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KSW programs and events. June 2005
June 14 - July 26, 2005All-Genre WritingAn 8-week writing workshop with Barbara Jane ReyesTuesdays, 7 - 9PM Class size: minimum of 8, maximum of 12. Note: This workshop is made possible in part by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation. 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: Students will be responsible for reading and providing constructive
critical feedback on one another's work. Students will also be responsible
for providing some reading, visual, and/or audio materials from
outside sources for class (I will also provide a number of readings
to examine "established" writers' processes, and to try
out different styles); students will also be required to bring in
a minimum of one page of weekly writings. For a final project, students
are encouraged to produce chapbooks, zines, and other products/art
objects, as well as participate in an all class reading, exhibit,
performance in order share their new works with the public. About the Instructor:  June 27 - August 22, 2005Making Comics with Thien PhamAn 8-week workshop with Thien PhamJune 27 - August 22, Mondays, 7 - 9PM *no class July 4 Class size: minimum of 8, maximum of 12. 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: About the Instructor: June 21Curating Music: A Workshop led by Jeff RayAs part of its on-going educational programming, Kearny Street Workshop is offering a Music Curatorial Workshop on Tuesday, June 21st, led by Jeff Ray. The workshop will cover several aspects of curating music programs, including how to critically listen to a music submission; what elements to focus on when evaluating work; pitfalls to avoid in curating work; and how to put together a strong music program. Date: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 Time: 7pm Location: SomArts Cultural Center Cost: $5 - 25, sliding scale; Free for APAture 2005 GPC members; RSVP required. Please rsvp at info@kearnystreet.org or 415.503.0520 JEFF RAY is the producer and founder of the Mission Creek Music Festival. A member of and songwriter for the experimental art/rock band Zmrzlina, which has released 3 CDs and has played at venues all over San Francisco, he has been writing, playing and producing music in the Bay Area for more than a decade. He is currently working on a solo project in the experimental folk genre using laptops, sample manipulations, acoustic guitar, keyboards and vocals. Ray received a BFA in English Language & Literature from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA. He was recently a resident artist at Headlands Center for the Arts. June 21Migritude: Spoken word with Shailja PatelSponsored by the Asia Society, Northern California, and co-sponsored with Asian Improv aRts; EKTA; Locus Arts; Poetry 4 the People; Introduction by Junichi Semitsu, Lecturer, Department of African American Studies, UC Berkeley & Director, Poetry 4 the People Poetry by Shailja Patel Spoken word, an age-old oral tradition, is literature's oldest form. When artists like Shailja Patel embrace poetry and Date: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 Time: 5:30 pm registration ♦ 6:00 pm program Location: Public Policy Institute of California, Founders’ Room Cost:$7 Members & Co-Sponsors; $10 Non-Members; $5 Students MIGRITUDE explores global themes; heritage, war, freedom, by making intimate family treasures public.
June 23Vespertine Press: Book Release Partypresented with Locus Arts
Join KSW, Locus Arts, and VespertinePress for the launch of a brand new anthology of API and hybrid writers, edited by Mamie Ju, Sylvia Watanabe, Russell Leong, and Jeffrey Paul Chan. Featuring readings by Russell Leong and Jeffrey Paul Chan, and others, and music by the Daniel Raynaud Jazz Quartet. Book signing and reception to follow. Date: Thursday, June 23, 2005 Time: Reception 7pm; Readings 7.30 - 9.30pm Location: Galeria de la Raza, 2857 24th Street (@ Bryant), SF Cost: $7 -12, sliding scale About Vespertine PressVespertinePress offers something entirely different to the literary world: a place where Asian writers can express without explanation. We showcase established and emerging Asian writers from the US and around the globe. We expect the best work from our artists, and we do not exclude any writer from submitting to us regardless of ethnicity. We welcome the opportunity to encourage as well as enlighten. How do we balance such an effort? We anticipate, we review, and we publish amazing stories and poetry. More information at www.vespertinepress.org. Inaugural issue contributors include Oliver de la Paz, Mai Mang, Mabelle Hsueh, Joel H. Vega, Carl Phillips, Martha Collins, Jon Wei, Bernard Matambo, Patrick Rosal, Ngo Tu Lap, Nava EtShalom, Wing Tek Lum, Pamela Alexander, Ishmael Beah, Megan Kruse, Sheila Schwartz, Lee Upton, Erika Kulnys-Brain, and Leopoldo Brizuela. About the EditorsMamie Ju Raynaud is the founder, publisher, and current series editor of VespertinePress. She brings not only her enthusiasm and commitment to the journal, but a decade of publishing sales experience. In a past