Sonia Sanchez, Queen Mother of the Black Arts Movement
The Black Arts Movement Poets Choir & Arkestra, University of California, Merced, 2014
BAM Godfathers The Last Poets, Umar bin Hassan and Abiodun
Marvin X and Poet Paradise Jah Love (You love everything about me but me!)
BAM Asian poet Genny Lim, Marshall Trammel on drums in b.g.
Zena Allen on Kora
Queen Tarika Lewis
Black Arts West Theatre, 1966, musician Earl Davis
Black Arts baby 2.0, Aries Jordan, poet
Kalamu Chache'
Katiba Pittman
Linda Johnson, Raynertta Rayzetta, Val Serrart, Tumani
Marvin X and the Black Arts Movement Poets Choir & Arkestra 27 City Tour in honor of Amiri Baraka
Malcolm X Jazz Festival, Oakland
May 17, 2014
Tentative Order of Service, untimed but 60 minute max
As-Salaam Alaikum
Words of meditation Suzzette Celeste
Scene One
Woman on Cell Phone Scene
Order of Scene
Song I don’t know what you came to do….Mechelle LaChaux, Akestra join and Linda Johnson dancers, Poets Choir join with response
I don’t know what you came to do but I came to praise His/Her name:
Jesus
Allah
Jah
Buddah
Marx/Lenin
Elijah
Garvey
Ida b. Wells
Malcolm
Betty
Sojourner
Harriet
Clara Muhammad
Amiri Baraka
Marvin X reads Amiri Baraka poem DOPE
Ayodele Nzinga Woman on Cell Phone
Scene Two
Paradise Jah Love
They Love Everything about you but you poem
Parable of Oscar Grant—Paradise ( optional, depending on time)
Scene 3
Arkestra—Tacuma, Tarika, Earl Davis, Marshall, Zena (Zena solo leads to Marvin X)
Marvin X joins Zena in a duet with Again the Kora poem
Scene 4
Introduce Poets Choir for poem or two
Genny Lim
Ayodele Nzinga
Toreada
Avochja
Aries Jordan
Kalamu Chache’
Umar bin Hasan, optional but desired
Abiodun, optional but desired
Lakiba Pittman
Scene 5
Linda Johnson dancers present
Second Line processional to exit through the audience: Dancers, musicians, poets