Brothers at Marvin X's Academy of da Corner, Lakeshore Ave., Oakland 11/24/18

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Brothers rapping at Academy of da Corner, Lakeshore Ave., Oakland 11/24/18

This Saturday was sunny, clear sky after rain that cleansed the air of smoke from Camp Fire. Paradise destroyed. Pray for Paradise. No masks necessary today. Brothers gathered for the Saturday session at Academy of da Corner, Lakeshore Ave., Oakland.

Music by Jimmy Smith fired up the community, people danced. Randy said he just sat in his car listening to the Smith blasting the Hammond B3 organ. One young lady did a pole dance. When Master Teacher Marvin X changed the music to Oldies But Goodies, Randy demanded he switch the music back to Jimmy Smith. Then Davey D arrived, Academy of da Corner manhood trainee. D wanted to know if there had been any crooning going on. Marvin told him he just missed us crooning to Oldies but Goodies, i.e., Al Young, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, et al. D was asked to identity the Hammond B3 music. He went into a long lecture on how he's had to get familiar with all genres of ethnic music, including regional Mexican music for his DJ gigs. Randy said, "Are you through now?" D never answered the question if he knew Jimmy Smith was on the organ. 

Gene Hazzard engaged Randy in a long conversation on Oakland politics. Gene is Oakland's inimitable whistle blower on City politicians who violate ethic laws, exposing such perennial corrupt businessmen as Paul Tagami who has secured numerable City properties and projects for little or nothing, such as Frank Ogawa Plaza, Fox Theatre and the Oakland Army Base. 

Gene told Randy and us that Mayoral candidate Cat Brooks should go for the city council next time. The mayor has no power under the city charter. Marvin X concurred with Gene. He informed Cat after she lost the election to incumbent Libby Schaaf, she might get on the city council. He told her, "Ras Baraka tried three times before he won as Mayor of Newark, recently reelected in a landslide." 

--Marvin X

Academy of da Corner Lakeshore

Oakland CA

11/24/18

Marvin X on Tour

Marvin X reading at University of Chicago Sun Ra Conference, 2015
photo Burrell Sunrise

December 4
San Francisco State University, Davey D's Hip Hop Class, 4pm
December 5
Reading at the Beat Museum, with other anti-capitalist poets from anthology by same name, Columbus and Broadway, North Beach, San Francisco
December 15
Reading from Notes of Artistic Freedom Fighter Marvin X, Charles Wright Museum, Detroit, Michigan
Saturday, 2-4pm.

January 2019
Brothers Network brings Marvin X to Philly for reading and book signing. Musical genius Elliott Bey will
provide sounds to accompany his beloved Master Teacher.
TBA
February 2019
BAMFEST Oakland, Dr. Ayodele Nzinga Producer
Marvin X, BAM Co-founder
Senior Consultant

In Concert: Marvin X reading from his dramatic works
TBA
Salaam, Huey Newton, Salaam
Woman on Cell Phone
Fictional interview with President Obama
Driving Miss Libby
Parable of a Real Woman
Parable of the Heart
Parable of Black Man and Block Man
Parable of the Parrot
Parable of the Rat
Parable of Joy and Happiness
Note: Marvin X will exhibit his archives as a founding member of the National Black Arts Movement, the most
radical literary and artistic movement in American history.

Late 2019
Austin, Texas
Marvin X reading, accompanied by the Sun Ra Arkestra on the 400th Anniversary of Africans arriving in the Americas as captured Africans in the American Slave System (Ed Howard term, Oakland).

Now booking for lecture/dramatic readings

Contact Marvin X:
send letter of invitation to:
jmarvinx@yahoo.com
www.blackbirdpressnews.blogspot.com

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