VisAbleBlackwoman

DREAMING WHILST BLACK is a new dramedy coming to Paramount+ and Showtime this weekend. This week my special guest Koby Adom directed Episode two, The Reality and my personal favorite episode of the series three, The Friends
Koby Adom is a Ghanaian-British director, writer, and executive producer. Best known for his work on Netflix’s British drama Top Boy and Knoughts and Crosses which is set in South Africa. Koby Adom has worked extensively across TV and film. In 2019, Koby founded London-based DBK Studios to quote the filmmaker, and make film and TV content for untold stories, especially for black and diverse narratives.

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I Wasn't Going to see Oppenheimer, but a press briefing and a conversation with an atomic scientist changed my mind. The briefing, hosted by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium, and Win Without War, focused on giving journalists context on the history behind the film.

The panelists Tina Cordova, Co-Founder of Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium, Mari Faines, and Nuclear Disarmament Advocate Stephen Schwartz, Senior Fellow, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, shared the stories of the people we most likely won't see in the film. The Latinx men and women who cleaned nuclear waste without protection cooked and cleaned the scientist's homes in Los Alamos, Navaho uranium miners who are still fighting for the government to cover the costs of their cancer treatments.

This podcast focus on my conversation with Stephen Schwartz about why The United States decided to bomb Japan instead of Germany.

This weeks guest is Shea William Vanderpoort director of 2 episodes of Prime Video’s Harlem and Disney + Saturdays. We chat about how he started off on the iconic Issa Rae web-series The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl and how important community and collaboration are to his creative process.

March is Women's History month, and this week I'm featuring an excellent book about the 19th Century abolitionist movement, The Agitators: Harriet Tubman, Martha Coffin Wright and Frances A. Seward: Three Friends who fought for Abolition and Women's Rights.
Then I have a wonderful conversation with wine educator Tanisha Townsend of The Wine School Dropout podcast. We chat about her love of wine and discover how she moved from Chicago to Paris and started a thriving business hosting wine tours all over France.
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This week we’re taking a culinary journey to Paris with my yum of the week, one of my favorite shows on HBO, Julia starring Sarah Lancashire. I have always loved Julia Child. Her story inspired my love of Paris and I realized my dream of taking cooking classes in Paris last fall. Which takes me to my interview this week with the co owner of the outstanding cooking school Cookn' With Class ,and cooking destination events company Let's Eat the World Culinary Travel expert Yetunde Oshodi-Fraudeau. CLICK HERE for more info on Cookn' With Class and Let's Eat the World.

This week I’m highlighting the most inspirational Tv series I’ve seen in the past two weeks. Netflix’s competition series Physical 100, Apple TV+'s docuseries about World class surfers Make or Break, and HBO/Max’s competition series The Climb. Then I’m chatting with director Julian Higgins of one of my favorite films of 2022, God’s Country, about the nuances of representation in The Last of Us. It’s a fascinating conversation. Spoiler alerts for The Last Of Us episode 4.
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Reviews of AppleTV+'s Dear Edward and a review of the children's book You Will Do Great Things by Amerie. And coverage of the exclusive book launch dinner hosted by Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter, author, and book club founder Amerie and Macmillan Children's Publishing Group, to celebrate her upcoming picture book debut. And a special thanks to the Arlo SoHo hotel in NYC for taking such loving care of me. Enjoy

New year new focus, two Yummies and a Yuck-TV, films and Podcasts I'm digging right now.

Two yummies:

The first from the UK starring one of my favorite actors, David Tennant: There She Goes

The second straight from the brilliant folks at HBO The Last of Us

The Yuck:

AppleTV+'s Shrinking.

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God's Country is a modern-day western/thriller starring Thandiwe Newton (Westworld) as Sandra, a Black professor navigating her way through a majority white town in a flyover state. She owns a large parcel of land, and the film's conflict heats up when Sandra says no to two white male hunters who want to hunt on her land.

God's Country premieres in theaters nationwide on Friday, September 16th, and I speak with co-writers Shaye Ogbonna and Julian Higgins about their collaborative process in crafting this film. We also talk about storytelling when dealing with challenging subject matter, shooting during a global pandemic, and, of course, joy.
Shaye Ogbonna is "a writer known for God's Country (2022), The Chi (2018), and Lowlife (2017)."
Julian Higgins is "a director and producer, known for God's Country (2022), Thief (2010), and House (2004)."

