Invitation to Bay Area Launch of "Other Tongues: Mixed Race Women Speak Out" Anthology on Friday, March 11th 730pm
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LisaMarie
Feb 28, 2011, 1:56:04 PM2/28/11
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Dear CMRS colleagues,
I want to invite anyone in the area to the Bay Area. Launch of "Other
Tongues: Mixed Race Women Speak Out" Anthology on Friday, March 11th
730pm at UC Berkeley.
Please share this with your students, colleagues and artist
communities.
Here is the FB invite with full details and Full details are also
below:
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=204114022937315&ref=ts
I also have put the information on a website for your friends who are
not on Facebook.
http://thirdrootproductions.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/bay-launch-other-tongues/
Cheers
LisaMarie Rollins
A Birth Project
http://birthproject.wordpress.com
--
Lisa Marie Rollins
Founder, Director
AFAAD
http://afaad.wordpress.com
P.O. Box 24771
Oakland, CA 94607
510-629-6531
Lisa Marie Rollins
African Diaspora Studies
University of California Berkeley
===================================
You are invited to the Bay Area, California Book launch of
Other Tongues: Mixed Race Women Speak Out
edited by Adebe DeRango-Adem and Andrea Thompson
NEW from Inanna Publications
Friday, March 11, 2011 at 7:30 pm
UC Berkeley Multicultural Community Center
200 MLK Jr. Student Union (formerly Heller Lounge)
Northwest corner of Telegraph and Bancroft
Berkeley, California
Description:
OTHER TONGUES: MIXED-RACE WOMEN SPEAK OUT is an anthology of poetry,
spoken word, fiction, creative non-fiction, spoken word texts, as well
as black and white artwork and photography, explores the question of
how mixed-race women in North America identify in the twenty-first
century. Contributions engage, document, and/or explore the
experiences of being mixed-race, by placing interraciality as the
center, rather than periphery, of analysis.
The Bay Area Launch will include readings by local & visting Bay Area
writers and artists discussing their work, including: Mica Valdez,
Kirya Traber, Amy Pimentel, Angela Dosalmas, Lisa Marie Rollins, Rage
Hezekiah, Pheonix Rising. Artist Showing: Margo Rivera-Weiss
Books available for purchase and signing on site.
This event is cosponsored by: Macha Femme, Third Root Art Collective,
WCRC
Hueso Productions, QWOCMAP, MultiCultural Center at UCB, UC Berkeley's
Mixed Student Union.
What People are saying:
In a fresh approach to the quest for understanding mixed-race identity
in the Americas, the multiple genres that find their way into the
Other Tongues anthology--from poetry to photography, fiction to
scholarship -- perfectly mirror the prodigious spectrum of their
authors’ positions toward the topic. This collection speaks boldly and
poignantly to who we are, and by "we" I mean not only women of mixed-
race ancestry, but all citizens of 21st-century North America.
-- Lise Funderburg, author of Black, White, Other: Biracial Americans
Talk About Race and Identity
Passionate, courageous and insightful, Other Tongues speaks
affectingly about the pleasures and paradoxes of living between the
conventional categories of race. It is a significant anthology, one
that I've been waiting for.
-- Karina Vernon, Assistant Professor, Black Canadian Literature and
Diaspora Studies, University of Toronto
What
Bay Area, California Book launch of the new Anthology: Other Tongues:
Mixed Race Women Speak Out
When
Friday, March 11, 2011 at 7:30 pm
Where
UC Berkeley Multicultural Community Center
200 MLK Jr. Student Union (formerly Heller Lounge)
Northwest corner of Telegraph and Bancroft
Berkeley, California
Admission:
Sliding scale donations: Free - $10
No one turned away
For More Information
Third Root Productions
thirdrootp...@gmail.com
510-852-9673
Photos
Excellent Photos upon request
Press Contact
LisaMarie Rollins
Third Root Productions
thirdrootp...@gmail.com
510-852-9673
About the Local Authors
Margo Rivera-Weiss is a tropical expressionist artist and arts
activist living in Oakland, CA. Margo co-founded a group for mixed-
race women in the early 80's called "Mongrels."
Amy Pimentel earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch
University. Born and raised in the Central Valley, she bounced around
the country before landing in Oakland. Amy dreams of winning the Lotto
and spending months getting to know the Azores Islands in person with
her winnings.
Angela Dosalmas is a spoken word artist, scholar, mother, warrior and
an editor for /Spaces for Difference: An Interdisciplinary
Journal/.She resides in the U.S. with her supportive wife and youngest
warrior-daughter hopeful of a post-doc and/or academic position in the
near future.
Mica Valdez is a Native, Mixed Blood (Mexica/Swedish/Irish/Spanish),
multidisciplinary artist who recently earned a M.F.A. in Creative
Writing with an emphasis in Poetry from Mills College in Oakland,
California. Her poetry has been published in Mujeres de Maiz, The
Womanist, and Kweli Journal and she is currently editing the anthology
Turtle Island to Abya Yala (Malinalli Press, expected 2011).
http://malinallipress.blogspot.com/
About the Editors:
Adebe De Rango-Adem recently completed a research writing fellowship
at the Applied Research Center in New York. Her debut poetry
collection, Ex Nihilo, was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, the
world’s largest prize for writers under thirty.
Andrea Thompson’s spoken word CD, One, was nominated for a Canadian
Urban Music Award in 2005. A pioneer of slam poetry in Canada,
Thompson has also hosted Heart of a Poet on Bravo TV, CiTr Radio’s
spoken word show, Hearsay.
