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.

From Enzo Lombard’s comedic musical, “Love, Humiliation, Karaoke,” to Jennifer Jajeh’s tragic-comedy “I Heart Hamas: And Other Things I’m Afraid to Tell You,” to Lisa Marie Rollins’ powerful and funny “Ungrateful Daughter,” to W. Kamau Bell’s critically acclaimed hit show “The W. Kamau Bell Curve: Ending Racism in About an Hour,” and much, much more. Founded in 2005 by W. Kamau Bell & Bruce Pachtman, SPW concentrates on NEW voices of solo work.

TICKETS $20-35
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EVENT SCHEDULE:
WEEK 1
8/19 THURSDAY 8PM: “DIS-ORIENTED”: A trio of solo performances by Asian-American women” featuring Zahra Noorbakhsh, Coke Nakamoto, Thao P. Nguyen

8/20 FRIDAY 8PM: “I Heart Hamas: And Other Things I’m Afraid To Tell You” Written & Performed by Jennifer Jajeh

8/21 SATURDAY 8PM: “Love, Humiliation and Karaoke” Written & Performed by Enzo Lombard

8/22 SUNDAY 7PM: “I Heart Hamas: And other things I’m afraid To Tell You” Written & Performed by Jennifer Jajeh

WEEK 2
8/26 THURSDAY 8PM: “Lady Parts” Written & Performed by Martha Rynberg and “Solo Show #2″ Written & Performed by Bruce Pachtman

8/27 FRIDAY 8PM: “Ungrateful Daughter” Written & Performed by Lisa-Marie Rollins

8/28 SATURDAY 8PM: “AAAAAAAAAARGH!” Written & Performed by W. Kamau Bell

8/29 SUNDAY 7PM: THE SPW SHOWCASE featuring Nicole Maxali, Ericka Lutz, Julia Jackson, Debra Netkin

SHOW DESCRIPTIONS
WEEK 1

8/19 THURSDAY 8PM
DIS-ORIENTED.
Featuring: Zahra Noorbakhsh in “All Atheists Are Muslim”, Coke Nakamoto in “Soft Tissue: Secret Agent Bucket”, Thao Nguyen in “Fortunate Daughter”.
Cultural indigestion, color-blindness and inter-ethnic vertigo. Is there a cure? Is it treatable? Is it contagious? That’s what three women — Iranian, Vietnamese and Okinawan/Japanese — try to find out as they aim to DIS-orient themselves from external stereotypes and internal expectations. This show features a dynamic trio of performers who will lead you across a Muslim-Atheist supper table, the Mekong Delta, and Diagnostic Systems of Sexual Dysfunction. In between each solo performance are smart and biting vignettes — comic sketches, audience improv games, and contemporary dance — that will leave you happy to be as DIS-oriented as they are.

8/20 FRIDAY 8PM (also: 8/22 SUNDAY 7PM)
I Heart Hamas: And Other Things I’m Afraid to Tell You
Written and Performed by Jennifer Jajeh
Jennifer Jajeh is Palestinian. Well, Palestinian American. Or more precisely: a single, Catholic, first generation, Palestinian American woman who chooses to return to her parents hometown of Ramallah at the start of the Second Intifada. Sick and tired of the unsolicited discussions, debate and disagreements about her identity and her opinions about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Jennifer tries to figure it out for herself. Join her on American and Palestinian soil on auditions, bad dates, and across military checkpoints as she navigates the thorny terrain around Palestinian identity in this critically acclaimed tragicomic solo show.

8/21 SATURDAY 8PM
Love, Humiliation & Karaoke
Written and Performed by Enzo Lombard
Enzo Lombard’s hilarious solo musical comedy Love, Humiliation & Karaoke, returns to SF for one night only direct from NYC’s Midtown Theatre Festival, where it was nominated for Best Solo Show and Outstanding Actor in a Musical Production. Already rated “Don’t Miss” by SF Chronicle and “a quirky and cynical romantic comedy” by Showbiz weekly, SFGuardian calls LH&K “a smart and witty no-frills autobiographical show”, and BroadwayWorld has dubbed writer/performer Enzo Lombard the “Sedaris of San Francisco.”

