What does GENERATION mean to you?

GENERATION is our theme for this year’s APAture and our APAture Festival Fundraiser on GiveButter. Hear what our APAture team has to say about the festival theme, APAture’s impact, and why you should donate, buy tickets, and join us this year! Our incredible APAture planning team include Lehua Taitano, Aaron Oculto, and Noelani Piters. “GENERATION allows artists to create from a space where previous touchpoints in our lives coexist (whether in harmony or entropy). I am eager to see how artists posit their work and selfhoods amidst this theme.” - Aaron Oculto, APAture Mentee Coordinator

Any gift of $1000 or more will receive a Festival All Access Pass for this year's APAture plus up to $100 from our KSW Store! Plus our endless appreciation!

$500 or more will receive a Festival All Access Pass for this year's APAture plus a 2026 APAture T-shirt & two-toned mug!
$250 or more will receive a Festival All Access Pass for this year's APAture plus a 2026 APAture T-shirt
$100 or more will receive a Festival All Access Pass for this year's APAture, plus a 2026 APAture two-toned mug
$50 or more will receive a Festival All Access Pass for this year's APAture

KSW Co-Executive Directors, Jason Bayani and Mihee Kim have worked at KSW for 12 years and 8 years, respectively. “When everything around us screams death, and pain, and hardship, artmaking is a mechanism to stay alive, to generate the life force within. This year's theme means: as artists, we create our futures.” - Mihee Kim, KSW Co-Executive Director.

“I think because we place the word, generation, as this marker of time we impose a kind of stasis upon it, but it is meant to be a word that has motion and movement to it. It creates and builds and is full of possibility.” - Jason Bayani, KSW Co-Executive Director.

“GENERATION is a theme indicative of spiralized time: our creative contributions are dependent on the past, present, and future, all working with synchronous kana, or life force. I'm looking forward to seeing how artists respond!” - Lehua, APAture Program & Community Consultant

“The power of this year’s theme, GENERATION, is in the multiplicity it holds. It bridges heritage and inheritance with agency and one’s own creative spirit.” - Noelani Piters, APAture Mentee Coordinator

Want other ways to help? We’re so grateful for all the support with our KSW Store! Your purchase shows the world that KSW and AAPI communities have a place in the futures we envision together!

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