Not a week goes by where I’m not mad crushing over some event that the Asian Arts Initative has organized. This week is no different. Their latest offering is called Home: Far and Near.
“The festival features 4 nights of 8 different Asian American performance-based artists from around the country. From March 25th-27, various artists will be performing excerpts from solo shows, and April 3rd all 8 artists will be performing a dynamic ensemble.”
The festival features artists from all over the country, but Philadelphia-based artists include:
“Philadelphia-based filmmaker ANULA SHETTY delivers not one, not two, but three short reveries! Uncle is a dark tale about a favorite uncle who starts making too many free phone calls. Too Taboo recounts the sexual awakening of a young girl who ventures into forbidden pleasures and receives moral lessons from her class teacher. Let Them Eat Cake describes returning home to Bombay and discovering a different relationship to class distinctions, cleanliness, and food.”
“Philly-born and raised CATZIE VILAYPHONH of Yellow Rage fame performs her signature piece Laos in the House, an eye-opening spoken word tribute to the Lao American experience drawing on cultural references to food, language, and the ethnic ambiguity of an obscure nation. In addition to her classic crowd-pleaser, Catzie also debuts a brand-new performance about life as a single mother and her reluctant return home to “the hood.”
“Filled with deliciously intense movement inspired by real events and ideas, Philadelphia-based MAKOTO HIRANO investigates Hip Hop and House culture that pays homage to Gene Kelly and Richard Pryor. During its development, Boom Bap Tourism: The Lost Tapes was discovered: material omitted from the final version has now resurfaced as an alluring/ pre/sequel.”
Interested in seeing these and other performers? Good news, the Asian Arts Initative hooked up PG readers with a discount. Enter the code: Phillygrrls when buying a ticket through the Brown Paper Ticket site and get $1 off your ticket price until March 19th.
I’m in. What night are you going?