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DESCRIPTION:MAY 27th the heat is on!   Come to a tranzfabulous edition of QUEER OPEN 
 MIC featuring ryka aoki de la cruz, surprise performances by members of 
 Trans/Giving and yvonne o2 etaghene on the only San Francisco stop of her 
 womanifesting dangerous freedoms poetry tour.     When:   May 27th, 2005   
 8pm   Where:   Three Dollar Bill Cafe   1800 Market@Octavia     How:   
 $1-$5 donation – no one turned away for lack of funds   Details:   Queer 
 Open Mic was created to foster a conversation among a community of queer, 
 radical and feminist poets and performers within a multi gender, multi 
 generational and multi cultural framework. Without venues like the Bearded 
 Lady Truckstop Café, and in a post Sister Spit San Francisco, Queer Open 
 Mic intends to create a space, along with venues like Femina Potens, where 
 folks can come together without the cost or pressure of a bar setting to 
 share art and create community.     This week features a tranzfabulous 
 collection of performances on the open mic from Los Angeles troupe 
 Trans/Giving led by the stunning feature ryka aoki de la cruz and Nigerian 
 Poetess yvonne o2 etaghene from New York on the San Francisco stop of her 
 womanifesting dangerous freedoms poetry tour as the second feature of the 
 night.     FULL BIOS OF PERFORMERS BELOW.   Why an open mic on a Friday 
 night? Because the queers will not be silenced, because sharing art is a 
 revolutionary act, because coming together to kick some serious literary 
 ass and genderfucking through art is unbelievably fun, because your voice 
 and your experience is unique and needs to be heard, for these reasons and 
 more come on over to a friendly and fabulous open mic for the entire queer 
 community! Let's create a space for spoken word, poetry and performance 
 that is multi cultural, multi gendered, completely inclusive and dynamic.   
 sign up 7:30, show @ 8pm   at the Three Dollar Bill Cafe   1800 Market @ 
 Octavia     May 27th   ryka aoki de la cruz: FULL BIO     ryka aoki de la 
 cruz is a trans goth dyke who has been published most recently in Beyond 
 the Valley of Contemporary Poets, Girlchick.com, Grand Street, FEM 
 Magazine, the Southern Poetry Review, Lodestar Quarterly, and Tsur. ryka 
 has work in the forthcoming anthology Poetry is Not a Luxury: Poems by L.A. 
 Women of Color. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Cornell University, 
 is a founder of Cornell University's Asian American Playhouse, and head 
 coach of Cornell's Ivy League Judo Championship Team. She is the recipient 
 of a University Award from the Academy of American Poets.   ryka has worked 
 with the American Society of Hiroshima-Nagasaki A-Bomb Survivors, and two 
 of her compositions have been adopted by the group as its official "Songs 
 of Peace." She has featured at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, 
 the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Los Angeles Poetry Festival, 
 Scripps College, ForWord Girls and Intercourse -- A Sex and Gender Recipe 
 for Revolution, in San Francisco, Cliterati in Atlanta, and Gen Estro in 
 Minneapolis.     Trans/Giving FULL BIO   Trans/Giving is a celebration of 
 trans/genderqueer/intersex artists and believes that the strongest 
 statement artists can make is simply through our art. From jazz musicians 
 to Shakespearean actors, slam poets to porn stars—when performers show 
 our poetry, our wit, our music, our images...we become luminous... and 
 maybe people will think twice before wanting to stamp us out.     yvonne o2 
 etaghene FULL BIO   a fierce femme Nigerian warrior based in her mother’s 
 womb, yvonne o2 etaghene is also known as I AM MY MOTHER’S DAUGHTER. she 
 performs poetry passionately, loudly, boldly, with force and tenderness 
 with the express purpose of actively participating in the spiritual, mental 
 and political liberation of oppressed peoples worldwide. unleashing 
 uncensored verses, yvonne uses her poetry to chisel a verbal sculpture of 
 her soul for listeners; her words are flames flickering over her tongue and 
 her breath is graffiti flung against cement walls of apathy, demanding a 
 revolution that starts within.     a womanifestation of the inextricable 
 interconnectedness between the personal and political, she composes poems 
 that are scissors tearing misconceptions to shreds, spitting fire that 
 heals instead of burns, she is an avid advocate for compassion, loves 
 mangoes, dancing and laughter. each syllable she utters is an exercise of 
 ecstasy to grab up hold of you and remind you of why you live.     
 womanifesting dangerous freedoms tour   womanifesto: thru out this tour 
 yvonne o2 etaghene will use her words to chisel a verbal sculpture of her 
 soul, while speaking about race, class, gender, sexuality, women’s 
 empowerment, war, imperialism, materialism, love, self esteem & family. 
 from city to city, pieces she performs will vary in subject matter 
 depending on the needs of the venue or organization but no matter the space 
 her voice will scream & whisper uncomfortable truths and familiar wisdoms, 
 weaving verses that detail the delicacy and resilience of our collective 
 humanities. spitti lullabies to soothe and anthems to motivate, yvonne is 
 on a mission to plug her art into ongoing social justice movements thru out 
 the country and world to lend her voice towards the progression of those 
 movements. yvonne womanifests freedoms that are dangerous to the status 
 quo/and encourages the world at large to do so also.     past 
 performances/publications/recordings:   a performance poet, essayist, 
 playwright and actress, yvonne produced two one-woman shows in 2004—one 
 in Washington Square Park dedicated to Sakia Gunn, (a young Black lesbian 
 murdered because of her sexuality), and another at Brooklyn’s Studio 111 
 rooftop space that discussed her nationality, race, gender and sexual 
 identities. she has also performed at Bluestockings Bookstore and Café, 
 Bowery Poetry Club, BRIC Studio, the Nuyorican Poets’ Café, Bar 13, 
 S.O.B.s, WOW Café, as part of the QueerHere Theatre Festival, at PeaceOUT 
 East: the Annual International LGBT Hip Hop Festival as well as on the 
 campuses of Columbia University, New York University, Oberlin College, Ohio 
 State University, Queens College, Sarah Lawrence College and Yale 
 University. yvonne is a self-published poet of two chapbooks, recently 
 released her first spoken word CD with musical accompaniment and has a full 
 length book of poetry due out in spring 2005.   \n 
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SUMMARY:Tranzfabulous QUeer Open Mic
LOCATION:1800 Market Street  SF CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/05/17/66483.php
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