Left to Right, top to bottom: violinist Sandy Poindexter, multi-percussionist Karen Stackpole, visual artist Katie Quan, dancer/poet Lynn Huang, dancer Flora Kim Han, saxophonist/composer Francis Wong, tuba performer William Roper. Photos courtesy of the artists.
|
|
Remembrance Rising: In Tribute to the World War II Comfort Women
outdoor performance and video shoot
Remembrance Rising: In Tribute to the World War II Comfort Women is an interdisciplinary work featuring poetry, dance, and music in dialogue with the public art piece Comfort Women Column of Strength Memorial in St. Mary’s Square in San Francisco Chinatown.
Featuring composer/saxophonist Francis Wong, dancer and poet Lynn Huang, dancer Flora Hyoin Kim Han, tuba performer William Roper, violinist Sandy Poindexter, and multi-percussionist Karen Stackpole. Parallel to the performing arts work is a companion zine set, created and illustrated by Katie Quan, focusing on the experiences of comfort women, Jan Ruff-O’Herne and Maria Rosa Henson.
Both projects are made possible through the inaugural Comfort Women Research and Creative Scholarship Small Grant Awards program. Presented by Asian Improv aRts, API Cultural Center, and Lenora Lee Dance.
Admission free!
Please click on the date below to reserve your spot on Eventbrite!
Saturday, May 20, 2-3pm, at St. Mary’s Square (651 California St., SF) outdoors at the site of the Comfort Women Memorial. Please note: there is only a public restroom on site.
|
Please consider supporting the creation and performance of Francis Wong's new works by clicking below! We are deeply grateful for your support! |
Mẹ ơ đâu? (Mother, Where Are You?)
a solo performance work by JOHNNY HUY NGUYỄN
Friday & Saturday, May 26 & 27 @ 7:30pm
Sunday, May 28 @ 2:30pm
at Joe Goode Annex (401 Alabama St, SF).
Free. Cash or electronic donations accepted at performance but not required.
Exploring personal histories, matriarchal myths, and Vietnamese mother goddess religion, No Country For Mother is an autobiographical reckoning and reconciling toward an embodied masculinity untethered by dominant narratives of manhood. Through dance, storytelling, and ritual, this intimate full-length solo honors matriarchal connections across time and space and asks how contemporary masculinity can uncover the divine mother within itself.
Presented as part of the 2023 United States of Asian America Festival, with support from San Francisco Arts Commission, California Arts Council, API Cultural Center, Asian Improv aRts. Featured Image: Dancer: Johnny Huy Nguyễn, Credit: Hilary Goidell
|
Bukas (Tagalog for "Tomorrow")
by Filipino-American guitarist/composer Karl Evangelista. A brand-new work that exploring the intersection between intergenerational resistance and revolutionary music. Performed by Evangelista's Apura ensemble with special guest Andrew Cyrille, Bukas combines prerecorded interviews, documenting the firsthand accounts of veteran artists with histories in musical innovation, with cutting-edge sounds drawn from the realms of free jazz, electronic music, and noise. Audiences of all stripes are invited, including communities invested in activist and BIPOC causes, to enjoy this program of visceral and thought-provoking new music. Featuring Karl Evangelista, Andrew Cyrille, Lewis Jordan, Francis Wong, Lisa Mezzacappa, Rei Scampavia
Supported by California Arts Council and Creative Work Fund. Produced in collaboration with @thelabsf and @oaktownjazz
FREE
|
SHARING THE WORK OF 2023 ASIAN IMPROV ARTS FELLOWS
|
Long time collaborators Erika Oba (piano) and Chris Bastian (bass) are joined by Jeremy Steinkoler (drums), performing original compositions and arranged works that cover a dynamic range of emotions and styles. Drawing on influences ranging from Theolonius Monk to Okinawan folk music, the band deftly navigates from be-bop to classically influenced, through-composed pieces, captivating audiences with music coming from deep listening and a remarkably intuitive sense of comping and phrasing to support one another. The group’s last performance moved Back Room owner Sam Rudin to describe it as “One of the finest afternoons of music we’ve EVER had here."
Friday, May 19, 6pm & 7:30pm
at Mr. Tipple's Jazz Club (39 Fell St, SF)
|
to support the printing of a fiction/photobook by Shantré Pinkney, Raw, Black & Blue, highlighting a fictional love story told through the lens and journals of a photographer who finds her relationships strained by trauma. The purpose of this project is to expand conversations on social justice, self care and mental health.
Now though Wednesday, May 24
|
|
an exhibition of past and present Asian American arts and activism presented by Kearny Street Workshop.
Through oral histories, posters, murals, literature, research projects, and contemporary art, the exhibition uplifts Asian American history as the creative product of artists, writers, and organizers reclaiming the struggles of preceding generations. The exhibition puts the work of contemporary artists and organizers MC Amable, Juke Jose, Tina Kashiwagi, Vida Kuang, Andrew Szeto, Lorenzo Tamayo-Lee and Weston Teruya in conversation with Kearny Street Workshop’s archive.
On Display Through Aug 6, 2023
at the San Francisco Public Library (Jewett Gallery) - 100 Larkin Street (Lower Level)
Gallery hours: Monday-Saturday 10am-5:30PM, Sundays 12-5:30PM.
Curated by Colin Choy Kimzey
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
