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Greeting Acoustic Music Fans:

A special thanks to all who came out to the inaugural evening of the Listening Room Concerts Special at The Coachhouse in San Juan Capistrano last Thursday night over 80 strong and resulting in our being offered a quarterly residence there! Mark down Sunday, July 15th for the next show at the venue, featuring everything divine and more tba!

This Monday night is a special celebration of three years of monthly, first Monday, Listening Room Concerts at The Fremont Centre Theatre and the talent assembled for this anniversary show is truly phenomenal.

I want to publicly acknowledge and thank owners/operators Lissa & Jim Reynolds and Rosemary Layng for providing a home for us in this beautiful former chapel space, and the core volunteers without whom this series could not have grown or continued: Frequent host and pr man David Zink (), Tim & Lois Tedrow (Sound and Door) and Burton Jespersen, (Light, Camera and Action!). Also, to all who have helped grow by attending and spreading the word to friends and family about these nights, (and season tickets holders), thank you. And to our sponsors, who have made upgrades like the new printed programs possible, my deep appreciation for your ongoing support: Busters Coffee Shop, D&S Printing, Pedrini Music (), Pro Printing, Enas Cassettes, Trader Joes/South Pasadena and TAXI (), along with Performing Songwriter Magazine ( songwriter.com), SongLink, North American Folk Alliance and National Music Publishers Association.

Lastly, I want to thank the over 300 artists so far, who have traveled to South Pasadena from eight different countries and cities through North America - including those appearing Monday night to gather together and share a part of themselves for an appreciative audience, and a few bucks for gas

I am honored to be the steward of these events, and look forward to many years to come at the Fremont Centre Theatre.

Come join in the celebration this Monday evening!

Sincerely,

Brett
Performing Songwriter/Presenter


**

'Brett Perkins Presents'

'The Listening Room Concert Series'
THREE YEAR ANNIVERSARY CONCERT!

=Celebrating The Start Of Our Fourth Season=
Fremont Centre Theatre
1000 Fremont Ave., South Pasadena, CA

Acoustic Evenings Of Local,National,International Performing Songwriters

RESERVATIONS STRONGLY RECOMENDED!

****MONDAY, APRIL 23RD****

Featuring:

Special Guests
HARRIET SCHOCK
(Los Angeles)
Hit Songwriter (That Ain't No Way To Treat A Lady/Helen Reddy), Performing, Recording Artist, Author, and Celebrated Teacher.


JOHN TOWNSEND
"Legendary voice of the Sanford/Townsend Band 'Smoke From A Distant Fire', Co-writer of 'Celebrate Me Home' (K. Loggins), and so much more!

'everything divine'
Featuring the five-part harmonies and co-written tunes of Michael Glover & Robyn Rosenkrantz (Bright Blue Gorilla), David Zink, Mark Davis and Brett Perkins.
"A local 'supergroup' - Pasadena Weekly

SEVERIN BROWNE & JAMES COBERLY SMITH
"Two performing songwriters whose sensitive and intricate interweaving of voices and guitars make for a compelling performance"

KATHRIN SHORR


TIM BURLINGAME
+
Special Surprise Guests - You Never Know Who Will Show Up This Night!

Musical host BRETT PERKINS
(South Pasadena/Copenhagen)
"A true troubadour" Bliss/Pasadena Weekly


Showtime: 7:30pm-10:00pm Tickets $10.at the door, all ages, and $8. if paidin advance, with reservations recommended, by calling the theatre at 626/441-5977. Visa/Master Card/and other major cards are accepted.
**
MISSION

The concept behind the Listening Room Concert Series is to provide both
listener and performer with an intimate, receptive environment where the
intricacies of song and performance can be best experienced.

STRUCTURE

The evening falls into two segments, with each artists performing a 3-songset. The musical host also performs. Refreshments are available during the intermission.

DIRECTIONS

The Fremont Centre Theatre is located at 1000 Fremont Blvd., So. Pasadena, one block south of Mission, two blocks west of Fair Oaks.
()

From the 10 freeway, take the 110 North. From the West Side, take the 101 East take the 134 East into Pasadena. and from East of Pasadena take the 210 West. From all directions, exit Orange Grove Blvd., South to Mission Blvd., East (Left) to Fremont Ave. South (Right). Theatre is on the left, one block down, on the southeast corner of El Centro and Fremont Ave. Ample free parking is available. Shows run from 7:30-10:00pm.

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UPCOMING SHOWS

4/24 BRETT PERKINS/'Songs Alive Showcase/Writers In The Round' w/ Larissa Lam, Eddie Saenz. Lulu's Beehive Caf, 13203 Ventura Blvd, Sherman Oaks, between Fulton and Coldwater (next to BBQ's Galore), exit Woodman off the 101 Freeway and turn left on Ventura.Show at 8pm sharp.

4/26 BRETT PERKINS/Red Star Songwriters Showcase, Santa Barbara, CA

5/1 BRETT PERKINS/Strings, Oakland, CA

5/3 BRETT PERKINS/Voodoo Lounge, San Francisco, CA w/ Annie Gallup

5/5 BRETT PERKINS/Kulaks' Woodshed, on 'Bright Blue Gorillas' World Cafe', NoHllywd,CA

5/7 FREMONT CENTRE THEATRE LISTENING ROOM CONCERT SERIES w/ Velvet Janes, Superman Gets The Girl, Greg Klyma, John Marini, Leonardo, David Piper, Lauren Adams, Musical Host Brett Perkins.

5/26 BRETT PERKINS/Acoustic Copenhagen Listening Room Series, DK
5/27 BRETT PERKINS/Acoustic Fredericia, Listening Room Series, DK

6/4 FREMONT CENTRE THEATRE LISTENING ROOM CONCERT SERIES w/ Caroline Aiken, Rick Solem, Felix McTeigue, Judy Toy, Cindy Kalmenson, Kimberlee White. Musical Host Brett Perkins.

6/9 BRETT PERKINS/Kerrville Folk Festival,Ballad Tree Host,Kerrville,TX

6/14 BRETT PERKINS Hallenbechs NSAI Songwriter Roundup,No Hollywood, CA

**
The Listening Room Concert Series evenings are sponsored in part by Busters Coffee, The Bookhouse,Magazines Etc., Enas Cassettes, Performing Songwriter Magazine
(), Pedrini Music
(), Pro Printing, NMPA (),North American Folk Alliance (), Songlink (), TAXI (), Trader Joes South Pasadena, and are a "Works of Heart" presentation of Brett Perkins Presents.
**
Artists wishing to be considered for Listening Room Series can send a
cassette or CD to:

BPP 1441 Huntington Dr., PMB 1950, South Pasadena, CA 91030

Performers are selected based on the developmental level of their writing,
as well as overall artistic presence. Follow up by email is recommended.
**
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Greeting Acoustic Music Fans:

A special thanks to all who came out to the inaugural evening of the Listening Room Concerts Special at The Coachhouse in San Juan Capistrano last Thursday night over 80 strong and resulting in our being offered a quarterly residence there! Mark down Sunday, July 15th for the next show at the venue, featuring everything divine and more tba!

This Monday night is a special celebration of three years of monthly, first Monday, Listening Room Concerts at The Fremont Centre Theatre and the talent assembled for this anniversary show is truly phenomenal.

