400 BOYS is Jonathan Wong (guitar, effects) and Peter Wong (computer, effects, samples, mixer). Both accustomed to non-real-time studio recording styles, Peter and Jonathan wanted to start a performance collaboration within the experimental/ambient genres.

DILRUBA AHMED's poems have appeared in Calyx: A Journal of Art & Literature by Women, The Asian Pacific American Journal, The Pittsburgh Quarterly, 5AM, and The California State Poetry Quarterly. Her work is also forthcoming in Writing the Lines of Our Hands, an anthology of South Asian American poetry. She studied English writing and education at the University of Pittsburgh, PA, and currently lives in Mountain View.

ASIAN CRISIS is a musical ensemble that emerged in 1998 from workshops/jam sessions organized by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center (OACC). The goal was to create a group that promoted a pan-Asian/Asian Pacific American consciousness through instrumentation and repertoire. Asian Crisis ' sound is inspired by musical traditions of Asia, including China, India, Korea, the Philippines, as well as American musical forms such as jazz and R&B, resulting in a fresh take on Asian American music. The band is well known in the Bay Area and has been invited to play at many prestigious festivals and events.

MICHELLE BAUTISTA is a Bay Area poet. She has performed in numerous venues. Her work has been published in Babaylan (Aunt Lute, 2000), Coming Home to a Landscape (Calyx, 2003), and online journals TMP Irregular and M.A.G. She often integrates her kali into performances with other writers and has done directing work with Halo-Halo: Pinay Kolektibo and Small Press Traffic's Poetry Jamboree.

PRIYA BEE has been wandering around the Bay Area for the last 7 years.

Miss JING LEE BENTLEY has been plotting ways of world domination since she could hold a crayon and figured out rice could make pieces of paper stick together at a tender age. Mister MARK H. MIYAKE learned to do all that and much more at a later age, attending a fancy art school called the Art Institute of Chicago something or other.

THE BERKELEY ASIAN RICE-EATING THEATER GROUP is an APA theater troupe at some college in Berkeley. Since 1998, The Berkeley Asian Rice-Eating Theater Group has been creating and presenting stage performances on said campus, exploring APA issues and providing opportunities for aspiring APA artists. Its interests are diverse: comedic and dramatic short plays, video animation, and especially sketch comedy and improvisation.

LAURIE BUENAFE is a performance artist mixing traditional and contemporary world art forms with the deforming nature of dreams. Her diverse background includes Uzbek/Central Asian dance, Egyptian dance and jazz music; she performed extensively with Gulistan Dance Theater and Ya Amar! Dance Company. At Orange Coast College she won the Karen Shanley World Dance Scholarship Award. Laurie's experimental theater works have been shown at L.A. and Bay area venues, including Highways, Brea Civic Theater, and The Jazz House.

Prior to moving to San Francisco about ten months ago, NANCY CHAN spent a year at the school of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA. The she explore many 3-D arts and craft, including jewelry, sculpture, book, and papermaking.

RAE CHANG is a visual artist and graphic designer based in the Bay Area. She has worked in a variety of media, including drawing, painting, sculpture, performance, and video. Her previous video projects include a documentary on strippers and a promotional piece for the arts organization The LAB. Rae's artwork, writing, and favorite Girls Who Kick Ass movies can be found at her website, www.rae-chang.com.

SAMANTHA CHANSE is a writer/performer who moved to the SF Bay Area in 2001 and has been bitching about the weather ever since. A native New Yorker with a knack for public humiliation, Sam has most recently written for and performed in the Bindlestiff Pinay Collective's Frilly Crucifictions, Bindlestiff's 8 Stories High, the BPC's Summer's Eve, and various sketch comedy shows; recently she got lucky and did standup at Locus 1640 Post and the Sony Metreon Action Theater. Film credits include Matt Abaya's Bampinay and Gayle Romasanta's Pinaytration and the recent Lockjaw. Once upon a time she did a production with the Asian American Theater Company. Still pining for NYC, she spends most of her time with APA arts nonprofits Kearny Street Workshop and Locus 1640 Post. A member of the world-renowned TM,IATP!, she entertains fantasies of making music on the side.

