#rena anakwe

[beatsforbrothels]

King Vision Ultra - Stand On It Lite Work (ft. Nakama & Rena Anakwe)

[grande-caps]

The Dragon Prince - Season 4: Earth Quality : HD Screencaptures Amount : 5220 files Resolution : 1280x720px

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[anitosoul]

Planetarium Season Closer w/ Justin Carter, Rena Anakwe, Suso Saiz May 13 2023

[blackfemmecharacterdependency]

MARCH Celebrity Birthdays & Events March Events

All Month Long: International Women’s History Month | March is for Minors (2021 | 2022 | 2023) | Reading Month

March Birthdays

Pisces Stars (Feb 19-Mar 20)

1: Alexis Fields, Lupita Nyong’o 2: T’Nia Miller, Danielle Moné Truitt, Jocelyn Jee Esien, Nathalie Emmanuel 3: Gloria Hendry 4: Angela V. Shelton, Vinette Robinson 6: Anna Maria Horsford, Birgundi Baker 7: Wanda Sykes, Kali Troy 9: Christiana Pitts, Rena Anakwe 10: Ego Nwodim, Harriet Tubman, Jasmine Guy

11: Ajani Russell 12: Tiffany Richardson 13: Adina Porter, Toccara Jones 14: Carol Speed, Elise Neal, Greta Onieogou, Jazzy Ellis, Tamara Tunie, Penny Johnson Jerald 15: Aaron Rose Philip 16: Cynthia Bond, Kimrie Lewis, Sierra McClain, Ajiona Alexus 18: Ayisha Issa, Amanda Foster, Bonnie Mbuli, Christina Elmore, Irene Cara, Queen Latifah, Vanessa L Williams 19: Alycia Pascual Pena 20: Bianca Lawson, Dominique Jackson, Erica Luttrell, Freema Agyeman, Vanessa Bell Calloway 

Aries Stars (Mar 21-Apr 19) 21: Sonequa Martin Green 22: Kandyse Mcclure, Kellie Shanygne Williams 23: Chaka Khan, Vanessa Morgan 24:Raven Bowens 25: Jeryl Prescott 26: Diana Ross 27: Mariah Carey, Halle Bailey 28: Celai West, Chrystale Wilson 30: Gabrielle Byndloss 31: Erica Tazel, Andrea Bordeaux, Zethu Dlomo, Judi Shekoni 31: Rebecca Naomi Jones

March Events:

10: Araminta Ross, Harriet Tubman Day | Spring Begins | 17: Noah’s Birthday Takeova, St. Patrick’s Day | 21: International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination | 31: National Smile Day, Trans Visibility Day/Trans Day of Visibility

[zazazane]

"The gallery is dimly lit, with a humming cacophony of sounds and dancing imagery bleeding between the gallery’s archways from four stand-out video works. A commissioned piece by Akeema-Zane and Rena Anakwe, Our Mourning Due — A Funeral Sermon (2022), weaves together fragments of performance, writing, and an experimental electronic sound design. The imagery glitches across the screen as the scenes are set in motion and layered as if by a ghostly kaleidoscope: flashing glimpses of the sky, a horse stable, the interior of a church, the rushing waves of the sea, and sun-blanched rocks. The glowing use of mirroring devices and the sighting of inverted figures and landscapes is actively immersive. Much of the textual score is original, with excerpts from Johnson’s “Go Down Death” (1927) compounding a critical focus on ancestral exchanges and the Anthropocene: “Let the mouth of the seas smite us to surrender / that we may grasp the deep significance of crisis.” The piece’s vocal line pulls viewers into a melodic descent, not toward resignation, but into a spiritual register of interconnection—an invitation to reset thorough remembrance and reckoning." -Ladi'Sasha Jones

[konmaao3]

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Exceptional voice-acting by Brian Drummond and Rena Anakwe!

Afraid we’ll see more like that in the not too far future. Very afraid.

[raayllum]

The first - or one of the first - podcast episodes / interview I think we’ve seen with Rena Anakwe, the voice of Janai!

