Panel: "Blood or Water? APA Pan-Ethnicity in the Arts"

Asian Pacific America is a constructed community -- but one that seems to have achieved, in the last thirty years, a kind of cohesion. The APA arts community seems to draw from this cohesion to form a distinct communal entity >> more

In the gallery

Tiffany Wai-Ying Beres
Rae Chang
Kevin Chen
Alan K. Chi
Gennifer Hirano
D. Maia Huang
Malisa N. Humphrey
Marilyn Yu & Jim Choi
Manami Kano
Julia Kim
Breandain N.W. Langlois
Pang Hui Lim
Ernest Mark
Tomoko Negishi
Hiromi Oda
Jungsam Park
Rhett Pascual
Ikuko Sato
Vu Thu Ha

On the tables

Ha Le Cao, How Now Brown Cow
Jean Chen, flika.com
Yvonne & George Chen, zum
Jem Fanvu, Seven by Jem
Summi Kaipa, Interlope
Mimi Nguyen, Slander
Jeffrey Ow, flowerdrumsong.com
Thien Pham, Words & Pictures
Barbara Reyes, Lists, Love Poems, and Ritual
Jason Shiga, comics
David K. Song, Hardboiled
Phillina Sun, Musings of an Orangepeeler
Robynn Takayama, Nonogirl Radio
Jerry Waki, Peel
Kristina Wong, bigbadchinesemama.com
Dan Wu, Oriental Whatever
Bernice Yeung, Option 8

Thursday 09/28

Film Program

1. Simon Mah
Kung Fu Mon Amour 20 min.
narrative

2. RL Navarrete
Arena 15 min.
documentary

3. Matthew Abaya
f(x) 10 min.
experimental

4. Jean Yi
Demarcation 3 min.
experimental documentary

Angela Leonino
5. Lady Sunbeam 3 mins.
experimental

6. Chishan Lin
Return 5 min.
experimental documentary

7. Sadia Shepherd
Standing On Pioneer Boulevard, Thinking of Home 8 min.
documentary

8. Sung Kim
Reunion - Korea Girl 4 min.
music

9. Michael Wilson
Brown 15 min.
experimental documentary

10. Stuart Gaffney
Names 5 min.
documentary

11. Hoang Nguyen
Forever Bottom 3 min.
experimental

12. Te-shun Tseng
Lucifer Moment 3 min.
experimental

13. Michael Tsukamoto
Dengaku 3 min.
experimental

14. Cynthia Blancaflor
City Life 4 min.
experimental

15. Kevin Sun
Shrivelley Lives 9 min.
narrative

Readings & Performances

MC: Iraya Robles

7:00-7:25 Literary Readings: Diana Ip (fiction); William Law (fiction)

7:25-7:45 Performance: Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa

7:45-8:15 Literary Readings: Meeta Malhi (prose poetry); Shawna Ryan (fiction)

8:15-8:30 Experimental Film: Amelia Niumeitalu, Manulua (15 min.)

8:30-8:40 INTERMISSION

8:40-9:10 Literary Readings: Jenny Calixto (poetry); Claire Light (fiction); Russell Gonzaga (poetry?)

9:10-9:20 Dance performance: Priscilla Park

9:20-9:45 Literary readings: Brian Komei Dempster (poetry); Jay R. Dayrit (fiction)

9:45-9:55 INTERMISSION

9:55-10:05 Dance performance: GAPA

10:05-10:15 Musical Performance:Calvin Lai, dijeridoo

10:15-10:25 Dance performance: GAPA

10:30-11:00 Ating Tao

Workshops

2:45-3:45 "Speak from the Heart: Effective Public Speaking", Chris Wong

4:00-5:30 "Byte Me! Fetishes, Rants & New APA Voices Online", Annie Koh

5:30-7:00 "The Next Movement", Anita de Asis

Concurrent Programs in the Gallery

2:45-4:45 Wei Ming Dariotis - Live tattooing

4:35-5:05 Marilyn Yu - fashion show

Readings & Performances

MC: Andrew Amarao

3:00-3:35 PM David Ewell Trio

3:35-3:45 Wendy Mui & Jade-blue Eclipse: "The Beginning," aerial double trapeze

3:45-3:50 Dipali Shah: spoken word w/ music

3:50-4:05 International Institute of the East Bay/Richmond Youth Project: CAUGHT UP, incarcerated youth play performance

4:05-4:20 Neela Moorty, dance

4:20-4:30 Delia Nakayama, acapella

4:30-4:35 Anita de Asis, spoken word

4:35-5:05 Marilyn Yu, Fashion Show (in gallery)

5:05-5:15 TNT

5:15-5:25 Tony Robles spoken word

5:25-5:35 Taz Shiroda, spoken word

5:35-6:05 Jeff Chan, musical performance

6:05-7:00 BREAK

MC: Suz Takeda

7:00 - 7:10 PM Introduction

7:10-7:35 Peter Tamaribuchi play reading MALL ANIMALS

7:35-7:50 Mark Hellar butoh

7:50-8:25 8th Wonder spoken word

8:25-8:40 69 Degrees, hip-hop dance performance

8:40-8:50 18 Mighty Mountain Warriors, sketch comedy

8:50-9:10 Korean Youth Cultural Center, drums

MC: Michael Premsirat

10:00-10:20 PM Stanley Lam, Largesse, band

10:20-10:35 Mike Gadd (in gallery during set up)

10:35-10:55 Diskarte Namin, band

10:55-11:10 Michael Gadd, DJ (in gallery)

11:10-11:35 Skyflakes, band

11:35-11:50 Michael Cheng (in gallery during set up)

11:50-12:15 The Chang Apothecary, band

12:15-12:30 Michael Cheng, DJ (in gallery)

12:30-1:00 Chun Han Avengers, band

1:00-2:00 Maneesh the Twister, DJ (in gallery)