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SF Chronicle Datebook
October 22, 2019
The past two years have been watershed moments for Asian Pacific American artists in the entertainment industry. “Crazy Rich Asians” became the highest-grossing romantic comedy in the past decade, and this year’s “The Farewell” dazzled viewers at the Sundance Film Festival and attracted broader U.S. audiences.
Character Media
October 4, 2019
The festival kicks off Oct. 4 at San Francisco’s Arc Gallery & Studios, with “Boundless,” a visual arts showcase featuring Vietnamese artist and curator Anh Bui, best known for his sociopolitical and cultural themed work. The exhibit will be on display for the rest of the month, while special showcases will be held at different venues on the weekends.
East Wind Zine
“It was like someone had opened a window onto a landscape we’d never seen before, and the landscape was packed with AAPI artists to an extent we would have never believed.”
APAture, Kearny Street Workshop’s (KSW) annual multidisciplinary arts festival centered on emerging Asian Pacific American (APA) artists in the San Francisco Bay Area, celebrated yet another year with their opening ceremony on the evening of October 4.
NBC News
September 24, 2019
Ali Wong, Hasan Minhaj, Irene Tu and Alle Hsu have more in common than being in the entertainment industry — they all benefited from long-established Asian American arts organizations that have helped lay the foundation for emerging artists. In particular, all have roots in the San Francisco-based Kearny Street Workshop, an Asian Pacific American multidisciplinary arts nonprofit founded in 1972 — which describes itself as the oldest in the country — and they have been featured artists at their flagship program, the APAture festival.
NBC BAY AREA
September 24, 2019
Asian Pacific America: Jennifer S. Cheng is an award-winning poet and author. She will read from her literary works at Kearny Street Workshop’s APAture 2019. The festival is in its 20th year celebrating emerging Asian and Pacific American artists of the San Francisco Bay Area.
INQUIRER.net
April 12, 2018
The 45th year anniversary celebration kicks off on April 19 with a sold-out event at the Chinese Culture Center, 750 Kearny Street, featuring a dinner prepared by Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik, co-founder of the People’s Kitchen Collective, a conversation between renowned author and playwright Jessica Hagedorn and award-winning journalist Bernice Yeung, and a performance by rapper Ruby Ibarra.
Inquirer
October 17, 2017
Founded in 1972, KSW is dedicated to producing, presenting and promoting art that empowers diverse Asian Pacific American communities. Now on it’s 45th year, it has offered multidisciplinary arts presentations and workshops to Bay Area community members, making it the oldest Asian Pacific American multi-disciplinary arts organization in the country.
NBC Bay Area
February 6, 2017
Kearny Street Workshop, the Bay Area's Hub for Asian Pacific American Community Arts, presents Michelle Lin, Kazumi Chin, and Diana Li.