I want to publicly acknowledge and thank owners/operators Lissa & Jim Reynolds and Rosemary Layng for providing a home for us in this beautiful former chapel space, and the core volunteers without whom this series could not have grown or continued: Frequent host and pr man David Zink (), Tim & Lois Tedrow (Sound and Door) and Burton Jespersen, (Light, Camera and Action!). Also, to all who have helped grow by attending and spreading the word to friends and family about these nights, (and season tickets holders), thank you. And to our sponsors, who have made upgrades like the new printed programs possible, my deep appreciation for your ongoing support: Busters Coffee Shop, D&S Printing, Pedrini Music (), Pro Printing, Enas Cassettes, Trader Joes/South Pasadena and TAXI (), along with Performing Songwriter Magazine ( songwriter.com), SongLink, North American Folk Alliance and National Music Publishers Association.

Lastly, I want to thank the over 300 artists so far, who have traveled to South Pasadena from eight different countries and cities through North America - including those appearing Monday night to gather together and share a part of themselves for an appreciative audience, and a few bucks for gas

I am honored to be the steward of these events, and look forward to many years to come at the Fremont Centre Theatre.

Come join in the celebration this Monday evening!

Sincerely,

Brett
Performing Songwriter/Presenter


**

'Brett Perkins Presents'

'The Listening Room Concert Series'
THREE YEAR ANNIVERSARY CONCERT!

=Celebrating The Start Of Our Fourth Season=
Fremont Centre Theatre
1000 Fremont Ave., South Pasadena, CA

Acoustic Evenings Of Local,National,International Performing Songwriters

RESERVATIONS STRONGLY RECOMENDED!

****MONDAY, APRIL 23RD****

Featuring:

Special Guests
HARRIET SCHOCK
(Los Angeles)
Hit Songwriter (That Ain't No Way To Treat A Lady/Helen Reddy), Performing, Recording Artist, Author, and Celebrated Teacher.


JOHN TOWNSEND
"Legendary voice of the Sanford/Townsend Band 'Smoke From A Distant Fire', Co-writer of 'Celebrate Me Home' (K. Loggins), and so much more!

'everything divine'
Featuring the five-part harmonies and co-written tunes of Michael Glover & Robyn Rosenkrantz (Bright Blue Gorilla), David Zink, Mark Davis and Brett Perkins.
"A local 'supergroup' - Pasadena Weekly

SEVERIN BROWNE & JAMES COBERLY SMITH
"Two performing songwriters whose sensitive and intricate interweaving of voices and guitars make for a compelling performance"

KATHRIN SHORR


TIM BURLINGAME
+
Special Surprise Guests - You Never Know Who Will Show Up This Night!

Musical host BRETT PERKINS
(South Pasadena/Copenhagen)
"A true troubadour" Bliss/Pasadena Weekly


Showtime: 7:30pm-10:00pm Tickets $10.at the door, all ages, and $8. if paidin advance, with reservations recommended, by calling the theatre at 626/441-5977. Visa/Master Card/and other major cards are accepted.
**
MISSION

The concept behind the Listening Room Concert Series is to provide both
listener and performer with an intimate, receptive environment where the
intricacies of song and performance can be best experienced.

STRUCTURE

The evening falls into two segments, with each artists performing a 3-songset. The musical host also performs. Refreshments are available during the intermission.

DIRECTIONS

The Fremont Centre Theatre is located at 1000 Fremont Blvd., So. Pasadena, one block south of Mission, two blocks west of Fair Oaks.
()

From the 10 freeway, take the 110 North. From the West Side, take the 101 East take the 134 East into Pasadena. and from East of Pasadena take the 210 West. From all directions, exit Orange Grove Blvd., South to Mission Blvd., East (Left) to Fremont Ave. South (Right). Theatre is on the left, one block down, on the southeast corner of El Centro and Fremont Ave. Ample free parking is available. Shows run from 7:30-10:00pm.

**
UPCOMING SHOWS

4/24 BRETT PERKINS/'Songs Alive Showcase/Writers In The Round' w/ Larissa Lam, Eddie Saenz. Lulu's Beehive Caf, 13203 Ventura Blvd, Sherman Oaks, between Fulton and Coldwater (next to BBQ's Galore), exit Woodman off the 101 Freeway and turn left on Ventura.Show at 8pm sharp.

4/26 BRETT PERKINS/Red Star Songwriters Showcase, Santa Barbara, CA

5/1 BRETT PERKINS/Strings, Oakland, CA

5/3 BRETT PERKINS/Voodoo Lounge, San Francisco, CA w/ Annie Gallup

5/5 BRETT PERKINS/Kulaks' Woodshed, on 'Bright Blue Gorillas' World Cafe', NoHllywd,CA

5/7 FREMONT CENTRE THEATRE LISTENING ROOM CONCERT SERIES w/ Velvet Janes, Superman Gets The Girl, Greg Klyma, John Marini, Leonardo, David Piper, Lauren Adams, Musical Host Brett Perkins.

5/26 BRETT PERKINS/Acoustic Copenhagen Listening Room Series, DK
5/27 BRETT PERKINS/Acoustic Fredericia, Listening Room Series, DK

6/4 FREMONT CENTRE THEATRE LISTENING ROOM CONCERT SERIES w/ Caroline Aiken, Rick Solem, Felix McTeigue, Judy Toy, Cindy Kalmenson, Kimberlee White. Musical Host Brett Perkins.

6/9 BRETT PERKINS/Kerrville Folk Festival,Ballad Tree Host,Kerrville,TX

6/14 BRETT PERKINS Hallenbechs NSAI Songwriter Roundup,No Hollywood, CA

**
The Listening Room Concert Series evenings are sponsored in part by Busters Coffee, The Bookhouse,Magazines Etc., Enas Cassettes, Performing Songwriter Magazine
(), Pedrini Music
(), Pro Printing, NMPA (),North American Folk Alliance (), Songlink (), TAXI (), Trader Joes South Pasadena, and are a "Works of Heart" presentation of Brett Perkins Presents.
**
Artists wishing to be considered for Listening Room Series can send a
cassette or CD to:

BPP 1441 Huntington Dr., PMB 1950, South Pasadena, CA 91030

Performers are selected based on the developmental level of their writing,
as well as overall artistic presence. Follow up by email is recommended.
**
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Hi. I'd like to invite everyone here to check out my website where you can read a 6-year anthology of my poetry (for free, of course). You can also post your own poems for people to read. Anything literature related is welcome!

SEARCH ENGINE
Sunday, April 22nd, 7:30 p.m.
Side Street Live Performance and Media Space
425 S. Main Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013

Written and performed by Denise Duffield, Directed by Snezana Petrovic
Featuring performance, video animation and sound by: Bill and Yumi
Knight, Ann Perich, Markus Von Allmen

Search Engine is an exploration of death, the after-life, and
communication technologies. The performance combines fact and fantasy
to navigate the course of questions we ask ourselves when faced with
mortality.

Side Street Live Directions: From the 110 North take the 6th street
exit. Take 6th street, which is one way, to Main Street, also one
way. Make a left on Main and go 2 blocks to just before 4th street.
On your left will be the parking garage at 425 S. Main (look for
"Search Engine" sign). Park ($3-$4) in, or enter through parking
garage and take elevator to 2nd floor.

Admission to Search Engine is $8. Contact neecanna@... or
call (310) 828-9327 for more information.

