correction (fwd this one) - A Night with Leah - Sat.-Oct 23rd - 7:30pm
Luzviminda Carpenter
“All of the LGBTIQ community should lift our ears to receive Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. Her vision stands to rearrange the ways we approach community, creating art, and loving. Every time I’ve heard her read I’ve come away new.”- Tara Hardy
OCTOBER 23, 2010 7:30pm
A NIGHT WITH LEAH:
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Writing Workshop & Show (w/ After Party)
@ Hidmo (2000 S. Jackson Street)
7:30-WRITING WORKSHOP ($5-20)
for People of Color Only (queer and trans friendly)
9:00-OPEN MIC & FEATURE (for everyone) ($5-20)
No one turned away for lack of funds!
AFTER PARTY w/ MILITANT CHILD
& DJ PONYBOY
& Queer & Trans People of Color & Friends & Allies & Everyone!
To RSVP for workshop and for more information:
Lulu at lul...@gmail.com (425) 224-6511
Sponsored by: Ladies First of Communities Against Rape and Abuse (CARA) & VoicesRising & Hidmo Entertainment
For more information about Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha:
BIO:
LEAH LAKSHMI PIEPZNA-SAMARASINHA is a Worcester raised, Toronto matured, Oakland-based queer Sri Lankan writer, performer and teacher. She is the 2009-10 Artist in Residence and part-time professor at UC Berkeley’s June Jordan’s Poetry for the People and the co-founder and co-artistic director of Mangos With Chili, North America’s only touring cabaret of queer and trans people of color performing artists.
She is a commissioned performer with Sins Invalid, the national performance organization of queer people with disabilities and chronic illnesses. Her one woman show, Grown Woman Show, has toured nationally, including performances at the National Queer Arts Festival, Swarthmore College, Yale University, Reed College and McGill University.
The author of Consensual Genocide, her writing has appeared in the anthologies Yes Means Yes, Visible: A Femmethology, Homelands, Colonize This, We Don’t Need Another Wave, Bitchfest, Without a Net, Dangerous Families, Brazen Femme, Femme and A Girl’s Guide to Taking Over The World. She writes regularly for Bitch, Colorlines, Hyphen, Left Turn and Make/Shift magazines. The Revolution Starts At Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities, which she co-edited with Ching-In Chen and Jai Dulani, will be published by South End Press in March 2011. Her second book of poetry, Love Cake, and first memoir, Dirty River, are forthcoming.
She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College, focusing on creative nonfiction and community-based teaching by writers of color. In 2009 she was honored as the Bent Writing Institute's 2009 Bent Mentor. She is a track coordinator for the Creating Safer Communities track of the 2010 Allied Media Conference and an advisor on the Disability Justice track. She frequently travels the country teaching and performing.
