were no match for such fierce cruelty we fought back best we could but they had friends in high places with last words to say we had … Continue reading
The American Century Cycle
Advertisements I am often asked why August Wilson? Why did I decide to direct the American Century Cycle? I am producing the America’s greatest playwright’s seminal work in its entirety. I will be the first director to do so in … Continue reading
Posted in August Wilson, Black Arts, Life., non fiction essay, North American African Perspective, work in progress
Tagged #black theater, art as medicine, august wilson, ayodele wordslanger nzinga, BAM, complex trauma, Fences, gem of the ocean, gentrification, joe turner has come and gone, Ma Rainey, North American African Perspective, Seven Guitars, The Century Cycle, the ground on which I stand, the lower bottom playaz, theater, warrior art, West Oakland, work in progress
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Phenomenology
Advertisements it is not your imagination its reality invisible unspoken really real for black & brown bodies housed in bruised lives it is an immutable truth bearing down ruthlessly on a harsh reality measured by any standard its not an … Continue reading
The Death of Innocence
Advertisements the innocence that wrote love poems and captured beauty like life could be kept fire-flied in a bottle fled slowly/ leaving pragmatism on the dresser in a shade of clouded jade there is little to say of love or … Continue reading
Posted in Black Arts, North American African Perspective, Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged blk arts, narrative poetry, warrior art, wordslanger
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Where are my weapons
Advertisements sitting in the middle of disarranged diminishing potential having passed torches hard to see so it seems light is fading life burns as fast as clips empty in drive bys I wait on the future to deliver what I … Continue reading
razor
Advertisements razor blue steel glow like the moon in the dark of night i call it cotton cuz it comes out when the rubber leave the road then cotton runs the show the moment they act like they dont see … Continue reading
Cotton
Advertisements I inherited a legacy cotton is my inheritance cotton chain gangs& songs about chariots chariots chain gangs & cotton joe turner came and never left he over yo shoulder cotton on his breath my memory of cotton is older … Continue reading
idenity
Advertisements tempered, forged, amalgamated solid containing an internal logic no predicable ambient point not likely to melt in benign circumstance likely to reassemble in its original pattern coalesced from remnants stubborn essential parts determining a whole complete with its own … Continue reading
Human
Advertisements this is my body as god made me in the image of man human hued like the dirt we all come from complete perfect divine skin bones dreams interrupted intercepted impeded pressed into the service of others pressed like … Continue reading
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Tagged #blackboys, #ellison2014, #invisible narrative, BAM, lyrical poetry, spokenword, struggle songs, warrior art, wordslanger
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BAM: The Movement That Moved the World
Advertisements The sixties, a time of social upheaval punctuated by the struggle of North American Africans to create Black political and social institutions, that advanced Black values, and promoted Black collective interest birthed, an affirmation, “Black is Beautiful”. It was … Continue reading