[queenjanai]

i’m still thinking about that janaya scene... you know the one... the understanding... the shared trauma... the tenderness... the agony...

[elvira21]

Rena Anakwe voice as janai the dragon prince. god i can’t wait some more janaya in season 4-7! 

[elfboyeros]

So hey I found the voice actor for Indigo: Rena Anakwe the voice of Janai from The Dragon Prince, that voice but like a bit softer is what I mentally here!

and also even though I have always Griffin Puatu is the voice of Calvin in my head Omari Newton the voice of Corvus, also from The Dragon Prince is just to close to what here mentally!

Do what you will with this!

[lxdylxne]

'Sonic Escape Routes: Shall We Fly? or Shall We Resist?' || a collaboration between Rena Anakwe @djladylane / @aspaceforsound & Akeema-Zane @kissingtherain for Weeksville Heritage Center’s The Legacy Project: Sensing History.  October 25th, 4pm-4:45pm ET ||  RSVP to link in @weeksvilleheritagecenter 's bio for this FREE Virtual event Sonic Escape Routes seeks to explore the following: what is the spiritual core and where is the liminal space for a people whose freedom to thrive remains in question? and what are the varying routes that anchor us toward flight or resistance? Through a collaborative sound and visual performance, the artists aim to assert and embed their own personal narratives and histories to traverse the archives of Weeksville in order to answer these questions.” Shot & Edited by Nathan Bajar & Noah Weisfogel Photography by Anjelica Jardiel Thank you Weeksville & The Legacy Project for the opportunity to explore these timely and important archives. (at Weeksville Heritage Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGtFLifDpCy/?igshid=1bktmh0ickpqr

[musichackathon]

Experiential Music Hackathon Recap

On February 22nd, we explored music beyond the auditory at the Experiential Music Hackathon. It was a fantastic day of talks, workshops, hacking and performances held at the Brooklyn Navy Yard offices of Weav Music.

Talks

Jay Alan Zimmerman, a composer, author, and multimedia artist, came up with the original concept for this event and led the organizing. As a composer who has become deaf, and co-creator of projects like Google’s Seeing Music, his opening talk set the stage for a day that aimed to make music more inclusive by enhancing the experience for everyone.

Kon Tsitsas, Adaptive Music Specialist at Weav Music, described their process for designing adaptive, interactive music experiences like Weav Run.

Allen Riley presented works like Electronic Internet, sonification of internet browsing, and the Dream Car, a sound and light environment inspired by La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's Dream House.

He also brought Videofreak, a music and video synthesizer in the form of an arcade cabinet, from its home at the Death By Audio Arcade. Participants explored the “experiential game” throughout the day.

Johann Diedrick (aquiet.life) described how attuning our hearing to environmental sounds can inspire new ways of music making. From a workshop building aeolian harps to be played by the wind, to projects like the bird classifier at Newtown Creek, mobile listening kit and harvester.

Yago de Quay (meetgraviton.com) described how technologies such as gesture and brain wave sensors can turn the body and mind into an instrument in a live performance context. He shared context behind some of his projects like Lightning Guitar, Brainwave Controlled Music Show, and Interactive Music and Dance.

Rena Anakwe’s talk, “Building Worlds through Sound, Visuals and Scent,” described how all of the senses factor into her immersive performances. Emphasizing the healing power of music, she concluded the talks with a sound-scent bath that was a perfect finale as we transitioned into hacking and workshops.

Workshops

In the first workshop, Jay Alan Zimmerman and David Lu described techniques for visualizing music. 

Then, they delved into some of the technical approaches to music visualization that powered their work for Google’s “Seeing Music.”

Kyle Luntz led the second workshop, connecting live audio with environmental sensors.

Participants used open source software and hardware (Pure Data and Arduino).

Kyle is an artist and musician, as well as educator at Beam Center, a Brooklyn-based non-profit who generously lent extra Arduinos for the workshop.

Hacking

With all of the workshops there was still some time for hacking, pizza, and meeting new people.

We hit capacity at the beginning of the day, and our amazing volunteer organizers like Steph, Alan and Vinay helped us handle the overwhelming interest in the event without breaking the fire code.