Periodically, the Artist Network will be sending out FYI's on new works, and
art events which may be of interest to those who participate in the creation
of a culture of resistance. Not all of them will be in your neighborhood,
but we would like to give artists a sense of current works being created...

* * *

The latest work from the creators of "A Huey P. Newton Story."

ICELAND
Work in progress

Created and performed by Roger Guenveur Smith
Music by Marc Anthony Thompson

Smith's geologically-inspired performance, complemented by Thompson's
original score, takes us volcano-hopping: from the tropics, to the Arctic,
and back home to Brooklyn, where we confront man-made disasters. It's a love
story.

Performed April 21 @ BAM Harvey Theater
www.651ARTS.org

* * *

Ruby Dee portrays abortion provider in

SAINT LUCY’S EYES
World premiere of a new drama by Bridgette A. Wimberly
Directed by Billie Allen
Starring Ruby Dee, Willis Burks II, Toks Olagundoye, Sally A. Stewart

"Yeah, they legal. But only a handful of doctors do 'em here...So they come
down to the ghetto, try and catch a bargain...Wind up spending more than they
bargained for." "Grandma," a Black woman in a Memphis ghetto played by RUBY
DEE, is an abortionist. In 1968, she tells one of her patients to "face the
fear, walk out that door, and see a whole new life. Walk out that door and
shine." Grandma goes against everything society and the law and even her own
husband says to help make this happen—over and over again. Years later, women
are alive and making a life because of her scrappy fearlessness. "Saint
Lucy’s Eyes" is about this and a whole lot more, life and death
contradictions which are still with us.

@ Theater: Women’s Project
424 West 55th Street New York (Between 9th and 10th Avenue)






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Mumia News Updates


On April 6, Judge William H. Yohn signed an order that conditionally granted
Mumia's request to change legal counsel. Contrary to the report in the
Philadelphia Inquirer, Judge Yohn gave Mumia 30 days, not 60 days, to obtain
new legal representation. It also appears from the wording that Yohn has
denied Mumia's request to serve as his own lawyer (pro se) while looking for
new legal counsel.

The full text of Yohn's order is available at


* * * * *

Refuse & Resist! calls on people worldwide to step forward on May 12 to stop
the execution of Mumia, overturn his fraudulent conviction, and fight for his
freedom!

In the United States join with thousands for:

May 11:
Three day encampment at the Philadelphia City Hall begins. For info call:
212-633-6646.

May12:
In Philadelphia, Rally and March 1:00 pm at City Hall. For info call:
215-476-8812.

In San Francisco, assemble 10:30 am Dolores Park and march to the Civic
Center for 1:00 pm rally. For info call: 415-695-7745.

May 13:
Philadelphia commemoration of the 16th anniversary of the 1985 police bombing
of the MOVE house. In Clark Park, time to be announced. For info call:
610-499-0979.

This was sent to us by the Artist Network (Nat'l Office in New York) and may
be of interest to you:


Attention Artists:

Giuliani is galloping ahead with his Art Censorship Campaign. Check out the
article below which appears in the NY Daily News today (Wednesday).

First it was Renee Cox’s "Yo Mama’s Last Supper," and now it is Brad
McCallum & Jacqueline Terry’s "Witness: Perspectives on Police Violence"
exhibit at the Bronx Museum of the Arts (Rudy calls it "anti-cop"). The
"Decency Commission," recently established by Giuliani (see 2nd article
below), has assigned itself the task of banning art works they find
objectionable from government-funded institutions. This is no joke, and it
affects us all. Even the name of this "commission" has antecedents in
the 3rd Reich.

Will the artists sit arms-folded while government officials establish
themselves as the policemen of our museums—determining, through open
intimidation, what art will see the light of day? There is some momentum
building to stop these sinister developments, but much more is needed.

Tonight, a book signing will happen at Bronx Museum exhibit. Come out and
show support for the artists, and/or send your thoughts on this matter-- and
ideas on how artists can resist. -- to the Artists Network of Refuse &
Resist! (artists@...)
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Booksigning event for author Andrea McArdle’s "Zero Tolerance: Quality of
Life and the New Police Brutality in New York City, on Wednesday, April 18th
at 5:30 to 8:30 PM. The event will be held in conjunction with the
installation "Witness: Perspectives on Police Violence", presented by Bradley
McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry.
Bronx Museum of the Arts at 1040 Grand Concourse at 165th Street in the Bronx.
# 4, B, D trains to 161st St.; (718) 681-6000. The event is free.
___
From the New York Daily News

Art Labeled Anti-Cop
Bronx Museum exhibit draws Rudy's ire
April 18, 2001

By JOSE MARTINEZ

Mayor Giuliani and the police union panned an exhibit yesterday at the
city-funded Bronx Museum of the Arts that highlights in stark photographs and
tape recordings police brutality cases. "Witness: Perspectives on Police
Violence" includes pictures of the Bronx building where Amadou Diallo was
gunned down by four cops and the
Brooklyn stationhouse where Abner Louima was tortured. The exhibit, which
runs through Sunday, also features voice recordings of alleged brutality
victims and their families — emanating from old-time police emergency call
boxes.

Sunny Mindel, a Giuliani spokeswoman, said the exhibit ignores good work by
cops — including a big drop in the murder rate in the precinct where the
South Bronx museum is located. "We're sure the people of the 44th Precinct
are very grateful that in the year 2000, there were 24 murders as opposed to
the 69 that occurred in 1993," before Giuliani took office, she said.
Patrolmen's Benevolent Association spokesman Joe Mancini said: "It's a
disgrace that the Bronx museum considers these
cop-bashing enterprises art."

But husband-and-wife art team Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry insisted
their
exhibit is not "anti-cop." "It's speaking to a community that can relate to
racial profiling and feeling a more heavy-handed police," said McCallum, a
former artist in residence at the New York Civil Liberties Union.

The exhibit is part of the Bronx Museum of the Arts1 Cap program, which is
funded
by the city Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Lily Auchincloss and
William
Randolph Hearst foundations. The installation also is supported by the Rev.
Al Sharpton's National Action Network, the NYCLU and 100 Blacks in Law
Enforcement, among other activist groups, the museum said.

The latest feud over art in the city flared up after the Bronx Museum
scheduled a party tonight, in conjunction with the exhibit, to promote a book
edited by NYU doctoral candidates Andrea McArdle and Tanya Erzen. "Zero
Tolerance: Quality of Life and the New Police Brutality in New York City," is
a collection of essays about alleged police brutality. It studies "the
hyper-violent response of white male police officers" to the events detailed
in the book, museum officials said. The 15 essays take a critical look at
policies that the author and a museum press release claim target "homeless
people, vendors and sexual minorities." "It's not an anti-police book,"
McArdle said. "It's an anti-police brutality collection." Jenny Dixon, the
museum's executive director, said the "Witness" exhibit and the book detail
the reality of life in the Bronx.

"This is what's happening in our world," she said. "Artists' jobs are to
reflect the culture, to reflect the times." In October, the exhibit traveled
to 20 spots in the city where people died in confrontations with cops.

Among the voices heard from the cast-iron call boxes is that of Iris Baez,
whose son
died in the grip of a cop's illegal choke hold on a Bronx street. "I had a
fear of the cops," said one female voice on the tapes. "It's more rare that
you see good cops — very rare."

