EVENTS
H.A.L. friends Illumin8tors are putting on their fattest show yet this coming Thursday at Mao Livehouse: Solar/Lunar. Join us there for Shanghai’s first ever Rock opera worth the name!
The H.A.L. crew is very proud to present our next feature, brooklyn-based bad-ass Chinese Taiwanese American performance poet Ms Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai for her first performance ever in the PR! As part of the infamous HAL BARd Fight series of hard-hitting literary events we’ve signed up five of the baddest female poets Shanghai has to offer, including SLAMHAI! winner Susie Gordon and contract hit-girl Andrea Fassolas. The evening will also premier the first section of Shanghai Erotica winner Dena Rash Guzman’s and Jerimiah Whitlock’s dirty video creation “Dan Orange in Shanghai”. All in all, not an event for the faint hearted.
We take Girls on Top very seriously, so drinks are free for all early birds (get it?), courtesy of the Rabbit Hole.
The Rabbit Hole (408 Shaanxi Lu/Beijing Lu), 8PM, Saturday Oct 29th.
Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai (察仁义)
Spoken word artist Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai has been featured in over 450 performances worldwide at venues including the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, the House of Blues, the Apollo Theater, Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, and three seasons of the award-winning “Russell Simmons Presents HBO Def Poetry.” The author of Inside Outside Outside Inside (2004), Thought Crimes (2005),No Sugar Please (2008), and the CD’s Infinity Breaks (2007) and Further She Wrote (2010), Tsai has shared stages with Mos Def, KRS-One, Sonia Sanchez, Talib Kweli, Erykah Badu, Amiri Baraka, Harry Belafonte, and many more. (www.yellowgurl.com)
Past Events
2011
Dirty Words from Distinctive Authors
Booty Call – Portland, Oregon
HAL author and Judges Prize winner at the Shanghai Erotic Fiction competition, Portlander Dena Rash Guzman read her selection from HAL’s upcoming second anthology at Kevin Sampsell’s occasional reading series Booty Call. Also reading were NYT bestselling authors Steve Almond and Jillian Lauren, and Pushcart Prize nominee Chloe Caldwell, each in Portland for its literary festival, Wordstock, or on book tours.
from left - Jillian Lauren, Dena Rash Guzman, Steve Almond, Chloe Caldwell
* Shanghai BARd Fight – Vicious Flash Fiction, Bare-Knuckle Poetry Slam
* HAL + MALA = Chengdu Literary Fest Poetry Slam
2010
* SLAMHAI
