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upcoming performances

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past performances

2008

5/17     Insight Arts, Chicago, IL
sarwat performed with imi rashid

4/25     DePaul University, Chicago, IL
mango tribe performance

4/3       University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
solo performance for the Leadership Center for Asian Pacific Americans

3/17     Columbia College, Chicago, IL
sarwat performed with kay ulanday barrett in BrownOut: Resistance Rhymes with Color

1/4       Insight Arts, Chicago, IL
solo performance for Ripple, a benefit for Bangladesh cyclone victims

2007

11/26     Jane Addams Hull House Museum, Chicago, IL
sarwat performed moshari: snapshots from home, with imi rashid & nikhil trivedi for Teatro Luna's OYE LISTEN! performance series

11/9     Around the Coyote Gallery, Chicago, IL
sarwat performed moshari: snapshots from home, with imi rashid and nikhil trivedi, hosted by the Guild Complex

6/3     bLENd, Chicago, IL
sarwat performed moshari: snapshots from home, with imi rashid and nikhil trivedi, hosted by YAWP!

4/27     University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
sarwat performed in the debut of moshari: snapshots from home, a collaboration with
imi rashid and nikhil trivedi for SAPAC's Voices of Resistance 6

3/30     University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
solo performance at the Unity Conference 2007

3/1     University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
mango tribe performed to kick off women's herstory month.

2006

12/14     Columbia College, Chicago, IL
solo performance for Poets Anonymous

11/4     Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
solo performance feature at NAASCon 2006

10/15       University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
mango tribe performance

10/25     California Clipper, Chicago, IL
solo performance for Voices of Resistance: Muslim Women on War, Faith and Sexuality book launch hosted by The Guild Complex of Chicago

7/1     New World Theater, Amherst, MA
mango tribe presented staged readings of Un/Knowing Desire and Empire, a work in progress

7/28     Southwest Youth Collaborative, Chicago, IL
Cafe Intifada! solo feature and student performance

5/1     Grant Park, Chicago, IL
Immigrant Rights March and Rally

5/5     HotHouse, Chicago, IL
Voices of Resistance 5, solo feature

4/9     New World Theater, Amherst, MA
mango tribe featured at the Intersections Artists Conference

3/4     Toronto, ON
mango tribe's first international event(!) hosted by Toronto Women's Bookstore

3/9     Cafe Batey Urbano, Chicago, IL
mango tribe commemorated International Women's Day

3/16     Swarthmore University, Swarthmore, PA
mango tribe performance

3/17     Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, PA
Artists' Exchange Showcase and weekend critique

2/1     Marrakech Cafe, Chicago, IL
solo feature at Homolatte

2/4     Rice University, Houston, TX
Sun Lai

2/27     Loyola Academy, Chicago, IL
mango tribe performed for Diversity Week

1/20     Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, PA
mango tribe performance and weekend Artists' Exchange with focus on gentrification

2005

11/5     Depaul University, Chicago, IL

11/11     Northwestern Law School, Chicago
mango tribe performed for Kriti Festival, a South Asian literary conference

11/17     Northwestern Law School, Chicago
solo performance for Asian American Week

10/6-10/8   Chicago Park District, Chicago IL
serpent feline debuts new music

10/15     Old Dominion University, Norfolk VA
mango tribe performance

9/8     University of Florida, Gainesville FL
solo performance for The First South Asian Assembly of Students Orgs

9/15     Northwestern University, Evanston IL
Re: Orient = Asian Collaborative Poetry Workshop

9/24     Rice University, Houston TX
Sun Lai featured with Giles Li, Cynthia Lin, Pete Nguyen




last updated: may 18, 2008






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