Bonus Track - Florinda Bryant
Who Yo People Is
Florinda is an interdisciplinary artist, activist and educator that I’ve been art-family with since 1998. Here she talks about tending not only to her art, and her communities, but to her own mental, physical, spiritual health. A Texas gurl who calls Austin home, Florinda has worked with Salvage Vanguard Theater, the Rude Mechs, the Vortex, Paper Chairs, Theater en Bloc and Teatro Vivo in Austin, TX and the Ensemble Theater in Houston.
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Episode 36 - Mankwe Ndosi
Who Yo People Is
Mankwe Ndosi says her people are “fierce makers, re-workers, healers and those the push themselves to make in the uncomfortable places/and populate the uneasy textures and terrains…(they are) connectors who are willing to be compassionately uncomfortable...”
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Episode 35 - Renita Martin
Who Yo People Is
In addition to writing, performing, publishing and producing - Renita is founder of Rhythm Visions Production Company whose mission is to advance social and economic development in our communities through the creation and promotion of world-class art. More at: http://www.whoyopeopleis.com/season-3
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Episode 34 - Aimee K. Bryant
Who Yo People Is
Aimee says "take a leap of faith - move towards what you want, what feels good - even if it is scary.”
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Episode 33 - Sonja Parks
Who Yo People Is
Making certain that the “entire artist” is taken care of and respected.
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Episode 32 - Stacey Karen Robinson
Who Yo People Is
Stacey Karen Robinson "stewarding what is coming through".
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Announcing Season 3
Who Yo People Is
Season 3 of "Who Yo People Is" will be dropping soonsoon...check out more at: https://www.whoyopeopleis.com/season-3
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Episode 31 - End of Season 2/Honoring Diane Rodriguez
Who Yo People Is
Today we honor Diane Rodriguez. Diane transitioned on 4/10/20. May all the Love Beauty & Blessings that she so generously gave the world/carry her in Light with Love. Listen to episode 18/and receive her wisdom/and Glory.
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Episode 30 - Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Who Yo People Is
An academic guided by intellectual practices inspired by Black liberation and Love, Alexis is a 2020-21 National Humanities Center Fellow. She says she is a Marine Mammal Apprentice...one who is carrying on blood line traditions of listening to whales. Alexis says, "one foot in the water one foot in the sand is where I hear the best."
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Episode 29 - Sangodare
Who Yo People Is
Sangodare creates media and art for healing and transformation. Activating energy and vibrational fields to open space for people to be more of who they are, Sangodare makes connections between the vocality of Black preaching styles, and Ifa oriki traditions and tonalities.
info_outline"Who Yo People Is" jingle sanga, episode editor, season 2 producer - my daughter - Sonja Perryman is Guest Host for this episode!! Sonja interviews my wife/her other Mama - Omi Osun Joni L. Jones!!!
Omi talks about growing up in Chicago's Southside suburbs - the youngest in a Black middle class family/raised by folks that migrated from the South - and their protocols. She shares about what initially moved her towards her long term/ongoing connection to Yoruba spiritual practices; she names her gratitude to the Ancestors as a source of Inspiration that she leans into when she is afraid or overwhelmed by her work and goals. And after 40 years of teaching (28 of which was at University of Texas at Austin) Omi speaks about walking with herself post retirement/discovering and activating her work now . . . and her role models for how to be an academic without being connected to (one) institution/which include: Alexis Pauline Gumbs (https://www.alexispauline.com), Celeste Henry.
Omi Osun Joni L. Jones’ work is committed to exploring strategies for promoting healthy communities through personal Joy. She is an artist/scholar/facilitator who employs Black Feminist aesthetics in her performance work, her pedagogy, and her consulting. She has performed at The New Black Fest (NYC), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), and Links Hall (Chicago), and has served as a workplace facilitator with Thousand Currents (Oakland) and NoVo Foundation (NYC). Her scholarship has appeared in The Drama Review, Obsidian, and Theatre Journal as well as solo/black/woman and Blacktino Queer Performance. Her most recent book is Theatrical Jazz: Performance, Àṣẹ, and the Power for the Present Moment (Ohio State University Press). She is Professor Emerita from the African and African Diaspora Studies Department at the University of Texas at Austin.
https://www.theatricaljazzbookparty.com
https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/caaas/faculty/jij2555
Guest Host: Sonja Perryman is a screenwriter, producer, performer, and facilitator, with an MPH from UCLA’s Fielding School of Public Health. She has a passion for telling female-driven, diverse stories that explore socially relevant issues in unexpected ways. Her work includes: Director of Research & Development at Wise Entertainment, where she also served as associate producer on Hulu’s six-time Emmy-nominated television show, East Los High; associate producer on Time 2 Surrender, an award-winning short film written, directed, and starring actor Elvis Nolasco and executive produced by Spike Lee; and season 2 staff writer for the Facebook Watch show, Five Points, executive produced by Kerry Washington. Sonja serves on the board of FYI Films, a non-profit that teaches filmmaking to incarcerated youth, and has been a guest lecturer and keynote speaker at institutions around the country. More at: https://www.whoyopeopleis.com/jingle