MARCH 4

APAture General Meeting

Whether you've been involved in APAture since 1999 or you just heard about APAture last week (or today), as long as you're interested in taking an active role in planning this year's APAture you should come to this meeting.

When: Tuesday, March 4th, 7-9pm

Where: SomArts, 934 Brannan Street (between 8th & 9th street)
The KSW office is in the back, to the left of the stage (if you enter on Brannan street, walk through the gallery to the back, but stay on the left).

APAture is Kearny Street Workshop's annual multidisciplinary arts expo for emerging APA artists, ages 18-35. This year will be the 5th annual APAture.

Questions? Please call us at 415.503.0520 or email info@kearnystreet.org

MARCH 7, 12, 15

CROUCHING ASIAN, HIDDEN CHEESE

A San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival 2003 Program co-presented by Kearny Street Workshop

Can you squat Asian? Eat Asian? Fart Asian? Kick ass, Asian style? This late night shorts program will make you laugh so hard you'll get abs like Bruce Lee.

Three screenings:
FRI March 7th 10 PM
AMC Kabuki 8 Theatres, 1881 Post Street (@ Fillmore), San Francisco

WED March 12th 9:45 PM
AMC Kabuki 8 Theatres, 1881 Post Street (@ Fillmore), San Francisco

SAT March 15th 5:15 PM
Camera 3 Cinemas, 288 2nd Street (@ San Carlos), San Jose

Tickets available at all venues:
GENERAL ADMISSION $9
NAATA MEMBER, STUDENT/SENIOR (65+), DISABLED DISCOUNT: $7

Program includes:
Daniel Hsia's HOW TO DO THE ASIAN SQUAT
An instructional video on the latest craze: the Asian squat!

Junji Kojima's THE JAPANESE TRADITION: DOGEZA
You've never really apologized until you've practiced the fine art of dogeza

Junji Kojima's THE JAPANESE TRADITION: SUSHI
You think you know how to eat sushi, but do you really?

Tuan Tran's MONK
The disciple-monk eats and farts. Wait, he...what?

Michael Velasquez' RANDOM ACTS OF VIOLENCE
Hot fight choreography and the divine gift of a skateboard.

Wes Kim's WHY IT'S A GOOD THING
Ever think to yourself, Gee, I wish I really did know kung fu, 'cause I'd like to whip some racist ass?

Nobu Adilman's YOGA, MAN
How to be a yoga instructor: cigarettes, Coke, white chicks.

Dino Ignacio's MARITESS VS. THE SUPERFRIENDS
Maritess just wanted to make some U.S. dollars; instead, she has to cover herself from Superman's prying eyes and face the wrath of Aquaman!

Susan Han's MIWON: THE AWAKENED WARRIOR
Korean TRA Kirstin turns from blonde to brunette and becomes Miwon, just in time to kick her boyfriend's ass.

Abraham Lim's FISTS OF CHEESE
Hilarious spoof of the classic disciple-avenging-the-master kung-fu movie, with a hip-hop twist. Special guests: the Black Eyed Peas.

For more info on NAATA's SFIAAFF, please visit www.naatanet.org/festival.

MARCH 10 - APR 28

ALL-LEVEL POETRY CLASS
with Edmond Chow

Mondays, March 10 - April 28, 2003; 7:30-9:30 PM
$135; $115 for KSW members

This is an 8-week course. There will not be a class on Monday, March 31st.

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 28th
Class will be capped at 12 students, so register early.

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This class will deepen your understanding of poetry and help you apply new techniques to your own work. We will discuss the mechanics of poetry, as well as how to write honest and intelligent poems. Expect to write a new poem every week and to help each other become the best poets possible.

INSTRUCTOR: Edmond Chow was born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1969 and immigrated to Canada in 1971. He grew up in Toronto and also lived briefly in Waterloo (Ontario), Ottawa, and Redmond (Washington). He moved to the United States in 1993 for graduate studies at the University of Minnesota. He has lived in the Bay Area since 1998.

