I like most of america voted for change. As we remain hopeful some of us have re-charged re-focused and re-fueled our hearts and minds. No longer can we as a people say the word can’t…out new mantra is YES WE CAN..and we did; at the poles, in the mail, on the street, with our pocket books, with our actions….we made this happen. I’m so happy I can’t think straight…with that said my mind is on all the wrong things….like…
There will be black people making love in the white house
Hair grease in the white house
Corn bread and fried chicken
Cornrows and braids
A black family lounging in the white house
Black music being played in the white house
but most importantly….a black woman is helping her black man run the country…I’m dancing the rest of the week away in tribute to our victory.
I ask you the readers…what are you now inspired to do?
These Obama supporter talk about what they are doing to prepare for the future. A short by Luna Han an unp and coming film maker who lives in Oakland by way of Brooklyn…we are so lucky to have her in the community. It has inspired me to create a short film that will ask “what would you if you were the first black president” send in the comments to that question asap. If you will allow me to record it on film all the better. Speak Now…while we still can freely!!!!
Offered at: First Congregational Church, 27th and Harrison St.., Oakland, CA
October 18: Who Am I: Naming Ourselves through our Ancestor Lineage 9AM -Noon
In this workshop we will look at the various ways that naming occurs
in indigeneous traditions and explore the various names each of the
participants has walked with. Each person will create a praise poem or prayer for your
ancestral lineage through the process of naming. Wear comfortable clothing;
bring a notebook, pen and information you have about your ancestors (the names
they went by, what they were known for, their occupations, their triumphs and
their challenges.) $30.00Presented by Iya Fakayode, a faculty member of the School of Ancient Mysteries/Sacred Arts Center in Oakland, California.
October 18: Cultivating Kinship – Finding Your Ancestral Allies1-4PM
From the crossroads to the river, the mountaintop to the ocean’s depths, your Ancestors are waiting to support you in your life.Come engage in an inner dialogue to discover who travels with you.Transform whispers into potent words as you allow the voice of an Ancestor to come forth and be heard by you.Come and cultivate kinship with your Ancestral Allies as What is Remembered Lives!$30.00
Please:Bring something to represent you on the Altar during the workshop.
Bring things to help you be comfortable (a pillow, favorite doll, water, etc.)
Bring paper and pencil/pen
Dress comfortably.
Another Special worshop not to be missed……..I’m going to do this workshop!!!
October 25th and 26th, What is Remembered Lives!, Ancestor 101 & 102 will be taught by Uzuri Amini at 2115 Myrtle Street, Oakland, CA from 10 am until 4 pm on Saturday and 9am until 4pm on Sunday.This weekend intensive provides basic information for beginners interested in Yoruba Ancestor practices. Workshop participants will learn how to: make an Ancestor shrine, connect with their Ancestors, find and decorate a staff to represent their Ancestors, share stories, sing, plus much, much more.On Sunday participants will participate in Ile Orunmila Oshun’s annual visit to the ceremony to honor our Ancestors.
Both workshops presented by Uzuri Amini who is an initiated priest of Oshun, the Yoruba deity of love, art, sensuality, sexuality, fertility and creativity.She was initiated in 1989 in Oshogbo, Nigeria. She is also a ceremonialist, creative artist, and word warrior published in the anthologies The Goddess Celebrates, Earthwalking Skydancers & A Waist is a Terrible Thing to Mind. She is also a faculty member of the School of Ancient Mysteries/Sacred Arts Center in Oakland, California.
Ms. Amini travels around the country and the world presenting her workshops about the Ifa tradition of West Africa, sacred sexuality, and how to put “power” in your writing. She is also a faculty member of the School of Ancient Mysteries/Sacred Arts Center in Oakland, California.
Take advantage of the 2 for 1 Workshop fee.Register now as spaces are limited.For more information and workshop fee please call 510.467-7295.
