Exhibit Marvin X Opens with Lecture by Ayodele Nzinga, MA, MFA

Saturday, February 4th, 7-10pm


Ayodele Nzinga, MA, MFA, will discuss her thirty year artistic relationship with Marvin X. Ayodele directed Marvin X's 1981 production In the Name of Love at Laney College. She also directed his One Day in the Life, 1996-2001, the longest running Black drama in Northern California. Ayo is founder, producer and director of West Oakland's Lower Bottom Playaz.


As a student and associate of Marvin X, Ayo has suffered his "ordeal by fire" but will confess he has made her a better artist and woman. Although she has said he is the most misogynistic man in the world, she must confess he is known to surround himself with some of the most powerful women artist/activists in the Bay Area.
Phavia Kujichagulia


Last March he produced Women's History Month at the Joyce Gordon Gallery (Joyce Gordon is a powerful woman herself). The event titled Mythology of Love, A Womanhood Rite of Passage, included Ayo, Hunia Bradley, Phavia Kujichagulia, Tureada Mikell, Jerri Lange, Michelle LaChaux, Taliba, Aries Jordon, et al.


Jerri Lange

Dr. Julia Hare


Hunia









Alona Clifton




Revolutionary artist, Elizabeth Cattlett Mora

Ayo is well able to discuss the poet's personal and artistic life. Aside from the work of Marvin X, Ayo has produced the plays of Shakespeare, Opal Palmer Adisa, August Wilson and her own.

Exhibit Marvin X officially opens Saturday, Feb 4, 7pm, 1222 Dwight Way, Berkeley, off San Pablo Ave. Call 510-575-2225. Donation Adults: $20.00, Seniors/students $10.00, no one turned away but reservations only, space limited.
Marvin's Muse, Fahizah Alim



With his favorite musician,
Tarika Lewis

















Exhibit Marvin X Lecture Series continues

Saturday, February 11th

Dr. J. Vern Cromartie

will deliver a paper on Marvin X's brief tenure at University of California, Berkeley. He was a student of Marvin X's at Laney College, 1981. Dr. Cromartie, a poet, is Chair of the Sociology Department at Contra Costa College, Richmond CA.

Saturday, February 18th

Dr. Oba T'Shaka

San Francisco State University Professor emeritus, Dr. Oba T'Shaka, and community organizer, Norman Brown, will discuss Marvin X's mentor, the Honorable John Douimbia. The John Douimbia papers are part of Exhibit Marvin X.

Norman K. Brown










Saturday, February, 25th



Marvin X will read from his selected writings, along with Aries Jordan and Toya Carter. Mechelle LaChaux will perform Marvin X's Woman on the Cell Phone.




Poets Toya Carter, Marvin X and Aries Jordan perform at memorial
for Geronimo Ji Jaga at Defermery Park.