Creative Explosion: The Spirit of API Feminism Through Performance
Recovery, Reflection, Renewal: API Women Reclaim Their Voices| Host: | |
| Type: | |
| Network: | Global |
| Date: | Wednesday, July 29, 2009 |
| Time: | 6:30pm - 8:00pm |
| Location: | Jin Lounge (Doors open at 6:15pm) |
| Street: | 14th, between U & V |
| City/Town: | Washington, DC |
Description
Hello!
The DC Chapter of the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF) is once again putting together its popular Creative Explosion event – a show that highlights and celebrates API women's experiences through performance.
This year, we are featuring monstrous jams from DJ 9-VOLT, and our very own NAPAWF-DC sister JENNY LARES will serve as MC! Performances include, but are not limited to: spoken word, singing, dancing, visual art, and much more!
WHO: YOU!
WHAT: CREATIVE EXPLOSION V: The Spirit of API Feminism Through Performance
WHEN: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 at 6:30 P.M. (Doors open at 6:15 P.M.)
WHERE: Jin Lounge (2017 14th St. NW)
WHY: To witness and support the women as they express themselves in different performances that evoke emotion.
ABOUT CREATIVE EXPLOSION V
Creative Explosion strives to be a safe space for API women to express themselves, to celebrate their lives and experiences, and to empower and inspire API women to contribute to their communities. It seeks to challenge our marginalization and oppression and to support established and emerging local artists in our communities.
This year’s theme, “Recovery, Reflection, Renewal: API Women Reclaim Their Voices,” encompasses the processes or acts of recovery from an economic crisis, a traumatic experience, a natural disaster, a war, a past, a history of an individual and/or a community. It is rooted in the resistance, strength, and resilience of API women and women of color, as we struggle through our daily lives, constantly reflecting, healing, renewing, and reclaiming our selves and experiences.
Tickets are now available online! Please forward this to all of your friends! Thank you and we hope to see you there!
Tickets:
http://tinyurl.com/crexplosion5
$10 for NAPAWF Members, $15 non-NAPAWF Members
$20 at the door
The 2009 performers and their biographies are included below.
§ jenny c. lares has been making waves in the DC poetry and performance circuit since moving back in the area last year. She’s been featured at Busboys and Poets and Artomatic, and has self-published two books of poetry.
§ Originally hailing from Guam, DJ 9Volt (b. Tristan Nery) began his career in 2000 as a member of Bassline Productions in Philadelphia. Though still a member of Bassline, 9Volt now resides and DJ’s in the DC area. 9Volt is also a founding member of Progressive Beats, a monthly party thrown to benefit various non-profit organizations.
§ Elahe (aka “The Elahater”) has dabbled in stand-up comedy since 2006 and is the founder of HateOnMe.com, an exploration for all things hateful and ignorant. She is also a featured blogger for FindingBibi.com. Elahe is a reporter by trade and lives in Maryland.
§ Gowri Koneswaran is a longtime poet but only began performing her work recently. She is currently enrolled in the Capturing Fire poetry workshop taught by Sol y Soul's Regie Cabico. Some of Gowri's other interests include vegan cooking, animal advocacy, Carnatic music, and the lives of the incarcerated.
§ Mali Phonpadith has been writing poety since the age of 12. She has won numerous awards for her poetry and is internationally-published. In 2007, she was nominated for "Best Poet of the Year" by the International Society of Poets. She runs an insurance practice and an artistic business called Reflections Within.
§ Hanalei Ramos is a multimedia artist and community educator. She has authored Letter to Martha, Foiled Stars, and debuted her one-woman show, Guns and Tampons: A History of Violence Against Women I Know, at the first National Asian American Theater Festival. Hanalei lives and works in her native Jersey City, NJ.
§ Hailing from Palestine by way of Detroit, Rama Salhi has been writing since about 2002. Inspired by 9/11 and its aftermath, Rama has been using words as an expression of her identity and experiences as an Arab-American woman. Though currently a student in Baltimore, she continues to write as a creative outlet.
§ Established in 2005, the Lao Swan Dance Troupe of Washington, DC is comprised of Lao women and girls who seek to preserve Lao culture through classical dance. Though their ages range from preteens to the mid-50s, the group members all share a love and appreciation for Lao classical and traditional dancing.
