Slant 10 Live: The Neo-Benshi Experience
Artists Neelanjana Banerjee and Goh Nakamura in attendance with curator Melissa Hung
Saturday, May 22, 7PM
Location: Super Happy Fun Land, 3801 Polk Street
$7 Non-Members (at the door), Aurora Members Free with RSVP

Join us for a special evening of live performances with film. Benshi were Japanese performers who provided live narration during the silent film era. San Francisco-based writer Neelanjana Banerjee performs neo-benshi by writing her own scripts and re-imagining classic Bollywood films to hilarious effect.

Also no stranger to wordplay, singer songwriter Goh Nakamura performs a live score to new work by Slant alum Dino Ignacio. Goh’s music has been featured on film soundtracks and this evening he’ll bring his guitar and imagination for a show of cinematic songs.

Neelanjana Banerjee is a writer, editor, and teacher based in San Francisco. She is the co-editor of the new book Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry.

Goh Nakamura is a musician who writes ditties about parking tickets, impossible crushes and faraway dreamlands. He has two albums, Daylight Savings and Ulysses.

Special thanks to Hyphen Magazine for their support of this program.