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Recent Events:
July 3: Roopa Does Live, Written Right There, Poetry---"Luminous Flux," Art Opening, Global Fusion Art, Chelsea (NY). (www.globalfusionart.com) July 2: Roopa Does Her Poet-MC Thing With A Band--- "All That," Nuyorican Poetry Cafe, Lower East Side (NY). Roopa performed a piece on life and death, hip hop and poetry. (www.nuyorican.org)
June 30: Roopa Posts "On Pride,"--- A mix of political and cultural observation of NYC/Desi Pride. And the chronicles of an "epic dance floor go-getta." (politicalpoet.wordpress.com)
June 12: Roopa Performs In Honor of Sean Bell---"Racial Profiling and Police Brutality: A Forum On The Sean Bell Case,"Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn (NY). Sponsored by Fort Greene Peace, co-sponsored by Brooklyn Peace.
June 5: Roopa Has The Audience Dyin'---"A Night of Cultural Resistance," Audre Lourde Project, Judson Memorial Church, Washington Square Park (NY). (www.alp.org)
May 16, Roopa Performs in Solidarity with Palestine--"Major Rally at the United Nations to Commemorate 60 Years of Al Nakbah," Dag Hammarskjold Park, United Nations, Manhattan (NY). (www.nakbah1948.org)
May 10: Roopa Performs in Honor of Battered Women in Brooklyn--- "Roses and Bread," 13th Annual Women's Poetry Event, A Benefit for Brooklyn's Urban Women's Safe Haven, at The Brecht Forum, Greenwich Village (NY). Presented by the women of Resistance in Brooklyn and The Brecht Forum. (www.brechtforum.org)
May 3: Roopa Performs in Honor of Sean Bell---"50 Artists, 50 Shots," The Brecht Forum, Greenwich Village (NY). (myspace.com/mahinamovement) (www.brechtforum.org)
April 19: Roopa Spits, Flows, and Kills at a South Asian Arts Festival---"EnGendered: Gender, Sexuality, Ritual & Religion," Lincoln Center, Manhattan (NY). (www.nayikas.org/EnGendered)