From the New York Daily News
Art Panel Begins Framework
By MICHAEL R. BLOOD
Daily News City Hall Bureau Chief

Mayor Giuliani's decency committee kicked off its first meeting yesterday,
holding a discussion behind closed doors about how City Hall might weed out
objectionable artworks at city-funded museums. Members of the panel — who
include Rabbi Shea Hecht, Giuliani's divorce lawyer Raoul Felder, Guardian
Angels founder Curtis Sliwa and former Nixon White House lawyer Leonard
Garment — gathered in a government office near City Hall but would say little
about their first day of work.

"We had a round-table discussion of how we were going to address the
problem," said panel member Larry Herbert, chairman of Pantone and a member
of the State Council on the Arts. "Nothing was etched in stone." City
Cultural Affairs Commissioner Schuyler Chapin addressed the group. Questioned
after the meeting, Felder said only, "The ground rules are the meetings are
private, and we are not going to discuss them."

Giuliani — angered by a photo that appeared at the Brooklyn Museum of Art
depicting Jesus as a naked black woman— convened the panel to explore ways
the city might restrict public funding for controversial art. Free speech
advocates have criticized the panel for imposing a blackout on its
discussions. City officials said the committee, which serves in an advisory
role to the mayor, is not covered by open-meetings laws.

The sessions "will all be closed," Herbert said. Giuliani has backed away
from threats of imposing penalties on museums. Garment, the committee
chairman, has acknowledged that the city's ability to segregate art it will
fund is limited, given First Amendment court rulings.

Last week to see Jude Narita at Highways!
See LA Times Review below.

"With Darkness Behind Us, Daylight Has Come"
written and performed by JUDE NARITA

With Darkness Behind Us, Daylight Has Come, is a multi-media one-woman play
about the effects of the internment camps on three different generations of
Japanese American women in the Los Angeles area. Both funny and sad, With
Darkness Behind Us, Daylight Has Come is a moving theatrical experience.

directed by Darling Narita
music by George Abe
lighting design by Jerry Browning

When: Fri & Sat, April 20 & 21 - 8:30 pm
Sunday matinee April 22 - 3pm

Where: Highways Performance Space
1651 18th St in Santa Monica.
(Enter 18th St. from Olympic. Parking is available in a lot and on nearby
streets.)

Tickets general admission $12.
STUDENT AND SENIOR DISCOUNT TICKETS $10
or $10 with $2 discount coupon from "Fresh Tracks" program

Reservations 310.315.1459.
For more information on Jude and upcoming gigs go to:
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Los Angeles Times
Theater Review
April 19, 200
by F. Kathleen Foley

Jude Narita's 'Darkness' Is Witty and Poignant

The lastest in Jude Naarita's rich canon of one-woman shows, "With Darkness
Behind Us, Daylight Has Come," at Highways, takes on the helf and poignancy
of oral history, much as did Narita's 1987 solo turn, "Coming Into
Passion/Song for a Sansei."
While "Sansei" beautifully explored differences between Japanese-born
Americans and their Westernized offspring, "Darkness" takes on one specific
s
ubject?the experiences of Japanese American women interned by the U.S.
government during World War II.
Narita's daughter, Darling Narita, directs, a lovely intergenerational
touch, considering Narita's past emphasis on the conflicts and commonalities
between parents and their children. The staging is slightly rough-edged,
not
quite the polished accomplishments of "Sansei." Yet Narita, ever the
gracious storyteller, is at her warmest and most accessible, displaying a
roguish humor that issurprising in such a poignant contex.
George Abe's live music, period slides and a video of Narita wandering
through the ruins of the Heart Mountain, Wyoming, camp, evoke the properly
wistful atmosphere. The play is largely a series of first-person
narratives,
ranging from the reminiscences of older women, wjo are looking back on their
camp experiences in retrospect, to the agonized musings of a teenage girl,
an
internee who has recently gotten work that her G.I. brother has beenkilled
in
action.
That sharp irony is almost overwhelming, yet Narita's sweetly upbeat
touch penetrates her audience's complacency more keenly than tirades or
recriminations ever could. In this story well told, Narita universalizes
the
experience of the camps for all audiences, humanizing that bitter chapter in
history with percention and restraint.

18th Street Arts Complex proudly presents

"MY ART"
A new installation
By internationally-renowned artist
LEE MING-SHENG
At 18th Street Arts Complex
April 21-28, 2001
OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, April 21, 2011, 7-9pm

Santa Monica, CA 18th Street Arts Complex proudly
presents "MY ART," a new installation by
internationally-renowned Taiwanese artist Lee
Ming-Sheng, showing April 21-28, 2001 at the 18th
Street Arts Complex International Studio, located at
1629 18th Street, #3 in Santa Monica, just north of
Olympic. Opening Reception with the artist is
Saturday, April 21, 2001, 7-9pm and simultaneous with
the Opening Reception for A Matter of Structure, a new
collaborative installation by some of LAs top
emerging artists, at Crazy Space, 1629 18th Street,
#2.

Combining dozens of images of his work with the raw
materials of cardboard, paint and even blood, "MY ART"
is a visceral expression of Lee Ming-Shengs life as
an artist as well as the artistic experience itself.

Lee Ming-Sheng is an interdisciplinary visual and
performance artist whose work incorporates numerous
media, including painting, photography, performance,
installation and media. Lees intensely personal
themes range from the most subtle abstract emotions to
Taiwans political upheavals to his own experiences as
an artist whose often controversial work has
experienced censorship and criticism from both the
government and the art world. He has exhibited solo
since 1981 in Taiwan, Japan, Germany, France, the
United States and Italy (at the 1993 Venice Biennale).
Lee is in residence at 18th Street Arts Complex from
March-August 2001 and will be featured in this years
LA International contemporary art exhibition. He will
also present a new performance installation, MONEY
YOU/YOU MONEY, next month in the same studio.

Lee Ming-Shengs International Studio at 18th Street
Arts Complex is located at 1629 18th Street, #3, in
Sata Monica, just north of Olympic. For more
information, please call (310) 829-6088. To set up
interviews or for more information on 18th Street Arts
Complex, please call Michael Sakamoto at (310)
453-3711.

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Don't miss this extraordinarily visual ensemble April
28 at Cal State Northridge's Performing Arts Center.
They are internationally renowned and have even opened
for the Grateful Dead! Details follow...

Cal State Northridge proudly presents the
internationally acclaimed
LILY CAI CHINESE DANCE COMPANY
"Exotic and brilliantly theatrical" The Sacramento
Bee
Saturday, April 28 at 8pm at Cal State Northridge

"By marrying vividly theatrical, demurely feminine
Chinese dance with sculptural American modernism,
choreographer Lily Cai has created a form thats very
nearly otherworldly" San Francisco Weekly

WHAT: Cal State Northridge presents the Lily Cai
Chinese Dance Company, San Franciscos spellbinding
dance ensemble led by former Shanghai Opera principal
dancer, Lily Cai. Elegant, sensual and captivating,
the Lily Cai Chinese Dance Company presents an East
West fusion of ancient Chinese choreography with
Western modern dance in an artistic and inventive
marriage of styles and cultures. Bridging the gap
from past to modern times, the company performs a
range of works from the spectacular court dances of
Chinese dynasties to contemporary works melding
classical Chinese dance and ballet. The unique
choreography is complemented by an exquisitely modern,
"American" twist and theatrical sensibility that
employs dazzling costumes, enigmatic imagery, timeless
elements, original music and multi-media designs to
produce an exuberant spectacle.

