Butterflies & Arsenic Tour
Annah Anti-Palindrome!, Meg Day, Jezebel Delilah X, Na'amen, and special guest Maya Chinchilla
Sunday January 24, 2010
$5-$10 sliding scale - 8pm
Feminist Poetic Liberation Collective is a group of artists committed to expanding the politik inside and outside the body, exploring the boundaries of communities, remembering a painful past while looking towards a hopeful future and reexamining the world and art from new complex perspectives. Their work both solo and collaborative explores the way we exist within our skins and the places where our existences meet/merge/war using music, movement and words.
Featuring:
Annah Anti-Palindrome! Annah. is an electro-accoustic/experimental musician and queer/femme antagonist from Oakland, CA. She performs using a variety of different mediums including a looping system, kitchen utensils, gas-masks, overhead projection images, found objects, her body (mostly her throat), and more...
Meg Day is a nationally awarded spoken word artist, published poet & badass arts educator who hails from San Diego but is currently juggling collab projects & teaching young poets to hold their own at the mic with Youth Speaks in San Francisco. In 2006 she became San Diego's first queer Spoken Word Grand Champion, a title she held for three years running, and was recently named by OUT-ART Magazine as one of the nation's "Top 30 Under 30" up-and-coming artists in 2009. Meg has been featured at The San Diego Hip Hop Festival, Fists Up: International Deaf Day Celebration, Life is Living Festival, The San Francisco Queer Arts Festival, The San Francisco AIDS Walk, KPFA Radio with Beyond the Odds, and various venues throughout California, New York, Colorado & Alaska.
Jezebel Delilah X is a righteous faerie Queen from the ancient dynasty of Kush. Descending from a long line of Black activist freedom warriors, she was born by erotic conception. For pleasure. she snorts poetry dust off the quivering bellies and delicate inner thighs of virgin boi rebel-leaders, dom-fucks dying super deities for justice and equity, and dispenses life pollen in the form of literature, literacy, and advocacy to the oppressed and the marginalized.
Na'amen is somewhat obsessed with the spaces between things that we tend to ignore. Its not life or death that truly matters but what happens in-between the two, where is the space between mortal and god, what exists between colonialist and colonized. He's attempting to explore some of these erased positions in his poetry and fiction while an MFA candidate at Mills College and a fiction editor for 580 Split. He had a regular column in Fantasy Magazine and has also published numerous reviews and essays on various various blogs including The Angry Black Woman and Feminist SF - The Blog!
*Special to Bay Area: poetic performance artist Maya Chinchilla and invited guests.