CHARMIN sprung out of the South of Market Asian American arts scene as one of the noisiest and most conscious Pilipino bilingual punk bands in the Bay. Charmin is active in the local and Philippine music scene.

With the measured, lonesome feel of slow core indie-rock and a fingerpicking guitar style that is almost classical, ODESSA CHEN's music references a variety of influences while remaining cohesive. Her substantial voice whispers and soars matching the intimacy of Chan Marshall's Cat Power with the ethereal intensity of Jeff Buckley. She has recently shared stages with Mark Eitzel, the Microphones, Mirah, and Winfred E. Eye. Her first full-length album, One Room Palace, is available at www.odessachen.com.

CHING-IN CHEN hosts and organizes Mango Mic, a monthly open mic for the APA community. An East Coast migrant, Ching-In expresses her passion through poetry and community work. She recently finished Voices of Our Nations ' Performance Poetry Workshop, a writing workshop for writers of color.

Raised in San Diego by Taiwanese parents, WENDY H. CHENG discovered photography while an English major at Harvard. From 1998-1999 she traveled to Taiwan and Japan on a Gardner Fellowship, completing a photography project focused on ideas of urban landscape. In 2002, She received the Dorethea Lange Fellowship in documentary photography and had her first solo show at the Taiwanese American Community Center in San Diego. Currently, she's a photographer, writer, and geographer doubling as a graduate student in the UC Berkeley Department of Geography.

Graduating magna cum laude from Harvard, OLIVER CHIN was the editorial cartoonist for its daily newspaper The Harvard Crimson. He has illustrated for Simon & Schuster, AsianWeek, Consumer Action, Street Sheet, the New Mission News, and the San Francisco Call. As a comics professional, he helped bring anime and manga into the American mainstream by selling 16 printings of Pokemon #1 (a U.S. industry record), and currently is a columnist for Comics Buyers Guide and Comics & Games Retailer magazines. This is the first graphic novel he has illustrated and written. His second book, The Tao of Yao: Insights from Basketball's Brightest Big Man will be published in September 2003.

GERRY CHOW works for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. He studied art at UC Davis and has exhibited artworks in the Bay Area and Sacramento.

TINA COSENTINO is a veteran of the stage, performing in numerous plays prior to this year's APAture. She is a community organizer and when she's not saving the environment, Tina is writing and performing poetry.

BINH T. DANH was born in Vietnam on October 9, 1977 and immigrated to the U.S. in the early 80's. He received his BFA from San Jose State University and currently is an MFA candidate at Stanford University. His work often addresses and reflects on his Vietnamese heritage and interest in natural science and history. He utilizes photographic processes, historical and contemporary, in his image making.

TALLULAH DANIELLE C. DAVID picked up a guitar 3 years ago and has been writing songs ever since. She has sung at UC Berkeley events such as the Pilipino Association benefit concert, What's Going On? Annual Maganda Magazine publication launchings, and open mics hosted by Theatre Rice! and the Asian Pacific American Student Development organization.  Aside from singing, Tallulah serves as the Youth Mentorship Co-coordinator under the Berkeley Pilipino Academic Student Services, extending mentorship programs to Pilipino Youth around the Bay Area.

GIG S. DE PIO was educated informally on art by his father (a fine art professor at the University of the Philippines) and was a finalist at the Newbury Port Art Association Regional Art Show in 2003.

TIFFANY ENG is an Oakland native and a UCLA graduate with degrees in Art and Asian American Studies.

PATRICK EPINO is a graduate student in SFSU's Cinema Department. Before that he learned about moving images in his spare time between work and classes. He has made several shorts and one 104-minute movie that have yet to be seen.

