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Alice Walker at Georgia Writers Museum 2023 Retreat

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY! BelovedErnesto “Che” Guevara Serna: June 14th

Earnest and Faithful Copyright 2023 by Alice Walker Weeping I stood close As I could get To your bones In the crypt In Santa Clara Where lacy ferns Inspired by your Revolutionary Gardener soulmate Celia Sanchez Threw Green shadows On the walls. For so long we did not know Where your assassins Buried you. But your brother “Faithful”* Found the desolate hole Beside an airport Runway In a distant country Dug you up And  brought you Home To us. Though they took your healer’s Hands That comforted so ...

Back With the Wind, The Color Purple (The Musical), Christmas 2023

Rebecca Walker, Alice Walker, Scott Sanders, producers Back With the Wind, The Color Purple (The Musical), Christmas 2023.      Photo credit: Vaschelle Andre of Divine Photography

Happy Birthday! May 29th Beloved Robert Allen

Robert Allen, Alice Walker (with magic wand), Rebecca Walker opening night of The Color Purple NYC 1985 Happy Birthday! May 29th Beloved Robert Allen Your love of the moon And of this earth That tree This water running Down a hill The sound of frogs The grass under our feet Warmed by sun – All this … Thank you.~aw

The Wonders of Shondaland!

The Wonders of Shondaland!  Deep bows to Shonda Rhimes. ©2023 by Alice Walker I’ve put off writing about Queen Charlotte, which must be a new iteration of Bridgerton,with which I have not kept up, because like much great art I have loved, it leaves me speechless.  But then I mused, in meditation, how lucky we are to have  art that does this to us!   In any case, Queen Charlotte does that thing great art does: it surprises you. Constantly.  It also doesn’t care one bit about your prejudices and y...

May 16th Happy Birthday! Beloved Adrienne Rich

May 16th Happy Birthday! Beloved Adrienne Rich Who refused To remain asleep In any part Of your life And consciousness. Great woman. Great poet. Thank you. ~aw image 1: Harvard Radcliffe Institute Schlesinger Library Collections image 2: Eamonn McCabe/Popperfoto

May 14th Beloved Jean Weisinger

May 14th Happy Birthday! Beloved Jean Weisinger Master photographer Of so many Brave and beautiful Sisters. Thank you for the  Tangible witnessing (In film) That makes remembrance Delightful And … More possible. ~aw Image source: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

Mothers’ Day 2023 Julia Ward Howe

Mothers’ Day “We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies, our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause. Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy, and patience. We, the women of one country, will be too tender of those of another country to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.” ~Julia Ward Howe Image source: Upstate medical university battlefield medical care

Living The Truth Special Cinema Event Pratibha Parmar and Alice WalkerJune 3 2023

Join us in Sonoma, California on Saturday, June 3, 2023 for the Living The Truth cinema event featuring three films by award-winning filmmaker Pratibha Parmar, and special guest, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Alice Walker. Passes for all three films, which also feature conversations with the artists, are now on sale. This collaboration between Musea Center and the Sonoma International Film Festival will also host a private reception with visiting guests Parmar and Walker. A limited number of Pri...