Events
Heritage Performance Series Presents ...
La Angry Xicana?!
A stand-up comedy performance by Adelina Anthony
Friday, April 25, 2008 @ 8:00 p.m. in the Cooperage
Adelina's new, full-length stand-up comedy features her trademark salacious, brazen, Spanglish humor and flirts with all kinds of cultural taboos. "La Angry Xicana?!" weaves together critiques on Hollywood, the U.S. corporate media, purported lesbian gang epidemics, The L Word, conservative politics, LGBT community health issues, religious icons, post-welfare life, and the semi-sacred courtship that happens only among queer womyn of color. As in other works, the show commits to positioning lesbian Xicana/Latinas as the ideal viewership and operates from a queer/feminist/indigenous critical lens. In Adelina's relentless commitment to blur genre boundaries, she couches this solo work in the stand-up comedy genre, but decidedly infuses it with moments of high theatricality and also relies on the oral tradition of storytelling for maximum effect. More importantly, using comedy as a weapon of choice, the show examines possible sources of contemporary and historical anger among womyn of color. (Oh, and people, she's really not angry… she's just getting even!)
Free to Student, Faculty & Staff (with ID)
General Admission $5-$10 (Sliding Scale at the door)
Cosponsored by M.E.Ch.A. de Sonoma and SRJC M.E.Ch.A. - Petaluma
http://www.adelinaanthony.com/
http://www.myspace.com/adelinaanthony
Past Events
SF Asian Art Museum Tour, "Manga" Japanese Comic Art
Saturday, August, 25 - Sign up in Zinnfendel
Vans leave the Police Services parking lot at 9:30 a.m.
Tour starts at 11:30 a.m. (60 min)
Tezuka: The Marvel of Manga
150,000 pages of manga. 70 anime TV & feature-length productions. Two explosive elements of Japanese pop culture. One visionary: Tezuka Osamu.
Regarded in Japan as "The God of Comics," Tezuka Osamu is an icon in the world of manga (Japanese comics) and revered as an artistic master. This major exhibition—the first of its kind outside of Japan—features more than 200 original drawings, paintings, and more. See the art that started an international phenomenon and discover why manga is more than just your Sunday funny pages.
Yoshitoshi's Strange Tales: Woodblock Prints from Edo to Meiji
Features a hundred prints by Taiso Yoshitoshi (1839–1892) dating from the turbulent last decades of Edo Japan to the westernizing Meiji era. Sometimes considered ancestors of modern manga (Japanese comics), woodblock prints were known as ukiyo-e, pictures of the "floating world" of entertainment, especially of actors and courtesans.
For more info on the displays checkout ... http://www.asianart.orgSex 101: Surviving the Weekend w/River Huston
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
In the Cooperage @ 7:30 p.m.
Standup comic, award winning poet, sex columnist, public speaker, aerobics instructor, cabbie, musician, marijuana farmer, there is more but she only has an hour to talk about how her experiences have changed her life and how the choices you make change yours. She is taking these experiences to Sonoma State College where she will be doing an interactive, frank workshop on sexuality.
Described as blunt and irreverent, River Huston has been giving performances and presentations around the world for the last 18 years to audiences ranging from 40,000 in Japan to sororities and fraternities across the nation, to little old ladies at a Unitarian Church. She has been featured on Good Morning America, Showtime, Montel Williams, Nightline, and CNN as an activist, writer and performer.
Huston has written of several books of poetry including, Jesus Never Lived Here and The Bones of Susan and In Which I Lost 1,000 Pounds. She is the Author of A Positive Life Portraits of Women Living With HIV and The Goddess: A Guide to Feminine Wisdom. River is currently performing her one woman show, Sex, Cellulite and Large Farm Equipment: One Girls Guide to Living and Dying in theaters nationwide.
This is one presentation you do not want to miss!
"River's enthusiasm, honesty, charisma and passion about her subject matter shines through everything she does. She truly engages her audience, and attendees leave laughing, talking and energized!" - Suzie Romano, Adirondacks Community College
"River is by far on of the best speakers I have ever heard. She is captivating, hilarious, and inspiring. It is why we have her back every chance we can. - Rick Benjamin, Brown University
Heritage Performance Series Presents ...
A Spoken Word Performance by
The Athens Boys Choir featuring Katz
Friday, October 12, 2007 @ 8:00 p.m. in the Cooperage
Ok, so the name Athens Boys Choir can be a bit deceiving but you can't blame a Transsexual man living in the Deep South for having a sense of humor about the whole ordeal. So Katz, the Choir's now solo member, travels the country speaking "the good word" throwing down hard hitting spoken-word that deals with issues of Gender, Politics, Love, Sex, and everything in-between.
Katz's spoken-word is raw, unapologetic, witty, and soulful. As Out Magazine wrote in 2006, "Katz avoids falling into the common spoken-word trap... and instead uses engaging wordplay, razor-sharp wit, and hip-hop rhythms." He has had the honor of sharing the stage with such artists as Ani Difranco, Indigo Girls, Bitch, The Butchies, Danielle Howle, and Michelle Malone. He has also opened for poets of HBO's Def Poetry Jam on more than one occasion.
Being a out Transsexual, Katz's spoken-word often becomes a platform for education and activism, but all work and no play makes for one intense performance so he lets loose with sarcasm, pop culture references, and video's featuring Barbara Streisand as Yentl and sassy footwork by the stars of the 1979 hit "Roller Boogie."
http://www.myspace.com/athensboyschoir
Heritage Lecture Series Presents ...
Captain James Yee
For God and Country: Faith and Patriotism Under Fire
Tuesday, October 23, 2007 @ 7:30 p.m. in the Cooperage
Chaplain James J. Yee is a former US Army Chaplain and graduate of West Point who served as the Muslim Chaplain for the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba that would become controversial for its treatment of detainees designated as "enemy combatants" by the U.S. government.
After being officially recognized twice for outstanding performance, Captain Yee was arrested and imprisoned in a Naval brig for 76 days in September 2003 while being falsely accused of spying, espionage, and aiding the alleged Taliban and Al-Qaeda prisoners.
After months of government investigation, all criminal charges were dropped. With his record wiped clean, Chaplain Yee was reinstated to full duty at Fort Lewis, Washington. He tendered his resignation from the U.S. Army and received an Honorable Discharge on January 7, 2005. Upon separation he was awarded with a second Army Commendation medal for "exceptionally meritorious service."
Heritage Performance Series Presents ...
MIXED performed by Maya Lily
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Warren Auditorium, Ives Hall @ 8:00 p.m.
Never before has the story of multiracial individuals been told. Although the topic of interracial relationships has been tackled theatrically, the voice missing is perhaps the one that most greatly illuminates the causes of racism. Who else but from people who embrace two races within their own being can we learn tolerance? A one-person play adapted entirely from interviews and workshops held across the country, MIXED has been described as the first truly multicultural portrayal of Americans ever. Provoking debate and discussion, these stories have been met with tears and standing-ovations around America.
Finally, here we have the narratives of those ignored by the U.S. Census for years; those who have fallen through the cracks of the political system; those who were once told by doctors that they might be born "degenerate" or "deformed". After centuries of misunderstanding, these stories make the audience understand what it is to belong to many cultures and, simultaneously, to none.
Y o u r e y e s w i l l n e v e r b e t h e s a m e.
http://www.myspace.com/mixedshow
