BRINGING IMAGINATION TO LIFE AND LIFE TO IMAGINATION.

Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD
Transformative Artist Educator
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AYODELE NZINGA, MFA, PHD

Cultural Architect Ayodele Nzinga is an arts and culture theoretician/practitioner working at the intersections of cultural production, community development, and community well being to foster transformation in marginalized communities. Nzinga holds a Masters in Fine Arts in Writing and Consciousness and Doctorate of Philosophy in Transformative Education and Change; she resides in Oakland CA.
Described as a renaissance woman, Ayodele is a producing director, playwright, poet, dramaturg, actress, performance consultant, arts educator, community advocate, and a culture bearing anchor.

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Nzinga is the founding producing director of the Lower Bottom Playaz...

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NOVEMBER 2022

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OAKLAND POET LAUREATE & NOMADIC PRESS SEEK SUBMISSIONS FOR THE TOWN: A POETIC ANTHOLOGY

To love Oakland is to love tectonically— to love a shifting landscape with a monumental, earth-shattering energy and culture.
Oakland is more than just a place with a constellation of zip codes. What, who, where, why, when is Oakland to you? We are lookingfor poems that drop us into Oakland as you see, feel, & breathe it. We want the boombox song that you hold up to Oakland’s windowon a moonlit night. We want to ride from the Deep East to the West with you on BART. We want your Lake Merritt memories; your loveletters, your gentle musings; your hurt and your rage; your poems of protest; your poems as bricks themselves. All who haveexperiences of any kind in Oakland are welcome to submit. Give us your best tales of The Town.