8/22 SUNDAY 7PM (also: 8/20 FRIDAY 8PM)
I Heart Hamas: And Other Things I’m Afraid to Tell You
SEE THE DESCRIPTION ABOVE

WEEK 2

8/26 THURSDAY 8PM
Lady Parts
Written and Performed by Martha Rynberg
This is not the show you think it is. Ok, maybe it is a little. It’s about hair removal on public transportation, and elective surgery. It’s about mom thighs and tiny breasts and body odor and women’s magazine sobriety. Lady Parts is really a frank (and funny) internal adventure, tracking the contradictions within Martha’s convictions to leap from being a daughter to being a mother, without hating herself or the women and girls around her.

Solo Show #2
Written and Performed by Bruce Pachtman
It’s 1980 and Bruce is living in New York City, struggling to make it in comedy. He gets cast in an NYU student film directed by Chris Columbus (who later directs “Mrs. Doubtfire” and “Harry Potter”). It’s seen by big-time Hollywood agents who want to represent him. He moves to LA. They no longer want him. Bruce is now in LA without a job. Without hope. And most importantly, he is now burdened with a feeling of failure. That was 30 years ago. Why does that feeling of having failed persist? How did he turn it all into a very funny comedy?

8/27 FRIDAY 8PM
Ungrateful Daughter: One Black Girl’s Story of Being Adopted into a White Family. . . that aren’t Celebrities
Written and Performed by Lisa Marie Rollins
In a rush of electrifying story-telling, spoken word poetry and hilarious, unexpected characterizations, Lisa Marie reveals a sometimes disturbing picture of what it’s like to attend an almost exclusively white, private school; expresses her fierce love for her conservative, Republican, Christian, organic farmer parents and addresses the well-meaning, white, liberal adoptive parents that strain her patience . . . repeatedly. Infused with a gentle sense of humor and a seething rage, Lisa Marie wonders if she will ever heal from the secrets, stolen histories and unknowns she and other adopted people share.

8/28 SATURDAY 8PM
AAAAAAAAAARGH!: A Solo Comedy About How Frustrating Frustration Can Be
Written and Performed by W. Kamau Bell
After three years of trying to end racism in about an hour, Kamau is debuting his second solo show, AAAAAAAAAARGH! See, after spending all that time trying to make the world a better place, Kamau is exhausted and frustrated. Exhausted because it was a huge task, and frustrated, because it didn’t seem to help all that much. Well, Kamau is taking his frustration about all that and more and channeling it into AAAAAAAAAARGH! And this time, he’s not promising to end anything. He’s only hoping to feel better when it’s over.

8/29 SUNDAY 7PM
THE SPW SHOWCASE:
I Didn’t Sign Up For This
Written and Performed by Julia Jackson
A twisting ride on modern adoption’s emotional roller coaster: We meet anxious adoptive parents, and a birth mother pacing the halls of a hospital as she is slipping into labor. Back home, her mom’s totally fed up with her daughter’s pregnancy. And the birth father? He’s living in his own particular world of hurt.

A Widow’s To Do List
Written and Performed by Ericka Lutz
When she got married, Ericka Lutz didn’t want to say the “’til death do us part” part. Twenty years later – BOOM! – sudden widowhood! Then grief, absurdity, skin-hunger, tattoos. And who knew that Love and Death came with a side order of so-much-to-do? A Widow’s To-Do List is a solo performance about death, but more so, it’s about life after a tragedy, and a complicated, contemporary marriage.

I Heart Lola
Written and Performed by Nicole Maxali
I Heart Lola captures the impact of losing a beloved lola (lola is the Filipino word for Grandma) to Alzheimer’s. In the brief time span that Nicole’s grandmother spiraled from a strong, matriarchal role model to a dependent, childlike woman, their roles reversed by leaps and bounds. This piece pays tribute to all of those who suffer from Alzheimer’s by reminding us that their dementia does not define who they are.

Childhood Mammaries
Written and Performed by Debra Netkin
There’s a mound of bras on the dining room table and little Debzie is feeling the impending doom –blooming breasts and the upcoming onslaught of womanhood. This could be ugly. Come join Debra Netkin as she shares her Maidenform fantasies and fears. “I dreamed I performed a show at Stagewerx…. in my Maidenform bra!

