Pasadena Music Scene Bi-Weekly Newsletter Volume3

Bi-Weekly Newsletter Volume3

Back 2-Hye School EP featuring Major James & Bones 11-12-13 You Will Be My Witness By

67th Annual Turkey Tussle

Pasadena rapper 2-Hye will be releasing his 4thcoming project

“Back 2-Hye School�

(9-track EP) on November 12, 2013

Featuring

Major James & Bones

WarriorRichardson.com

Just Who is Warrior Richardson?

Art is a Powerful Tool for Change Warrior Richardson is a writer/artist focusing on evangelism and social change based on Christian principals. His past positions include: economist (in the central economic policymaking office of the Agency for International Development), newspaper columnist and freelance artist (Fine art and caricatures). Presently, he’s working on a Christian graphic novel and another about an economic paradigm based on Christian principles. Warrior teaches a Gospel Tract Workshop entitled "YouWill Be MyWitness."

He has been a caricaturist since 1994 and has done caricatures at the Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles, the Kraft Foods' Booth at the Essence Fest in New Orleans and the Southern Baptist Convention at the Superdome in New Orleans. In addition to this he has worked at various colleges and universities across the country, many trade shows and conventions, parties and weddings.

Mr. Richardson has created many editorial cartoons for the Washington Afro-American, many other papers in Washington DC, art for artist residencies, book and magazine illustration, news paper comics and illustrations (Louisiana Weekly, San Francisco Bayview, Presbyterians Today and Data News just to name a few).

Warrior created his own comic strip entitled "Hey,Whoodi“. He has Created murals for percent for art projects in Dallas and New Orleans, and also been featured in gallery exhibitions such as the Wild About Music Art Gallery in Austin, TX and the Louisiana Music New Orleans Pride music conference and the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. He has also been an artist with the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts.The Nebraska Urban League, Mc Donald’s restaurant are also among his clients. Warrior has also created background art for the Nickelodeon movie "Merry Christmas Drake and Josh.". He’s created murals for art projects in Dallas and New Orleans. He is Founder & Director of Art in Incarcerated Environments. He has created an art program for the juvenile detention center in New Orleans, LA. Warrior has raised operating funds which involved grant writing, hired, trained, oversaw and terminated personnel. Warrior has also taught art to resistive detainees and worked for the LouisianaWeekly in which he wrote a newspaper column entitled "Liberation Zone" and wrote and drew a comic strip called "Hey Whoodi.“ Richardson has been an Art Instructor for the Street Academy in New Orleans Art instructor for New Orleans public schools, A Christian Community Center in Conjunction with an Art Program inside a Juvenile Detention Center. He’s presented a paper at a Black Studies conference held at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, based on his experience coordinating an art program in the Omaha Nebraska juvenile detention center and the current scholarly research on the subject. He is a pianist and flautist and former saxophonist. But he plays primarily jazz and gospel.

Pasadena Artist Warrior Richardson plays the piano at Lake Avenue Church exclusively for the Pasadena Music Scene Warrior Richardson is not only a local artist, but quite the productive citizen of society as well. He lends his time to teach Bible Study at Lake Avenue Church every Sunday at 6:00p and on his spare time hits up Colorado Blvd for a LIVE display of him playing the flute.

Warrior Richardson LIVE on the scene!

These are pictures of Dark Roots & Warrior Richardson playing Tequila at Sabores Oaxaquenos Restaurant, in Los Angeles, CA, Sunday, January 8, 2012.

Este es un video de Raíces Oscuras tocando Tequila en Sabores Oaxaqueños Restaurante, en Los Angeles, CA, Domingo, 8 de Enero 2012.

Hear what we sound like at http://youtu.be/0m_3IIsSJfA

What Is a Caricature? car路i路ca路ture [kar-i-kuh-cher, -choor] noun, verb, -tured, -tur路ing. noun 1. a picture, description, etc., ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of persons or things: His caricature of the mayor in this morning's paper is the best he's ever drawn.

2. the art or process of producing such pictures, descriptions, etc.

3. any imitation or copy so distorted or inferior as to be ludicrous.

Origin: 1740 50; earlier caricatura < Italian, equivalent to caricat ( o ) loaded, i.e., distorted (past participle of caricare; see charge) + ura -ure

You Will Be My Witness

by Warrior Richardson

English version

For me, the greatest insult anyone can give me is for them to say, “Oh, I didn't know you were a Christian.”

I believe I should live my life in such a manner as to make it impossible for anyone not to know I'm a Christian. Yet, strangely enough, people wonder why their born-again, Spirit-filled church members aren't on fire for Christ and moving mountains. They have experienced conversion, yet they are afraid to testify about it. It's because they don't know that they know what they know or how they know what they know; consequently, they lack confidence. We are confident not simply because we possess knowledge, but because we know we have knowledge. This explains the tepid testimonies of so many Christians. This is why we have the phenomenon of the “undercover Christian,” — Christians who don't want people to know they are Christians.

Spanish version

Para mí, el mayor insulto que cualquiera me puede dar es que ellos dicen, "Oh, yo no sabía que era un cristiano." Creo que debo vivir mi vida de tal manera que sea imposible que alguien no sabe que soy cristiano. Sin embargo, por extraño que parezca, la gente se pregunta por qué sus nacidos de nuevo, llenos del Espíritu, miembros de la iglesia no están en el fuego de Cristo y de mover montañas.

Ellos han experimentado una conversión, sin embargo, tienen miedo a declarar al respecto. Es porque ellos no saben que ellos saben lo que saben o como saben lo que saben y, en consecuencia, a ellos les falta de confianza. Estamos seguros de que no simplemente porque poseen el conocimiento, sino porque sabemos que tenemos conocimiento. Esto explica la tibieza en los testimonios de tantos cristianos. Es por eso que tenemos el fenómeno de los "cristianos encubiertos," cristianos que no quieren que la gente sepa que son cristianos.