Demos & Performances

At the end of the day, participants shared what they worked on, interspersed with special guest performances from Viola Yip, Richard Einhorn/Ruth Cunningham, Jay Alan Zimmerman and David Lu. Jay Alan Zimmerman’s performance incorporated sign language and included everyone in the audience. He then provided visuals for a Richard Einhorn composition w/ the performer Ruth Cunningham.

Throughout the performances, visuals projected and reflected throughout the physical space.

Viola Yip performed with Bulbble, a DIY instrument that incorporates a circuit of lightbulbs as an interface for the audio and visual interplay for a performance

A demo of “Tongues,” by Alex Suber, Nathan Miller, Armand Bernardi: an augmented sound experience that classifies the mood and sentiment of speech based on its timbre, and uses this to generate music.

Alex Wang, Dan Cho, and Adam Rahman worked on “Windown”: a sleep aid application intended to be incorporated into a nighttime routine.

Halley and CJ demoed the sound of tattooing an orange.

Concluding the performances, David Lu aka Condrummer, demonstrated his unique audio-visual compositions

We livestreamed the talks and demos/performances and you can view them on youtube. Unfortunately the video framerate is low, but the audio quality is high!

Photos by Inza Bamba, Brenden Hussey, Vinay Raghavan, Allen Riley and Jason Sigal.

Thank you!

Many thanks to all who participated in the event and to everyone involved in making it happen! Thank you to everyone at Weav Music for hosting us, transforming their office to accommodate the event, and putting such care and thought into the planning. Thank you to Spotify for supporting pizza and live captioning. Thanks Stan(ographer) for captioning. Thank you Shagari Guity for graphics. Thanks to all of our incredible guests (Jay, Kon, Johann, Yago, Rena, David, Kyle, and Viola) for sharing their work. And thank you to the many volunteers (Alan, Brenden, Holly, Inza, Jason, Jay, Marium, Shagari, Steph, Taylor and Vinay) who organized on behalf of Music Community Lab!

Please reach out to contact” at ” musiccommunitylab.org if you’d like to get involved with future events!

[dragonprincefan]

Hey Dragon Fans! Let’s do a round up of all the information we’ve gotten so far about The Dragon Prince! This is quite a lot of info, so I’ll be throwing the bulk of it under a cut. (There will be spoilers for episode 1 of the show below the cut.)

The Dragon Prince, developed by Wonderstorm Inc., animated by Bardel Entertainment, and distributed by Netflix will be releasing all the episodes of the first season on September 14, 2018.

The official summary is, “Two human princes forge an unlikely bond with the elven assassin sent to kill them, embarking on an epic quest to bring peace to their warring lands.”

You can watch the promotional trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7Bf7JLnlOU

Promotional taglines used by the official accounts have been “Destiny is a book you write yourself!” and “dragon big”.

Netflix currently has the show rated as TV-Y7 for Fantasy Violence. The animation is cell-shaded CG, much like what you see in Fire Emblem, Guilty Gear, or Avatar: The Lost Episodes.

The show will have an accompanying video game developed by Wonderstorm* with the story tellers for both show and game working closely together to ensure the stories being told are well integrated and complementary.

Our lead characters for the Netflix series are Callum, the elder human prince, Ezran, the human crown prince, and Rayla, a Moonshadow Elven Assassin.

The universe The Dragon Prince takes place in is divided into two primary areas, Xadia, the magical lands in the East, and the five great human kingdoms in the West. Centuries ago, Thunder the King of Dragons guarded the border between Xadia and the Human Kingdoms.

In the TDP universe, there were originally six types of magic: moon, sun, stars, earth, ocean, and sky. Humans developed a seventh type of magic, Dark Magic. With Dark Magic you find a creature that has that magic as part of their essence, you consume it quickly, and it unleashes a great amount of magic quickly. Dark Magic became a shortcut to great, fast power, but led to corruption and was wielded at the expense of the varied, intelligent, and powerful magical creatures of Xadia. The dragons and the elves allied to try to put a stop to the humans’ use of Dark Magic, but the Dragon King Thunder was killed by humans using dark magic and Thunder’s only egg and heir, The Dragon Prince, was destroyed. Now the world stands on the edge of all out war...

