Voting for Show Some Color #2’s Best Performer and Best Video Clip is open right now. The Best Performer Award is $150. The Best Video Clip (for Video Maker) award is $100.

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Let’s give a round of applause to this audience’s performance in Show Some Color #2 event.

The Crew minus a few, including Bridget, who’s behind the still camera.

Emcee Jon kept the night rolling smoothly.

Lu watching the project unfold with Brad.

Mark captured the performances - his screen was projected in real time in the space.

Amy kicked off the night with her multi-persona routine.

Liesa goes white-face with sugar icing.
(vote for Liesa here!)

Sharay used her personal to present her political.
(vote for Sharay here!)

It’s hard to show Magdalena’s performance with just one picture, but here’s a try!
(vote for Magdalena here!)

The audience helped Naoko raise her fur-less teddy bears as a backdrop.
(vote for Naoko here!)

At the end, the floor was opened up to anyone who wanted to speak up!

We put together Show Some Color 2 this Tuesday on Halloween Eve. It was a full production team of ten artists who laid a platform for five women to interpret their race to a live audience and to an audience that was also unknown and unseen to them. The night was the culmination of a lot of effort and the common goal of producing art on identity in many different media, but whereas generally the party marks an end, for this project it marked a juncture.

We haven’t even made an official release of the videos and already votes are accumulating here. What this means to me is that without any widespread attraction, these women’s expressions are being shared, viewed, and considered. And soon, we will have a broader sense of each of them along with a particular mind working to interpret them when the Vloggers show up with their footage. I can’t wait.

I think you should vote on the women’s and videographers’ performances. I think you should vote because it tracks the resonance and relevance of one person’s experience to another person’s, proving that the self versus the other is a topic to be negotiated between assertion and reception.

Thanks to everyone who showed up on Tuesday to work, produce, and enjoy. And thanks to everyone who will show up as part of this project by clicking ‘Yes, I hear that!’

Vote here!

They are Magdalena Soul, Naoko Okabe, Liesa Lietzke, Sharay Davis, and Amy Ratkovich. Each of them will bring in a five minute performance of their own to the Show Some Color video taping event this coming Tuesday, October 30. Each of them are very different, not just in terms of who they are and where they are from, but also each of their different feminine sensitivity and their languages of expression. If you think you know what is this project about, then just wait until you see their performances because I only realized that after meeting them in casting interview. And I think part of the reason is that we have heavily inserted our own preconceptions about race and identities. Profiles for each of the women are created on the Women Profile Page using their own words. Here I will give a brief introduction about everyone.

Magdalena Soul will present her version of free style hip hop dance. Magdalena is Italian-American but she said she is highly influenced by African American culture. Make sure you are ready for her unstoppable energy and stand firm on your feet when you see her dance!

Naoko Okabe is going to talk about her being a Japanese woman in America. She believes the limitation on racial understanding always exists and her in-between status of Japanese and American is something difficult to communicate with a common perception, and particularly in terms of her art practice.

Liesa Lietzke asked during the casting, what happens when the default color is asked to talk about race. Is it important to be sensitive about the issue of “race” at all times? Liesa is an artist, who use food as material. She will do a performance with food to express her “whiteness”.

Sharay Davis has a black power father who dislikes white people. And she has been perceived by her family and friends that she was not being black enough. Sharay is going to perform a spoken word piece on her racial experience with her family and and also how in some ways she has had more brushes with racism since moving to the Bay Area from Ohio.

Amy Ratkovich is a comedian. She told us that she naturally has twelve different selves. Amy is preparing a comedy set where she will appropriate stereotypes of different ethnicity groups to show their absurdities.

And who is the sixth woman? We are opening the stage to the audience during the event. From 7-8PM, audience members are invited to come and make their own five minute video with our video crew. So YOU are the sixth performer! Event Details

UPDATE: SSC2 = Show Some Color 2

Spread the good word about the event next week! If you need incentive: free recording, free videotapes, free press, free fun, free event, free publicity on TV, free friends, free artwork attribution, free drink tickets!

• Track the event on upcoming
• Post on my blog about the event with nice loose prose.
• Lu’s post about the event and a call to action.

If anyone is coming out to perform or to record as a videoblogger/recorder, please contact us. We are trying to keep it all sorted out

Show Some Color (#2) video taping event will take place next Tuesday October 30 from 6-9PM at 111 Minna, San Francisco. Besides featuring six women who will perform five minutes on their racial identities, we are opening up the stage for the audience in the event. Profiles of performing women are here. Video makers and Vloggers please bring your cameras to the event and make your own videos about the women. More detail about the project and the event please view here.

(Plus: this is during happy hour in 111 Minna and we got drink tickets!)