Family Style, This FRI! And SULU DC on Sat!

Family Style
Open Mic Series
Third Fridays of the month:
UPCOMING: Friday, April 16, 7:30 p.m.
$5-10 sliding scale admission

Asian Arts Initiative
1219 Vine Street, Philly

April's open mic features poet LOVELLA CALICA and the theme "DO NOT BE AFRAID: Personal Growth Through Struggle."

LOVELLA CALICA is a writer, photographer, and multi-media artist. With backgrounds in Human Development, English, and social justice organizing, she offers a unique perspective and develops creative, collaborative ways of organizing and communicating.

She is the founder and director of the Warrior Writers Project, a creative community for veterans articulating their experiences. She has edited two anthologies of Iraq era veterans' writing/art entitled Move, Shoot and Communicate and Re-Making Sense.

Lovella has received two Art and Change grants from the Leeway Foundation and was recently honored with the Transformation Award. She published her first chapbook of poetry Makibaka: Beautifully Brave in 2006 and is planning to complete a full book of writing in the spring of 2010. Lovella is a co-founder of the Pilipino-American artist collective, Tatlo Mestiz@s.

SULU DC
The SULU Series
Third Saturdays of the month:
UPCOMING: Saturday, April 17, 7:00 p.m.
$10 general admission
$8 Students

Almaz Restaurant and Lounge
1212 U Street, U Street Metro (green/yellow)


Please support! Hope to see you!

Love,
Michelle