The first episode is titled “Book 1: Moon, Episode 1: Echoes of Thunder” and was premiered at the SDCC 2018 panel. You can read IGN’s review of the episode here.

SPOILERS FOR EPISODE ONE BEGIN HERE

Ezran is scared of thunderstorms and likes to steal treats from the baker with his pet glow toad, Bait. Glow toads are described as “the Grumpy Cat of magical illusionary amphibians.”

Even though Callum is older he is not the crown prince because he is the stepson of the king. This means Callum and Ezran are half brothers. The condition and whereabouts of Callum and Ezran’s mother is reported to be a spoiler. The King is a black man, and it appears that Ezran may be biracial.

One of the royal guards Sorin/Soren/Zoren (spelling unknown) is tasked with training Callum in sword fighting. Callum is disinterested and prefers to draw, unless Soren’s sister, Claudia, is around. Callum appears to have a crush on Claudia, and Soren helps by going easy on him in sparring sessions in front of her. Claudia appears to be very studious and nearly runs into a tree while reading because she is too focused on her book. Claudia and Soren’s father is a highly placed lord and leader of the royal army/guard.

It looks like Callum will be learning to use magic over the course of the show. What type of magic he uses is currently unknown. Based on the trailer I think that may be Claudia also shown using magic. Regardless of her identity, I suspect what the dark haired female magic user in the trailer is using is the Dark Magic we’ve seen discussed.

The elves that Rayla is a member of are called Moonshadow Elves (white haired elves with dark horns) and they literally draw power from the moon. They are at thier strongest during the full moon. The bracelet Rayla wears was acquired during a ceremony swearing loyalty to the Dragon King’s cause/memory(?). Moonshadow Elves demonstrate at minimum some form of cloaking magic, but can still be detected by certain types of animals. Rayla has a Scottish accent.

Rayla is going to be something of a mysterious figure and strongly conflicted about her role in current events, “testing her sense of right and wrong.” She tries to tell herself that “an assassin does not decide right or wrong, only life and death.”*

When the Moonshadow Elves stage an attack on the castle, the King decides to send Callum and Ezran away for thier own safety. Meanwhile, Soren and Claudia are ordered by thier father to stop the assassins. Callum wants to help but is told he cannot because he is only 14 (and 3/4!) years old and he must be 15 to fight.

There was a black-haired guard in the first episode (the one attacked by Rayla) that had not been formally named, but when asked by the panel audience they named him Marcos.

END OF  SPOILERS FOR EPISODE ONE

During the Q&A session (I’ve discussed this with several people who were in the room now trying to get clarity) it sounds like the question of if there would be LGBT+ representation in the show was very narrowly sidestepped. They told the panel audience that any sort of answer would be a spoiler. It seems likely that there will be LGBT+ representation, but it has not been explicitly promised, and I urge folk to temper expectations with the knowledge that while it’s wrong to use the TV-Y7 rating as a reason to not show canonically LGBT+ characters, it may end up being outside the Wonderstorm team’s hands to try to get it on screen. I’m cautiously optimistic. We’ll have to wait and see.

The staff did say they are strongly dedicated to creating an inclusive and diverse fantasy universe, with an especial focus on visible ethnic diversity. We can already see the beginning of that with the King and Ezran.

Being on Netflix permits the staff to do a darker take on the story than they might have been permitted on network television, and they’re excited to get to tell a complex and nuanced story that explores moral grays and the idea that there are both good and bad actors in every group and culture. That said, they want this series to be fun, light-hearted, and quirky too.

The SDCC panel gave away two goodies to anyone lucky enough to get into the panel, a large physical poster version of the concept art we first saw with the initial announcement and an enamel pin of Ezran’s pet glow toad, Bait. The backing for the enamel pin announced that Hot Topic will be carrying exclusive merchandise for The Dragon Prince beginning in September 2018.

(A big thank you to elventhespian, owldee, and kohisu for thier live blogs of the SDCC 2018 panel.) 

