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Empowering Womxn of Color Open Mic Series
January 26, 2018 @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm
Donation based entry: $5 Suggest Donation
This series is presented by La Peña Cultural Center and the UC Berkeley Womxn of Color Initiative!
January 26th, February 9th and March 9th
This 3-part open mic series will provide a space for performances celebrating the voices of womxn of color, and will include one featured artist per month!
Come support local Bay Area talent or sign up to perform!
This event is open to all.
Performers, come dazzle the crowd with your talent and get in touch with the local artist community each month.
Sign-Ups for open-mic available on a first-come, first-serve basis: https://goo.gl/forms/K0l0tjQ5PdiA3wyQ2
FEATURED ARTIST FOR JANUARY 26: AURIELLE MARIE
Aurielle Marie is a Black, Atlanta-born, Queer hip-hop scholar and a cultural worker. Through her work as a poet and an activist, she explores the uses of intimacy and ritual in the practice of Black resistance. Aurielle is a 2017 Roddenberry Fellowship Finalist, a Voices of Our Nation Fellow-Alum, a 2016 Kopkind Fellow, and a current Queer Emerging Artist-In-Residence at Destiny Arts Center.
Both her activism and artistry ground themselves in the afro-indigenous legacy of storytelling in the Deep South. She was chosen by Safiya Sinclair as the 2017 Poetry Prize Winner for Blue Mesa Review. She was and has been featured as a social-political pundit on CNN. Her essays and poems have been published in Blue Mesa Review, Selfish Magazine, in Scalawag, on For Harriett, ESSENCE Mag, Allure, NBC Blk, and Huffington Post.
Her inaugural collection, Gumbo Ya Ya, is forthcoming from Write Bloody Publishing. Her work has been featured on a global host of stages, most importantly in her grandmother’s kitchen.