Fellows and Fellow Travelers:
While I am not able to bring you to either of these events, I do want
to call them to your attention and encourage you to figure out how to
get to them. Both should be well worth the effort!
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Subject: Me in Minneapolis
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 16:33:24 -0500
From: Bao Phi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Thursday, June 7^th , 7:30 pm
*National APIA Spoken Word Summit Benefit Show featuring New York's
KELLY TSAI*
With special guests *Christy NaMee Eriksen, Tou Saiko Lee, Bao Phi,
Bryan Thao Worra, Juliana Hu Pegues,*
*Dan Le, Ka Vang, *and more!
Music by *DJ Thuyet*
$5 to $10 suggested donation
At Intermedia Arts, **2822 Lyndale Avenue South****, ****Minneapolis**
**Seats are first come, first serve**
**Co-sponsored by the Loft, Equilibrium: Spoken Word at the Loft,
Intermedia Arts, and the featured artists**
**www.loft.org <http://www.loft.org/>**
**www.intermediaarts.org <http://www.intermediaarts.org/>**
**http://www.yellowgurl.com <http://www.yellowgurl.com/>**
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**_More about our featured perfomer:_**
**KELLY ZEN-YIE TSAI ****is a Chinese-Taiwanese American spoken word
artist who fights for cultural pride and survival through how she lives
and how she spits. She has been featured at over 180 performances
across the ****United States**** and ****Canada**** including over 30
colleges and universities as well as venues like the Nuyorican Poets
Café, the House of Blues, the Apollo Theater in ****Harlem****, and
three seasons of "Russell Simmons Presents HBO Def Poetry."**
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**Her background in community organizing, domestic violence counseling,
and youth leadership ground her understanding in spoken word as a tool
for social justice, self-determination, and change. **
**Her spoken word performances are fierce and uncompromising, passionate
and sincere. She rocks stages with her bold and unrelenting presence
tempered with a reflective compassion and provokes audiences to question
our society today for the sake of our society tomorrow.**
** **
**Kelly's writing has featured in numerous journals and anthologies,
including /We Got Issues!/:/A Young Woman's Guide to a Bold Courageous
Life/, and /We Don't Need Another Wave: Dispatches from the Next Wave of
Feminists. /Collaborations include touring nationally with /Mango/
/Tribe/, a collective of ****APIA**** women artists, and /We Got Issues!/**
Saturday, June 9, 2007
MINNEAPOLIS MOSAIC -- FREE!
See Macalester fellows and fellow travelers Alessandra Williams, Shana
Davis, and Romina Takimoto perform with Ananya Dance Theater from
7-7:30PM at Pantages Theater, 710 Hennepin Avenue, downtown
Minneapolis. Last spring Ananya Chatterjee (Professor of Dance,
University of Minnesota) met with the Mellon seminar to discuss her work
and her efforts to use dance to builds community among women of color.
This is a great opportunity to see their work.
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