WHO: Artistic Director, choreographer and dancer LILY
CAI, former principal dancer with the Shanghai Opera
House, is the founder of Lily Cai Dance Company and
co-founder of Chinese Cultural Productions. Since
coming to the U.S., Cai has choreographed dozens of
new works and expanded traditional Chinese dance forms
into contemporary choreographic and theatrical
settings. A recipient of both a National Endowment
for the Arts and California Arts Council
Choreographers Fellowship, Cai has also won
commissioning project awards from the Rockefeller
Foundations Multi-Arts Production Fund, Bay Area Fund
For Dance, San Francisco Arts Commission, Sacramento
Metropolitan Arts Council, and the Creative Work Fund.
Lily Cai has performed and toured extensively in both
the U.S. and Europe.
LILY CAI CHINESE DANCE COMPANY was established in 1988
by Lily Cai. Presenting a unique variety of
classical, folk and modern dances, the company has
performed and toured extensively in the U.S. and
Europe. The company has also appeared at festivals,
conferences, universities, community events and
in-school programs, including:a Grateful Dead concert
before 15,000 transfixed fans; the Stern Grove
Festival; Redlands Bowl Music Festival; San Francisco
Ethnic Dance Festival; the Alaska Asian Pacific
Performing Arts Festival; the Britain Meets the Bay
Festival at Theater Artaud, and the International
Dance Festival in Germany.

WHEN: Saturday, April 28 at 8pm

WHERE: Cal State Northridges Performing Arts Center,
located at 18111 Nordhoff Street in the San Fernando
Valley, just west of the 405 freeway. (Directions at
end of release.)

TICKETS: Tickets are $15 general admission, $12 senior
citizens, and $9 for students.
Call 818 - 677- 2488 for ticket purchase.

Directions: CAL STATE NORTHRIDGE is located in the
San Fernando Valley at 18111 Nordhoff St. west of the
405 freeway and south of the 118 freeway. The campus
is bounded by Zelzah on the east, Nordhoff on the
south, Reseda on the west and Devonshire on the north.
Parking is in lot C, located at Zelzah and Plummer
streets and is FREE on weekends. Call 818-677-2488
for reservations, tickets and directions.


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Soloists of Jouyssance Early Music Ensemble will present a concert of 15th and 16th century madrigals and chansons Saturday, April 21, at 3 p.m., at Throop Memorial Church, 300 S. Los Robles, Pasadena. Featured composers will include Des Prez, Monteverdi, Rore, Marenzio, Lasso, Morley, Wilbye, Henry VIII and Gibbons. General admission is $10, with reduced rates for seniors, students, and members of the Southern California Early Music Society. For further information, call (310) 398-4541.

Nicole Baker
Musical Director
Jouyssance

Multicultural Internship
SUMMER, 2001
Highways Performance Space & Gallery

Highways is accepting resumes for one intern to assist the Administrative
Director/Gallery Curator of Highways. This is a ten-week internship that pays
$300 per 40-hour week. DEADLINE is MAY 10, 2001.

Highways now has two Galleries! We are an alternative space,
which exhibits approximately twelve eclectic, and innovative shows a year
that explore our communities’ diversities. Our galleries present works by
emerging artists, mid-career artists, older artists, the gay/lesbian
communities, physically challenged etc., all whom consistently create works
that challenge, address and raise questions on issues that impact our lives.
In Gallery 2
Throughout the internship the intern will gain experience and understanding
on Curatorial and Administrative processes in presenting visual artists,
grant administration, visual art programs and expanding our Gallery Web Page.

Duties of the Administrative/Curatorial Intern are as follows:
Routine office work; phones, mailings etc.
Assist in planning our Annual Gallery Benefit.
Find ways to increase outreach
Update our archives.
Review of incoming proposals
Write press releases for upcoming shows
Research visual artists, organizations and subject matter pertinent
to future exhibitions

Gain knowledge of each artist presented and assist opening receptions
for the artist Educate visitors about the gallery and
current/past artists presented
Assist in Ad/Flyer design
Assist with development of grants
Assist in the installation and break down of shows
Research perspective granting foundations
Attend weekly meetings with Supervisor to organize and create
Assist in developing our Gallery on-line

For this position Internet, Microsoft Office, Filemaker Pro and other
computer knowledge is necessary. Writing proficiency, basic office skills
and an overall interest in non-profit/alternative organizations is also a
must.

Requirements:
*Individuals of African American, Asian, Latino/Hispanic, Native
American & Pacific Islander may apply
*You will not graduate before Dec. 2001
*Currently enrolled undergrad with at least 1 semester by
June 2001
*Resident of LA area or attending college here
*Not received Getty Internship here or at more than one other
organization
*Not related to board or staff

Email resume to:
marym95009@...

Mary Milelzcik, Administrative Director/Curator
Highways Performance Space & Gallery
1651 18th St
Santa Monica, CA 90404

Echo Park Arts, the people who bring you the yearly Echo Park Arts Festival,
has produced its first quarterly newsletter dedicated to the neighborhood
arts scene. The contents include news, artist profiles and other information
of interest to local artists.
You can view the contents of the first newsletter online at
EchoPark.Net. Look in the Arts section and you will find it under Echo
Park Arts. The next issue is due out in June.
The newsletter is funded in part by a grant from the Los Angeles County
Arts Commission and matching funds generated by the Echo Park Arts Festival.
This year's festival, which is funded primarily by a grant from the City of
Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, is scheduled for October 13-14.

[Los Angeles]

Each third Thursday of the month, Open Tent Middle East Coalition hosts a
community workshop where people from or concerned with the Middle East
dialogue on politics, culture, roots and identity.

Open Tent’s mission is to promote understanding and appreciation of Middle
Eastern cultures and faith traditions, and to engender mutual respect,
harmony, cooperation and a sense of shared heritage among people of Middle
Eastern backgrounds.

The next such gathering takes place this Thursday, April 19, 8 pm, at Beyond
Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd., 2/3 of a mile west of Lincoln
Blvd., in Venice, CA 90291.

This program is free and open to the public. For further information, visit
www.opentent.org, or call 323/650-3157

Crazy Space invites you to:

A MATTER OF STRUCTURE

Organized by Lisa Adams
with
Bob Beers, Sharon Ben-Tal, Jeff Cain, Cory Falikoff,
Georgia Fee, Ed Giardina, Phyllis Green, Rachel Grynberg, Steven Grynberg,
Lynn Hanson, Richard Hastings, Curtis LeMieux, Ari Macht, Michael McMillen,
Cindy Pop, Dennis Roberts, Leigh Salgado, and Chris Samp

Crazy Space presents "A Matter Of Structure," an exhibition in which eighteen
artists come together in the same space at the same time to build a singular
structure: an obelisk of common, discarded objects as well as art created and
thrown away by the artists. Lighting will be used to contextualize the
structure and to create a cohesive environment in which it will reside.

Building the obelisk will be a social event, not unlike a barn raising. The
artists who were invited to participate are from various disciplines and
areas of the art world, and some are not visual artists, but work in other
aligned fields. Most will be strangers to one another at the outset of the
project, allowing for social, as well as for artistic experimentation.

