This Giving Tuesday, Imagination becomes Foundation: Your commitment builds Kearny Street Workshop’s future.

Dear Community,

All year, we’ve been amazed by the outpouring of love and support, which allowed us to come together across distance and time, to celebrate the history and future of Kearny Street Workshop (KSW).

KSW Co-Directors Mihee Kim, Jason Bayani 2022 (Photo credit: Mish Lapitan)

Our theme for this winter campaign is: “ Imagination becomes Foundation: Your commitment builds our future.” That is why this winter, we’re asking you to become a monthly donor at a sustainable and meaningful amount. 

If you are in a position to give, we are asking you to commit meaningfully to KSW, and to everything we build for our communities. We are looking for 50 new monthly donors to sign up for long term support of this community!

MAKE A ONE-TIME DONATION TODAY 

or better yet, 

BECOME A MONTHLY DONOR

Here’s why we need your support: This 50th year has been quite a journey. A fruitful one, filled with connection, reflection, and celebrating a home for Asian American art that cares for the world we live in. Now comes the time after our anniversary gala, where we take the height of our celebration and transform it into something lasting. Our 50th Anniversary theme of KSW50: To Imagine is to Exist had programs pivoting around our Organizing Principles. The KSW50 Gala was under the theme of Renewal and was a celebration like we’ve never had before. 

KSW50 June 11, 2022 (Photo Credit: Claire Burke)

Here’s what’s on the horizon and what your funds will go towards: In 2023, we will Celebrate Your Body (Solidarity) which returns after a 4 year hiatus, Asian American Virtual Histories (Futurity) which will launch Phase 2 in Chinatown with a culminating exhibition at the SF Public Library. 

We will continue to host one-of-kind programs like Interdisciplinary Writers Lab, where in 2018, I myself made long lasting friendships and learned the skills I needed to get into and fight for a fully funded MFA program. Did you know that Jason recruited me into working at Kearny Street Workshop because I signed up for that program, 4 ½ years ago? And how grateful I am, not only for all that opened up because I was in a workshop for other writers of color, but because of how I learned that creating among communities is the most powerful way to change a life.

Will you put your ongoing support behind us?

“Imagine” Art Auction, KSW50 June 11, 2022  (Photo Credit: Claire Burke)

 It’s not only through our art and imagination that we can create the world we want and deserve to live in. It’s also through showing up time and time again, and forming lasting connections that pass on the same opportunities you were able to receive, to the next generation. 

Will you commit a pledge of support to KSW, and become a monthly donor?

On behalf of the KSW staff & board,

Mihee Kim,

Co-Director