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Thursday,
July 19th ~ Opening Night
Friday, July 20th ~ She
Says Soul Party
Saturday, July 21st
~ Sistaz Rising
Sunday, July 22nd ~ Closing
Day Event
BUSHRA
REHMAN
www.bushrarehman.com
SATURDAY,
JULY 21st
"SISTAZ RISING" CONCERT
111
Minna Gallery
(btw 2nd and New Montgomery)
San Francisco
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8pm-2am
21+
ADMISSION: $12 at the door
(also performing, Medusa,
Jennifer Johns, God-Des
& She,
DJ Zita, Ali
Wong, and poet Rachel
McKibbens)
Bushra is a vagabond poet
who traveled for years with nothing more than a greyhound
ticket and a book bag full of poems. Her poems have been
collected in the chapbook Marianna’s Beauty Salon
and she is co-editor of "Colonize This! Young Women
of Color on Today’s Feminism."
ALI
WONG
www.myspace.com/aliwong
SATURDAY,
JULY 21st
"SISTAZ RISING" CONCERT
111
Minna Gallery
(btw 2nd and New Montgomery)
San Francisco
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HERE FOR MAP
8pm-2am
21+
ADMISSION: $12 at the door
(also performing, Medusa,
Jennifer Johns, God-Des
& She,
DJ
Zita, Bushra Rehman,
and poet Rachel McKibbens)
Move over Margaret Cho.
Here's another rising Asian-Americana Comedienne. There
are some comedians who make you laugh...and then there
are those that make you hurt because their stuff is just
that funny.
"Native San Franciscan
Ali Wong has been creating a heavy buzz in the local stand-up
scene. With her hair in her trademark Chun-Li buns, Wong
packs a punch of infectious enthusiasm and a dab of exhibitionism
thrown in. Ruminating on everything from Chinese grandmothers
on MUNI to white Haight Street men in dreads and why her
consumption of fish sauce attracts men, Wong’s unique
brand of side-splitting raunchiness, ethnic accents and
physical comedy will leave the seats wet." ~ Lisa
Wong Macabasco, Asian Week
photo by Fabrice Trombert
AMBER
TAMBLYN
www.myspace.com/ambertamblyn
THURSDAY,
JULY 19th
OPENING NIGHT CONCERT
CAFE DU
NORD
2170 MARKET STREET
(btw Sanchez and Church)
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8pm-2am
21+
ADMISSION: $15 at the door
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(also performing, United by Sound,
Edison
Gem,
DJ Sokrates)
and poet Rachel Kann
Amber Tamblyn has been
a writer and actress since the age of 9. She was Emmy
and Golden Globe nominated for her work in the critically
acclaimed "Joan of Arcadia." She was nominated
for an Independent Spirit Award for her work in the independent
film, "Stephanie Daley," for which she received
the best actress award at Lacarno Film festival in Berlin.
Amber has published 3 books, "Of The Dawn,"
"Plenty Of Ships" and most recently "Free
Stallion." She has no idea what these titles mean,
but welcomes you to participate in the ongoing investigation.
Her work has been published in New York Quarterly Magazine,
The New Yorker, San Francisco Chronicle, Writers and Poets,
Longshot Press, and the Annual anthology "ONTHEBUS."
"Free Stallion" received a Border's Book Choice
Award for 2006, and a scathing review from some guy on
amazon.com saying, "as a writer I can assure that
Ms. Tamblyn is a fine sitcom actress." She appreciates
both.
"Free Stallion"
is currently being translated into Italian and Iranian.
Her work has appeared internationally in the 37th addition
of Le Voci Della Luna, Manifesto and POESY. In Iran, her
work appears in The Red Grounds Publisher. Amber has performed
with Matador master Derrick Brown, Mindy Netiffee, Jack
Hirschman, Wanda Coleman, Jeffrey McDaniel, Rachel Kann,
Beau Sia, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Michael McClure. She
is working on her 4th book of poetry and a book of short
stories.
ANDREA
GIBSON
www.myspace.com/andreagibson
Watch
Andrea's 2006 GFBA performance of "I Do"
Watch
Andrea's "Blue Blanket"
“If
slamming were professional boxing Andrea Gibson would be
the light weight you don’t think much of until she’s
knocked you flat on your ass!”
~ The Denver Westword
FRIDAY,
JULY 20th
"SHE SAYS 'SOUL' PARTY"
CELLSPACE
2050 Bryant Street
(btw 18th and 19th)
San Francisco
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MAP
8pm-2am
ALL AGES
ADMISSION: $5 - $20 Sliding Scale
(also performing, Mystic,
X-Factor, Emily
Wells, Sparlha Swa,
Doria Roberts,
and poet Lyz Soto)
Rousing audiences throughout
the United States and Canada with her poignant message
and her genuine interest in generating change, Andreas
words are powerful, compassionate, and inspiring. She
is a queer poet/activist whos work deconstructs the foundations
of the current political machine, highlighting issues
such as patriarchy, gender norms, white-supremacy, and
capitalist culture.
Andrea moved from New
Orleans to Colorado in 1999, where she began attending
weekly poetry readings at Denver's political hub, The
Mercury Café. In a years time she had rushed the
scene, making her mark with the 2000 Denver Slam Team
at The National Poetry Slam in Providence, Rhode Island.
