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Shakka Dedi

Contains 3 performances.

US poet & artist, real name Melvyn Wellington. Original director of the Black Art Gallery in Finsbury Park.

  • Fran Landesman, Shakka Dedi, The Roaring Girl, Eduardo Niebla & Antonio Forcione

    Fran Landesman, Shakka Dedi, The Roaring Girl, Eduardo Niebla & Antonio Forcione

    24 November 1984 at 
    Roebuck (51)
  • Anti-Apartheid Benefit

    Anti-Apartheid Benefit

    4 September 1985 at 
    Southbank Centre (29)
    Apart from the great line-up and the great cause, this show surely boasts the best take on the ‘apple/snake’ motif to have graced an Apples & Snakes flyer. The circularity and the black/white symbolism are entirely appropriate, and that ‘apple of the eye’ is a touch of genius.
  • Tony & Stod, Shakka Dedi, Kate Isaac

    Tony & Stod, Shakka Dedi, Kate Isaac

    14 December 1985 at 
    Horseshoe (50)
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