Standard Deviations: The Deep Grown & Sexy Show
Las Manas Tres & Gabby Callendar
Thursday June 11, 2009
$10 gen. $7 students w/ ID - 8pm
Join us for an evening of song and poetry with Las Manas Tres and Gabby Callendar of NYC's Mahina Movement plus special guests. Las Manas Tres are hybrid poetas bringing the fierce flava, heating the heart and melting the mind from the Bay to L.A. Gabby Callendar is an activist, poet, singer, and songwriter representing Hollis, Queens NY.
Las Manas Tres is a women of color writers and artists collective. The original members of Las 'Manas, which include Rosa, Cruz, Maya, Gina, Marisa, Sasha and Genevieve, came together in 2004 to cultivate a more feminine voice and sense of sisterhood within the Bay Area spoken word scene. Las Manas Tres (Maya, Milta and Cruz) are hybrid poetas bringing the fuerte flava, heating the heart and melting the mind from the Bay to L.A. Their estilo is characterized by a mixture of theater, spoken word and movement, centered on themes of social justice, sexuality, motherhood and the relationship between first and third world women.
Gabriella Callender is a singer, songwriter, and is the heart of Mahina Movement’s music. Gabby represents Hollis, Queens, New York, where she was raised by an adopted family. Gabby has a fierce passion for music and has consistently been writing songs since she was 5 years old. Her story is featured in the documentary, Anomaly, which offers a compelling look at the experiences of people of mixed ethnicity, directed by Jessica Chen Drammeh. In 2003, she was part of the Palestine Truth Tour, that featured speakers and artists who traveled across the Nation to inform and educate people about Palestine. Her poem, "The Word" was performed by youth at The Apollo Theater in Harlem, USA (2004).
