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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Monaco><TT><BR>!!Check this out!!<BR><BR>Come
join in an ILL night of Spoken Word Poetry at Mount Holyoke College,
<BR>featuring Filipino Spoken Word guests: artist/activist Aimee Suzara (San
<BR>Francisco) and Def Poet/stand-up comedian Regie Cabico (NYC).<BR><BR>The
event is FREE and open to the public, and will be on Friday 4/28, <BR>Blanchard
Great Room at 930 pm. Sponsored by Something Every Friday, Asian
<BR>Awareness Month Committee, Revelations, and True Colors for Asian Awareness
<BR>Month. Please forward to your orgs and any interested folks (flyer
attached)<BR><BR><BR>Hope to see you there!<BR><BR><BR><BR>Performer
bios:<BR><BR>Aimee Suzara is a Filipino-American writer/performer, cultural
worker, arts <BR>educator. A member of Kreatibo, a queer Pin@y arts collective
who produced an <BR>award-winning play, Dalagas and Tomboys: A Family Affair, a
former member of <BR>multi-ethnic group Dancers Without Borders, and a Mills
College M.F.A. <BR>candidate, Aimee is taking bold steps as an individual artist
through her <BR>current work-in-progress entitled Pagbabalik (Return), which
recently received <BR>a Zellerbach Community Arts Grant and was selected for
CounterPULSEs 2006 <BR>Emerging Performance Festival . Aimee's work also
includes the Eye of the <BR>Storm Hurricane Katrina benefit CD, the UN World
Environment Day Voices Rise <BR>Up! and various universities, conferences and
panels, where she often speaks <BR>about the intersection of art and social
justice activism. Aimee has <BR>facilitated workshops with Art in Action,
Youth Speaks and in high schools <BR>throughout the Bay Area. A longtime social
and environmental justice activist, <BR>Aimee co-founded the Filipino/American
Coalition for Environmental Solidarity <BR>(FACES) in 2000 and continues to
confront racism, sexism, homophobia, and <BR>other forms of oppression through
writing, performance, and workshops.<BR><BR>Regie Cabico has been counted among
the hottest up and coming Asian American <BR>stand-up comics. Regie is no
newcomer to slam poetry, competing in four <BR>National Poetry Slams, and
winning the title as a member of Team Mouth <BR>Almighty from NYC. The winner of
MTV's 'Free Your Mind' competition, he was <BR>also featured on the PBS series
'In the Life'. Regie appears on HBO's Russell <BR>Simmons Presents Def
Poetry. In 1997, Regie received the New York Foundation <BR>for the Arts Poetry
Fellowship. His work appears in over 30 anthologies. As a <BR>founding member of
the Asian Arts Collective, Cabico has developed and led <BR>numerous spoken word
and writing workshops.<BR></TT></FONT><FONT
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