Saturday, September 22 Workshop Schedule

Saturday, 9/22: 12:00-3:00 pm
Writing for Theater with Philip Kan Gotanda:
Plays, Scenes and Monologues - Getting to the meat of the matter; How to say what you want to say
KSW's space180, 180 Capp Street (btwn. 16th and 17th ), 3rd floor
($10)

The class will examine how to write so there is a structure, shape and narrative to the storytelling. Each participant will bring in a piece of work that will be worked on during the workshop.

Each participant submit to instructor by e-mail, a piece of writing they'd like to work on. The scene or monologue should be sent at least a few days before the class to allow for the instructor to review it. Email: joeozu@aol.com

About the Instructor:
Over the last three decades, playwright Philip Kan Gotanda has been a major influence in the broadening of our definition of theater in America. Through his plays and advocacy, he has been instrumental in bringing stories of Asians in the United States to mainstream American theater as well as to Europe and Asia. The creator of one of the largest bodies of Asian American-themed work, his plays are studied and performed at universities and schools across the country.

Mr. Gotanda wrote the text and directed the production of Maestro Kent Nagano’s MANZANAR: AN AMERICAN STORY, an original symphonic work with narration. His newest work, AFTER THE WAR, recently premiered at the American Conservatory Theatre. ATW chronicles San Francisco’s Japantown in the late 40’s when Japanese Americans returning from the Internment Camps encountered a flourishing African American jazz scene. A Japanese translation of his play, SISTERS MATSUMOTO, opened in Tokyo with the Mingei Geikidan Company.

Mr. Gotanda is a respected independent filmmaker; his works are seen in film festivals around the world. His most recent film, LIFE TASTES GOOD, was presented at the Sundance Film Festival and is available on DVD. It can be seen on the Independent Film Channel. Along with executive producers, Dale Minami and Diane Takei, he is currently developing his newest film with their production company, Joe Ozu Films

Mr. Gotanda holds a law degree from Hastings College of Law, studied pottery in Japan with the late Hiroshi Seto and resides in Berkeley with his actress-producer wife, Diane Takei . His newest collection of plays, NO MORE CHERRY BLOSSOMS, is published by the University of Washington Press. www.philipkangotanda.com, www.lifetastesgoodmovie.com.

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Saturday, 9/22: 3.30 - 6.30pm
Writing Short Stories
With Mary Anne Mohanraj
Actor's Center of San Francisco, 180 Capp Streeet, 2nd floor
($10)

In this three-hour workshop, we'll explore primary elements of the short story: language, dialogue, setting, plot, theme, and structure. We'll create several short pieces of writing, and participants will leave the workshop with material to draft a complete short story. As time permits, we'll also address some aspects of fiction writing specific to the Asian-American writing experience. This workshop is appropriate for all levels.

About the Instructor:
Mary Anne Mohanraj received her Ph.D. from the University of Utah, specializing in post-colonial literature and creative writing. She is the author of several books, including her dissertation book, BODIES IN MOTION (HarperCollins 2005), an exploration of sexuality, marriage, and Sri Lankan/American immigrant concerns; the collection of stories was a finalist for the Asian American Book Awards. Mohanraj has recently received an Illinois Arts Council fellowship in Prose, a Neff fellowship in English, a Steffenson-Canon fellowship in the Humanities, and the Scowcroft Prize for Fiction.Mohanraj will be teaching fiction and Asian-American literature in 2008 at Northwestern University. She has previously taught creative writing and literature at Roosevelt University and the University of Utah. Her academic research includes an exploration of black masculinity in the work of horror writer Tananarive Due. Mohanraj currently serves as Director of both the SPECULATIVE LITERATURE FOUNDATION (www.speculativeliterature.org) and of DESILIT (www.desilit.org). She lives in Chicago and is currently writing a creative nonfiction travelogue/memoir, tentative titled ARBITRARY PASSIONS, as well as a YA fantasy novel. Learn more at http:// www.maryannemohanraj.com.

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Saturday, 9/22: 3:30-5:00 pm
Introduction to Linoleum Block Printing with Patricia Wakida: Part 1 (of 2)
(2-day workshop)
KSW's space180, 180 Capp Street (btwn. 16th and 17th ), 3rd floor
($10 + $20 materials fee, 5 students MAX
THIS WORKSHOP IS FULL. PLEASE CONTACT KSW REGARDING WAIT LIST IF INTERESTED.

Learn the basics of linoleum-block design, carving and printing. You'll get tips on using the tools, transferring images to the block and using patterning and line thickness to achieve visual effects. You'll receive a linoleum block to practice on and a linoleum cutter (with several interchangeable blades) to keep! we'll spend the first day going over some basic lino background and looking at examples, and transferring, starting the carving, and day two finishing our blocks and printing!

