Tonight In Oakland: The Sh8peshifter’s ‘Embedded Experience’ with Nina Sol
Zakiya Harris' biomythographical 'Embedded' event takes place Thursday, October 11, at the Starline Social Club in Oakland. Zakiya Harris, better known across the Bay Area music scene by her stage handle the Sh8peshifter, will be hosting a multimedia cultural journey in three acts at the Starline Social Club in Oakland tonight, October 11, 2018. Entitled Embedded, each section will focus on key moments in Harris' journey from infancy to where she stands now. Traversing a hero’s journey, Embedded is a multidisciplinary ritual performance project that fuses music, prose, and movement to explore how Afrofuturism, art, and technology can be useful as tools [...]
The Sh8peshifter’s “ABRACADABRAKAAFRIKA” encourages empowerment
Zakiya Harris, an Oakland based activist, educator, and musician will soon be putting out new music under her musical persona, The Sha8peshifter. She's announced an upcoming EP, After Darkness, and just released a video for "ABRACADABRAKAAFRIKA." The song draws inspiration from "the death of Sandra Bland, and [is] an ode to little black girls like my 12-year-old daughter," Harris says. "I wanted her and others like her to see Black Women represented as the highest expression of life, which is God." Harris is the co-founder of many environmental and cultural organizations in addition to her music ventures. Hack The Hood [...]