U News

What’s new with U: 06.20.08

Hey People,

Olive and I are one month into making our new home and desperately need to do laundry. Sometimes when you are running around like a chicken with its beak bent you neglect the necessities in life. But while I sit here and watch loadzzz of laundry spin I thought I would of course get some work done. Because work always needs to be done here at the U People Camp.

Olive and I would like to introduce a news and updates section to www.iLoveUPeople.com. Sometimes we can’t say it all in our weekly podcast, changes happen more frequently than once a week and sometimes you just wanna read the skinny as oppose to watch it. This will allow us to focus more on what you like most about the U People Podcast and film…the people!

So U People News or U News (I don’t know, we haven’t thought a cute name for it yet really) is where we announce good news, changes to the site, upcoming guests on the show, and new original content we will be offering here at www.iLoveUPeople.com. And like always, we welcome your comments.

TAKING A WEEK OFF

There will be no U People Podcast this week. Olive and I are still settling the dust from June 12th. And with 3 festivals ahead of us, grants to hand in, planes to catch and my sumer tour around the corner; we figure something had to give for this week. A little breathing room or extra sleep never hurt anybody. I’m sure you all will understand. If not, check the video below.

But next week we return with a full wrap up of the June12th show along with guest Tika Milan (featured in the pic just below) from the film U People and the first black trans man to represent on mainstream tv in MTV’s I’m with Rolling Stone.

U PEOPLE COMES TO THE BAY

I will be flying out to the Bay this weekend to support U People as it screens at the San Francisco International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. I hope to see you all there. If you wanna shoot an email to a friend in the Bay to check it out, below is the info and you can use the pic just above as an email flyer (thank you in advance):

U PEOPLE
30 Women and Trans Folks of Color
2 Days
1 House and the Music

A LGBT Rockumentary
comes to the San Francisco Frameline Gay and Lesbian Film Festival

U People is a candid, funny and breathtaking look at what happened behind the scenes of a not so typical music video shoot. Hanifah Walidah’s Make a Move debuted on Logo in 2007 that for the first time pictured women of color in a witty, sexy and refreshing way in mainstream media. But what happened behind the camera will stand a testament to a generation. U People is an accidental rockumentary about us and our time.

Directed and produced by Hanifah Walidah and Olive Demetrius

SUNDAY, JUNE 22 4PM
VICTORIA THEATER
2961 16TH ST. (SF)
Buy Your Tickets at www.frameline.org

GO MAGAZINE LOVES U PEOPLE

We just receive a bit a press in Go Magazine. You can read the article here

TREAT YA SELF

Treat Ya Self was previously a section featured on the home page towards the bottom. We will now move it to be featured as its own post, much like this one placed towards the top with other new posts. In it we will publish events that we feel are worth your time and dime.

U TUNES

We will be featuring new artists in the U Tunes section, like poet Coochie Magic lady Christa Bell and hip hop artist Psalm One of Chicago. U tunes also features our new Musicane player where you can buy digital download of the U People soundtrack. You can also get your own Musicane player and place it on your facebook, myspace or blog. Now feel this, after signing up to Musicane for free, for every sale of the U People Soundtrack on your blog, you receive 5% of the sale. So as you support this movement, it supports you.

Its simple: Sign up to Musicane. Return to our player here at ww.iLoveUPeople.com or search for us on Musicane. Press “Share”, login and then copy the code provided. Where you paste that code and folks buy the downloads, you get hit off with a bit of love.

Ok, that is it for now people. We are planning a lot for 2008 and appreciate how you all continue to support what we do. Keep up the good work and so will we. See you all next week with a brand new episode of the U People Podcast.

Love,

Hanifah and Olive.

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