Thursday, September 18
Doors open 7:30 PM; Program 8 – 10 PM
$10

MATTHEW ABAYA was the film and video curator for the very first KSW Next APAture in 1999. He did this while attending San Francisco State University in the Asian Americans Studies Department and completing the first (h)APA vampyre short film "Embrace Madness." EM premiered at APAture 1999 and later screened across the US, Canada and in the Philippines. It earned itself an aMedia Ammy Award nomination for best short film. He continues to make strange(h)APA horror flicks and curates film programs for the (h)APA community. Matthew is currently working on his first feature length film and will be presenting his latest horror short film "Bampinay" (2003) about the mythological Philippine aswang.

KEVIN CAMIA is a stand up comic who has performed throughout the country and is quickly becoming a local favorite in the San Francisco Bay Area. Kevin's comedy is a unique blend of dry wit, storytelling and social satire. He does draw from his own experiences as a Filipino American but will write wherever his mind takes him. He has performed for theater, and film, most recently in the independent film "Goodbye Guy Guy". He also has performed as the musical legend Bobby Banduria.

JEAN CHEN has been creating zines for 10 years. She feels lucky because it's actually been her job for the past four years to be a zine editor for youth websites. Can you believe that? Jean just can't stop working for non-profits. And she can't stop shaking her booty every time she hears a Sean Paul song.

CLAIRE LIGHT is no longer a non-profit whore. Oh, wait, she kinda is—as lit editor of hyphen magazine. But she doesn't get paid for it, so it's okay. She's more of a grad student type at state, where they promised to teach her to write. Ha!

WEI MING DARIOTIS is Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies, with an emphasis on Asians of Mixed Heritage and Asian Pacific American Literature, Arts, and Culture at San Francisco State University. She is the Faculty Advisor of the Hapa Club at SFSU and she co-founded and facilitates the San Francisco Chapter of Hapa Issues Forum, a national organization dedicated to Asians of Mixed Heritage. Wei Ming Dariotis is a member of the Advisory Board of Kearny Street Workshop and Board President of the Asian American Theater Company. Her publications include, "Developing a Kin-Aesthetic: Multiraciality and Kinship in Asian and Native North American Literature," in Mixed Race Literature, ed. by Jonathan Brennan (Stanford University Press), and "On Growing Up Queer and Hapa" in The Multiracial Child’s Resource Book.

RUSSEL (GONZAGA) Cultural worker, arts educator, activist, writer and spoken word artist, Russell has represented San Francisco three-times at the National Poetry Slam Championships. He has taught with YouthSpeaks, California Poets in the Schools, Oakland Fine Arts, Cazedero Performing Arts Summer Camp and WritersCorp. He has done work with Kearny Street Workshop, Theatro ng Tanan, Filipino American Arts Exposition, DIWArts, Southern Exposure Gallery, YO! Magazine (the Beat Within), Anything That Moves, Greenpeace, SF Conservation Core, KMEL Street Knowledge, the SF Buddhist Center, the International Sufi Symposium, and he has served as muzzine ("Islamic cantor") for the Muslim Community Center. His work has appeared in various anthologies and publications including Colorlines, Extatica (erotica), True Crime, SpokenWar, Mouth, InFlipTration, Die NeuZeitung (Germany) and the Bay Guardian. Russell has also received San Francisco's Certificate of Honor and the Mayor's Proclamation of "Russell Gonzaga Day" in San Francisco (awarded by Janice Mirikitani at the SF Arts Commission)

He is currently writing short stories, articles, essays and a novel. He enjoys practicing Kali-Silat and playing Magic: The Gathering with his geek-friends.

ERNEST MARK is a non-profit worker by day... and well, by night. An avid supporter of San Francisco's community arts, he has been serving on the board of KSW for five years. He dabbles in various arts including music, visual, writing and juggling. He presented and helped to curate APAture 1999 and 2000.

DENNIS M. SOMERA writes his way out of his head into the rest of his body, hoping his ideas, concepts, words, text, writing find collaborators in the audience, of course, and artist's of every discipline to further extend him into the world. he is currently fleshing out as many ideas as possible as an mfa candidate in poetry at mills college in oakland.

ROBYNN *NONOGIRL* TAKAYAMA is an audio producer trained through the KPFA First Voice Apprenticeship Program. Her pieces covering local cultural and political issues and events have aired on KPFA, KUSF, and KZSC. She has also transformed her sound work into video shorts that screened in Chicago, Los Angeles, Berkeley, and San Francisco and into a sound installation in APAture's 2002 gallery.

TERI UNTALAN is a singer, songwriter, and violist, whose most recent credits include two viola tracks on guitarist Buckethead's album "Colma" (Cyberoctave Records), and singing/writing on Westside Chemical's electronica album, "Black & Blue" (Stray Records). Active in the Bay Area for the last several years, she's performed everything from folk & pop-rock to experimental; from jazz & classical to electronica. Having recently produced The Lush Life Players CD, "Siren Song", she's now working on a new recording of her original songs. She can also be seen occasionally backing up local songsmith, David Hopkins, and playing in the high-octane improv group, MoeKestra! Visit www.teriuntalan.com for more information.