APAture

 

APAture is an annual, month-long multidisciplinary arts festival that showcases 75-80 emerging APA artists to an audience of nearly 1,000 in venues throughout SanFrancisco. It draws diverse attendees from across the Bay Area, offering critical platforms for APA art that uplifts APA communities and, in today’s political environment, contributes necessary voices to arts & culture. The receptions are free, while all other showcases are affordably priced.

 
 

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About APAture:

For 25 years, APAture has created a visionary space for emerging APA artists to create meaningful work, driven by community and unfettered by institutional expectations. The art featured in APAture has historically included themes around identity, but also consistently incorporates new technologies and artforms that push the field as well as interrogate art’s role in society. During a political climate when migration, borders, socio-economic disparity, questions of citizenship dictate the public forum, APAture presents the art of innovative, politically engaged, and community-oriented emerging APA artists in the disciplines of performance, music, visual arts, literary arts, book arts, and film.

APAture connects with audiences from all backgrounds hungry for diverse, inclusive, and politically-relevant work. The festival is also geared towards low-mid-income audiences, with affordable and/or free showcases and as mentioned, no on is turned away for lack of funds. APAture’s community is 37% San Francisco-based, 35% Alameda County, 11% Santa Clara County, 5% San Mateo County, 3% rest of the Bay Area and 9% come from outside the Bay Area. APAture draws artist-community back to San Francisco. Qualitative surveys filled out at the festival consistently confirm that audience members appreciate the quality of art and the inclusivity of identities across genders, sexualities, and ethnicities. This festival celebrates both similarities within, and differences between, the diversity of Asian Pacific American communities.