Workshop attendees should bring an image or two to carve (a xerox is preferred, everything else we can use tracing paper to transfer by hand) and $20 materials fee. If they have xacto knives, bring one-they come in handy, and anyone who wants to experiment with printing onto fabric, bring fabric to print on (esp if they want to try on t-shirts or something).

Students will also need to bring some kind of design or image they want to print and carve to the class, and if they want to try to print onto fabric, something to print onto on the second day.

This workshop is a two-day workshop. Students are required to attend both sessions. The second session is on Sunday, September 23, 3:30-5:00 pm.

About the Instructor:
Patricia Wakida has been arduously carving and printing linoleum blocks for nearly ten years. She first came across the medium in the high mountains of Gifu, Japan, when a fellow artist introduced her to unmounted battleship linoleum and sent her off with a candle and a blade to work. She now cranks out book illustrations, posters, cards, and calendars with her trusty knives under the 'wasabi press' imprint. She is also a diehard letterpress printer and bookbinder, and an active member of the Bay Area's thriving book arts community. Her webpage is www.wasabipress.com.

THIS WORKSHOP IS FULL. PLEASE CONTACT KSW REGARDING WAIT LIST IF INTERESTED.

Sunday, September 23 Workshop Schedule

Sunday, 9/23: 12:00-1:30 pm
Blogging 101 with Glenda Bautista
KSW's space180, 180 Capp Street (btwn. 16th and 17th ), 3rd floor
($10)

Come explore D.I.Y. (do-it-yourself) online publishing. This workshop will explain how weblogs (or "blogs") work and will also explore different content types and genres, as well as their impact on today's media landscape. It will also offer practical technical advice and the necessary steps to set up, create, and maintain your blog.

Make your very own blog (writing), photoblog (photographs), podcast (audio), or videoblog/vlog (video) --- or learn how to make a blog of with mixed media. Any artist of any medium make a site quickly and easily, using free tools to post dynamic content on the web.

Learn how you can expose your work to a broader audience. Start a conversation, find your online voice, work with basic blogging techniques and methods, build and audience and community, figure out how to mine up similar content you like on the web, understand how online traffic and search engines work --- these topics and many more will be covered in this workshop.

A laptop is suggested, but not required. No technical expertise is necessary

About the Instructor
New York City-born and bred technologist Glenda Bautista arrived in the Bay Area in 2003, on a road paved with pixels. She has been writing, designing, and developing Agendacide.com since 1998 and more recently launched a videoblog at glenda.wordpress.com. Her column "Bi-Coastal Disorder" also appears in the Chicago-based webzine Negative Waves.

A product manager and ad systems architect by profession, Glenda has specialized in online media and search taxonomies for most of her career at companies such as news media titan McClatchy Company, online ad giant DoubleClick, and blog search start-up Technorati. As a writer, journalist and artist by education, her personal and professional mission is to fuse art and science through the creation of both media and technologies.

Glenda is a current Co-Director of Locus Arts. She attributes her own cultural awareness as being cultivated through community activism experiences from her native East Coast. With past stints as Editor-in-Chief of the Filipino Intercollegiate Networking Dialogue (FIND) (in addition to Chair of FIND District 4), National President of Sigma Psi Zeta Sorority, and an officer of Liga Filipina at The University at Albany, she balanced managing station operations, producing, and DJing at her college radio station, WCDB Albany.

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Sunday, 9/23: 2:00-3:00 pm
Community Development through Community Art with Rene Yung
KSW's space180, 180 Capp Street (btwn. 16th and 17th ), 3rd floor
($10)

Community-based practice has a long-standing history in the arts, but current funding shortages and socio-political crises pose critical challenges to the field. How do we respond as a cultural community? How do we innovate new ways to deploy cultural practices as agents for social change?

This workshop is for cultural workers in all disciplines—visual, literary, theater, performance, media arts, as well as for community organizations and funders. We will discuss central issues to community cultural practice, including objectives, logistics, and ethics, and brainstorm about collaborations and approaches to build critical mass for new community strategies.

Requirements: Bring notebook and pen, a social issue that you feel is important to you to address, and your definition of “community.”

