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 -
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
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 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.
**SPECIAL GUEST HOST: FAITH ADELE**
(Distinguished Visiting Writer, Mills College, author of Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun (2004) and numerous essays in O, Essence, Pink, Ms., and Tricycle magazines. Her personal story was the subject of My Journey Home, a 2002 PBS documentary film about growing up with a Nordic American single mother and her travels to Nigeria as an adult to find her father and siblings.)
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
For More Information
Third Root Productions
thirdrootproductions@gmail.com
510-852-9673
Photos
Excellent Photos upon request
Press Contact
LisaMarie Rollins
Third Root Productions
thirdrootproductions@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.
IT’S A THRIFT STORE CHIC 16TH ANNUAL HALLOWEEN COSTUME PARTY
