Aya DeLeon - Institute for Diversity in the Arts

Winter Quarter 2002
Drama 110. Workshop
Cartographies of Race:
Mapping Race and Space in California

4-5 units, Winter (Prof. Harry Elam)
Tuesdays & Thursdays 3:15 – 5:05 PM
& Lunch Lectures Thursdays 12 noon –1 :00

Spoken Word Workshop
Lead by
Aya DeLeón

This Spoken Word workshop with Aya de Leon will provide poetry and prose writing instruction emphasizing the spoken word performance. Students will have an expressive and non-judgmental space to explore race and gender issues from their personal perspective and develop performance works. A major focus will be the development of a new radical poetry aesthetic that can inspire activists and movements for social change. Projects will include writing and performance, with possible opportunities for youth outreach and community presentation of student works.

Aya DeLeón is a Black/Puerto Rican spoken word poet and youth worker in the Oakland area. She currently directs the Mothertongue Institute for Creative Development. A graduate of Harvard University, Aya recently returned to Oakland after a national tour that included a performance at New York's Lincoln Center. She has also lead creative writing workshops at Brown University and the University of Oregon at Eugene. Aya participated as a member of the San Francisco team in the National Poetry Slam 2000 and helped the team win the Western Regional Poetry Slam. As an individual poet, Aya won the Burning Bush Publications' "People Before Profits" Poetry Prize, 2000.

Links
Speakout!: Aya deLeón
AfroSolo Events

Public WorkShops
Aya DeLeon is also holding two evening Spoken word workshops in conjunction with her residency with IDA.

BEYOND "WHITE"
Exploring European-American Identity through creative writing and spokenword - led by Aya de Leon
Tuesdays, 5:45-7:15pm
Jan.22 - Feb. 26
Harmony House, 561 Lomita Drive (at Santa Teresa)
FREE and OPEN to anyone of European-American heritage (students, faculty,staff, local community members)

and

"RACE, RACISM, and RAISING THE ROOF"
a Spoken Word Workshop for People of Color - led by Aya de Leon
Thursdays, 5:45-7:15pm
Jan. 17-Feb. 28
Harmony House, 561 Lomita Drive on the Stanford Campus

Also watch for two open mic shows, hosted by Aya DeLeon with the Stanford Community on February 8th and February 15. Location to be determined and information on how to sign up for participation in the open mic is forthcoming.
for more information regarding either of these workshops, please contact
ccordero@stanford.edu

The Institute for Diversity in the Arts is sponsored by the Stanford University Drama Department and the Committee on Black
Performing Arts at Stanford with cooperation and support of the the Haas Center for Public Service. Funding for the institute is
provided by The James Irvine Foundation.