About the Instructor
Rene Yung is a San Francisco-based artist, writer, and designer, whose cross-disciplinary works span studio and socially-engaged practices. She works with communities to address social issues through cultural processes that articulate community identity, history, and sense of place in innovative creative forms. A native of Hong Kong, Yung has exhibited nationally and internationally, including TransCulture, part of the 46th Venice Biennale. Rene has conducted numerous community cultural development projects, including collaborations with the Wing Luke Asian Museum, Seattle, and On Lok Senior Health, San Francisco, and received public art commissions from agencies in San Francisco, Oakland, and Seattle. She is currently working on public art for the new East Oakland Community Library in Oakland, CA. She also provides content development consultation for cultural institutions, including permanent exhibition conceptual development for the new Maya Lin-designed home of the Museum of Chinese in the Americas, New York. Her paper on community cultural development delivered to Grantmakers In the Arts was recently published by in the GIA Reader. A finalist nominee for the Loeb Fellowship at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Yung received a B.A. in Art from Stanford University, and is the recipient of a Creative Work Fund award.

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3:30-5:00 pm
Introduction to Linoleum Block Printing: Part 2 (of 2)
(2-day workshop)
KSW's space180, 180 Capp Street (btwn. 16th and 17th ), 3rd floor
($10 + $20 materials fee, 5 students MAX)
THIS WORKSHOP IS FULL. PLEASE CONTACT KSW REGARDING WAIT LIST IF INTERESTED.

Learn the basics of linoleum-block design, carving and printing. You'll get tips on using the tools, transferring images to the block and using patterning and line thickness to achieve visual effects. You'll receive a linoleum block to practice on and a linoleum cutter (with several interchangeable blades) to keep! we'll spend the first day going over some basic lino background and looking at examples, and transferring, starting the carving, and day two finishing our blocks and printing!

Workshop attendees should bring an image or two to carve (a xerox is preferred, everything else we can use tracing paper to transfer by hand) and $20 materials fee. If they have xacto knives, bring one-they come in handy, and anyone who wants to experiment with printing onto fabric, bring fabric to print on (esp if they want to try on t-shirts or something).

Students will also need to bring some kind of design or image they want to print and carve to the class, and if they want to try to print onto fabric, something to print onto on the second day.

This workshop is a two-day workshop. Students are required to attend both sessions. The second session is on Sunday, September 23, 3:30-5:00 pm.

About the Instructor:
Patricia Wakida has been arduously carving and printing linoleum blocks for nearly ten years. She first came across the medium in the high mountains of Gifu, Japan, when a fellow artist introduced her to unmounted battleship linoleum and sent her off with a candle and a blade to work. She now cranks out book illustrations, posters, cards, and calendars with her trusty knives under the 'wasabi press' imprint. She is also a diehard letterpress printer and bookbinder, and an active member of the Bay Area's thriving book arts community. Her webpage is www.wasabipress.com.

THIS WORKSHOP IS FULL. PLEASE CONTACT KSW REGARDING WAIT LIST IF INTERESTED.

Sunday, Sept. 23, 2007, 5pm

Fetish Friendships: interracial socializing and the dangers of being used
Performance and Panel Discussion

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, Ryan Yip, and Glenda Bautista, 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.

View panelist, moderator, and artist bios

Buy Tickets at manja.org

Monday, 9/24: 6:30-7:30
Combatting Hate: API Hate Crimes and Self Defense Workshop with Jenny Huang and Mateo Reyes
Co-Sponsored by the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum (NAPAWF)
KSW's space180, 180 Capp Street (btwn. 16th and 17th ), 3rd floor
($10)

This two-part workshop will begin with a discussion led by Jenny Huang, National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum - Bay Area Chapter Co-Chair, about hate crimes against APA women who are targeted on the basis of their race for sex offenses. Participants will learn more about these disturbing crimes, critique the failed response of law enforcement and the media, and discuss ways to take action on incidents happening right here in the Bay Area. The second part of the workshop will be an interactive self-defense workshop lead by Mateo Reyes, an experienced martial arts instructor based in the Bay Area.

About the Instructors:
National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum ( NAPAWF) is the only national, multi-issue APA women's organization in the country. NAPAWF's mission is to build a movement to advance social justice and human rights for APA women and girls. http://www.napawf.org

Jenny Huang is the co-chair of the Bay Area Chapter of NAPAWF and a founding partner of Justice First, LLP, a public interest law firm in Oakland. In both capacities, Jenny advocates for the prosecution of hate crimes in sex offense cases targeting API women on the basis of race. Jenny has taught courses on hate crimes against API women at Golden Gate and Boalt Law Schools and she seeks to end the silence around these disturbing crimes with her public speaking, writing, and making lots of noise. She has dedicated her entire career to public interest law and serving underprivileged communities.

Mateo Reyes has been studying martial arts for 14 years. His base style is Tae Kwon Do and is currently the Head Instructor/Manager at Satori Academy of Martial Arts in the East Bay teaching Kajukenbo.

