Black Bay Area Soundscapes with Wendy M. Thompson and Dawn-Elissa Fischer

Black Bay Area Soundscapes with Wendy M. Thompson and Dawn-Elissa Fischer

Come join us for an unforgettable evening of poetry and music as poet/scholar Wendy M. Thompson and filmmaker/scholar Dawn-Elissa Fischer take us on a sonic journey through time and place in the Black Bay Area. Get ready to immerse yourself in the rich musical history of the Second Great Migration west and the making of the California Bay Area, a simultaneously globalized and localized region where black sound is root, mood, and political call and response; and the borrowed language of shifting urbanity, suburban sprawl, and progressive multiculturalism permeate what it means to call the Bay Area home.

This in-person event will include a reading of Wendy M. Thompson's debut poetry book Black California Gold.

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