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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Sunday,
September 7<sup>th</sup> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span
style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">“STRUGGLE
FOR A NEW WORLD!”</span></i></b><b><span
style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><br>
Fred Ho Memorial Tribute</span></b><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><br>
</span><b><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">An
All-Star salute to the late Musician and Cultural Worker<br>
<br>
</span></b><b><span
style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">2:00-4:30pm
@ Oakland Asian Cultural Center<br>
388 9th Street </span></b><span
style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">(at
Franklin)<b>, Oakland, </b></span><b><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">FREE<br>
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style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><br>
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</span><span class="style11"><b><u><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#C00000">Wednesday
Sept. 3<sup>rd</sup>, 1:00 - 2:00 PM:</span></u></b></span><span
class="style11"><b><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#C00000"></span></b></span><span
class="style8"><b><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#C00000"> SFSU
</span></b></span><span class="style8"><b><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#C00000">“</span></b></span><b><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#C00000">Creative
Music Studies,”</span></b><span class="style8"><b><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#C00000">
Jazz Prof. </span></b></span><span class="style30"><b><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#C00000">Hafez
Modirzadeh,</span></b></span><span class="style30"><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#C00000"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="style30"><b><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#C00000">will
sponsor an informal jazz session tribute to Fred Ho and
his music </span></b></span><b><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#C00000"><br>
@SFSU, Knuth Hall, Creative Arts Building, free</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="style11"><b><u><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#C00000">Thursday
Sept. 4<sup>th</sup>, </span></u></b></span><b><u><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#C00000">4:30
PM:</span></u></b><b><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#C00000"><span
class="style8">Words and Music, in Memoriam Fred Ho</span><br>
<span class="style8">Royal Hartigan and Ben Barson</span><span
class="style30"> with special guest Hafez Modirzadeh </span><br>
Hosted by <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.sfsu.edu/%7Epoetry"><span
style="color:#C00000">The Poetry Center</span></a>,
@SFSU, Humanities Building HUM 512, free</span></b><b><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#C00000">Saturday
Sept. 6<sup>th</sup>, 7:00 – 9:00 PM:</span></u></b><b><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#C00000">
Added Performance & Open Rehearsal <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#C00000">Limited
Seating - Arrive Early<br>
518 Valencia St, San Francisco</span></b><b><span
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<b>Co-sponsored by</b> Freedom Archives, The Poetry Center
and the Design Center for Global Needs at San Francisco
State University, and Oakland Asian Cultural Center<br>
<br>
On Sunday, September 7th an all-star assemblage of
musicians, writers, and activists will gather in Oakla<span
class="textexposedshow">nd to honor Fred Ho — celebrated
composer-bandleader, virtuoso baritone saxophonist, author
of multiple books, and lifelong radical activist. </span></span><span
class="textexposedshow"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="textexposedshow"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">A
self-described “revolutionary matriarchal socialist and
aspiring Luddite” (New York Times), Fred Ho for four
decades was a fierce warrior against exploitation and
oppression wherever they persisted, including in his very
public battle with cancer.</span></span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><br>
<br>
<span class="textexposedshow">Fred Ho’s family will be
present, and footage from the documentary</span></span><span
class="textexposedshow"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">,
<i>“</i></span></span><span class="textexposedshow"><i><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Fred Ho’s
Last Year</span></i></span><span class="textexposedshow"><i><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">”</span></i></span><span
class="textexposedshow"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">
(Stephen de Castro, 2014)</span></span><span
class="textexposedshow"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">,</span></span><span
class="textexposedshow"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">
</span></span><span class="textexposedshow"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="textexposedshow"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">will
be screened.</span></span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><br>
<br>
<span class="textexposedshow"><b>Featured </b></span></span><span
class="textexposedshow"><b><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">P</span></b></span><span
class="textexposedshow"><b><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">erformers
will include:</span></b></span><b><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><br>
