Avotcja's Birthday Bash

21 JULY 2013 — sunday

Avotcja's 72nd Birthday Bash with master percussionist Val Serrant, dancer Ava Square LeVias, poets Carolyn Brandy, Michaelle Goerlitz, Elizabeth Sayer-Batáleras, Nancy Hom, Kirk Lumpkin, Tureeda Mikell, Ian Dogole with Mariah Parker, Naomi Quiñonez, Michael Warr, Tres Santos (Chokwadi, Muteado, and Mark G), poets Kayhah Marin and Tasha Kame, Carlos Disdier, Maurisa Thompson, Augusta Lee Collins, and members of the poetry jazz-blues group Avotcja & Modupue, with The Bay Area Blues Society, Sandi Poindexter, Eugene Warren, Jon Jang, Pedro Rosales, and poet/percussionist Avotcja, La Peña Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck Avenue, at Prince, Berkeley, near Ashby BART, $10-$20 sliding scale, 7:00-10:30 (www.LaPena.org, www.Avotcja.org)