Sun August 9, 2015
Avotcja’s 74th Birthday Bash
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at La Peña Cultural Center
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Avotcja’s Birthday Bash is a night filled with performances and speeches from talented and socially-conscious performers.
POET/PLAYWRIGHT/MULTI-PERCUSSIONIST/PHOTOGRAPHER/TEACHER
Avotcja has been published in English & Spanish in the USA, Mexico & Europe. She’s an award winning Poet & multiinstrumentalist who has opened for Betty Carter in New York City, Peru’s Susana Baca at San Francisco’s Encuentro Popular & Cuba’s Gema y Pável, played with Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Bobi & Luis Cespedes, John Handy, Sonido Afro Latina, Dimensions Dance Theater, Black Poets With Attitudes, Bombarengue, Nikki Giovanni, Los Angeles’ Build An Ark, Dwight Trible, Diamano Coura West African Dance Co., Big Black, The Bay Area Blues Society & Caribeana Etc. Shared stages with Sonia Sanchez, Piri Thomas, Diane DiPrima, Jayne Cortez, & is a Bay Area icon with her group Avotcja & Modupue. Avotcja both composed & performed the film score for the Danish documentary MuNu. Her Poetry &/or music has been recorded by Piri Thomas, Famadou Don Moye (of The Art Ensemble Of Chicago), Bobby Matos Latin Jazz Ensemble, & performed by The Purple Moon Dance Project, and was the 1st Poetry performed by New York’s Dance Mobile. She’s appeared at The Lorraine Hansberry Theater in S. F., The AsianAmerican Jazz Festivals in Chicago& San Francisco. She’s been featured 5 times at Afro-Solo, twice at San Francisco’s Carnival, The Scottish Rite Temple, Yoshi’s Oakland & S.F., Club Le Monmartre in Copenhagen Denmark, Stanford University, New York’s Henry Street Settlement Theater and The Women On The Way Festival in San Francisco Avotcja a is popular Bay Area DJ & Radio Personality & leader of the group “Avotcja & Modúpue” (The Bay Area Blues Society’s Jazz Group Of The Year in 2005 & 2010) & teaches Creative Writing & Drama & thanks to the California Arts Council she was also Artist in Residence at the Milestones Project & S.F. Penal System. Avotcja is a proud member of DAMO (Disability Advocates Of Minorities Org.).
https://www.Avotcja.org
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POET/PLAYWRIGHT/MULTI-PERCUSSIONIST/PHOTOGRAPHER/TEACHER
Avotcja has been published in English & Spanish in the USA, Mexico & Europe. She’s an award winning Poet & multiinstrumentalist who has opened for Betty Carter in New York City, Peru’s Susana Baca at San Francisco’s Encuentro Popular & Cuba’s Gema y Pável, played with Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Bobi & Luis Cespedes, John Handy, Sonido Afro Latina, Dimensions Dance Theater, Black Poets With Attitudes, Bombarengue, Nikki Giovanni, Los Angeles’ Build An Ark, Dwight Trible, Diamano Coura West African Dance Co., Big Black, The Bay Area Blues Society & Caribeana Etc. Shared stages with Sonia Sanchez, Piri Thomas, Diane DiPrima, Jayne Cortez, & is a Bay Area icon with her group Avotcja & Modupue. Avotcja both composed & performed the film score for the Danish documentary MuNu. Her Poetry &/or music has been recorded by Piri Thomas, Famadou Don Moye (of The Art Ensemble Of Chicago), Bobby Matos Latin Jazz Ensemble, & performed by The Purple Moon Dance Project, and was the 1st Poetry performed by New York’s Dance Mobile. She’s appeared at The Lorraine Hansberry Theater in S. F., The AsianAmerican Jazz Festivals in Chicago& San Francisco. She’s been featured 5 times at Afro-Solo, twice at San Francisco’s Carnival, The Scottish Rite Temple, Yoshi’s Oakland & S.F., Club Le Monmartre in Copenhagen Denmark, Stanford University, New York’s Henry Street Settlement Theater and The Women On The Way Festival in San Francisco Avotcja a is popular Bay Area DJ & Radio Personality & leader of the group “Avotcja & Modúpue” (The Bay Area Blues Society’s Jazz Group Of The Year in 2005 & 2010) & teaches Creative Writing & Drama & thanks to the California Arts Council she was also Artist in Residence at the Milestones Project & S.F. Penal System. Avotcja is a proud member of DAMO (Disability Advocates Of Minorities Org.).
https://www.Avotcja.org
Avotcja’s Birthday Bash is a night filled with performances and speeches from talented and socially-conscious performers.
