Friday Fun Post: 100 Day Dance Party

TGIF, KSW Blog readers! Welcome to the second weekly Friday Fun Post.

 

Let this adorable dancing Asian guy hustle/boogie/headbang you into the weekend…

more about “BOOMBOX on Vimeo“, posted with vodpod

You go, Ely Kim!

Intern Interview: Carolyn Yang

Carolyn has interned at KSW for the past two years, diligently working behind the scenes to keep KSW running. This was her last week! She’s off to finish her senior year at Lincoln High School, and do great things. But before Carolyn flies the nest, we wanted to put her in the spotlight.

KSW: How’d you get involved with KSW?

CY: I joined a program called Spotlights on the Arts, which set me up with an internship at KSW when Sam and Connie [former executive directors of KSW] were around  because they needed volunteers, and there Yen and I were.

KSW: What are your favorite things about working here?

CY: Socializing!! LOLol, I don’t have a favorite, but I enjoy the fashion show [APAture Runway]. It’s awesome. Meeting new people? Always fun.

KSW: What have you learned working here? How have you grown?

CY: I’ve learned more about myself in some ways, but more along the lines of getting to know the Asian part in me because I could be quite “white” at times. Haha. But just knowing my parents’ past and the hardships of Asian American life, I’ve grown a lot. I had no knowledge of what happens in Asia. The first time was there, I had to set up for an exhibition, and I learned about the domestic lives of women in China.

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.

02 Shifted Focus Podcast: Pireeni Sundaralingam

The second post in our exploration of the Artists of APAture features Pireeni Sundaralingam.

Pireeni is a poet who often performs with her husband, musician Colm Ó Riain, in Words & Violin.

She performed in APAture in 2001 with her writers group, Dhaia Tribe, and was the featured artist in literature in 2008.

Combining her dual skills as a poet and a professor of cognitive development, Pireeni is teaching the upcoming Shifted Focus workshop, Changing Your Brain, Changing Your Poetic Practice.

Welcome to the KSW blog!

We’ve finally got our blog up and running!  Bookmark this page and check back for updates about the exciting 35th anniversary programs we’ll be hosting throughout the next year, as well as contributions from KSW artists, activists and founding members!