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Join us for casual daytime talks and listening sessions with leading lights of the Bay Area jazz community. Bring your own lunch or order ahead from the JazzCaffè.Wednesdays at lunchtime! Free admission. Drop-ins welcome!
When you cry alone at night
Will your vision dry your tears?
Can you play it out? . . . Or say it out?
Does sight scare away your fears:
Does it
Make you more a Man???
– Avotcja, “Song for Brother Rahsaan”
Poet, KPOO and KPFA deejay, radio producer, playwright, multi-instrumentalist, and bandleader Avotcja is a true Bay Area icon. She has been published in numerous English and Spanish anthologies across the USA, Mexico, and Europe, and has opened for the legendary poet Pat Parker, Betty Carter in New York City, Peru’s Susana Baca, and Cuba’s Gema y Pável, among many others.
She has performed with Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Bobi and Luis Cespedes, and John Handy, as well as with her own group, Avotcja & Modúpue. Her poetry and music have been recorded and/or performed by Piri Thomas, Famoudou Don Moyé, the Bobby Matos Latin Jazz Ensemble, the Purple Moon Dance Project, and New York’s Dance Mobile.
In 2014, the City of Berkeley recognized May 10th as Avotcja Day, the same year she received the 12th Annual Berkeley Poetry Festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
Avotcja is a resident poet with the Jazzschool’s resident composers’ big band, the Electric Squeezebox Orchestra, which performs at the school every second Sunday of the month.
Order Lunch from the JazzCaffè
Want lunch waiting for you? Call 510-654-0148 to place your order before 10:30 am on the day of the program.
Scan the QR code for the menu or visit actcatering.com/jazzcaffe.
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2087 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA, United States, California 94704
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