Marquee Diversity Event: Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai, Spoken Word Artist
When: November 4, 2009 at 6:00 p.m.
Where: Administration Building, Room 110
Free and Open to the Public
Bio: KELLY ZEN-YIE TSAI is a Chicago-born, Brooklyn-based Chinese Taiwanese American spoken word artist who fights for cultural pride and survival through how she spits and how she lives. Touring extensively worldwide, she has featured at over 350 shows across the continental United States, Hawai'i, Canada, China, England, France, Germany, Kenya, and the Netherlands. She was recently listed as one of Angry Asian Man.com's "30 Most Influential Asian Americans Under 30." A winner of the 2007 New York Foundation for the Arts Urban Artists Initiative Award, Kelly was also named one of Idealist in NYC's Top 40 New Yorkers Who Make Positive Social Change in the Five Boroughs.
Kelly has rocked stages at venues like the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, the House of Blues, the Apollo Theater in Harlem, the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and three seasons of "Russell Simmons Presents HBO Def Poetry." She has shared stages with Mos Def, KRS-One, Sonia Sanchez, Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, Talib Kweli, DMX, Michael Eric Dyson, Wyclef Jean, Tracy Morgan, Amiri Baraka, and many more.
"Raw, evocative, insightful...Kelly is a contemporary visionary who is helping to change the world, one poem at a time."
- Celeste Hamilton, Action Without Borders/Idealist.org
More information about Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai - www.yellowgurl.com
Questions?
Contact Bola Majekobaje for more information at or 360-546-9568
Directions and a map of campus can be found here. Parking is $3.00 in the blue lot.
Marquee Diversity Event is Sponsored by the Office of Student Affairs and ASWSUV