About me: Anaiis Azur carries many titles: Mother, Educator, Poet, Playwright, and Novelist to name a few; however, she finds herself most accurately described as imperfect. Anaiis has been featured on both page and stage, both as a member of the 2008 Boston Lizard Lounge poetry slam team and recently capturing the attention of the Boston Globe and Eagle Tribune with the release of her book “Portraits” following a feature on local television program “Cambridge Nights”. However, Anaiis history within the word delves beyond her roots in the New England area, having shared the mic with such notable poets as Reggie Gibson, Patricia Smith, and Saul Williams, to commanding the stages of the New York Film Academy and The Rubin Museum, Yale University to Providence, Rhode Islands Annual “Sound Sessions, all the way to gracing the stages of the Arabic Language Institute in Fez, Morocco. Anaiis has proven herself to be a force within the evolution of words. Currently her projects include a theatrical adaptation of the photographic series "Surviving Torture" the atrocities of Sierre Leone and Liberia by Pulitzer winning photographer John Kaplan; as well as the debut of her first novel “Through My Daughters Eyes”. Despite her many accomplishments and various projects Anaiis remains the humble yet consummate fan of words; in an interview during a benefit for the NOWAC (New Orleans Women Artists Collective) Anaiis had this to say, "...We stand naked before a crowd, exhibitionist bearing all of our imperfections for the world to judge... I still feel the draft from the stares, and my stretch marks continue to apologize for their uneven tone..."
The Clothesline Project ceremony will be on Wednesday February 13 at 3:30 pm in the Kotzen Meeting Room.
Please join us for music, poetry, words of inspiration, t-shirt raising, Simmons own SIRENS singers, and many other special additions to raise awareness and educate about issues of relationship and domestic violence.
For more information contact .. or call 617-521-1001
WHERE? THE LIZARD LOUNGE 1667 MASS AVE CAMBRIDGE MA
WHEN? Feb 10th
TIME? Doors Open @ 8pm
COST? $5.00
FEATURE? ANAIIS
Dont miss the heart and soul night of the month. Share a laughter rousing, tear jerking, feet stomping, soul inspiring evening of storytelling through the art and passion of words! Its not often a woman is this damn honest
"Consider this: Some argue that "Shopping is more important than voting", and that the disposition of money is the most basic role we play in any system of economics. Some theorists believe that it is the clearest way that we express our actual moral choices, i.e., if we say we care about something but continue to buy from parties that have a high probability of risk of harm or destruction of that thing, we don't really care about it, we are practicing a form of simple hypocrisy."
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