MOSAIC Presents: Resetting the Margins; Redefining the Boundaries of Asian American Literature

What the Friday, April 4th Tour will consist of :

• 1:00 to 2:30 PM, Arts Cafe: Spoken Words: A Tour of Asian American Voices
  
• 2:30 to 4:00 PM, Arts Cafe : East is East Tour
  Established and engaging writers will read from their work and discuss the state of Asian American literature. East to East features the underrepresented Asian minorities in Asian American Literature. There will be poetry readings and short discussions on their works.
  
  
• The Alt-A Mini Festival of Asian Pop Cinema
  Four feature length films representing the best of Japanese Animation and Hong Kong cinema
  
  
• Eartoo: Asian American Rock Redux Musical performances by A-American rock, R&B, and rap artists
  

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  Reader Bios

  • Nancy Bulalacao (Founding & Executive Director, Poet's Theater) is the reading curator for the Asian American Writer's Workshop. She is a graduate of Eugene Lang College for the New School for Social Research and studied poetry with Kurt Lamkin. She is currently involved in writing a renga with Pablo Medina and Megan Atiych, sponsored by the New School.

  • Tina Chang was born in 1969. Her most recent work has appeared in The Asian Pacific American Journal, Black Bough, Chaminade Literary Review, Footwork: The Paterson Literary Review, lue Ink Press, and Excursus. She is currently pursuing an MFA in poetry at Columbia University and is editor of the Asian American Writer's Worshop's literay news magazine TEN.

  • Mytilli Jagannathan holds a B.A. in English and American Literature from Brandeis U. She spent her Junior year abroad studying Tamil language and literature in Madurai, India. At Brandeis, she studied under Mary Campbell and Jayne Anne Phillips and was a twice-winner of the Allen Grossbardt Prize for Poetry. After graduating, she spent a year as an AmeriCorps Member working for the West Virginia Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Currently she is a graduate student (on leave) in the English Department at the U. of Penn, and Co-Coordinator of the Asian Arts Initiative's Fall Performance Showcase, to be held in Philadelphia in September 1997.

  • Mohan Sikka is a writer and performance artist active in the Philly creative community. His work has been presented by Philly's Painted Bride Art Center, toronto's Desh-Pradesh Festival of South Asian Culture, and in the annual showcase of New york City's New Dance alliance. He is a New forms Regional Grant Program awardee, funded by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, Rockefeller Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation. The scripts of his "Curse of the Goddess" was published in the 10th Anniversary Issue of Trikone magazine, San Jose. The Philadelphia Inquirerhas written that "Sikka's performance is as graceful and perceptive as his writing". The Philly City Paper says: "Sikka's vocal inflections and physical gestures are effective in conveying the characters' varying states of emotion and psychic circumstance, and his sense of timing is quite good...." Acitve in the Asian Arts Initiative, Mohan is helping to organize a showcase of Asian performing artists in Philly, where he lives and continues to create new work.
    

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