Free + open mic. Poet/Playwright/Multi- Percussionist/Photographer/
Teacher
http://www.avotcja.org/ [http://www.avotcja.org/]
Avotcja has been published in English & Spanish in the USA, Mexico &
Europe, and in more Anthologies than she remembers. She is an award
winning Poet & multi-instrumentalist who has opened for Betty Carter
in New York City, Peru's Susana Bacaat San Francisco’s Encuentro
Popular & Cuba’s Gema y Pável, played with Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Bobi & Luis Cespedes, John Handy, Sonido Afro Latina, Dimensions Dance
Theater, Black Poets With Attitudes, Bombarengue, Nikki Giovanni, Los
Angeles' Build An Ark, Dwight Trible, Diamano Coura West African Dance
Co., Terry Garthwaite, Big Black, The Bay Area Blues Society &
Caribeana Etc. Shared stages with Sonia Sanchez, Piri Thomas, Janice
Mirikitani, Diane DiPrima, Michael Franti, Jayne Cortez, & with Jose
Montoya's Royal Chicano Air Force & is a Bay Area icon with her group
Avotcja & Modúpue. Avotcja was the opening act for the legendary
Poet Pat Parker the last three years of her life. She both composed &
performed the film score for the Danish documentary MuNu. Her Poetry
&/or music has been recorded by Piri Thomas, Famoudou Don Moyé (of
The Art Ensemble Of Chicago), Bobby Matos Latin Jazz Ensemble, &
performed by The Purple Moon Dance Project, and was the 1st Poetry
performed by New York's Dance Mobile. She's appeared at The Lorraine
Hansberry Theater in S. F., The Asian-American Jazz Festival in
Chicago, as well as The Asian-American Jazz Festival in San
Francisco. She's been featured 5 times at Afro-Solo, twice at San
Francisco's Carnival, The Scottish Rite Temple & Yoshi's in Oakland &
San Francisco, Jose Castellar's play "Man From San Juan", Club Le
Monmartre in Copenhagen Denmark, Stanford University, at San
Francisco’s Brava Theater For The Arts with Cine Acción, New York's
Henry Street Settlement Theater and The Women On The Way Festival in
San Francisco. Avotcja a is popular Bay Area DeeJay & Radio
Personality, and the founder/Director of "The Clean Scene Theater
Project (AKA) Proyecto Teatral De La Escena Sobria". She continues to
teach Creative Writing, Storytelling & Drama in Public Schools &
thanks to the California Arts Council she was also an Artist in
Residence at the Milestones Project & San Francisco Penal System.
Avotcja is a proud member of DAMO (Disability Advocates Of
Minorities Organization), PEN Oakland, California Poets In The
Schools, IWWG & is an ASCAP recording artist.
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