KSW’s bi-monthly reading series. Featured readers TBA. Community readers submissions will open at the beginning of January.
Saturday, January 18th and Sunday, Jan 26th, 2-5pm
The Arc of San Francisco (not to be confused with Arc Gallery & Studios where KSW is located)
1500 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
Ever picture yourself strutting down the catwalk? Well here's your chance! Kearny Street Workshop is teaming up with SOMArts for Celebrate Your Body 2020, featuring fresh looks by local, emerging designers and stylists.
You'll have two opportunities to audition so come on out and maybe we'll see you on the runway.
Celebrate Your Body is inclusive of all bodies. If you got style for days and the attitude to match then we hope you can join us. And for those of you out there who aren't sure, how do you know if you don't try!
* Celebrate Your Body will be held on April 25th, 2020 at SOMArts
** there will be a free modeling workshop at the beginning of each audition
*** as much as we'd like to take everyone who auditions, there are only a limited number of models we can feature in the show, though we will try our best to include as many people as we can.
Attire: Please arrive in comfortable, non-baggy clothing. Heels are encouraged, but not required.
*If you'd like to participate in the workshop, but don't want to audition, no worries! There are no strings attached.
Access: This venue is ADA accessible but the event is unfortunately not scent free. We ask individuals to please come with low scent if possible.
Attire: Please arrive in comfortable, non-baggy clothing. Heels are encouraged, but not required.
Saturday, January 18th and Sunday, Jan 26th, 2-5pm
The Arc of San Francisco (not to be confused with Arc Gallery & Studios where KSW is located)
1500 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
Ever picture yourself strutting down the catwalk? Well here's your chance! Kearny Street Workshop is teaming up with SOMArts for Celebrate Your Body 2020, featuring fresh looks by local, emerging designers and stylists.
You'll have two opportunities to audition so come on out and maybe we'll see you on the runway.
Celebrate Your Body is inclusive of all bodies. If you got style for days and the attitude to match then we hope you can join us. And for those of you out there who aren't sure, how do you know if you don't try!
* Celebrate Your Body will be held on April 25th, 2020 at SOMArts
** there will be a free modeling workshop at the beginning of each audition
*** as much as we'd like to take everyone who auditions, there are only a limited number of models we can feature in the show, though we will try our best to include as many people as we can.
Attire: Please arrive in comfortable, non-baggy clothing. Heels are encouraged, but not required.
*If you'd like to participate in the workshop, but don't want to audition, no worries! There are no strings attached.
Access: This venue is ADA accessible but the event is unfortunately not scent free. We ask individuals to please come with low scent if possible.
Attire: Please arrive in comfortable, non-baggy clothing. Heels are encouraged, but not required.
Get your holiday gifts, early, and support KSW affiliated artists, artisans, and makers! It's the most wonderful time of the year and we want to spend it with you!
PRINTS, COMICS, ZINES, CERAMICS, T-SHIRTS, FUNDRAISER + VOLUNTEER APPRECIATION, CRAFT TABLE (all ages, kid friendly), LIGHT REFRESHMENTS
Vendors: Knees and Keys, Gay Bay Baes, Chatikul, In Hiatus Studios, Sourmouth Sweetheart, Kristel Bugayong, Melinda Luisa de Jesus, Micropixie, and more TBA!
On Friday, November 22nd, KSW Presents “A History of Our Naming” featuring poets Michelle Peñaloza, author of Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire, and Đỗ Nguyên Mai, author of Battlefield Blooming. This reading is a celebration of their new collections of poetry. Their poems ask us to look at—and not away—from the histories, hauntings, and presences of colonialism, conquest, and imperialism. These poets find power in the work of gathering fragments and fractures, and in what emerges from this naming for their families, for their communities, and for themselves.
The title of this event is inspired by a line from Michelle Peñaloza’s titular poem “Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire."
WHEN: Friday, November 22, 2019, from 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM.
WHERE: Arc Gallery & Studios, 1246 Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA 94103.