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Welcome to VisAbleBlackwoman, the podcast I’m your host Jeanine T. Abraham. This week I’m speaking with my favorite acting coaches, Lee Brock and Seth Barrish the co-artistic directors of The Barrow Group Theater Company in New york
The Barrow Group was founded in 1986 by an ensemble of actors and directors who wanted to produce meaningful plays using a natural, intimate performance style that allows actors to be spontaneous and free. The Barrow Group has developed and/or produced over 150 shows, and actors like academy award winner Anne Hathaway, Emmy award winner Tony Hale from Veep, and working actor Allison wright from The Americans all studied at the Barrow Group.

The Barrow Group offers acting classes in person and virtually from wherever you are in the world. CLICK HERE for more information. And The Barrow Group has moved to a new performance and rehearsal space at 520 8th Ave in midtown Manhattan! Check out information about the space in the link in the show notes.
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My breakdown of the VR experiences I was able to participate in at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival

This week Jeanine has an enlightening conversation with the co-founders and head faculty of Theatrical Intimacy Education (TIE) Laura Rikard and Chelsea Pace about their creative process as intimacy coordinators. Please CLICK HERE to Support VisAbleBlackwoman the podcast by becoming a member of our Patreon community and watch the unedited video of our conversation.
Intimacy coordination became visible in the TV, Film, and theater industries right after the #metoo movement went viral back in 2017. Jeanine first heard of Intimacy coordination when, one of the lead female actors in that HBO series about the Adult film industry The Deuce requested the producers hire an intimacy coordinator to be on set for all of the scenes that involved intimacy, and HBO hired an intimacy coordinator. The same year, HBO required all shows with scenes of intimacy to hire intimacy coordinators to be on set. If you’ve ever wondered what an intimacy coordinator actually does, you are listening to the perfect podcast. Jeanine's conversation begins with Laura as she shares the difference between Intimacy coordination and Intimacy direction, then Jeanine discovers how Chelsea and Laura met and were inspired to pool their resources and create Theatrical Intimacy Education, and they dive deep into the creative process of intimacy direction and talk about TIE’s revolutionary views on certification.
A note from Jeanine," Full disclosure, I've been taking classes with TIE throughout the pandemic and have deep admiration and gratitude to Chelsea, Laura, and the entire theatrical Intimacy Education team for their commitment to this interesting new profession is inspiring and I’m excited for you to hear our conversation."

In the podcast Chelsea talks about The Journal of Consent-Based Performance, ("The Journal of Consent-Based Performance promotes community-based learning among intimacy professionals, without the gatekeeping often associated with scholarly models and the arts industry.")

CLICK HERE to read The Certification Question by Chelsea Pace.
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VisAbleBlackwoman

A taste of Montmarte, the staircase from hell…musings on statues of Venus De Milo and Athena and single woman solo travel joys.

I’m out rested and ready to push past my anxiety and explore. I take an Uber to The Louvre and stay all day. Then eat dinner at Café Palis Royal and take the Metro home. Ah the people I’ve met!

It's my first day in Paris!

Settling in, and figuring out what's what and how to in a country where I do not speak the language, and there's a global pandemic.
Music ooh child Nina Simone Remixed by DJ Nickodemous

Simply put, "Chakras" are ancient focus points in the body for meditation.
Rhythm Therapy rise Dance Walks use the chakras as a body map to focus our mind body while we are walking. Today we center the Root Chakra.
If you'd like to learn more about the chakra system I highly recommend The book of Chakras: Discover the Hidden Forces within you by Ambika Wauters.
If you LOVED this Dancewalk... please join us on Sundays at Noon EST for Rhythm Therapy Dance Temple on my virtual studio on Core To Coeur. Every experience is pay what you feel and I turn no one away for lack of funds. All are welcome...we never dance alone. CLICK HERE to register.

Thanks to our music sponsor Wonderwheel Recordings and DJ Nicodemus
Songs: Open Heart Surgery-Instrumental -Nickodemus
Mama Clo-Thornato,Benjamin Banegas
Available on WonderWheel Recordings. Please support independent artists! (http://www.wonderwheelrecordings.com/now-new-lp-escape-plan-thornato/)

Take 8 minutes to breathe and let your body smile.

I’ve created a 9 hour playlist just for you you listen to on Election Day to connect to JOY!!! —————Here’s the link on Spotify ——————-https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0YyIdqQZstKgsq7mgX0Kyg?si=345vV5HESMuPLz2oG7D00w

Wake up and breathe. This 3 minute guided morning meditation is designed to help realign the mind to welcome in a positive outlook for the day.