Guns and Tampons: A History of Violence Against Women I Know

mood: excited

Hanalei Ramos
Guns and Tampons: A History of Violence Against Women I Know
Friday, February 9, 8:30 p.m.
$10 admission, $5 for members
Asian Arts Initiative, 1315 Cherry St, 2nd Fl, Philadelphia, PA 19107

Guns and Tampons: A History of Violence Against Women I Know is the debut of new work by spoken word artist and writer, Hanalei Ramos. In her first multi-media solo show, Hanalei has created one act plays based on the experiences of three women who are victims and survivors of domestic violence. By staging portraits of some of the most intimate moments in a woman's life, Guns and Tampons challenges our working definition of womanhood and examines how it is warped by cultural expectations, societal conditioning, and subtle forms of violence. Ultimately, the patchwork testimony of several individuals becomes the story of all women, and a compelling glimpse into a world of survival and strength.

REVLON RUNWALK NYC

 i will be doing a combination of running and walking next saturday for Revlon's Run/Walk for Women's Cancers from Times Square to Central Park!

$5 ---- less than the amount of a drink, a pack of cigaretttttes, or 2 lattes will really help this cause. If you can't participate in the walk yourself, get your good samaritan on vicariously through me.

Please please please please please securely donate by FRIDAY (5/5/2006) at this link:

https://www.revlonrunwalk.com/ny/secure/MyWebPage.cfm?pID=324414



thank you all!

hanalei

"Letters to Martha" Readings! 4/25 & 5/17

"Letters to Martha" Readings! 4/25 & 5/17

hey y'all!
i wrote martha stewart a bunch of letters while she was in jail.
it turned out to be a lot about love and life.
now it's a book.
now, i have readings.
now you should go!


Upcoming Letters to Martha Readings!
April 25 // TUESDAY: Sulu Series @ Galapagos Art Space
8 - 10 pm & FREE!
70 n 6th street   williamsburg   brooklyn
http://www.galapagosartspace.com
(i will be performing alongside ishle yi park and taiyo na! aaww
createnow, UNITE!)


May 17 // WEDNESDAY: Tea Bag Poets Lounge
8 - 10:30 pm &  $1, plus a one drink minimum ($5)
30 Mott St., ground floor - in the back, Chinatown NYC
http://www.teabagnyc.com/poetslounge.shtml


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what someone said for free and without my influence:
"Hanalei Ramos' Letters to Martha is authored in meticulously crafted
layers of side splitting irreverence, poignant irony and uncompromised
honesty. She speaks with a voice that acknowledges the deepest pain
but refuses defeat and through a narrative that seeks clarity (if
desperately) out of confusion rather than some easier escape."

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if you can't attend either reading, but still want a copy, you can
purchase it on my website via paypal:
http://www.hanaleihanalei.com (then click "buy") or

blacklava.com for non-PayPal users!  or

head to the Asian Arts Initiative in Philadelphia, PA and the East
Meets West Bookstore in Cambridge, MA...to support your local..>..>
Asian-American art spaces!

ok!  hope to see you there!  please circulate this email far and wide,
yes? thank you!

love,
your local hanalei
http://www.hanaleihanalei.com/

Letters to Martha! by Hanalei

hello friends! my book is finallllly OUUUUUT!

http://www.hanaleihanalei.com/ then click on "buy"

good times for all!  holla at early easters!