Event Details
Shailja Patel - How Big is Your Voice?
Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 7:00pm
Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 7:00pm
MultiCultural Center, UCSB, Santa Barbara
Event Description
UCSB's Multicultural center presents Shailja Patel In a poetry performance entitled "How Big is Your Voice?" on February 12.
On February 21 she will perform a second time at the Multicultural Center. In this special encore performance, Shailja will be accompanied by student performers from her writing workshop.
Shailja Patel is an explosive Kenyan-Indian-American presence on the national poetry scene. She has performed at U.S. venues from Lincoln Center to San Quentin prison. She insists that the platform we command as artists cannot exceed the size of our humanity. Shailja Patel performs work that makes the space larger for everyone's voices.
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UCSB Multicultural Center
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Phone: 805-893-8411
Web site: http://www.mcc.sa.ucsb.edu/
