Exciting events: Release parties! and Screenings!

Things are heating up.  On Friday, Jan. 20 at 8pm, we'll have a release party for A Zest for Life:  Afro-Peruvian Rhythms, a Source of Latin Jazz in la Peña Cultural  Center (3105 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, CA, USA) and on the following Thursday, Jan. 26, a Bay Area non-profit called MAW (Media Art Works) is hosting a screening of Domino:  Caught in the Crisis at 6:30pm in the Arlington Cafe (269 Arlington Ave., Kensington, CA., USA).

The release party, which will include not only the screening of the hour-long documentary but also a live performance by de Rompe y Raja (the performing group featured in the documentary) and a mini-lesson in Afro-Peruvian zapateo footwork, has a nice story in the Calendar section of the San Francisco Bay View LINK.  Cost is $15 at the door, $12 in advance, and special discount for students and seniors.  (Press enters free.)  If you want to purchase tickets in advance, here´s the LINK.

In addition, the current issue of El Cerrito Patch, in its Local Voices section, has a blog with an interview with Eve A. Ma, Producer-Director of A Zest for Life.  Here´s the LINK.  The author, Pam Fingado, chose two of my flamenco dance photos to illustrate me.

Eve A. Ma (yours truly)

We also have a story coming out on Tuesday, Jan. 17 in the El Cerrito Patch which talks about the release party, about how we made the documentary, and most importantly, about Afro-Peruvian music and dance which is the reason for the documentary and all that's connected to it.  Here's LINK to the El Cerrito Patch.  I believe the article will be on the front page under NEWS-Arts.

We EXPECT to have an article appear in the Berkeley Patch as well;  will keep you posted.  AND our event will eventually be listed in the Events section of the Berkeley Patch but there's been some technical problems there having to do with the link to the "location," La Peña Cultural Center.

And we expect to have other stories in other publications.

Now, Domino:  the screening, on Thursday, Jan. 26 starting at 6:30pm in the Arlington Cafe (269 Arlington Ave., Kensington -- by the pharmacy, bank, grocery store and other "downtown" Kensington businesses) is free and open to the public.  It´s being presented by the non-profit organization MAW (Media Art Works) as part of its monthly screening program, called EBMMSC (East Bay Media Makers´ Screening Club).  We may not project the entire Domino since it´s a bit longer than MAW´s guidelines suggest, but will certainly show at least 20 minutes of it.

We´d love to have you come by and take a look.  Domino is still a work-in-progress even though we´ve completed principal photography and have roughed in the editing.  I always love to watch for audience reaction, and get whatever feedback you chose to give me.  So come on by!

OUR NEXT BLOG will be a report after the event about the A Zest for Life screening, and a second invitation to the Domino screening.