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NEW YORK, NY
September 19th, 2007
LAUGH YOUR INTERNATIONAL BOOTY OFF THIS NATIONAL COMING OUT WEEK AT “LAUGHING OUT LOUD: STARRING VIDUR KAPUR” - AT NYC’s GOTHAM COMEDY CLUB, WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 10th @ 9:30PM
SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCE BY JASON STUART
Outrageously riotous international sensation, VIdur Kapur will be cracking you up once again at Gotham Comedy Club… in a show especially created for National Coming Out Week! For details check out www.gothamcomedyclub.com
Show Details:
Wednesday, October 10th, 9:30pm
Gotham Comedy Club
208 W. 23rd Street, between 7th and 8th Ave.
NYC
Reservations: 212.367.9000
$15 + 2 drink minimum
Vidur Kapur has emerged as an increasingly popular and unique queer and Indian act in America and internationally, following his feature on MTV LOGO’s Outlaugh Festival on Wisecrack with Margaret Cho and the short film about him on Steven Spielberg’s “On The Lot’ on FOX tv. Vidur was recently featured in a documentary called “Making Funny” as one of the top US comedians and headlined a DVD taping called “ The Indian Invasion”, featuring the top Indian comedians in the US. Vidur was featured as a leading comedian in a Reuters Television piece shown on 500 stations around the world on "Prominent South Asians in the Media" along with internationally known celebrities such as Mira Nair, Director of Monsoon Wedding and The Namesake, and Naveen Andrews of ABC's LOST and Parminder Nagra of "ER".
Vidur is going to be taking his one of a kind and endearing laugh riot much beyond NYC...In October catch him at:
* Davidson College in NC on 10/6
* OUTSpokane in Spokane, WA on 10/7
* Montana State University on 10/9
This show of “Laughing Out Loud: Starring Vidur Kapur” also includes an all star cast including Emcee Chris Dilley who performed for 9 years as Trampolina with internationally renowned dragapella quartet The Kinsey Sicks, including in runs Off-Broadway and in Las Vegas. His one-man cabaret show earned rave reviews at San Francisco’s Plush Room, which ran in rep with Patti Lupone. While Trampolina has disgraced the stage numerous times at Gotham, Chris is thrilled to make his Gotham debut ... in pants! The show will also have a special guest performance by the hilarious Jason Stuart, recently seen on “Everybody Hates Chris”, “Mind of Mencia”, “The George Lopez Show”, House MD and a recurring role on ABC’s sitcom “My Wife and Kids”. Look for a special surprise lesbian guest comic soon to be added.
Also join Vidur on MySpace
http://home.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user&Mytoken=1189617463428
And on Facebook.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=705951900
Vidur Kapur's stand-up comedy is based on the social commentary of a one-man culture clash. A South Asian raised in a conservative upper middle class family in New Delhi, an overachiever with a degree from The London School of Economics and Ph.D. coursework at the University of Chicago, a misfit in a family focused on arranged marriages and social status, a chic urban trend-crazy gay fashion victim in West Hollywood and Manhattan, a corporate executive escapee from blue chip international firms, an immigrant to the US, and a person horrified at being mistaken for a terrorist in a post 9/11 America.
http://www.vidurkapur.com
Vidur Kapur http://www.sonicbids.com/vidurkapur For interviews, personal appearances, tv, film and press, contact Vidur’s management OUTmedia at: http://www.outmedia.org/contact.asp 718.789.1776 info@OUTmedia.org From: vidur kapur
Dear Friends, Reminder: Please try to attend this one-time event at Pace. Reese Erlich is an independent and anti-war freelance journalist from Oakland, CA and will be on the East Coast only a few days. He'll present a slide show of his trips inside Iran and his trips to the mountain areas surrounding Iran, where he met terrorist groups who are part of the U.S. plan to destabilize Iran. Hope to see you!
http://www.progressiveportals.com/Default.aspx?alias=www.progressiveportals.com/aifc
Eyewitness IRAN
A First-hand report by foreign correspondent
Reese Erlich
Author of The Iran Agenda: The Real Story of US Policy and the Middle East Crisis
According to Erlich, “Kurdish and American sources say the United States has been supporting guerilla raids against Iran, channeling money through organizations in Iraqi Kurdistan.” Erlich’s investigations have revealed how the U.S. planned to subvert the Iranian government and then lied about it to the American people. In addition to covering the political story, the author will offer firsthand insights and photos from his visits inside Iran. His book will be available at this event.
Reese Erlich's history in journalism goes back 40 years. He first worked as a staff writer and research editor for Ramparts, an investigative reporting magazine published in
San Francisco from 1963 to 1975. Today he works as a full-time print and broadcast, freelance reporter. He reports regularly for CBC, ABC (Australia), Radio Deutche Welle and National Public Radio. His articles appear in the San Francisco Chronicle, St. Petersburg Times and the Dallas Morning News. His television documentaries have aired on PBS stations nationwide.
Wednesday, October 10, 2007, 7:00 PM
PACE UNIVERSITY, Pleasantville Campus,
861 Bedford Road, Westchester, NY 10570
Gottesman room in the Kessel Student Center
Hosted by: American-Iranian Friendship Committee (AIFC), WESPAC, StopWarOnIran.org Campaign, NoWar Westchester and endorsed by Project Pericles at Pace U.
www.progressiveportals.com/aifc or www.wespac.org
Donations: $10.00, no one turned away
Email: AIFC@optonline.net
For More Info, call Wespac 914-682-4690 or AIFC 914-589-0744
Ahmad Kiarostami, Arash Sobhani and
Dr. Abbas Milani
A panel discussion and a performance by Kiosk
A New Cultural Renaissance in Iran
A Panel discussion & a performance by Kiosk
Wednesday, October 10
6-9 pm
Location: History Corner, Building 200, Room 002
Directions: http://campus-map.stanford.edu/index.cfm?ID=01-200
Closest parking is at the Oval. Located at 450 Serra Mall
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Hamid & Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies
Stanford University
School of Humanities & Sciences
Encina Hall West, Rm. 309
phone: 650.724.0939
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