Check this out: Spoken word poet Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai is offering a name-your-own-price download of her newest album “Further She Wrote,” which folks can download via Bandcamp through January 2011.

Whether you pay 10 cents or $10 (or nothing at all), you can check out her latest stuff! However, we suggest that you support this talented woman who is making waves in the spoken word arts community by donating what you can…

Go here for the album download:
http://kellytsai.bandcamp.com/album/further-she-wrote

“Raw, evocative, insightful…Kelly is a contemporary visionary who is helping to change the world, one poem at a time.” — Celeste Hamilton, Action Without Borders/Idealist.org

KELLY ZEN-YIE TSAI is a Chicago-born, Brooklyn-based Chinese Taiwanese American spoken word artist who fights for cultural pride and survival through how she spits and how she lives. Touring extensively worldwide, she has featured at over 450 shows across the continental United States, Hawai’i, Canada, China, England, France, Germany, Kenya, and the Netherlands. Winner of the 2007 Asian American Arts Alliance/New York Foundation for the Arts Urban Artists Initiative Award, Kelly was also profiled in Idealist in NYC’s Top 40 New Yorkers Who Make Positive Social Change in the Five Boroughs in 2008, Angry Asian Man.com’s “30 Most Influential Asian Americans Under 30” in 2009, and HBO’s “East of Main Street: Asians Aloud” in 2010.

Kelly has rocked stages at venues like the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, the House of Blues, the Apollo Theater in Harlem, the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and three seasons of “Russell Simmons Presents HBO Def Poetry.” She has shared stages with Mos Def, KRS-One, Sonia Sanchez, Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, Talib Kweli, DMX, Michael Eric Dyson, Wyclef Jean, Tracy Morgan, Amiri Baraka, Ursula Rucker, Harry Belafonte, and many more.

Past projects include her award-winning spoken word video (“By-Standing..” dir. by Karen Lin) and her viral spoken word video (“Black, White, Whatever” dir. by Jazzmen Lee-Johnson), which was featured on Youtube.com the day before Barack Obama’s historic election and quickly garnered over 200,000 hits. Her poems and essays can be found in We Don’t Need Another Wave: Dispatches from the Next Generation of Feminists (Seal/Avalon), We Got Issues! A Young Woman’s Guide to a Bold, Empowered and Courageous Life (Inner Ocean) and The Spoken Word Revolution Redux (Sourcebooks).

Official Website: http://www.yellowgurl.com/
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/yellowgurl_poetry
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/yellowgurlpoet
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/kztsai
Facebook: Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai
Bandcamp: http://kellytsai.bandcamp.com

This is really exciting: For the month of January, the critically-acclaimed film by Taiwanese American director Arvin Chen, AU REVOIR TAIPEI, is available to all Comcast subscribers in the US. It’s not even out on DVD yet, so this is the only way many of you will be able to watch the film if you didn’t catch it on the film festival circuit last year.

After screenings around the world, and awards in Berlin and San Francisco, AU REVOIR TAIPEI makes its on-demand premiere this month! Be sure not to miss incredible Taiwanese romantic caper comedy! Au Revoir Taipei is presented by Comcast’s new Asian American film service, CINEMA ASIAN AMERICA.

AU REVOIR TAIPEI, Director Arvin Chen
A lovesick boy and an adventurous bookstore clerk navigate Taipei’s night-markets, seedy alleyways and karaoke bars in search of love and more in this campy, colorful adventure-caper-comedy from Arvin Chen. Breezily incorporating elements of film noir, classic musicals, and Taiwanese gangster films, this dazzling romance is a tribute to being young, confused and utterly in love.

HOW TO WATCH:
• Au Revoir Taipei is available to purchase for view for all US Comcast digital cable customers with On-Demand for $4.99.
• Through your digital cable menu, viewers should click on the “On Demand” button, and then look under the “Movies” folder. In this will be a “Movie Collections” folder and inside of this viewers will find “Cinema Asian America” and will be able to access the film.

ABOUT CINEMA ASIAN AMERICA
In December, 2010, Comcast launched Cinema Asian America, a ground-breaking new video-on demand offering, which will feature Asian American films and videos. For the first time, millions of viewers across the nation are able to watch a monthly-curated series of Asian American and Asian films, which will collect together award-winning films fresh from the film festival circuit and classics which beg to be revisited. These films include both short and feature-length works and the genres range from documentary to narrative to experimental.

Taiwanese American Texan comedian Sheng Wang has a half-hour special airing on “Comedy Central Presents” on January 28, 2011 at 11:30 pm.

Be sure to tune in! Check local listings for exact showtimes.

Support the Facebook event page for this broadcast: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=159858604065084

Sheng developed and honed his comedy in the thriving standup community of the San Francisco Bay Area. He performs jokes based on personal experiences with intense honesty and ill logic. His refreshingly affable stage presence combined with a healthy penchant for absurdity and self-deprecation make his act universally accessible and hilarious. In addition to touring with the Comedians of Comedy and American Eagle’s ‘Campus Comedy Challenge,’ he has also appeared on Comedy Central’s ‘Live at Gotham’ and on the AZN Network. In 2007, Sheng was selected to perform at the prestigious ‘Just for Laughs’ comedy festival in Montreal.

Check out Sheng Wang on MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/shengwang