Smack Dab featuring mali at MagnetSmack Dab open mic featuring mali {Ernest Andrews} hosted by Larry-bob Roberts and Dana Hopkins Wednesday, March 19, 8pm, open mic signup starts at 7:30 Our monthly open mic night, Smack Dab, is all ages, all genders, all the time, and free. If you'd like to perform at the open mic, please come beginning at 7:30pm and bring five minutes of whatever you want to share. Musicians: one song. Prose writers: that's about two and a half double spaced pages of prose. We're the friendliest open mic you'll find but we pay attention to time. Our March 19 feature is mali {Ernest Andrews}. [Photo by Mel Peters, courtesy of Ernest Andrews.] Bio: Ernest Andrews, mali as he prefers to be called today, spent his early years studying and performing on the east coast with such groups as THE NEW FEDERAL THEATRE, THE NEGRO ESEMBLE, THE LA MA MA THEATRE and VOICES INC. he was a featured singer/actor on W.N.Y.C. RADIO for 11 years. he also studied and performed with the following dance companys, THE EUGENE JAMES DANCE CO., THE FREDI ORANGE DANCE CO., CHUCK DAVIS DANCE CO and N.Y. CITYWIDE DANCE THEATRE. mali has taught dance at CASTELTON STATE COLLEGE VT, on the streets of Brooklyn and Harlem for NEW YORK CITY'S ART PROJECT and BISHOP COLLEGE DALLAS TX. mali spent the first 27 years of his life aspiring and working in the theatre as a performer,costume/ set designer and doll clothes maker. it has a led up to him being able to combine his HIV/AIDS prevention efforts with his theatre experience. he is one of the true pioneers in HIV/AIDS organizing. he began his work in AIDS education as director of the UCSF AIDS Health Project's Youth Prevention program. he helped establish the HIV/AIDS Prevention Clinic at Larkin Street Youth Center. he also was the first HIV prevention counselor to be housed in the San Francisco STD Clinic on 7th Street. as the first chairperson in the Forensic AIDS Task Force, he designed and conducted AIDS education workshops for inmates at the San Bruno and San Francisco City Jail. he also designed and created AIDS educational posters for state and local prisons and probation services in San Francisco and the East Bay. in 1988 mali co created the first theatre project addressing AIDS in the black community, the play is called BLACK PEOPLE GET AIDS TOO he produced and assisted in the artistic and educational direction of the project. this was a collaboration with the BAYVIEW HUNTER'S POINT FOUNDATION AND THE LORRAINE HANSBERRY THEATRE. in 1991 mali and intombi found the black gay and lesbian theatre ensemble SWEET POTATA he founded or co-founded a number of trailblazing organizations, i.e. The Multicultural AIDS Resource Center, The National Minority AIDS Council, The San Francisco Black Coalition on AIDS. he established the Alameda County African American AIDS Coalition with the help of Don George, Alameda County Supervisor, and Dr. John Petersen. mali says "I have done many things and received many awards as well as rewards for my efforts. the following stand out for me GETTING LEGALLY GETTING MARRIED, POETRY DUET WITH ESSEX HEMPHLLL, HAVING MAYOR FRANK JORDAN PROCLAIM JUNE 22ND 1995 ERNEST ANDREWS DAY, PERFORMING FOR SIMON NKOLI AND BEV DITSIE RECEIVING THE MARLON RIGGS ACHIEVEMENT AWARD, PERFORMING WITH BLACKBERRI AT BLATINO OASIS and being a 27 year aids survivor. mali's poetry has been featured in WHAZZUP MAGAZINE,ARISE SBC as well
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Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Reminder: Smack Dab featuring mali at Magnet @ Wed Mar 19, 2014 8pm - 10pm (Queer Things)
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