The 2012 Cultural World Fair has set the template wonderfully! Let’s do it bigger and better in 2013! A new 2013 Cultural Worlds Fair page will be posted momentarily so stay tuned! Also look out for my new performance group, blog, and newspaper, Planet Oakland! http://www.twitter.com/PlanetOakland, planet_oakland@ yahoo.com, http://www.planetoakland.wordpress.com! Planet Oakland is on the rise! http://youtu.be/Lzrot6aIyMA
Planet Oakland performance group, featuring Paradise and Kola Soljet!
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Peace and blessings family! I am thrilled to announce that:
Paradise’s 2012 Cultural World’s Fair Closing Reception
Tuesday, December 4, 7 to 10pm, at Bec’s Bar & Bistro
2271 Shattuck Avenue, downtown Berkeley
will be held at a CASTLE featuring 10 Kweens & a Mic!
How cool is that, Kweens in a Castle! All my life I’ve
lived in Berkeley and never knew there was a Castle there!
It’s the hidden jewel of the Bay! It has two floors,
including a balcony that overlooks the performance space
and a real live fire place downstairs that’s fired up every nite!
This event is free, donations appreciated!
Paradise
Please check out the new CD when you get a chance
at http://www.trueviberecords.com
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Sunday, November 25, 2012.2:00pm.. A great community gathering in an incredibly beautiful space and place!
Come and meet the record label you will be listening to and performing with and help me celebrate our brand new CD with the best music yet!
JazzFunkHipHoPoetry is what I call my style of performance art and poetry and so far it is the flavor of all three True Vibe Record’s CDs!
…This one promotes black and brown solidarity, women and humanity! I will be performing and we will have a few
special guests in the plush Uptown Apartment Lobby and theater!
Donations, 0 – $10, appreciated and will help pay for the space and promotion of the CD,etc. The CD is available now!
True Vibe Records is Otown’s nu skool Motown! It celebrates diversity in it’s music and has multiethnic, multilingual and multigenerational artists! We expect it to be multiplatinum because it is MultiPhat! Please come and invest in this company
with the music you’ve been waiting for! So fresh and so clean and so Paradise Freejahlove Supreme that the whole family can listen and dance to it! And even and laugh and learn! This is the 3rd Leg of Paradise’s 2012 Cultural World’s Fair!
Must be at the reception, 2pm to 3pm to get into the theater at 3pm!
The program is from 2pm to 5pm! So plan ahead to get your heart and head fed! The Uptown Apartments are located at 500 Williams Street on 20th, between
San Pablo and Telegraph! Cross street Rashida!
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Literacy Pays! A $1000 Winner Takes All Poetry Contest!
We are searching for the best poem, preferably about community. Anyone may participate and send in as many poems as you want. Donations $20 per poem to support the SF Bay View and Paradise’s 2012 Cultural World’s Fair.
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Send poems to each of these email addresses:
pdise18@yahoo.com
oaklandworldsfair@yahoo.com
editor@sfbayview.com
For donations: sfbayview.com/support:
Click on the Donate button to support the Bay View’s work. If you prefer, call us at (415) 671-0789 to make a credit card donation by phone. Or mail your donation to SF Bay View, 4917 Third St., San Francisco CA 94124-2309.
Mary Ratcliff
SF Bay View
(415) 671-0789
http://www.sfbayview.com/ see calender below for MAAFA info! 
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The Second Leg of Paradise’s 2012 Cultural World’s Fair & Buy Black Wednesdays present: SPEAK UP! A poetry, creative writing and speaking workshop! This event will be a (GUARANTEE!) turning point in your life, as Master Poet & Performance Artist Supreme, Paradise Freejahlove shares with you the best of his knowledge, experience and expertise in the arts and the world gleaned from decades of phenomenal work (!).
The workshop will be followed by A Master Poet’s Theater, featuring 10 Kweens & a Mic! and Paradise performing theatrical pieces of Muhammad Ali, Cyrano deBergerac and The Occupy Movement with a cameo by Barack Obama! Also featured will Dr. Ellen Foster-Randle (Our own modern day and local Leontyne Price!) who sings and lectures on the music from Afrika that started it all, the Negro Spirituals! And jazz maestro, Rudi M. Wongozi, fresh from a triumphant four year stint in New York, will be in the building annointing the joint with his incredible music!
Workshop 3 to 6pm, sliding scale (Normally $75, but no one turned away for lack of funds, donations submitted anonymously in envelopes and includes free entrance to the performance). Poetry reading and performances 6 to 8pm, free. This will be a truly special day!
