Submissions for IWL 2025 are open until Saturday, March 23rd! We’re excited to announce this year’s instructors including author of the critically acclaimed, Little Gods (HarperCollins 2020), Meng Jin, author of mahogany (2023 Wesleyen Press), and essayist featured in The Atlantic, Guernica, and more, Amanda Machado!
Read MoreIn memory of artist, organizer, and KSW’s former Executive Director, Mark Izu.
Read MoreThanks to you, Kearny Street Workshop raised $28,000, above and beyond our $25,000 goal for “Together, We’ll Make It.”
Read MoreHappy Holidays, friends! There’s still time to give
Read MoreThank you all for supporting KSW throughout this year. We wanted to take a moment to reflect on the many incredible accomplishments and the programs we hosted with your help
Read MoreTo all those who have donated, thank you from the bottom of our hearts. We’ve raised an incredible $17,680 in peer-to-peer fundraisers, pledges from our closest supporters, mailed checks and cash, anonymous donations, and from our incredible monthly donors!
Read MoreThis year, APAture celebrated 25 years of supporting emerging Asian and Pacific Islander artists from across the Bay Area! The APAture General Planning Committee–all volunteers–helped curate, organize, and produce another amazing multidisciplinary arts festival, which featured over 50 artists. Central to the festival was the theme of RETURN.
Read MoreArt has been a beacon, a guide, and a salve when I’ve been lost, in need of hope, and seeking direction. During a tough winter and season in our lives, I believe that art will express the future we need to envision now. We will make it through this together.
Read MoreWe believe art will continue to make up the tapestry of resistance and resilience we need so deeply now, and we’re writing to you because we think you believe this too. We are reaching out on behalf of KSW to ask you to put that belief into action. Calling all friends of KSW: will you start a mini-fundraiser on Give Butter today?
Read MoreWe want to share my heartfelt thanks for your support of Asian Pacific American artists, activists, organizers and our communities. During a time when anti-immigrant, exclusionary frameworks loom on the horizon, and our very existence as Asian Pacific Americans is under threat, thank you for showing up in community, and being a part of what makes KSW a place of connection, belonging, and resistance.
Read MoreOn September 14th the Asian American Literature Festival Collective (AALFC) opened the week-long 2024 Asian American Literary Festival, Cosmic Kinship. Read Nellie Wong's keynote address from the SF Bay Area Book Fair!
Read MoreAPAture 2024 Tickets now on sale!
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