§ Visual artwork by Jenny Ho; Eileen Oh; and Lily Li
The DC Chapter of the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF) is once again putting together its popular Creative Explosion event – a show that highlights and celebrates API women's experiences through performance.
This year, we are featuring monstrous jams from DJ 9-VOLT, and our very own NAPAWF-DC sister JENNY LARES will serve as MC! Performances include, but are not limited to: spoken word, singing, dancing, visual art, and much more!
WHO: YOU!
WHAT: CREATIVE EXPLOSION V: The Spirit of API Feminism Through Performance
WHEN: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 at 6:30 P.M. (Doors open at 6:15 P.M.)
WHERE: Jin Lounge (2017 14th St. NW)
WHY: To witness and support the women as they express themselves in different performances that evoke emotion.
ABOUT CREATIVE EXPLOSION V
Creative Explosion strives to be a safe space for API women to express themselves, to celebrate their lives and experiences, and to empower and inspire API women to contribute to their communities. It seeks to challenge our marginalization and oppression and to support established and emerging local artists in our communities.
This year’s theme, “Recovery, Reflection, Renewal: API Women Reclaim Their Voices,” encompasses the processes or acts of recovery from an economic crisis, a traumatic experience, a natural disaster, a war, a past, a history of an individual and/or a community. It is rooted in the resistance, strength, and resilience of API women and women of color, as we struggle through our daily lives, constantly reflecting, healing, renewing, and reclaiming our selves and experiences.
Tickets are now available online! Please forward this to all of your friends! Thank you and we hope to see you there!
Tickets:
http://tinyurl.com/crexplosion5
$10 for NAPAWF Members, $15 non-NAPAWF Members
$20 at the door
The 2009 performers and their biographies are included below.
§ jenny c. lares has been making waves in the DC poetry and performance circuit since moving back in the area last year. She’s been featured at Busboys and Poets and Artomatic, and has self-published two books of poetry.
§ Originally hailing from Guam, DJ 9Volt (b. Tristan Nery) began his career in 2000 as a member of Bassline Productions in Philadelphia. Though still a member of Bassline, 9Volt now resides and DJ’s in the DC area. 9Volt is also a founding member of Progressive Beats, a monthly party thrown to benefit various non-profit organizations.
§ Elahe (aka “The Elahater”) has dabbled in stand-up comedy since 2006 and is the founder of HateOnMe.com, an exploration for all things hateful and ignorant. She is also a featured blogger for FindingBibi.com. Elahe is a reporter by trade and lives in Maryland.
§ Gowri Koneswaran is a longtime poet but only began performing her work recently. She is currently enrolled in the Capturing Fire poetry workshop taught by Sol y Soul's Regie Cabico. Some of Gowri's other interests include vegan cooking, animal advocacy, Carnatic music, and the lives of the incarcerated.
§ Mali Phonpadith has been writing poety since the age of 12. She has won numerous awards for her poetry and is internationally-published. In 2007, she was nominated for "Best Poet of the Year" by the International Society of Poets. She runs an insurance practice and an artistic business called Reflections Within.
§ Hanalei Ramos is a multimedia artist and community educator. She has authored Letter to Martha, Foiled Stars, and debuted her one-woman show, Guns and Tampons: A History of Violence Against Women I Know, at the first National Asian American Theater Festival. Hanalei lives and works in her native Jersey City, NJ.
§ Hailing from Palestine by way of Detroit, Rama Salhi has been writing since about 2002. Inspired by 9/11 and its aftermath, Rama has been using words as an expression of her identity and experiences as an Arab-American woman. Though currently a student in Baltimore, she continues to write as a creative outlet.
§ Established in 2005, the Lao Swan Dance Troupe of Washington, DC is comprised of Lao women and girls who seek to preserve Lao culture through classical dance. Though their ages range from preteens to the mid-50s, the group members all share a love and appreciation for Lao classical and traditional dancing.
§ Visual artwork by Jenny Ho; Eileen Oh; and Lily Li
Other Information
- Guests are allowed to bring friends to this event.
Event Type
This is an open event. Anyone can join and invite others to join.