Edmond has taught creative writing for the Asian American Renaissance and for Pleasanton Adult Education, and was on the editorial board of the Journal of the Asian American Renaissance in 1997. His poems have appeared in several journals in Canada, including Grain, The New Quarterly, The Antigonish Review, Dandelion, ARC, Prairie Fire, and The Fiddlehead. In 1997, he won an honorable mention in the League of Canadian Poets Annual Chapbook Competition. He is currently completing his first book-length poetry manuscript.

HOW TO REGISTER: Checks may be made out to Kearny Street Workshop and sent to 934 Brannan Street, San Francisco, 94103. Please do not call or email and ask us to reserve you a space - spaces will be reserved upon receipt of check in full amount ONLY.

Call the KSW office for more details at 415.503.0520.

MARCH 16

Do Tell: Readings by Queer API Writers

MAIANA MINAHAL, DAN TAULAPAPA MCMULLIN, DANIEL NGUYEN

presented by Kearny Street Workshop and the Chinatown Community Arts Program.

When: Sunday, March 16th, 2-4PM

Where: CCAP Community Room, 750 Kearny St., 3rd Floor, San Francisco

How Much: Free

Refreshments will be served.

For more information, contact us at info@kearnystreet.org or 415.503.0520.

For two and a half years, KSW and CCAP have been co-presenting quarterly readings from communities in the API continuum. DO TELL, featuring Maiana Minahal, Dan Taulapapa McMullin, and Daniel Nguyen, kicks off our 2003 season.

About the Artists
Maiana Minahal is a queer Filipina American poet born in Manila, raised in Los Angeles, and currently living in San Francisco. She studied poetry at UC Berkeley with June Jordan's poetry collective Poetry for the People. In 1995 they toured the New York City poetry scene and won the Nuyorican Poet¡s Cafe Poetry Slam. Since 1994 she has taught poetry and writing workshops throughout the Bay Area, and continues to perform regularly. In 1999 she won an Honorable Mention in the San Francisco Bay Guardian Poetry Contest, and her work has been published in June Jordan¡s Poetry for the People: A Revolutionary Blueprint (ed. Mullen, Routledge NY), Take Out: Queer Writings from Asian and Pacific America (ed. Bao, Temple Univ Press NY), in maganda magazine and the upcoming anthologies, Going Home to a Landscape: An Anthology of Filipino Women¡s Writings (ed Villanueva), and inVasian: Asian Sisters Represent (ed. Kim). She has written movie reviews for KoreAm Journal in Los Angeles, wrote a one-act play for Bindlestiff Studio in San Francisco, is featured on the spoken word cd Infliptration: A Youngblood Revolution, and is collaborating on a poetry performance called your body my evening prayer: a meditation on faith and desire. She produced her first poetry chapbook, closer, in January 2003, and in February co-produced a showcase of queer Filipina performers called Halo-Halo: A Queer Pin@y Revue.

Dan Taulapapa McMullin is a writer, filmmaker and painter living in Samoa. His video short "Sinalela" is screening at Sydney Mardis Gras and won Best Short at Honolulu Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. He collaborated on the Pacific/Caribbean indigenous sovereignty book "Resistance in Paradise" which won the 1999 Gustavus Meyers Humanitarian Book Award. He is currently working on an experimental documentary on American Samoa for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. He is also working on a novel-in-progress and a suite of fa'afafine paintings.

Danny Thanh Nguyen is a gay Vietnamese American humorist writer home grown in the Bay Area, and currently living in San Francisco. Aside from studying creative writing at San Francisco State University, he is an active member of the campus' Queer Alliance, and has acted as co-director. In 2001 he was a third place recipient in the Olympiad of the Arts for free-verse poetry. As a publication editor for the non-profit organization Health Initiative for Youth, he writes for and helps youth of color and queer youth communities through their zines, Vital Signs and Spill, and is working on their Young Man¡s Survival Guide. Danny is optimistic towards his future as a developing artist  optimism commonly observed by sensitive patients who have taken triple the amount of prescription medications.

MARCH 30

APAture General Planning Committee Meeting

When: Sunday, March 30th, 7-9pm (6pm dinner)
Where: Location TBA