3/17: Caliente! Circle Around Sun Tour - Revolutionary Asian-Latin-Indio Music & Poetry

Thursday, March 17, 7:30 pm
New College Theater, 777 Valencia St, SF

Fred Ho - Raul Salinas - Magdalena Gomez

Caliente! Circle Around the Sun Tour - Revolutionary Asian-Latin-Indio Music and Poetry

Solo baratone sax by Fred Ho and poetry by Magdalena Gomez and Raul Salinas

New College of California and BorderZone Arts invite you to an evening of red hot Asian-Latin-Indo poetry and music by these revolutionary artists. Fred Ho, Raul Salinas and Magdalena Gomez will come together for the first time in their Caliente! tour, bringing together their seasoned rhythms and voices from New York to Texas and around the world.

Admission: $10 at the door.

For more information: 415-437-3425

Sponsored by New College Center for Education and Social Action and BorderZone Arts - An International Arts Organization.

FRED HO, revolutionary Chinese American baritone saxophonist, composer, writer, and producer, leads the Afro Asian Music Ensemble, the Monkey Orchestra and co-leads the Brooklyn Sax Quartet with David Bindman. He is co-editor with Bill V. Mussen of the forthcoming Afro Asia: Revolutionary Political and Cultural Connections Between African and Asian Americans (Duke) and many CD and DVD productions. His chamber wind quartet suite of Josephine Baker’s Angels from the Rainbow premiered at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center performed by the Imani Winds. Ho received the Duke Ellington Distinguished Artists Lifetime Achievement Award from the 17th annual Black Musicians Conference, and with Ron Sakolsky, won an American Book Award for the anthology Sounding Off! Music As Resistance/Rebellion/Revolution.

RAUL SALINAS, Xicanindio elder poet and human rights activist, is director of Resistencia Bookstore/Casa de Red Salmon Press, a literary venue and arts center in Austin, Texas. Co-founder of the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee, he is author of Viaje/Trip, East of the Freeway, and Trip Thru a Mind Jail, his book of early prison writings, and the forthcoming Indio Trails: A Xicano Odyssey through Indian Country (Wings Press), and two spoken word CDs.

MAGDALENA GOMEZ, performance poet, playwright, and cultural worker, entered the New York poetery scene while still in high school, reading at such classic venues as Café Wha?, the Speakeasy, the Village Gate and Cedar Tavern. Long associated with the Nuyorican Poets scene, her recent works include the off-Broadway play Lobster Face and the spoken word CD Amaxonica. Gomez is currently on the faculty of the SmART Schools, based in Newton Massachusetts, and on the faculty of the Women of Color Leadership Network at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

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