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Dear Loved Ones, Community, Familia y Friendz,

Fe fe hake? (How you doing in Tongan) There is a lot of goodness y love happening...I got to share it with you!

THANK YOU for all your support y encouraging words! I THANK YOU
for your generosity, purchasing from moana love bodega, sending positivity, blessings, y connecting.

I hope to see you soon at an upcoming performance/reading/event! I will be in Chicago in 2 weeks reading poetry with 19 other amazing poets & writers! Also, did you know that I am a BLOGISTA? I created that word to identify with cuz blogger sounds similar to booger and nooo, yewwww. Do your daily reading and read my blog today, see below for link. Cheeeeeeck it out.
 
DREAMS FULFILLED.
'ofa atu,
vaimoana litia makakaufaki niumeitiolu

STAY CONNECTED
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***I am very happy to have my poem, "PARA MI GENTE, For my peeps in Gaza" featured in a New Zealand/Aotearoa online magazine with other Amazing Poets and Writers! They also gave a SPECIAL FEATURE to MAHINA MOVEMENT! Thank you Doug and Blackmail Press. Shout to all my peeps in New Zealand/Aoteaora!
Check out the link here:

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***CHICAGO!!!! I am very excited to read my poetry in this Amazing Reading in Chicago!
Thursday, March 1, 2012; 7pm-10pm
"Ancestors: A Queer Writers of Color Reading"
sponsored by the Lambda Literary Foundation
http://www.lambdaliterary.org

Free
Where: Center on Halsted
3rd Floor
Irving Harris Family Foundation Reception Hall
3656 N. Halsted St. (at Waveland Ave.)
Chicago, IL 60613
(773) 472-6469
http://www.centeronhalsted.org

7pm Doors Open
7:30pm Reading

Organized by Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhr�n 
& Tony Valenzuela 

  

Readers:  
OluSeyi OluToyin Adebanjo, Nancy Agabian, Ryka Aoki, Tamiko Beyer, Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhr�n, Ching-In Chen, Matthew R. K. Haynes-Kekahuna, Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano, David Keali'i, Janet McAdams, Deborah A. Miranda, Claudia Narv�ez-Meza, vaimoana litia makakaufaki niumeitolu, Emma P�rez, Jai Arun Ravine, Charles Rice-Gonz�lez, Trish Salah, James Thomas Stevens, D. Antwan Stewart, & Jennifer Lisa Vest.


"Ancestors: A Queer Writers of Color Reading" is a literary reading featuring same-gender-loving, multiple-gender-loving, and transgender poets, non/fiction writers, filmmakers, and performance artists of Indigenous Pacific, Native North American, Arab/Middle Eastern, Asian, Latina/o, and African descent.

This event is sponsored by the Lambda Literary Foundation, which nurtures, celebrates, and preserves lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) literature through programs that honor excellence, promote visibility, and encourage development of emerging writers.

This reading is an off-site event for the 2012 Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) conference, which will be occurring in Chicago from Wednesday, February 29, 2012 through Saturday, March 3, 2012.
http://www.awpwriter.org/conference/2012awpconf.php

Questions:
Info@lambdaliterary.org

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***I will be self publishing tonga provo harlem
I THANK ALL OF YOU who have already pre-ordered a copy of tonga provo harlem--and for patiently waiting for your copy. After much thought, I have decided I will self publish, tonga provo harlem. This will be the 3rd edition of tonga provo harlem and for its 3rd printing, I didn't want it to be another chapbook/stapled with card stock front cover. I want tonga provo harlem to be an actual "book" and so that said, I will use one of the amazing self publishing companies to make this dream come true. This means, you will have to w-a-i-ttttt   L-o-n n n n-g e r r r r  for a copy of tonga provo harlem to show up in your hands...And for those who have not pre-ordered your copy YET, please do so NOW. You can pre-order your copy at moana love bodega: www.moanalovebodega.bigcartel.com 
My GOAL is to sell 5,000 copies worldwide! My goal is to have every school, college and university to have in their libraries "books by tongan poets,writers y artists."
Now I am raising the funds to make this self publishing venture actually happen. After I sell 5,000 copies on my own, the next step is to have it published by an established publishing house. Stay tuned!   


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***I will be doing some new poetry with MAHINA MOVEMENT with music!!! Check us out in the upcoming events in New York City!

~Tuesday Feb. 28, 2012; 7 pm
Where: The Shrine; 2271 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd; Harlem, NYC, NY
$10.00 suggested donation
V Day Harlem present "An Evening of Empowerment"

There will be a Vagina Sampler featuring the cast presenting some of Eve's award winning play The Vagina Monologues! As well as two amazing artists, Liana Harper and Mahina Movement (Gabriella Callender, Erica DelaRosa y vaimoana litia makakaufaki niumeitolu) with DJ Ripraw.

