November 23, 2013, Saturday - Equilibrium: "Half-Breed" featuring PC Muñoz and Erica Nalani Benton at The Loft

Time: 8:00pm

Location: The Loft Literary Center, at Open Book (Performance Hall), 1011 Washington Avenue

Equilibrium: "Half-Breed" featuring PC Muñoz and Erica Nalani Benton

A showcase of mixed-race Indigenous poets featuring Loft Spoken Word Immersion Fellow PC Muñoz, with Erica Nalani Benton, Emily Johnson, Jennifer Kreisberg, R. Vincent Moniz Jr, and DJ Nak.

"A night featuring a wonderful cross-section of multiracial indigenous voices could be called a number of beautiful, soulful things. I titled the event HALF-BREED as a way to deflate and subvert a term which has decidedly pejorative overtones, and to directly confront the caricatures and stereotypes that have long been associated with mixed-race people of all backgrounds. For better or worse, it has nothing to do with Cher.”
 -PC Muñoz

Loft Immersion Spoken Word Fellow PC Muñoz is a half-Chamoru (indigenous Guamanian), half-European recording artist, poet, and musician based in San Francisco. His genre-defying projects are stylistically broad and deep, revealing an artistic explorer equally at home with spoken-word, electronic funk, all-acoustic hip-hop, world music mash-ups, and experimental compositions for dance. His partnership with composer/longtime Kronos Quartet cellist Joan Jeanrenaud has yielded two highly acclaimed projects: the Grammy-nominated album Strange Toys and the iTunes-charting cello and beats duo album Pop-Pop. His minimalist poetry-and-improvised music CD, Twenty Haiku, took the "Best in Spoken Word" award at the 2006 DIY awards in Hollywood, CA. An enthusiastic collaborator, PC has recorded with rock legend Jackson Browne, dream-pop poet Ingrid Chavez, Kulintang virtuoso Danny Kalanduyan, Anthony Brown of the Asian American Orchestra, and countless other musicians and recording artists across a wide range of genres. His latest release, The Space Between, is a series of instrumentals based on poetic word pairs, with avant-garde pianist Ira Kamin. Learn more at http://www.pcmunoz.com/

$5/$3 for students and Loft members