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Friday, June 29, 2007
Parlayed by the man - Eric Byler:
APA Activist Training and Midwest Summit
Saturday, August 4. Chicago, IL
Join your fellow progressive Asian Pacific Americans from throughout the Midwest as we engage in a Saturday training led by Parag Mehta, Director of Training at the Democratic National Committee. Sponsored by Asian Pacific Americans for Progress.
To register, go to: http://www.apaforprogress.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=3
Who: Activists, student leaders, community leaders, volunteers
What: Learn the basic tools of political organizing including volunteer recruitment, networking, planning events, targeting, phonebanking and other useful campaign skills.
When: Saturday, August 4th, 2007
11:00-12:00 PM - Networking and Registration
12:00 - 6:00 PM - Training
6:00 - 8:00 PM - Reception/Social with special guests
Where: The Field Museum
1400 S. Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL 60605-2496
Fee(s) - Includes training and reception/social, as well as admission to the Field Museum. Students please inquire about additional scholarships.
Student...$25 before July 15 / $30 after July 15
Regular...$35 before July 15 / $40 after July 15
Group rate (for 5 regular registrations)... $175
Group rate (for 10 regular registrations)... $300
Co-sponsors - To be listed in our program book or to place an ad, please contact Theresa Mah at apap.chicago@gmail.com
Parag V. Mehta - Parag is the Director of Training for the Democratic National Committee in Washington, DC. Prior to joining the DNC, Parag served as Deputy Political Director for America Votes, a coalition of 32 of the largest progressive groups in the country who joined forces to register, educate, recruit, and mobilize voters for the 2004 elections. In 2003, Parag was a Deputy Political Director for Governor Howard Dean's presidential campaign, based in Burlington, Vermont. In 2002 he served as Deputy Field Director for former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk's U.S. Senate campaign in Texas. From 2000-2002, Parag worked as a speechwriter and policy analyst for the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services. Parag holds a B.A. from The University of Texas at Austin and a Master's degree in Public Administration from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University.
Asian Pacific Americans for Progress (APAP) - APAP is national network of progressive Asian Pacific Americans and allies. For more information, click here: http://www.apaforprogress.org/
To reach us, please email: apafp@apaforprogress.org
From the lady, Czerina:
CHICAGO FOLK & ROOTS FESTIVAL 2007 . Join local Hawaiian band Kupono & the Kekula hula & uke students for a weekend of fun in the sun at Welles Park on July 14 & 15! The festival times are from Noon - 9:30 pm. Kupono will take the Staff stage at 2:00pm on July 15 & the Kekula performance time and location is TBA.
From the dude, Jeff Chan:
Asian American Jazz Festival: Poland
The first-ever Asian American Jazz Festival to be presented outside of the United States as part of the MALTA International Theatre Festival in Poznan, Poland. Featuring: Tatsu Aoki, Francis Wong, Yoko Noge, Mwata Bowden, Melody Takata, Jeff Chan, Hide Yoshihashi and Amy Homma.
July 27
The Jeff Chan Trio plus One featuring Jimmy Ellis (saxophone), Tatsu Aoki (bass) and Special Guest Ed Wilkerson (saxophone)
The Velvet Lounge
67 E. Cermak, Chicago IL
Admission: $10
Also - when you get a chance, check out our buddy, Audrey Cho:
http://www.audreycho.com/
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
For our homegirl - Anida:
JUNE 16 & 17
National Asian American Theater Festival
Presents
“Living Memory/Living Absence”
Performed, Written & Created by Anida Yoeu Ali
and
“Guns & Tampons: A History of Violence Against Women I Know”
Written & Performed by Hanalei Ramos
@ the Abingdon Theater
312 W. 36th Street
(between 8th and 9th Aves)
NEW YORK CITY
3 shows only!!!!
Saturday June 16 and Sunday June 17 @ 8pm
special matinee Sunday June 17th @ 3pm
For Tickets and More Info go to:
http://www.naatf.org
GET YOUR TICKETS NOW!! at https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/5993
or to contact a sales representative, call 212.352.0255 or 866-811-4111
Tickets only $20/discounts for groups!!
Living Memory/Living Absence is an experimental movement theater piece conceived, written and performed by Anida Yoeu Ali.
