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apature 2007: schedule
Partnering venues and organizations for this year's APAture festival include the Actors Center of San Francisco, Asian American Womens Artists Association, BottleCapp, Chinese Culture Center, Intersection for the Arts, The Make-out Room, Manilatown Heritage Foundation, National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum, the Victoria Theatre, and ZYZZYVA. Map
Space is limited at many venues this year! To make sure you get in to see the shows, purchase advance tickets & discount festival passes through manja.org.
Daily Schedule (click each event for more info)
Tuesday, September 18 Gallery Opening/APAture Kick-Off featuring Misako Inaoka at KSW's space180
Wednesday, September 19 Literary & Performance at Intersection for the Arts
Thursday, September 20 Literary & Performance featuring Joel Barraquiel Tan at The Lab
Friday, September 21 Music Showcase featuring Goh Nakamura at the Make-Out Room
Saturday, September 22 Literary & Performance at Manilatown Center
Saturday, September 22 Literary Showcase with ZYZZYVA and AAWAA at KSW's space180
Sunday, September 23 Fetish Friendships: Interracial Socializing & the Dangers of Being Used; Performance and Panel Discussion at Chinese Culture Center
Monday, September 24 Combatting Hate: API Hate Crimes & Self Defense Workshop at KSW's space180
Tuesday, September 25 Water Babies Screening and Panel Discussion at KSW's space180
Tuesday, September 25 KSW Press Literary Reading at the Actor's Center of San Francisco
Wednesday, September 26 Literary & Performance featuring Steamroller Dance Company/Jesse Bie at Intersection for the Arts
Thursday, September 27 Film & Video Screening featuring Emiko Omori at Victoria Theatre
Friday, September 28 Standup Comedy Showcase featuring Tony Dijamco at the Make-Out Room
Saturday, September 29 Comix, Zines & Design Expo featuring Lark Pien at KSW's space180
Saturday, September 29 Open Mic at the Actors Center of San Francisco
Saturday, September 29 Closing Night Gala featuring Prince Gomolvilas at KSW's space180 and BottleCapp
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Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2007, 7 - 9.30pm
Gallery Opening / APAture Kick-Off |
 Kearny Street Workshop's space180
180 Capp St. @17th St., 3rd floor
$5 suggested donation; no one turned away for lack of funds.
Featured Visual Artist: Misako Inaoka
Join us in celebrating the opening night of APAture, and wander through the halls of 180 Capp to explore drawings, paintings, textiles, and installations from over 30 Bay Area visual artists, including featured visual artist Misako Inaoka and sounds by DJ Zita. Sponsored by Charles Chocolates and Rosenblum Cellars.
Featured Artist: Misako Inaoka
Sounds by DJ Zita
Mark Baugh-Sasaki
Sita K. Bhaumik
Catrina Chaos
Ali Dadger
Jenny Eng
Mayumi Hamanaka
Amy M. Ho
Korina Jocson
Lucien Kubo
Susanna Kwan
Mike Lai
Stephanie Lie
Lucy Kalyani Lin
Niana Liu
Juliana Ma
Amal Mongia
Mari Naomi
Ben Nghia Needham
Brian Nguyen
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Hang Phan
Pallavi Sharma
Eve Shen
Jocelyn Shu
Charlene Tan
Truong Tran
Katy Tsai
Scott Tsuchitani
Lawrence Yang
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007, 8pm
Literary & Performance Showcase |
 Intersection for the Arts
446 Valencia St. @16th St.
$10-20 sliding scale ($8-$20 for KSW members)
Arlene Biala, performance & poetry
Iu - Hui Chua, dance
Julia Graham, dance
Han Pham, prose
Rising Asterisk, hip hop performance
Adrien Salazar, theater performance
Joti Singh, dance
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Thursday, September 20, 2007, 8pm
 Literary & Performance
The LAB
2948 16th St. @Capp St.
$10-20 sliding scale ($8-$20 for KSW members)
Featured Literary Artist: Joel Barraquiel Tan
Anamude, music
Ron Quesada, Kulintronica
Saba Waheed, prose
Isabell Zevair, music & performance
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Friday, Sept. 21, 2007, 7:30pm-9:30pm
Music Showcase
 The Make-Out Room
3225 22nd St. @Mission St, San Francisco
$10-20 sliding scale ($8-$20 for KSW members)
Featured Music Artist: Goh Nakamura
Note: The Make-Out Room is 21+
Join us for an eclectic night of pop, indie & acoustic rock from up and coming Bay Area stars including featured music artist Goh Nakamura.
