This Saturday KSW will be tabling at the Hungry Ghost Festival in SF Chinatown!
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Join us for the closing reception of Trust the Tides, from the inaugural AVA Lab cohort.
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The Bay Area Aloha Festival held this August 10-11, 2024. We are still at the San Mateo County Event Center (home of the San Mateo County Fair) in the heart of the San Francisco Bay Area. $5 suggested admission with children 12 & under FREE. Festival parking will be $20 per vehicle and encourage everyone to carpool.
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Join us for an evening of poetry, prose, and karaoke! This fun event will feature Christine Imperial (Author of Mistaken for an Empire), Trust the Tides exhibiting artist Michelle Lin, KSW's very own Jason Bayani, and more singer-readers to be announced.
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BomBay to the Bay: A Garba Dance Festival featuring live music by Bay Area garba legends Madhvi and Asim Mehta, a dance lesson, community dancing, and artists to explore. Garba is a Gujarati indigenous and folk dance practiced by all ages to live drumming, singing, and instrumentals during joyous celebrations.
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Please join Suzanne Tay-Kelley and Maw Shein Win for a Maker, Mentor, Muse Summer Salon Found & Lost: Generating New Work Inspired by Southeast Asian/Southeast Asian American Poetry & Art on Saturday, August 3rd, noon to 2:00pm PT.
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Join us on July 27th for the 12th annual Beast Crawl Literary Festival in Oakland! We're thrilled to curate a round of incredible poets for this free, dynamic celebration of literary arts.
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Join us for a day of wellness, centering, and connection with Yvonne Yeh, Peekaboo, and Mihee Kim.
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Indigenous Poets from Oceania and Turtle Island (the United States) will share poetry and stories that honor ancestral connections to land and water. Facilitated by Fuifuilupe Niumeitolu and Kim Shuck, the program’s readers include Robert Sullivan, Jayna Lizama, Nicola Andrews, Mahealani Ahia and Lehua M. Taitano.
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Kearny Street Workshop presents Trust the Tides, an exhibition by the AVA (APA Visual Artists) Lab inaugural cohort.
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Let’s intersect at #Frameline48 June 19-29! Explore where unique expressions meet universal emotions with 11 days of world-renowned queer films, performances, and parties. Journey together across the intersections of LGBTQ+ identities and to theaters around the Bay Area. Discover more at frameline.org and @framelinefest
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Join us in celebrating the launch of the Interdisciplinary Writers Lab chapbook, put together by members of the 2023 cohort! This event will feature readings of poetry, nonfiction, and fiction by contributors to the chapbook, as well as special performances by Starlight Uranus and Mama Ganuush, who will also be MC'ing the event. Light food and drink will be provided, with alcoholic beverages available for purchase. Chapbooks will be available for purchase.
Bring your good vibe and join us for a special family-friendly event in San Francisco, California, with FREE Entry and FREE parking in two lots.
Celebrate and learn about Polynesian (Hawaii, Samoa, Tonga, Tahiti, Cook Islands and New Zealand), Melanesian (Fiji), and Micronesian (Guåhan) islands in the South Pacific through cultural dances, songs, crafts, games, merchandise vendors, food, exhibitions, workshops, and more.
So come join the fun, reunite with others, make new friends, and leave with feeling like part of one big happy family!
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DarkHeart - A Concert Narrative by award-winning artist, singer, and songwriter Golda Sargento is a live theatrical experience that questions whether art can survive in a post-apocalyptic world.
Understudy is a generative poetry workshop and archival project centering the narratives of five radical Asian American artists and thinkers with roots in the Bay Area
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This special edition of KSW Presents is a gathering of community and healing featuring award winning poet, Diana Khoi Nguyen.
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花和霧 flowers and fog is an intergenerational performance duet between melissa lewis wong and their mother Joy Chenyu Lewis.
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Cultural stigmas and intergenerational traumas can complicate mental health journeys, but new approaches offer hope for holistic healing. On May 16th join KQED and CAAMFest to honor community resilience.
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