World Stage FoundersThe World Stage is an educational and performance arts gallery in Leimert Park Village, the heart of LA’s African American cultural community. The Stage, as it is affectionately called, was founded in 1989 by the late world renowned master jazz drummer Billy Higgins and by poet and community arts activist Kamau Daáood in an attempt to fill a cultural void that existed in the Los Angeles community. Initially formed as a loose collective of artists and arts supporters, The World Stage has grown to assume a pioneering and pivotal role in the flowering of an arts movement in Leimert Park that has been hailed as the black cultural mecca by the Los Angeles Times. ContributorsThe history of the World Stage is built on the contributions of many talented artists. Some of those contributors include the great pianist, composer and spiritual force, the late Horace Tapscott; drummer Cornel Fauler, who founded the weekly jam sessions and Masters series; Akilah Nayo Oliver, Nafis Nabawi, Anthony Lyons and Michael Datcher who along with Kamau Daáood founded and developed the Anansi Writers Workshop; and Don Muhammad who served as manager for a decade. These and countless others are the unsung heroes of the World Stage Arts Education & Performance Gallery.
Poets pictured from L-R: Imani Tolliver, Ruth Forman, Peter J. Harris, Jenoyne Adams, Jenoyne Adams, Kamau Daáood, Michael Datcher, Conney Donnell Williams |
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