The Asian American Artists Collective presents...
CHOP! CHOP!
2nd Annual Collective Showcase
Sunday December 22, 2003
HOTHOUSE
31 E. Balbo
5-8pm
$10 Donation ($7 students/seniors)
The Asian American Artists
Collective-Chicago is committed to creating
intersections
between art, audience, and activism. We are a collaborative network of
diverse
Asian American voices dedicated to artistic development, support and empowerment.
Through the arts, The Collective works to confront, subvert and disrupt
stereotypes,
discrimination, prejudice and oppression from outside and inside of our
communities.
Come join the Asian American Artists
Collective for our annual evening of critical
and conscious expression through art, poetry, video, music, and performances.
This multimedia extravaganza is our 2nd annual showcase of premiere works
by
Asian American artists in the chicagoland area.
On the chopping block:
The PACIFICS, Inagruv, Pintig, Mango Tribe, YAWP! (Young Asians with Power),
members of 2 Tongues, Kitchen Poems, visual artwork by Project A,
sound experimentation by (V)ESL, SAPAC plus guest performance by Bao Phi
and much more!
BIOS OF Performers:
The PACIFICS
are uncut "go ill" hip hop designed to serve the soul and snap
the neck.
KP the Ilustrado, mr. REXford (aka. strike3) and DJ Norman Rockwell craft
beats and rhymes
that speak the language of their present and stand on history's shoulders
to reach towards the future.
Inagruv is an evolving funk hip hop band, featuring vocals by Rabab Moolji.
YAWP!—Young
Asians With Power—is a new youth program formed in the summer of
2002 to
address the need for a socially conscious, multi-disciplinary, youth informed
arts program for
APIA teens in the Chicagoland area.
PINTIG, meaning pulse in Pilipino, is a Filipino theater group.
Kitchen Poems
is a writers’ workshop established in 1997 as a weekly gathering
of local APIA
writers in all genres and disciplines
Project A
brings together APIA visual and sound artists to organize exhibitions
and facilitate
regular group critiques and "slide slams",.
Mango Tribe is The Collective’s all-women multi-city, interdisciplinary performance ensemble
Bao Phi
will be our special guest feature. He is currently November's poetry hunk,
and will play
the part of Bill-Dough Baggin' in "Lord of the Bling: A Hip Hop Tolkien
Musical."
(V)ESL
is an Asian American audio group dedicated to reconstructing the definition
of music,
utilizing a wide variety of melodic, harmonic and rhythmic concepts.
The South Asian Progressive Action Collective (SAPAC) is a Chicago based collective that developed out of a common desire for a progressive forum to take up issues pertinent to South Asia and the diaspora through direct action, creative expression, and discussion.
I Was Born with Two Tongues is a chicago based panAsian American spoken word crew
for more info, contact us directly.
Anida Esguerra 312-933-4426