Inye Wokoma's guest appearances

Inye Wokoma

The Deep End Friends Podcast

Seedcast

Equity Rising

Nyema Clark

Virgie Tovar

Tommy Pico

Nikkita Oliver

Gabriel Teodros

Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Sabra Williams

Paulina Lopez

Eric Darnell

Charles Williams

Mary Williams

Peter Seligmann

Rowen White

Idris Goodwin

Dru Holley

OwlTail

“It just so happens that the family business is Black liberation,” photographer and filmmaker Inye Wokoma tells Trae in EPISODE THREE of EQUITY RISING. Inye and three other Seattle artists founded Wa Na Wari in 2019, inside a Central District neighborhood home that once belonged to his grandparents. The location, and the generational history, is key to understanding what this important and imaginative arts organization is all about: “reclaiming Black cultural spaces and making a statement about the importance of Black land ownership in gentrified communities.” Trae and Inye talk about arts as an engine of change, the specific goals and gifts of Wa Na Wari, and the land reclamation movement through an “open source” lens.  Learn more about Wa Na Wari and their events and current exhibits. You can also follow them on Facebook and Instagram. Visit Inye’s personal art website. Seattle musician Bubba Jones provides a beautiful Chime-In this week, reflecting on his lifelong friend’s ability to put an idea into the world, and then actually bring that idea into action.

“It just so happens that the family business is Black liberation,” photographer and filmmaker Inye Wokoma tells Trae in EPISODE THREE of EQUITY RISING. Inye and three other Seattle artists founded Wa Na Wari in 2019, inside a Central District neighborhood home that once belonged to his grandparents. The location, and the generational history, is key to understanding what this important and imaginative arts organization is all about: “reclaiming Black cultural spaces and making a statement about the importance of Black land ownership in gentrified communities.” Trae and Inye talk about arts as an engine of change, the specific goals and gifts of Wa Na Wari, and the land reclamation movement through an “open source” lens.  Learn more about <a href="https://www.wanawari.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wa Na Wari</a> and <a href="https://www.wanawari.org/events.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">their events</a> and <a href="https://www.wanawari.org/art.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">current exhibits</a>. You can also follow them on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/wanawariseattle" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/wanawariseattle/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram</a>. Visit <a href="http://inyewokoma.com/blog/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Inye’s personal art website</a>. Seattle musician Bubba Jones provides a beautiful Chime-In this week, reflecting on his lifelong friend’s ability to put an idea into the world, and then actually bring that idea into action.

Equity + Art + Home with Inye Wokoma

Guest host Felipe Contreras talks with artist, journalist, filmmaker, and co-founder of Wa Na Wari Inye Wokoma (Kalabari/African-American) about what it means to be Indigenous and  part of a diaspora.  We hear Inye's essay about the intersection of Black home ownership and Indigenous land sovereignty, originally written for the South Seattle Emerald and read here by Inye's brother, hip hop artist Yirim Seck. Featuring music by Yirim Seck. Produced by Jenny Asarnow and Julie Keck; hosted and mixed by Felipe Contreras.Seedcast is a production of Nia Tero, a global nonprofit which supports Indigenous land guardianship around the world through policy, partnership, and storytelling initiatives.Enjoy the Seedcast podcast on the Nia Tero website, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and your other favorite podcast platforms. Keep up with Seedcast on Instagram and use the hashtag #Seedcast.

Guest host Felipe Contreras talks with artist, journalist, filmmaker, and co-founder of Wa Na Wari Inye Wokoma (Kalabari/African-American) about what it means to be Indigenous and  part of a diaspora.  We hear Inye's essay about the intersection of Black home ownership and Indigenous land sovereignty, originally written for the South Seattle Emerald and read here by Inye's brother, hip hop artist Yirim Seck.  Featuring music by Yirim Seck. Produced by Jenny Asarnow and Julie Keck; hosted and mixed by Felipe Contreras. Seedcast is a production of <a href="https://www.niatero.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Nia Tero</a>, a global nonprofit which supports Indigenous land guardianship around the world through policy, partnership, and storytelling initiatives. Enjoy the Seedcast podcast on the Nia Tero website, <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/seedcast/id1532050931?uo=4" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Apple Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6UwKHtgAuowdAZKX3HvDZw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spotify</a>, and <a href="https://pod.link/1532050931" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">your other favorite podcast platforms</a>. Keep up with Seedcast on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/niatero_seedcast/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram</a> and use the hashtag #Seedcast.

