THE SIP- Urban Broadcast Media Comes to CWT4R

04/07/16 • 119 min

It’s a new look at life from a Black LGBTQ perspective. It’s “THE SIP!” - A weekly two-hour LGBTQ radio talk show that unites four intellectual African-American gay men from diverse occupations and life journeys on a quest to discover and report on everything from world headline news to pop culture. Joining CAN WE TALK FOR REAL cohosts Teresa (Terry Boi) Jackson and Michelle E. Brown are the cohosts of “THE SIP” André Darey, Isaac King, David Dodd and Lenox Magee. They will tell how they came to host the show on Urban Broadcast Media and their vision to develop a show that aspires, according to cohost and executive producer Lenox Magee, to be a “James Baldwin with a pop culture twist.” They hit the ground running with a first show talking about the anti-gay laws in North Carolina and Mississippi.Urban Broadcast Media (UBM) is dedicated to building people, communities and partnerships. How will the cohosts of “THE SIP” shape the vision of UBM with their unique style and perspective? Join us WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 2016 at 8:30PM EST/7:30PM CST as CAN WE TALK FOR REAL finds out “what’s the tea?” with the cohosts of “THE SIP” – Chicago’s own Lenox Magee, David Dodd, Isaac King and André Darey. CAN WE TALK FOR REAL – your award winning Blog radio show.

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Andrea Jenkins: Building Social Change Through a Mashup of Words and Art

Wednesday March 30, 2016 playwright, curator, visual artist, poet, writer, spoken word artist, performer, and trans activist Andrea Jenkins.Jenkin's work is concerned with the interplay of words, mediums and genres that can be mashed together to create a new narrative. She views her work as collage, working primarily with paper and mixed media as a visual form of curation. Taking various images that have been artfully produced for the purpose of consumerism and mixing them with social justice messages and images brings attention to the issues of inequality. Andrea calls South Minneapolis home. She was awarded the Bush Fellowship in recognition of her extraordinary achievement and potential. In addition to the Many Voices and Bush Leadership Fellowships, she was awarded Naked Stages and Verve Grants in 2010. In 2002 she received the Loft Mentor Series Award for Poetry. Since 2006 she has co-curated the Queer Voices series at Intermedia Arts, which is the longest running GLBT reading series in the country. Her work has been published in several newspapers, journals, and anthologies. She holds a B.A. in Human Services, a M.S. in Community Economic Development, and a MFA in Creative Writing from Hamline University. When she’s not lending her skills to almost every area of the Twin Cities art scene, she is the Minneapolis 8th Ward Senior Policy Aid in the office of Councilwoman Elizabeth Glidden.

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