Around the Community: Discovering Asian American Radicals Through Poetry

Understudy is a generative poetry workshop and archival project centering the narratives of five radical Asian American artists and thinkers with roots in the Bay Area: Merle Woo, Oscar Peñaranda, Haridas Chaudhuri, Janice Mirikitani, and Jessica Hagedorn. This event is an invitation for community members to engage with the archives and write in conversation with our shared histories of belonging, mutual aid, and identity-making through the arts. The mission of this workshop is to foster an anti-imperialist Asian American gathering space and to inspire active forms of community solidarity through writing. This workshop is on Sat. May 25, 2:30-5:30 PM at Medicine for Nightmares in San Francisco. Register for this free event and see more details at tinyurl.com/5n6hxzva Understudy is part of the United States of Asian America Festival (USAAF) 2024 and is curated by five Asian American artists: Kristin-Faith Avenis, Angel Bista, Celadon Loo, Ryan Nakano, and Percy Schumacher.