Event
2009 Bent Mentor Showcase with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Each year Bent takes the stage to show their latest work and honor an established mentor who has inspired them to write, perform, and live as artists.
Bent students will pierce your hearts and bust your assumptions with their poetry, prose, and genre-defying spoken word. If you're not crying, laughing, or calling your estranged mother by the end of the performance, you're not breathing.
This year's mentor is Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, a queer Sri Lankan writer, performer and teacher. She is the 2009-10 Artist in Residence at UC Berkeleys June Jordans Poetry for the People program, a 2009 Sins Invalid performer and the co-founder and co-artistic director of Mangos With Chili. Her one woman show, Grown Woman Show, has toured nationally. She has performed her work all over, in venues as diverse as the National Queer Arts Festival, La Pena, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Bowery Poetry Club and Asian American Writers Workshop to immigrant rights protests, queer youth center benefits and strike lines. The author of Consensual Genocide,she is finishing her second book of poetry and her first memoir, and is happy about the forthcoming publication of The Revolution Starts At Home: Transforming Partner Abuse Through Community Accountability, which she co-edited with Ching-In Chen and Jai Dulani, by South End Press in 2010
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LocationMcEachern Auditorium at MOHAI
2700 24th Ave East
Seattle, WA 98122
United States
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