{"id":13104,"date":"2011-08-09T12:17:55","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T16:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=13104"},"modified":"2011-08-08T23:43:21","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T03:43:21","slug":"mouth-to-mouth-open-mic-with-air-tabigue-and-saurabh-tak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=13104","title":{"rendered":"Mouth to Mouth Open Mic with Air Tabigue and Saurabh Tak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Friday, August 12 \u00b7  8:00pm &#8211;  11:00pm<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>The Asian American Writers&#8217; Workshop<\/p>\n<div>110-112 West 27th Street, Sixth Floor, New York, NY<!--more--><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/270507_245562955463079_236005296418845_994852_1249958_n.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[13104]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13105\" title=\"air\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/270507_245562955463079_236005296418845_994852_1249958_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"355\" height=\"438\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>Don&#8217;t want the summer to end? Neither do we! Come make friends with  Filipino American comedian Air Tabigue, who has been featured on NBC,  FOX, and PBS, and Moth Slam winning storyteller, writer, and blogger Saurabh Tak. As usual, novelist Ed Lin and stand-up comedian Jen Kwok  will be handling hosting duties from our lovely green couch. Wanna get  in on the action? Come ready with your own work and sign-&#8230;up for a 5-minute slot at 7:30PM.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>Air Tabigue is a Filipino-American  comedian who was born and raised in Long Island, NY. Throughout his life  he has had a natural ability to make people laugh at any given moment.  Now as a comedian, he is quickly rising in the comedy world performing  at clubs and colleges around NYC and throughout the country. In 2004,  Air won the Eastern Division of the First Asian American Stand Up Comedy  Competition held by Takeout Comedy. He has appeared on NBC, FOX and has  hosted of Asian America on PBS covering talented Asian-American artists  in entertainment. He also co-hosts and produces the popular monthly  show Jammin Asian at the Laugh Lounge NYC. Air connects with the  audience as he jokes about and pokes fun at almost everything in  everyday life with his own unique comedy style and animated stage  presence. Everybody needs \u201cAir\u201d in their lives!<\/p>\n<p>A Moth Slam  winner, Saurabh Tak has been featured as a storyteller at several venues  including Columbia University in New York, Speakeasy DC in Washington  and Un-cabaret in Los Angeles. Most recently, he won the approval of  both the critics and audiences for his gig in The Sin Show, the  top-selling show at the annual Capital Fringe Festival in Washington.  His brief opinions have also been published in The Washington Post and  The Moderate voice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>$5 suggested donation<br \/>\nopen to the public<br \/>\nsign up at 7:30 PM for a 5 minute slot<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, August 12 \u00b7 8:00pm &#8211; 11:00pm The Asian American Writers&#8217; Workshop 110-112 West 27th Street, Sixth Floor, New York, NY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13104"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13112,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13104\/revisions\/13112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}