</span></b><span class="textexposedshow"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The
Afro Asian Music Ensemble</span></span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">:</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><br>
<span class="textexposedshow">Ben Barson</span><br>
<span class="textexposedshow">Davheed Behroozi</span><br>
<span class="textexposedshow">Jimmy Biala</span><br>
<span class="textexposedshow">Winston Byrd</span><br>
<span class="textexposedshow">Royal Hartigan</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><br>
<span class="textexposedshow">Mark Izu</span><br>
<span class="textexposedshow">Jon Jang</span><br>
<span class="textexposedshow">Masaru Koga</span><br>
<span class="textexposedshow">Genny Lim</span><br>
<span class="textexposedshow">Hafez Modirzadeh</span><br>
<span class="textexposedshow">Gwendolyn Mok</span><br>
<span class="textexposedshow">Ken Okada</span><br>
<span class="textexposedshow">John-Carlos Perea</span></span><span
class="textexposedshow"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="textexposedshow"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Rova
Saxophone Quartet</span></span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">:</span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><br>
<span class="textexposedshow">Akira Tana</span><br>
<span class="textexposedshow">Marty Wehner</span><br>
<span class="textexposedshow">Francis Wong</span><br>
<span class="textexposedshow">Brenda Wong Aoki</span><br>
<br>
<span class="textexposedshow"><b>With </b></span></span><span
class="textexposedshow"><b><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Sp</span></b></span><span
class="textexposedshow"><b><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">eaker/</span></b></span><span
class="textexposedshow"><b><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">E</span></b></span><span
class="textexposedshow"><b><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">mcees:</span></b></span><span
class="textexposedshow"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">
</span></span><span class="textexposedshow"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="textexposedshow"><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Diane
Fujino, Matef Harmachis, and Tony Marks-Block.</span></span><span
style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><br>
<br>
<span class="textexposedshow"><i>“Fred Ho writes, speaks,
and plays in order to persuade and inspire, to expose
the crimes of the ruling class, and to challenge the
status quo so that we imagine a different future.”</i>
—Robin D. G. Kelley, historian and biographer of
Thelonious Monk</span><br>
<br>
<span class="textexposedshow"><b>Fred Ho biography</b> (born
Fred Wei-han Houn, August 10, 1957, Palo Alto, CA; died
April 12, 2014, Brooklyn, NY). One of the outstanding
composers of his generation, New York-based
Chinese-American saxophonist and cultural activist Fred Ho
founded the Afro-Asian Music Ensemble (1982), the
Asian-American Art Ensemble (1981-88), and the Monkey
Orchestra (1990), all of them fusing Western and Eastern
instruments and influenced by Afro-American traditions,
especially inspired by Charles Mingus’s orchestras. Later
ensembles included The Green Monster Big Band, The
Saxophone Liberation Front, and Brooklyn Sax Quartet
(cofounded with David Bindman). Among many honors, he was
the first Asian American musician to be awarded the Duke
Ellington Distinguished Artist Lifetime Achievement Award.</span><br>
<br>
<span class="textexposedshow">The names of Fred Ho’s many
recordings, from the 1980s forward, express the singular
fusion of art and activism that became his insistent call:
Tomorrow Is Now, Bamboo That Snaps Back, A Song for
Manong, We Refuse To Be Used and Abused (all 1980s); The
Underground Railroad To My Heart, Monkey Parts One and
Two, Turn Pain Into Power; Yes Means Yes, No Means No,
Whatever She Says, Wherever She Goes!; Warrior Sisters,
the “vampire opera” Night Vision, and the 12-movement
theatre piece with dancers and Kung Fu fighters Once Upon
a Time In Chinese American (all 1990s); The Black Panther
Suite; Red Arc: A Call for Liberation (with poet
raúlrsalinas), Deadly She-Wolf Assassin at
Armageddon/Momma’s Song, Big Red, The Sweet Science Suite,
Snake-Eaters, Celestial Green Monster, Year of the Tiger
and The Music of Cal Massey: A Tribute (2000–2012).</span><br>
<br>
<span class="textexposedshow"><b>In addition to his music</b>,
Fred Ho authored, co-authored, and edited many articles
and books, the latter including Wicked Theory, Naked
Practice: A Fred Ho Reader, Afro Asia: Revolutionary
Political and Cultural Connections Between African
Americans and Asian Americans (with Bill Mullen), Diary of
a Radical Cancer Warrior: Fighting Cancer and Capitalism
at the Cellular Level, Raw Extreme Manifesto: Change Your
Body, Change Your Mind, Change the World While Spending
Almost Nothing; the anthologies Sounding Off! Music as
Subversion/ Resistance/ Revolution (with Ron Sakolsky),
and Legacy to Liberation: Politics and Culture of
Revolutionary Asian Pacific America (with Carolyn Antonio,
Diane Fujino, and Steve Yip). He was the subject of the
book-length study Yellow Power, Yellow Soul: The Radical
Art of Fred Ho (ed. Roger N. Buckley and Tamara Roberts)
and featured in Bill V. Mullen’s Afro Orientalism.</span><br>
<br>
<br>
<span class="textexposedshow">Fred Ho at Big Red Media, Inc.</span><br>
<span class="textexposedshow"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bigredmediainc.com%2Fbrmflash%2F&h=fAQFV1HwF&enc=AZO452erMzvA1ytj2OH0LXn0v-epu45rmvvOqf9iUQB1seai85jhRLZRBFBCDWbPn4xVLPqwPVFKsafb6nwk9f0J3QuGJ8RDT7JUbvq26_-t2uQr0R-pcu_J3lYLkmIA9n2xIdVFmYGLPOG6eqy-MKLT&s=1"
target="_blank">http://www.bigredmediainc.com/brmflash/</a></span>
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