APAture 2025 applications are now open! (Submissions Close June 8)

APAture is in its 26th year of supporting emerging artists from across the Bay Area! From October 18th to November 8th, we’ll be presenting four showcases and an art fair in venues across the city!

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Interdisciplinary Writers Lab Submissions Are Now Open (until 3/23)

IWL 2025 submissions are now open until March 23, 2025. Apply today to join a cohort of BIPOC writers who will spend this summer working across different literary genres!

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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: AVA Lab 2025 (extended 3/23)

AVA Lab is a 9+ week hybrid seminar, professional practices, and cultural organizing intensive and is intended to develop and mentor APA visual artists looking to deepen their praxis in and with community, rooted in KSW’s organizational praxis of Solidarity, Renewal, Futurity, and Autonomy.

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Announcing our IWL 2025 Instructors

Submissions for IWL 2025 are open until Saturday, March 23rd! We’re excited to announce this year’s instructors including author of the critically acclaimed, Little Gods (HarperCollins 2020), Meng Jin, author of mahogany (2023 Wesleyen Press), and essayist featured in The Atlantic, Guernica, and more, Amanda Machado!

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Remembering Mark Izu

In memory of artist, organizer, and KSW’s former Executive Director, Mark Izu.

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We surpassed our goal!

Thanks to you, Kearny Street Workshop raised $28,000, above and beyond our $25,000 goal for “Together, We’ll Make It.”

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Kearny Street Workshop’s Year in Review

Thank you all for supporting KSW throughout this year. We wanted to take a moment to reflect on the many incredible accomplishments and the programs we hosted with your help

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Together, KSW has raised $17,680 towards our $25,000 goal - help us get there!

To all those who have donated, thank you from the bottom of our hearts. We’ve raised an incredible $17,680 in peer-to-peer fundraisers, pledges from our closest supporters, mailed checks and cash, anonymous donations, and from our incredible monthly donors!

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APAture 2024 Recap

Another year of APAture is in the books!

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Nellie Wong's Keynote Address from AALF 2024

On September 14th the Asian American Literature Festival Collective (AALFC) opened the week-long 2024 Asian American Literary Festival, Cosmic Kinship. Read Nellie Wong's keynote address from the SF Bay Area Book Fair!

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