MICHELLE FERRER is a writer/performer who has performed her poetry around the Bay Area. She was featured at the CELLspace event The Importance of Being, SFSU's Expressions and Macia in San Jose. Her recent performances include Diwang Pinay (at the Women's Building, SF) where she shared her piece “Lola.” At Bindlestiff Studios ' Bomb Shelter, Michelle, Irene Duller, and Jenn Soriano performed Her Sanctuary.

GLORIA GALLEGA GALANG, a Manila/San Francisco native, received her BA in Art Studio and Asian American Studies from UCSB ­ with an emphasis on computer graphics, photography, printmaking, sculpture, typography, narrative, and video. She began freelancing as a graphic artist in 1993, spent 5 years as senior art director at a San Francisco advertising agency, and in 2001, launched Gg.galang DESIGN. As principal creative, her client list has run the gamut from AS Batle Company, Pearl Ubungen Dancers & Musicians, Ozomatli, and 4th Market Records to Reuters Foundation, Long Beach Dept. of Health and Human Services, MRM McCann-Erickson, and Wells Fargo. As an artist/designer, Gloria continues to find inspiration through history and the world, the love of her family & friends, and roots/reggae/dancehall/hip-hop movement.

ANDINH HA and BRUCE CHEUNG are skateboarding lomographers who stole (nay, borrowed) two digital camera and shot their way through Berkeley, colliding with pedestrians, running away from men with whistles, and self-combusting on warm bowls of pho. This is their first film.

MIKI HIGUCHI is a tortured but contented artist living a lost life in Mountain View, CA, the city on the Peninsula that hovers between culture and non-culture; the void, if you will. Driven mad by paint fumes, she currently combines artistic endeavor with the pursuit of happiness in the inconsequentials of life.

HIMALAYAN PROJECT is a hip-hop duo that consists of MC's Chee Malabar and Rainman. They formed in 1994 as students of San Francisco's Lowell High School. They have since recorded 2 albums and have performed internationally. Their new album Wince at the Sun is due out in October of 2005.

ANTHONY HON is an artist at a Bay Area video game studio. In his free time, he practices oil painting and draws his self-published comic book, Jack and Lucky.

JOYCE HSU and CHEN JU PAN are two graduates from San Francisco Art Institute. Joyce is from Hong Kong and Chen Ju is from Taiwan. The share their live/work space and are both creating installations. The have been very interested in working collaboratively for a while and think that APAture 2003 is a very good opportunity to create a new installation together. It very exciting for both of them that they can work together in an exhibition featuring Asian American young artists, since they would love to get to know the community better, and share their concerns with others in the Asian American community.

Born in San Jose, CA, in 1979, PHILIP T. HUA graduated from the Academy of Art College with a BFA in illustration in May of 2003. Though illustration was his major, fine art was his passion, and he decided to pursue it after graduation.

DINO IGNACIO is an aspiring animator. He collaborated with Rex Navarrete in the Maritess v. the Superfriends animation last year. The Skyflakes music video is his latest attempt at trying to get it done right.

THE INVISIBLE CITIES is a San Francisco-based band that makes incandescent rough-around-the-edges sometimes-quiet sometimes-loud rock ‘n roll pop music with wiry guitar and boy/girl harmonies. They 're currently recording their debut LP that hopefully will be completed by the time you read this.

Jian Tian An's experience as an artist has been so far non-professional. His main discipline is two-dimensional painting and drawing, but he also specializes in 3-D interior box design.

HELLEN JO writes and draws comics, in order to fund her actual dream of becoming the frontman of an 80's glam rock-revivalist hair band. Donations welcome.

Athena Kashyap grew up in Bombay, India, and lived there until she was 18 years old. She received her BA at Mount Holyoke College and her MA in English and Creative Writing at the University of Davis, California. She is currently working as an editor. She has been a homemaker, bookseller, and instructor in the past.

LISA KO is a writer and editor living in San Francisco. She wrote her first book, Magenta Goes to College, at the age of six, naming the title character after her favorite Crayola crayon. Someday, she hopes to finally finish her second.

