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humor us (click here or scroll down for more info)
September 14 - December 30, 2007
Presented by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (Barnsdall Art Park)
me so funny comedy evening
Saturday, October 27, 2007, 8- 9:30pm
Barnsdall Gallery Theatre (Barnsdall Art Park, 4800 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90027). Appropriate for ages 13+.
me so funny features all-star performance excerpts highlighting a wide breath of cutting-edge humor. Come early to catch the humor us exhibition from 5-8pm and stay late to mingle with the performers at the reception. Me laugh you long time!
Curated by Viet Le, Yong Soon Min and Leta Ming
free post-show reception with live visuals by VJ Fader 9:30-11pm
Featuring:
D'Lo
OPM
Lan Tran
Kristina Wong
$15 assigned seating tickets
available only online at www.humorus.net or
www.itsmyseat.com/DisplayEvent.html?sse=316428
Toll free recorded theatre info: 1 (866) 881.8399
Questions? humorshow@gmail.com 714/396.3594
Parking available onsite.
Produced by Catherine Hong Le, Viet Le, Leta Ming and Yong Soon Min.
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performers
bios
D'Lo
D'Lo is a jolt of creative and comedic energy. Growing up Tamil-Sri-Lankan, this former L.A. based and now bi-coastal performance artist has been a featured performer at various conferences, showcases, political events and poetry readings. From comedy, music, dance, theatre and poetry, her material revolves around socio-political issues (war, race, class, gender, sexuality) that affect the communities she identifies with. Most importantly, her work comes from a youth urban perspective. Rather than fill her time on stage with preacher poetry or lecture-esque literature, D'Lo's hip-hop/b-boy flavor creates a dialogue of expression with the audience, using empowerment as a vehicle of this performative conversation.
D'Lo has also been in various independent films and documentaries as well as theatrical productions. Some of her credits include the independent film, "LockHer Room" which was featured on Showtime under the New Directors series and Hollywood's Black Film Festival. She has been active in various performance troupes, including, Disturbing Silence and Wadda G (performance arts groups in Los Angeles) Mujeres de Maiz (women of color performance art collective, Los Angeles) and is also a member of the Hittite Empire, a theatre group under Keith Antar Mason's direction.
http://chavez.ucla.edu/DLo/index.htm
OPM
Leory Chin, Roger Tang and David Kobayashi originally founded OPM (Open People's Minds) in Seattle in 1996. The group moved to Los Angeles in 2001 and added stand-up to its comedy production in 2002.
OPM has performed in Seattle, Vancouver, Los Angeles and San Francisco winning awards along the way: 2002 Best of the San Francisco Fringe Festival, 2002-2005 Best Box Office at the San Francisco Fringe Festival, and 1st place three years in a row at the 2002-2005 Vancouver SketchOff Competitions. OPM has also been a regularly invited guest performer at the L.A. Fest of Sketch for the past five years with Ewan Chung and Charles Kim as the headlining producers. Last year, their production "Get Laughs or Die Tryin'," which skewers celebrities such as Tyra Banks, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-II and Iron Chef America Bobby Flay, won "Best Sketch Comedy" at the 2006 San Francisco Fringe Fest. OPM also is featured in "Telemongol," a nationally-touring sketch comedy production directed by award-winning television director Henry Chan. http://www.opmcomedy.com http://www.myspace.com/opmcomedy
Lan Tran
Award-winning writer/performer Lan Tran has more library cards than credit cards, loves traveling to places where you're not supposed to drink the water, and knows how to jimmy a parking meter. Her work has been featured on NPR and presented at numerous off-Broadway theaters, New York City Hall, the Walt Disney Concert Hall's REDCAT Theater, the Ford Theatre, and universities across the country. Lan's first solo show, 'How to Unravel Your Family," played to a sold-out audience in the Lincoln Center Theater-sponsored American Living Room Festival. She has published fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry in literary journals and, most recently, "Lone Stars," a tale about her Vietnamese-Texan upbringing in Waking Up American (Seal Press, 2005) and Falling Backwards: Stories of Fathers and Daughters (Hourglass Books, 2004). She is a 2005 recipient of the PEN/Rosenthal Fellowship, was a finalist for the Heideman award, a recipient of the York Prize as well as residency fellowships from Hedgebrook, the Ragdale Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
The off-Broadway premiere of Lan's latest solo show "Elevator/Sex" at the West End Theatre was deemed "moving and provocative" by NY Arts Magazine. "Elevator/Sex" which emotionally links the experiences of 9/11 survivors with those who have been sexually abused, follows five individuals. What do a pickpocket, immigrant mother, professional hugger, surfer, and bridesmaid have in common? In relating their stories–at times horrific, at others oddly humorous–ultimately a message of hope is conveyed.