HOW MUCH: $8 Pre-sale, $20 Support Level (reserved seats) available.
The Kaylamay Project
Written and Performed by Kaylamay Paz Suarez
with Jason Bayani
Directed by Claire Rice and Jess Thomas
“Come laugh at my trauma”
Kaylamay Paz Suarez- a First generation, Philippine-American performer, begins to trace the source of her fears, insecurities, and strengths with a cast of her friends, family, and selective memory through a wild ride of the intersections of her mind and media. This is just the beginning of a lifelong project.
Every year, Awesome Theatre invites one local artist to spend the year developing a new show from the ground up totally conceived and created by them. This culminates in a workshop production facilitated by Awesome Theatre. We hope this special presentation is just the first step in the development of Kaylamay’s “One-Human show”.
Blending theatre, multimedia and heart, The Kaylamay Project promises to be an exciting new piece by an emerging Bay Area Artist
November 15 & 16, 8PM
$15 Online advance, $20 at the door
Arc Gallery, 1246 Folsom, SF
With R. Zamora Linmark and Danny Thanh Nguyen (more info soon)
Quiet Lightning, California State Parks, and Kearny Street Workshop present the 5th annual Poetry in Parks, to be held on Angel Island!
:: Submit writing of any kind by 8/21 :: https://quietlightning.submittable.com/submit/141450/poetry-in-parks-2019-quiet-lightning-angel-island
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Rough lineup below — more info TBA soon
- Youth readings
- A literary mixtape curated by Katie Tandy and July Westhale
- Neighborhood Heroes, with readings by Kirin Khan, Genny Lim, Kenji C. Liu, Janice Lobo Sapigao, Truong Tran, Flo Oy Wong, and others TBA, curated by Kearny Street Workshop
- Music by Cindy Z
- Dance curated by Kearny Street Workshop
- Live painting by Joshua Coffy, Nathalie Fabri, Dilcia Giron, and Allison Snopek, curated by ArtSpan
- sPARKLE & bLINK 101 for the first 100 people, w/art by Connie Zheng
:: For links and more information ::
http://quietlightning.org/poetry-in-parks-2019/
September 7th 6-8pm
Arkipelago Books
1010 Mission St. SF, CA
No cover RSVP
Filipino American writers, Randy Ribay, author of the critically acclaimed YA novel, "Patron Saints of Nothing" (Penguin Random House), and internationally touring poet and performer, Jason Bayani, author of "Locus" (Omnidawn Publishing) celebrate their recent book releases with a reading and discussion.
August 31 | 2-4pm
Asian Art Museum
200 Larkin St. SF, CA
no cover RSVP
Celebrate the Interdisciplinary Writers Lab (IWL) with a reading by participants and instructors at the conclusion of the three-month workshop that encourages the development of new literary forms and voices. Interdisciplinary Writers Lab (IWL) is a multigenre master class for emerging local writers of color presented by Kearny Street Workshop in collaboration with the Asian Art Museum.
Free with museum admission.
On March 22nd, KSW Presents: Even Still, a reading and conversation featuring Grace Shuyi Liew, author of the poetry collection Careen, and Vidhu Aggarwal, author of the poetry collections AVATARA and The Trouble with Humpadori.
This is a reading in which together we will summon, queer, resist, and disturb the violence of colonialism. This reading especially seeks to attune to monsters, ghosts, and the hauntings of gendered violence.
This event is part of the United States of Asian American festival, presented by the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: We are opening up submissions for writers to be a part of this reading. Please see below for more information on how to apply.
WHEN: Friday, May 24th from 7 - 9:30 PM
WHERE: Arc Gallery & Studios, 1246 Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA 94103.
HOW MUCH: $8 Pre-sale, $20 Support Level (reserved seats) available. Reserve your tickets here.
*There is limited seating at the venue, you may purchase supporter level tickets to reserve seats. If you have a disability and/or need to be seated during the event, please contact us at info@kearnystreet.org and we'll work to accommodate you.