SUZANNE LA is currently working on her degree in Anthropology. Her documentary, Behind the Checkpoint, not only incorporates her interest in cultural awareness, it also touches upon more personal issues such as understanding the meanings of citizenship. This is her first project utilizing video.

SYLVIA Q. LA has been painting in oils and watercolor continuously since 1999 within and outside of community classes. She had some early experience and training in drawing and painting from 1994-1996 through the Academy of Art College's high school summer program. Though she has been making art her whole life, she's only recently been calling herself an artist.

JULIA LAU is a singer/songwriter in the Bay Area. She performs with bandmates Nate McNamara, Jen Teisinger, Noel DeGuzman, and Kurt Kramer. Her emotive acoustic folk/rock songs speak to the craziness and beauty of life, love, and struggles for justice. She is currently recording her album and gigging locally.

KAREN J. LEE is a recent graduate of UC Berkeley with fine a fine art degree and is currently working as an illustrator. Her passion for art was always there but grew strong when one of her works was recognized in an AP poster. She mainly works with acrylic or oil paint and enjoys being in the art world.

JANINE R. LIM is a San Francisco native. She is a self-taught photographer and has been shooting and printing for three years. Her work mainly focuses on the condition of Filipinos here and abroad.

CANDICE C. LIN grew up in Portland, OR, went to school on the East Coast at Brown University where she studied visual art, and is now living in San Francisco getting her MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute. During her lifetime she has spent some years living among the Jesuits, rescuing or stealing cats, and pursuing the glamour of the working class.

KENNETH W. LO says good paintings make for good companions. Making a good painting might make him a happier, healthier person.

STEVEN D. LOW recently returned from a whirlwind tour of Walnut Creek, Gilroy, and Brisbane. Steven is the reincarnation of a minor jazz musician who died of botulism. He is also an aspiring writer/performer and has performed at SF State and at the 2003 APAture.

A resident of the beautiful city of San Francisco, KRISTINE MACALALAD studied the short story form as an undergraduate at the University of California, San Diego.

MARISMA is an indie-rock quartet that features members of Bay Area bands Cast of Thousands and Curvature. Marisma is: Audie Roldan, guitar; Burt Hashiguchi, vocals, guitar, bass; Eric Shin, bass, guitar, vocals; Rick Ulate, drums. For more information, please visit www.marismatheband.com.

ANISHA NARASIMHAN has a hard time describing herself, especially in third person. Anisha is a MFA student at SFAI and when she graduates it will add to her stack of degrees (including a degree in mixology and a BA in English Lit) that are no help in procuring her a job. But that's okay because Anisha really enjoys making art, looking at art, talking about art, and eating art. So she is confident that people will just start throwing money at her one of these days ­ Ow! The paper kind would be nicer, thanks.

A painter and illustrator all her life, a writer of 12 years, a photographer for 10, NATALIE MAI-LY NEWMAN finally found filmmaking the perfect medium to combine all of her passions. After internships at KRON-4 News and KQED, her films have shown at festivals in Toronto, Austria, Denver, and San Francisco. She is currently pursuing an MFA in cinema at SF State and running a non-profit project teaching filmmaking to middle school kids.

DEBBIE NG is a stuck-in-the-80's Chinese girl, writer, romantic, and cynic. Troo Bloo, her first video, screened at the National Queer Arts Women of Color film night on June 17th, 2003, at the San Francisco LGBT Center.

DARREN NG focuses his filmmaking on action and comedy. He wrote, directed, and choreographed the 2000 short film The Ultimate Fighter which consisted of an elaborate fight sequence and won the Audience's Choice and Judge's Choice Awards from various film festivals in the Bay Area. Darren lives in the East Bay and continues to write and develop films.

DANNY THANH NGUYEN is a queer Vietnamese American humor writer from the Bay Area. He is currently working on a collection of essays that explore mistakes and dark lessons through biting irony and sardonic comedy.  As a publication editor he lends his writing skills to disenfranchised youth communities ­ teaching writing workshops for the non-profits HIFY and LYRIC. Danny displays an optimism observed by sensitive patients who have taken triple prescription medication.

