Wanda's Picks

We open with the Dreams, as in Dream Girls opening at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco, AUG 24, 2010 through SEPT 26: SYESHA MERCADO (Deena Jones), ADRIENNE WARREN (Lorrell Robinson), MARGARET HOFFMAN (Michelle Morris; u/s Deena). Visit www.shnsf.com; Guests honored this year at the free event: "Celebrating the Seventh Annual Negro Spirituals Heritage Day, Sunday, AUG 22, 2 PM at the SF Main Library, Koret Auditorium in San Francisco include radio guests: Deeann D. Mathews, a gifted composer, author & entrepreneur, Bryant B. Bolling, an exceptionally talented vocalist and lecturer; Wanda J. Ravernell, an extraordinary writer and the founder and Creative Director of The Omnira Projects; and Rev. Ann Jefferson, a Pastor of Worship and Liturgy and a Negro Spirituals expert. Co-founder of Friends of Negro Spirituals, Lyvonne Chrisman also joins us. Guests: Cephus "Uncle Bobby" Johnson; Jack Bryson, father of two young men on the BART platform with Oscar Grant; two of his best friends, Citizen Marty Payne,