SPIRIT: A HUNDRED YEARS OF QUEER ASIAN ACTIVISM
From the Asian avant-garde to 1960’s activists, Angel Island poets to Slam champions, the Queer Asian Diaspora comes alive through performance, films, and discussion.
WHEN/WHERE
Friday, May 10th, 8pm
PERFORMANCE
Mission Cultural Center (2868 Mission St, SF)
Buy Tickets: $12-$20
Saturday, May 11th, 3pm
PANEL
Brava Dance Studio, 2nd Flr (2781 24th St, SF). FREE
Saturday,
May 11, 7pm
FILMS
Brava Theater (2781 24th St, SF)
Buy Tickets: $7-$10
PERFORMERS – MAY 10TH, 8PM
Eli-Coppola award winning poet, Ryka Aoki
Slam poet pioneer, Regie Cabico
Radically classical Sarah Cargill
Performance artist, Genevieve Erin O’Brien
Lambda Literary Award winner and Asian Arts Freedom School co-founder, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Genderqueer love warrior, Tonilyn Sideco
Sassy, sexy spoken word from Peacock Rebellion founder, Manish Vaidya
PANELISTS – MAY 11TH, 3PM
Conscientious objector and Veteran Artists founder, Stephen Funk
QWOCMAP founder, Madeleine Lim
Film studies doctoral candidate, Munira Lokhandwala
Scholar, mentor, and activist of 40+ years, Trinity Ordona
Post-humanist feminist scholar, Margaret Rhee
Dragonfruit oral history founder and Ethnic Studies Dean, Amy Sueyoshi
FILMMAKERS – MAY 11TH, 7PM
VONA literary fellow, Celeste Chan
Golden Golden filmmaker, Erica Cho
Experimental porneaoke-maker, Yvette Choy
Feminist fabulist filmmaker, Miki Foster
Poet liberationist, Vanessa Huang
Absurdist artist, Laura Hyunjhee Kim
Activist/filmmaker/femme fatale, So Yung Kim
Experimental artist, Jai Arun Ravine
Award-winning filmmaker/scholar/performance artist, Tina Takemoto
Shut Up White Boy and Kieu filmmaker, Vũ T. Thu Hà