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Performers, Aside @ the Red Room 3, June 2013

This month at Aside we witness a shift on our view of personal expression within the arts. Each presenter will share with us their individual and unique story as an artist, whether it be through drama, prose, music or dance.
This select group of presenters at ‘Aside’ have found inspiration and have in turn inspired others in their field of expertise. They use their art and creativity to spread the possibility of social change. At ‘Aside’, you will have the opportunity to engage in their passion in a more intimate setting, and to experience their work. The purpose? To connect with other people and organizations with similar ideas.

The Performers


Claire Daelin

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Bio:

Claire attended a clown school and was named “Extra Stinky, Extra Sticky, the Disaster”. Once upon a time, she was an exam-addict and Taiwan’s superstar test-taker with the highest College Entrance Exam score in the Science category. She studied Electrical Engineering at the National Taiwan University because the national ranking said so. Alas, she graduated top 10 but can’t fix any electronic to save her life. She pretended to research Decision Psychology at Columbia University with a $300,000 fellowship and authored papers which put many insomniacs to sleep. Theater training and performing helped her admit the bloody truth that she is not who she pretended to be. Claire hosted a kids’ TV show (which was why she became allergic to kids). She was last seen at the “normal job” scene as the Director of Innovation Partnership Program and CEO’s special assistant at X PRIZE. To help young people gain courage to pursue their passion and niche, she’s writing School Detox: A Manual for Young Superheroes Learning to Be Awesome. She hosts a web show called My First (where passionate people talk about their “firsts”). She’s building School for the Curious.

Connect with Claire at http://www.ClaireDaelin.com.

About the performance:

Seeking Out Loud is Claire’s first original monologue. It’s an intimate look into her personal search for answers to the age-old question of mortality and the resulting loneliness.

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Sangpuy Katatepan Mavaliyw 桑布伊

sangpuy

About

Sangpuy Katatepan Mavaliyw, comes from Katatipul Village, an ancient Pinuyumayan tribe where mountain meets ocean in southeastern Taiwan’s Taitung County. A singer with an immemorial voice hiding in his young shell. When he was a child, the clear, distant sound of his grandfather singing left a deep impression on him and he began to sing the songs of Katatipul.

Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/Sangpuy?fref=ts

About the performance:
When the night has come, the bonfire is bursting, the breeze is softly sweeping through treetops, and the smoke is spiraling with the wind. You don’t need the clamorous music at such peaceful moment, the only thing you need is tranquility. Let Sangpuy’s unique voice bring you back to the origin, and cure your soul.

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Katie Partlow

Bio

Katie Partlow is a theatre artist originally from Washington State in the US.  She’s lived in Taiwan since 2001, working as both a bilingual performer, director and writer as well as a consultant on cross-cultural work.  Living in Changhua County for her first 7 years here, where she honed her Mandarin and cross-cultural communication skills, Katie eventually moved to Taipei in 2008 to study for an MFA in acting from Taipei University of the Arts.  Since then, Katie has worked on many projects with artists both locally and abroad, including being an educator and performer for Song Song Song Children’s Theatre (九歌兒童劇團) and the English editor and translator for the Taipei Fringe Festival. In 2011, she founded her own theatre companies: Solo Taiwan Theatre (說了台灣劇團) and Little Friends Theatre (小朋友劇團). Katie strongly believes that as globalization becomes more and more dominant in our everyday lives, learning how to communicate with and understand different cultural perspectives becomes necessary to improving human life.   Performance art grows out of basic human cultural behaviors like dance, song and storytelling, and as such  is a hugely useful tool in cross-cultural communication.

About the performance

Katie will be sharing her relationship with performance art and how it intersects with everyday life.
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Rene Kamm

Bio:

Rene Kamm (aka Ren aka Antithesis) is an emcee, poet and producer. He represents one half of the rap duo Ren & Miles and is a founding member of the Legendary Chronic Crew, Coastal Connections Conglomerate and the Rhyme Crookz of Taipei. He has two EPs available for free download at renandmiles.bandcamp.com.

About the performance:

Freestyle: off-the-top, unrehearsed, improvised. Whatever you want to call it. I have no idea what words I’ll be kicking, but be sure that they will rhyme and it will engage. As Rakim said, “MC to me means Move the Crowd.”

 

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Tina Ma

Tina Ma, Aside4

Bio:

Like most artists, in younger days Tina was a Taiwanese hippy, rebelling against anything that interfered with her free will. She loved playing the guitar and learned American music while participating in all the social movements when Taiwan was seeking its identity in the early 80s.

After 30 years, she knows that the voice and sound must come from her own ground and soil now. Having explored different art forms, she has finally chosen telling Taiwanese stories through songs from the ancient Chinese to current days, and to follow her bliss…

She likes to see herself as someone who uses this ancient musical instrument – moon guitar, to share shamanic spirits from nature and folklore of the mother earth. The instrument is two stringed, but says a lot in a simple ways, as most of life’s wisdom does.

