MARVIN X!!! Congratulations! ... you have been selected to receive the Full Vision Arts Foundation's 2011 Inspired Artist Award for your sincere passion for the sustainability of the arts and entertainment industry and as a supporter of the Bay Area Black Comedy Competition and Festival. This year is the BABCCF's 25th Anniversary and it is our honor to recognize you - our dear BABCCF friend. Please mark your calendar for Saturday, May 14th to attend the Inspired Artist Awards Gala Awards Reception which will be held at the Paramount Theatre on the beautiful Mezzanine Level. You and your guest will be our special guests for the evening. Special individual tickets will be on sale soon online for both the VIP Reception and Final Competition. The VIP reception will begin at 5pm and we ask that upon arrival to use the Broadway entrance. Following the VIP reception, you and your guest will also be recognized on stage during the Final Competition. Over the past eight (8) years, since the inception of the Inspired Artist Awards, we have honored over 60 friends of the BABCCF, FVAF and of our beloved Bay Area community. We invite you to join the roster of honorees, from business and community leaders, industry professionals to artists and entertainers to include: D'Wayne Wiggins, Tony Toni Tone, Geoffrey Pete, Geoffrey's Inner Circle/Oakland Black Caucus; Aaron Goodwin, Goodwin Sports Management; Daryle Whyte, 100 Black Men of the Bay Area/First Fridays; Barbara Becnel, Neighborhood House of North Richmond House/leading advocate for Stanley Tookie Williams; Pastor Raymond Lankford of Healthy Oakland, actor William L. Johnson; Michael Wilson, Basquiat Vineyards; Bob Sumner, Def Comedy Jam, Hip Hop spoken word artist artist Ise Lyfe, Comedian/actor Don Reed and others who have all demonstrated their commitment and support of urban comedy, performing arts and entertainment. Upon confirmation, please register online you and your one (1) guest to be our guests for the evening, at http://isahonorees2011.eventbrite.com. More details will be forthcoming along with information for your guests to purchase tickets to attend the VIP reception and main event FINAL COMPETITION. In the interim, please send your abbreviated bio and a high resolution photo in a jpeg format by March 30th to aid in our promotional announcements. We are so excited to have you as a partner. Questions, please please please feel free to email me. As always we appreciate you our a BABCCF friend and excited to celebrate this pivotal year with you! Thanks a million and will talk to you soon. LaNiece Jones Awards Gala Producer Inspired Artist Awards 2011 |
Marvin X on Award
Friends, the award is nice but Baraka told me to only accept "rewards" as that is the money! lol
Seriously, we are thankful for this recognition. It contradicts the thinking of my friends who have told me, "Marvin you will be rich and famous the day you die!"
Saturday, March 19, 3-6pm, please bring ten of your friends to Bay Area Black Authors event honoring Woman's History Month at the Joyce Gordon Gallery. It will be an afternoon of poetry, drama and dialogue by the most powerful women artists in the Bay Area and the world. Ayodele Nzinga, Phavia Kujichagulia, Tureada Mikell, Mechelle LaChaux, Jerri Lange are simply the very best the Bay Area has produced. Aries Jordan and Jasmin Conner are the next generation of conscious artists. The event is free but donations accepted. Refreshments served. Support local artists, especially authors. The Post Newspaper Group purchased books from 13 local writers for donation to Juvenile Hall. On Thursday, authors will accompany Center of Hope's Rev. Brondon Reems on a visit to Juvenile Hall and deliver books to the youth.
Please attend Saturday's event and purchase your book basket. BABA and PNG are calling for a National Prisoner Book Day to bring awareness to literacy and the need for literature among the 2.4 million incarcerated Americans, especially North American African inmates. We would like May 20 declared NPBD since it is a day after Malcolm X's birthday, the man most known for transforming his life by reading in prison.
On Friday at Academy of da Corner, while we were rehearsing on the street for the March 19th event, a brother came by who told poet/actresses Aries Jordon (performing a scene from Vagina Monologues) and Jasmin Conner (performing a scene from For Colored Girls) and myself that he read one of my books while serving time at Santa Rita Jail. He said the Bookmobile only comes by once a month, so he wanted to read something relevant, not trash. He was very honored to meet me and tell me he'd read one of my books in jail.
Hope to see you on Saturday. Our February 19th event was packed, some come early, seating is limited.
Joyce Gordon Gallery
406 14th Street
Downtown Oakland
406 14th Street
Downtown Oakland
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