Jan 12 - March 2

All-Genre Writing Class with Barbara Reyes

Mondays, 7 - 9PM
SomArts Cultural Center, 934 Brannan Street (between 8th and 9th streets), San Francisco

Class size: minimum of 8, maximum of 12.
Cost: $140 non-members, $120 for KSW members.
To register, please send a check for the full amount to: Kearny Street Workshop, 934 Brannan Street, San Francisco, CA 94103. Please include your name, contact information (phone number and email address if possible), and which class you are registering for. For questions, please contact program manager Samantha Chanse at 415.503.0520 or info@kearnystreet.org.

Class Description:
The all-genre writing workshop will be an exploration of the writer's voice, a fleshing out of the writer's thoughts and ideas, an examination of the writer's instincts and aesthetics. We will generate new work through a series of writing exercises and readings. we will discuss asian american literature as it pertains to our own writing, and we will receive and provide feedback to one another's work.

About the instructor:
Born in Manila, Philippines and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area suburb of Fremont, Barbara Jane Reyes received her BA in Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley, where she served as editor-in-chief of the groundbreaking Pilipino American literary publication Maganda. She is a MFA candidate at San Francisco State University, where she has happily found herself in a balancing act upon the bleeding edges separating the Pilipino/a American community and the Ivory Tower academy. Barbaraâs poetry, prose, and essays are published in various literary journals including Tinfish, Interlope, Our Own Voice, Meritage Pressâs Babaylan Speaks, Shampoo Poetry, Can We Have Our Ball Back, Muse Apprentice Guild, Tamafyhr Mountain Poetry Irregular, Art Speak; as well as in the anthologies Babaylan (Aunt Lute, 2000), Turnings: Writings on Womenâs Transformations (Womenâs Studies at ODU, 2000), Eros Pinoy: An Anthology of Contemporary Erotica in Philippine Art and Poetry (Anvil 2001), Invasian: Asian Sisters Represent (Asian Women United of CA, 2003), Times New Roman: Poets Oppose 21st Century Empire (on-line at http://www.nthposition.com), and are forthcoming in Writers From the Philippine Diaspora, the UK-based Graphic Poetry Anthology, and Pinoy Poetics. Gravities of Center is Barbaraâs first book. She is currently at work on her second book manuscript entitled Conjure, a series of poems written after the paintings of two Bay Area Pinoy visual artists. For more information, please visit http://barbarajanereyes.com

Jan 20 - March 9

Creating and Performing Your Own Work with Canyon Sam

Tuesdays, 7 - 9.30PM
Location TBA

Class size: minimum of 8, maximum of 12.
Cost: $165 non-members, $150 for KSW members.
To register, please send a check for the full amount to: Kearny Street Workshop, 934 Brannan Street, San Francisco, CA 94103. Please include your name, contact information (phone number and email address if possible), and which class you are registering for. For questions, please contact program manager Samantha Chanse at 415.503.0520 or info@kearnystreet.org.

Class Description:
A fun, hands-on introduction to creating and performing your own work Ð both ensemble and solo. Through exercises and structured improvisation we will explore ways of generating material from personal/political experience and translating them into movement, sound, narrative, and character. We draw on a wide range of methods and philosophies Ð from the S.F. Mime Troupe’s Commedia del Arte style to body-based improvisation to traditional theater. Intended to be a playful but challenging dip into the performance genre for all levels, no experience needed.

About the instructor:
Canyon Sam, for many years a poet and writer, began doing performance art in 1991. She has directed for the S. F. Mime Troupe’s CSU Summer Arts Program, taught in the Mime Troupe’s Youth Program and at California College of the Arts, studied at the Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theater and at A.C.T. and collaborated with theater artists Brian Freeman and Nina Wise. She has performed her critically-acclaimed one woman shows all over the country and Canada. For more information, please visit http://www.canyonsam.com/

Jan 17 - Feb 27

Perspective x3: Visions of Vietnam

A New Photography Exhibit with

Chung Hoang Chuong
Binh Danh
Anisha Narasimhan

Opening Reception January 24, 2003 1 - 4PM
At the Chinatown Communty Arts Program Gallery
At the Chinese Culture Center, 750 Kearny Street, (Third floor of Holiday Inn building)
Between Clay and Washington Streets, SF

