Amar Fest August 21, 2009

AMAR FEST
AUGUST 21st-22nd, 2009

FRIDAY, AUGUST 21ST:
MAIN STAGE
5:00 - 5:15 Introduction
5:15 - 6:00 &res
6:00 - 7:00 Skid Row poetry and music session! (Poetry by Twin, music by Pre Destined)
7:15 - 7:45 Hello My Name is Red
8:00 - 8:30 "Wake Up" performed by Drama Stage Qumran
8:30 - 8:45 Q & A with actors
9:00 - 9:30 The Absynths
9:45 - 10:00 Standup comedy by L7!
10:00 - 10:30 Aztlan Underground
10:45 - 11:15 Crescendo
11:30 - 12:00 Naima Earth
12:15 - 12:45 Ars Poetria
1:00 - 1:30 When.I.O.D...

SECOND FLOOR
5:00 - 1:00 Art gallery opening! Workshops, poets, informative speeches going on throughout the day! Open mic and board games!

ROOF
5:45 - 6:15 Ashley Moon
6:30 - 7:00 Miranda Macias
7:15 - 7:45 Nuba
8:00 - 9:00 Music and spoken word from skid row and beyond! (CJ, Charles Porter, )
9:15 - 9:45 Owl
10:00 - 10:30 Cinema Stereo
10:45 - 11:15 Tex Ados
11:15 - 11:45 Gerardo Salazar II
12:00 - 12:30 Alpha MC
12:45 - 1:15 Sean Pineda

SATURDAY, AUGUST 22ND:
MAIN STAGE
1:00 - 1:30 Introduction and party times!
1:30 - 2:00 Alyssandra Nighswonger
2:15 - 2:45 Spoken Arms
3:00 - 4:00 Film: "Humble Beauty
4:00 - 4:15 Filmmaker Q&A
4:30 - 5:00 Sunshine Factory
5:15 - 5:45 Tremellow
6:00 - 6:45 Music and spoken word from Skid Row and beyond!
7:00 - 7:30 Asura
7:45 - 8:15 Jeffertitti's Nile
8:30 - 9:00 Icy Lytes
9:00- 10:00 While DMSR sets up, some of our friends from Skid Row talk about social programs.
10:00 - 3:00 DMSR Presents: Pussy Got Your Tongue! (7 DJ's! 2 Bands!)

SECOND FLOOR
4:15 - 6:00 Meet and greet with the artists of "Humble Beauty"
6:00 - 8:00 Spoken word poetry by the Bus Stop Prophet and friends! Open Mic for the Skid Row community!
8:15 - 8:45 Q'Orianka Kilcher
9:00 - 9:30 Lisa Narinian
9:45 - 10:15 Eliza Mary Harper
10:30 - 11:00 Sean Cahill
11:15 - 11:45 Orlando Greenhill
11:45 - 12:00 Killsonic marches up to the roof
12:00 - 12:30 Verbs
12:45 - 1:15 Share-a-tories
1:30 - 2:00 Big Epoch

ROOF
4:15 - 4:45 Colony Collapse
5:00 - 5:30 Mixedupmess
5:45 - 6:15 SLowAIR
6:30 - 7:00 Peter Arizmendiz
7:15 - 7:45 The Brothers Landau
8:00 - 8:30 Wolfrobe
8:45 - 9:15 The Wildlife Corner
9:45 - 10:15 Anus Kings
10:30 - 11:00 Jim Ramirez
11:15 - 11:45 K the I???
12:00 - 12:30 Killsonic
12:30 - 1:00 Free for all open mic!

The following DMSR DJ's will be spinning in the main room will be going on all night!: Filthy Rich, Your Mother, Miau, Cassette & Count Rockula, KDP, Race Banner, and DJ Loli. Plus live performances by Little Red Radio and Old Young (The Keyishe).

The art gallery on the building's second floor will feature works by the Skid Row Photo Club, The LAMP Art Project, The SRO Housing Corporation Art Workshop, se_arch+resQ, 7lightningbolt, The Amar Collective, and more!

Official Website: http://amarcollective.com/