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Speakers & Artists
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Founding Artistic Director of the Acclaimed Salsa-based, Urban-Latin Dance Theater Company Contra-Tiempo
Taking the Lead: Redefining Afro Latin Dance to Empower and Connect Communities
Reclaiming the Latino Voice in Latino Dance and Salsa
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 | | Kate Bornstein
Transexual Author, Playwright & Performance Artist
Author of Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us , among other books which are taught in over 120 colleges and universities
Lectures and Workshops on sex, gender, and alternatives to teen suicide
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 | | Kimberly Dark
Award Winning Performance Artist, Poet and Scholar
- Becoming the Subject of Your Own Story
- Gender, Race and Money
- Examining the intersections of gender, race and class with humor and compassion
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 | | Noura Erakat
Palestinian American Human Rights Attorney & Professor
- Co-Founder of the American Association for Palestinian Equal Rights
- Important voice for Palestinians in the United States and Middle East
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 | | Carolyn Gage
Award-winning Lesbian Playwright and Performer
Plays include The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, Ugly Ducklings and Harriet Tubman Visits a Therapist
Books include Take Stage! How to Direct and Produce a Lesbian Play
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 | | Heather Gold
Hilarious Comedian, Speaker, and Solo Performer
Her latest talk looks at gay marriage - I Didn't Know How Much I Loved You
Till Ken Starr Filed to Divorce Us
Her award-winning solo show, I Look Like an Egg, But I Identify as a Cookie is an interactive baking comedy
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 | | headRush
Spoken Word Theater and Popular Education Crew
Performances combine elements of Xicano theatre, spoken word and hip hop to ignite critical dialogue and social action
Makes complex issues accessible and relevant to diverse audiences through dramatic multi-media storytelling and interactive workshops
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Politically Sexy, Rambunctiously Entertaining Spoken Word Hip Hop Theater
Fuses spoken word, hip-hop, funk, and experimental theater
Comprised of African American and Asian American artists, they demonstrate the complex history that binds our history
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 | | Marc Bamuthi Joseph
A Leading Voice in Performance and Arts Education
National Poetry Slam champion, Broadway veteran, dancer/choreographer and featured artist on Russell Simmons' Def Poetry on HBO
Recipient of the U.S. Artists Rockefeller Fellowship which annually recognizes 50 of the country's "greatest living artists"
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 | | Dan Kwong
Internationally Touring Solo Performer, Writer, and Visual Artist
Major performance works include Secrets of the Samurai Centerfielder, Monkhood in 3 Easy Lessons and The Night the Moon Landed on 39th Street
ounder and curator of "Treasure in the House," the annual Asian Pacific American performance and visual art festival
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 | | Ariel Luckey
Hip Hop Theater Artist, Poet, and Educator
Exposes White Privilege and the Theft of Native Land through his solo show "Free Land: A Hip Hop Journey from the Streets of Oakland to the Wild Wild West"
Director of the Free Land Project, which produces dynamic hip hop theater, keynotes, workshops, forums and cultural events
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 | | Reanae McNeal
Awarding Winning Performer, Playwright, Oral Herstorian
Active in the anti-violence movement focusing on rape/sexual assualt
Solo shows include Don't Speak My Mother's Name In Vain and Blues Women Don't Wear No Shoes
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 | | Cherrνe Moraga
Prolific Playwright, Poet, and Essayist
Recipient of numerous awards for her plays including a United States Artist Rockefeller Fellowship for Literature
Co-editor of the groundbreaking This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, among other books
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 | | Scott Turner Schofield
Award-Winning Transgender Performer, Writer and Educator
Stage performances include Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps and Debutante Balls
Author of Two Truths and a Lie
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 | | Carmen Mitzi Sinnott
Award-Winning Actress and Arts Educator
Her solo show based on her own parents, SNAPSHOT: a true story of love interrupted by invasion, explores the forces of history, race, and war
Best Actress nominee at the 2005 Edinburgh Fringe Festival & recipient of a Brooklyn Arts Councils NYSCA Individual Artist Award
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 | | A Slice of Rice, Frijoles & Greens
Multicultural Program of Spoken Word, Music, Movement and Song
African American(Chic Street Man), Latina(Paulina Sahagun) and Asian American(Dan Kwong) artists come together to take audiences beyond cultural borders in a show that entertains and enlightens
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 | | Teresa Walsh
Poet, Playwright and Actress
Her solo show Body Revolution: From Harlem to Havana explores her own disability and the healing of the human spirit
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 | | Kristina Wong
Solo Performer, Educator, and Culture Jammer
Her solo show, "Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," explores mental illness among Asian American women
Her quirky performance pranks and installations reinterpret Homeland Security, Asian sororities, and the Miss Chinatown Pageant, among other topics
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