Gallery Hours:
Tuesdays and Thursdays 1 pm - 4 pm
Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays 10 am - 4 pm

This exhibit it co-sponsored by the San Francisco Arts Commission Chinatown Community Arts Program

Feb 6

Speculative Fiction Class Reading

Stretch your imagination with an evening of science fiction and fantasy readings by Claire Light's class

Featuring:

Vanessa Au
Samantha Chanse
Minette Lehmann
Harry Mok

When:
Friday, February 6

What time:
7 - 9PM

Where:
John Sims Center For the Arts, Studio 3
1519 Mission (between S. Van Ness and 11th Sts.), SF

Free and open to the public. We will have some light refreshments available, but feel free to bring a contribution.
$5 suggested donation much appreciated!

Feb 18

Drama Divas:
Readings for the Stage with Sean San Jose, Naomi Quiñones, and Pete Lee

Co-presented with the San Francisco Arts Commission Chinatown Community Arts Program

When:
Wednesday, February 18

What time:
7 - 9PM

Where:
The Chinatown Communty Arts Program Gallery
At the Chinese Culture Center, 750 Kearny Street, (Third floor of Holiday Inn building)
Between Clay and Washington Streets, SF

$5 suggested donation much appreciated. No one turned away for lack of funds.

About the artists:
C. Pete Lee is an interdisciplinary performance artist and writer who enjoys exploring and investigating the politics and intersections of language, race, class, gender and sexuality; text and image; memory and space. He has performed excerpts of his one-person show, "Masculenemy/Masculine-in-Me" at many venues in/around LA. Pete has also performed collaborative works with Kristina Sheryl Wong and members of Denise Uyehara’s "Rad Asians" and Dan Kwong’s "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Asian Men." He is also the editor/publisher of literary/art zine, "Flower Bridge." Pete will be performing his new solo work, "(Hide/Seek)," at Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica, February 8, 2004 — sharing the bill with performance artist, Erin O’Brien. He is also currently working on the second issue of ‘Flower Bridge’ and putting the finishing touches on the debut album from his currently nameless band. For more information, check out his website at: hometown.aol.com/redsketch.

D.H.Naomi Quiñones has been writing and performing spoken-word and theater pieces that examine the intersections between memory, family history and self-identity. In her one-woman show, Strands, she looked at how her grandfather's disappearance, as part of the Japanese Latin American internment experience, affected her family and shaped her identity and sense of social justice. Naomi has worked with Asian American Theater Company, participating in several collaborations between AATC and sketch comedy groups, 18 Mighty Mountain Warriors, Latina Theater Lab, and Culture Clash. Thanks to a whole lot of people, she recently traveled from Japan to India, sharing her artist-activist work with passengers on the Peace Boat and participants at the World Social Forum.

sean san jose dedicates his work to his mother, Delfina. Sean is a proud member of Intersection for the Arts and their resident theater company, Campo Santo. Currently he is working on the premiere of a new play by Denis Johnson, "Psychos Never Dream," and the new Hybrid Project Performance at Intersection. For more information, please visit www.theintersection.org.

Feb 28

APAture 2004 Retreat

Have you been pining away for KSW's APAtures of yore?

Wishing you could get whipped back into the excitement, the drama, the creativity of the annual Window on the Art of Young Asian Pacific Americans?

Or perhaps you've heard about APAture and want to learn more about it?

KSW'S APATURE 2004 Retreat
Saturday, February 28th
10am - 5pm (roughly)
530 Hampshire, Suite 406
Between 18th and Mariposa Streets, SF

The APAture retreat kicks off KSW's annual APAture season. APAture is an annual multidisciplinary arts expo & festival to present the work of young, emerging APA artists in the SF Bay Area. For five years now, APAture has presented over 100 artists each year at this 2- 4 week festival. The 6th annual APAture will take place in September 2004.

If you are AT ALL interested in planning APAture this year--regardless of what kind of experience (if any) you've had in the past working with KSW--the APAture Retreat is your chance to get involved and learn more about this event. Please RSVP.

Questions, comments, concerns? please contact Sam at 415.503.0520 or at info@kearnystreet.org.