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LYRICAL VIBES

Come journey with us...Shonia, Deardria and Trish will take you there...

Where? Wherever your mind and body want to go.

Shonia Brown, author of "A Deeper Love," Deardria Adri Enne Nesbitt, author of "3 The Hard Way," "Back in the Day," and "Drama" and Trish Carter, author of "Linger," in collaboration with the creative musical talents of Dezz and Vybe Records have created an audio CD that will provide the mood music for both couples and single lovers! The words from their books have been eloquently fused with the music of local Atlanta artist Dezz.

Phyllis Adair Robinson -- Artist, poet, and author of a self published book entitled "Living My Life" the art, words and poems of Phyllis Adair Robinson

 

Carla Williams: Photographer, educator and freelance writer, talks about her work and her new book The Black Female Body: A Photographic History.

     Thelma LearUntitled Self-Portrait, 1984 - 1985Venus, 1994

Hanifah Walidah is an artist amongst the artists. First introduced as Sha-Key with the 1994 Hip Hop LP release "A Headnadda's Journey to Adidi-Skizm" helping dismantle some of the given expectations of women in hip hop. She has since, along with reclaiming her birth name (Hanifah Walidah), developed a vocal and performance style that is rooted in the midnight of blues, the backrooms of house, the silent moments of soul and the unshaken will of hip hop. Where to place her in the musical and performance spectrum may always be up for debate, but where to find her is clearly an inch below the skin and just right of the point.

JUCA (Joy, Understanding, Creativity And Abundance)

Judith Casselberry is the founding member of JUCA, an all women's reggae band, with a rapidly rising reputation for turning out the house!

A unique and powerful group, focusing on reggae with the influences of traditional African, rock, gospel, folk and jazz. We bring voice to the African-American woman's experience pulling from all our roots throughout the African diaspora.
 

Purple Moon Dance Project was founded by Artistic Director, Jill Togawa, to realize a creative vision: integrating non-western & western dance forms & aesthetics, & multidisciplinary collaboration, while consistently exploring the continuum of intimacy for women.

Since 1992, Purple Moon has produced an annual home production in San Francisco, & participated in other performance series, festivals, college events & rituals nationally, including Los Angeles, Honolulu, New Mexico, Michigan and Oregon.  The company has also participated in international events such as the NGO World Forum on Women in Beijing, China, & the Gay Games Cultural Festival in New York.

Lavender Light Gospel Choir:  Founded in 1985, Lavender Light is a mixed chorus (women and men) with 45 members. Although the group encompasses many ethnic and spiritual backgrounds, the choir provides a special ministry to black lesbians and gays, who have historically been pressured by their communities to choose between their blackness and their gayness. (www.lavenderlight.com)

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Newly Released!!  
the amniotic/ flow cd $15.00

Mother-daughter team/bridgforth and perryman have come together to create this 14 track cd that: articulates the experiences of lesbian mother-straight daughter/urban raised southern Spirited Black American wy’mn/growing; blending music and vocal styles-both sung and spoken; innovating a word based music driven jazz/story; using the personal/to articulate and examine the spaces between and connecting autobiography and mythology/memory.

 
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