长发披肩步轻盈,
身着彩衣特随性,
出行总会携月琴,
沉醉吟唱起共鸣,
最爱山林我独行,
花鸟鱼虫皆欢迎,
Tina 是她英文名,
中文名唤马丽英。

About the performance:

《彈琴》: 劉長卿
「泠泠七弦上,
靜聽松風寒,
古調雖自愛,
今人多不彈。」

Tang poetry / playing the Guqing: Liu Changqing;

“Emotionless the mood of ‘seven-strings’;
In tranquility, I savor the chilly tone of the ancient melody: ‘Wind through the pines.’;
I am one who loves the ancient tunes;
There are few now who can play them.”

Recently I encountered this ancient instrument, and it has become my love.  Although I can not really master the skills I try to learn from the
unknown notes kept from Tang Dynasty, nothing I have seen before.
Love to show you my vulnerability in my limited
control of this forgotten ancient self expression.

EMAIL: taiwanteama@gmail.com

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Lai, Pei-Hsia

  • Ph. D Candidate, International Affair College, Jinan University, China
    Publisher, Amazing Magazine, Writer
    Author, 《回家,The Courage of Coming Home》
    Psychiatric Counselor / Corporate Trainer
    Musician / TV and Radio hostess / Artist / Photographer

In 1984, Pei-Hsia released her first personal album “Freeze My Love”.  Later, she was invited by the Christian Rehabilitation Fellowship to participate in the Rehabilitation Education Promotion Program. In this program, Pei-Hsia had the opportunities to visit many juvenile prisons, adult prisons for men and for women, and halfway homes, throughout Taiwan.

Everyone of these places Pei-Hsia went, had encountered one after another life story of love and tears, that had deeply shocked this young freshman who has just entered the real world.  These extra-ordinary life experiences not only opened Pei-Hsia’s perspective of soul, but also led her into a deeper thinking and expectation on the subject of life.

As she got older, her exploring and researching of human nature gets deeper and deeper, and her expectation of it is also getting grander. After all, everyone is longing for “being loved and understood”.  With the extra bit of patience, we will be able to help others, and to iron out all the pains and trauma in our life.

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Ayesha Mehta

Ayesha Mehta is a performer and creative collaborator. She is the co-founder of Red Room (Taiwan), a monthly event that brings together local communities to share their voices, and explore the art of listening. Ayesha has a deep connection with Taiwan where she grew up before moving to Australia and still considers Taipei her home.

  1. Ayesha is a professional vocalist who has performed jazz, contemporary, and experimental sound works in Australia and internationally. Since graduating with Bachelor Degree in Music and vocal performance from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Ayesha has been teaching voice and sharing her passion for music in Sydney, Melbourne, India and Taiwan.

About the performance:

Ayesha will be performing select songs from the Johnny Mercer songbook.

Connect with Ayesha at http://ayamamusic.com

29 June 2013, Aside@the Red Room

aside-headerThe Red Room, organizer of Stage Time & Wine, cordially invites you to
Aside @ the Red Room

Date: Saturday, June 29th, 2013
Time: 6:30 pm – 10:00 pm

Venue: Learning Kitchen (above Third Place Aveda Salon) : No. 117, 2F, Da An Road, Taipei 北市大安路一段 117號2F.

Join us for Red Room’s exclusive event “Aside” featuring seven performers

This month at Aside we witness a shift on our view of personal expression within the arts. Each presenter will share with us their individual and unique story as an artist, whether it be through drama, prose, music or dance.
This select group of presenters at ‘Aside’ have found inspiration and have in turn inspired others in their field of expertise. They use their art and creativity to spread the possibility of social change. At ‘Aside’, you will have the opportunity to engage in their passion in a more intimate setting, and to experience their work. The purpose? To connect with other people and organizations with similar ideas.

Opening: 朱平 Ping Chu, founder of Canmeng Aveda.
Master of Ceremonies: Manav Mehta

Performers

Katie Partlow
Claire Daelin
Sangpuy 桑布伊
Tammy Hsieh
Tina Ma
Ayesha Mehta
Rene Kamm

Tickets NTD500 each. Limited seating. Reservations required.
Please contact Manav Mehta to confirm your attendance:
Cell: 0910 947 307 Email: <red.room.taipei@gmail.com>

Refreshments will be provided. Floor seating so please dress comfortably.

Supported and sponsored by

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The Red Room is a not-for-profit platform for creating community; for time to develop a culture of listening to each other, and what is around us. Our events are explorative, and have no separation between audience and performer.