MAY 11, 14, 16, 20 @ 9p & MAY 22 at 4p

To get the 2FOR1 deal use the promo code “solo241″ when you BUY TICKETS!

The W. Kamau Bell Curve: Ending Racism in About an Hour is a comedic exploration of the current state of America’s racism, combined with a little (unknown) history, a little Powerpoint, and a whole bunch of Kamau. And because racism is always attacking in new ways and from new angles, Kamau attacks back by constantly adding new material. The Curve is a seamless mix of stand-up comedy, video and audio clips, personal stories and solo theatrical performance.

“Smart, stylish, and very much in the mold of politically outspoken comedians like Dave Chappelle and Margaret Cho.”
- San Francisco Weekly

“W. Kamau Bell is the most important guy doing comedy right now. Do yourself a favor and go see him. He’s got the most astute, hilarious and completely righteous material going and he’s going to be a legend in his own lifetime like Richard Pryor and Lenny Bruce. Think Bill Hicks but slightly taller.”
- Margaret Cho

Saturday April 10th, 2010
Oakland, CA
8:00pm
Flux 53 Theater (Foothill & 53rd)
5306 Foothill Blvd. Oakland, California 94601

In Isaac Ontiveros’s premiere video installation, “Landscapes and Portraits”, he presents his work created over the past 5 years. Ontiveros’ pieces struggle with the very idea of a single portrait or landscape, to push against the way we are taught to allow them to exist as sedentary, and singular when in fact they are sometimes concrete, linear, sometimes abstract, fractured, sometimes lilting, frightening, and at times romanticized. Isaac’s video pieces articulate the multiple ways we can and do engage with the historical and current imagery surrounding us. These pieces think both broadly and intimately about the people and environments that we live in, the landscapes and portraits of our childhood, of land and our relationship to land, of our work and workplaces, of our loved ones and those we’ve lost, of cultural memory and expression, of political struggle. Ontiveros utilizes both current and historical footage (found pieces as well as original video) as a way to think about the blossomings and locomotives of history, the memories of others that have been entrusted to us, and to illustrate the struggle to capture these moving landscapes and portraits in the multiple ways they live in and move through our own imaginations.

The show will finish with a performance segment, “Tres Fábricas”, featuring live sound art composed specifically for three of Isaac’s video works. This section will feature accompanying work of musicians and sound artists Danishta Rivero and Ken Lyon.

What:
Third Root presents
Landscapes and Portraits
video art installation by Isaac Ontiveros
with live sound art by Danishta Rivero and Ken Lyon

Where:
Flux 53 Theater (Foothill & 53rd)
5306 Foothill Blvd. Oakland, California 94601

When
April 10, 2010 8pm-11pm

Tickets
$5-15 sliding scale at the door

About the Artist
Isaac Ontiveros (ARTIST) has lived and worked in the Bay Area for the past nine years. A life-long multimedia artist, he currently spends much of his time as production coordinator at the StoryTelling & Organizing Project of Creative Interventions—a community-based organization that helps other organizations, families, and individuals to use alternatives models of addressing violence that don’t rely on police and state agencies, to better build and learn from sustainable practices of self-determination. He has worked on many different media and documentary projects as an archivist, sound editor, videographer and video editor, supporting various organizations working for social change. Isaac also organizes with the Oakland chapter of the prison industrial complex abolitionist organization, Critical Resistance.

Saturday March 20th, 3-6pm
3-4pm view the amazing art
4-6pm solo performances

Artists:
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Thao P. Nguyen ~ “Fortunate Daughter”
Thao, 25, wakes up on a good morning in Vietnam, dons her full-metal jacket and goes deer hunting on Hamburger Hill with Forrest Gump and Martin Sheen. Only she survives. Later, she meets her grandmother for the first time.

Zahra Noorbakhsh ~ “All Atheists Are Muslims”
How hard can it be for a Muslim, Iranian girl in to move in with her White-American, Atheist boyfriend and cheerfully tell her father that she doesn’t need his blessing?