An opening reception will be held Saturday, April 21, 7-9PM. The exhibition
will run through Saturday, May 26. Gallery hours are Saturday, 1-5PM.

Crazy Space is dedicated to fostering art works that might not otherwise find
a home because of their noncommercial or experimental nature. The gallery is
located in the 18th Street Arts Complex near Highways at 1629 18th St., #2 in
Santa Monica. (310) 829-9789. Cross street: Olympic. Minutes from Bergamot
Station. Free. Wheelchair accessible.

Lauren Hartman Crazyspace172@...

NOTE: The text of the press release on these internships is below. The lists of organizations offering internships are available online. See URLs in paragraph 2.

GETTY AND LOS ANGELES COUNTY OFFER

305 PAID SUMMER INTERNSHIPS IN THE ARTS

Applications are Now Being Accepted for Opportunities

in Museums, Film, Literary, Performing, and Visual Arts

LOS ANGELES-The J. Paul Getty Trust and the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, seeking to introduce young people to a variety of arts-related careers and help develop future cultural leaders, have awarded more than $1 million to 164 organizations to support 305 summer internships in the arts. The internships provide real work experience at Los Angeles County arts organizations, including museums; film, literary, performing and visual arts organizations; and local arts agencies. Additional educational components for participants focus on career opportunities in the arts.

Interested college undergraduates should apply directly to the arts organizations hosting internships. Information about participating organizations and available positions may be obtained online. For museum and visual arts internships, go to the Getty's Web site at www.getty.edu/grants. For film, literary and performing arts internships, go to the County's Web site at www.lacountyarts.org/internops.html.

Los Angeles host organizations receiving support include the American Film Institute, Southern California Asian American Studies Central/Visual Communications, California African American Museum, Jazz Tap Ensemble, Long Beach Symphony, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Mexican Cultural Institute, and Pasadena Playhouse.

The Getty's Multicultural Undergraduate Internship Program for the visual arts is now in its ninth year. The County program, approved and funded by the Board of Supervisors and administered by the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, is in its second year. The County program is designed to work in parallel to the Getty program by providing opportunities in the performing and literary arts. Film and municipal arts agency opportunities are new in 2001. As part of the partnership, the Getty convenes joint educational and networking activities for the interns.

The Los Angeles County Arts Internship Program has awarded $522,400 to fund 149 film, literary and performing arts, and other arts administration internships at 87 organizations. Students receive a $3,000 stipend for 10-week internships. Host organizations also receive funds to help cover administrative expenses. Interns gain hands-on experience in a wide range of arts management fields including marketing, fundraising, audience development, public relations, stage management, production, programming, finance, educational outreach and cultural planning. County internships are open to college undergraduates of all races and ethnic backgrounds who either reside in Los Angeles County or attend colleges or universities located in Los Angeles County.

Los Angeles County Supervisor Yvonne Brathwaite Burke noted, "It's vital to develop a pool of topflight arts administrators and other professionals so that L.A. County may continue to expand as a world class center of the arts. This year the County's Arts Internship Program will expand to include local arts agencies, municipal performing arts organizations, and other nonprofit, presenting, or literary arts organizations. I want to commend the County Arts Commission and the Getty for rising to the challenge of providing an environment that will stimulate the development of all the arts in greater Los Angeles."

The Getty's Multicultural Internship Program has awarded $462,400 to fund 156 visual arts internships at 77 organizations. Students receive $3,000 for 10-week internships, with additional funds awarded to the organizations to offset administrative expenses. Students gain direct experience in such areas as exhibitions, publications, education, and conservation. The program is designed to assist outstanding students in groups traditionally underrepresented in museum and visual arts professions-individuals of African-American, Asian, Latino/Hispanic, Native American, or Pacific Islander descent. Like the Arts Commission program, eligible undergraduates must also either reside in Los Angeles County or be attending Los Angeles-area colleges and universities. Since the Getty program's inception in 1993, more than $3.8 million has supported over 1,000 multicultural summer internships.

Deborah Marrow, director of the Getty Grant Program and dean for external relations of the J. Paul Getty Trust, commented, "The Getty is very pleased to again join forces with the Los Angeles County Arts Commission to encourage young people to explore the many exciting careers in the arts. The future of our museums, performing, visual arts, and other arts organizations is directly linked to the training of a younger generation for future leadership positions."

# # #

The Los Angeles County Arts Commission has fostered excellence, diversity, vitality, and accessibility of the arts in the County since 1947. Through its grants programs, the Commission awarded $1.9 million to regional nonprofit arts organizations this year in additional to the internship awards. The Commission also produces the Ford Amphitheatre and [INSIDE] THE FORD series, the Los Angeles County Arts Open House and the Los Angeles County Holiday Celebration, and operates a year-round free music program. The Commission launched new program initiatives in folk arts and arts education in 2001. The Commission's budget for the fiscal year 2000-2001 is $3.8 million.

The Getty Grant Program is a part of the J. Paul Getty Trust, an international cultural and philanthropic institution devoted to the visual arts located at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. The Grant Program's multicultural internship grants are one of many types of support offered to institutions and individuals throughout the world. The Grant Program provides crucial support for projects in art history, museum practice, conservation, and other related fields. Since its inception in 1984, the Grant Program has given more than $100 million to support over 2,400 projects in more than 150 countries. The Getty Trust also includes the J. Paul Getty Museum as well as programs for education, scholarship, and conservation.

Hello Acoustic Music Fans!

It was great to see so many familiar faces at the Lloyd Cole/Mint show and Pasadena Arts Fair, and meet so many new folks as well!

I hope you can join us for one or both of two upcoming special Listening Room Concert Series events.

Thursday, April 19th, we'll be at The Coachhouse in San Juan Capistrano for a special Listening Room On The Road night and I am pleased to be able to offer FREE TICKETS to anyone on this list who emails their name, and number in their party, to me by Wednesday evening. Bring as many people as you like just let me know Our goal is 200 people, and the line-up, as youll read below, is incredible!

Additionally, anyone who has already purchased a ticket for The Coachhouse show will be given free admittance to the Third Anniversary Special Concert at Fremont Centre Theatre in South Pasadena, CA Monday, April 23rd (just bring your ticket stub!). This will be a special night of songs, presented by some of my favorite writer/performers, with many surprise guests, in the beautiful Spanish colonial style 80 seat theatre that has been our home for the past three years for these monthly shows of local, national and international performing songwriters.

These shows are for me, about creating community, around the shared appreciation of original works by voices that more often than not wont be found through major media channels. And we need your support to keep them growing!

Come help up celebrate the Listening Room Series as we enter a fourth season, having already presented over 300 songwriters from the U.S. and abroad including Denmark, Australia, Canada, Venezuela, Ireland, England and Scotland.

Hope to see you at one or noth shows!

