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  1. I Am Black History by Rhonda Hansome

    Friday, February 24, 2017


    I am Black History and Women's History, thanks to Director Debra Robinson's film 
    I Be Done Been Was Is 

    Last night, I was at the Brooklyn Academy of Music for the Black History Month Film Festival, 
    One Way Or Another: Black Women's Cinema, 1970-1991

    Complete Disclosure: I'm also the poster gal of the festival!
    Photo credit: Charles James Whisnant

    Last night at the (newly scheduled due to high interest & snowstorm) third and final screening of Debra Robinson's comedy documentary, in which I'm featured with the iconic
                                                                      Marcia Warfield 
    I felt like part of history!
    Did I mention I'm also NARRATOR of  I Be Done Been Was Is? 
    (Blushes & tucks toe in dirt)
    I'm grateful to Nellie Killian and Michelle Materre for inviting me to be part of the Q & A following the screening. I appreciate everyone, friends, co-workers and new fans, who attended. 

                  Thanks Gordon Balkcom for this photo of me with my long time pal Eric Vetter at BAM.

    My understanding is that the ONLY 2 EXISTING COPIES of the film are in the Lincoln Center Performing Arts Library. I hope intentions for the preservation of this, Women's History, Black History and Entertainment History, doumentary come to fruition.

    Because I'm trying to get through the day without mentioning Detritus Prumt*, here's more about me.

           7 PM Tonight Friday 2/24 New Women Space 188 Woodpoint Rd. Brooklyn NY 11211 

                                                   LAWL - Ladies And Women Laughing
    Arti Gollapudi, Producer

                      7 PM Sunday 3/5 Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Ave. Brooklyn NY 11217
                                                                  Between Hoyt & Bond

                                       No cover for Randy Credico's Comedy Music & Rhetoric Show


    Oh shucks I was trying to avoid mentioning Detritus Prumt! 
    Thanks to Randy Credico's show that effort is gone with the wind.

    * Your current US president

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  2. Director Debra Robinson's 1984 documentary, I Be Done Was Is profiles four women comics: Marcia Warfield, Jane Galvin Lewis, Alice Arthur and me; seen above in the poster for the BAM Rose Cinemas' Black History Month Film Festival,

    I was the mother of a toddler and a new comic when this film was made. Last Saturday was my first in-theater screening of this exploration of women in comedy. The Brooklyn Academy of Music theater was packed. I was delighted to be in the company of thirty or more friends, family and fans who'd responded to my last minute invitation. If I hadn't seen a random post on the Women of Color Women of Comedy Facebook page, I'd never had known about the festival, nor the showing of I Be Done Was Is, a historical work in which I'm featured.

    #IBeDoneWasIs - Schedule Alert: 
    9 PM tonight, Thur. Feb. 9th, is NOT THE LAST SCREENING of  #IBeDoneWas Is. 
    Kudos and thanks to BAM Cinematek Programmer Nellie Killian for inviting my participation 
    at the new I Be Done Was Is screening 9:30 Thu. Feb. 23rd.
      Join me 2/23 at BAM Rose Cinemas for the laughs and for Black History.




    BTW,  I Also Direct & This Reading Featuring Dominic Marcus Is Free


    And Some Storytelling


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