Saturday, October 14th, 2006

KSW at Litcrawl
featuring Tony Cuong Tuan Luong, Mako Matsuda, Anh-Hoa Thi Nguyen, Shailja Patel, Barbara Jane Reyes, and others

co-presented with the Vietnamese Artists Collective as part of the Litquake festival
emceed by Marilyn Yu-Li

Join KSW and Litquake at a one-hour literary tour de force, featuring Tony Cuong Tuan Luong, Mako Matsuda, Anh-Hoa Thi Nguyen, Shailja Patel, and Barbara Jane Reyes. The event is part of the finale Litcrawl event of the annual Litquake festival.

Date/Time:            Saturday, October 14th , 2006; 7.15 - 8.15pm (sharp!).

Location:               New College Theater, 777 Valencia Street, San Francisco

Cost:                      Free.

Info:                        sam@kearnystreet.org; 415.503.0520; www.kearnystreet.org

About the artists
Tony Cuong Tuan Luong graduated from San Francisco State University with degrees in Asian American studies and creative writing. He dedicates himself to the proliferation of imagination, understanding of cultures, and enjoyment of stories. He’s a contributor and editor for AS IS: A Collection of Literary and Visual Art by Emerging Vietnamese Americans.

Mako Matsuda is an M.A. candidate in creative writing: poetry at San Francisco State University. He co-hosted a weekly reading series called The Velvet Revolution during the Fall 2005 and Spring 2006 semesters. His poetry can be found in Lodestar Quarterly, Maganda, and The Yellow Journal.

Anh-Hoa Thi Nguyen holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from Mills College. She has been published in the Asian Pacific American Journal, Nha Magazine, and AS IS: A Collection of Literary and Visual Art by Emerging Vietnamese Americans. She is the founder of Pomelo Press and a member of the Vietnamese Artists Collective.

Shailja Patel is an Asian-African poet and spoken-word theater artist. Her one-woman show, Migritude, premieres November 5, at La Peña in Berkeley. Excerpts from Migritude have toured to enthusiastic reception in Vienna, Italy, Nairobi, and Zanzibar. CNN describes Shailja as an artist who exemplifies globalization as a people-centred phenomenon of migration and exchange.

Barbara Jane Reyes is the author of Gravities of Center (Arkipelago, 2003) and Poeta en San Francisco (Tinfish, 2005), for which she received the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets.

About the emcee
Marilyn Yu-Li has been working in the SF arts community since 1998.  At KSW, she helped organize the first few APAtures, participated in workshops and salon, and currently serves as the Board Co-Chair.  She was one of the founders of Locus Arts and was the Managing Director at the Galeria de la Raza. During the day she works in development at Lenders for Community Development, a nonprofit financial institution.  At night she designs and makes custom clothing.  She was recently featured on the TV show "The Job" and was  voted Best APA Designer in the Bay Area by Asian Week readers.  She has a BFA in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design and a Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

About the Vietnamese Artists Collective
(VAC) is a group of artists of Vietnamese descent in the Bay Area who create and support multi-genre work. The group formed in winter of 2004 and is an all volunteer run collective.

For more information, please visit vacollective.org

About Litquake
Litquake is a San Francisco literary festival with heart, guts and a taste for the wilder side of the literary world. Today, Litquake represents a lively overview of San Francisco’s thriving literary scene. Our live events embrace the Bay Area writing community, and give fans the opportunity to hear quality literature straight from the author’s mouth. Litquake is produced by the Litquake Literary project, and could not exist without its relationship with sponsors, including fiscal sponsor Intersection for the Arts and allied literary and community groups. For more information please visit www.litquake.org.

Putting the There in There: Writing about place
with Thy Tran

October 16 - November 20, 2006;

Mondays, 7 - 9.30 PM at Kearny Street Workshop's space180, 180 Capp Street (@17th street ), San Francisco

Class size: minimum of 7, maximum of 12.
Cost: $195 non-members, $175 members.

Register by check or credit card. Registration information follows class description and instructor bio.

Class Description:
Join us for a six-week workshop about the world outside. Whether your story shows the NE corner of 6th and Mission or a strawberry field overlooking the Pacific or your grandfather's garage, you'll learn to write about an actual location. More than simply providing a setting, a place that is richly written provides meaning, dimension and unity. Use facts to create texture and research to ensure accuracy.

This is not a memoir class. Our emphasis will be on developing your skills of observation, conveying a wide range of sensory details and finding the stories hidden in a specific environment. Expect to offer and receive constructive comments in a workshop format, to invest at least two hours outside of class exploring a specific location of your choice, and to complete at least one 1200-word piece. This class will culminate in an anthology under the KSW imprint and a reading open to the public. While literary nonfiction is the general format of instruction, fiction writers who want to convey a strong sense of place in their stories will also find these techniques useful.

About the instructor:
Thy Tran is a freelance writer whose features have appeared in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle. She has co-authored diverse books, from Asia in the San Francisco Bay Area: A Cultural Travel Guide (Avalon, 2004) to the award-winning Kitchen Companion (Weldon Owen, 2001). In her free time, she sets type for her Kelsey printing press, fries dough, or travels away as far as she can.

To register with credit card, please click on one of the buttons below. To register by check, please send a check or money order for full amount to KSW, 180 capp street #5, san francisco, ca 94110, and include your full name and contact info:

General workshop registration (non-KSW members):

KSW member workshop registration:

contact Samantha Chanse at 415.503.0520 or sam@kearnystreet.org for more information.