life, Mamie has worked as the marketing director for AsianWeek newspaper. She was also a Pulliam Fellow recipient at the Arizona Republic, where she worked as a reporter and columnist. She was a former board member of the Chinese Historical Society, a graduate from the Creative Writing Program at San Francisco State University, and currently serves on the advisory board of Kearny Street Workshop. Mamie was born in Hong Kong, and raised in Los Angeles, Chinatown. She currently resides in San Francisco with her husband and four children. The chief guest editor for the first edition is Sylvia Watanabe, a fiction writer and essayist who has taught in the Creative Writing Program at Oberlin College since 1995 where she also works as the co-director of the program. Her first collection of stories, Talking to the Dead, was a finalist for the 1993 PEN Faulkner Award and a recipient of the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for fiction. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in fiction and an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Grant in nonfiction. Her stories and personal essays have been widely anthologized and have been included in the O.Henry and Pushcart Prize collections. With Carol Bruchac, she has co-edited two anthologies of Asian American literature, Home to Stay and Into the Fire, published by the Greenfield Review Press. She is working on a forthcoming novel due for release in spring 2005 published by Graywolf Press. Ms. Watanabe will remain on the Vespertine Press editorial board. Guest editor Russell Leong is a writer, professor, and editor. His most recent book, Phoenix Eyes and Other Stories, won the American Book Award 2001 and was cited by the Los Angeles Times as one of the best 100 books of fiction of 2000. He is the author of, The Country of Dreams and Dust, winner of the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literature Award. He is an adjunct professor of English at UCLA, where he teaches Asian American literature and creative writing, Russell also edits Amerasia Journal for UCLA's Asian American Studies Center. Jeffery Paul Chan, also guest editor, is a professor of English and Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University. He is co-editor of the pioneering Aiiieeee (Howard University Press, 1974), and The Big Aiiieeeee (Penguin Books, 1991). His fiction has appeared in Aion, Amerasia Journal, Bamboo Ridge, Asian Pacific American Journal, and has been anthologized in Asian American Authors (Hsu, 1974), Charlie Chan Is Dead (Hagedorn, 1993). His first novel, Eat Everything Before You Die was released in June 2004 (University of Washington Press). About Locus ArtsLocus Arts is an all-volunteer organization of Asian American artists and arts supporters dedicated to promoting community and consciousness through the arts. Locus is currently incorporated and under the fiscal sponsorship of Asian Improv aRts. www.locusarts.org June 30Risky Reading: a night of fiction with Claire Light's workshopJoin KSW for an evening of readings of new and developing work from emerging literary voices of the Bay Area. Featuring work by Sita Bhaumik, Rocky Choi, Jesse Keyes, Kristine Macalalad, Charlyne Sarmiento, and Stephanie Fairchild. Date: Thursday, June 30th, 2005 Time: Doors open 7pm; reception and reading 7 - 9PM Location: New Langton Arts, 1246 Folsom, between 8th and 9th streets, SF Cost: $5 suggested; no one turned away for lack of funds
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BARBARA
JANE REYES was born in Manila and raised in the SF Bay
Area suburb of Fremont, where she was educated by Catholic hippies
(not nuns) for 12 years. After a 10 year on-again-off-again stint
at UC Berkeley, where she served as editor-in-chief of the groundbreaking
Pilipino American literary publication Maganda, she will
complete her MFA at San Francisco State University this coming May
2005. 
Shailja Patel is a Kenyan Indian explosion on the national spoken word scene. She performs to standing ovations across the US and internationally. In 2004, she was invited to perform at the Lincoln Center, New York; to collaborate with jazz legend Jon Jang in the Asian American Jazz Series; and to participate in the Nautilus Institute's prestigious Scenarios Workshop, along with luminaries of the Left such as Daniel Ellsberg. Recent highly-acclaimed appearances include keynotes at Yale and Brown Universities; London's Poetry Café, the Diverse Arts Showcase in Glasgow, Women Against War Northern California Tour; the San Francisco Dyke March, the Radical Performance Fest (a Bay Area Critics Choice Selection), and the groundbreaking Yoni Ki Baat. Shailja shared the stage with Holly Near, Michael Franti, and Ram Dass at Our Grief Is Not A Cry For War, the 9/11 anniversary concert at San Francisco's Justin Hermann Plaza; and performed for crowds of over 50,000 at Not In Our Name Rallies. Her words, aired on the National Radio Project and Pacifica Radio, have generated responses from activists and academics worldwide. Shailja's work appears in numerous journals and anthologies, and the CD, Best of the Berkeley Slam Poets.