“Life is a Saxophone,” a film by S. Pearl Sharp and featuring Kamau Daaood, an oral poet in an electronic age, will be screened at the GAR for First Friday, August 7.
Filmed in 1984 in Los Angeles this word musician’s story includes a live concert at the Watts Towers Arts Center with musicians Billy Higgins, Nirankar Singh Khalsa, Dadisi Komolafe, Roberto Mirands, artist Gale Fulton Ross, martial artist Dadisi Sanyika, dancer Lula Washington.
The film runs 58 minutes, and will screen at 5, 6:10 and 7:15 The film is a poetic reflection on Watts nearly 20 years after the Aug.1965 riots.
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