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DESCRIPTION:Benefit fundraiser reading for Fire and Ink, a festival for GLBT writers of 
 African descent.\nthree 25 minute readings by Dr. herukhuti, Juba Kalamka 
 and Marvin K. White.\n\nMore on Fire And Ink at 
 http://www.fireandink.org\n\n\nSUGARTRUCK RECORDINGS\nin cooperation with 
 BLACK FUNK\n\nproudly presents\n\nGROWN ASS MEN:\nSoliloquies of Solemnity 
 and Silliness on Sex, Soul and Spirit\n\na BENEFIT for\nFIRE and INK: a 
 Writers Festival for GLBT People of African 
 Descent\nhttp://www.fireandink.org/\n\n\n\nfeaturing readings by\n\nDR. 
 HERUKHUTI\n\nJUBA KALAMKA\n\nMARVIN K. WHITE\n\n\n\nWEDNESDAY MARCH 30 
 7:00PM-9PM\n\nZ CAFE AND BAR\n\n2735 Broadway @ 27th Street, 
 Oakland\n\nhttp://www.zcafeandbar.com/\n\n*light refreshments* *cash 
 bar*\n\nsuggested donation $5-$100 (No one turned away!)\n\nWHEELCHAIR/ADA 
 ACCESSIBLE\n\nemail sugartruck(at)lycos.com for more 
 info\n\n------------------------------------\n\nDr. Herukhuti is a clinical 
 sociologist, cultural studies scholar, performance artist, and traditional 
 African shaman who focuses on sexuality, gender, and spirituality themes 
 within the African Diaspora. He is the founder of the sexuality-themed 
 cultural center, Black Funk: The Center for Culture, Sexuality, and 
 Spirituality, and the author of Conjuring Black Funk: Notes on Culture, 
 Sexuality, and Spirituality, Volume 1. A kink Dom/Daddy, he provides 
 training/education for those interested in Afrocentric, BDSM/queer 
 lifestyles and family 
 structures.\n\n\n\nhttp://www.blackfunk.org/\n\n-----------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nMarvin 
 K. White, author of the Lambda Literary Award-nominated collections of 
 poetry last rights and nothin’ ugly fly, is a poet, performer, 
 playwright, visual artist as well as a community arts organizer. His poetry 
 has been anthologized in The Road Before Us: 100 Black Gay Poets; My 
 Brothers Keeper; Gents, Bad Boys and Barbarians: New Gay Writing; Things 
 Shaped in Passing; Sojourner: Writing in the Age of AIDS; Bum Rush the 
 Page; Role Call; and Think Again, as well as other local and national 
 publications. A former member of the critically acclaimed Pomo Afro Homos, 
 he has led creative arts and writing workshops from inner city elementary 
 schools to youth centers for runaway kids to black gay youth support 
 groups. White holds a fellowship in the national African-American poetry 
 organization, Cave Canem; sits on the board of Fire & Ink, a national black 
 LGBT writers organization; and is co-founder of B/GLAM (Black Gay Letters 
 and Arts Movement), a Bay Area, California, organization whose goal is to 
 preserve, present and incubate black gay artistic 
 expressions.\n\n\n\nhttp://www.redbonepress.com/authors/marvinkwhite.htm\n\n\n\nJuba 
 Kalamka is most recognized as co-founder/producer of "homohop" group Deep 
 Dickollective (D/DC) and for development of the micro-label Sugartruck 
 Recordings. Kalamka's personal work centers on intersectional dialogues on 
 race, identity, gender, disability, sexuality and class in popular media. 
 He has been a speaker,columnist, panelist, and curator for numerous 
 national organizations,publications and conferences, and received a 2005 
 Creating Change Award from the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) 
 for his activist work in queer music community. He served as a co-co chair 
 for Bay Area Bisexual Network (BABN) in 2003 and produced the East Bay 
 Pride sponsored PeaceOUT World Homo Hop Festival from 2002-2007 which was 
 featured in the documentary Pick Up the Mic . His lyrics and essays appear 
 in Working Sex: Sex Workers Write About A Changing Industry ,Total Chaos: 
 The Art And Aesthetics of Hip Hop and The Yale Anthology of Rap .He is a 
 board member of the San Francisco-based Queer Cultural Center (QCC) 
 producers of the National Queer Arts Festival (NQAF). He lives in Oakland, 
 California with his primary partner of eight years, their daughter, a 
 neurotic standard poodle and a lovemongering lesbian cat. He practices 
 polyamory both locally and 
 globally.\n\n\n\nhttp://www.myspace.com/jubakalamka\nhttp://www.soundcloud.com/jubakalamka\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/03/20/18675149.php
SUMMARY:GROWN ASS MEN: A Benefit For Fire and Ink
LOCATION:Z CAFE AND BAR\n2735 Broadway @ 27th Street, Oakland
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/03/20/18675149.php
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