On Friday night, I will perform "Laundry" and an Excerpt of "Free?"

Friday--April 2- San Francisco
We will be doing excerpts of our shows here.
8 pm @ Galeria de la Raza 2857 24th St at Bryant
Admission: $5
http://www.locusarts.org

Locus Arts, a non-profit artspace dedicated to supporting emerging Asian American artists presents six Los Angeles artists in a one-night showcase
"L.A. in S.F" The event features award-winning performers Kristina Sheryl Wong and Ova Saopeng, spoken word trio zero 3, and is hosted by poet Johneric Concordia. The show will be a homecoming for two of the artists who are San Francisco natives, prodigal son Kennedy Kabasares and prodigal granddaughter Wong. Locus’ new home as of January 2004 – Galeria de la Raza – was formerly a butcher shop run by Wong’s grandfather. All six performers push the theatrical form, borrowing from television, comedy, spoken word and dance, for a unique batch of performances that could only be mixed up underneath the shadow of the Hollywood sign. Saopeng uses the framework of an ESL class to reveal refugee life with humor, multidisciplinary Wong takes on multiple targets including clichéd identity art and SARS, and far-ranging zero 3 fuses stage and spoken word into an incandescent combination of solo revelations and triple-voiced truths.

On Saturday night, I will perform the full length version of "Free?"

Saturday- April 3- Berkeley
We will be doing our shows in full! An awesome double header-- two shows for the price of one!
La Peña Cultural Center ~ 3105 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley CA 94705
$10 adults $5 students 8:00pm
Reservations: 510/849-2568 ext. 20 (Highly recommended)
http://www.lapena.org

Kristina Sheryl Wong's Free?, and Ova Saopeng's LSL: Lao as a Second Language.

Renegade solo artist, Kristina Wong shakes up your tired notion of what Asian American performance art is in "Free?". Described as "Amy Tan on Crack," Wong subverts performance art pretentions and its typical political deconstructions, tucking in interdisciplinary elements that are arty, farty, and downright smartass! Wong provides a lovable mix of self-loathing, sentimental elegance and social satire, unleashing a fresh perspective on identity politics, culture, memory, family and guilt. Wong is irreverent in her silly brand of the "world's most marketable hip-hop-ya-don't-stop-political-poetry," interactive auctions of emotional baggage, and offers a candy coated lens to view war and imperialism. Turning the woman warrior upside down, she breakdances and leaves audiences screaming, "I didn't know oppression could be so funny!" Plus... one lucky audience member will get a look deep into Wong's "metaphorical vagina" (to see their inner child of course!). Free? is made possible with a grant from the Durfee Foundation.

If the only Lao family you know is from "KING OF THE HILL," you need to take LSL! Welcome to LSL: Lao as a Second Language, is an engaging, enlightening and interactive solo performance piece that twists the experience of the ESL class (English as a Second Language). Written and performed by Ova Saopeng you will meet Ms. Sisanhsoumchao, the enthusiastic class commander who will twist your tongues to the rhythm of the ancient language and plunge audiences into a cultural transformation. Saopeng explores the American experience from the perspective of a Lao refugee. Through the portrayal of several characters including his mother, himself, and the Lao ELVIS, Saopeng takes you on a complex journey behind the silence of Lao America. What does it mean to be Lao? Who are the Lao? Where are all the Lao people?