Date: 12 March 2011
Time: 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Location:
Multicultural Community Center
MLK Jr. Student Union (@ Heller Lounge)
Berkeley, CA
On Saturday evening, March 12, 2011, Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies will sponsor a spoken word performance at the Multicultural Community Center as a culminating event for the 21st Annual API Issues Conference (APIICON). The event will feature spoken word poets BEAU SIA, KELLY TSAI, and BAO PHI. Please spread the word and bring your friends!!!!
Check out for more detailed info: http://aaads.berkeley.edu/2011/01/spoken-...word-performance-by-bao-phi-beau-sia-and-kelly-tsai/
You do NOT have to attend the API Issues Conference to hear these spoken word artists perform. This event is FREE so just show up.
Performer Bios:
Born in Ohio and raised in Oklahoma BEAU SIA began performing spoken word poetry while in high school. He attended NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. He was chosen as a member of the Nuyorican National Poetry Slam Team, which placed third in the nation at the 1996 National Poetry Slam. SIA won two National Poetry Slam championships and placing second in the 2001 Individual Poetry Slam competition, toured the U.S. and Europe, and appeared on television and on Broadway’s Def Poetry Jam. His work appears in many anthologies as well as on the CD Attack! Attack! Go! He authored the book A Night Without Armor II: The Revenge and has acted and been featured in video documentaries as well as on television programs and commercials.
KELLY ZEN-YIE TSAI is a Chicago-born, Brooklyn-based, Chinese Taiwanese American spoken word artist who has performed at over 450 venues worldwide including three seasons on “Russell Simmons Presents HBO Def Poetry.” Winner of an Asian American Arts Alliance/NYFA Urban Artist Initiative Award, she was profiled on Idealist in NYC’s Top 40 New Yorkers Who Make Positive Social Change, AngryAsianMan.com’s “30 Most Influential Asian Americans Under 30,” and HBO’s “East of Main Street: Asians Aloud.” She has shared stages with Mos Def, KRS-One, Sonia Sanchez, Talib Kweli, Erykah Badu, Amiri Baraka, Harry Belafonte, and many more.
BAO PHI has been a performance poet since 1991. A two-time Minnesota Grand Slam champion and a National Poetry Slam finalist, BAO PHI has appeared on HBO Presents Russell Simmons Def Poetry. He has released several CDs and has published poetry as well as essays in topics from Asians in hip hop to Asian representation in video games. He maintains a popular blog for the Star Tribune’s website, which he uses to bring issues and alternative perspectives on Asian American community to light. Currently he works at the Loft, where he creates and operates programs for artists and audiences of color.
More information here.
Time: 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Location:
Multicultural Community Center
MLK Jr. Student Union (@ Heller Lounge)
Berkeley, CA
On Saturday evening, March 12, 2011, Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies will sponsor a spoken word performance at the Multicultural Community Center as a culminating event for the 21st Annual API Issues Conference (APIICON). The event will feature spoken word poets BEAU SIA, KELLY TSAI, and BAO PHI. Please spread the word and bring your friends!!!!
Check out for more detailed info: http://aaads.berkeley.edu/2011/01/spoken-...word-performance-by-bao-phi-beau-sia-and-kelly-tsai/
You do NOT have to attend the API Issues Conference to hear these spoken word artists perform. This event is FREE so just show up.
Performer Bios:
Born in Ohio and raised in Oklahoma BEAU SIA began performing spoken word poetry while in high school. He attended NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. He was chosen as a member of the Nuyorican National Poetry Slam Team, which placed third in the nation at the 1996 National Poetry Slam. SIA won two National Poetry Slam championships and placing second in the 2001 Individual Poetry Slam competition, toured the U.S. and Europe, and appeared on television and on Broadway’s Def Poetry Jam. His work appears in many anthologies as well as on the CD Attack! Attack! Go! He authored the book A Night Without Armor II: The Revenge and has acted and been featured in video documentaries as well as on television programs and commercials.
KELLY ZEN-YIE TSAI is a Chicago-born, Brooklyn-based, Chinese Taiwanese American spoken word artist who has performed at over 450 venues worldwide including three seasons on “Russell Simmons Presents HBO Def Poetry.” Winner of an Asian American Arts Alliance/NYFA Urban Artist Initiative Award, she was profiled on Idealist in NYC’s Top 40 New Yorkers Who Make Positive Social Change, AngryAsianMan.com’s “30 Most Influential Asian Americans Under 30,” and HBO’s “East of Main Street: Asians Aloud.” She has shared stages with Mos Def, KRS-One, Sonia Sanchez, Talib Kweli, Erykah Badu, Amiri Baraka, Harry Belafonte, and many more.
BAO PHI has been a performance poet since 1991. A two-time Minnesota Grand Slam champion and a National Poetry Slam finalist, BAO PHI has appeared on HBO Presents Russell Simmons Def Poetry. He has released several CDs and has published poetry as well as essays in topics from Asians in hip hop to Asian representation in video games. He maintains a popular blog for the Star Tribune’s website, which he uses to bring issues and alternative perspectives on Asian American community to light. Currently he works at the Loft, where he creates and operates programs for artists and audiences of color.
More information here.
