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Music heals!!!   ¡La musica cura!                                                                                                            

Keep it on BEBOP, CUBOP & THE MUSICAL TRUTH w/Avotcja (pronounced Avacha)

every Tuesday 8PM-10PM on www.KPFA-FM.org or 94.1FM Berkeley, CA. If Jazz or Latin Jazz
is your thing please hang out with me. I'm a confessed Music fanatic & I’m asking you to 
join me on my journey. It's never right without you. It's Fund Drive time again & one more
time I’m asking for your help to keep the 1st & oldest non-commercial Radio Station in the
world alive . Times are rough & we need your help to pull us over the edge. Please become a
new subscriber, or renew your subscription & support Jazz & Latin Jazz. I’ll be bringing the
fire of Musical medicine to conjure your support. I’m depending on you & I know that together
we can do it. So please spread the word & we will make this Marathon successful! 
That’s Tuesdays from 8PM to 10PM where it’s all about Jazz, Latin Jazz & you & you & you.
Bright Moments

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“Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.”   Carl Sandburg                                                                          
 

SUNDAY MAY 26th
THE MUSIC OF THE WORD   (LA PALABRA MUSICAL)
featuring

DEVORAH MAJOR & JABEZ W. CHURCHILL
join us the 2nd & 4th Sunday of every Month
THE MUSIC OF THE WORD   (LA PALABRA MUSICAL)
still in English, Spanish, Spangliish y Lo Que Sea
3:30 – 5:30PM No Cover
hosted by Avotcja
(Donations accepted & don’t forget to bring your Congas,
 Guiros, Maracas, Panderetas etc.
ALWAYS THE WORD FESTIVAL TO REMEMBER!
@
CASA LATINA
(TAQUERIA, BAKERY & CAFÉ)
1805 San Pablo Avenue @ Delaware
(3 BLOCKS NORTH OF UNIVERSITY/2 BLOCKS WEST OF NO. BERKELEY BART)
Berkeley, CA 94702 (510)558-7177
Sunday May 26th
DEVORAH MAJOR (S.F. Poet Laureate Emeritus)
&
JABEZ W. CHURCHILL (Payador)
¡Vengan todos & tell everyone to tell everyone!

www.Avotcja.org or LaVerdadMusical@yahoo.com


“Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.”  Haitian Proverb                    

Saturday June 1st
THE BLACK ALLIANCE FOR JUST IMMIGRATION
in conjunction with
INSOLIDARITY
presents
RISING UP FOR HAITI
with
members of AVOTCJA & MODÚPUE
(The Bay Area Blues Society’s Jazz Group of the Year
2005 & 2010)
Avotcja-Poetry/Small Multi-Percussion
EUGENE WARREN-Bass
Speakers & much more
SATURDAY JUNE 1st
6PM - 8PM@
EASTSIDE ARTS ALLIANCE
2277 International Blvd (near 23rd Avenue)
Oakland, CA 94606
Admission $15 - $25 sliding Scale
There will be a 30 minute Open Mic session for Poets & Spoken Mic Artists

(admission for performing Artists $5)
WHEEL CHAIR ACCESSIBLE
Info: (510) 533-6629 or (510)663-2254

www.blackalliance.org



“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”
Poet Maya Angelou

Sunday June 2nd
SANKOFA EVENTS
presents
a film by SHOLA LYNCH
In Oakland the city where Angela Davis has made such a phenomenal herstorical impact!
with
performances by
AVOTCJA-Poet
KYMBERLY JACKSON-Flute
@
THE NEW PARKWAY THEATER
474 – 24th Street @ Telegraph
Oakland, CA 94533
3PM   SUNDAY JUNE 2nd
(510)658-7900
GET YOUR TICKETS ASAP! http://www.tugg.com/events/4017
Donations for Critical Resistance are being accepted at: https://npo1.networkforgood.org/Donate/Donate.aspx?npoSubscriptionId=3045

This show will SELL OUT
but look forward to further screenings

visit:  www.sankofaevents.com 


¡Dime con quien andas y te diré quien eres!                                                                                         
                                                                  Tell me who you walk with & I’ll tell you who you are!

Sunday September 15th
THE PETALUMA POETRY WALK
featuring the word magic
of
JUDY GRAHN & AVOTCJA
@
COPPERFIELD’S BOOKS
140 Kentucky Street @ Washington
Petaluma, CA 94952  info: (707)762-0563
3PM   FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Wheel Chair Accessible

www.geri-digiorno.petaluma360.com
If Poetry & Creativity is your thing,
this is where you're going to be
you don't want miss this one!!!  Be there!



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