Living Memory/Living Absence is an exploration of memory and exile, and the pain of these experiences within the bodies of genocide survivors. In this interdisciplinary piece Anida performs poetry with movement inspired by Butoh set against a video backdrop of the sites and sounds of her memories of Cambodia. Anida’s performance traces her poetic fears of returning to her birth country after 25 years of absence. The joy she feels immersed in ancient Khmer traditions clashes with the irreversible legacy of a genocide that lingers in the streets. Anida Yoeu Ali is a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary artist who believes in pushing artistic and political boundaries. She creates art that mixes the visual, spoken and written into performed investigations of hybrid identities. Anida’s work is haunting, both in its beauty and its rawness – a sensitive exploration of both aesthetics and of the interface where these two extremes meet, the area of conflict where so many original and creative possibilities are hatched. After watching her work, audience members have declared, “you are left feeling like the parent who has conceived a child, held him or her for a few hours, only to have the child ripped away from you, to be left only holding memories of what was mixed with curiosity in what could have been.”
For more information visit http://www.atomicshogun.com
Guns and Tampons: A History of Violence Against Women I Know is the new work written and performed by Hanalei Ramos.
In her first multi-media solo show, Hanalei has staged a series of performance pieces based on the experiences of several women who consider themselves victims and survivors of abusive relationships with family, lovers, and friends. By staging portraits of some of the most intimate moments of any woman's life, Guns and Tampons challenges our assigned definitions of womanhood and violence and how it is warped by cultural expectations, societal conditioning, and the more subtle forms of violation experienced by women. The work features a myriad of characters assembled across generations and circumstance. Guns and Tampons touches on the found stories of a high school senior's found diary entries, the lost interviews of an undocumented college student, a couple caught in the cyclical dance of violence, the language of assault, and the many people who are yearning to understand how they function while maneuvering through love. Guns and Tampons questions what it means to be a survivor and victim of violence, and exposes their muddled boundaries. However, the work serves as a hopeful narrative threaded by themes of shared isolation, patterns of love, and the chances we take toward the secret hope of self-understanding. Ultimately, the patchwork testimony of several individuals transforms itself as the story of all women, and becomes a compelling glimpse into a world of survival and strength.
Also check out the festival’s lineup which includes work from my peers and mentors including: Marian Yalini Thambynayagam, Robert Karimi, Denise Uyehara, Jude Narita , Ill-literacy, Kristina Wong, D’Lo, Regie Cabico, Makoto Hirano.
About the Festival:
The First National Asian American Theater Festival is hosted in New York City from June 11 - 24, 2007, over 25 of the hottest, cutting-edge Asian American theater companies and performing artists will converge upon several venues in the Big Apple.
Spearheaded by Ma-Yi Theater Company, NAATCO (National Asian American Theatre Company), and Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, the festival celebrates the vitally important contributions Asian American artists make to the cultural landscape of the nation.
The festival will foster greater understanding of the growing influence Asian Americans have on the social and cultural identity of America. The works presented will inspire appreciation for the unique, yet universal stories of our communities.
Don’t miss out on this historic event-in-the-making!
http://www.naatf.org
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MONDAY JULY 30
OYE- LISTEN! features:
Say That! performance by Cristal Sabbagh, Anida Yoeu Ali, Keiko Johnson, Andrea Wukitsch
also the evening includes performances by Gesel Mason/Toni Asante Lightfoot and Francis Allende-Pellot
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, Residents’ Dinning Hall
800 S. Halsted St,
Chicago, IL 60607
7pm-8:30pm
FREE!!!
Reservations are recommended. Call Jane Addams Hull-House at 312.413.5353
This event is FREE. Light refreshment will be provided at the event.
Say That! created by Anida Yoeu Ali and Cristal Sabbagh is a cathartic Butoh-inspired experiment in which sexual stereotypes of women are embodied, confronted, and ultimately subverted. Improvisational movement and gesture also work in tandem with these memories, myths and emotions. (30 minute performance)
Teatro Luna and Jane Addams Hull-House Museum collaborate in
OYE- LISTEN!
a new performance series
Teatro Luna and Jane Addams Hull-House Museum join forces to showcase new works by emerging, Chicago-based performing artists. Curated by Teatro Luna’s Co-Artistic Directors/Co-Founders Coya Paz, Tanya Saracho, and Managing Director Carol Ng, this unique series, named OYE- LISTEN!, features 2 to 3 artists or performance groups each month, followed by a half-hour post-show discussion at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum. This collaboration between Teatro Luna and Jane Addams Hull-House Museum aims to provide women artists of color a space to share personal stories and reflect on contemporary social issues facing their community.
