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[[2 column page]] [[left column]] ENDANGERED: ART AND PERFORMANCE BY MEN OF COLOR Visiting Video Artist Marlon Riggs Thursday & Friday, October 4 & 5, 8 p.m. ETHNIC NOTIONS (1987, 58:00) COLOR ADJUSTMENT (Work-in-Progress) Saturday & Sunday, October 6 & 7, 8 p.m. TONGUES UNTIED (1989, 55:00) AFFIRMATIONS (1990, 10:15) CONFESSIONS OF A SNAP QUEEN (Excerpts) Video artist Marlon Riggs presents a selection of his most recent works. Each program represents significant strands in Riggs' work to date. Ethnic Notions was a groundbreaking and hugely popular documentary on the stereotyping of African American people since the early 19th Century. Color Adjustment, intended as a sequel to Ethnic Notions, examines the presence of African Americans on television. Riggs will also lecture about the current situation faced by African Americans in the mainstream and more independent media. Tongues Untied takes a more personal approach as Riggs comes to grips with being black and gay. Marlon Riggs is currently a professor of Journalism at the University of California in Berkeley. $5/$3 members. [[image - black/white photograph of Marlon Riggs to right of text]] AFTER WE LOST OUR WAY Poetry Performance by David Mura Thursday, October 18, 8 p.m. David Mura is the author of After We Lost Our Way, which won the National Poetry Series Contest, and A Male Grief: Notes on Pornography and Addiction. His essays have appeared in Partisan Review, Three Penny Review and the Graywolf Annual 5: Multi-Cultural Literacy. Mura lived in Japan from 1985 to 1986 on a United States-Japan Creative Artist Fellowship. His travelogue memoir about that year, Turning Japanese, will be published by Atlantic Monthly Press in 1991. He has won the Discover/The Nation Award, an NEA literature Fellowship, the Loft-McKnight, and two Bush Foundation awards. $8/$6 members. [[image - black/white photograph of David Mura to right of text]] EXILE African Drum Music and Storytelling Innocent Banda and Sowah Mensah Sunday, October 21, 8 p.m. Innocent Banda was born in 1948 in Zimbabwe, and at the age of 13 his family moved to Malawi. Innocent has used his art of storytelling, an art learned from his mother to write many radio plays; his poetry, Transit Poems, and other short stories have been broadcast and published in many countries including the United States. He currently holds an adjunct faculty position at the University of Minnesota. Sowah Mensah, the founder of the ensemble Sankofa, has worked extensively in jazz and experimental improvisation ensembles in the Twin Cities. He teaches African music and drumming at Macalester College, the Unversity of Minnesota, and the University of Wisconsin at River Falls. Mensah is currently completing his graduate work in ethnomusicology at the University of Minnesota. $8/$6 members. [[image - black/white photograph of African man with xylophone type instrument to right of text]] BLUES DUES Music by Craig Harris Friday, October 26, 8 p.m. Craig Harris, composer, trombonist, and leader of Tailgater's Tales, is one of the most innovative and exhilarating musicians performing today. As the Twin Cities Reader puts it, "Harris' trombone is capable of fluid, high wailing... rapid-fire expository flights that defy the instrument's natural lugubriousness, plus big, fat circus licks that Ellington or Mingus would have loved." Harris has performed with Urban Bush Woman, Sun Ra, and Lester Bowie, to name a few. Harris' albums include Aboriginal Affairs, Young Lions, Tributes, Shelter, Blackout in the Square Root of Soul, and Cold Sweat. This program is supported in part by Meet the Composer/Midwest and Arts Midwest Touring Program. $8/$6 members. [[image - black/white photograph of Craig Harris with trombone to right of text]] [[/left column]] [[right column]] INTERMEDIA ARTS MINNESOTA [[line]] 425 Ontario Street SE Minneapolis, MN 55414 [[boxed]] Nonprofit Organization US Postage PAID Mineapolis, MN Permit #155 [[/boxed]] CODE BLUE: New Performance Work by Essex Hemphill with Wayson Jones Thursday & Friday, October 11 & 12, 8 p.m. Saturday, October 13, 9:30 p.m. Essex Hemphill is a poet, performance artist, and publisher of Be Bop Books. Selections of Hemphill's poetry are featured in the film Looking for Langston by British film director Isaac Julian. His performance works include Earth Life, Dear Muthafuckin' Dreams, From the Potomac to the Anacostia, and Brother to Brother: Words from the Heart. Wayson Jones is a composer, musician, and performer. He is a graduate of the University of Maryland where he studied with saxophonist George Etheridge and pianist Ron Elliston. Jones was an original member along with Essex Hemphill and Larry Duckette of the choral poetry trio Cinque. Jones' work also appears in Looking for Langston and Tongues Untied. $8/$6 members. [[image: Black/White photograph of Hemphill and Jones to right of text]] CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN INDIAN MUSIC By Mixashawn Friday & Saturday, October 19 & 20, 8 p.m. Mixashawn is a Mahekanew (Mohegan) Indian and the music keeper of the Pequonawonk Canoe Society, dedicated to the preservation of Native Connecticut River Culture. He also hosts a program called Algonquin Radio at WWUH University of Hartford. His early career as a jazz artist brought Mixashawn international acclaim and gives him a unique perspective on native artforms. Mixashawn has recorded with Bobby McFerrin, Ronald Shannon Jackson and the Decoding Society as well as Afro Alogonquin, of which he is the leader. His music today, however, is that of contemporary Native America. $8/$6 members. [[image - Black/White photograph of Mixashawn to left of text]] IDENTITY Monologue, Drama, and Music by John Mentzos and Pedro Bayon Thursday, October 25, 8 p.m. John Mentzos and Pedro Bayon of the Twin Cities theatre group, Teatro Latino, explore the perspectives of two characters of mixed heritage, a middle class Puerto Rican and a Euro-African American, through music, poetry, monologue, and dialogue. Bobby Dean Tate and a Twin Cities guest musician will provide traditional and contemporary Latin and African American live accompaniment to the performance. $8/$6 members. [[image - Black/White photographs of John Mentzos and Pedro Bayon to left of text]] THE GODS MUST BE PIMPS Essay, poetry, and music by J. Otis Powell Saturday & Sunday, October 27 & 28, 8 p.m. J. Otis Powell is a poet philosopher and media producer. Most of his work deals with progressive living and a jazz philosophy. As with many African American poets, Powell's work is steeped in the oral tradition. The Gods Must Be Pimps promises improvised poetry as well as improvised music focusing on the afro-centric artistic experience. The music group, Avatar, performs with two guests, Donald Washington on reeds and Carei Thomas on piano. The members of Avatar includes J. Otis Powell; altosaxophonist Deborah Owen; trombonist Juan Navarro, Jr.; and percussionist Janis Lane-Ewart. In addition to The Gods Must Be Pimps, Powell will present Séance, Heliograph, and Conundrum. $8/$6 members. [[image - Black/White photograph of J.Otis Powell to left of text]]
