Well-RED features Tureeda Mikell!
Co-sponsored by Works/San José art and performance center!
Well-RED features Tureeda Mikell!
Co-sponsored by Works/San José art and performance center!
This will be a hybrid event! Come visit and celebrate the new gallery space for Works/San José! Open mic follows feature.
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If you are unable to attend in person, we welcome you to join via Zoom!
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Tureeda Mikell, Poet, Griot Story Medicine Woman, named, Woman of Truths, activist for holism, is a QiGong Energy Therapist, lyricist, executive director of, Tree of Life Foundation Literacy Health Project, she has published over seventy student anthologies of poetry for as risk youth via CA Poets in the Schools, throughout five bay area counties since 1989. She is a U. C. Berkeley ’96 Bay Area Writing Project Fellow.
She has opened and or published with iconic poet activist, Amiri Baraka, cult film star, Saul William and Kenyan writer, professor and Pen International Award winner Ngugi Wa Thiong'o. She featured at SOAN Soul Of A Nation, at the De Young Museum, as featured poet in Fire Thieves, curated by Kim Shuck and sponsored by the American Academy of Poets. Mikell was featured poet/storyteller for Black Panther 55th Anniversary, Octavia Butler’s 70th Birthday, and was Eth-Noh-Tec, Nu Wa delegate poet/storyteller in Beijing, China in collaboration with the University of Beijing.
Published in numerous anthologies, her work can be seen in, Uncommon Ground, Storm Warning, City Light's Second Stutter, Freedom Lifted, U. C. B. Digital Papers E-Zine, Anacua Literary Arts Journal, The Maynard, Temba Tupu Walking Naked by Emory University, Civil Liberties, by Shizue Seigel, The Patrice Lumumba Anthology in collaboration with EastSide Arts Alliance, and countless more nationally and internationally. Her book, Synchronicity: The Oracle of Sun Medicine, published by Nomadic Press 2020, was reviewed by Chris Stroffolino, published in Ishmael Reed's Konch Zine, and was nominated for the California Book Award. Her book was placed on Small Press Distributor’s list of recommended reads and has sold out three times. Mikell has just completed her residency at the Museum of the African Diaspora sponsored by the Smithsonian.