Please join us for an evening of poetry and conversation on April 19, 2011, from 6-9pm, at the Pacific Islands Ethnic Art Museum (PIEAM) in Long Beach, CA, with Professor Teresia Teaiwa. Writers Dan Talaupapa McMullin and Tina Taitano DeLisle will be sharing their poetry as well.
Professor Teaiwa is the founding director of Pacific Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She is also the author of Searching for Nei Nim`anoa, a groundbreaking poetry collection, the spoken word I can see Fiji: sound and performance, and numerous articles about Pacific Cultural Studies, gender, and militarization.
An event sponsored by: UCLA American Indian Studies Center and UCLA Asian American Studies Center
Admission is free and dinner will be served.
PARKING and DIRECTIONS:
PIEAM parking is FREE at MOLAA’s parking lot (628 Alamitos Avenue, Long Beach, CA 90802), across the street from PIEAM on Alamitos Avenue. Limited street parking is available on Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue and Alamitos Avenue next to the museum.
For driving directions or more information, telephone: 562-216-4170.
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