By: TOM LAVENTURE
AAP staff writer
Source: AAPress.com


Minneapolis, Minn. (March 2, 2011) – Playwright, writer, poet and performance artist May Lee-Yang was a sensation at the 2010 Fringe Festival with her play, Confessions of a Lazy Hmong Woman, selling out every performance. Now as an upgraded production through the National Performance Network Creation Fund, co-commissioned by OutNorth Theater in partnership with Kaotic Good Productions, the play returns for a run at Intermedia Arts.

Intermedia Arts resident artist Robert Karimi directs the new version with May Lee-Yang performing with cast members, Phasoua Vang and Souvan Samuel Lee.

Performances will be held 8:00 p.m., Friday-Sunday, March 4-6, and March 11-13, 2011 at Intermedia Arts, 2822 Lyndale Ave South, Minneapolis, MN 55408. Tickets $10 and |$12 door. Call or email 612-871-4444 or info@intermediaarts.org. Visit www.IntermediaArts.org and www.lazyhmongwoman.com.

2010-2011: WE ARE PAB NTXHAIS TIAJ TUS. WE WORK TOGETHER,STICK TOGETHER ALONG THE ROAD WE WILL MAKE IT TO COMPETITION.

TEACHER:YANEE XIONG

FOLLOWING DANCERS:CHRISTINA VANG,ADDIE THAO,MELISSA VANG,ANETT VANG,KALIA VANG,KHOU VANG,PENNY XIONG,KALIA VANG,KABOA VANG,SEE YANG AND CHAO YANG.

PASSION IT'S BEAUTIFUL <333.

Nov yog kwv tij Hmoob nyob Tuam Tshoj ob zaj yeeb yaj kiab. Tau muab coj los tso nov ua ib qho chaw qhia rau peb cov nyob lwm teb chaws. Yeeb yaj kiab yog ib yam yuav qhia rau peb txog kev vam meej thiab kev tsim kho ntawm peb. Ib qho loj tshaj mas yog yuav khaws tau peb teej peb tug cia rau tej ne tub me nyuam yau rau yav tom ntej. Peb pib ntawm peb ob txhais tes tawm los, txawm yog zoo thiab phem los ntawv yog peb tsim tawm, nws yuav zoo saib dua li peb mus saib lawm haiv neeg li ntiag tug.

Ua Tsaug.

Nov yog Modern Jungle Art Studio Production Zaj yeeb yaj kiab tawm tsiab rau lub xyoo 2010 no. yog ib zaj ua tau zoo saib, tu siab, los kua muag kawg. Nej qee leej yuav pom lawm thiab, nyob li ntawm tus sau los yeej pom lawm. Qhia tau tias yog ib kauj ruam ntawm peb haiv Hmoob uas mus tau deb kawg. Rau lwm haiv neeg peb tseem yog xyaum xwb. Tiam sis yog muab xav rau 10 xyoo dhau los, peb Hmoob vam meej lawm hov ntau. VajTuamThawj yog ib zaj yeeb yam ua txog pev Hmoob lub neej nyob hav zoov hav tsaug. Tsis hais tus laus tus hluas thiab tus me nyuam yaus puav leej paub txog. Cia siab tias tom ntej no peb Hmoob tseem yuav mus deb tshaj qhov no ntxiv lawm yav tom ntej.

Ua Tsaug.

Nov yog Hmong Media Production Zaj yeeb yaj kiab tawm tsiab rau lub xyoo 2010 no. yog ib zaj ua tau zoo saib, tu siab, los kua muag kawg. Nej qee leej yuav pom lawm thiab, nyob li ntawm tus sau los yeej pom lawm. Qhia tau tias yog ib kauj ruam ntawm peb haiv Hmoob uas mus tau deb kawg. Rau lwm haiv neeg peb tseem yog xyaum xwb. Tiam sis yog muab xav rau 10 xyoo dhau los peb Hmoob vam meej lawm hov ntau. CaubFab2 yog ib zaj yeeb yam ua txog pev Hmoob lub neej nyob hav zoov hav tsaug. Tsis hais tus laus tus hluas thiab tus me nyuam yaus puav leej paub txog. Cia siab tias tom ntej no peb Hmoob tseem yuav mus deb tshaj qhov no ntxiv lawm yav tom ntej.