Red Room Screams!!!

sloppy, breezy personal anecdotes of spring screamers forged into real stories
an hour in which stories were told with a musical beat
a fixed feeling of togetherness and connection

~words by disha patel

Red Room was invited by Jimi Mo, the organizer of the annual Spring Scream in Kenting to create a encouraging space where lovers of music and sound could reflect and share their stories.

This was a first for both Spring Scream and Red Room.

On Friday and Saturday night when the music stopped and it was time to wrap up the day, Manav Mehta, Disha Patel, Richard Carlyle and Rene Kamm were the torch bearers for a gathering of Red Room Screams.

www.springscream.com

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A Nook for Rhyme Crooks

nooks-posteras the mainstream masses, hack away at the roots
certain tribes ‘n’ clans, crack their hands to prove…that
they use words to bring purpose, delivered in verses
burst wise blurbs as it’s hip-hop we wor-ship
on the surface we work, we grind, ‘n’ we dig
but once you enter the nook, yo, our priority is ink
this joint here is to preserve, a lost ancient art
where the pen bends all lessons as we teach with each mark
this is a duty call for all slippery lyricists, ‘n’ quick-spittin’ beat-boxers
bold-inked warrior poets, ‘n’ wise free-stylin’ doctors
operating by choppin’ blocks of bass with bars that give birth
switchin’ bitchin’ verbs with whispers that’ll quake your earth
we come here to work in a world where wordsmiths roam free
to boast spoken poetry as our form of speech graffiti
hear my fat words swallow fear ‘n’ press a presence upon you
notice my voice ‘n’ my choice, to turn up the volume
this is the grand ball for mad hatters, jesters, ‘n’ dreamers
for prophets ‘n’ fools, for geniuses ‘n’ schemers
but beneath the surface of words, the labels ‘n’ terms
lies a truth so powerful it makes our pages burn
which is earned by preserving this culture to write
ink be our blood as words be our life
so tonight we rise together, ‘n’ around we take a look
ladies ‘n’ gents, welcome, to the nook for true rhyme crooks…

http://www.redroom.com.tw/events/event/a-nook-for-rhyme-crooks-april-27-2013/

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Rene Kamm, November 2012

“Rene Kamm is a poet, an emcee and one-half of the rap duo Ren & Miles, whose mixtape “Remedies”  was released in 2012. It is available for free download at renandmiles.bandcamp.com.”  At the November 17 Stage Time & Wine, Rene recited his poetry as follows:

P.S.Luv.Ya
by Rene Kamm

way back i’d often miss the softest kiss
of the breeze guess i’d forgotten what honest was
misplaced happiness, attached bliss
to a wish upon a chick

now i walk through the mist hangin
between orange lamps and blue moons
and peep the distant stars blinkin back
they’re really close dependin where your vision’s at

lay back, listen, act then speak accordingly
in springtime i’m buzzin beezies, and my summer flow’s scorching heat
but now i wish upon the leaves to fall from autumn trees
upon the seeds of the cherry trees to blossom free

upon the pollen, each sunray and the sunset
i sensed a sensai on each lily pad of monet
heart’s where my home stay, i found it in my own way
though thankful for family, their guidance and the homies

but some days i’m mindless, lonely at other times
i’ll still swallow love bugs hoping that they’ll rise as butterflies
i’m otherwise too focused on my love’s quotient
but i’ll always leave a simple luv ya in the postscript

Siddhartha
by Rene Kamm

i been cooped up for forty days
prayin for heaven to come my way
with eyes closed, and then i removed the blindfold
and my mind’s clothed in weariness among faces held serious
my body felt delirious
but my mind wasn’t here in this
it’s wholly consumed, thinkin sufferin and pain is life
while my whole self is subsistin on a single grain of rice

i tried to man up, stand up, but couldn’t
my palms pressed against this earth tried pushin
but my self felt trapped like coins beneath cushions
and my mind’s trapped in my body like words between bookends
then a man stepped up with a rice bowl
i couldn’t mutter thanks though, still i drank slow

i felt the warmth tingling down my throat to my ankles
it gave me the strength to stand slow
i stood and i staggered back
feelin the pain in my spine like the impact from a jagged axe
and my limbs cracked, now i’m tense in my battlestance
to stave off my senses that were drownin in an avalanche
the pain was my habitat, and then it melted
yeah i felt it, the void that my self’s in
i saw deep in a valley sinkin it seemed
a bodhi tree with autumn leaves turnin pink from green

so i walked over, sat down and just listened
to the gust, wind, and birds and bees buzz killin
i stayed chillin on the riverbed of my consciousness
unconscious of the five skandhas, cuz
perception is deception and all forms are devoid of essence
and the essence of the void’s all forms of expression
i’m still correctin the direction of my feet
but i’m steppin to the heavens when i speak

peace

(c) Copyright 2012 Red Room.  Material on this site is the property of contributing members of the Red Room Community. Please do not copy any part of this publication. Thank you.