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It’s here! It’s finally here after all these years! Paradise’s 2012 Cultural World’s Fair begins Sunday, July 22, 3pm, at Tease Me Boutique, 1701 University Avenue in Berkeley, California and ends at the same venue and time on Paradise Day, October 7! If you have an event that you would like to include in our summer World’s Fair itinerary of events please let me know as soon as possible and if you give me a short feature at your event I will bring the World’s Fair and my World’s Fair crew to your venue (WE PUT VENUES ON THE MAP)! At the reception there will be live music, poetry, spoken word, theater, food, drink and refreshments at the reception – a Bay Area Family Reunion for Poets & Artists of the Last 40 Years! Free! Donations appreciated!Featuring vocalist MeChelle LaChaux
Rudi Mwongozi from New York City, Declareit! (Hip Hop Gospel)
Augustus Lee Collins & M-Pulse, Dr. Ellen Foster Randle (sings spirituals)
Rasheedah Sabreen, Tacuma King (Drum Master Percussionist), Artist Malik Seneferu will be doing live art!
Poets: Tres Santos, James Cagney, Charles Curtis Blackwell, Abdul Kenyatta, ISIS the Goddess of Poetry, Karen Mims, Toni B, Upesi Mtambuzi, Alexis Hall, Liz Holland, Sol Writa, TONGO, Deborah James & Sexxxy Luv!
10 Kweens & a Mic! & More!
This is it! Sound the alarm! 50 (000) years in the making! 300 people expected locally and 300,000 worldwide via internet! This is the Cultural and Spiritual Olympics! A gathering of Tribes! A shift of consciousness! For more info:
Email Paradise: pdise18@yahoo.com or facebook: Paradise Freejahlove @ www.facebook.com/paradisespoetrycafe, www.twitter.com/freejahlove, www.buyblackwednesdays.com,
http://www.youtube.com/user/JohariFarajaNiara
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Other events:
Sunday, June 10, 3:30 to 6:30pm, book party for Isis, the Goddess of Poetry, at Tease Me Boutique, 1701 University Avenue. Free, door prizes, refershments. Also featuring Sexxxy Luvvv, Rasheedah and Paradise!
Wednesday, June 13, 11am – 3pm, Buy Black Wednesday Ujamaa Party at Coffee with a Beat, 484 Perkins Street, Oakland.
Friday, June 15-17, San Francisco Black Film Festival
Saturday, June 16, Juneteenth Richmond featuring George Clinton!
Saturday, June 16, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Phat Beets Produce and the New North Oakland Farmers’ MarketsJuneteenth Celebration, 942 Stanford, Oakland @ New North Oakland Farmers Market and commercial kitchen
Tuesday, June 19, 6:30 – 9:30pm, Kinships “Big Black Trivia Night”, Olufe Restaurant & Bar, 2022 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland
Sunday, June 24, Juneteenth Berkeley
Sunday, June 24, 2pm, Stern Grove Festival featuring Anita Baker and The Family Stone!
June 30 to July 4th, Marin County Fair in San Rafael
Sunday, July 1st, 7pm, Sister Makinya’s 86th Bearthday Celebration at Lake Merritt Park, Oakland
Wednesday, July 4, 12 – 7pm, Jamerican Annual 4th of July Outing, San Joaquin Miller Park, CA FREE! I don’t use the term “picnic” because of where it originated!
Saturday and Sunday, July 7 and 8, Fillmore Jazz Festival, San Francisco!
Saturday, July 7, 5 to 9pm, Annual BEAST CRAWL! 150 Poets Invade Uptown Oakland bars, clubs and business establishments to do poetry!
Sunday July 8, 2012 2-4 p.m., Rhythm & Muse Poetry Series Reunion @Annie’s Hall, 1613 Derby St., Berkeley, CA 94702
Friday, July 13, 5 to 8pm, Rockridge Summer Jazz & Wine Stroll, on College between Broadway & Alcatraz, “A Taste of Rockridge”.
Saturday, July 14, 12 – 2pm, Writers on Writing, hosted by Kim McMillian and Woman’s National Book Association, Rockridge Library, 5366 College Avenue, Oakland! Reception and book signing. FREE!
Satuday, July 14, 2 – 4pm, Turning a Train of Thought Upside Down: An Anthology of Womem’s Poetry, featuring, Nina Serrano, Lucille Lang Day, Tobey Kaplan, Eliza Shefler, Jan Steckel and others at Lake View Branch library, FREE!.
Sunday, July 22, 3pm, Paradise’s World’s Fair Opening Reception, Tease Me Boutique, 1701 University Avenue, Berkeley!
Monday, July 23, president Barack Obama in Oakland campaigning! Stay tuned for details!!!
