Women Out Loud! - Friday, August 28
Posted by Insight Arts at 8/24/2009 1:51 PM 
Categories: Ongoing, Programs, Performance, Women, Participation
Categories: Ongoing, Programs, Performance, Women, Participation
FEATURING ANIDA YOEU ALI!
Friday, August 28
7 to 9 PM
Women Out Loud! is proud to present Anida Yoeu Ali, one of the co-creators of Women OutLoud.
Anida seeks an artistic, spiritual and political exploration of her identity as a non hyphenated Cambodian Muslim American woman. Ali uses an interdisciplinary approach to creating art which mixes the visual, spoken and written into performed explorations of hybrid identities. She is interested in using performance work as a means to transform loss into conversations about healing and understanding. She aches for home, a good pair of ass-kicking shoes, and poetry by Audre Lorde. She is proud to call Chicago home but knows the journey never really ends for the refugee.
A believer in the power of collective creations, she has founded Mango Tribe, an Asian American women's interdisciplinary performance ensemble; Asian American Artists Collective-Chicago; the APIA Spoken Word & Poetry Summit; and the MONSOON fine arts journal. She is also a founding member of the critically- acclaimed panAsian spoken word quartet I Was Born With Two Tongues. Anida tours extensively in North America and internationally, with recent performances in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, New Delhi, Ho Chi Minh City, Phnom Penh and Chiang Mai.
Ali co-edited the award-winning anthology Screaming Monkeys: Critiques of Asian American Images. She has been recognized by PoliticalCircus.com as one of the 30 most influential Asian Pacific Americans 30 years of age or younger. She is a recipient of the Cambodian Association of Illinois’ award for community activism and Insight Arts’ Creative Movements Festival Award for her artistic contributions to the development of dialogue concerning social justice and human rights. She has learned over and over one valuable lesson that is at the heart of her work: Everyone has a story to tell and everyone’s story is worth telling!
Also featuring on August 28 is Kristina Mascarenas, more commonly known by " Kai Kai," a talented young writer and actor who is also a sophomore at Loyola University Chicago. While on her way to fulfilling her dream of becoming a pediatrician, she spends her free time practicing Filipino cultural dance and hip hop. Although not currently performing, Kai Kai has been a member of Circa-Pintig since the beginning, and was the lead character, "Tula," in Lani Montreal's Gift of Tongue. She misses the stage, and so is grateful for this awesome opportunity.
Come and share your words, and/or just take a break from the week’s work woes and listen to fabulous women writers/performers read/do spoken word/sing. Open mic starts at 7 pm and is followed by the featured writer. $5 suggested donation, $3 for open mic participants.
The CENTER FOR NEW POSSIBILITIES located at 1505 W Morse Avenue, is a space coordinated by Insight Arts, a contemporary arts organization dedicated to increasing access to cultural work that supports progressive social change. Our unique organizational model allows us to engage in community based, regional and national work.
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