Yrsa Daley-Ward

Yrsa Daley-Ward contemplates her role in the world in which she lives and loves, reading pieces from Alice Walker and other writers. The entire evening features open dialogue with audience members, and opens with a reading by Oakland writer, Christian Johnson.

DUENDE
Wednesday, April 12 • 7PM
http://matatu.eventbrite.com/

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Yrsa Daley-Ward was raised by her devout Seventh Day Adventist grandparents in the small town of Chorley in the North of England, and is of mixed West African and West Indian heritage. After moving to London, Yrsa began a full-time career in modeling and acting, visible on runways and magazine covers in Angola, Cameroon, Nigeria and South Africa. In 2013, her first collection of stories ‘On Snakes and Other Stories,’ was published while living between Cape Town and Johannesburg, followed up with Yrsa’s widely acclaimed, ‘Bone.’

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Born in Oakland, California, Christian Johnson is a writer, image maker, and film curator. His work aims to create multi-layered revolutionary images of the black body in motion. Johnson is one half of the brain trust behind last years Black Atheistic film series, and as the artist in residence at E.M. Wolfman he is in preproduction on the short film “A Moment of Truth + Sin.” A forthcoming book of essays on last years film series entitled “Black Asthetic Season 1” will be released later this year.

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The Kenyan matatu, the Thai tuk-tuk, and the Brooklyn dollar van are means of public transport used by people around the world. MATATU replicates these vehicles as a mode of collective and publicly accessible transportation, rooted in local community and global diasporas, that shuttles audiences from one arthouse experience to the next.

MATATU is a fiscally sponsored project of Intersection for the Arts, and supported by KQED, East Bay Express, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Learn more about us at www.matatufestival.org/weare