Sincerely,

Brett

**

'Brett Perkins Presents'

'A Listening Room Concert Special Event'
THE COACHHOUSE
33157 Camino Capistrano - San Juan Capistrano

****THURSDAY, APRIL 19TH****

Featuring:

MATTHEW LEE

"Insightful, inspiring, and just plain beautiful"-Performing Songwriter

BRIGHT BLUE GORILLA

"Best live act of the year! Best CD of the year! O.C. Register

BERKLEY/HART


KATHRIN SHORR


TIM BURLINGAME

JAMES GREY

"no grey area here..this is a promising artist" Music Connection

Musical Host
BRETT PERKINS
(South Pasadena/Copenhagen)
"A true troubadour" Bliss/Pasadena Weekly


Showtime: 8:0pm/Tickets $10.at the door, $8.if paid in advance, with reservations recommended, by calling the venue at (949)496-8930
Visa/Master Card/and other major cards are accepted. Dinner available.
**
MISSION

The concept behind the Listening Room Concert Series is to provide both
listener and performer with an intimate, receptive environment where the intricacies of song and performance can be best experienced.

STRUCTURE

The evening falls into two segments, with each artists performing a 3-song set. The musical host also performs.

DIRECTIONS
Going South On the 5 Fwy

Take the Camino Capistrano Exit and go left at the bottom of the ramp. That will put you on Camino Capistrano. Follow it south approximately 1/2 mile. Just before the first stoplight you come to, we will be on the right hand side in the Esplanade Center. The venue is located directly behind the San Juan Tire Center.

Going North On the 5 Frwy

Take the Camino Capistrano Exit and make your first three left turns. That will put you on Camino Capistrano. Follow it south approximately 1/2 mile. Just before the second stoplight you come to, we will be on the right hand side in the Esplanade Center. The venue is located directly behind the San Juan Tire Center.

33157 Camino Capistrano, San Juan Capistrano CA, 92675

Tickets & Dinner Reservations (949) 496-8930

****

'Brett Perkins Presents'

'The Listening Room Concert Series'
THREE YEAR ANNIVERSARY CONCERT!

=Celebrating The Start Of Our Fourth Season=
Fremont Centre Theatre
1000 Fremont Ave., South Pasadena, CA

Acoustic Evenings Of Local,National,International Performing Songwriters

****MONDAY, APRIL 23RD****

Featuring:

Special Guests
HARRIET SCHOCK
(Los Angeles)
Hit Songwriter (That Ain't No Way To Treat A Lady/Helen Reddy), Performing, Recording Artist, Author, and Celebrated Teacher.


JOHN TOWNSEND
"Legendary voice of the Sanford/Townsend Band 'Smoke From A Distant Fire'

'everything divine'
Featuring the five-part harmonies and co-written tunes of Michael Glover & Robyn Rosenkrantz (Bright Blue Gorilla), David Zink, Mark Davis and Brett Perkins.
"A local 'supergroup' - Pasadena Weekly

SEVERIN BROWNE & JAMES COBERLY SMITH
"Two performing songwriters whose sensitive and intricate interweaving of voices and guitars make for a compelling performance"

KATHRIN SHORR


TIM BURLINGAME
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Special Surprise Guests - You Never Know Who Will Show Up This Night!

Musical host BRETT PERKINS
(South Pasadena/Copenhagen)
"A true troubadour" Bliss/Pasadena Weekly


Showtime: 7:30pm-10:00pm Tickets $10.at the door, all ages, and $8. if paidin advance, with reservations recommended, by calling the theatre at 626/441-5977. Visa/Master Card/and other major cards are accepted.
**
MISSION

The concept behind the Listening Room Concert Series is to provide both
listener and performer with an intimate, receptive environment where the
intricacies of song and performance can be best experienced.

STRUCTURE

The evening falls into two segments, with each artists performing a 3-songset. The musical host also performs. Refreshments are available during the intermission.

DIRECTIONS

The Fremont Centre Theatre is located at 1000 Fremont Blvd., So. Pasadena, one block south of Mission, two blocks west of Fair Oaks.
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From the 10 freeway, take the 110 North. From the West Side, take the 101 East take the 134 East into Pasadena. and from East of Pasadena take the 210 West. From all directions, exit Orange Grove Blvd., South to Mission Blvd., East (Left) to Fremont Ave. South (Right). Theatre is on the left, one block down, on the southeast corner of El Centro and Fremont Ave. Ample free parking is available. Shows run from 7:30-10:00pm.

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UPCOMING SHOWS

4/20 BRETT PERKINS/Koffee Klatch, Glendora, CA Songwriters Network Night

4/24 BRETT PERKINS/'Songs Alive Showcase/Writers In The Round' w/ Larissa Lam, Eddie Saenz. Lulu's Beehive Caf, 13203 Ventura Blvd, Sherman Oaks, between Fulton and Coldwater (next to BBQ's Galore), exit Woodman off the 101 Freeway and turn left on Ventura.Show at 8pm sharp.

4/26 BRETT PERKINS/Red Star Songwriters Showcase, Santa Barbara, CA

5/1 BRETT PERKINS/Strings, Oakland, CA

5/3 BRETT PERKINS/Voodoo Lounge, San Francisco, CA w/ Annie Gallup

5/5 BRETT PERKINS/Kulaks' Woodshed, on 'Bright Blue Gorillas' World Cafe', NoHllywd,CA

5/7 FREMONT CENTRE THEATRE LISTENING ROOM CONCERT SERIES w/ Velvet Janes, Puppets Of Castro, Greg Klyma, John Marini, Dani, Leonardo, David Piper, Musical Host Brett Perkins.

5/27 BRETT PERKINS/Acoustic Fredericia, Fredericia, DK

6/4 FREMONT CENTRE THEATRE LISTENING ROOM CONCERT SERIES w/ Caroline Aiken, Rick Solem, Felix, Judy Toy, Cindy Kalmenson, Kimberlee White. Musical Host Brett Perkins.

6/9 BRETT PERKINS/Kerrville Folk Festival,Ballad Tree Host,Kerrville,TX

6/14 BRETT PERKINS Hallenbechs NSAI Songwriter Roundup,No Hollywood, CA

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The Listening Room Concert Series evenings are sponsored in part by Busters Coffee, The Bookhouse,Magazines Etc., Enas Cassettes, Performing Songwriter Magazine
(), Pedrini Music
(), Pro Printing, NMPA (),North American Folk Alliance (), Songlink (), TAXI (), Trader Joes South Pasadena, and are a "Works of Heart" presentation of Brett Perkins Presents.
**
Artists wishing to be considered for Listening Room Series can send a
cassette or CD to:

BPP 1441 Huntington Dr., PMB 1950, South Pasadena, CA 91030

Performers are selected based on the developmental level of their writing,
as well as overall artistic presence. Follow up by email is recommended.
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Hong Kong Director Tsui Hark appears April 17 at a
special screening of Time and Tide for friends and
members of VC

Visual Communications and TriStar Pictures proudly
presents a sneak screening of Time and Tide, by Tsui
Hark, starring Nicholas Tse, Wu Bai and Candy Lo. Join
director Tsui Hark for a Q&A following the screening.

The screening takes place Tuesday, April 17; showtime is
7:30 p.m. The location is Columbia Pictures Studios, Sony
Backstage Theater, 10202 West Washington Blvd., Culver
City, one block east of Overland Avenue.

Tickets:
Friends of VC Members: Free with membership I.D.;
non-members $5. Become a Friends of Visual
Communications Member now and receive ticket discounts
for this and future VC special programs.

RSVP: Visual Communications, (213) 680-4462 ext. 58.
Limited Seating. Reserve your tickets now!

