When: Thursday, December 3rd. 12:15 – 1 PM
Who: Tammy Hall, Piano & Ron Belcher, Bass
Where: Berkeley Public Library – Art and Music Room, 5th Floor. 2090 Kittredge Street
URL: berkeleypubliclibrary.org
Dark River: An Opera By Mary D. Watkins
Posted in Culture, Events on October 23, 2009 by skyeviewtraveler
Skyeview: Mary D. Watkins is my s-hero–important work!
November 12-24, 2009
Oakland Metro Operahouse - 630 3rd Street Oakland, 510.763.1146
CONDUCTED BY DEIRDRE McCLURE
DIRECTED BY DARRYL V. JONES
THE OPERA
Mary Watkins’ new opera, Dark River, tells the history of the SNCC (Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee) and the biography of Fannie Lou Hamer, a central figure of the early to mid sixties Civil Rights Movement. Ms. Hamer was a prominant organizer in Mississippi and the South, and an important symbol of the grass roots civil rights struggle/movement which became an important turning point for African Americans in US history. She is perhaps best known for the quote: “I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired.” Ms Hamer’s character portrays both the ugliness of the period and the resiliency of the human spirit. She is a sharecropper, illiterate, with little formal education; in many ways the product of a system engineered to exploit her. Her story is important for various reasons on both a local and national level. The opera will present a revealing portrait, not only of the titular character, but the regional South, SNCC (Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee) and other activist movements, and the shaping effect that the summer of 1964 had on the history of our country.
The Great Liberation Upon Hearing
Posted in Uncategorized on October 23, 2009 by skyeviewtraveler
Skyeview: I was thrilled to attend the premier in 2008. Marvelous!
November 13-22, 2009
Dance Brigade presents
The Great Liberation Upon Hearing
Nov 13-22: Thurs, Fri, Sat @ 8 pm, Sun @ 7 pm
Laney College Theater, 900 Fallon (btw 8th and 10th), Oakland
Tickets: $17-$20 in advance, $23 day of show *
Info line: 415-273-4633
Available online at www.brownpapertickets.com
Once again the Dance Brigade takes us on an incredible journey presenting the Great Liberation Upon Hearing, a multi-media dance drama based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Artistic director, Krissy Keefer along with choreographic contributor Sara Shelton Mann, create a compelling piece of theater engaging the audience emotionally and intellectually, capturing the profound meaning of the enlightened manuscript. A translucent visual component depicts the luminous images transforming the tangible, reavealing the intangible. In these trying times the passage to hope is in our rebirth.
Forwarded from Black Voices
Posted in Culture, Gallery on October 14, 2009 by skyeviewtravelerBlackface 2009 : Lara Stone in French Vogue
For its October issue, which is dedicated to supermodels, French Vogue features Lara Stone painted in what has been widely called contemporary blackface:
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Paris International Lesbian Film Festival
Posted in Events, Global Sisterhood on October 9, 2009 by skyeviewtraveler
October 29-November 1
SCREENINGS
This year’s selection is exceptional, with 32 screenings: 18 at the Trianon, for a total of 57 different films and 14 at the Halle St Pierre, for a total of 18 different films, plus the films screened twice, for ladies with busy schedules (or who are too late to get tixkets to the first screening). We really outdid ourselves this year, working overtime just for you! So here’s some advice, straight from a programmer’s mouth, to share with your friends: don’t miss Ghosted, the opening-night film… or any of the wonderful, emotion-filled feature films we were lucky enough to get this year: Mein freund aus Faro, Drool, Hannah Free, at the Trianon every night at 8. And rain or shine, you have to see Rain, ô Rain ! on Saturday at 3 p.m! [edit for brevity]
THEMES
The three Trianon Nights are worth staying up late for!! A soirée butch-fem (en français: butch-femme), a soirée Q (in French, Q = sex), and a soirée SM (you get the picture, right?) and the cherry on the cake Monday at 3 p.m. at the Trianon… it’ all good!
Friday 30 at 12:30 p.m.:
at The Halle St Pierre
Bagdam : 20 years of a lesbian space in Toulouse
Sunday 31 at 12:00 p.m.:
at The Halle St Pierre
French Cinema and Homosexuality
Sunday 31 at 17:30 p.m.:
at The Halle St Pierre
Black Feminism
Monday 2 at 17:00 p.m.:
at The Trianon
Skyeview Cineffable Archives
21st Festival Opening Night Concert 2009
Posted in Events, Global Sisterhood on October 9, 2009 by skyeviewtraveler
Noam Chomsky: ‘Obama, the Middle East, and the Prospects for Peace’
Posted in Events on September 24, 2009 by skyeviewtraveler
Middle East Children’s Alliance Presents
Saturday October 03
7:30 AM – 9:30 AM
The Paramount Theatre
2025 Broadway
Oakland, CA 94612
510-893-2300
Around Town: Pat “Lady Guitar” Wilder
Posted in Events on September 22, 2009 by skyeviewtraveler
Upcoming Performances
Friday, September 25th, 2009
Sausilito Cruising Club
Boat party - open at 6pm -
Pat Wilder & Serious Business – 8pm to 11pm
300 Napa Street – Sausilito, Ca.
Cover, casual and dinning
Saturday, October 3, 2009
The Space
2111 Franklin Street
Oakland, CA
Tel: 444-2266
Pat Wilder, Mary Watkins and Lisa Cohen (Ooo, wee what a show this will be!)
Support Live Music!
Dispatch #30 – Oshun’s Grace
Posted in Gallery, Travelogues on September 22, 2009 by skyeviewtravelerMadrid, Spain
A welcome and pleasant discovery during my walkabout under the New Moon on 9/18.
Bonus Link
Oshun the Orisha of Love (video)
Around Town: Lake Chalet
Posted in Events on September 22, 2009 by skyeviewtraveler
EastBayExpress Restaurant Review
By Matthew Stafford
Lake Chalet, the latest high-profile restaurant to open in the burgeoning, rejuvenating city of Oakland, has set out to do for Lake Merritt what its sister establishment, the Beach Chalet in San Francisco, has done for the Pacific Ocean: showcase it as the central motif of a grand yet congenial dining experience. In Lake Chalet’s case this meant converting a hundred-year-old boathouse into a handsome Mission Revival getaway with an outdoor deck, an open kitchen, two fireplaces, adjacent dining rooms extending over the water, and romantic panoramas of the light-bedecked lake itself, complete with working quay and an honest-to-God Venetian gondolier. The result: an enchanting, convivial dining destination where you can take in the swell and the sailboats over a beaker of suds and a platter of kumamotos while the grill sizzles, the ice tinkles, and the moon rises over the water. (read article)