Milani Pelley ~ title coming

Mariama Lockington ~ Spoken Word poetry

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Saturday, March 27th, 3-6pm
3-4pm view the amazing art
4-6pm solo performances

Solo Performance Artists:
Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner

Maya Chinchilla ~ excerpt from “Love is for Suckers in the Borderlands”.

Lisa Marie Rollins ~ performs an excerpt from “Ungrateful Daughter,” a story of one black girl’s experience being adopted into a white family… that aren’t celebrities.
Coke Tani Nakamoto

$5-15 sliding scale donation at the door.

as a part of:

“For Colored Girls Only”
A Celebration of all Women
and a tribute to WOMENS History MONTH
at Joyce Gordon Gallery

Full Exhibition is February 12 – March 28, 2010
For Colored Girls only

A celebration of women from all color, size, age, gender, local and international as a form of politics/non-politics & as a body of thought. Erasing the indistinct lines of class, gender and geography, and celebrating even the contradicting facets of womanhood.

Group Exhibition Featuring : Addiam Tsehaye, Angela Angel & Robin David, Angela Silva, Ashley Eberlien, Atiba Sylvia Thomas, Barbara Aliza, Bethanie Hines, Clarisse Fulgado, Constance Terrel, Dimeng X. Brehmer, Elizabeth Carter, Hiroko To, Jeannie Dragon, Kameelah J. Rasheed, Katie Richardson, Kim Mason, Latisha Baker,Letitia Ntofon, Lisa Jean DeSoto, Maash Pascal, Maggie Yee, Marguerite Browne, Marilyn Lacy, Melissa Kreisa & Marilyn Lacey, Michele de Mendaire, Mildred Thompson, Favianna Rodriguez, Mina Marquette, Nicole Hsiang, Orlonda Uffre, Paula Craig Steel, Rosalyn Parhams, Rozita S. Folgeman, Sally Moore, Saska Smith, Shirlee Perlow, Susan Mathews, Talita Suassuna Brandao, Tomeekha Pitre, Jessica Seran,Viva H.VanAssen, Zahava Sherrez

Aya de Leon’s alternative Valentine’s celebration celebrating self-love, love of spirit & community & this year Aya celebrates motherhood!!

featuring poetry by Yosimar Reyes

prose by Carolina de Robertis

music by :::iamani i.ameni::: (formely of The attik)

and dj fflood (New Life,Feel Free)

live art by Nina

also featuring artist from Poetry for the People! + other special guests
plus prizes & goodies

$12 adv/$14 dr
8pm
La Peña Cultural Center
3105 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94705

for tickets and more info go to the
La Pena Website
510-849-2568
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Full Artist Info:

From the Mountains of Guerrero, Mexico comes Yosimar Reyes, a
Two-Spirit Poet/Activist Based out of San Jose, CA.

He holds the title for the 2005 as well as the 2006 South Bay teen Grand SLAM Champion, has been featured in the Documentary 2nd Verse: the Rebirth of Poetry. (2ndversefilm.com) And published in Mariposas: A Modern Anthology of Queer Latino Poetry (Floricanto Press) His words have open up concerts for Carlos Santana in his latest endeavor Architects of a New Dawn, a multimedia project launched earlier this year. (Aoand.com) He is currently touring his self-published chapbook “For Colored Boys Who speaks softly…”
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dj fflood (aka Richard Wright, a 1st generation Jamaican born in New York City and loving living in OAKLAND) is a dj, producer, activist and writer. As a dj he has been musically transporting crowds with his intuitive, driving, and eclectic style for over 23 years now. From the sound clashes of Kingston, to the warehouses of New York City, to the clubs of Europe, the art houses of San Francisco, and lounges and lofts of Oakland, his exceptional sense of selection and connection to the crowd has become his signature.