Synopsis:
Hong Kong, present day. A streetwise young man
becomes a bodyguard to score quick cash. He soon
befriends a once disillusioned mercenary determined to
begin life anew with the woman he just married. Although
the two men find themselves working together to foil an
assassination attempt, their partnership is short-lived:
gradually and through uncontrollable circumstances, they
will unknowingly be propelled toward opposite sides of a
deadly confrontation.

Tsui Hark's action-packed thriller, TIME AND TIDE, marks
Tsui's triumphant return to Hong Kong's unique brand of
high-octane filmmaking - a genre that he helped define
with such films as PEKING OPERA BLUES and A CHINESE
GHOST STORY.

TIME AND TIDE was shown at the Venice and Toronto
International Film Festivals and just garnered six Hong
Kong Film Awards nominations. This Spring, Tsui Hark will
be the subject of several retrospectives in the United
States including TriStar's re-release of the classic ONCE
UPON A TIME IN CHINA Parts 1 (in its original uncut
version) and 2; and Subway Cinema's "Once Upon A Time
In Hong Kong: A Tsui Hark Retrospective" at the
Anthology Film Archives in Manhattan and the Plaza Twin
in Brooklyn.

Produced by Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia,
Sony Pictures Entertainment's Asian production entity,
TIME AND TIDE brings together one of the world's most
renowned producer-directors, the hottest young star in
Hong Kong music and film (Nicholas Tse), a rock n' roll
icon from Taiwan (Wu Bai) and one of Hong Kong most
promising new talents, singer Candy Lo, who is nominated
for the Best Newcomer Award and Best Supporting
Actress at the Hong Kong Film Awards.

A brand name in international cinema, Tsui Hark is among
the first corps of Hong Kong filmmakers invited by
Hollywood to share the dazzling magic of their films with
the world.

His first two American projects, Columbia Pictures'
DOUBLE TEAM and KNOCK OFF, were worldwide hits. In
addition, he has more than 50 Hong Kong titles to his
credit, most of them local box-office smashes as well as
cult favorites around the world, including such
milestones as THE KILLER, A BETTER TOMORROW 1 and 2 and the
CHINESE GHOST STORY series (as producer), and
PEKING OPERA BLUES, A BETTER TOMORROW 3, and
the ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA series (as
writer/producer/director).

Special thanks to TriStar Pictures, Laura Kim and Annalee
Paulo of mPRm, and Coalition of Asian Pacifics in
Entertainment.

Hong Kong Director Tsui Hark appears April 17 at a
special screening of Time and Tide for friends and
members of VC

Visual Communications and TriStar Pictures proudly
presents a sneak screening of Time and Tide, by Tsui
Hark, starring Nicholas Tse, Wu Bai and Candy Lo. Join
director Tsui Hark for a Q&A following the screening.

The screening takes place Tuesday, April 17; showtime is
7:30 p.m. The location is Columbia Pictures Studios, Sony
Backstage Theater, 10202 West Washington Blvd., Culver
City, one block east of Overland Avenue.

Tickets:
Friends of VC Members: Free with membership I.D.;
non-members $5. Become a Friends of Visual
Communications Member now and receive ticket discounts
for this and future VC special programs.

RSVP: Visual Communications, (213) 680-4462 ext. 58.
Limited Seating. Reserve your tickets now!

Synopsis:
Hong Kong, present day. A streetwise young man
becomes a bodyguard to score quick cash. He soon
befriends a once disillusioned mercenary determined to
begin life anew with the woman he just married. Although
the two men find themselves working together to foil an
assassination attempt, their partnership is short-lived:
gradually and through uncontrollable circumstances, they
will unknowingly be propelled toward opposite sides of a
deadly confrontation.

Tsui Hark's action-packed thriller, TIME AND TIDE, marks
Tsui's triumphant return to Hong Kong's unique brand of
high-octane filmmaking - a genre that he helped define
with such films as PEKING OPERA BLUES and A CHINESE
GHOST STORY.

TIME AND TIDE was shown at the Venice and Toronto
International Film Festivals and just garnered six Hong
Kong Film Awards nominations. This Spring, Tsui Hark will
be the subject of several retrospectives in the United
States including TriStar's re-release of the classic ONCE
UPON A TIME IN CHINA Parts 1 (in its original uncut
version) and 2; and Subway Cinema's "Once Upon A Time
In Hong Kong: A Tsui Hark Retrospective" at the
Anthology Film Archives in Manhattan and the Plaza Twin
in Brooklyn.

Produced by Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia,
Sony Pictures Entertainment's Asian production entity,
TIME AND TIDE brings together one of the world's most
renowned producer-directors, the hottest young star in
Hong Kong music and film (Nicholas Tse), a rock n' roll
icon from Taiwan (Wu Bai) and one of Hong Kong most
promising new talents, singer Candy Lo, who is nominated
for the Best Newcomer Award and Best Supporting
Actress at the Hong Kong Film Awards.

A brand name in international cinema, Tsui Hark is among
the first corps of Hong Kong filmmakers invited by
Hollywood to share the dazzling magic of their films with
the world.

His first two American projects, Columbia Pictures'
DOUBLE TEAM and KNOCK OFF, were worldwide hits. In
addition, he has more than 50 Hong Kong titles to his
credit, most of them local box-office smashes as well as
cult favorites around the world, including such
milestones as THE KILLER, A BETTER TOMORROW 1 and 2 and the
CHINESE GHOST STORY series (as producer), and
PEKING OPERA BLUES, A BETTER TOMORROW 3, and
the ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA series (as
writer/producer/director).

Special thanks to TriStar Pictures, Laura Kim and Annalee
Paulo of mPRm, and Coalition of Asian Pacifics in
Entertainment.

Please forward widely.

Chris Abani, Nigerian poet and former prisoner of conscience, will read
from his new book of poems Kalakuta Republic at 7:30 pm on Thursday, May
10, at Midnight Special Bookstore on the Third Street Promenade in Santa
Monica.

Vividly praised by Seamus Heaney and Harold Pinter for this accessible,
moving, and profound work, Abani will be introduced by literary critic Ron
Gottesman. The event is cosponsored by the PEN Center USA West Freedom to
Write Committee, the USC Department of English and PhD in Literature and
Creative Writing Program, and the UCLA James S. Coleman African Studies Center.

Titled after a prison cell familiar to many of Nigeria's political
prisoners and dissidents, Kalakuta Republic is a powerful collection of
poems detailing the harrowing experiences endured by Abani and others at
the hands of Nigeria's military regime in the late 1980s.

These poems are dedicated to those who shared in but did not live through
the suffering, like John James, Abani's cellmate, tortured to death in 1991
at the age of 14, and other "kindred spirits, dreamers, fools." In them he
describes the characters that peopled his dark world, from the prison
inmates to their torturers, the generals. This is Abani's first collection
of poems following his release from jail, and while intense episodes are
vividly described, it is above all a work greatly tinged with humanity and
a durable tribute to the
triumph of the human spirit.

In 1985, at the age of 18, Chris Abani was imprisoned following the
publication of his first novel. He was released six months later. When his
second novel, Sirocco, was published in 1987, it was seized by government
forces and Abani was again arrested, detained and accused of sedition for
performing anti-government plays. In 1991 he was arrested for the third
time and held on death row. Kalakuta Republic is based on his experience as
political prisoner between 1985 and 1991.
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Wendy Belcher
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