USAAF 2020 x KSW Presents : Aria Aber & Monica Sok

On 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.

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Zoombastic: Virtual Teaching with Joy

In 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!

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Slide Slam

Co-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.

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