Friday, July 27, Oakland Public Schools Reunion Party (All Alumni Welcome), Freemont Highs class of 1992, 20th Reunion, Kimball’s Carnival, 2nd street, Oakland
Saturday, July 28, Gilroy Garlic Festival, $32, 916-420-4167
Sunday, July 29, 7pm, The Watts Prophets, ashkenaz, 1317 San Pablo, $22
Sunday, July 29, San Francisco Marathon
Saturday, August 4, 10 am till ?, KPFA Yard Sale, in KPFA Parking Lot, I will be performing at 12:45pm, FREE! MLK/Berkeley Way entrance…
Saturday, August 4, 4 to 5pm, David Glover presents his one man show: Old Happens! “And if you think I’m lying just keep breathing!” Linen Life Gallery, 770 International BLVD, San Leandro. 800-746-4027 for reservations.
Saturday, August 4, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm, AfroSolo’s 11th Annual Jazz in the Gardens program features Kash Killion and the Killion Trillions and the Destiny Muhammad Trio. Yerba Buena Gardens on the Esplanade Level, San Francisco CA
Between 3rd/4th & Howard/Mission Street. This is a FREE outdoor program. No tickets or reservations needed.
Saturday and Sunday, August 4 and 5, Art & Soul Festival, Oakland!
Sunday, August 5, Oakland Museum Free Entry every first Sunday!!!!
Tuesday, August 7, International Nite Out, 5pm, Cheroke and 98th Avenue, Oakland
Friday, August 10, 7pm, Frankie Beverly & Maze, Patti Labelle, Babyface, Ojays, Sleep Train Pavillion, Concord
Friday thru Sunday, August 10-12, 12pm, STEVIE WONDER, Golden Gate Park Outside Lands Festival San Francisco, CA, $225 for all three days
Sunday, August 12, 2pm, Stern Grove, San Francisco, Al Jarreau and The George Duke Trio
Mondays, 7pm Poetry Express @ Priya Indian Cuisine, 2072 San Pablo Avenue
(near University Ave.), Berkeley, CA
Saturday, August 18, 11am to 3pm, Bay View Hunter’s Point back to School Celebration, Bay View Opera House, 4705 3rd Street, SF, 3000 free back backs given away along with other schools supplies! FREE! http://www.bayviewmagic.org
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Saturday, August 18, 3 to 8pm, J Posh, 3824 Telegraph Avenue in Oakland, Paradise’s 2012 Cultural World’s Fair & Buy Black Wednesdays present: SPEAK UP! A poetry, creative writing and speaking workshop. Followed by The Master Poet’s Theater, an open mic poetry reading featuring 10 Kweens & a Mic and Paradise performing theatrical pieces of Muhammad Ali, Cyrano deBergerac and The Occupy Movement with a cameo by Barack Obama! Workshop 3 to 6pm, $75 sliding scale, poetry reading 6 to 8pm, free.
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Saturday, August 25, 8pm, Paramount Theater, Oakland
http://www.sfjazz.org/30th-anniversary-san-francisco-jazz-festival
August: Downtown Berkeley Jazz Festival! More info coming!
COME ENJOY A FREE DANCE PERFORMANCE IN UNION SQUARE THIS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29!!Come to Union Square, in San Francisco, 333 Post, at 6 PM to catch the main performance. We’ll be honoring MJ and his music for his birthday!
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Sunday, October 7, 6am, MAAFA Commemoration of the Ancestars, Great Ocean Beach, San Francisco, followed by Paradise Day celebration!
SAVE NUBIA FUNDRAISER WITH MANU AMPIM & PARADISE
| A fundraiser to support urgent field research in Sudan.Paradise will be a featured performer at this event!
The classical African civilizations of ancient Kush and Nubia are in jeopardy of being permanently flooded by a series of dams along the Nile River in northern and central Sudan. Time is limited for PROF. MANU AMPIM and his research team to document the remaining archaeological evidence before the flooding begins. The mission will require $50,000 to complete and help convince UNESCO to begin protection of the sites. |
Saturday/Sunday, October 13/14, Treasure Island Music Festival, Public Enemy, The Coup, scores of others! treasureislandfestival.com
Wednesdays, 12 to 1pm, Summer Sounds Free Concerts in Oakland City Center Plaza
More posts, announcements and World’s Fair events coming soon! All aboard the Black Star Soul Train Line!!!
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This event is in honor of and dedicated to our beloved Bay Area ancestar artists Joy Holland, Dennis Cutten, Reginald Lockett, Kamau Seitu, Khalil Shaheed, Kevin Moore (my brother from the Timex Social Club – “Rumors), Edna Crutchfiend (Founder of IBWA), Yahosheanna, Casper Banjo, Chauncey Bailey, Edsel Matthews and Gil Scott-Heron.
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