Images from Photos by Memo Vasquez and hi_bana. Poster design by teruyuki kawabata.
SUNDAY JUNE 8, 2008
Poet Yuri Kageyama presents
the TOKYO FLOWER CHILDREN with
Teruyuki Kawabata (percussion),
Winchester Nii Tete (percussion),
Haruna Shimizu (kpanlogo), Keiji Kubo (didgeridoo),
Yumi Miyagishima (violin), Carl Freire (guitar).
in an evening of MULTICULTURAL POETRY AND MUSIC.
The Pink Cow
Villa Moderuna B1 1-3-18 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku Tokyo 150-0002
DJ C.Geez (super soul music and dope true-school hip hop) 7 p.m.
Poetry and music 8 p.m. Free admission. Doors open 5 p.m.
Come early for dinner and the best seats!
Yummy Pink Cow food and drinks available to order at the bar!
Please celebrate the publication of Yuri Kageyama’s story in
“POWWOW: American Short Fiction from Then to Now,”
edited by Ishmael Reed with Carla Blank (Da Capo Press).
Kageyama’s works have appeared in many literary publications,
including “Y’Bird,” “Greenfield Review,” “On a Bed of Rice” and
“Stories We Hold Secret.” She has a book of poems “Peeling.”
The TOKYO FLOWER CHILDREN is a project Kageyama began last year to collaborate with Tokyo musicians in readings of her poetry.
Music maker, designer and self-proclaimed “shy and wagamama only child,” TERUYUKI KAWABATA leads Tokyo band CigaretteSheWas. The group has a CD album coming out this year.
Master percussionist WINCHESTER NII TETE hails from the honorable Addy-Amo-Boye families of drummers of Ghana. He plays with the Ghana national troupe, Sachi Hayasaka, Yoshio Harada and Takasitar.
HARUNA SHIMIZU of CigaretteSheWas fell in love with Ghana’s kpanlogo drum while she was in college. She has kept at it as freely as her spirit moves her.
KEIJI KUBO, who plays the didgeridoo and bass, is a linguist and student. He has total respect for aboriginal culture and all cultural integrity.
Violinist YUMI MIYAGISHIMA plays with CigaretteSheWas, Kyosuke Koizumi, The little witch and other groups.
CARL FREIRE is a Tokyo-based writer, translator and musician.
DEEJAY C. GEEZ from St.Louis has been a DJ since 1997 and living in Japan since 2006.