PROGRAM Emceed by Connie Hwong and Lucy Kalyani Lin
Featuring:
Dream Date
Lumaya
and featured music artist Goh Nakamura.
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Saturday, Sept. 22, 2007, 4 - 6pm
Literary & Performance
Manilatown Center
868 Kearny Street
$10-20 sliding scale ($8-$20 for KSW members)
Join us for an afternoon of theater, music, and performance at the site of the original International Hotel.
Pinoy Playback Theatre, improvisational theater performance
Asiantics Improv, long– form improvisation
Robin Sukhadia, music
Jose Flipchild Saenz, songs
Wilson Wong, songs
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Saturday, Sept. 22, 2007, 8pm
Literary Showcase with ZYZZYVA and the Asian American Women's Association
KSW's space180
180 Capp St. @17th St., 3rd floor
$10-20 sliding scale ($8-$20 for KSW members)
Join us for an evening of literary readings featuring some of the Bay Area's most promising and distinct voices.
Neelanjana Banerjee
Nicole Bohn
Katherine Ng
Mary Anne Mohanraj
Anh –Hoa Ti Nguyen
Shizue Seigel
Truong Tran
Debbie Yee
Program Emceed by Thy Tran.
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Sunday, Sept. 23, 2007, 5pm
Fetish Friendships: interracial socializing and the dangers of being used
Performance and Panel Discussion
Co-presented with the Chinese Culture Center
750 Kearny Street, 3rd Floor or the hotel
$10-20 sliding scale ($8-$20 for KSW members)
Join us for an excerpt of David Henry Hwang's Bondage, directed by Ryan Yip and performed by Yip and Angela Brown, followed by a panel discussion about interracial relationships.
This panel discussion will explore the complicated dynamics at play in interracial relationships, whether they are friendships, professional relationships, or more intimate relationships. How have we been fetishized by our friends, and how have we fetishized others, for certain ethnic, racial, or other kinds of characteristics? Does this kind of fetishizing/using happen at all, or is it just perception? What does this kind of behavior look like, what is the impact on friendships and on the larger community, and what can we do to address the more disturbing elements of thisbehavior? The panel discussion features panelists Claire Light, Joel Barraquiel Tan, Glenda Bautista, Ryan Yip, and others, and is moderated by Jaime Cortez.
Bondage synopsis:
In a Los Angeles S&M parlor, a dominatrix and her client don costumes that
conceal their faces and ethnicities. These elaborate disguises allow them to
play out fantasies based on racial stereotypes and sexual mythologies: she
pretends to be an African-American woman to his white, liberal man; he
transforms into an Asian-American and she into a blond WASP, etc. They
progress through their power games to expose the arbitrariness of racially
minded thinking. All the while, however, they are haunted by an awareness
that in spite of their efforts, they may be moving towards the most
terrifying reality of all - a true intimacy which transcends the bounds of
race.
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Tuesday, September 25, 6.30pm
Waterbabies Film & Panel
Kearny Street Workshop's space180, 180 Capp Street
(btwn. 16th and 17th), 3rd floor
($10)
 Abortion is a critical issue for API women. Thirty-five percent of pregnancies end in abortion for API women, compared to 18% for white women, representing the
second highest percentage for all racial and ethnic groups. In
addition, from 1994 to 2000, abortion rates fell for all groups
except API women. Yet Asian perspectives - and the cultural stigma
and issues particular to API communities - are rarely heard in
the heated public debate on reproductive rights.
Abortion itself is both intensely personal and intensively politicized.
It brings political and moral judgment to bear on painfully intimate
personal choices -- judgment that can prevent women from making
the best decisions for themselves and from coping with their experiences
in healthy ways.
Come join us at KSW and learn about the Japanese ritual of addressing
the experience of abortion, the API reproductive justice movement
today, and Exhale, a Bay Area hotline and counseling service for
women who have abortions.
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 Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2007, 7 - 9pm
Bunsen Burnt: KSW Press Reading & Chapbook Release
The Actors Center of San Francisco
180 Capp St. @17th St., 2nd floor
$10-20 sliding scale ($8-$20 for KSW members)
Join us for an evening of literary readings and the launch of a new chapbook, Bunsen Burnt, from KSW Press. Featuring readings by Neelanjana Banerjee, Susanna Kwan, Vanessa Huang, Sita K. Bhaumik, and others.
