[Antiracism] FW: East Coast: Aimee Suzara and Regie Cabico at Mt. Holyoke College this Friday!

[Rose Sackey-Milligan]

!!Check this out!!

Come join in an ILL night of Spoken Word Poetry at Mount Holyoke College, 
featuring Filipino Spoken Word guests: artist/activist Aimee Suzara (San 
Francisco) and Def Poet/stand-up comedian Regie Cabico (NYC).

The event is FREE and open to the public, and will be on Friday 4/28, 
Blanchard Great Room at 930 pm.  Sponsored by Something Every Friday, Asian 
Awareness Month Committee, Revelations, and True Colors for Asian Awareness 
Month.  Please forward to your orgs and any interested folks (flyer
attached)


Hope to see you there!



Performer bios:

Aimee Suzara is a Filipino-American writer/performer, cultural worker, arts 
educator. A member of Kreatibo, a queer Pin at y arts collective who produced
an 
award-winning play, Dalagas and Tomboys: A Family Affair, a former member of

multi-ethnic group Dancers Without Borders, and a Mills College M.F.A. 
candidate, Aimee is taking bold steps as an individual artist through her 
current work-in-progress entitled Pagbabalik (Return), which recently
received 
a Zellerbach Community Arts Grant and was selected for CounterPULSEs 2006 
Emerging Performance Festival . Aimee's work also includes the Eye of the 
Storm Hurricane Katrina benefit CD, the UN World Environment Day Voices Rise

Up! and various universities, conferences and panels, where she often speaks

about the intersection of art and social justice activism.  Aimee has 
facilitated workshops with Art in Action, Youth Speaks and in high schools 
throughout the Bay Area. A longtime social and environmental justice
activist, 
Aimee co-founded the Filipino/American Coalition for Environmental
Solidarity 
(FACES) in 2000 and continues to confront racism, sexism, homophobia, and 
other forms of oppression through writing, performance, and workshops.

Regie Cabico has been counted among the hottest up and coming Asian American

stand-up comics. Regie is no newcomer to slam poetry, competing in four 
National Poetry Slams, and winning the title as a member of Team Mouth 
Almighty from NYC. The winner of MTV's 'Free Your Mind' competition, he was 
also featured on the PBS series 'In the Life'.  Regie appears on HBO's
Russell 
Simmons Presents Def Poetry. In 1997, Regie received the New York Foundation

for the Arts Poetry Fellowship. His work appears in over 30 anthologies. As
a 
founding member of the Asian Arts Collective, Cabico has developed and led 
numerous spoken word and writing workshops.



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