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! ! ! ! ! ! ! THE SHORTLIST ! ! ! ! ! ! !
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Greetings Artists & Patrons of the Arts -
1) URBAN GROOVZ @ 22nd STREET JAZZ CAFE f/ANTHONY DAVID & SEED IN BIR
2) VIBES & VERSES presents POETRY NIGHT @ THE ROSE IN MONTGOMERY
3) WYNTON MARSALIS @ THE ALABAMA THEATER IN BIR
4) MOTOWN RECORDS presents "MO' SLAM" @ YIN YANG MUSIC CAFE IN ATL
5) THE LAST POETS @ THE SOUL VEG. IN ATL
SPECIAL NOTE: Visit the Matah Network: http://www.matah.com for on-line
products from Black owned businesses around the country.
FULL MENTAL JACKET is now available at 3 locations in Alabama:
* MAHOGONY BOOKS & GIFTS in the Western Hills Mall in Fairfield
* LITTLE PROFESSOR BOOKS & CAFE, 2717 South 18th Street in Homewood
* ROOTS & WINGS, 1345 Carter Hill Road in Montgomery.
Pick up your copy today!
Full Calendar of on-going & special events coming to The SunSpot Cafe soon!
Visit http://www.geocities.com/maliksun. Thanks for your patience.
Power & Peace,
SUN
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Celebrate Mother's Day with us!
SUNDAY, MAY 14, 2000
URBAN GROOVZ @ 22nd Street Jazz Café
710 South 22nd Street in Birmingham, Alabama
(between 7th Avenue South & University Boulevard)
featuring:
* the return of Atlanta's ANTHONY DAVID with TIME SERVED
- underground neo-soul grooves you can touch and feel
* the dynamic, always animated, reflective poetry of SEED
- SEED is a junior at the U. of Alabama-Huntsville, where he is studying
Psychology. He has made appearances as a poetry slam competitor and
on open mics in Huntsville (Huntsville Jazz & Poetry Society's
Jazz/Poetry Combo), Birmingham (Urban Groovz @ 22nd Street Jazz Cafe),
New York City (world famous NuyoRican Poets Cafe), Newark, E. Orange
(NJ), Atlanta (Righteous Vibes @ The Soul Veg.), Chicago, Washington DC,
Chattanooga, Knoxville, Savannah and Dayton. Seed's poetry merges the
cultural influences of Hip-Hop with relevant issues, both personal and
current. Seed cites the goal of his poetry as "...pursuit to understand
everything that confuses us." Seed will also be a featured performer at the
City Stages' Spoken Word Festival in Birmingham, June 17-19, 2000. To
preview his work, visit http://members.xoom.com/aura222/SEED_DEEZ.html
* Open Mic Poetry Sessions hosted by The Seventh Sun
- auhtor of "Full Mental Jacket" (c. 1999)
* Tokens of appreciation for the first 24 mothers on arrival in
honor of Mother's Day
Doors open at 5:00 PM...Show starts at 6:00 PM
Admission is $7 'til 7PM & $10 afterwards
The kitchen & bar will be open to provide food & beverages.
18 & up to enter...21 & up to drink responsibly.
Artists, patrons of the arts and the curious are welcome.
For more info contact:
The Seventh Sun at 205.806.8030 or Griot_7@hotmail.com
or Roderick Parker at 205.954.9135 or JazzCafe22ndst@hotmail.com
This unique addition to Central Alabama's cultural scene is brought to you
by Synthesis, Inc. & 22nd Street Jazz Café. Synthesis is a non-profit
collective of eclectic minds, unified to foster creativity in
under-represented communities through educational programs, artistic events
and public service...Visit 22nd Street Jazz Café on-line at
http://www.jazzcafe.4ever.cc
For a locator map and directions, click the following link:
http://maps.expedia.com/default.asp?C=33.506823,-86.796877&A=6&O=0,0&L=USA0409&Pr=1&P=33.506823,-86.796877,1,710+22nd+St+S%2C+Birmingham%2C+AL+35233&Title=710+22nd+St+S%2C+Birmingham%2C+AL+35233&L=USA0409
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 2000
Vibes & Verses Poetry Society presents POETRY NIGHT
Open Mic Poetry Readings every 1st and 3rd Wednesday
Doors Open at 8:00 PM
at The Rose Supper Club
954 High Street
Montgomery, AL
This is a FREE event!
Call (334) 263-4275 for More Info
Click the following link for maps and directions:
http://www.expediamaps.com/default.asp?C=32.37184533952166,-86.29177987066956&A=16&OX=0&OY=0&P=32.37184533952166,-86.29177987066956,1,High+St
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The Marsalis Family blesses Birmingham again with their jazz legacy
"FOR DANCERS ONLY"
featuring the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra wtih WYNTON MARSALIS
FRIDAY, MAY 5, 2000 @ 8 PM
@ The Alabama Theatre
1811 Third Avenue North
Downtown Birmingham
This event is a fundraiser benefitting both the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame
and the Birmingham Music Club.
