San Diego, Friday, May 30

Hey everyone,

In our usual late ways, we want to tell you that we'll be performing in San Diego this Friday. Here's the flyer followed by more info. Hope to see you if you're near UC San Diego!



AMPLIFY! an uprising of resistant voices
a night of spoken word hosted by the Ethnic Studies Collective

Friday, May 30th, 2008
6:00 p.m. to 9 p.m.

@ the Cross-Cultural Center (the old Financial Aid Bldg.)

featuring spoken word duo Yellow Rage, 9th grade poets/students of Lincoln High School's Social Justice School, Professor Sharon Elise and our very own Ethnic Studies undergraduate, Diana Cervera

***Together, our featured poets Michelle Myers and Catzie Vilayphonh of Yellow Rage are a dynamic duo of Philly-based Asian American female spoken word poets. Michelle Myers and Catzie Vilayphonh made their first appearance together as "Black Hair, Brown Eyes, Yellow Rage" in December 2000 at the Russell Simmons' Def Poetry Slam in Philadelphia, where the made the semi-finals.(They're coming to us in SD from Philly!) Through their AMPLIFIED voices, Catzie and Michelle hope to provide an awareness that is not often heard. By exploring topics from fetishes to cultural appropriation to ethnic pride, Yellow Rage challenges mainstream misconceptions of Asian-ness. For more info, go to: yellowrage.com ***

***Sharon Elise is a professor of Sociology at CSU San Marcos where she teaches courses in race and ethnic relations, gender, social movements, critical race theories, and community and social theory. Elise is a visiting professor at UC San Diego and holds title of SLAM winner for the first city-wide slam held in San Diego (1998) and served on the first SLAM team representing San Diego.***

***Students from the Lincoln High School 9th grade School of Social Justice will be performing some of the poetry that they've created in their classrooms. The Ethnic Studies Collective hopes to build a foundation with Lincoln High in order to help create a consciousness around issues of social justice and help facilitate their process towards higher education by encouraging them to put theory in practice. What LHS students learn in their classes is very much the practice of what Ethnic Studies students hope to teach the communities from which they come. The space that we create for them at UCSD on May 30th is our wish that they will continue to write, create and continue on in their path towards higher education. Please join us as we welcome them to UCSD!**