APAture 2024: Return | Performing Arts Showcase

Co-presented by Joe Goode Annex, Kultivate Labs Balay Kreative, and Oakland Asian Cultural Center

November 3, 2024 7:00 - 9:00PM PDT

$15 (pre-sale)/$20 (door)/ $60 all access (comes with free t-shirt, drink tickets, and more!)

Curated by David Cao and Matthew Choi

This performing arts showcase features the works of Teo Lin-Bianco, Tatyana Topasna, Maya Rau-Murthy, Alder & the Kindred, Lily Gee, Taneesh Kaur, D. Kaur, and featured artist Kim Requesto. These works span a wide variety of disciplines—combining spoken word poetry, movement practice, multimedia, and musical performance—and explore the intimacy, vulnerability, and physicality of what Return is and should be.

The theme for this year is RETURN. From the Palestinian right to return, the call for Indigenous Land Back, and the various migrant histories and struggle for justice in our Pacific Islander and Asian communities, artists consider what the idea of return means to them.

APAture 2024 Artist bios

APAture 2024: Return Festival Schedule:

(Multiple Locations in SF) Arc Gallery & Studios 1246 Folsom St. 94103 | Joe Goode Annex 401 Alabama St. 94110 | DNA Lounge 375 Eleventh St. 94103 | Roxie Theater 967 Mission St. 94103

**VISUAL ARTS OPENING RECEPTION, COMICS, ZINES, & ILLUSTRATION SHOWCASE, AND VISUAL ARTS CLOSING RECEPTION ARE FREE. ALL OTHER SHOWCASES ARE TICKETED EVENTS.

$60 FESTIVAL PASSES INCLUDE ENTRANCE TO MUSIC, LITERARY ARTS, PERFORMING ARTS, AND FILM SHOWCASES AND INCLUDE A FREE T-SHIRT, DRINK TICKETS, AND MORE.

October 13

Music Showcase Opening Reception 7:00-10:00pm (PDT)
feat. Ian Santillano
DNA Lounge
375 Eleventh St, San Francisco, CA

October 18

Visual Arts Showcase Opening Reception 6:00-9:00pm (PDT)
feat. Houyee Chow-Jiménez
Arc Gallery & Studios
1246 Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA

October 22

Film Showcase 6:00 - 9:00 PM (PDT)
feat. Jalena Keane Lee
Roxie Theater
3117 16th St, San Francisco, CA

October 25

Literary Arts Showcase 6:00 - 9:00 PM (PDT)
feat. Maw Shein Win
Arc Gallery & Studios
1246 Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA

October 27

Comics, Zines, & Illustration Showcase 2:00 - 5:00 PM (PDT)
feat. Minnie Phan
Arc Gallery & Studios
1246 Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA

November 3

Performing Arts Showcase 7:00-9:00pm (PDT)
feat. Kim Requesto
Joe Goode Annex
401 Alabama St, San Francisco, CA