FAMILY STYLE!!! FRI., OCT. 16 @ AAI, 7:30pm

Friday, October 16:
Family Style Open Mic Series

Asian Arts Initiative
1219 Vine Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107

7:30pm (sign-ups start at 7pm)
$5-$10 sliding scale

Catzie and I are going to try our hand at hosting an open
mic series. "Family Style" is a new family-friendly, positive
space that honors Asian American artists and extended
"family" from all communities and cultures. It's a
celebration, yall!

Our open mic series will be held every 3rd Friday from Oct
until May or July (we'll take a break in Jan).  Because we
are trying our best to bring quality programming to the
Inish and to the paying audience, we have established
some ground rules:

OPEN MIC GROUND RULES

Sign up 30 minutes in advance.
Max 12 open mic-ers per show.
Honor the theme.
Respect your 4-minute limit.
Arrive 60 minutes early with tech needs.

Ahem, Catzie and I WILL cut the mic and snatch folks off
the stage if they violate the ground rules or disrespect the
space--so please give folks the heads up.

Each month's open mic includes a feature APIA artist and a
specific theme.  Our feature artists for October are
musician/songwriter/poet Taiyo Na and the hip hop duo
Magnetic North.  Amazing artists separately, Taiyo, Direct,
and T-Vu will be wowing AAI's open mic crowd with their
recent collabo work--seriously, yall, this is not to be missed.
The show will be CRRAAAZZZZYYYY!





Also, Taiyo's music video for his beautiful song "Immigrant Mother"
will be debuting that night, directed by Gary San Angel and featuring
folks from all over the Philly community honoring their immigrant
mothers.

The Oct theme is "Tongue-ticular: A Celebration of Food, Language,
Song and Other Things that Tickle the Tongue."  All poems, songs,
and other open-mic sharing should reflect the theme.  Once again, I
want to emphasize that AAI wants this to be a FAMILY-FRIENDLY
space.  We will probably allow some cussing (you have to with me
and Catzie hosting :P), but leave erotic poetry at home. Please.

Other than that, we would love to see you--we're all family when
we share "Family Style."

For more info, check out AAI's website:
http://www.asianartsinitiative.org/

Updates will also go up on the Yellow Rage blog.

Upcoming open mic highlights: a feature by Def Poet Kelly Tsai,
a Hapa Happy themed night, and next year, Catzie will battle it
out over who is the real "Laos in the House." =D