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Gender: Female
Status: Married
Age: 101
Sign: Pisces

City: Los Angeles
State: California
Country: US
Signup Date: 1/31/2007

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Friday, June 20, 2008 

Current mood:  energetic
Category: Writing and Poetry
Baldwin Hills Branch Library, 2906 La Brea Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90016.
Saturday, June 21st at 2pm.
This event is free and open to the public.
For reservations call (310) 998-8765.

TEADAWORKS 2008: HEALING ALOUD

Los Angeles, CA—June 21, 2008, TeAda Productions presents a one-day festival of workshop performances by local artists who are participating in TeAda Productions' new program called HEALING ALOUD.

HEALING ALOUD was created to develop opportunities for its artists to collaborate with local health organizations and create original performances addressing health issues of immigrants and refugees. The project aims to increase awareness of health issues facing immigrants and refugees—such as body image, caregiving for our elders, and ways to approach holistic health practices—and provide the partnering organizations with a creative strategy for reaching their target audiences. Each artist has spent the last couple months conducting various workshops and community engagement activities with the clients of their partnered health organizations, which include the Los Angeles Caregiver Resource Center, Unión de Mujeres Oaxaqueñas, and Satrang.

TeAda's Founding Artistic Director Leilani Chan sees this collaboration between the arts and public health sector as a great opportunity to inform new performance work and reaching out to communities not accustomed to attending theater. "TeAda Productions is dedicated to exploring issues which are affecting immigrant communities today," she says. "We've noticed that telling and hearing our stories is a part of the healing process for many immigrants and refugees. This is just the beginning of what we can do to give back to our communities."

TEADAWORKS 2008: HEALING ALOUD will be presented at the Baldwin Hills Branch Library, 2906 La Brea Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90016.
Saturday, June 21st at 2pm.
This event is free and open to the public.
For reservations call (310) 998-8765.

This program was funded in part by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.
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Thursday, January 10, 2008 

Current mood:  artistic
Back from Albuquerque! I had an amazing time dancing with Pilar Leto and her dance group, the Odara Dance Ensemble at the Hotel Albuquerque on New Year's Eve. What a party. We had such a blast!

Pilar worked my ass off two days before the gig, hammering in the choreographies (there were three.)

Unfortunately, we were not allowed to tape the actual dance performance in the venue...corporate crap, but John caught a little of the in-between action on video just outside near the entrance which I'll post later.

Many thanks to Pilar for getting me off my butt and hiring me for the gig. Thanks, again, to her dancers: Evelyn, Naomi and Haydee for the additional rehearsals to work me into the choreographies. Also, thanks to Shawnee and Minerva for joining me in my workouts at the Eagle Rock Dance Center last month. It really helped me to get into shape for the gig! I worked through a lot of my fears about hurting myself (due to RA), but thankfully, most of it was in my head and I did wonderfully well. Plus it was such a kick to be dancing in an itty-bitty samba costume, again. Woo hoo!

Onward and upward!
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Friday, December 14, 2007 

Category: Art and Photography
Oh my gawd! It's been a while since I've danced Brazilian samba professionally, but I sooo love to dance, so I've accepted the challenge to be a guest artist with the Odara Dance Company for a New Year's Eve gig in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Woo hoo! I've begun working out and prepping and my body is responding very positively. So much so, I've opened up my workout to the public these next two Sundays:

I'm doing it again this Sunday and the next (December 16 and 23) from 1:30 to 3:00. $10 suggested donation, or pay-what-you-can, proceeds to go towards continued development Healing Mars* (e.g. rehearsal space, etc.). Good cardio and muscle toning workout set to Brazilian samba. Work off those holiday party calories, be energized for your last minute shopping and help a sistah develop her solo piece.

When: Sundays (December 16 and 23), 1:30 to 3:00
Where: Eagle Rock Dance 5054-1/2 Eagle Rock, next door to Armon's Restaurant. Please enter at the rear of building where there is plenty of parking.

Easy access to 2 and 134 freeways, just off of Colorado Blvd. in Eagle Rock. Click attached link to mapquest map.
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Questions? Send me a message and I'll respond.

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Sunday, July 29, 2007 

Category: Blogging

Preparing yet another grant application.  It's very time consuming, but very satisfying work.  This time I'm putting ALL my work on my resume and it feels really good.  I've done quite a bit over the years.  I'm just putting the finishing touches of my artist work demo reel.  It's always a challenge to edit together something that falls into the grantor's five minute viewing time limit.  But I actually like the challenge.  Okay, gotta get back to the edit.  Next, writing up the proposal and budget.  Yikes!

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Wednesday, May 16, 2007 

Category: Art and Photography

The performance at the Armory in Pasadena this past Saturday went very well thanks to Richard Amromin and all the volunteers of NewTown Arts.  The space was absolutely perfect and the technical aspects went off without a hitch. 

Many thanks to all of you who attended the performance. It was nice to see familiar faces in the audience and it was really exciting for me to see and hear the audience response throughout the piece.

It was quite gratifying to hear all the positive feedback.

Thanks, again.  Photos and video excerpts will be posted shortly.

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Friday, May 11, 2007 

Category: Art and Photography
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NewTown Presents
Medical/Arts in Performance and Media

Featuring Works by

Susan Braig, hris Fitzpatrick, Brooke Keesling, Tran T. Kim- Trang, The League of Imaginary Scientists, Adam Overton, Marcella Pabros-Clark and Reginald Vinluan

May 12, 7:30 PM

Doors open 7:00 PM to view gallery portion of show

Armory Center for the Arts - 145 N. Raymond, Pasadena

Admission $10, $5.00 NewTown and Armory members

ABOUT THE SHOW

ABOUT THE SHOW

Susan Braig's "Pink Robbin: The Best Medicine"

Along with musicians Joe Berardi, Emily Hay, Arthur Jarvinen and Kira Vollman, satirizes the human/grug exegesis through the chemotherapy process.

Chris Fitzpatrick's "Sounding Hospital"

A subtle ambient evocation of the sonic environment of the hospital through the little sounds of technology and human interface that either comfort or disturb.

Broooke Keesling's "Boobie Girl"

This award-winning animated film explores Ms Keesling's own experiences under the knife for breast reduction surgery. One of the true a nimated pleasures of the last decade.

Tran T. Kim-Trang's "The Palpable Invisibility of Life"

Completed in 2006, Ms Trang's experimental video visualizes the unseen threads between mother and child across four generations. ...a work of subtle urgency confronting the interface of maternity and medicine.

The League of Imaginary Scientists' "Meta-physical"

"Meta-physical" is an interactive participatory performance incorporating live video. Viewers play doctor and examine the artist/subject, triggering visuals within the examination room, as well as responses from the performer.

Adam Overton's interactive performance

Heartbeats, blinks, human touch sensitivity are brought to sonic realization in an interactive performance by one of Los Angeles' most challenging emerging sonic artists.

Marcella Pabros-Clark's "Healing Mars"

Ms Clark's performance explores the often conflicting interface between medicine, faith and personal strength in a piece based on her own medical journey.

Reginald Vinluan's "Afterbirth"

A tragic children's center fire in Manilla leads to an extraordinary interface between midwifery and forensic pathology in this visually rich, often disturbing animated work by one of the most prmisising of our emerging young experimental animators

For Information
FOR MORE INFORMATION

(626)398-9278

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Made possible by grants from The Ellingsen Family Foundation and The Pasadena Art Alliance

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