KSW Presents Preeti Vangani and Jenny Qi in celebration of Preeti's latest book, Mother Tongue Apologize.
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kalayaan (till every grass blade is afire from every other) closes this Saturday, August 7. We hope you can join us for a small closing reception at 1246 Folsom St, SF from 12-3pm. We'll have books, zines, and art for sale (including some of the works on display!); the archives open for research; and Charlene Tan inviting visitors to collaborate on her participatory weaving installation.
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We are proud to host the book launch for Monkey Around! The debut novel from Claire Light (writing as Jadie Jang) is an action-packed urban fantasy delivering a bold new take on the Monkey King in San Francisco - complete with murder and mayhem!!
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Research & Remembering: Weaving with Charlene Tan. Community members are invited to bring plastic bags to incorporate into a large weaving structure in this Pilipinx textiles workshop with Charlene Tan.
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Balay Kreative is teaming up with KSW to celebrate the intersections of Asian American culture in the Bay Area.
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The community is invited to contribute Pilipinx & Asian American zines to the Kearny Street Workshop archive, conduct research, & create content from images in the archive. Featuring live weaving by Charlene Tan.
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Pilipinx Virtual Histories: kalayaan (till every grass blade is afire from every other) responds to a recurring theme in interviews Kearny Street Workshop recorded with San Francisco Pilipinx artists of different generations: the cultural freedom that is possible in spaces beyond the bounds of mainstream society.
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Join us for the launch of the Pilipinx Virtual Histories AR film vignette series with lead artists Kristian Kabuay, ClarizeYale Revadavia, and Jason Bayani, a curator’s walkthrough of kalayaan (till every grass blade is afire from every other), and a panel discussion with SF-based Artist Activists Rupert Estanislao and Joël Tan.
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APICC is proud to feature and co-present the Liwanag 3 Book Launch as part of the outdoor showcase at Kapwa Gardens in the SoMa on June 5, 2021 for the 24th annual United States of Asian America Festival: Forging Our Futures - SoMa & Chinatown.
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KSW is partnering with the San Francisco Public Library for the launch of Muriel Leung's Imagine Us, The Swarm (Nightboat Books).
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Our first APAture General Planning Committee meeting is this Saturday, May 1st from 12-2pm!
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Thursday, April 29 at 5:30PM, San Joaquin Delta College will be hosting our We Won’t Move: A Living Archive podcast hosts: Kazumi Chin, Michelle Lin, and Dara Del Rosario.
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On Friday, March 19th, KSW Presents “Spirit Houses” a reading featuring Maw Shein Win, author of Storage Unit for the Spirit House (Omnidawn, 2020) and Khaty Xiong, author of Poor Anima (Apogee Press, 2015).
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On Thursday, December 10, join Kearny Street Workshop in a virtual celebration of Asian Pacific American art, and to help us continue to create spaces where artists render hope, mutual care, and visions for a better world we believe can and will exist.
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Kearny Street Workshop, in collaboration with Asian Art Museum, presented Interdisciplinary Writers Lab (IWL), a 3-month, multi-genre master class for local writers of color scheduled during summer 2020. IWL is a unique program that challenges emerging writers to thoroughly explore and develop their writing skills and styles across multiple genres.
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