Reading, UC Berkeley, September 28
hey folks- berkeley, P4P new and old, and friends,
I got this gig to do a reading/ performance of my poetry and Q and A at UC Berkeley! It's two Mondays from now. It's free. It'll be good. I'm going to be reading from older work from Consensual Genocide and new work from my forthcoming book, Love Cake. There'll be queer girl of color survival stories and love and color and drama and disability and femmeness and working-class stuff and etc. Can you help spread the word on campus and to your friends? I'm putting up fliers in Barrows and will tell P4P folks, but any help you can lend spreading the word is much appreciated. Also, come out!
xoxo
Leah
leah lakshmi piepzna-samarasinha~
in performance and conversation
Monday, September 28
7PM
Multicultural Resource Center
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a queer Sri Lankan writer, spoken word artist and arts educator. Her first book, Consensual Genocide, was published by TSAR Books in April 2006. She is the 2009-2010 Artist in Residence at UC Berkeley's June Jordan's Poetry for the People, the co-founder and artistic director of Mangos With Chili, North America's only touring cabaret of queer and trans people of color performing artists, and a 2009 performer with Sins Invalid, the queer disability cabaret. Her work has recently appeared in Visible: A Femmethology, Yes Means Yes and We Don't Need Another Wave. She believes in the power of the written and spoken word to heal, decolonize and change the world.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies,
the Beatrice Bain Research Group and the Center for Race and Gender.
I got this gig to do a reading/ performance of my poetry and Q and A at UC Berkeley! It's two Mondays from now. It's free. It'll be good. I'm going to be reading from older work from Consensual Genocide and new work from my forthcoming book, Love Cake. There'll be queer girl of color survival stories and love and color and drama and disability and femmeness and working-class stuff and etc. Can you help spread the word on campus and to your friends? I'm putting up fliers in Barrows and will tell P4P folks, but any help you can lend spreading the word is much appreciated. Also, come out!
xoxo
Leah
leah lakshmi piepzna-samarasinha~
in performance and conversation
Monday, September 28
7PM
Multicultural Resource Center
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a queer Sri Lankan writer, spoken word artist and arts educator. Her first book, Consensual Genocide, was published by TSAR Books in April 2006. She is the 2009-2010 Artist in Residence at UC Berkeley's June Jordan's Poetry for the People, the co-founder and artistic director of Mangos With Chili, North America's only touring cabaret of queer and trans people of color performing artists, and a 2009 performer with Sins Invalid, the queer disability cabaret. Her work has recently appeared in Visible: A Femmethology, Yes Means Yes and We Don't Need Another Wave. She believes in the power of the written and spoken word to heal, decolonize and change the world.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies,
the Beatrice Bain Research Group and the Center for Race and Gender.