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Activist Imagination: exploring and imagining the past, present and future of activism, the arts, and APA communities
Thursday, April 24 , 2008Kearny Street Workshop presents Activist Imagination: Artist Talkan Activist Imagination event Join Kearny Street Workshop and Activist Imagination artists Bob Hsiang, Donna Keiko Ozawa, and Christine Wong Yap, for a discussion of their work, the exhibition, and the Activist Imagination program. The Artist Talk takes place Thursday, April 24th, at Kearny Street Workshop's space180, located at 180 Capp Street, at 17th Street, San Francisco. More information to be posted. Date & Time: Thursday, April 24th, 2008; 7pm Location: Kearny Street Workshop's space180, 180 Capp Street, 3rd Floor, @ 17th Street, San Francisco Cost: Free and open to the public.
Join the discussion! Please visit our Activist Imagination blog to hear what the artists and other community members are talking about! Click here to view blog » Activist Imagination is an exhibition and series of discussions investigating, exploring, and imagining the past, present, and future of activism. Kearny Street Workshop is collaborating with artists Donna Keiko Ozawa, Bob Hsiang, and Christine Wong Yap, to create a new multimedia exhibition to help mark KSW's 35th anniversary. The exhibit will investigate various forms of activism over the last 35 years, and will also envision creative new forms and expressions of activism that might hold meaning and relevance in the future. The exhibition will take place at KSW's space180 in the Mission District of San Francisco. In keeping with its own history of engaging community issues through art, KSW defines activism to be “any form of civic engagement intended to affect social change.” The exhibit will be the culmination of a year-long exploration of this broadly-conceived notion of activism by Ozama, Hsiang, and Wong Yap. The artists will explore activism’s past, through the KSW’s 35 years of archived materials commemorating the Asian American movement, and its present, through a quarterly open discussion series involving KSW ’s network of community organizing, refugee services, human rights, and other groups. The exhibit will build on the knowledge gathered through this research and provide a space for dialogue around activism. The Activist Imagination project is made possible in part by a grant from the Creative Work Fund through support from the Walter and Elise Haas Fund, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the James Irvine Foundation. Activist Imagination is also supported in part by a grant from the San Francisco Foundation and from KSW's members and individual donors.
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