FEATURES
VIDHU AGGARWAL’s poetry and multimedia practices engage with world-building, video, and comic book media. Her poetry book The Trouble with Humpadori (2016), won the Editor’s Choice Award with The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective. Chosen by distributor Small Press Distribution as a February 2016 “Handpicked” selection by editors, poems from Humpadori were listed as the top 25 from Boston Review in 2016 and appeared on Sundress Publications Best Poetry of 2016 list.
In addition, her poems have appeared in Orlando Museum of Art’s catalogue for their “Baggage Claims” traveling exhibition. Other works have recently appeared in Chicago Quarterly Review, Black Warrior Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, and Texas Review. Her latest work, Avatara, is a chapbook available at Portable Press @Yo-Yo Labs. A Djerassi resident and Kundiman fellow, she teaches poetry and postcolonial/transnational studies at Rollins College.
ABOUT THE TROUBLE WITH HUMPADORI
“Aggarwal, both an artist and Professor of Postcolonial/Transnational Studies, surely embodies a new kind of artist-scholar. In her book, Aggarwal creates the interstellar character Humapadori (“Hump” for short) who acts as a messenger for extraterrestrial beings, a medium sent down from the cosmos. Move over Ziggy Stardust. It’s time for Humpadori’s to occupy the international stage.
Aggarwal’s poetic music is sonic heavy with wide visual caesuras, highlighting both the severity and elongation of sound that neither leans towards consonance or dissonance. It celebrates hard and soft volumes juxtaposed by long dense lines and spontaneous breaks, giving way for the submersion of the “primal emollient” which she dubs Humpadori. Through the orgasmic enigma of Hump, Aggarwal pries open a portal’s tight lid with a post-colonial feminist voice infused in intergalactic jargon and fantastical description. Hump emerges regaled in high-flash-drama, oozing otherworldly gestures. Hump is lead spectacle, a performer by birth, a deity of post-colonial theatre, yet also seemingly terrestrial.”
--Angela Peñaredondo
GRACE SHUYI LIEW is the author of Careen. Her work has appeared in West Branch, Black Warrior Review, Kenyon Review, cream city review, PANK, The Wanderer, and elsewhere. She is a Watering Hole fellow. Her other honors include the Lucille Clifton Poetry Fellowship from Squaw Valley Community of Writers, Aspen Summer Words scholarship, resident writer at Can Serrat in Barcelona, resident at Agora Affect, Vancouver Poetry House’s “10 Best Poems of 2016,” Ahsahta Press Chapbook Prize 2016, and others.
Born and raised in Malaysia, a former colony of The British Empire, Grace thinks closely of migration, loss, sexuality, violence, and nation states. The Mother figure, the Mother tongue, and the Mother land converge in her work, alongside theories about split consciousnesses and their affect. Currently, Grace lives in New York, where she also runs a burgeoning qpoc arts collective.
ABOUT CAREEN
“Careen is a battlefield of conflicting desires, a place where words are dragged from the liminal engine of Grace’s ‘kinetically charged’ soul into the broad daylight of racial politics. A place where it’s impossible to dodge the inevitable bullets aimed at whiteness and its whitened landscape. Her work swells with infinite breast songs shaped to evoke and choke all exit doors towards a place where poetry doesn’t exist as an aftermath. Her poetry is designed to stay current, to enrapture, and also a place to ‘reveal [her] private galaxy of bruises.’ Are her words bruises? Grace’s Careen will drape a white sheet over you.”
--Vi Khi Nao
co-presented with San Francisco AIDS Foundation and SOMArts
@SOMArts Cultural Center
The historic 7 Mile House is hosting Kearny Street Workshop for a special fundraising event celebrating Women’s History Month. 10% of proceeds will go to KSW, so come have yourself a meal at this award winning family (and dog-friendly) restaurant! We’ll be featuring special performances by APAture 2018 standouts, Kin and Gala, along with a debut performance by youth singer-songwriter, Jaeya Bayani. Also, we’ll be premiering our limited edition RAD AZN WMN Coloring Book featuring illustrations by some of the most exciting local femme and non-binary illustrators and artists.
