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Written and Performed by Jason Bayani
Directed by award-winning performing artist, Kat Evasco, the show explores the lives of Filipino immigrants in America, taking you through Bayani's hip- hop inspired youth, club-going college days, and turbulent adulthood. Locus of Control navigates his experience dealing with race, mental health, addiction, and his status as the first American-born child in his family. Utilizing poetry, storytelling, music, and multimedia, Bayani pieces together the different threads of his life while struggling to make sense of Walter Benjamin's notion of redeeming the past in present time.
Jason Bayani is a graduate of St. Mary's MFA program in Creative Writing. He is a Kundiman Fellow and a veteran of the National Poetry Slam scene, whose work has been published in Fourteen Hills, Muzzle Magazine, Mascara Review, The National Poetry Slam Anthology, Rattapallax, Write Bloody's Classroom Anthology, Learn Then Burn, and other publications. As a member of 7 National Poetry Slam teams, he's been a National Poetry Slam Finalist and represented Oakland at the International World Poetry Slam. He is also one of the founding members of the Filipino-American spoken word troupe, Proletariat Bronze, and has been an organizer for the Asian and Pacific Islander Poetry and Spoken Word Summit. His first book, Amulet, was published in 2013 through Write Bloody Press and has garnered acclaim in literary magazines such as Zyzzyva and Glint. He is currently the Program Manager for Kearny Street Workshop, the oldest multi-disciplinary Asian Pacific-American arts organization in the country.
"Bayani's entire performance demands to be seen in the act of self-love, which, in his formulation, is also the act of making history tangible, remarkable, embodied." - Hyphen Magazine
"An internationally known poet, he gives a riveting performance. ... A fine spoken word performer at the top of his game." - Irene Nelson, Theatrius Reviews
http://aapress.com/arts/locus-of-control-highlights-filipino-journeys/
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/on-air/community/Jason-Bayani-Locus-of-Control-412958843.html
https://hyphenmagazine.com/blog/2017/07/jason-bayanis-locus-control
http://jasonbayani.net
twitter/instagram: @jasonbayani
NO REFUNDS OR EXCHANGES.
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LocationBryant Lake Bowl Cabaret Theater (View)
810 W Lake Street
Minneapolis, MN 55408
United States
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