In the same year, Andrea joined Vox Feminista, a multi-passionate
performance tribe of radical, political women bent on
social change through cultural revolution. She went on
to become a four-time Denver Grand Slam Champion. Andrea
took 4th place out of 350 competing poets in the individual
finals at the 2004 National Poetry Slam in St. Louis,
while simultaneously leading Team Denver to a 2nd place
title in the team competition. In 2006 she captured 3rd
place at the Individual World Poetry Slam in Charlotte,
North Carolina.
Andrea has headlined everywhere
from the Nuyorican Poet's Café, to Pride Fests
and Lady Fests, to high schools and universities throughout
the country. She has been showcased on Free Speech TV,
Dyke TV, the documentary Slam Planet, and Independent
Radio Stations nationwide. She is currently a member of
the prestigious Bullhorn Collective "comprised of
30 of the highest ranking slam poets and most accomplished
performance poets in the world." Andrea is an independent
artist who has self-released two CDs, Bullets and Windchimes
and Swarm, as well as one book, Trees that Grow in Cemeteries.
LYZ
SOTO
www.myspace.com/lyzpoeta
FRIDAY,
JULY 20th
"SHE SAYS 'SOUL' PARTY"
CELLSPACE
2050 Bryant Street
(btw 18th and 19th)
San Francisco
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MAP
8pm-2am
ALL AGES
ADMISSION: $5 - $20 Sliding Scale
(also performing, Mystic,
X-Factor, Emily
Wells, Sparlha Swa,
Doria Roberts,
and poet Andrea Gibson)
Lyz Soto
was born and raised in Hawai`i. She started experimenting
with creative writing in high school, but discovered her
passion for poetry while at Sarah Lawrence College in New
York where she was introduced to the works of Sonia Sanchez,
June Jordan, Ntzake Shange, and Adrienne Rich.
Lyz started slamming in
June of 2006, so she could be a mentor with Youth Speaks
Hawai`i. She has since won three slams with Hawai`i Slam
at the Hawaiian Hut in Honolulu, Hawai`i. She has featured
at re:Verses at The ARTS at Marks Garage, Bringing Back
Kerouac at Anna Banana’s, and First Friday at Ong
King Arts Center. Lyz was one of twelve finalists in the
2007 Hawai`i Slam Grand Slam Final. She is a mentor with
Youth Speaks Hawai`i, a member of the 2007 HawaiiSlam Team,
and is currently working on a choreopoem with Jamie Nakama
combining the arts of dance, spoken word, and music.
RACHEL
MCKIBBENS
www.myspace.com/butchergirl
SATURDAY,
JULY 21st
"SISTAZ RISING" CONCERT
111 Minna
Gallery
(btw 2nd and New Montgomery)
San Francisco
CLICK
HERE FOR MAP
8pm-2am
21+
ADMISSION: $12 at the door
(also performing, Medusa,
Jennifer Johns, God-Des
& She,
DJ
Zita, Bushra Rehman,
and poet Rachel McKibbens)
Rachel McKibbens is a
total Capricorn. She has been writing poetry for seven
years, was a member of the 2001 West Coast Regional Poetry
Slam championship team and was voted "Best New Poet"
by OC Weekly her first year slamming. McKibbens has made
six consecutive National Poetry Slam teams and has kissed
exactly six boys in her life. She recently led the 2006
louderARTS Poetry Slam Team to a third place finish and
her favorite color is pink.
She has appeared in the fourth and fifth seasons of HBO's
Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry and stars in the slam
documentary " Slam Planet: War of the Words.".
McKibbens is currently the SlamMaster for NYC/louderARTS
and is an Urban Word mentor teaching poetry through The
Healing Arts Program at Bellevue Hospital. She collects
butcher knives in her spare time.
MICIA
MOSELY
www.miciamosely.com
SUNDAY,
JULY 22nd
CLOSING DAY CONCERT
TBA
ALL AGES
ADMISSION: TBA
(also
performing: Imani Uzuri,
Melina Jones, Youth Speaks
Hawaii,
poet Ashley Atoms, Culture Shock, Velocity Circus)
A proud graduate of Brooklyn
Technical High School, Mosely received her Ph.D. in education,
with a focus on social and cultural studies from the University
of California at Berkeley. Her research interests include
teaching, race, and urban education. Micia lectures and
leads workshops on diversity and equity in education nation-wide.
She is the co-author of the article “The Discipline
gap: Teachers’ views on the overrepresentation of
African American students in the discipline system.”
In 2006 Micia’s chapter “Changing Teacher
Practice and Student Outcomes” was published in
the book Unfinished Business. Currently, she is working
on a book on how teachers make sense of “urbaness”
and adhere to federal and state educational mandates.
For over 15 years, she has drawn on her Brooklyn roots,
and passion for improv comedy, to fuse a unique blend
of hipness, humor, political astuteness, and versatility
in every performance. Micia’s desire to surpass
the boundaries of the ordinary led her to create “Sistahfriends:
A Black Lesbian Puppet Experience” and to co-found
Nappy Grooves, an all-Black drag king troupe. In May of
2006, Micia debuted her one-woman show, “Where My
Girls At?: A Comedic Look at Black Lesbians in the Bay.”
