FIRST TUESDAY OF EVERY MONTH, 7:30PM
EULIPIA/KNOT FRUM HERE
Tuesday, APRIL 3, 2007
hosted by D.Scott Miller
featuring
CECIL BROWN, novelist
KENNY BROOKS, saxaphonist
JANAKI RANPURA, puppeteer and visual artist

Cecil Brown is best known for his 1969 novel The Life and Loves of Mr. 
Jiveass Nigger. His writings focus on the black man's search for 
respect and identity in a racist white society. An angry and provocative
writer, Brown uses humor to inform his social protest. Brown has written
both fiction and nonfiction; he is a poet, playwright, screenwriter, 
filmmaker, commentator, and critic.

He will premier his film, "I, Stagolee: Chapter Five", will read from 
the book with saxophonist Kenny  Brooks, and talk about the evolution of 
Stagolee. This evolution is about how a theme starts out as a  
" real incident," and then is transformed into a folk ballad,
and then as prose fiction--I, Stagolee, the novel--and finlly
as a film adaptation from the novel.


Janaki Ranpura
Ranpura is a shadow puppeteer and visual artist. She is a graduate of  
Yale University, and is currently enrolled in the Physical Theater program 
at the Lecoq School in Paris, France. She has performed in Coyote's Journey 
with San Francisco's Shadowlight Productions, The Relevant Theater Company's 
Ego Alter Ego, and co-produced the May 17th Cabaret at Studio Valencia. She 
is also a painter and graphic designer. Janaki will be doing a performance piece
about drowning.