Ua Tsaug.

Nov yog ib qho Yeeb Yaj Kiab uas ua txog peb Hmoob txoj kev khwv noj khwv haus li txheej laus thaum ub. Nws yog ib lub neej uas peb yeej ib txwm coj los tau ntau caum xyoo lawm. Thiab yog ib lub neej uas peb yeej tseem niaj hnub coj li no rau yav ntuj qub qab. Yog ib yam uas qhia tau rau peb tias peb txoj kev noj nyob yav ntuj qub qab zoo li cas? Niaj hnub no peb txawm tau lub neej tshiab, nyob lub teb chaws vam meej lawm los peb yeej tseem nco ntsoov txog nws. Vim yog peb lub neej uas yuav nco mus ib txhis.

Hmong Freedom tau paub los ntawm blog.sina.com.cn lub website los tias Ayouduo thiab Renxiaolong uas yog peb kwv tij Hmoob suav lawv ob tus tub ntxhais uas muaj suav nrov npe ncha lug yuav muaj ib zaj yeeb yaj kiab zoo saib heev tawm rau lub xyoo 2009 no. Npaj siab lawm tias yuav tau saib thiab pom tsis ntev tom ntej no.

Yog koj tus kheej kiag xav coj zaj lus paub no tuaj qhia ntxiv rau peb Hmoob thoob qab ntuj hauv no koj tuaj yeem coj tuaj qhia peb tau. Hmong Freedom yuav zoo siab heev.

Ua tsaug.

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By Kao Kalia Yang
Coffee House Press

Nov yog Peb Hmoob ib tug ntxhias phau ntawv uas nws muaj tsab peev xwm sau los tawm nws tus kheej coj los rau neeg thoob ntiaj teb tau nyeem txog Hmoob. "It is currently the only published Hmong memoir to make an impact in the literary world."

For anyone who is unfamiliar with the specifics of America’s most controversial military campaign prior to Iraq, Kao Kalia Yang’s splendorous debut, The Latehomecomer, should be required reading. Yang goes where few history books dare to, tracing the heartbreaking history of her Hmong family from the bomb-infested forests of Laos to the treacherous territory as a first generation Hmong family in America. Like the intricate embroidered stories that Hmong women wove when their language was outlawed, Yang resourcefully laces together narratives from her family, using her late grandmother’s stories as the thread that binds them together.

Review by : Lizzy Shramko
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If you want to support and free General Vang Pao, please stop! stop! saying to the news reporter that you are there to support General Vang Pao because he brought you to America, that is a totally different story, not even related to the case, and even if it is related it will not free Vang Pao. If you don't know what to say, just don't say. I, myself was there to support Vang Pao because I believed he has done nothing wrong, and he is and always will be my leader.

Look at the news reporter, they want all the community to hear the bad about Vang Pao, like you guys were saying that you were there to support Vang Pao because he brought you to America. That is just an excuse that not even related to the case, that just make him look more terrible. Remember, Vang Pao can not be free because he brought you guys to America, he can only be free if he has done nothing wrong.

Mim Tsab (I am HmongTV) yog peb Hmoob ib tug ntxhais zoo nkauj thiab tham lus hauv TV nrog cov neeg ua yeeb yam saib lawv lub hom phiaj rau yav neej pem suab yuav zoo mus npaum li cas. Nej ho soj qab mloog Mim Tsab yuav nrog cov neeg film makers (ua movie) tham saib lawv teb li cas rau peb ib tsoom Hmoob tau pom thiab hnov txog peb Hmoob tej txuj ci saib lawv teb li cas ...( Tujtaws)

Hmoob txhua leej txhua tus muaj lub hom phiaj zoo, peb Hmoob txoj kev vam meej tseeb lawm tiag yuav yog pib tej no ib qho zuj zus tuaj mus.  Peb Hmoob Freedom thov muab kev txhawb nqa thiab foom kom sawv daws tsuas muaj ua tau mus raws li sawv daws lub siab nyiam thiab siab ntshaw. (Kevin)