Sunday, January 27th and Feb 3rd, 2-5pm
The Arc of San Francisco (not to be confused with Arc Gallery & Studios where KSW is located)
1500 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
Attire: Please arrive in comfortable, non-baggy clothing. Heels are encouraged, but not required.
Ever picture yourself strutting down the catwalk? Well here's your chance! Kearny Street Workshop is teaming up with SOMArts and the San Francisco AIDS Foundation for Celebrate Your Body 2019, featuring fresh looks by local, emerging designers and stylists.
You'll have two opportunities to audition so come on out and maybe we'll see you on the runway.
Celebrate Your Body is inclusive of all bodies. If you got style for days and the attitude to match then we hope you can join us. And for those of you out there who aren't sure, how do you know if you don't try!
* Celebrate Your Body will be held on April 27th, 2019 at SOMArts
** there will be a free modeling workshop at the beginning of each audition with modeling coach, Ronda Swenson.
*** as much as we'd like to take everyone who auditions, there are only a limited number of models we can feature in the show, though we will try our best to include as many people as we can.
Attire: Please arrive in comfortable, non-baggy clothing. Heels are encouraged, but not required.
BIO:
Ronda Swenson has had a career in the modeling and fashion industry for over 25+ years. The last 3 1/2 years she has worked with SLC Talent Factory coaching models, styling, and providing hair & make-up on photoshoots. Ronda has worked as a modeling coach since 1992 and she uses modeling as a tool to raise self-esteem in all ages.In addition to her work in the modeling and fashion industry she also works as a social worker/ investigator for dependency attorneys. Ronda recently founded the non-profit Compassion is Fashion whose mission is to empower and inspire foster youth and disadvantaged populations through art, education, fashion, and self-esteem programs.
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*If you'd like to participate in the workshop, but don't want to audition, no worries! There are no strings attached.
Sunday, January 27th and Feb 3rd, 2-5pm
The Arc of San Francisco (not to be confused with Arc Gallery & Studios where KSW is located)
1500 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
Attire: Please arrive in comfortable, non-baggy clothing. Heels are encouraged, but not required.
Ever picture yourself strutting down the catwalk? Well here's your chance! Kearny Street Workshop is teaming up with SOMArts and the San Francisco AIDS Foundation for Celebrate Your Body 2019, featuring fresh looks by local, emerging designers and stylists.
You'll have two opportunities to audition so come on out and maybe we'll see you on the runway.
Celebrate Your Body is inclusive of all bodies. If you got style for days and the attitude to match then we hope you can join us. And for those of you out there who aren't sure, how do you know if you don't try!
* Celebrate Your Body will be held on April 27th, 2019 at SOMArts
** there will be a free modeling workshop at the beginning of each audition with modeling coach, Ronda Swenson.
*** as much as we'd like to take everyone who auditions, there are only a limited number of models we can feature in the show, though we will try our best to include as many people as we can.
Attire: Please arrive in comfortable, non-baggy clothing. Heels are encouraged, but not required.
BIO:
Ronda Swenson has had a career in the modeling and fashion industry for over 25+ years. The last 3 1/2 years she has worked with SLC Talent Factory coaching models, styling, and providing hair & make-up on photoshoots. Ronda has worked as a modeling coach since 1992 and she uses modeling as a tool to raise self-esteem in all ages.In addition to her work in the modeling and fashion industry she also works as a social worker/ investigator for dependency attorneys. Ronda recently founded the non-profit Compassion is Fashion whose mission is to empower and inspire foster youth and disadvantaged populations through art, education, fashion, and self-esteem programs.
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*If you'd like to participate in the workshop, but don't want to audition, no worries! There are no strings attached.
A new KSW Visual Arts exhibition opens at Arc Gallery & Studios. Curated by Dara Del Rosario and Francis Calimlim.