OYE- LISTEN! will be an opportunity for both professional and practicing performing artists who show extraordinary talent to share and exchange their work. By remaining true to the lives and experiences of women of color, this series creates bridges among Chicago ethnic communities.
for more info:
http://teatroluna.pmailus.com/pmailweb/ct?d=DHXSDgA9AAH-----AAE3bQ
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AUGUST 22 & 23
In homage to the Futurists of the 1930s, I am part of this awesome line up of performance artists who will be experimenting with food & art at the innovative restaurant Moto! my piece will be a collaborative with Cristal Sabbagh and will be sure to be tantalizing to the taste buds!
Moto Restaurant
@6:30pm
945 W. Fulton Market
Chicago, IL
The Futurists were a revolutionary group ofartist that embraced technology, speed,a nd interdisciplinary performance. – WE ARE DOWN WITH THAT!!!
The Futurists also espoused chaos, war, and misogyny – WE ARE DEFINITELY NOT DOWN WITH THAT!!! We counter with unity, peace, and due respect for all people.
In 1932, the amazing Futurist Cookbook was published.
75 years later, we pay homage with a 21st Century Futurist Dinner Party at America’s most progressive restaurant: MOTO.
Experience the future of gastronomy, accompanied by a spectrum of multi-sensory art and performance.
Food by Chef Homaro Cantu, Pastry Chef Ben Roche, and the Moto team.
$125 per person
*includes 8 course meal, wine progression, tax, tip, and live artistic performances by Anida Yoeu Ali, Caitlin Berrigan, Sam Lewis, Clover Morell, Dave Rempis, Cristal Sabbagh, and Dan Schwarzlose.
Limited seating so reserve your space today!!!
To reserve, contact Dan Schwarzlose: dschwarzlose@motorestaurant.com
**please note this 8 course meal is actually valued at $300!!!
http://www.motorestaurant.com
Friday, June 01, 2007
For our girl, Jema G. - off of the Contriband website (cause I'm too lazy to retype it):
Check out Robbi and what she's been up to:
http://www.myspace.com/robbi
Request her song 'Suffocation' on these radio stations:
www.hardcorejamz.com www.hardcoremix.com http://elephantprint.com/radio www.fearlessradio.com, www.tomaradio.com, www.bmsradio.com, www.uicradio.ws, www.kpsu.org, 88.9 FM WRRG Triton College Radio www.wrrg.com, http://radio.depaul.edu, Generasian radio (90.1 KPFT) 3:00-5:00pm, Thursday nights 9.30 - 11.00pm CST on WNUR www.wnur.org "Part-Time Sucker Radio"
From the dude - Jeff Chan:
My Perspectives II shows are tonight and tomorrow night. Details are below. And I’d like to point out that each night is a different program, so you might want to check out both (but if not, it’d be great to see you at either one).
Friday and Saturday, June 1-2
@ Elastic Arts Foundation
2830 N. Milwaukee, 2nd Floor
Shows start at 9p both nights
$12
From our buddy, Miss Mia:
Hi! Our totally rocking, kick ass play, "The Intelligent Design of
Jenny Chow" has been extended for the 4th time to July 22nd! Do see
the play when you can, but I'm not performing every show & those are
marked on the calendar.
Here's how to get cheap tix:
*1/2 Price Tix:
https://www.goldstarevents.com/events/event/12978.html?p=F409944EP
*Thursday & Sunday Specials: For 2-for-1 tix, say, "Cowabunga". For
$10-off, say, "Friend of Jenny" at the box office or call
312-733-6000.
*Full Price Tix: http://www.tix.com/Schedule.asp?ActCode=16837
Thanks for your support, everyone.
Click on http://groups.google.com/group/bubble-tea/web/performance-calendar- or copy & paste it into your browser's address bar if that doesn't
work.
From the lady, Cynthia Lin:
hey everyone!
i'll be performing a free lunchtime show at the chicago cultural
center tomorrow if you're interested:
fri 6/1 cynthia lin, vocals and guitar accompied by cello
Randolph Cafe, entrance Randolph St at Michigan
12:15-1:15pm
free
and i'll be playing some tunes at the stir-friday night benefit on
saturday!
thanks,
cynthia.
Cynthia Lin
singer songwriter
reach: cynthia@cynthialin.com
look: www.cynthialin.com
listen: www.myspace.com/cynthialin
