|  Lifelong
Learning Celebrates
Black History Month
AN EVENING OF
SPOKEN WORD
AND HIP-HOP
Aya de León
Including excerpts from her acclaimed works Aya
de León is Running for President: A Campaign Speech
Remix in Poetry and Spoken Word and Thieves in the
Temple: The Reclaiming of Hip-Hop.
Join Aya de León, award-winning hip-hop and spoken
word artist, for a performance that will include excerpts
from two of her most recent acclaimed performances.
In Aya de León is Running for President,
which premiered in August 2004, she offers the best of her
political poetry and spoken word, in a mock-bid for the White
House. The performance is a mix of stand-up comedy, political
analysis, poetry, and hip-hop theater.
Thieves in the Temple includes hilarious characters
who offer insight on everything from sex-kitten rappers on
the verge of nervous breakdowns to gangsta rappers with Tourette's
syndrome. It was described by the East Bay Express
as "…everything you'd hope a one-woman theater
piece about hip-hop culture would be: it's challenging, radical,
harsh, inspiring, and solid when it comes to the rhymes. But
it's also funny as hell…"
"...a witty, humorous, feminist take on...hip-hop culture..."
-American Theatre Magazine
"Blatino feminist Aya de León gonna read some
hip-hop chauvinist pigs the riot act."
-The Village Voice
| Aya de León
is an award-winning Black/Puerto Rican writer,
performer, and teacher from the Bay Area. A graduate
of Harvard College, Aya has been a writer and
performer since her teens. She has performed at
venues from Lincoln Center in New York City to
the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco.
In 2002, Aya was an artist in residence at Stanford
University, teaching spoken word and performance,
and in 2003 she was a master artist in residenceat
New College of California in San Francisco. Her
writing has been featured in Essence magazine
and various anthologies, and she is a coauthor
of the book How to Get Stupid White Men Out
of Office. She is working on a literary novel,
and she has released her first CD, Aya de
León: Live at La Peña.
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