Film Night
Thursday, September 25, 7:30 – 9:30 PM
With Film Featured Artist Michael Wilson
Doors open 7:00 PM
$7
Screening:
Spunk Patrick Epino (4 min., experimental/narrative)
50 G’s Omz Velasco (7 min., drama)
The Question Ramsel J. Ruiz (4 min., experimental)
Jingwei Girls Rae Chang (10 min., narrative)
Troo Bloo Debbie H. Ng (4 min., drama)
Regret Bruce Cheung and Andinh Ha (6 min., experimental)
Lockjaw Gayle Romasanta (19 min., comedy)
Gone Natalie Mai-Ly Newman (3 min., 17 sec., experimental)
The Skyflakes: Bad Thoughts Dino R. Ignacio (5 min., animation/music video)
The Scapegoat Darren Ng (23 min., comedy)
Main Event
Saturday, September 27, 1:00 PM 1:00 AM
With:
Theater Featured Artist Jane Chen,
Dance Featured Artist Frances Sedayao,
Music Featured Artist Golda Supanova, and
Comics/Zines Featured Artist Gene Yang
$10
TABLES
FEATURED ZINES/COMICS ARTIST GENE YANG
Jing Lee Bentley & Mark Miyake punkpunk
Oliver Chin 9 of 1: A Window to the World
Anthony Hon Jack and Lucky
Hellen Jo komisches buch
Mai-Lei Pecorari re:Define Design
Alexander S. Shen Soks
Lawrence C. Tan Awakening
Kyle Yamasaki The Cost of Living
Eddy Zheng Untitled Zine
PERFORMANCE BLOCK I
1:30 PM – CHARMIN (opening music performance)
1:50 PM – Ching-In Chen (spoken word)
2:10 PM – Debbie Yee (poetry reading)
2:25 PM – Trust Me, I’m A Trained Professional (music performance)
2:45 PM – Amanda Solomon (poetry reading)
3:00 PM – Athena Kashyap (poetry reading)
3:10 PM – 400 Boys (music performance)
3:35 PM – The Berkeley Asian Rice-Eating Theater Group (theater performance)
3:58 PM – Amy Yuen (literary reading)
4:15 PM – Lisa Ko (poetry reading)
4:30 PM – Himalayan Project (music performance)
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM – DINNER, WORKSHOP, PANEL, AND FILM
5:00 – DIY Workshop Bookbinding with Mai-Lei Pecorari (small materials fee required)
5:30 – PANEL DISCUSSION Artistic Response to Political and Economic Landscapes
6:45 – DOCUMENTARY FILM SCREENING Behind the Checkpoint by Suzanne La (20 min.)
PERFORMANCE BLOCK II
7:00 PM – Odessa Mei-Lee Chen (music performance)
7:23 PM – Marisma (music performance)
7:45 PM – Jimmy Tran (theater)
8:03 PM – Jane Chen (Theater Featured Performance)
8:30 PM – Frances Sedayao (Dance Featured Performance)
8:57 PM – Golda Supanova (Music Featured Performance)
9:25 PM – Proletariat Bronze (spoken word)
9:40 PM – Siwaraya Roschanahusdin (theater)
10:00 PM – Gennifer Hirano and Kristina Sheryl Wong (performance)
10:15 PM – Charmin (music performance)
10:37 PM – Michelle Bautista (poetry reading)
10:55 PM – Asian Crisis (music performance)
11:15 PM – Invisible Cities (music performance)
11:35 PM – Puddingstone (music performance)
11:55 PM – Laurie Buenafe (experimental music performance)
12:10 AM – Samantha Chanse (performance)
12:20 AM – Superugly (music performance)
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Panel Discussion
Contents Under Pressure: Artists Respond to Economic and Political
Landscapes
Panelists: Allan Manalo, Anisha Narasimhan, Shailja Patel, Canyon Sam
Moderated by Gary Chou
BIOS
ALLAN MANALO
Allan Manalo is a Filipino American performer,
writer, director, producer and stand-up comic who began his
stage career in Hawaii where he studied theatre and appeared
in numerous productions. Manalo later moved to San Francisco
in 1986 to pursue stand-up comedy. He has since performed in
over 400 colleges and comedy clubs throughout 47 states and
the Philippines.
Manalo is the co-creator and Artistic Director of the Filipino
American experimental comedy group, tongue in A mood and the
former Managing and Artistic Director of Bindlestiff Studio, a
theatre space dubbed as an epicenter of Pilipino American
performing arts located in San Francisco. He has written for
Filipinas Magazine and the ZYZZYVA Literary Journal.
Manalo's comic performances draw on his ethnically-diverse
childhood, his confused identity, and his place in the world — all
from a twisted Filipino American perspective.
ANISHA NARASIMHAN
ANISHA NARASIMHAN has a hard time describing herself, especially in third
person. Anisha is a MFA student at SFAI and when she graduates it will add
to her stack of degrees (including a degree in mixology and a BA in English
Lit) that are no help in procuring her a job. But that’s okay because
Anisha really enjoys making art, looking at art, talking about art, and
eating art. So she is confident that people will just start throwing money
at her one of these days — Ow! The paper kind would be nicer, thanks.
SHAILJA PATEL
A Kenyan Indian explosion on the national poetry scene, Shailja Patel was
2001 Lambda Slam Champion, Santa Cruz Slam 2000 Champion and Team Santa Cruz
Anchor at the National Slam Championships 2000. She has appeared at slams,
festivals and conferences across North America.
Recent highly-acclaimed performances include Women Against War in Santa
Cruz, Santa Rosa and San Francisco, the groundbreaking Yoni Ki Baat, and the
Radical Performance Fest (a Bay Area Critics Choice Selection). Her words,
aired on the National Radio Project and KPFA, have generated responses from
activists and academics worldwide.
Shailja's work appears in Writing The Lines (forthcoming), Tea Party,
Trikone Magazine, India Currents, Sow's Ear Poetry Review, Emily Dickinson
Award Anthology, From Porn to Poetry: Clean Sheets Celebrates The Erotic
Mind, and the CD, Best of the Berkeley Slam Poets. Her poems were featured
in the curriculum for June Jordan's Poetry For The People program at UC
Berkeley in 2002, and have been used in colleges, high schools and workshops
across the country. Awards include an Outwrite 1999 Poetry Prize and a
Sacramento Public Library Poetry Prize. She was semifinalist for the 2000
Emily Dickinson Award and the 2000 Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize. She is a
recipient of a Serpent Source Foundation For Women Artists Grant and a
Voices Of Our Nations Arts Foundation Poetry Scholarship.
CANYON SAM
Nationally-acclaimed writer and performance artist, Canyon Sam creates solo
performances based on her experiences in both Asia and America as an
activist and Buddhist practitioner. Ms. Sam has graced stages throughout the
U.S. and Canada, from the Solo Mio Festival in San Francisco, and the Walker
Art Center in Minneapolis, to the Asia Society and Columbia University in
New York. Her performances, known for fluidity and grace, and for rich
poetic lyricism, are fueled by what Vancouver's Women in View Festival
calls, "A strength and passion rare in commercial theater." For more
information about Canyon please visit www.canyonsam.com.
