Tentative Program: Black Arts Movement 50th Anniversary Celebration at Oakland's Laney College,Feb 7, 2015

 The BAM 50th Anniversary honors Ancestor Amiri Baraka who called for the BAM 27 City Tour. "I hear Baraka saying, 'How come you didn't do it, Marvin?'"




 The Black Arts Movement Poet's Choir & Arkestra at University of California, Merced, Feb/Mar, 2014




Marvin X and Danny Glover were students at San Francisco State University. Danny performed at Marvin X's Black Arts West Theatre on Fillmore Street, San Francisco, 1966

 Former Black Panther Party Chairwoman Elaine Brown, Marvin X and Mama Ayanna of the Malcolm X Grassroots Organization





Tentative Program of the 50th Anniversary of the Black Arts Movement--focus will be on Black Arts West--the Bay Area contribution to the Black Arts Movement.

10AM--Black Arts Movement Physical Wellness Boot Camp, facilitated by Michael Bennett's
Wellness Team from the YMCA, HP/Bayview

12 Noon--Book Fair--authors speak, music

2pm--Open Mike Poetry/Speak Out

2pm--BAM and Black Women Writers Panel

4pm BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT/Black Power  BABIES PANEL

6PM RECEPTION IN THE ART GALLERY: EXHIBIT OF SAN QUENTIN PRISON ART and Bay Area Visual Artists

7PM Laney College Theatre: Marvin X's classic Flowers for the Trashman

8pm Black Arts Movement Poet's Choir & Arkestra with special guests

Sponsors: Laney College, Post News Group, Black Caucus of California Community Colleges, YMCA, HP/Bayview, Black Think Tank, Black Bird Press, KPOO Radio, Davey D and Greg Bridges of KPFA Radio, LaNiece Jones Associates