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Greetings.

Below is information on the latest production in which I am involved here in New York City. The performance follows six characters whose personal struggles reflect the “color complex” in communities of African descent in America. I am happy to be working with a talented group of creative individuals who will deliver what promises to be a moving and thought-provoking theatrical experience, blending dramatic monologues, spoken word, and dance with film and photography. Be sure to bring a friend as you'll want to have someone with whom to discuss afterwards. Spread the word!

It Goes Unsaid
A dramatic performance piece on the color complex.

Written by Rhonney Greene, Teresa Michelle Lasley and Derek Lee McPhatter
Directed by Ain Rashida Sykes
Bryan E Glover, Producer

June 29 & 30 at 8:00 PM, July 1 at 2:00 PM

The Poet's Den
309 East 108th Street (between 1st & 2nd Avenues)
New York, New York

E-mail ticket reservations to utsboxoffice@gmail.com

Along with her famous husband John, who died in 1967, and the still living legend, Pharoah Sanders, Alice Coltrane helped shape in an essential way my understanding of the relationship between music and spirituality. I know this to be true for many people. We will miss her presence on this plane, but know that her spirit will continue to move us through her music, writings and the rich example that was her life of Spirit. Love and light to her family, and the ashram for which she served as spiritual leader.

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  Alice Coltrane, 69; Performer, Composer of Jazz and New Age Music; Spiritual Leader

Alice Coltrane, the jazz performer and composer who was inextricably linked with the adventurous musical improvisations of her late husband, legendary saxophonist John Coltrane, has died. She was 69. (more)

*(Listening to Alice Coltrane's, "Translinear Light")

What often gets overlooked in discussions regarding politics and social change is that the issues, however mobilizing and polarizing they may be, all have intersections with the personal, and it is in people's daily lives, sometimes the smallest of settings, that these issues have the largest and most powerful impact.

I am happy to be associated with the production of the second run of a play that demonstrates this, A Love Like Damien's. The issue addressed is homophobia and the Black church, and a young man's struggle with acceptance. An interesting script and some strong performances, with elements of dance and humor, as well as wonderful music, this show will leave audiences wonderfully entertained, and with much to think about and discuss.

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When his church wouldn't let him in, that's when Ms. Sophie Divine stepped in to help 'em change all that...

A LOVE LIKE DAMIEN'S
Written by Andrea E. Davis
Directed by Andre Lancaster

Opens at HERE Arts Center on Thurs Nov 9th
145 Sixth Avenue at Spring Street (NYC)
Running Every Thurs, Fri, Sat, & Sun @ 645pm until Dec 3rd!
*no shows Thanksgiving Weekend!

Buy Tix Now! - Tickets selling fast!

Tell your friends, family, church people, and co-workers A Love Like Damien's, the show The New York Blade has called "a high-spirited pay off" and the show POZ Magazine says is "part of a new theater movement," is moving to SoHo in November!

Coming off a successful run with sold out shows at WOW Cafe Theatre and positive press, A Love Like Damien's run has been extended and in turn has a new home at HERE Arts Center.

Featured here previously, Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, has written her autobiography, Unbowed. (BBC story)

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The Green Belt Movement

It has been a long time since I've been back to California. The 49th Annual Monterey Jazz Festival is what brings me here. I flew into Los Angeles on Wednesday, and drove up to Monterey on Thursday. The drive was great. Living on the East Coast for the past 15 years, it was nice to re-view how beautiful California really is, especially once you emerge from the metropoli of Southern Cal. Before going to the festival on Friday night, my cousins and I spent the day driving around Pebble Beach and the Del Monte Forest and Point Lobos State Reserve on the Monterey Peninsula. "Breathtaking" is, in my view, an inacurate word to desrcibe such beauty. For it is more like breathing anew: each time I am in such a place, I sense each breath as an infusion of Spirit, a reminder not only of beauty in the world, but of the beauty of my own being.
To combine such visual beauty with the aural tapestries of jazz for the weekend, is indeed, enjoying the sweetness in life.

(*listening to Alice Coltrane's "Om Supreme" from Eternity)