Saturday, November 1st at 7PM Ile Orunmila Oshun presents its 13th Annual Festival of the Bones celebrating the Ancestral season at the The Oakland Center for Spiritual Living, 5000 Clarewood Drive, Oakland, CA 94618
Festival of the Bones honors the contributions of our collective ancestors and celebrates the beauty of life.We share in the gifts of the world’s spiritual traditions including African, Native American, Hawaiian, and Middle Eastern.
Representatives from these traditions will share their stories, songs, and dances. This Festival is interactive village theatre.Participants will experience transformative acts such as invoking the spirits of their ancestors, telling their stories, and placing them on the Tree of Life.
In the month of October Ile Orunmila Oshun offers a series of workshops in various aspects of ancestor reverence such as altar building, trance dance, ceremonial clothing and creating sacred objects. Attendance at these workshops will enhance understanding of ancestral traditions and provide participants with personal rituals that can be incorporated into their lives everyday.
Kindred spirits, women, men and children of all ages and spiritual paths are welcomed.
This is a drug, alcohol and hate free zone.
Suggested donation: Adults $18 or multiples of 9 Children 12 & under 99 cents – $$9
No one turned away for lack of money. Come to the Festival and become a part of a growing Bay Area Tradition. I will be performing at this event….don’t miss a chance to see me in action
The Oyin (honey) Artist Salon starts officially Oct. 22nd at 8pm and will continue every 4th Weds from now on. Bring your poetry, art, songs and stories to tell. Potluck stylee. 2115 Myrtle St Oakland. email interest at bushmag1@juno.com
PRISONS Four Shows Only! Friday 8pm, Saturday 2:30pm and 8:00pm and Sunday 5:00pm, October 17th, 18th and 19th 2008. $15 adv / $18 door.
At The Black Repertory Theater 3201 Adeline St, Berkeley, CA 94703.
OAKLAND, Calif. – 30 September 2008 – Shanique S. Scott is pleased to announce her one-woman drama/comedic theatrical piece entitled “PRISONS”. “PRISONS” is an autobiographical story about Scott’s life growing up in the Bronx, New York City. The story focuses on three main influences in her childhood life. The first influence is home, where there was violence, poverty and substance abuse. The second is the New York City public school system where she was passed along from grade to grade having never passed a city-wide reading or math test. And lastly, religion, where there were major contradictions between teachings of love, compassion, fear and punishment.
“PRISONS” is the story of a young girl holding on to her hopes and dreams of a better life in contrast to her experience of chaos, despair and loss that surrounds her world. When she is finally successful in manifesting a different experience, she is faced with a decision of whether to let her past become a “PRISON” or taking a risk for something new.
“PRISONS” will be performed at The Black Repertory Theater 3201 Adeline St, Berkeley, CA 94703. Four Shows Only! Friday 8pm, Saturday 2:30pm and 8:00pm and Sunday 5:00pm, October 17th, 18th and 19th 2008. $15 adv / $18 door. This project is supported by Theater Bay Area CA$H and The Zellerbach Family Foundation.
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Shanique S. Scott has performed in several venues and festivals, including AFRO SOLO theater festival (2004 and 2005), the San Francisco theater festival (2006), and the Hip Hop Theater Festival (2007) in Berkeley. She has also performed in upscale comedy clubs such as New York Comedy Club, Stand Up New York Comedy Club, and The Punch Line in San Francisco. She has also performed in high schools, prisons, group homes and halfway houses. “PRISONS” was premiered at The Jon Sims Center for the Performing Arts in San Francisco and The La Peña Cultural Center in Berkeley (2006). Her most recent successful performance was as Pecola Breedlove in Toni Morrison’s “THE BLUEST EYE” AT THE Lorraine Hannsberry Theater in SanFrancisco, CA. Shanique has a Masters Degree in Theater and Women’s Studies.
Mangos With Chili Queer Borderlands Tour 2008 Kicks off in SF ! Mangos with Chili, the floating cabaret of queer and trans people of color bliss, dreams, sweat, sweets & nightmares, is pleased to announce the Bay Area kick off of our 2008 Queer Borderlands Tour.