Tickets are on sale now for reserved seating
- $15, $25, $50, $100 & $200.
NOTE: The $200 tickets include - $150 is tax deductable, invitation to
Thursday night's welcoming reception, invitation to Friday night's after
party jam and a CD of the group's performance.
For more info, contact the Birmingham Music Club at 205.252.7548 or
1-877-68-MUSIC. For info on Jazz at Lincoln Center visit
http://www.jazzatlincolncenter.org
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TUESDAY, MAY 9, 2000 - 7:00 to 10:00 PM EST
Motown Records presents "MO' SLAM - A Slam for the Masses"
@ YIN YANG Music Café
64 Third Street
in Midtown Atlanta, GA
THIS IS A FREE EVENT!
This event will feature a poetry slam with some of Atlanta's top poets in
head-to-head competition and an album release party for Motown recording
artist DWAYNE WIGGINS (of "Tony, Toni, Tone" fame.) Dwayne will be signing
copies of his new album and will also be one of the judges for the poetry
slam. The event is FREE and there will be giveaways and door prizes and
such.
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Righteous Vibes Entertainment presents
THE LAST POETS in concert, celebrating their 32-year anniversary.
SATURDAY, MAY 20, 2000
@ The Return to Royalty Ballroom
Soul Vegetarian Restaurant Complex
(Atlanta’s premier vegetarian eatery)
879 Ralph D. Abernathy Boulevard SW
Atlanta, GA (in the West End Community...Ashby St. exit off I-20)
DOORS OPEN AT 8:00 PM, music starts @ 9:00 PM
ADMISSION: $20 in advance, $22 the day of the show
Tickets available at Earwax Records (404-875-5600) & the Royal Crown
Barbershop (404-758-4283)
Along with the changing landscape of the civil rights era came the New York
City spoken word group called The Last Poets, who used obstreperous verse to
chide a nation whose inclination was to maintain the colonial yoke around
the neck of the disenfranchised. The Last Poets are modern-day griots, who
brought together music and the spoken word to express the nation-building
fervor of the Black Panthers in poems written for Black people.
Born on the anniversary of Malcom X's birthday on May 19, 1968 in Marcus
Garvey Park, the Last Poets grew from three poets and a drummer to seven
young Black and Latino artists: David Nelson, Gylan Kain, Abiodun Oyewole,
Felipe Luciano, Umar Bin Hassan, Jalal Nurridin, and Suliamn El Hadi. They
took their name from a poem by South African Poet Willie Kgositsile, who
wrote: "When the moment hatches in time's womb there will be no art
talk...The only poem you will hear will be the spear point pivoted in the
punctured marrow of the villian...Therefore we are the last poets of the
world."
RIGHTEOUS VIBES: MUSIC FOR THE PEOPLE is a monthly experience that explores
various genres of urban culture & host to many local poets, emerging
musicians, hip-hop artists and community members looking for an uplifting,
smoke-free atmosphere. For more info please call (404) 386-9316 or send an
e-mail to RighteousVibes@mindspring.com...
Click the following link for maps:
http://www.expediamaps.com/default.asp?C=33.737963161410725,-84.41558891823048&A=16&OX=0&OY=0&P=33.737963161410725,-84.41558891823048,1,879+Ralph+David+Abernathy+Blvd+SW
Directions from West of Atlanta:
Take I-20 Eastbound to the Ashby Street exit. At the stop sign at the base
of the exit ramp make a left, then a right at the light onto Ashby St. Take
Ashby St. to the next light (Ralph D. Abernathy Blvd.). Turn left onto
Abernathy. Soul Vegetarian Restaurant will be at the intersection of
Abernathy and Dunn across from Goodwill.
The entrance to Righteous Vibes is on Dunn Street under the burgundy canopy.
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A NEW BLACK RENAISSANCE IS EVOLVING THROUGH THE SYNTHESIS
OF ANCIENT ELEMENTS...KEEP YOUR THIRD EYE OPEN FOR UPCOMING EVENTS...
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“WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THE WORLD OWES YOU SOMETHING?”
-Gwendolyn Brooks
“OPPORTUNITY FOLLOWS STRUGGLE. IT FOLLOWS EFFORT. IT FOLLOWS HARD WORK.
IT DOESN’T COME BEFORE.”
-Shelby Steele
FULL MENTAL JACKET (c 1999)
a thought-provoking book of poetry by The Seventh Sun
ON SALE NOW for only $10 at the following locations:
* Mahogany Books & Gifts at Western Hills Mall in Fairfield
* Roots & Wings - A Cultural Bookplace in Montgomery
* Little Professor Books & Cafe in Homewood
For mail orders Visit The SunSpot Cafe on-line at
http://www.geocities.com/maliksun
($10 plus $2 for s/h...$12 as applicable.)
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