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Saturday, January 30, 2010
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
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NEW LEADERS COUNCIL HAITI CAMPAIGN | ||
  When a Person in Peru, or Siberia, or rural Haiti falls ill, PIH uses all of the means at our disposal to make them well… Whatever it takes. Just as we would do if a member of our own family—or we ourselves—were ill. --Excerpted from the PIH Mission Statement UPDATE: We Reached Our $2000 Goal and Doubled It: Help Us Raise $4000 for Haiti Relief Efforts! Join New Leaders Council and Partners in Health in Bringing $4000 in Aid to Haiti The people of Haiti need our help. New Leaders Council is organizing our community to raise $4000 to bring essential health services to the victims of the disaster in Haiti. If you are in the Washington D.C. area, please join us for our Jan. 22 fundraiser (details below). If you are in other parts of the country, make a small donation today to help us raise $4000 for the people of Haiti. NLC Fundraiser for Haiti January 22 6-9 PM Midtown Loft 1219 Connecticut Ave NW, 3rd Floor (between N Jefferson Pl & N 18th St) Washington, DC RSVP on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=268647253960&index=1 Suggested Minimum Donation: $25 Haiti needs our help. Join NLC in raising $4000 by making a donation by clicking the thermometer above. From PIH: "The scope the disaster is truly enormous, and a tremendous influx of immediate aid is needed to avert an even greater loss of life. Partners In Health has been working in Haiti for nearly 25 years. Our local team is already working to ensure PIH’s coordinated relief efforts, leveraging the skills of more than 120 doctors and nearly 500 nurses and nursing assistants who work at established sites throughout Haiti." Learn more about New Leaders Council Web: http://www.NewLeadersCouncil.org/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NewLeadersCouncil Twitter: http://twitter.com/NewLeadersCNCL | ||
Monday, January 11, 2010
For Immediate Release:
Contact: Carolyn Malachi Monday, January, 11, 2010
MEDIA ADVISORY
BLOOMBARS AND SMART CHICKS, INC. TEAM-UP FOR A DAY OF SERVICE ON MLK DAY
Artists Take The Lead: Winter Clothing Drive, Letter Writing Campaign, And Music Video Shoot
WASHINGTON, DC - When the nation celebrates the birthday Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, on January 18th, musicians, poets, actors, photographers, and artists of all stripes will lead a community call to action as a part of the “Live. Give. Bloom.” day of service at BloomBars, a Washington DC-based non-profit organization that works to inspire and unite communities through the arts while nurturing artists committed to serving the community.
The effort is being led by Carolyn Malachi, Artist-in-Bloom Resident Fellow, and founder of Smart Chicks, Inc., a national non-profit arts organization with a mission to advance visibility and leadership for women in the arts.
What: Artists rally for day of service to bring winter clothes to needy families and a wheel chair ramp to BloomBars. The efforts of artists and community members will be documented in a music video shoot for ‘Orion’, the first single from her CD, Revenge of the Smart Chicks III: Eclectic Company, coming in July. The video will chronicle the activities taking place during “Live. Give. Bloom.” All are invited to bring warm clothes to donate and a pen or a laptop for a letter writing campaign to bring a wheel chair ramp to BloomBars.
When: Monday, January 18th, 2010. 12:00pm to 4:00pm.
Where: BloomBars, 3222 11th Street, N,W. Washington, D.C. (Columbia Heights Metro)
Carolyn Malachi (A Brief Bio)
Hailing from Washington, DC, Carolyn Malachi, great-granddaughter of jazz pianist John Malachi, has created a modern infectious gumbo of jazz, hip-hop, and spoken word music. Revenge of the Smart Chicks III: Eclectic Company (July 2010) is third in a series of stirring, genre-bending CDs, the first of which spawned the Revenge of the Smart Chicks movement and non-profit called Smart Chicks Inc. The organization is dedicated to developing visibility and leadership opportunities for women in the arts. Click HERE to view Carolyn’s press kit.
Friday, January 8, 2010
Doors open at 6:30pm. Show starts at 7:00pm. Dance party at 10:00pm.
$10 general admission / $8 students
(Alcohol will be served at this event. Event is ALL AGES; all under 21 will need supervision after the show.)
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Hosted by Regie Cabico. Sounds by DJ Mars Noble.
FEATURING:
*KELLY ZEN-YIE TSAI *
www.yellowgurl.com
FB: Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai
Twitter: @yellowgurlpoet
Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai is a Chicago-born, Brooklyn-based, Chinese Taiwanese American spoken word artist who has performed her poetry at over 375 venues worldwide including three seasons on "Russell Simmons Presents HBO Def Poetry." Winner of a 2007 New York Foundation for the Arts Urban Artist Initiative Award, she was listed as one of Idealist in NYC's Top 40 New Yorkers Who Make Positive Social Change in 2008 and AngryAsianMan.com’s “30 Most Influential Asian Americans Under 30” in 2009. She has shared stages with Mos Def, KRS-One, Sonia Sanchez, Talib Kweli, Erykah Badu, Amiri Baraka, and many more.
*SIMONE JACOBSON*
www.wblinc.org
Simone Jacobson was born in Phoenix, Arizona where she emerged as a performer under the tutelage of internationally renowned choreographer, Hodgie Jo. While at the University of Maryland, she studied dance and became a member of the professional hip-hop dance company, Culture Shock DC (CSDC), serving as the first director of their junior dance company, Future Shock. Among other venues, she has performed with CSDC in Zurich, Switzerland, at the Asian Pacific Islander American Spoken Word and Poetry Summit in San Francisco and Busboys and Poets in Washington, D.C. Ms. Jacobson was the founder/director of the Urban Poets Society, a traveling collective of spoken word poets in DC, MD, and VA. She also founded/directed UMD's first hip-hop dance company, PHUNKtions, which is still active and hosts an annual hip-hop dance competition. She has trained with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, danced as the opening act for Sister Sledge and for the legendary Roots crew with Footklan.
Today, she is the Cipher Director at Words Beats & Life (WBL), a non-profit organization dedicated to transforming individual lives and whole communities through hip-hop. She is currently pursuing an MA in Arts Management at American University. Over the past two years, she has taught English/hip-hop dance/spoken word poetry in northern France, in a French immersion preschool in San Francisco, visited her mother's homeland (Burma), managed an international arts exchange between Iran and the U.S., and launched/hosted an open mic at the Hillyer Art Space called HOME. In the words of Jeff Chang and the hip-hop community, "can't stop, won't stop."
*THE ELAHATER*
www.hateonme.com
*TAIYI SUN*
Violinist
*MARCO MERCADO*
Marco Mercado is a high energy performer who has amazed audiences up and down the East coast. He has performed at numerous colleges and venues including University of Florida, Penn State, Virginia Tech, Georgetown University. He is a social studies teacher at Independence Middle School in Virginia Beach. Marco Mercado's humble beginnings and word-of-mouth has given him longevity in the community. The performer and teacher is also sponsor for Barrelman Apparel.
with a special guest performance by *HANALEI RAMOS*!
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ABOUT SULU DC
Sulu DC is an underground, grassroots network for Asian American and/or Pacific Islander American (AAPI)* artists, which provides a home for AAPI focused spoken word and multidisciplinary artists in Washington, D.C. Sulu DC fosters relationships with local and national activist organizations, nurtures the artistic development of emerging AAPI artists and builds inter-generational alliances with cities across North America in preparation for the biennial APIA Spoken Word & Poetry Summit (next summit: 2011 in Twin Cities, MN. Visit www.apiaword.com for more information).