~Saturday March 3, 2012; 2 - 5 pm
Where: Hostos Community College in the South Bronx; 500 Grand Concourse; Bronx, NYC, NY
FREE
Momma's Hip Hop Kitchen Vol. 5 , "BE THE CURE!" is excited to celebrate our 5th YEAR ANNIVERSARY Concert and kick off International Women's Month

Artists that will be rocking:
Guerrilla Queenz (Los Angeles)
Full Circle Soulsistas
Mahina Movement
Xclusive Step Team
Rhyme Like a Girl
Not Enough Mics
NeNe Ali
GNU
BigNay The Ice Queen
Adrienne Mack-Davis
Narubi Selah
PrECiOSA
MC Beats
Las BomPleneras (Chicago)
Pelham Academy Eagles
Aisling Peartree
Bianca Raquel
Miss Marianna
Ashley August
J.F. Seary
DJ Brina Payne
The Legendary DJ Chela

Come join us for our 5th year anniversary concert! Join educators, students, environmentalists, visual artists, health advocates, doctors, nurses, food co-ops, DJ's, emcees, b-girls, poets, artists, dancers, healers, organizers and activists in the birthplace of hip hop.


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***I am so excited, I just can't hide it, I will be in 3 ART GROUP EXHIBITS (n March y April 2012!) Now is your chance to see upclose y personal my paintings!!! You can see them all in NYC, check it....

1)
"Nature's Return"
NYC Department of Parks and Recreation and Central Park presents "Nature's Return" addressing the coexistence of natural and urban environments, with particular emphasis on the growing discord between the two. Artists will be exploring this theme from a broad range of perspectives.

Opening Reception: Wednesday March 7, 2012
Exhibition Dates: March 8-April 19, 2012

Arsenal Gallery
NYC Parks Dept.
830 Fifth Avenue at 64th Street inside Central Park
New York, NY 10065


2)
"Mam� Ting�: " La tierra es grande y da pa t�"

Celebrating International Woman's day and giving awareness to and efforts in sustaining Planned Parenthood.

Opening Reception: Sunday March 11, 2012
Exhibition Dates: March 11 - March 31, 2012
  
Rio Galleries/Broadway Housing Communities
583 Riverside Drive
(Harlem) New York, NY 10031

3) "Celebration of survivors of sexual assault and child sexual abuse"

Opening Reception: Friday April 13, 2012
Exhibition Dates: April 1 - April 31, 2012 

Adam Clayton Powell State Office Building
163 West 125th St.
New York, NY 10027


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***THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES
A dream come true! I am in The VAGINA MONOLOGUES!!! There will be 2 performances on March 31, 2012 at the Schomburg in NYC at 6pm/8pm. Tickets are on Sale now!!!
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/226437

For more information, click on these links:
http://vdayharlem.com/
http://vdayharlem.tumblr.com/

***Also, I am designing a special Tshirt just for VDAYHARLEM and Vagina Monologues! You can purchase this online at moana love bodega (starting Feb.28, 2012) or/and at any of our upcoming performances (see poetry section above for details) !!!! 


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***re:spect at the United Nations!!!
Thursday Feb. 23, 2012 
I am honored to be doing a "Hands on Silk Screening Workshop" for a Seminar for Young Women on Violence against Women. I will be sharing my mission of re:spect of how we can create and wear our own Clothing/Fashion as Activism. I have been commissioned to create a design specifically for this Violence against Women seminar. I have already made 6 silk screens for these 20 young women (ages 18-35) from the U.S., South Korea and Japan, so that they may print their own T-shirts and posters! Ahhhhh yeahhhhhh! I can't wait. I will make sure to document this workshop, so pictures coming soon.

***LOVE T-Shirts on moana love bodega now! 
The latest LOVE T-Shirts are online now, ready for purchase. Check it out now, yes, right now: www.moanalovebodega.bigcartel.com
Also, I will be bringing these T-Shirts, along with other moana love merch (including small prints of my paintings on wood) at all my upcoming performances/readings/art receptions and other events, so come on out!!! (look at the poetry, painting y acting sections for all the dates and times of where I am going to be!)
FYI: Now I have a credit card reader, so now I accept CREDIT CARDS in person!




...and just for reading this far, I give you a coupon for $5.00 off any moana love merch. Ya hearrrdddd?!!!! THANK YOU FOR WHO YOU ARE TO ME!!! MALO'AUPITO!!!!!



$5.00 OFF any moana love merch includes T-Shirts, prints, art, amazing creations from my He(ART). for in person purchases only. 'ofa atu!
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Offer Expires: April 30, 2012