NGUYEN HOANG THUY has worked as an artist in San Francisco for the past eight years, from showing work at public spaces, to collaborating with other visual and performance artists, and also donating works to nonprofit arts fundraisers. Thuy has also curated some exhibits at the LunaSea Women's Gallery.

LEILANI NISPEROS is a queer mixed race woman of color using photography as the tool to dissect the boundaries of race, class and gender. She is currently scraping an existence as a teacher.

CIELO ORESTE is dedicated to the processes of art-making and storytelling. Her obsession is with capturing the subtleties within an object and accenting them with absolute clarity, set amongst transparent layers of pattern, collage, words, and ideas. She aims to discover images in poems or the atmosphere of a story, and offer them to the viewer. In the process, her work recalls memories and emotions you had forgotten you experienced, often touching upon the innocence of lullabies, fairy tales, and nursery rhymes, however, layered with new knowledge and recent experience.

MANISHA J. PATEL says for her, painting serves as an awareness building practice similar to meditation. She is interested in how we see. How our sensory information competes with our mental conceptions to form our experience. She believes painting is the most effective media for this investigation because the ambiguous nature of experience is firmly embedded in the painting. It is an absolute thing, but it is always a thing that refers to something outside of itself.

MAI-LEI PECORARI has been a book-binder for 6 years. Since relocating to the Bay Area, her work has been made to sell; therefore the books are available at various festivals art events. She is often approached for custom orders, as well as having them available in a few store locations. In May 2003, Essence Magazine featured her journal work.

XISCO PONCÉ, JR. is a self-taught artist whose influences stem from reading fantastic comic books and watching Japanese television shows at childhood to the architectural design training he received from CCAC, San Francisco. What results is an embrace of the two worlds, surreal vision of human figures making spaces in the landscape with the patience to tell the visual story.

PROLETARIAT BRONZE is a collective movement of API poets that also exists as writers, activist, and artists, dedicated to bringing a voice to the struggles of our people ­ our varying multiethnic communities as well as the world throughout. Proletariat Bronze is built of our parents and our own working class struggles and desires.

JEROME U. REYES takes childhood's crudeness into interdisciplinary action. He entices gestures of the minoritized soul into various mobile theatres, CD's, figures, and grandma's recipes. He's currently a student at CCAC.

SIWARAYA ROCHANHUSDIN: (N) Bindlestiff Studio Denizen. Film credits: Pass It Around, Big Fat Favor, Less Than Bok Bok, Bampinay, & Christine 3:16. Tribal Affiliations: PIA, Coconut Masquerade, and Proletariat Bronze. Training: Thai classical dance & music, viola & voice.

GAYLE ROMASANTA is a producer, writer, director, musician and performer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Since 1997, she has performed with tongue in a mood (a Filipino American experimental performing arts troupe), Teatro ng Tanan (Theater for Everyone), and the San Francisco State University Orchestra. Currently she writes music, sings and plays violin for Bobby Banduria. She has recorded two CD's with the band under Jeepney Dash Records, The Rudiments of Conversation (2001) and Shiny Silver Jeepney (2000). In 2001, she also co-founded the Bindlestiff Pinay Collective, an all-female theater troupe that writes, directs and performs original comedy and theatrical work. In 2002, Gayle wrote and directed Pinaytration, a mockumentary selected for screening at the Chicago Asian American Film Showcase. Gayle has performed at major venues, universities and colleges internationally. Her work has been featured in numerous shows including the Houston Asian American Music Festival, the San Francisco Asian American Jazz Festival, and the Sagandaan Conference at the Cultural Center of the Philippines.