POET/PLAYWRIGHT/MULTI-PERCUSSIONIST/PHOTOGRAPHER/TEACHER
Avotcja has been published in English & Spanish in the USA, Mexico & Europe. She’s an award winning Poet & multiinstrumentalist who has opened for Betty Carter in New York City, Peru’s Susana Baca at San Francisco’s Encuentro Popular & Cuba’s Gema y Pável, played with Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Bobi & Luis Cespedes, John Handy, Sonido Afro Latina, Dimensions Dance Theater, Black Poets With Attitudes, Bombarengue, Nikki Giovanni, Los Angeles’ Build An Ark, Dwight Trible, Diamano Coura West African Dance Co., Big Black, The Bay Area Blues Society & Caribeana Etc. Shared stages with Sonia Sanchez, Piri Thomas, Diane DiPrima, Jayne Cortez, & is a Bay Area icon with her group Avotcja & Modupue. Avotcja both composed & performed the film score for the Danish documentary MuNu. Her Poetry &/or music has been recorded by Piri Thomas, Famadou Don Moye (of The Art Ensemble Of Chicago), Bobby Matos Latin Jazz Ensemble, & performed by The Purple Moon Dance Project, and was the 1st Poetry performed by New York’s Dance Mobile. She’s appeared at The Lorraine Hansberry Theater in S. F., The AsianAmerican Jazz Festivals in Chicago& San Francisco. She’s been featured 5 times at Afro-Solo, twice at San Francisco’s Carnival, The Scottish Rite Temple, Yoshi’s Oakland & S.F., Club Le Monmartre in Copenhagen Denmark, Stanford University, New York’s Henry Street Settlement Theater and The Women On The Way Festival in San Francisco Avotcja a is popular Bay Area DJ & Radio Personality & leader of the group “Avotcja & Modúpue” (The Bay Area Blues Society’s Jazz Group Of The Year in 2005 & 2010) & teaches Creative Writing & Drama & thanks to the California Arts Council she was also Artist in Residence at the Milestones Project & S.F. Penal System. Avotcja is a proud member of DAMO (Disability Advocates Of Minorities Org.).
https://www.Avotcja.org
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POET/PLAYWRIGHT/MULTI-PERCUSSIONIST/PHOTOGRAPHER/TEACHER
Avotcja has been published in English & Spanish in the USA, Mexico & Europe. She’s an award winning Poet & multiinstrumentalist who has opened for Betty Carter in New York City, Peru’s Susana Baca at San Francisco’s Encuentro Popular & Cuba’s Gema y Pável, played with Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Bobi & Luis Cespedes, John Handy, Sonido Afro Latina, Dimensions Dance Theater, Black Poets With Attitudes, Bombarengue, Nikki Giovanni, Los Angeles’ Build An Ark, Dwight Trible, Diamano Coura West African Dance Co., Big Black, The Bay Area Blues Society & Caribeana Etc. Shared stages with Sonia Sanchez, Piri Thomas, Diane DiPrima, Jayne Cortez, & is a Bay Area icon with her group Avotcja & Modupue. Avotcja both composed & performed the film score for the Danish documentary MuNu. Her Poetry &/or music has been recorded by Piri Thomas, Famadou Don Moye (of The Art Ensemble Of Chicago), Bobby Matos Latin Jazz Ensemble, & performed by The Purple Moon Dance Project, and was the 1st Poetry performed by New York’s Dance Mobile. She’s appeared at The Lorraine Hansberry Theater in S. F., The AsianAmerican Jazz Festivals in Chicago& San Francisco. She’s been featured 5 times at Afro-Solo, twice at San Francisco’s Carnival, The Scottish Rite Temple, Yoshi’s Oakland & S.F., Club Le Monmartre in Copenhagen Denmark, Stanford University, New York’s Henry Street Settlement Theater and The Women On The Way Festival in San Francisco Avotcja a is popular Bay Area DJ & Radio Personality & leader of the group “Avotcja & Modúpue” (The Bay Area Blues Society’s Jazz Group Of The Year in 2005 & 2010) & teaches Creative Writing & Drama & thanks to the California Arts Council she was also Artist in Residence at the Milestones Project & S.F. Penal System. Avotcja is a proud member of DAMO (Disability Advocates Of Minorities Org.).
https://www.Avotcja.org
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La Peña Cultural Center
3105 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA 94703
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