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DESCRIPTION:"DIS-oriented"\nA trio of solo performances by Asian-American 
 women\n\n\nFriday, May 14 @ 8pm\nPresented by the Asian Pacific Islander 
 Cultural 
 Center\nhttp://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/103889\n\n\nDIS-ORIENTED.  
 Cultural indigestion, color-blindness and inter-ethnic vertigo.  Is there a 
 cure?  Is it treatable?  Is it contagious?  That's what three women, Zahra, 
 Thao and Coke -- Iranian, Vietnamese and Okinawan/Japanese -- try to find 
 out as they aim to DIS-orient themselves from external stereotypes and 
 internal expectations. \n\nThis show features a dynamic trio of performers 
 whose individual solo pieces will lead you across a Muslim-Atheist supper 
 table, the Mekong Delta, and Diagnostic Systems of Sexual Dysfunction.  In 
 between each solo performance are smart and biting vignettes -- comic 
 sketches, audience improv games, and contemporary dance -- that will leave 
 you happy to be as DIS-oriented as they are.  \n\nDIS-oriented is a 
 performance presented by the San Francisco Asian Pacific Islander Cultural 
 Center as a part of the 13th Annual United States of Asian America 
 Festival, a month-long tribute to Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month 
 (May in the United States).\n\n\nTHE PERFORMANCES:\n\n"All Atheists Are 
 Muslim"\nWritten & performed by ZAHRA NOORBAKHSH.\nHow hard can it be for 
 Zahra, an Iranian Muslim girl in her mid-twenties, to move-in with her 
 Atheist White-American boyfriend and cheerfully tell her father that she 
 doesn't need his blessing?\n\n"Soft Tissue"\nWritten & performed by COLLEEN 
 “Coke” NAKAMOTO.\nWhat's a woman to do when her vagina says 'No!' and 
 refuses to come out and play?  See what happens when one girl's dreams of 
 true love and professional go-go dancing get derailed by speculums, 
 visiting spirits and the F word.\n\n"Fortunate Daughter"\nWritten & 
 performed by THAO P. NGUYEN\nThao, 25, wakes up on a good morning in 
 Vietnam, dons her full-metal jacket and goes deer hunting on Hamburger Hill 
 with Forrest Gump and Martin Sheen.  Only she survives.  Later, her mom 
 takes her to meet her grandmother for the first time.\n\n\nWHERE:\nMission 
 Cultural Center\n2868 Mission St, San Francisco\nOne block from 24th & 
 Mission BART\n\n\nTICKETS:\n$15 General Admission.\n$20 Patron of the 
 Arts.\nhttp://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/103889\n\n\nDISCOUNT:\nDiscount 
 code: twofortwenty\nOffer: $20 for a set of two tickets.\nGroup rates also 
 available online:\nhttp://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/103889\n\n\nTHE 
 PERFORMERS:\n\nZAHRA NOORBAKHSH is a solo-performer and stand-up comedian, 
 who's performed with Maz Jobrani from the Axis of Evil Comedy Tour, and 
 Shazia Mirza from Last Comic Standing.  Her one-woman show "Hijab and 
 Hammerpants," recently debuted at the SF Theater Festival, under the 
 direction of W. Kamau Bell (SF Weekly's performer of the year, 2008).  Find 
 out more about her comedy and solo shows at 
 http://www.zahracomedy.com.\n\nCOLLEEN "Coke" NAKAMOTO is a solo performer, 
 curious about where words meet the body.  Coke has presented her work at 
 the David Henry Wangle Theater (LA), the Carl Cherry Center for the Arts 
 (Carmel), and locally at NOHSpace, Stagewerx, CounterPULSE (Words First, 
 APAture, Asian American Dance Performances), The Marsh, SOMArts 
 (APICC/Eth-Noh-Tec), the San Francisco Theater Festival, and the Joyce 
 Gordon Gallery (For Colored Girls Only). “Soft Tissue” is the second 
 piece she has developed under the direction of W. Kamau Bell and the Solo 
 Performance Workshop.\n\nTHAO P. NGUYEN has been writing and performing 
 solo shows since she joined the Solo Performance Workshop in 2007.  Her 
 director, the critically acclaimed W. Kamau Bell ("Four Stars" in Time Out 
 New York and SF Chronicle), has awarded her with the coveted "W. Kamau Bell 
 Solo Performance Black Belt," a distinction which to this date has been 
 awarded only four times.  She also co-produces two monthly solo performance 
 series in San Francisco: "Words First" at CounterPULSE and "City Solo" at 
 Off-Market 
 Theater.\n\n\nhttp://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/103889\n\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/04/21/18645375.php
SUMMARY:DIS-ORIENTED: A trio of solo performances by Asian-American women
LOCATION:Mission Cultural Center\n2868 Mission Street, SF\nOne block from 24th & 
 Mission BART
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/04/21/18645375.php
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