I want to invite anyone in the area to the Bay Area. Launch of "Other
Tongues: Mixed Race Women Speak Out" Anthology on Friday, March 11th
730pm at UC Berkeley.
Please share this with your students, colleagues and artist
communities.
Here is the FB invite with full details and Full details are also
below:
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=204114022937315&ref=ts
I also have put the information on a website for your friends who are
not on Facebook.
http://thirdrootproductions.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/bay-launch-other-tongues/
Cheers
LisaMarie Rollins
A Birth Project
http://birthproject.wordpress.com
--
Lisa Marie Rollins
Founder, Director
AFAAD
http://afaad.wordpress.com
P.O. Box 24771
Oakland, CA 94607
510-629-6531
Lisa Marie Rollins
African Diaspora Studies
University of California Berkeley
===================================
You are invited to the Bay Area, California Book launch of
Other Tongues: Mixed Race Women Speak Out
edited by Adebe DeRango-Adem and Andrea Thompson
NEW from Inanna Publications
Friday, March 11, 2011 at 7:30 pm
UC Berkeley Multicultural Community Center
200 MLK Jr. Student Union (formerly Heller Lounge)
Northwest corner of Telegraph and Bancroft
Berkeley, California
Description:
OTHER TONGUES: MIXED-RACE WOMEN SPEAK OUT is an anthology of poetry,
spoken word, fiction, creative non-fiction, spoken word texts, as well
as black and white artwork and photography, explores the question of
how mixed-race women in North America identify in the twenty-first
century. Contributions engage, document, and/or explore the
experiences of being mixed-race, by placing interraciality as the
center, rather than periphery, of analysis.
The Bay Area Launch will include readings by local & visting Bay Area
writers and artists discussing their work, including: Mica Valdez,
Kirya Traber, Amy Pimentel, Angela Dosalmas, Lisa Marie Rollins, Rage
Hezekiah, Pheonix Rising. Artist Showing: Margo Rivera-Weiss
Books available for purchase and signing on site.
This event is cosponsored by: Macha Femme, Third Root Art Collective,
WCRC
Hueso Productions, QWOCMAP, MultiCultural Center at UCB, UC Berkeley's
Mixed Student Union.
What People are saying:
In a fresh approach to the quest for understanding mixed-race identity
in the Americas, the multiple genres that find their way into the
Other Tongues anthology--from poetry to photography, fiction to
scholarship -- perfectly mirror the prodigious spectrum of their
authors’ positions toward the topic. This collection speaks boldly and
poignantly to who we are, and by "we" I mean not only women of mixed-
race ancestry, but all citizens of 21st-century North America.
-- Lise Funderburg, author of Black, White, Other: Biracial Americans
Talk About Race and Identity
Passionate, courageous and insightful, Other Tongues speaks
affectingly about the pleasures and paradoxes of living between the
conventional categories of race. It is a significant anthology, one
that I've been waiting for.
-- Karina Vernon, Assistant Professor, Black Canadian Literature and
Diaspora Studies, University of Toronto
What
Bay Area, California Book launch of the new Anthology: Other Tongues:
Mixed Race Women Speak Out
When
Friday, March 11, 2011 at 7:30 pm
Where
UC Berkeley Multicultural Community Center
200 MLK Jr. Student Union (formerly Heller Lounge)
Northwest corner of Telegraph and Bancroft
Berkeley, California
Admission:
Sliding scale donations: Free - $10
No one turned away
For More Information
Third Root Productions
thirdrootp...@gmail.com
510-852-9673
Photos
Excellent Photos upon request
Press Contact
LisaMarie Rollins
Third Root Productions
thirdrootp...@gmail.com
510-852-9673
About the Local Authors
Margo Rivera-Weiss is a tropical expressionist artist and arts
activist living in Oakland, CA. Margo co-founded a group for mixed-
race women in the early 80's called "Mongrels."
Amy Pimentel earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch
University. Born and raised in the Central Valley, she bounced around
the country before landing in Oakland. Amy dreams of winning the Lotto
and spending months getting to know the Azores Islands in person with
her winnings.
Angela Dosalmas is a spoken word artist, scholar, mother, warrior and
an editor for /Spaces for Difference: An Interdisciplinary
Journal/.She resides in the U.S. with her supportive wife and youngest
warrior-daughter hopeful of a post-doc and/or academic position in the
near future.
Mica Valdez is a Native, Mixed Blood (Mexica/Swedish/Irish/Spanish),
multidisciplinary artist who recently earned a M.F.A. in Creative
Writing with an emphasis in Poetry from Mills College in Oakland,
California. Her poetry has been published in Mujeres de Maiz, The
Womanist, and Kweli Journal and she is currently editing the anthology
Turtle Island to Abya Yala (Malinalli Press, expected 2011).
http://malinallipress.blogspot.com/
About the Editors:
Adebe De Rango-Adem recently completed a research writing fellowship
at the Applied Research Center in New York. Her debut poetry
collection, Ex Nihilo, was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, the
world’s largest prize for writers under thirty.
Andrea Thompson’s spoken word CD, One, was nominated for a Canadian
Urban Music Award in 2005. A pioneer of slam poetry in Canada,
Thompson has also hosted Heart of a Poet on Bravo TV, CiTr Radio’s
spoken word show, Hearsay.
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