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CalendarKSW programs and events. February 2005
February 3 APA Artists 4 Tsunami ReliefCo-presented with Locus Arts, EKTA, Galeria De La Raza, Dhamaal, Bindlestiff Studio, Asian American Theater Company, manja.org, Asian Improv aRts, Asia Society Northern California, and National Asian American Telecommunications Association. APA Artists unite to raise funds for tsunami relief. Come out for a night of dope music and words and join our efforts to raise funds for the tsunami devastation in Southeast and South Asia. Featuring: SHAILJA PATEL , Poet Date: Thursday, February 3 Time: 7 -10pm Location: Locus Arts at Galeria de la Raza, 2857 24th Street (at Bryant), SF Cost: $10 minimum More information: Contact info@kearnystreet.org About the Artists
Ferhan Qureshi has been a student of tabla and traditional
Pakistani/Indian music for the past 10 years. He has performed with
the Dhamaal Artists Collective and can also be heard on DJ Zeph's
album, Sunset Scavenger. Ferhan is the senior disciple of the tabla
maestro Ustad Abdul Sattar Tari Khan, who is recognized as one of
the foremost tabla players performing today. Ferhan studies the Punjab
gharana of classical tabla. He is also the Director of Artist Management
at Bol Records.
Golda Supanova and the Comic Book Heroes arrive in splendid new-millennium rock fashion. 3rd World born, 1st World bred, fed on old school hair rock, with new wave appetites, perverted by jazz and addicted to majestic chaos. LAVA, their first LP due in SPRING 2005, is the product of struggle, stubborn individuality and torturous dedication. Tracks like “Fall,” “Diamond,” and “False” are all arsenic and ear candy, full of fast paced new wave bass, classic rock riffs and the drama of a good novel. ALL GROSS PROCEEDS BENEFIT RELIEF EFFORTS IN INDONESIA AND SRI LANKA. We are working with the Global Greengrants Fund to disburse all funds collected directly to 3 community-based groups in the two hardest hit areas. Global Greengrants' Fund is a U.S. 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization, and will match the first $25,000 donated to this special relief effort. 100 percent of Tsunami Fund donations will be sent to these relief efforts. About the Co-PresentersAsian American Theater Company Asian Improv aRts Asia Society Northern California Bindlestiff Studio, Epicenter for Pilipino American Performing Arts EKTA, South Asian Progressive Network Dhamaal Artist Collective, DJs, MCs, Video DJs, Vocalists Instrumentalists
& Fine Artists Galería De La Raza, Interdisciplinary Chicano/Latino Space
for Art, Thought and Activism Locus Arts manja.org, Guide to the San Francisco Asian American Arts National Asian American Telecommunications Association.
 February 7 - March 21, 2005Poetry WritingAn 8-week writing workshop with Edmond ChowMondays, 7.30 - 9.30PM Class size: minimum of 8, maximum of 12. To register, please send a check for the full amount to: Kearny Street Workshop, 934 Brannan Street, San Francisco, CA 94103. Please include your name, contact information (phone number and email address if possible), and which class you are registering for. For questions, please contact program manager Samantha Chanse at 415.503.0520 or info@kearnystreet.org. Class Description: About the Instructor: Edmond has taught creative writing for the Asian American Renaissance and for Pleasanton Adult Education, and was on the editorial board of the Journal of the Asian American Renaissance in 1997. His poems have appeared in several journals in Canada, including Grain, The New Quarterly, The Antigonish Review, Dandelion, ARC, Prairie Fire, and The Fiddlehead. In 1997, he won an honorable mention in the League of Canadian Poets Annual Chapbook Competition. He is currently completing his first book-length poetry manuscript. February 8HARD COPY: Zine Workshopwith Mark Miyake and Jing Bentley A workshop all about the art, history, and craft of zines and zine-making. In these increasingly on-line, virtual days, explore the possibilities of the tangible world. Mark Miyake and Jing Bentley, creators of the print zine punkpunk and founders of Super 7 Store will cover the history and craft of zines and zine-making, and then lead an in-class exercise that will give participants an opportunity to try out some new skills and create something to take home. To ensure that we supply the right amount of materials, participants must RSVP for this workshop by February 1st. Space is limited. Please RSVP at sam@kearnystreet.org or call 415.503.0520. Date: Tuesday, March 8 Time: 7 - 9pm Location: SomArts Cultural Center, 934 Brannan Street, between 8th and 9th sts, SF Cost: varies; scholarships available. please contact Sam at KSW for further details. More information: Contact sam@kearnystreet.org About the Artists and Workshop
More details coming soon. In the meantime, visit Mark and Jing's
websites infinityscene.com
and super7store.com February 6 - April 3, 2005Video Post-Production (Part II) with Madeleine LimSundays; class hours and venue TBA Class size: minimum of 8, maximum of 10. **Note: The major piece of equipment used in this workshop will be video cameras--most formats are acceptable for the purposes of the class. Students are encouraged to use their own video camera if they have one (or access to one), but KSW will have cameras available for all other students to use. To register, please send a check for the full amount to: Kearny Street Workshop, 934 Brannan Street, San Francisco, CA 94103. Please include your name, contact information (phone number and email address if possible), and which class you are registering for. For questions, please contact program manager Samantha Chanse at 415.503.0520 or sam@kearnystreet.org. About the Instructor: From 2000-2003, she was awarded Artist-in-Residence by the California Arts Council. She was the winner of the 1998 National Educational Media Network Bronze Apple Award and received the 1997 Award of Excellence from the San Jose Film & Video Commission. Madeleine is the Artistic Director of QWOCMAP, which provides training, screenings and networking for emerging queer women of color filmmakers. She teaches Media Production at the University of San Francisco. February 16Sightseeing: Rattawut Lapcharoensap
A literary reading with author Rattawut Lapcharoensap Date: Wednesday, February 16 Time: 5pm Location: Stacey's Bookstore, 581 Market St (@ Montgomery, between 1st and 2nd sts), SF Cost: free More information: Contact info@kearnystreet.org About Sightseeing
by Rattawut Lapcharoensap Feb 26APAture 2005 Retreat
Have you been pining away for KSW's APAtures of yore? Pictured at left: scene from APAture 2004. Note: there probably won't be any dancing at the retreat. But the spirit will be there.
