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The Schomburg Center's Black Comic Book Festival returns for its twelfth year! The event features networking opportunities for up-and-coming comic book creators, artist conversations, cosplay, and a Black comics trivia challenge. The festival's executive producer Kadiatou Tubman joins us alongside author and visual artist Roye Okupe to preview this year's programming. We also take your calls about your favorite Black comics and characters.
Chinatown Records 華埠錄音 is a project from DJ, cultural organizer and oral historian Rochelle Hoi-Yiu Kwan, aka YiuYiu 瑶瑶. What began with the inheritance of her father's records and tapes has grown into a collection that spans the 1920s to the 2000s as well as various community engagement projects. Through Chinatown Records 華埠錄音, Kwan leads listening parties and oral history sessions, and storytelling projects with Think!Chinatown. As All Of It continues to invite listeners to engage with music history and oral storytelling through the Public Song Project, Kwan stops by to discuss how she approaches her work, and take calls from listeners.
Following a shining ascendance within the UK jazz scene as a member of the acclaimed bands Sons of Kemet and The Comet Is Coming, last year Shabaka decided to put down the saxophone, the instrument on which he'd earned his fame, in favor of the flute. His new album, Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace, is his first LP since making the pivot. He joins us live in the studio to perform.
I'm a thousand different people—Every one is real is a new exhibition from the Leslie Lohman Museum of Art in Soho. Through various media and representational styles, this series aims to highlight the multidimensionality of the LGBTQ+ experience. Curator Stamatina Gregory, and artists Angela Dufresne and Carlos Motta join us to discuss the exhibition.
*This episode is guest-hosted by Kousha Navidar.