Heads up. The 2009 APIA Spoken Word & Poetry Summit is happening next year in the Bay Area, and the planning committee has been organizing shows to promote and fundraise for it. The next one is this weekend, on Sunday, June 15 at the Eastside Cultural Center in Oakland. Here are the details:
Sunday, June 15, 2008It's gonna be hot. The APIA Spoken Word & Poetry Summit is a bi-annual gathering of progressive artists involved in the Asian Pacific Islander American community. Their mission is "to challenge the often peripheral and passive roles the artist is branded within the APIA community and the arts community at-large and to acknowledge the arts as a critical, elemental component in building, empowering and transforming our community and our selves." For more information, contact volumecntrl@gmail.com, or visit apiasummit.com.
The APIA Spoken Word & Poetry Summit Presents:
VOLUME CONTROL 2
A Fundraiser for the 2009 Summit in the Bay Area
Featuring performances from:
Proletariat Bronze
Aimee Suzara
Broken Halos
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Malaya Arevelo
Nate Krooks
Rodrael Guadalupe
and Youth Slam Champions Bryant Phan & Christsna Sot
with DJ shredONE
and hosts Adriel & Ruby from iLL-Literacy
6pm Doors, 7pm Show
$10-$20 sliding scale donation
All proceeds go to the 2009 APIA Spoken Word & Poetry Summit
Co-sponsored by Apex Express 94.1FM KPFA & Youth Speaks