{"id":4,"date":"2005-08-24T14:13:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-24T21:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cirne.com\/vlogNew\/?p=4"},"modified":"2022-12-13T16:23:19","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T23:23:19","slug":"afrosolo-arts-festival-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cirne.com\/vlog\/2005\/08\/24\/afrosolo-arts-festival-12\/","title":{"rendered":"AfroSolo Arts Festival 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cirne.com\/vlog\/script\/vlog.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\" id=\"divAfroSolo12\">\n\t<span onclick=\"playVlog('divAfroSolo12', 'http:\/\/cirne.com\/vlog\/media\/Enric-AfroSoloFestival12961.mov');\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cirne.com\/vlog\/uploaded_images\/AfroSolo12-320-724416.jpg\" alt=\"AfroSolo Arts Festival 12\" border=\"0\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><script> <\/script><noscript><a href=\"http:\/\/cirne.com\/vlog\/media\/Enric-AfroSoloFestival12961.mov\" rel=\"enclosure\">Watch Movie<\/a><\/noscript><br \/>\n\t<script>document.writeln(\"<a href='javascript: playVlog(&quot;divAfroSolo12&quot;, &quot;http:\/\/cirne.com\/vlog\/media\/Enric-AfroSoloFestival12961.mov&quot;);' style='font-size: 12px' rel='enclosure'>Watch Movie<\/a>\");<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>On Friday, August 12th I went to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afrosolo.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Afro Arts Festival<\/a> in the Fillmore district of San Francisco. I shot video of the space, interviews and introductions by the artistic director, Thomas Robert Simpson. Unfortunately I did not get approval to shoot the performances which were o exceptional and overall thrilling.<\/p>\n<p>The artists were: Lawrence Beamen, a baritone singer who sang spirituals focusing on the works of Paul Robeson. The extraordinary soprano Rachelle Perry-Ward who sang from Mozart&#8217;s &#8220;Don Giovanni&#8221;, Bizet&#8217;s &#8220;Carmen&#8221;, Leoncavallo&#8217;s &#8220;Pagliacci&#8221; and Verdi&#8217;s &#8220;Aida.&#8221; Mia Paschal performed a section from her one woman show, &#8220;some life&#8221;, on going to a barbecue in the Potrero Hill district of San Francisco. Shanique S. Scott performed her piece, &#8220;Prisons&#8221;, on a woman attaining personal freedom. And Robert Henry Johnson performed his &#8220;Othello Papers&#8221;, a fascinating combination of five Shakespearian characters interacting in the present day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch Movie On Friday, August 12th I went to the Afro Arts Festival in the Fillmore district of San Francisco. I shot video of the space, interviews and introductions by the artistic director, Thomas Robert Simpson. Unfortunately I did not &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/cirne.com\/vlog\/2005\/08\/24\/afrosolo-arts-festival-12\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cirne.com\/vlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cirne.com\/vlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cirne.com\/vlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cirne.com\/vlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cirne.com\/vlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/cirne.com\/vlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515,"href":"http:\/\/cirne.com\/vlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cirne.com\/vlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cirne.com\/vlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cirne.com\/vlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}