Watching movies, cinematography, photography, learning Final Cut Express and HTML more, traveling, interviewing people, writing, trancedancing with my spirit, meeting people, laughing, live performance, heavy bass and percussion, conga drum lessons... again, spiritual growth and evolution, kindness, generosity, honesty, integrity, justice, nourishment, healing, peace.
Eclectic range including: World Music, Hip Hop, Reggae, R@B, NeoSoul and Old School, the Blues, Jazz, Country, Gospel, Salsa, House, Kwaito, Lingala, all African genres, Afro Peruvian, Raggaeton, Classical. More details to come.
Movies
Independent, Guerilla films, underground, experimental, African (LOVE it all), African American (contemporary and from the independent movements of the last 4 decades), Latin American (Mexican, Brazilian), Asian and Pacific Islander (Bollywood, Chinese, Australian), European (British, Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Bulgarian, Russian...). More specifics with time.
Television
Law and Order, Grey's Anatomy, Food Network, Scrubs, PBS documentaries, Manhattan Neighborhood Network (you never know what might be on!). Anything else? It changes.
Books
Recently have read from: Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya (Caroline Elkins), Narratives: poems in the tradition of black women (Cheryl Clarke), Kikuyu Folktales (Rose Mwangi), Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred (M. Jacqui Alexander); Passion: Discourses on Blackwomen's Creativity (Maud Sulter); Country of My Skull (Antjie Krog); Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology (Barbara Smith); Connecting Medium (Dorothea Smartt); Testimonies of Exile (Abena P.A. Busia); This Bridge Called my Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua); A Burning Hunger: One Family's Struggle Against Apartheid (Linda Schuster); essays on African film theory; various foundation reports' and back issues of The Fader. List changes.
Heroes
Women of the world, freedom fighters, gender warriors, artists, folks who stand up for what they believe in, unconventional people, vocalizers, dreamers, defenders, los indigenos, community organizers, poets, Mau Mau in us all.
Wapinduzi Productions is a multimedia, translocal indigenous African base for the independent creation and distribution of beautiful life-sustaining works in collaboration with FREE spirits committed to attaining justice and maintaining peace.
Founded in 1992 by Kagendo Murungi, Wapinduzi Productions has collaborated with artisits, activists, academics, and thinkers around the world, to program and distribute independent films, plan film festivals and multimedia installations, and organize video production workshops for community organizers.
Wapinduzi (CHANGEMAKERS) has proudly helped claim and cohabit numerous decolonizing healing spaces for the past 15 years.
Who I'd like to meet: Kindred spirits, artists of every type, gorgeous humanity, healers, lovers of beauty, filmmakers, musicians, programmers, poets, collaborators, activists, comedians, editors, cinematographers, writers, photographers, musicians, painters, feminists, experimental video lovers, non-linear thinkers, sometimes heartbroken revolutionaries, beautiful women, men, and folks who don't conform to gender, LGBTSTGNC folks, Africans, producers, adventurers, barterers, curators, customers, teachers, new audiences, translators, transcribers, graphic designers, distributors, prospective funders, old friends, new friends, allies, innovators, only positivity and light.
Cycle de films - Cinéma Le Méliès - Queer Black Art
La Maison Populaire de Montreuil et le Cinéma Le Méliès invitent cette année le peuple qui manque qui proposera et présentera d’octobre 2007 à mai 2008 un panorama de films rares, documentaires, vidéos d'artistes, cinéma d’avant-garde, retraçant une brève histoire du cinéma des corps et des identités, depuis les années 70, des mouvements de libération des femmes et d’affirmation des minorités sexuelles jusqu’au cinéma queer contemporain.
Tongues Untied de Marlon Riggs (1990, 55 min) Free, White and 21 de Howardena Pindell (1980, 12 min) Via New Work de Kagendo Murungi (Wapinduzi Productions) (1995, 10 min)