Exhibition runs from 12/15/18 - 1/12/19
with Duy Doan and Angie Sijun Lou
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Z Space 450 Florida St, San Francisco, California 94110
Come join us at Z Space for a tantilizing afternoon of film! Featuring Jody Stillwater. Showcase artists: Amanda Lee, Grace Villaroman, Evelyn Obamos and Ruby Ibarra, Jalena Keane-Lee, Daria Garina, Angela Alberto, Hieu Gray, Neal Mirchandani, Sal Tran, Gretchen Carvajal, and Matt Shimura.
Kearny Street Workshop ARC Studios & Gallery, 1246 Folsom St, San Francisco, California 94103
What better way to spend your Saturday night none other than at our Literary Arts Showcase for APAture 2018! Come through to Arc Gallery & Studios. Featuring Janice Lobo Sapigao. Showcase artists: Sara Fan, Irman Arcibal, Juliana Chang, Shirley Huey, Kirin Khan. Michelle Ting Amy Huang
San Francisco Public Library Main Library - 100 Larkin St, San Francisco, California 94102
Co-presented by Kularts, San Francisco Public Library, and SF ZIne Fest
Enjoy your Sunday afternoon with us at our Book Arts Showcase for APAture 2018 at SFPL! Featuring Jess Wu-O. Showcase artists: Lindsey Adams, Don Aguillo and Raf Salazar, Lani CA, Dana Chan, Gerry Chow, In-betweeners, Deni Kwan, R.L. Muas, Brenda Nguyen, Lining Wang, Anand Vedawala, and Eishin Yoshida.
For artist bios: www.kearnystreet.org/apature-2018-artists
AND One City One Book will be hosting a reading and discussion with APAture 2015 Featured Artist and American Book Award winner, Thi Bui!
*This is a family friendly event and we got plenty of fun activities for the kids!
Arc Studios & Gallery 1246 Folsom St, San Francisco, California 94103
Co-presented by Arc Gallery & Studios, Chinese Culture Center, and SoMa Pilipinas
Join us at Arc Gallery & Studios for APAture 2018's Opening Reception and Visual Arts Showcase! Featuring Malaya Tuyay. Showcase artists: Kristiana Chan, Houyee Chow, Manar Harb, Ariel Huang, J-Monk, Michael Kang, Anoushka Mirchandani, Vasudhaa Narayanan, Aidan Lue Noda, Mariel Paat, Jason Ting, Veronica Wang, O.M. France Viana, and Jess Young.
For artist bios: www.kearnystreet.org/apature-2018-artists
Asian Art Museum 200 Larkin St, San Francisco, California 94102
Co-presented by Asian Art Museum
Part of Asia Week San Francisco Bay Area
APAture 2018 kicks-off at the Asian Art Museum with the Performing Arts Showcase! Featuring Jyun Jyun and missTANGQ. Showcase artists: Cesar Cadabes, Eileen Li and Livien Yin, Vilaska Nguyen, Nadhi Thekkek and Nava Dance Theatre, Miche Wong, and Cindy Zhang.
For artist bios: https://www.kearnystreet.org/apature-2018-artists
On September 28th, KSW Presents “All This Wreckage, In Your Own Language,” a reading featuring two debut novelists—Elaine Castillo, author of America Is Not the Heart, and Ingrid Rojas Contreras, author of Fruit of the Drunken Tree. The reading will be followed by a Q&A with Tayo Literary Magazine co-founder, Melissa Sipin.
The title of this event brings together quotes from both books as their stories begin—when a letter arrives in Fruit of the Drunken Tree, “bringing with it all this wreckage to our doorstep,” and in America Is Not the Heart, when “you can’t remember the last time someone told you to take care of yourself in your own language.”
This is a reading that gives language to the stories and wreckages of war and violence, colonialism and dictatorship, immigration and refuge, family, desperation, and the decisions one makes towards a kind of survival.
