WPIRG Presents:
COMEDY NIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHTS!
Celebrating WPIRG’s 40 Year Anniversary presenting social and environmental justice programming on campus
Thursday March 6, 2014, Doors 6:30PM Show 7Pm, Humanities Theatre, University of Waterloo. Featuring comedians Kristina Wong and Hari Kondabolu
Free Admission for UW Students and Staff. Admission for Non-UW students is a non-perishable food item donation to the Feds Food Bank at the door.
Register HERE to reserve your ticket.
Tickets left unclaimed by 6:45PM will be released so be in line at 6:30PM!
Accessibility Notes: The Humanities Theatre is a fully wheelchair accessible venue. The entire event will be live-translated on stage by professional ASL (American Sign Language) interpreters. There will be gender neutral bathrooms marked in the theatre, as well as Men and Women bathrooms. If you have any questions please email janice@wpirg.org
About Kristina Wong:
Kristina Wong is a solo performer, writer and cultural commentator named “One of the Seven Funniest Eco-Comedians” by Mother Nature Network. She’s created five solo shows and one ensemble play that have toured all over the world. Her most notable touring show– “Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” looked at the high rates of depression and suicide among Asian American women and toured to over 40 venues since 2006. It’s now a broadcast quality film that has been acquired for worldwide distribution by documentary juggernaut, Cinema Libre Studios. (More on the film atwww.flyingwong.com). She’s been a commentator for American Public Media’s Marketplace, PBS, Jezebel, xoJane, Playgirl Magazine and a guest on FXX’s “Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell” and Huffington Post Live. Her new show “The Wong Street Journal” looks at global poverty and premieres in 2015. She recently spent a month in Northern Uganda researching that show and recording “Mzungu Price” a rap album with local rappers. Her mail order bride website iswww.bigbadchinesemama.com. http://kristinawong.com
About Hari Kondabolu:
Hari Kondabolu is a Brooklyn-based, Queens-raised comic who has been described by Timeout NY as “smart, analytical and rising.” He was most recently a writer and correspondent for FX’s Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell. He has done standup on Conan , Jimmy Kimmel Live, Live at GothamandJohn Oliver’s New York Standup Show. His Comedy Central Presents half-hour television special debuted on the network in February 2011. He has also performed at such notable festivals as South by Southwest, Bumbershoot, Sasquatch and Just for Laughs in Montreal and Chicago. Hari was born and raised in Queens, NY. He went to Townsend Harris High School and the school’s mascot, “Hari the Hawk,” was named after him during his senior year. (He sometimes fears that his greatest achievement was accomplished at 17.) A former immigrant rights organizer in Seattle, Hari also earned a Masters in Human Rights from the London School of Economics in 2008, writing a merit- earning dissertation entitled “Mexican Returnees as Internally Displaced People: An Argument for the Protection of Economic Migrants Under the UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement.” This is, by far, the least funny thing he’s ever written.