WELCOME TO
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EPISTLES OF LOVE
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Abierto Media Fund
is pleased to announce Lois Moses, writer/director of EPISTLES OF LOVE: THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO EDGAR & CLARA , as first the recipient of support from the Fund. |
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And They Jumped Into The Water...Some
While trekking through “The Middle Passage”, enslaved Africans are confronted with a perplexing choice, demonstrating some freedoms require great sacrifice.
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Optik Allusions Short Film Festival! Come discover our out-of-the-ordinary line up of intersectional short films from all over Oakland and all over the world!
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WORKS IN PROGRESS...
EPISTLES OF LOVE: The Gospels According to Edgar & Clara
This work-in-progress is based on a series of letters exchanged between Edgar Wilson and Clara Moses-Wilson from 1936 to 1939. Through their exchange, we bear witness to the complex intersections of race, health, economics, and the impact that WWI, the Spanish Flu Pandemic, the Great Depression, and the Great Migration had on the lives, love, and marriage of African Americans.
Camp Zachary Taylor - 2nd Lt. Stephen Edward Moses, "Grandpop" Letter to his father, August 1918 - Read by Grand Daughter Lois A. Moses
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Letters from the Ancestors is a series of short films taken directly from the letters/words of my Ancestors, 1917 through to the 1940's. These letters take place during World War I, the Spanish Flu Pandemic, The Red Summer, the Great Depression, and the Great Migration. Stay tuned for more videos to come...
COMPLETED WORKS...
Those BaxtersTHOSE BAXTERS, syndicated Radio show Hosts, head to the Stellar Awards.
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Say That He Had More Than A Dream... Written by Lois MosesA Multi-Media Performance, debuted at Juanita College, that explores Dr. Martin Luther King's Legacy, beyond "The Dream Speech".
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Renaissance GriotA look at the Artistry of the phenomenal Poet, Playwright, Performer, Professor, Dr. Kimmika L. H. Williams-Witherspoon.
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HAIKU COLLECTIVE |
THOSE BAXTERS PROMO VIDEO |
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COUNTDOWN TO BOOM:
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UNSILENCED |
FREEDOM NOT THEM GIVE |
Four black girls died on a September Sunday morning in 1963, at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Countdown to “Boom”: We all fall down, written by Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon and choreographed by Kariamu Welsh depicts a Sunday morning and its explosive aftermath through dance, gospel music, freedom songs and theater.
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Unsilenced: Four Women of Color
A multidisciplinary performance piece featuring poetry, songs, storytelling and music in recognition of female artists who are known to have infused their creative expressions within the framework of social change activism. |
A ten (10) part Haiku Poem which speaks to the realization that "FREEDOM" is not something that is given to one by others but, is intrinsically something that occurs within one's own soul/being. Albeit, a gift to ones-self.
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