Official TDP social media accounts:

Tumblr - @dragonprinceofficial

Twitter - @thedragonprince

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/dragonprinceofficial/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/dragonprinceofficial

YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPn8cnHhLHMQrGCmS0K5aBQ

TDP CAST AND CREW

The show is being helmed by Aaron Ehasz (Avatar: The Last Airbender, Futurama) and Justin Richmond (Uncharted 2, 3, & 4). Other staff members include: 

Executive Producer -- Giancarlo Volpe (Avatar: The Last Airbender, Green Lantern: The Animated Series, Star vs the Forces of Evil)

Composer -- Frederik Wiedmann (Green Lantern: The Animated Series, The Damned, Dying of the Light, various DC animated films)

Executive at Netflix -- Jenna Boyd (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

Animation Directors --  Meruan Salim, Carlyle Wilson

Animation Coordinator -- Tony Power (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)

Lead Animator -- Brian Ahlf (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) , Eric Childs (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), Brian Kavanagh (DinoTrux), Kevin Kyle (The Adventures of Puss in Boots), Jody Prouse (DinoTrux, The Adventures of Puss in Boots)

Other Wonderstorm Staff -- Robert Cogburn, Devon Giehl, Danika Harrod, Iain Hendry, Dan Liebgold, Lauren Topal, Neil Mukhopadhyay, Justin Santistevan, Lulu Younes

Various Animators, Storyboard & Graphic Artists, Directors, etc -- Sabrina Ali, Laura Ambrosiano, Nicki Bianchini, CT Chrysler, Frankie Franco III, Zakiah Grant, Chelsea Gratzlaff, Tim Kaminski, Erica Kim, Nasus Lee, Jessica Mahon, Katie Olson, Daniel Pira, Candice Prince‏, Devin Rosychuk, Alicia Schaeffer, Siggy Sigmond, Eman Thabet

Voice Actor [Callum] -- Jack DeSena (Sokka on Avatar: The Last Airbender)

Voice Actor [Ezran] -- Sasha Rojen (The Flash, iZombie)

Voice Actor [Rayla] -- Paula M. Burrows [@paulamburrows]

Voice Actor [Claudia] -- Racquel Belmonte [@raqattack5 | x] (Sira on Lego Elves)

Voice Actor [Soren] -- Jesse Inocalla [@jinocalla] (The Little Prince, Dead Rising 4) 

Voice Actor [King Harrow] --  Luc Roderique [@lucroderique]

Voice Actor [Runaan] -- Jonathan Holmes

Voice Actor -- Rena Anakwe [@DJLadyLane | x] (Sapphire Shores on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)

Voice Actor -- Erik Todd Dellums [@ErikToddDellums | x | x] (Koh on Avatar: The Last Airbender)

Voice Actor -- Adrian Petriw [@adrianpetriw | x] (Adam in The Hollow)

Voice Actor -- Jason Simpson [@aboySimpson] (Cyclops on The Hollow)

I’m looking forward to having a fun fan experience with everyone in the months to come! 

Fan accounts to watch on twitter: DragonPrinceFan, The Dragon Prince Podcast, and Mundo Avatar (news in Portuguese)

Dedicated fan accounts to watch on tumblr: @dragonprincefan and @tdp-news

[blackfemmecharacterdependency]

All the Black Femmes || The Dragon Prince

Edited to put this in the post for the people who don't read tags.

[raayllum]

Comic-Con attendees got to see the whole first episode of season four, and shared more details. Ezran (Sasha Rojen) is on the throne of Katolis, Callum (Jack De Sena) is the High Mage, and Soren (Jesse Inocalla) and Corvus (Omari Newton) are serving as the king’s bodyguards. Rayla (Paula Burrows) is on a secret quest, while Janai (Rena Anakwe) and Amaya are trying to rebuild the Sunfire kingdom. The upcoming season will also introduce Earthblood elves, who come from the Drakewood.

Few more new details from this press regarding SDCC! 

[queenjanai]

STARTING THE RENA EPISODE RN OMG OMG