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Tuesday, September 25 Panel

6:30-9:30 pm
Waterbabies Film & Panel
Kearny Street Workshop space 180, 180 Capp Street (btwn. 16th and 17th ), 3rd floor
($10)

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.

About the Panelists:
Lina Hoshino is a filmmaker and new media designer whose films, including the award winning Story of Margo, In God's House: Asian American Lesbian and Gay Families in the Church and Caught in Between: What to Call Home in Times of War screened internationally in many film festivals. As a co-founder of Many Threads and Tactile Pictures, Lina has led creative and design efforts for many community organizations. Her mother is from Taiwan and her father is from Japan. Lina was born in the U.S. grew up living in the U.S., Japan, and France. She studied painting and sculpture at Carnegie Mellon University.

Deborah Lee is program director of the PANA Institute (Institute for Leadership Development and Study of Pacific Asian North American Religion) at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley and coordinator of the Civil Liberty and Faith project. She is a minister in the United Church of Christ.

Maria Nakae is the Alliance Building Coordinator and a New Voices Fellow at Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice (ACRJ). Her work at ACRJ focuses on building alliances, conducting trainings, and developing tools and resources to advance the reproductive justice movement. Prior to joining ACRJ, Maria worked with community- and school-based programs to increase access to reproductive health services for youth in immigrant communities and communities of color. She holds a BA in Psychology from New York University and a Masters in Public Health from UC Berkeley.

Currently, Talia coordinates the day-to-day operations of Exhale's programs which include the nation's first nonjudgmental post-abortion talkline, regional trainings for health care providers, and Exhale's bilingual abortion zine. Prior to joining Exhale, Talia served as administrative staff for the California Pan-Ethnic Health Network and as Associate Clinic Manager at the Women's Community Clinic in San Francisco. She is currently getting her Masters in Women's Spirituality at New College of California.

Elsa Valmidiano is a volunteer after-abortion counselor since July 2006. She has also contributed to Exhale as a writer to Exhale’s bilingual abortion zine, Our Truths-Nuestras Verdades. Elsa continues to volunteer for various feminist and pro-choice organizations throughout the Bay Area such as Planned Parenthood Golden Gate, ACCESS, and the GABRIELA Network. She holds a BA in Literature from UC San Diego and a law degree from Syracuse University.

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Saturday, September 29 Workshop Schedule

Saturday, 9/29: 5.30 - 7pm
Make Your Own Tote Bag! with Jane Chen
Kearny Street Workshop space 180, 180 Capp Street (btwn. 16 th and 17 th ), 3rd floor
($10)

Design and make your own tote bag from old APAture  tee-shirts in this fun workshop (an APAture classic, in fact)!

About the Instructor:
Jane Chen, creator of The Chinese Clown Cabaret, is a Chinese-American physical theater artist and singer. A graduate of Yale University and the Dell'Arte International  School of Physical Theater, Jane has created and performed original theater which combines such varied forms as theatrical clowning, opera, and puppetry.  She performed the opera aria and shadow puppet play La Mamma Morta, in collaboration with puppeteers Janaki Ranpura and Lily Tsai at the APAture (a Window on the Art of Young Asian Pacific Americans) Festival and PuppetLOVE! Festival of Radical Puppetry in 2001. In 2002 she toured the San Francisco Fringe and Seattle Fringe Festivals as well as APAture 2002 with Beneath Sita's Belly, an original physical theater, musical, and shadow puppet retelling of the Hindu epic The Ramayana, with Patty Gallagher and Janaki Ranpura. In 2003 Jane was chosen as Featured Artist at the APAture Festival, performing Sea Life Symphony, an original clown piece. Last year, she debuted her newest show The Chinese Clown Cabaret with her mother Tair Chen, at the Dell'Arte Edgefest and 2004 San Francisco Fringe Festival, where the show won Best Clown Show. Jane and her mother return to the SF Fringe this September, presenting their newest incarnation of The Chinese Clown Cabaret.

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Saturday, 9/29:
4:00-5:30 pm
Background Acting with Goldie Chan
Kearny Street Workshop space 180, 180 Capp Street (btwn. 16 th and 17 th ), 3rd floor
($10)

In this workshop, Goldie Chan will share her experiences as a background actor (i.e. an extra or small role) in both corporate and indie commercials and entertainment productions. She will teach audience members how to get started in background acting and possibly work toward larger roles if desired.

Unlike most actors’ workshops, which focus on landing the starring role of a production, this workshop is relaxed and meant for people with a more casual interest in being in film and are motivated more so by personal enrichment rather than fame and fortune.

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