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   MULTICULTURAL ARTISTS TO BRING TOGETHER UNIVERSITY, COMMUNITY

Sizzling beats, exuberant motion and dynamic, new poetry will heat up
the night at a carnival that celebrates the Caribbean in music, word
and dance. The event, Sin Fronteras Multicutural Carnival:
Celebrating the Word through Dance, Poetry and Caribbean Rhythms,will
be held on Saturday, Feb. 21 at 7 p.m. on the University of
Wisconsin-Madison campus in the Margaret H'Doubler Performance Space
in Lathrop Hall, 1050 University Ave.

Anita Gonzalez, UW-Madison graduate and guest artist-in-residence,
will lead a dance work created for the carnival. Gonzalez is a
director, choreographer and performer and an original member of the
acclaimed African-American dance ensemble, Urban Bush Women. Her work
fuses African-American and Latin American movements. The dancers
performing at the carnival are from the UW-Madison campus and the
Madison community.

Steel pan virtuoso Jeff Narell will perform with his small ensemble
in conjunction with Gonzalezpremiere. Narell is an internationally
known steel pianist, Afro-Caribbean percussionist and educator.
Narrell has performed and recorded with an array of artists,
including George Benson, the Grateful Dead and Bobby McFerrin.

Chinaka Hodge and Jason Mateo, national youth poetry slam champions,
will thrill the audience with their mix of oral poetic traditions and
contemporary culture as they redefine poetry and how we perceive it.
Hodge has appeared on Def Poetry Jam on HBO and on the Teen People
Person of the Year show. Both Hodge and Mateo have performed with
nationally acclaimed poets.

The evening will also include the final round of a poetry slam
featuring the teenage winners of spoken word and creative writing
competitions held in Madison schools. A poetry slam is an
Olympic-style poetry competition where poets compete on teams in
rounds with scores awarded by judges. The winner at the Sin Fronteras
Multicultural Carnival will represent Madison in Los Angeles at Brave
New Voices, The National Youth Poetry Festival.

LACIS is a co-sponsor of the carnival, along with the UW-Madison
Dance Program; the UW-Madison Department of Theatre and Drama; the
UW-Madison Multicultural Student Center; the Madison Childrens
Museum; and the Madison Metropolitan School District.

Tickets are $12.50 for adults, $5 for students, available at the
Memorial Union Theater box office, 800 Langdon St., (608) 262-2201.
If available, tickets will be sold at the door preceding the show.


For more information, contact William Ney, 262-2811,
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