Still We Speak: Working Within Tension A night of spoken word, music, and dialogue around gender, race and sexuality. Carmen Mojica, Vaimoana Niumeitolu, Anais Alonso, and Lizzy Fox share their stories as women, both recognizing shared struggle and highlighting their differences along racial and ethnic lines. Sunday, March 13th, 2011, 7pm WOW Cafe Theater 59-61 E. 4th St, between Bowery and 2nd Ave., Manhattan New York $5 students (high school and undergraduate) $10 adults at the door, or, buy online for a $1.50 discount!
	The show encourages women to speak of systems of oppression and how our personal stories and lives interact and respond with each other in these systems. After the show, performers invite the audience to join them in a story circle. Participants are encouraged to share their own experiences as women, men, and/or transgender people to uncover the truths and tensions that we have inherited and that exist in the room.
The Performers: Carmen Mojica Carmen Mojica is 25 year old Afro-Dominican woman born and raised in the Bronx. She is a poet, writer, workshop facilitator, birth doula, dancer & model. She is a graduate from the State University of New York at New Paltz. She has a bachelor's degree in Black Studies and Television/Radio Productions. Carmen has self-published her literary work called 'Hija De Mi Madre' (My Mother's Daughter), which is a combination of memoirs, poems and research material that not only explain the effects of race on identity from an academic standpoint but also shares her life as a living example. She presents at various colleges and organizations on the topic of race and identity and is working on her first work of fiction. Vaimoana Niumeitolu Born Vaimoana Litia Makakaufaki Niumeitolu, Moana is a Poet, Painter, and Actor. She was born in Nuku'alofa, Tonga; raised in Hawa'ii and Utah; and now lives, creates and loves in NYC. She is a founding member of Mahina Movement, the phenomenal all woman trio who have performed on over 400 stages and shared stages with Amiri and Amina Baraka, Tony Kushner, Noam Chomsky, Suheir Hamad, Sarah Jones, Medusa, Deepak Chopra, Kool Herc, Dead Prez and countless others. Moana is the author of a poetry, performance text, and visual art chapbook, tonga provo harlem. Moana has traveled and shared her poetry & painting all over the US and in Fiji, Tonga, Ireland, Italy, and South Africa. She has been seen acting at the Metropolitan Opera and sharing her one woman show, Tongue-in Paint, which had it's world premiere at soloNOVA's 5th Annual Arts Festival at Performance Space 122 in NYC. Her other production, A Prayer for Tonga, premiered at Harvard University. She graduated from New York University with degrees in painting and performance, earned the Ellen Stoekel Fellowship/fulll scholarship in painting & drawing from Yale University and attended Columbia University's Graduate Program in Acting. She loves that she is getting older. Life has just begun. Anais Alonso Anaís K. Alonso – Anakalo, began playing guitar and writing songs as a tool to understand and capture life experiences. She’s often considered songwriting to be a spiritual and healing practice. She sang backup vocals with the salsa/timba band Aguamiel in Portland, Oregon and hooks with the rock/rap group Arson Class in New York City . She is the lead singer of the downtempo/triphop New York based group Etro Anime. Their second album, "Spreading Silence," was released in March 2010. Anaís currently performs monthly at Solo Bar in Brooklyn. Her first solo album, "Liberation," will be self released in 2011. Lizzy Fox Lizzy Fox is a spoken word artist, mover, activist, and teacher currently living in Brooklyn. Originally from the woods of Vermont, Lizzy draws from images of the natural world to illustrate social injustices, process personal experiences, and inspire unity and movement. While abroad in 2007, she was invited to perform for the Spoken Word All Stars in Windhoek, Namibia. She regularly graces the stage at the WOW Café Theatre for their bi-monthly cabaret and variety show, The Giddy Multitude. She has also performed inThe Gratitude Project by Maria Bauman and Dawn Robinson, WOW’s Uncharted: A Night of Poetry, and Releasing Forward with Anais Alonso. She recently self-published her first chap book: Poems on Hope. When she is not performing, Lizzy can be found facilitating spoken word classes and dialogue sessions at ?El Puente?, a community center in Brooklyn. Lizzy strives to create collaborative performance pieces that mix spoken word, dance, dialogue, and other performing arts. She hopes to use these tools to heal social divisions and empower communities towards action! http://lizzyfox.wordpress.com/ ============= home