[Antiracism] SAVE APRIL 4TH!! GOMEZ, HO, & SALINAS - THE CALIENTE! TRIO RETURNS!! - Plz. FWD

[cjbSS at hampshire.edu]

Caliente! - Circle Around the Sun is returning on April 4th following last
fall's sell-out show at New World Theater. Caliente! is a red-hot trio of
performers – playwrite Magdalena Gomez, jazz saxophonist Fred Ho, and
political poet Raul Salinas. Together, they create a luminous fusion of
down-to-earth passion and razor-sharp intellect and pack it into a truly
incredible evening of Asian-Latin-Indio revolutionary poetry and music. The
power of this cross-cultural alliance is extraordinary and it is impossible
to walk away from Caliente! without being completely infused with the energy
and vitality of this collaboration. The energy is electric. The artistic and
political inspiration is profound and long-lasting. The power of these
performers does not simply entertain -- it nourishes heart, mind, and soul.
See you there!

When: April 4th at 7:30 pm
Where: Red Barn at Hampshire College (off 116 behind the white Stiles House
Admissions Building)
Cost: FREE!!!!!

For more information about these fabulous performers see:

Magdalena Gomez    www.amaxonica.com
Raul Salinas             www.raulrsalinas.com
Fred Ho                  www.bigredmediainc.com


Raul Salinas: Living legend “el maestro” and “poet laureate of the East
Side” Raul Salinas, at over 70 years of age (born March 17, 1934), is one of
the preeminent poets of Chicano-Native American literature and a veteran
revolutionary activist including the American Indian Movement, the Chicano
Liberation Movement, the Prison Rebellion Movement, the U.S.
Marxist-Leninist New Communist Movement as well as “jazz” criticism and
political commentary. In 1957 he was sentenced to prison in Soledad State
Prison in California. Over the span of the next 15 years, he spent 11 years
behind the walls of state and federal penitentiaries. Since his release in
1972, Salinas has become a leading activist in the American Indian Movement
and struggles of Native Americans and Chicanos on an international level,
all the while continuing to write innovative bilingual poetry infused with a
unique hipster “jazz” sensibility. Salinas published three poetry
collections "Viaje/Trip," "East of the Freeway," and "Un Trip Through The
Mind Jail," plus the forthcoming "Indio Trails: A Xicano Odyssey through
Indian Country" (Wings Press). He has two spoken word CDs "Los Many Mundos
of raúlrsalinas: Un Poetic Jazz Viaje con Friends" (Calaca Press/Red Salmon
Press) and "Beyond the BEATen Path" (Red Salmon Press). His literary work
has appeared in numerous anthologies and journals. In 2002, Salinas was the
recipient of the Louis Reyes Rivera Lifetime Achievement Award. In March of
2003, he was honored with the Martin Luther, Jr., César Chavez, Rosa Parks
Visiting Professorship Award from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
Salinas continues to be a vanguard force in independent cultural production,
running his own Red Salmon Press and Resistencia Bookstore in Austin, TX. He
is also an adjunct professor at St. Edwards University, Austin, Texas.

Fred Ho: Mr. Ho is an internationally renowned Chinese American baritone
saxophonist, composer, writer, producer, revolutionary matriarchal socialist
and leads the Afro Asian Music Ensemble, the Monkey Orchestra and co-leads
the Brooklyn Sax Quartet with David Bindman. His latest DVD is The Black
Panther Suite. He also is the editor/author of the ever popular
SHEROES/WOMYN WARRIORS calendar. Fred Ho has won numerous awards and major
recognitions internationally. In 1988 he was the youngest and first Asian
American to receive the Duke Ellington Distinguished Artist Lifetime
Achievement Award from the 17th annual Black Musicians Conference. In 1996
he and co-editor Ron Sakolsky won an American Book Award for their anthology
Sounding Off! Music As Resistance/Rebellion/Revolution. His compositions
include Suite for Matriarchal Shaman Warriors, Deadly She-Wolf Assassin at
Armageddon, and the epic opera Warrior Sisters: The New Adventures of
African and Asian Womyn Warriors.

Magdalena Gomez: Ms. Gómez was recently the recipient of the Holyoke, MA.
Latino Scholarship Fund's Community Champion Award, 2000 for her work in
arts education, and a playwriting fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural
Council in 2001. A recent full-length play, "The Language of Stars" is
currently a finalist in Repertorio Espanol's (NYC) new plays competition. A
ten-minute play, "Radishes" is a finalist for the Actor's Theater of
Louisville Heideman Award. In addition Magdalena’s poetry has been widely
published, including the Massachusetts Review, Paper Dance: 55 Latino Poets,
and the New York Times Book Review. Ms. Gómez was most recently cited in
Stages of Life: Transcultural Performance & Identity in U.S. Latina Theater,
by Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez and Nancy Saporta Sternbach. Ms. Gómez is
currently in rehearsal for her new solo show: "Cha-Cha in Love with Antonio
Banderas", directed by Dyana Kimball for a NYC premiere.


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