Neelanjana Banerjee
Oscar Bermeo
Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik
Vanessa Huang
Susanna Kwan
Margaret Rhee
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Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2007, 8pm
Intersection for the Arts
446 Valencia St. @16th St.
Featured Movement/Dance Artist: Steamroller Dance Company / Jesse Bie
$10-20 sliding scale ($8-$20 for KSW members)
Join Intersection and KSW for an interdisciplinary evening of music, film, literary, and dance performances, including featured performance artist Steamroller Dance Company and Jesse Bie.
Brandon Bigelow, music
Kate Blaine-LaTerre, Lee Daughterty, Seanne Kempis, Michael Lopez, video
Jennifer Chien, prose
Aireene Espiritu and Rick Di Dia, music
Kirthi Nath, video
Bushra Rehman, poetry,
Diem Vo, video
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Thursday, September 27, 2007, 8pm
Film and Video Night
Victoria Theatre
2961 16th Street, San Francisco
$10-20 sliding scale ($8-$20 for KSW members)
Featured Film Artist: Emiko Omori
Join us for an evening of film and video screenings by Bay Area API filmmakers, including featured artist Emiko Omori, at the Victoria Theatre.
John Fong, Since You’ve Been Ong
Yasmine Gomez, Consumed
Vanessa Huang, pray ting ai fly
Jeffrey Lei, Dick Ho: Asian Male Porn Star
Minette Mangahas, Kiss My Hyphen
Nooshin Navidi, Young Republic
Danilo Parra, music video for Odessa Chen's Kill the lights
Melanie Veloria, My Bad by Kapakahi
Wilson Wong, My Dad the Hairstylist
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Friday, September 28, 2007, 7:30-9:30pm (doors open 7pm)
Comedy Night
The Make-Out Room, 7:30-9:30 pm
3225 22nd St. @Mission St, San Francisco
$10-20 sliding scale ($8-$20 for KSW members)
Note: The Make-Out Room is 21+
Raise the roof and laugh out loud at APAture's exclusive night of comedy with artists including Tony Dijamco, Edwin Li, Tapan Trivedi, Dhaya Lakshminarayanan, Kevin Avery, Mark Zhang, and special guests. Hosted by Samantha Chanse.
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Saturday, Sept. 29, 2007, 12 - 6pm
Comix/Zines and Design Expo
Kearny Street Workshop's space180
180 Capp St. @17th St., 3rd floor
FREE
Featured Expo (Comix & Zines) Artist: Lark Pien
Browse through a medley of comic books, zines, jewelry, clothing, and design from dozens of APAture artists. The expo also includes the work of APAture's featured comic book/zine artist, Lark Pien.
Debora Aoki, comics
Jing Lee Bentley and Mark Miyake, zines
Esy E. Casey, “the nine years for no one” and “1.22.07”, graphic stories
Brian Nguyen, Chosen One, Passion, Starlet, Soul Caster, Nava Knight, comics
MariNaomi, Estrus Comics, comics
Thien Pham, comics
Ben Seto, comics
Alexander Shen, Gashapon Shop, Mr. Goh, other comic works, comics
Philip Van Lieu, Moose River, comics
826 Valencia
Hyphen Magazine
Chinese Culture Center
Annie Yu, Nonscensical, Zine
Isabell Zeviar, Prism Pulse, mixed media
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Saturday, September 29, 6-8pm
Open Mic
The Actors Center of San Francisco
180 Capp St. @17th St., 2nd floor
$5-10 sliding scale suggested; no one turned away for lack of funds
For everyone who missed APAture's submission deadline, or who has fantasized about presenting work to a larger audience but never had the opportunity to follow through, APAture's open mic evening is right up your alley! Musicians, poets, fiction writers, playwrights, and performers of all stripes are encouraged to sign up ahead of time to be part of this special evening. Contact apature@kearnystreet.org for more details.
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Saturday, September 29, 8pm-late
Closing Night Gala
Kearny Street Workshop's space180 and BottleCapp
180 Capp St. @ 17th St., 3rd floor
$10-20 sliding scale ($8-$20 for KSW members)
Featured Theater/Performing Artist: Prince Gomolvilas
Our closing night gala features a wide selection of talent, including featured artist and playwright Prince Gomolvilas. The gala takes place across the third floor of 180 Capp Street, starting off at KSW's space180 and moving cross the hall after 10pm to our neighbors, BottleCapp, for continued performances and music with DJ Similak Chyld.
Maile Arvin
Esther Lee
Danilo Parra, screening of music video for Odessa Chen's "Kill the lights"
Amber Field
Similak Chyld with Irene Faye Duller (AKA Shortyrocwell of the Rhapsodistas)
Prince Gomolvilas
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