RAMSEL RUIZ has been making films since he was 7. His 4th short film, produced at 10 years of age and entitled Where Has My Mouse Gone? won an Audience Award at Sundance and was considered in the short film category at the Academy Awards. In 1991, at age 15, his first feature, Communism is Bad, caused an emotional uproar in Russia that was widely believed to be the impetus sweeping Boris Yeltsin into power. Ramsel currently lives and works in Italy with his Scandinavian wife Dasha, where he frequently talks shit about America with his neighbor, Gore Vidal.

IKUKO SATO
Handcrafts books, photos, and film
Made of fun love stuff

ALEXANDER S. SHEN has been an avid comic reader 80% of his life. He has been involved with webpage and character design for six years now, hoping to make it into some kind of career. This webcomic thing (Soks) has been on-going since January 2001. He loves this stuff.

AMANDA SOLOMON is a first generation Filipina American. She is a senior at the University of San Francisco majoring in English and Asian American Studies. She has had poetry published in the USF Ignatian Literary magazine as well as the 2000 Young Poets of America Anthology. She hopes to eventually teach Asian American literature.

StereoStar FM was created out of four individuals ' love for music and performance. StereoStar FM's music and live performances are very indicative of their punk and hard rock influences. Their goal is to spread their signature sound to the masses.

SUPERUGLY is 3 UGLY MOTHER-FUCKERS

Awakening is LAWRENCE C. TAN's first comic book.

KANA TANAKA is an El Cerrito-based visual artist.

Born in Torrance, bred in Berkeley, JIMMY THONG TRAN is a UC Berkeley senior studying ethnic studies/creative writing/theatre. He has been involved with Theatre Rice! (UC Berkeley's modern Asian American theatre group) since his freshman year and has performed in various plays including Things Unsaid by Duy Nguyen. Control is his first written and directed play. Hi mom!

TRUST ME, I'M A TRAINED PROFESSIONAL! is a mellifluent coterie of stunning musical genius. Amid the horrifying cacophony of these dubya days, find solace and food for revolutionary thought in TM,IATP!'s nearly politically-vacant lyrics. Spanning the SF-East Bay divide, TM,IATP! specializes in overwhelming its listeners with its quirky brand of awesome tuneful power.

HARRY UM is a member of the legendary (in their own minds) turntable deconstructionist collective Superugly, which clears dance floors across the Bay Area on a regular basis.

Kristina Sheryl Wong is a writer/performer/filmmaker/educator who has performed two solo shows: Miss Chinatown 2nd Runner Up and Free? She is the recipient of the Visual Communications' Armed with a Camera fellowship, Pen USA's Emerging Voices fellowship, and the TeAda New Works Festival performance commission.  She performs and lectures at schools, cultural centers, and performance spaces all over California.  For more information on her work and booking information please visit www.kristinasherylwong.com.

KYLE YAMASAKI is a community organizer for the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition's Health and Environmental Justice Project. He has written short pieces for popular education materials, but strives to further develop his writing. Most of his background lies in education where experience lies in middle school and, now, toxics awareness to organizing workshops.

SHENG NIEN S. YANG has wanted to make images all his life; he just didn 't realize it until he was 19, when he took his first photo class. Making an image is showing an honest piece of yourself. He screams into the crowd and hopes for an echo.

DEBBIE YEE lives and writes and works in and around and near San Francisco. She has given readings through KSW and Asian American Women Artists Association. She primarily writes poetry about cups, tap water, and the heart ­ these mundane things.

A native San Franciscan, AMY YUEN has read her work at numerous venues, including the LAB, Galeria de la Raza, Small Press Traffic, and Berkeley Arts Center. She recently earned an MFA in Writing at the California College of Arts and Crafts, and is completing her first novel.

Prisoner EDDY ZHENG is a Chinese American prisoner who moved to Oakland from China when he was 12. At 16, he was sentenced to 7-years-to-life of which he has now served over 17 years. In prison, he has taught himself English and has earned his GED and a college degree. In addition to having his poems and articles published, Eddy organized the first poetry slam in San Quentin State Prison and published his own zine inside prison.