He is the founder of the Oakland Love Uprising known as New Life. fflood can also be heard at Oakland’s new hot spot Era on 2nd Saturdays and 3rd and 4th Fridays, as well as places like Jupiter, Levende East and farmerbrown. fflood also writes in his fem.men.ist blog, where he expresses some of his feminist/activist/gender politic stances. fflood sees himself as community oriented, a strong feminist, an advocate of polyamory, and an unapologetic straight ally. He is a music lover who aims to build spaces where communities can find healing, rejuvenation, connection, and inspiration, and has a really good time doing it.
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Carolina De Robertis grew up in a Uruguayan family that emigrated to England, Switzerland, and California. She is the author of the critically acclaimed, best-selling novel The Invisible Mountain, which has been published in sixteen countries and twelve languages, and was named one of the Best Books of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle, one of the Ten Best Books of the year by O, The Oprah Magazine, and one of the Ten Best First Novels of 2009 by BookList. She was named the #1 New Latino Author to Watch in 2010 by Latino Stories.com. Her translation of the contemporary Chilean novella Bonsai, by Alejandro Zambra, was named one of the Ten Best Translated Books of 2008 by the journal Three Percent. Her writings and literary translations have appeared in The Virginia Quarterly Review, ColorLines, Zoetrope: Allstory, The San Francisco Chronicle, and the anthology Abortion Under Attack, among others. She has also worked extensively in women’s organizations, on issues from rape crisis to immigrant rights. De Robertis teaches creative writing at the University of San Francisco and the University of Southern Maine.
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Nina Goldman is a young Bay Area artist who specializes in painting and drawing, but dabbles in all art forms. Art is her mode of reflection- drawing has always been an activity that soothes, inspires and evokes a peace of mind that nothing else has been able to do in the same way. Combining art and social justice is one of her favorite activities and she plans to do much more that upon graduating High School. Nina has been involved with many youth organizations around the Bay, including Cycles of Change, Youth Together, MLK Freedom center, and JYCA which have fostered a love for working for social change in awesome, supportive communities. Her interests: thunderstorms, bonfires, radical bikers, Walt Whitman, sunsets, large diners parties, kick-ass female activists, and freedom.
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iamani i. ameni and his jazzy-nasty-funky-folky-hop-pop-indie-soul sings to the best in us all, and we can’t help but sing along. His honesty takes us on a walk through ourselves, his songs, theme music. As producer, emcee and singer/songwriter, with a unique amalgamation of musical styles and subjects, he offers something to everyone. iamani has shared stages with E-40, Krs-one, Goapele, Dead Prez, Hamsa Lila, Brett Dennen, Jonah Matranga and more. His performance, more ceremony than show; is informed by years of grassroots organizing, leading anti-oppression workshops across the country, and working in the trenches of his own mind. Raised by the social justice and inner evolutionary movements, his music is marinated in calls to justice, love and personal inquiry. A tender vocalist whose heart is heard in every note, a lyrical wizard concocting potions for a new tomorrow, a beaming man who skillfully journeys us to ourselves, iamani makes music for the family of humanity, and it slaps!

The New Parish
579 18th Street (near 19th St BART)

GET INFORMATION AND BUY TICKETS HERE!

W. Kamau Bell, Hari Kondabolu, and Nato Green, three of the nation’s most fearless and thought-provoking comedians, reunite once again for “Laughter Against The Machine”. LATM is a rare kind of stand-up comedy show filled with biting commentary about politics, culture, and society, which will attack the entire spectrum from the rightest right to the leftest left.

If you want to witness three comedians diving off the edge of their intelligence and comfort, come to Laughter Against The Machine. This is an evening of three acclaimed comedians doing what they do best, expressing their opinions in hilariously awesome ways, without the yoke of two drink minimums. Just come. Sit down. Laugh. Go home.

LATM came together suddenly in the back of a comedy show during a discussion among Nato, Kamau, and Hari about wanting to find new audiences for their material. Having collaborated on several successful political comedy showsincluding “Laugh Out The Vote” and “Laughing Liberally Local 415″, they wanted to figure out a way to put on an issue-oriented, topical comedy show constructed of truly impassioned material to attract the thoughtful, dauntless, urban, and urbane audiences that they knew were out there but rarely see in comedy clubs. They wanted a show where the comedians and the audience would show up understanding that they were both going to be challenged, where the audience could be entertained and think at the same time, and where the comedians would promise to push themselves to places comics normally fear to tread. They also wanted it to be hilarious. Hari, Nato, and Kamau wanted a comedy show with no preconceived expectations, no party lines, and certainly no cheerleading, because these three have beef with everybody including themselves. Welcome to Laughter Against The Machine. LATM is not just a show, it is a band… of comedians. It is a band that is strengthened by the diversity of the comedians opinions, ethnicity, and upbringing. LATM has happened three times and has seen sold out audiences every time. Welcome to a comedy show where the comics may (among other lighthearted topics) vivisect the very notion of post-racial America, AND attack the corruption and decadence of late-imperial America, AND provide an historical context for the mess we’re in, AND make jokes about it. Very, very funny jokes.