Rooting and re-humanizing in the African diaspora with Inye Wokoma

Live from We Out Here Part 1, a festival of black excellence curated by Michael B. Maine. The Deep End interviewed Inye Wokoma. Inye Wokoma’s family has lived in the Central District since the 1940s. As a journalist, filmmaker and visual artist, he explores themes of identity, community, history, land, politics and power through the lens of personal and visual narratives. His work is informed by a deep social practice that prioritizes the utility of his art to the collective welfare of his community. Three of his most recent projects, A Central Vision, An Elegant Utility, and This Is Who We Are, represent prismatic exploration of the history, current experience and future of Seattle’s African American Community. In addition to these projects Inye has been working in collaboration with Seattle Public Library and colleague Jill Friedberg to create a catalog of oral histories of Seattleites reflecting on community history and current changes. Inye completed a degree in journalism and filmmaking from Clark Atlanta University before establishing Ijo Arts Media Group in Seattle. His work as a photojournalist has appeared in USA Today, ColorsNW, Washington Law and Politics, and Chicago Wilderness, among others. In 2004 and 2006 respectively, he received two awards for editorial photography from the Society of Professional Journalists Western Washington Chapter for coverage of the communities of color in the wake of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina. His collaboration with journalist Silja Talvi on Washington State’s three strikes law won a 2004 National Council on Crime and Delinquency PASS Award for criminal justice reportage. These journalism awards were earned while shooting for ColorsNW Magazine under the editorial guidance of Naomi Ishisaka. His film ‘Lost &amp; (Puget) Sound, received a 2012 Telly Award and won best film for youth at the Colorado Environmental Film Festival. In 2017 he participated in the visual arts group show ‘Borderlands’ which went on to receive an Americans for the Arts 2018 Public Art Network Year in Review Award for its collective exploration of national identity, immigration, and belonging.   Inye continues to live serve his community from his home in Seattle’s Central District where he currently serves as board president for LANGSTON. He was a founding board member and former board president for Got Green and also served on the board of Nature Consortium. Introductions by Michael B. Maine and Angie Bryant.

Live from We Out Here Part 1, a festival of black excellence curated by Michael B. Maine. The Deep End interviewed Inye Wokoma. Inye Wokoma’s family has lived in the Central District since the 1940s. As a journalist, filmmaker and visual artist, he explores themes of identity, community, history, land, politics and power through the lens of personal and visual narratives. His work is informed by a deep social practice that prioritizes the utility of his art to the collective welfare of his community. Three of his most recent projects, A Central Vision, An Elegant Utility, and This Is Who We Are, represent prismatic exploration of the history, current experience and future of Seattle’s African American Community. In addition to these projects Inye has been working in collaboration with Seattle Public Library and colleague Jill Friedberg to create a catalog of oral histories of Seattleites reflecting on community history and current changes. Inye completed a degree in journalism and filmmaking from Clark Atlanta University before establishing Ijo Arts Media Group in Seattle. His work as a photojournalist has appeared in USA Today, ColorsNW, Washington Law and Politics, and Chicago Wilderness, among others. In 2004 and 2006 respectively, he received two awards for editorial photography from the Society of Professional Journalists Western Washington Chapter for coverage of the communities of color in the wake of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina. His collaboration with journalist Silja Talvi on Washington State’s three strikes law won a 2004 National Council on Crime and Delinquency PASS Award for criminal justice reportage. These journalism awards were earned while shooting for ColorsNW Magazine under the editorial guidance of Naomi Ishisaka. His film ‘Lost &amp; (Puget) Sound, received a 2012 Telly Award and won best film for youth at the Colorado Environmental Film Festival. In 2017 he participated in the visual arts group show ‘Borderlands’ which went on to receive an Americans for the Arts 2018 Public Art Network Year in Review Award for its collective exploration of national identity, immigration, and belonging.   Inye continues to live serve his community from his home in Seattle’s Central District where he currently serves as board president for LANGSTON. He was a founding board member and former board president for Got Green and also served on the board of Nature Consortium. Introductions by Michael B. Maine and Angie Bryant.

Episode 17: Live from We Out Here Part 1- Inye Wokoma