Part of PAL / The Pilipinx American Library + Thursday Nights at the Asian Art Museum
Celebrate the Interdisciplinary Writers Lab (IWL) with a reading by participants and instructors at the conclusion of the three-month workshop that encourages the development of new literary forms and voices. Interdisciplinary Writers Lab (IWL) is a multigenre master class for emerging local writers of color presented by Kearny Street Workshop in collaboration with the Asian Art Museum.
2018 Instructors: Aimee Suzara, Dickson Lam, Javier Zamora
2018 Fellows: Nyam Adodoadji, Claire Calderón, Erika Céspedes, Stephanie Chan, Lia Dun, Mark Flores, Shirley Huey, michal mj jones, Kirin Khan, Mihee Kim, Alyssa Manansala, Endria Richardson, Troy Rockett, Marian Urquilla, ari
Free with museum admission.
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About The Pilipinx American Library:
PAL / The Pilipinx American Library transforms the museum’s Resource Room into a reading room and gathering space to highlight the writings of poet, activist and oral historian Al Robles (1930–2009); feminist experimental poet Barbara Jane Reyes, author of “Invocation to Daughters” (City Lights, 2017); and the Kearny Street Workshop poets. Their work embodies the struggle, resistance, joy and promise of Filipino American life in the Bay Area.
Dedicated to publications exclusively by Filipino voices, PAL / The Pilipinx American Library is a mobile, non-circulating library that collects print histories and celebrates narratives by writers, poets, artists and scholars across the diaspora.
PAL / Pilipinx American Library is supported in part by AARP. Thursday Nights are supported by Nordstrom and Wells Fargo.
KSW Presents “Mourn You Better: Feelings from the Queer Taiwanese & Chinese Diaspora”, a reading featuring Kristin Chang, Chen Chen, yujane Chen, and Muriel Leung as they share poetry tracing queer immigrant landscapes of longing, loss, histories, futures, and desire. The title of this event comes Muriel Leung’s collection Bone Confetti.
Readers:
Kristin Chang lives in NY and reads for Winter Tangerine. Her work has been anthologized in Bettering American Poetry Vol. 3 and Ink Knows No Borders. She is the recipient of a 2019 Pushcart Prize and Resist/Recycle/Regenerate fellowship with the Wing On Wo Project in Manhattan Chinatown, where she helps teach paper-making workshops. Her debut chapbook “Past Lives, Future Bodies” is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press (October 2018).
Chen Chen is the author of When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, which was longlisted for the National Book Award and won the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, the GLCA New Writers Award, and the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. Starting this fall, he will be the Jacob Ziskind Poet-in-Residence at Brandeis University. He lives with his partner and their pug dog, Mr. Rupert Giles.
yujane chen is a queer migrant alien from Taiwan. they are a Winter Tangerine Fellow, Pink Door Fellow, 2018 BNV Future Corps member, and 2018 CalSLAM CUPSI team member. their poems can be found or forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, the Shade Journal, Bettering American Poetry, and elsewhere. they are currently an undergraduate in Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley, where they serve as an intern with the Multicultural Community Center on campus. their debut chapbook is forthcoming from Honeysuckle Press in 2019.
Muriel Leung is the author of Bone Confetti, winner of the 2015 Noemi Press Book Award. A Pushcart Prize nominated writer, her writing can be found or is forthcoming in Gulf Coast, Drunken Boat, The Collagist, Fairy Tale Review, and others. She is a recipient of fellowships to Kundiman, and VONA/Voices Workshop. She is a contributing editor to the Bettering American Poetry anthology and is also Poetry Co-Editor of Apogee Journal. Currently, she is Dornsife Fellow in Creative Writing and Literature at University of Southern California. She is from Queens, NY.
*there is limited seating at the venue, you may purchase supporter level tickets to reserve seats. If you have a disability and/or need to be seated during the event, please contact us at info@kearnystreet.org and we'll work to accomodate you.
A new exhibition presented by API Cultural Center SF and co-presented by Kearny Street Workshop
Curated by Kathy Zarur and Roula Seikaly
SOMArts SOMArts Cultural Center 934 Brannan St. San Francisco, CA 94103