Hosted by Janine Brito. Featuring Special Guest, Chris Garcia.

ABOUT THE COMEDIANS

W. Kamau Bell has been called very much in the mold of politically outspoken comedians like Dave Chappelle and Margaret Cho. Margaret Cho said, “W. Kamau Bell is the most important guy doing comedy right now. Do yourself a favor and go see him. He’s got the most astute, hilarious and completely righteous material going and he’s going to be a legend in his own lifetime like Richard Pryor and Lenny Bruce. Think Bill Hicks but slightly taller.” Kamau was named Best Comedian 2008 by The SF Weekly, and also was featured in a cover story in 2009. Also seen on Comedy Central’s Premium Blend and performing his critically-acclaimed solo show, The W. Kamau Bell Curve: Ending Racism In About An Hour. Time Out New York said, “Happily, Bell finds comic gold in the wide range of material he mines, offering provocative insights into an ugly reality. FOUR STARS”

www.wkamaubell.com

Hari Kondabolu is, according to the Seattle Times, a young man reaching for the hand-scalding torch of confrontational comics like Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor. Hari has performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live and Comedy Centrals Live at Gotham. His short film MANOJ was selected to play at the 2008 Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal and was a Finalist in the 2007-2008 Boston Motion Picture Awards. Born and raised in Queens, NY and a graduate of Bowdoin College with a B.A. in Comparative Politics in 2004, Hari also earned a Masters in Human Rights from the London School of Economics in 2008.

www.harithecomic.com

Nato Green, who is he rarest of things — a San Francisco native, continues in the tradition of hard-hitting Jewish comedians like Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl, and Joe Lieberman. Nato is the mastermind of Iron Comic, Laugh Out the Vote, Laughing Liberally Local 415, and the New Jew Revue. He blogs on Huffington Post, is the Official Comedian of the Progressive Reading Series, appeared at Comedy Day 2009 and SF Sketchfest 2008 & 2009. Nato claims that an anonymous reviewer on an unnamed website — who Nato has reason to believe is not related to him — wrote that Nato, “always manages to look completely relaxed saying the most incendiary sh*t”

www.natogreen.com

Start The New Year off right… FURIOUS.

IT’S A THRIFT STORE CHIC 16TH ANNUAL HALLOWEEN COSTUME PARTY
SATURDAY OCTOBER 31ST

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3 ROOMS OF DJ’s, LIVE PERFORMERS, HORROR MOVIES

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ARTISTS AND DJ’S

KIRBY DOMINANT (LYRICIST)
AIMA THE DREAMER (LYRICIST)
DIVINITY (DJ)
G-STAR (DJ)
ABELDEE (DJ)
BLACK (DJ)
BUNNYSTYLE (DJ)
RYAN (DJ & VOCALIST)
RAW-G (VOCALIST)
RAFA & ORUKASAKI OF LA GENTE (VOCALIST)
SUNRU AND THE CALL (PERFORMANCE ARTIST)
RAW PASSION (LIVE DRUMMERS)
and MORE TBA

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10PM TILL WHENEVER

LITERARY NIGHT
Hotel Rex
562 Sutter St.
$10 – 15 Sliding Scale

Featured Artist: Aimee Suzara

Presenting Artists:
Jennifer S. Cheng
Mai Doan
Yasmine Gomez
Kenji Liu
Linda Park
Takeo Rivera
Elsa Valmidiano

Kearny Street Workshop’s APAture is an annual multidisciplinary arts festival showcasing the work of emerging Asian Pacific American artists. APAture’s mission is to provide artists with an early experience presenting their work at a large event; to build audiences for emerging APA artists; to strengthen the sense of community among artists; and to raise awareness of the existence of and diversity within the APA arts community. APAture values community-building, ethnic and artistic diversity and collaboration across ethnic and disciplinary lines.