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Tonite’s Performance @Chicago Cultural Center
This year’s Site Unseen received the Reader’s Critic’s Choice write up.
Our piece is on at the top of each hour and lasts 50 minutes.
see you soon,
anida
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 15, 2006
“Say That!” (an ensemble butoh dance piece)
featured performance as part of “Site Unseen 2006″
6-9pm (FREE!)
Chicago Cultural Center (2nd floor/The Chicago Rooms)
77 E. Randolph Street
Chicago, IL
Say That!
(Say That! [...]
OCT 25 BOOK LAUNCH & READING
i’m not doing too many poetry readings anymore so here’s a rare chance to see me with some other fierce muslim women!
come out and celebrate the launch of this new anthology:
VOICES OF RESISTANCE: MUSLIM WOMEN ON WAR, FAITH & SEXUALITY
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
California Clipper, 1002 N. California, Chicago
Doors open at 8:00 p.m.
Reading begins at 8:30 [...]
ANIDA’S UPDATE // Fall & Winter 2006
i finally have time to update folks on what’s happening in my life.
thank you for your continued support of my work. after months of traveling i will be in chicago for most of the fall as i get myself ready for the next phase of my life – Grad School!!! yep i’m taking the plunge [...]
10 things about ‘dem damn Europeans
Copenhagen & Paris (May 15-20, 2006)
So I’m back from Europe and getting ready for a trip to Cambodia. here are 10 things i learned and/or observed about ‘dem Europeans: especially the Danes and Parisians:
1.) I now know where the faroe islands are, do you?
2.) Where the fuck is the dialogue about race consciousness? Europeans may snub [...]
Where in the world are the Faroe Islands?!
The Faroe Islands (May 11 – May 15, 2006)
First impressions its fucking cold and where are all the non-smokers?!!!! Everything I wear is soaked in cigarette stink. It’s really quite disgusting. It was actually after my first trip to Europe in 1998 that I completely gave up smoking due to the same kind of disgust. [...]
MAY 1st // El PRIMERO DE MAYO
The first march we took our YAWPers to was 2003’s Anti War March in which Lake Shore Drive was shut down and the cops were being their authoritative asshole selves.
This is the 2nd protest march/rally for our YAWPers in which we walked, stood and chanted in solidarity with over 400,000 people! Our YAWPers also [...]
HAPPY KHMER NEW YEAR!!!
April 13-15 – 2006
HAPPY KHMER NEW YEAR!!!
see ya’ll that’s how we do it – the new year just ain’t over one day!!!
i wish you peace, justice, and juicy mangoes!!!
The first day of New Year is called Moha Sangkran, and it can be described simply as the inauguration of the New Angels who come to take [...]
rest in peace
8am – April 12, 2006.
ina-lilahi-wa-ina-ileyhi-rajioon
rest in peace.
condolenses to luis and lani for their loss of mama Bertha Bermudez
to think only a couple months ago i was standing in line with her
for the chocolate festival at garfield park.
so many elders have crossed over this year.
so many losses.
all my prayers.
Wake: Friday, April 14
Alvarez Funeral Directors
2500 N. Cicero [...]
trivia about anida
Ten Top Trivia Tips about Anida!
Anida has four noses.
Early thermometers were filled with anida instead of mercury!
Anida is the world’s tallest woman!
The original nineteenth-century Coca-Cola formula contained anida.
The Church of Scientology was founded in 1953, at Washington D.C., by anida!
Anida was invented in China in the eleventh century, but was only used for fireworks, [...]
Different Names for the Same Things
Alone on a train aimless in wonder
An outdated map crumbled in my pocket
But I didn’t care where I was going
‘Cause they’re all different names for the same place.
The coast disappeared when the sea drowned the sun
And I knew no words to share it with anyone
The boundaries of language I quietly cursed
And all the different [...]
