Angel Island Poetry Reading

KSW’s Postcard Poetry Project students read their work at Angel Island in celebration of Asian Pacific Heritage month. Here’s a video of workshop instructor Debbie Yee and P3 poets Cathlin Goulding, Khoi Nguyen, Lisa Leong, Thy Tran and Truc Nguyen reading on the grassy hill in front of the detention center barracks.

Part 1:

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Your ghost-blogger is one of the poets. Must say it was a beautiful day that began with a reading by Genny Lim. Local politicians read poems that had been carved into the walls of detention center, and then P3 read their work, so it was a balance of APA history and APA today.

Thank you, Bryan Wu for documenting!

Present Tense: The Reviews Are In!

left: Endless Column, Larry Lee
right: Annie, Nancy Chan

 

Examiner review by Marisa Sae Nakasone

After viewing several bay area exhibitions of work by native Chinese artists (major shows at SFMOMA and BAMPFA), I was pleased to behold an Asian American response to the challenges of identity and shifiting political currents as it relates to cultural heritage at the Present Tense Biennial.

SF Weekly review by Traci Vogel

If “Present Tense” hardly narrows definitions, the show offers at least one answer to its underlying question: what it means to be China/Chinese is engagingly diverse.

SF Chronicle feature on Ken Lo by Sam Whiting

“If I can pull this off, people will walk past this shoe store and never think of it as art,” says Lo, creator of the installation. “They’ll think of it as a store featuring some shoe from a guy they’ve never heard of.”

Chinese-language readers, there’s also coverage in World Journal and Sing Tao daily.

Present Tense on Culture Wire

Present Tense is featured in the latest episode of Culture Wire. Watch it below. Listen in on a conversation between SFAC gallery director Meg Shiffler and curator Kevin Chen around three storefront installations.

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Blogging 101

Kearny Street Workshop presents
Blogging 101
With Claire Light

Tuesdays, June 30 – August 18
7-9pm at KSW @ PariSoMa, 1436 Howard St.

BLOGGING FOR BEGINNERS: Learn how to set up, write, manage, and market a blog. Develop podcasting and video blogging (vlogging) skills.

YOU’VE GOT A VOICE: Blogs can project your voice across the nation and around the world. For KSW constituents, the blogosphere conducts an ongoing discourse on race at a level you can’t find anywhere else. For artists and writers, blogging offers a method of professional arts marketing; and for everyone else, blogging is the route to citizen journalism and the transformation of the media.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR: Claire Light is a fiction writer living in Oakland. She co-founded Hyphen magazine and worked as a contributing editor at Other magazine until 2007. She currently serves on the Board of the Carl Brandon Society, a nonprofit supporting writers of color who work with speculative genres.

Registration fee is $200. Pay online here. To register by check, please send check or money order to: Kearny Street Workshop, P.O. Box 14545, San Francisco, CA 94114. Please include your full name and contact info. Registration deadline is June 17.

Booth Madness Part II: Pics of the Live Art

Check out the paintings Lawrence Yang made at our booth during the Asian Heritage Street Celebration. They’re really cool!

“Living Tree” – watercolor and marker on paper – 10″ x 7″

“Mountain in Bloom” – watercolor and marker on paper – 16″ x 12″

“Purple Bunny” – watercolor and marker on paper – 10″ x 7″

Pics from Lawrence’s blog post at blowatlife.blogspot.com

Booth Madness at the Asian Heritage Street Celebration

APAture General Planning Committee hustled big time for KSW at the Asian Heritage Street Celebration last weekend. 7 hours + 85 degree sunshine – 1 tent = booth madness

Welcome to the KSW booth!

Lawrence Yang makes live art and brings the crowds.

 

Call for Artists: Apply to APAture 2009

KSW is now accepting submissions for the 11th annual APAture festival of emerging Asian American artists. Each September, APAture showcases about 100 artists at venues throughout San Francisco, making it the Bay Area’s biggest platform for Asian American art.

Want to show your work in APAture? 

We are accepting submissions in five disciplines: visual arts, film, music, literary arts and performing arts. The deadline to submit is July 11, 2009.

Go to kearnystreet.org/apature for guidelines and to apply online!

Present Tense Biennial: Open to the Public All Summer

Present Tense Biennial: Chinese Character brings together 31 artists from the Bay Area and beyond, offering up a thoroughly international perspective on contemporary Chinese culture.

Co-presented by Chinese Culture Center and KSW, this semi-public art exhibition spills out onto the grubbily colorful streets of Chinatown. Around the corner from the CCC gallery, you’ll find art hanging in storefront windows, plus a couple cheeky installations masquerading as a shoe store and a language school.

It’s a fun show, and you can’t miss it…because you’ll probably walk right by it. The art is right under your nose!

Present Tense is on view through August, check out the official
site here.