The Kitchen Sisters: House/Full Of Black Women — Chapter 1

SHOW: Art Addressing Life

Thirty-four Black women from the Bay Area are addressing issues facing their community with a mix of theater, dance and ritual. It’s the final chapter of a House/Full Of Black Women, a special episode from the Kitchen Sisters. Plus, a poem about self-forgiveness.

Kitchen Sisters: House/Full Of Black Women — Chapter 2

It's the final chapter of a House/Full Of Black Women, a special episode from the Kitchen Sisters. It explores the question: how can black people dream, if they cannot sleep?

Bay Poets: 'Decomposing Mystic' by poet Danni Blackman

Danni Blackman is a multi-disciplined artist who’s visual artist name is Decomposing Mystic. Here, she reads her poem by the same name.

The Kitchen Sisters: House/Full Of Black Women — Chapter 1

From 2015 to 2023, 34 Black women from the Bay Area — gathered monthly around a big dining room table in Oakland. They were artists, scholars, midwives, nurses, an architect, an ice cream maker, a theater director, a choreographer, musicians, a donut maker, educators, sex trafficking abolitionists and survivors. Together, they used theater, dance, and ritual to address issues plaguing their community.  Today, we take a seat at their table in part one of this special two part story from our friends at the Kitchen Sisters.

SHOW: Goalball Goals, And a Modern Shakespearean Scandal

Today, we hear about a sport for blind athletes that relies on only hearing and touch to play. Emboldening athletes on and off the court with goalball. Then, a local playwright questions if Shakespeare actually wrote the literature credited to him. Plus, a Bay Area Author reads from his new YA novel.