W-O-W! I have seen some GREAT art happenings this week! And it isn't even black history month! ;)

I just got back from Carlyle Brown's Fula from America, running another weekend at the Marsh Theater, which is down the street and around the corner from my house. It was EXCELLENT! A very entertaining, well-contextualized, joyful-out-of-despair depiction of one man's journey through West Africa in the early 80s. Unlike many of the relatively recent published accounts of Black Americans experiences in Africa, this one clearly focused on the good stuff while keepin it real with the not-so-good. Thru the 27th - check him out!

Yesterday Juliet and I went to see one of my absolute favorite authors, Edwidge Dandicat, reading from her new book "The Dew Breaker" at one of my absolute favorite bookstores. Edwidge didn't fail to enchant. Her words are lyrical like a soothing song, and hearing her read them is almost meditative. I've already read half the book and I just bought it 24 hours ago! Love her! (Plus, she told me that I looked familiar...so did Jamaica Kincaid. Maybe I have a West Indian twin...)

And finally, I got to check out Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe's one woman show "A Black Girl in Search of Academic Clarity and Inclusion" at Intersection for the Arts, the story of her journey through academic institutions that didn't exactly celebrate her blackness. Edris is hilarious and on-point and sarcastic and super-intelligent and utterly engaging. At the end of the evening, she told us that she'd gone home and done a radical re-write of the show the previous night! Amazing. As my favorite former Mime Trouper, it was a joy to watch her in action onstage again. Thru the 21st - check her out!