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Literary/Spoken Word/Nu Mixed-Media Series

Taos High School Slam Team & Santa Fe Indian School Spoken Word Club
Where: Moving Image Lab
Series Launch: Thursday, May 22, 7- 9pm
Donations accepted

CCA presents an evening of spoken-word by youth, featuring members of Slam Teams from Taos High School (THS) and Santa Fe Indian School (SFIS).

pihtyaDirected by their coach, Taos Pueblo poet Juan Concha, and taught by Taos poet Anne McNaughton, the THS team was recently honored with first place in the New Mexico State Slam Championship. The team, along with poets from around the state of New Mexico, will be featured in an HBO film set to air in late 2008 about the burgeoning world and momentum of spoken-word by youth throughout the nation. With World Poetry Bout Association cofounder MacNaughnton's guidance, the THS Poetry Slam Team has won several State titles, and in 2000 placed third at Nationals.

pihtyaThe SFIS spoken-word club provides students with opportunities to perform poetry in both English and Native languages. The club consists of young spoken-word poets and scholars who perform locally, as well as in New Mexico and nationally. SFIS has participated in Brave New Voices National Youth Poetry Slam in San Jose, CA and will represent Santa Fe in the upcoming competition in Washington DC. Recently they placed third at the NM State High School Invitational Slam Championships. They are mentored and coached by Tim McLaughlin, founding director of the SFIS Writing Center and the Spoken Word Club/Team.

Upcoming:
Whisper and Layli Longsoldier
Where: Moving Image Lab
When: Thursday, June 26 7-9pm
For more information contact: sandy@ccasantafe.org

SAVE THE DATE!
Second annual Santa Fe Women's Celebration at CCA
Featuring Odetta, the Be Good Tanyas, the Santa Fe Allstars and more!
Saturday, May 31, 2008
CCA, General admission tickets for all-day event: call the Lensic 988.1234
Contact: Southwest Roots Music
505/473.5723
thirstyearfest@aol.com

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For everything from booths featuring women artists and creatives to musicians and other performers and talents, plan to spend the day and evening at CCA. This is a Southwest Roots Music event featuring musicians Odetta and the Be Good Tanyas. The Santa Fe Allstars play for free, and before that, enjoy tribal belly dancing, marimba and folk music, and spoken-word performance—all by women.

For tickets to see Odetta and the Be Good Tanyas, call the Lensic 988.1234

SCHEDULE:
(subject to change)
2:00
Doors open
2:15 - 2:45 Marimba & Spoken Word
3:00 - 4:30 Free Santa Fe Allstars concert
4:45 - 5:15 Masnavi Dance Collective at the
Children's Museum
5:30 - 6:00 Be Good Tanyas program for kids
6:30 - 8:00 Ticketed Odetta concert
8:30 - 9:45 Ticketed Be Good Tanyas concert

Be Good Tanyas photo by: Jennifer Esperanza.

SAVE THE DATE!
Supermarket Performance
Saturday May 31, 2008
8pm
$4 members | $8 nonmembers
Moving Image Lab
contact:Martin Back
505.982.1338 x22
martin@ccasantafe.org

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Supermarket is an experimental dose of original electronic music and imagery, delivered with equal emphasis. Break beats of varying tempo ranging from dub and glitch to dancehall and drum ‘n’ bass are met with video, animated and celluloid imagery ranging from the abstract to the sampled and remixed. While Dan Monceaux jams out to sequenced beats and collected samples on his retro analogue synthesizers, Emma Sterling spends her time shooting and cutting visual material—everything from found footage to original celluloid shot in vintage cameras—scratched, manipulated and projected. The end result is Supermarket, a performed fusion of electronic break beats and experimental cinema.

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