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Sini Anderson is a Performance Poet, Producer, and Director living in San Francisco. Since 1994 Anderson has been the Co-founder and Artistic Director of Sister Spit and Sister Spits Ramblin Road Show. She has performed nationally and internationally for the last decade, in such venues as New York's PS. 122, Seattle’s Bumbershoot Art Festival, Lollapollza’s music Festival, The Michigan Women's Music Festival, Vancouver BC’s Rock for Choice, and on San Francisco Pride’s Main Stage. In 2000 the San Francisco Arts Commission awarded Sini an individual artist grant for her multi-media spoken word show; she has been a featured artist in the National Queer Arts Festival for the past four years. Other organizations supporting her work include: The Horizons Foundation, Theatre Bay Area’s Cash Program, Grants for the Arts SF, and the California Arts Council, Grants for the Arts San Francisco, Open Meadows, The Women’s Foundation, and the Astraea foundation. Sini is the Chief Curator and The Co-Artistic Director for the National Queer Arts Festival, and a Producer of Nectar, the women’s stage at San Francisco’s Pride. She is the Co-Chair of the board of directors for the Harvey Milk Institute, and is on the board of directors for the Queer Cultural Center in SF. Sini Anderson is in the process of forming a new non-profit, queer performance, and literary organization to be announced late spring of 2003! You can find her work in the award- winning anthology “The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry “ Thundermouth Press 1999 and on any of the four Sister Spit CDs; she is releasing her second solo CD in the Summer of 2003 on Mr. Lady Records. Her new work is all based in Multi-Media form. Projected video, still Slides, and live sound scores. She collaborates with artists Silas Howard, Point Blank, and Killer Banshee Studios. . This blend of performance style is hailing Anderson as one of the most powerful spoken word performers in the nation. Anderson tours at least six months out of every year, for booking information contact her at sini@mindspring.com or visit the Sister Spit web site at www.sisterspit.com

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