Experience a taste of APAture!

Join us in supporting KSW's 9th annual festival showcasing the art of local, emerging Asian Pacific American artists at Namu Restaurant next Wednesday, August 1st, 6.30 - 9.30pm. The evening will feature culinary delights carefully selected for KSW, cocktail service, live musical performances by Aireene Espiritu and Rick Di Dia, artwork by Thien Pham, Truong Tran, Lucy Kalyani Lin, and Derek Chung, and a sneak preview of the APAture 2007 design by Thien Pham. In addition to this unique evening of food and art, you'll also receive a free one-year membership to KSW, entitling you to discounts and special invitations and offers from KSW. You can reserve your seat by scrolling down or clicking here and purchasing a ticket online today.

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You are invited to join us for an intimate gathering and delectable fundraiser on Wednesday, August 1st: an evening of art, dinner, cocktails, and music at Namu, one of the Richmond District's newest restaurants.

Left: Taste of APAture graphic modified from original cover artwork by Thien Pham for KSW's Eating our words chapbook.

Chef Manual Ek will prepare a special menu of Korean, Japanese and California-inspired dishes exclusively for KSW. Come mingle with us, view and bid on work from KSW artists including Truong Tran, Thien Pham, Lucy Kalyani Lin, and Derek Chung, and hear a special performance from Aireene Espiritu and Rick Di Dia in this intimate space.

You'll also be treated to a special preview of the APAture 2007 graphic design by Thien Pham.

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Wednesday, August 1
Namu
439 Balboa Street (between 5th and 6th avenues)

cocktails and silent auction bidding begin at 6:30; dinner served at 7:30.

The cost of the full evening, including Namu signature cocktail, dinner, and entertainment, is $75. Or support us at the $100 level and receive an additional KSW gift and admission to an APAture 2007 VIP reception. By reserving your seat at the Taste of APAture fundraiser, you will receive an annual membership at KSW, an additional value of $35. KSW members receive discounts on most workshops, publications, and events, as well as other benefits.

Tickets are limited and will be available by pre-sale only.

One Namu signature cocktail is included with dinner; cash bar thereafter. We will accommodate all dietary restrictions if notified by July 25th, 2007.

To join us this evening and support KSW's 9th annual APAture, please click on one of the buttons below, or contact KSW at 415.503.0520 or apature@kearnystreet.org to reserve a seat.

Space is limited. Please reserve your seat by July 26th.

To join us at the $75 level, please click below:

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To join us at the $100 level, please click below:

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All proceeds will fund the 2007 APAture Festival which will be held from September 18 – 29, 2007 in venues throughout the Mission District.

About KSW and KSW's APAture Festival

Kearny Street Workshop's APAture is an annual multidisciplinary arts festival presenting the work of emerging Asian Pacific American (APA) artists living and/or working in the San Francisco Bay Area.

For more information please visit www.apature.org

Kearny Street Workshop is the country's oldest multidisciplinary Asian Pacific American (APA) arts organization. Our mission is to produce and present art that enriches and empowers APA communities. Our vision is to achieve a more just society by connecting APA artists with community members to give voice to our cultural, historical, and contemporary issues. Founded in 1972 at the International Hotel on Kearny Street in San Francisco's Chinatown/Manilatown, KSW is now based at KSW's space180 at 180 Capp Street in the Mission District. In 2007, KSW celebrates its 35th anniversary. For more information, please visit www.kearnystreet.org.

About the artists

Derek Chung is a photographer, painter and co-founder of Tactile Pictures, an twelve-year old digital design studio in San Francisco.
At Tactile, he created the Tactile12000 MP3 DJ software, featured in Print Magazine's Digital Design Annual in 2000. He helped create the Global Arcade web site in 1998 at an artist residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada. In 2000, he helped produce the Whirled Bank website to critically analyze the role of the World Bank in global poverty. Derek was also the Interim Managing Director of Kearny Street Workshop in 2006 and has been a visual art curator for KSW's
APAture and space180 gallery since 2003, and was a member of the screening committee for the 2006 San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. He exhibits work at nonprofit fundraisers, including benefits for KSW, Galeria de la Raza, The Lab, Small Desk Press and Jane Kim for School Board.

Poaching from the blues, jazz, folk ballads, stomps, bluegrass and hollars, RICK DI DIA and AIREENE ESPIRITU pick, strum, stomp, slide and sing their own brand of stripped down Americana. By taking pieces of the past; your story, my story, our ancestor's stories, they paint pictures of places and people's lives, the day-to-days, little stories from different times and cobble them together to make the old sound new in an old sort of way.

Lucy Kalyani Lin is a digital video installation artist currently living in San Francisco, CA. She graduated from UC Berkeley with a B.A. in Fine Arts in 2005. As another transplant from southern California, she has no plans of returning. Lucy has recently become a vegetarian after watching a video clip on foie gras.

Thien Pham is a comic book and visual artist, as well as the founder of Global Hobo, a grassroots enterprise that promotes handmade and hard-to-find comics and also includes a small studio for silkscreening and book-making.

Truong Tran is poet and visual artist who received his undergraduate education at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and his MFA at San Francisco State University. He is the recipient of poetry fellowships from the Arts Council of Santa Clara, the California Arts Council, the Creative Work Fund and The San Franciso Arts Commission. His poems have been published in numerous literary journals including ZYZZYVA, The American Voice, Crazyhorse, Prairie Schooner, Poetry East, ACM (Another Chicago Magazine) and The North Dakota Quarterly. He is the author of three collections of poetry including Placing The
Accents, The Book of Perceptions and dust and concscience which recently received the Poetry Center Book Award. Truong is currently living in San Francisco and teaching poetry at San Francisco State University, Mills College, and elsewhere.



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