[Vcsa-announcements] "Freedom of the Mind" Auditions

[Emilio Virata]

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From: Emilio Virata [mailto:emilio.virata at ucr.edu] 
Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 12:12 PM
To: ccook004 at ucr.edu; cchiv001 at ucr.edu; 'Charlie Cooke'; dtsai005 at ucr.edu;
fmach001 at student.ucr.edu; Frank Hiroyasu; jchak004 at student.ucr.edu;
lisa.chan at email.ucr.edu
Subject: "Freedom of the Mind" Auditions

 

The Final Edition of "Freedom of the Mind" Open Mic 

is on May 21, 2009!

 

Poet and Spoken Word Artis Beau Sia will headline the show, but we're saving
a spot on stage for YOU!

 

Prepare your poetry, your spoken word, your music, your dance and get up on
stage!

 

Auditions will take place on the evenings of April 27, 28, 29 at 244 Costo
Hall. Come by the Asian Pacific Student Programs Office to sign up for an
Audition slot!

 

Contact Charlie Cooke ccook004 at ucr.edu fairyskys at gmail.com or Christilily
Chiv cchiv001 at ucr.edu for more information.

 

 

BEAU SIA is a Chinese-American poet from Oklahoma City.   Beau has been
featured in the award-winning film Slam and the documentary Slam Nation. As
an author, Beau wrote the poetry book A  Night Without Armor II: The
Revenge.  A few of the anthologies his work appears in, include, Def Poetry
Jam on Broadway... and more, Why Freedom Matters, and Spoken Word
Revolution.  Beau has two spoken word CD's, Attack! Attack! Go! and Dope and
Wack. He was a recipient of the California Arts Council Writer-in-Residence
grant for Youth Speaks in 2001-2002, and was the lead artist for the
Creative Work Fund.  Beau has appeared on all seasons of HBO's "Russell
Simmons Presents Def Poetry," and has also performed on ESPN's 2000 Winter
X-Games, Showtime! at The Apollo, and the 2003 Tony Awards. He is one of the
original cast members in Def Poetry Jam on Broadway, a 2003 Special Event
Tony Award Winner, and has recently toured with Declare Yourself, a project
dedicated to  increasing the number of young voters in this past 2004
election.  He has toured internationally from South Africa to Amsterdam and
is currently working on a new theater piece for the opening of the Museum of
the Chinese in America in New York City.  He is the 2008 recipient of the
Local Hero Award from KCET for Asian American Heritage Month. He was
recently a part of the ensemble cast of Jonathan Demme's "Rachel's Getting
Married" released by Sony Pictures Classics in 2008. 

myspace page


www.myspace.com/iambeausia

He also has a few you tube videos that are recent and have been working
great for us in terms of Promotion. 

APIA Town Hall
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgfZFkWv9VE 


An Open Letter to All the Rosie O'Donnells.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=VJCkHu3trKc 

Asian American Heritage Month PSA for AZN tv
http://youtube.com/watch?v=V63Z76eNzV0

and, finally, he was in the Tv on the Radio video for their single "Wolf
Like Me"
http://youtube.com/watch?v=GUB1xSAAADk 

 

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