On Thursday, December 10, join Kearny Street Workshop in a virtual celebration of Asian Pacific American art, and to help us continue to create spaces where artists render hope, mutual care, and visions for a better world we believe can and will exist.
Read MoreAPAture will be postponed until it is safe to hold this event. We can’t wait until we can share this space with you again.
Read MoreKearny Street Workshop, in collaboration with Asian Art Museum, presented Interdisciplinary Writers Lab (IWL), a 3-month, multi-genre master class for local writers of color scheduled during summer 2020. IWL is a unique program that challenges emerging writers to thoroughly explore and develop their writing skills and styles across multiple genres.
Read MoreKSW's "Navigating Poetics" class, taught by poet and visual artist Truong Tran, is hosting a final student reading to showcase their work!
Read MoreIn this participatory ritual, you are invited to join in offerings of language, letters, food, and kinship between poets Jennifer S. Cheng, Monica Sok, and Muriel Leung. In invoking a communal space of poetry and care, we hope to acknowledge the connection between making art, politics, and the intimacies of Asian American friendships.
Read MoreOn Saturday, June 13, as part of API Cultural Center of San Francisco's United States of Asian America Festival, KSW Presents Aria Aber, author of Hard Damages (University of Nebraska Press, 2019), and Monica Sok, author of A Nail the Evening Hangs On (Copper Canyon Press. 2020). Award-winning poets and children of refugees, their books explore the impact of inherited wars—Aber, through interrogating historical and personal implications of Afghan American relations, and Sok, through myth- and memory-making of Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge regime.
Read MoreIn this short introduction, we will learn the basics of establishing a welcoming and humanizing online learning community. You will learn the hows and whys behind asynchronous and synchronous instruction, how to plan for full engagement of students, and how to use key tools like Zoom, Box, and Google Drive to support learning while holding space for vulnerability. You are also going to have fun, from the introductions to our closing appreciation practice and learn how to bring that joy to online teaching!
Read MoreJoin us for baysia: The Virtual Preview, a 3 night online series featuring a sneak peek at the rising artists and creatives of the Bay Area from 4/2-4/4.
Read MoreFrom SF Chronicle’s Rising Star Chef, Francis Ang of Pinoy Heritage delivers his Chinoy (Chinese and Filipino) inspired menu for baysia.
Read MoreCo-presented by the Asian American Women Artists Association (AAWAA) and Kearny Street Workshop, join us for our annual SLIDE SLAM where AAWAA Artists Members and other invited Asian American women artists present their work in a rapid-fire format of 4 slides in 4 minutes.
Read MoreJoin us for the 5th annual Asian American Writers' Caucus at AWP 2020! This town hall-style community gathering is a chance to share resources, build networks, and talk about collective opportunities and responsibilities--what we can make and do together.
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