Launching on Columbus Day weekend in resistance to the legacy of imperialism and colonization reflected by the commemoration of the holiday, Mangos with Chili will present two evenings of unforgettable and history-making performance in both San Francisco and Oakland. The show will feature new work in the genres of dance, vaudeville, poetry, spoken word, theater, burlesque, performance memoir, and hip hop addressing the themes of border transgressions, migrations, deportations, relocation, displacement, legacy and the struggle to create new worlds, and in celebration of queer lives, stories, and the legacies we are creating for future generations of queer and trans people of color.
Hosted by history making burlesque sensation SIMONE DE LA GETTO! with an all star hottie lineup featuring:
VIXEN NOIR presenting her multi-media mix of erotic performance art
CHICA BOOM the notorious Chicana burlesque starlet
QWO-LI DRISKILL the celebrated first nations two spirit poet
NAR boy-girl Arab hip hop duo
NICO DACUMOS mixed Chicano/Filipino performance memoir maker
TRE VASQUEZ two spirit rappero from the borderlands of arizonaztlan
ZULEIKHA MAHMOOD Afghan writer and zine maker
MS. CHERRY GALLETE and her showgurlesque cabaret dance fusions
LEAH LAKSHMI PIEPZNA-SAMARASINHA the femme powerhouse spoken word wonder
(Oakland show was this past Monday) SF SHOW INFO:
Friday, October 10, 2008, 8:00pm
Mama Calizo’s Voice Factory Theater
1519 Mission St. (at Van Ness) , San Francisco, CA
$10-$15 sliding, no one turned away for lack of funds. I’m going to this…anyone wanna carpool over and have thai food afterwards????
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2008's Pride was a blast.
For me personally it was so good
I had to write about it. Please be encourged
to share your pride experienced in the bay or beyond.
((((s.o.t.s.))))
Hand under shirt
hand down pants
fingering
finding wetness, hardness
deliciousness on her fingertips
she rides
rides the hand that goddess made
rounding hip motions....dancing into bliss
fingering
finding her magic
making her singggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg
making her moan and shout to the moon
causing obsinities to burst from her lips
squeezing her tight, engulfed in the ride
passersby look on
they cheer us on
head thrown back, howling at the princess
begging and pleading for more
recieving it all, taking it in
suddering in the dark
music blaring in the distance and yet hearing you wisper
sucking on your tounge, your lips, your neck
flipping the script and finding your love
already drenched in hot sticky magic
finding the center, you make me move slow
your ride, so different from my mine
you take the longway home
you prefer the glide into this ride
and your thick thighs straddled across my leg
allowing me to hold you
touching your nipples and pulling your hair
fingering you deep in the sweetnight air
your face burried into my neck
your noises quite and disscrete
but your movements are as loud as can be
your back twisting , bucking
shaking and bubbling with glee
rocking your hips
feet off the ground
your body convulsing and then collapsing into mine
how much happier could a pride be
fucking in public
has become
REVOLUTIONARY
#1 Haven’t we been bombarded with all the media coverage centered around people who are getting married now. Notice how none of them are people of color. What does that say about our relationship to that particular institution. Bush Mag believes there should be equal rights for everyone. What every straight couples can do gay couples should be able to do. So my pulse is reaching out directly to couples in our community..what does the ability to marry mean to you?
#2 Is this marriage decision based on economics…if you crunch the numbers I think so. Last night most of the coverage was on city hall and the volunteers who are helping the couples get hitched and the commentators who spent a lot of time breaking down just how much California will make on marriage license fees. Companies related to marriage are celebrating like its Christmas due to the orders for cakes, photos, invitations and so on. I think people care less what our goal for equal rights are when there is money to be made……to make a point and an economic impact don’t fall for the hype and don’t buy into all the crap surrounding a traditional marriage and see how quick all this celebration goes right back to hate mongering and protesting trying to change the law back…stay tuned this discussion has just started!!!!
There will be black people making love in the white house