www.lantranonline.com/index.html
Kristina Wong
Kristina Wong is a nationally presented solo performer, writer, actor, educator, activist, and filmmaker born and raised in San Francisco and living in Los Angeles. The East Bay Express describes her as "Brutal but hilarious… a woman who takes life's absurdities very seriously." Noted for her quirky, culture-jamming, and subversive tactics, Kristina takes an offbeat artistic approach to activism that upstages the strangeness of our times. Kristina recently received the Creative Capital Grant in Theater and a Creation Fund from the National Performance Network to develop her third full-length solo show "Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"— exploring the remarkably high incidence of mental illness among Asian American women in a world more nuts than we are. The show premieres this December as part of La Pena Cultural Center's "Community Action Series" in Berkeley, funded in part from the NEA. Her first solo show, "Miss Chinatown 2nd Runner Up" was commissioned by the TeAda New Works Festival and was an LA Times "Best Bet." She is also completing a novel started with the PEN USA Rosenthal Emerging Voices Fellowship. Her spoof mail order bride website is www.bigbadchinesemama.com.
Her work has garnered press from outlets that include The Village Voice, East Bay Express, LA Weekly, SF Examiner, PBS Bookshow, CHUM TV on Canadian Network Television, BUST, Ms. Magazine, Bitch Magazine, the International Channel, and an upcoming PBS/ NAATA funded documentary by Daisy Lin Shapiro.
Other grants and awards include the Durfee ARC grant, a mini-commission from the Mark Taper Forum's Asian Theater Workshop, an O'Connor Scholar Award from the Davis Putter Foundation, a DBD scholarship from the Rachel Rosenthal Company, and a Hothouse Residency from UCLA.
www.kristinasherylwong.com
Post-show reception with live visuals by
VJ Fader
VJ Fader is a visual artist who projects found movie clips and original animations onto buildings, people, and even trees, transforming almost any surface into a surrealist's canvas. To preview his work, please visit
www.vjfader.com
me so funny comedy evening
Barnsdall Gallery Theatre
www.itsmyseat.com/DisplayEvent.html?sse=316428
City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (Barnsdall Art Park) presents
September 14 – December 30, 2007
humor us
humor us
, an art exhibition at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, brings together twenty Asian American artists with ties to Southern California who engage in strategies such as absurdity, foolery, parody and satire in their artistic practice. By linking humor to Asian Americans, the exhibition questions the parameters of identity, yet recognizes the continuing importance of race and representation. The exhibition will include approximately one hundred recent works in a variety of media, including performance, installation, video, photography, drawing, painting, and sculpture.
Often the butt of jokes and used as comic relief within mainstream media–from Fu Manchu to William Hung of American Idol notoriety–Asians and Asian Americans are often stereotyped as eternal foreigners, model minorities, shy lotus blossoms, or emasculated wimps, yet they are not commonly seen as the creative stewards of comedy themselves. This exhibition highlights artists who have taken humor into their own hands, and also examines the role of cultural specificity in the operations and reception of humor.
With explorations of playfulness, incongruities, absurdities and irrationalities, humor us seeks to evoke a smile, chuckle or a laugh, as well as engage the viewer in a critical exploration of what, indeed, is so funny.
Guest curators: Viet Le, Yong Soon Min and Leta Ming
Artists:
Shane Abad, Tetsuji Aono, Susan Choi, Young Chung, Allan deSouza, Cirilo Domine, Reanne Estrada, Anna Sew Hoy, Pearl Hsiung,Terence Koh, Byoung Ok Koh, kozyndan, Dinh Q. L?. Candice Lin, Sandra Low, Sandeep Mukherjee, Uudam Nguyen, Kaz Oshiro, Joey Santarromana, Niphan Sawannakas
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humor us reception/ Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
September 16, 2007, 2-5pm with live music by Chris Joyner
Free admission
Hosted by the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery Associates. Sponsored in part by Los Angeles City Council President Eric Garcetti, Laugh Factory, and Vietnamese American Arts and Letters Association.
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media contact:
Fonda Portales
213/202.5539
fonda.portales@lacity.org
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