What: KSW's APAture 2005 Retreat Date: Saturday, February 26th Time: 10am - 5pm (roughly) Location: Granma's Camera Productions Cost: free More information: Please rsvp at sam@kearnystreet.org The APAture retreat kicks off KSW's annual APAture season. APAture is an annual multidisciplinary arts expo & festival to present the work of young, emerging APA artists in the SF Bay Area. For six years now, APAture has presented over 100 artists each year at this 2- 4 week festival. The 7th annual APAture will take place in September 2005. If you are AT ALL interested in planning APAture this year--regardless of what kind of experience (if any) you've had in the past working with KSW--the APAture Retreat is your chance to get involved and learn more about this event. Please RSVP. Questions, comments, concerns? please contact Sam at 415.503.0520 or at sam@kearnystreet.org.
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Shailja
Patel is the 2001 Lambda Slam Champion, Santa Cruz Slam 2000
Champion and represented Team Santa Cruz at the National Slam Championships
2000. She was a featured panelist and guest poet at the National Youth
Slam Championships 2001. Her work appears in Awaaz (London), Trikone
Magazine, Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, the Emily Dickinson Award
Anthology and the CD, Best of the Berkeley Slam Poets. Her awards
include the 1999 Outwrite Poetry Prize, semifinalist for the 2000
Emily Dickinson Award and the 2000 Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize.
She is a recipient of a Serpent Source Foundation For Women Artists
Grant and a Voices Of Our Nations Arts Foundation Poetry Scholarship.
Photo courtesy of 
Riffat
Sultana is the first woman from her family’s musical
lineage to publicly perform in the west. She is the daughter of Ustad
Salamat Ali Khan, who was universally recognized and acclaimed as
the finest Pakistani Classical singer of his time. Her family represents
a 500-year lineage of musicians hailing from the Sham Chaurasi Gharana
(school of music). The Ali Khan family are direct descendents of 2
famed court musicians, Suraj (of the Sun) Khan & Chand (of the
Moon) Khan, who performed Morning and Evening Ragas respectively for
the artistically devoted Mughal Emperor Akbar the Great. Her vocals
have been recorded for numerous labels including Ark 21/Universal,
Triloka/Mercury, Hearts of Space, City of Tribes, 6 Degrees &
XDot25.
Riffat
frequently performs with her trio, “Riffat Sultana and
Party”, accompanied by Shiraz Ali Khan on 12 string
guitar and Ferhan Najeeb Qureshi on tabla. 
Scrabbel
was formed in 1999 with old high school friends, Becky Barron and
Dan Lee. They made their live debut at the 2000 San Francisco Asian
American Film Festival "Directions In Sound" music night
with the Aislers Set and Sweet Trip, and released their first record
in 2001 on Kittridge Records. The kazoos and speak n spells from the
1st record were traded in for cellos and violins on the 2nd record,
"1909". Some guest performers include Alicia Vanden Heuval
(Aislers Set), Gary Olson (Ladybug Transistor), and Pete Nguyen (Total
Shutdown and Ee). On "1909", mastermind Dan Lee (who plays
everything from keyboards to guitar to clarinet to speak & spell)
has jumbled string sections with whimsical pop, early British invasion
melodies and electro blip beats. He even incorporates the ambient
sounds of a BART subway station to create something simply original.
The live band has grown from a 2 piece to a larger ensemble of friends,
including Hellen Jo, Nathalie Roland, Stanley Lam, and Atsushi Murase,
featuring everything from drums, guitars, cello, violin, organ, and
xylophone. 
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