Frances Kai-Hwa Wang

Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Lots of talks coming up!

Lots of talks coming up this semester and spring!

Keynote Speaker UM Dearborn Second Annual Philippine Culture Night (PCN)
Puno ng Buhay: Tree of Life
Saturday, February 15, 6-9pm

UM Dearborn, MI

Joyce Foundation The Artist as Problem Solver III Summit: Examining the Role of the Arts in Inclusive Future Building -- Panelist!
Thurs and Friday, March 26-27, 2020
Bader Philanthropies HQ, Milwaukee, WI

New Detroit’s Multicultural Leadership Series -- Asian American Session
Speaker: Asian American History and Heroes

Thursday, April 9, 2020 9am - 4pm

Korean American Cultural Center, Southfield, MI

Boston Series! Details coming
Bunker Hill Community College? Thurs April 16
Boston University? Friday April 17
Harvard Asia Center, Friday April 17
Pao Center for the Arts, Saturday April 18, "Navigating Community Engagement and Artistic Practice: A Conversation with Wen-Hao Tien and Frances Kai-Hwa Wang"
Arts Emerson and Boston Asian American Film Festival, Saturday April 18
More? invite me!
Thursday-Saturday, April 16-18, 2020
Boston, MA...details coming soon!

University of Michigan Rackham Program in Public Scholarship Institute for Social Change
Speaking on Writing for Public Audiences

May 13, 15, or 18, 2020
Ann Arbor, MI

Detroit Public Television (DPTV) "The Asian Americans" PBS Special community event
Panel on Vincent Chin case

Saturday, May 16, 2020, 1:30-4:30 pm
EMU Tollbridge Center, Novi, MI

And check out all my writing classes at WCC, starting at the end of February
Creative Writing Classes - Washtenaw Community College Division of Economic & Community Development

And cooking classes too! starting in April, May classes will be posted soon
Food and Drink Classes - Washtenaw Community College Division of Economic & Community Development

Sunday, February 9, 2020

10 Books With South Asian Characters You Should Read in 2020 | Teen Vogue

In honor of Lunar New Year and Black History Month

Before “American Dirt,” There Was “The Korean Angela’s Ashes” - Los Angeles Review of Books

Friday, February 7, 2020

Land Artist Creates Ephemeral Stone Art on the Shores of the U.K.

The Book - Writing the Other

Writing the Other | Online Writing Classes and Workshops

American Dirt: Dignity & Equity - David Bowles - Medium

Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Connecting Digital Scholarship Event - Second Annual | Happening @ Michigan

Today! I'll be speaking at UM Graduate Library Wed., February 5, 2020, 9am-1pm, on my Knight Arts Challenge Detroit project with UM Library Digital Humanities to create a digital art archive about the Vincent Chin case

Connecting Digital Scholarship Event - Second Annual | Happening @ Michigan

Connecting Digital Scholarship – Teaching and Technology Collaborative

Very excited to be presenting about my Knight Foundation Knights Art Challenge Detroit funded project "Beyond Vincent Chin: Legacies in Activism and Art" Digital Arts Archive to be housed at University of Michigan Library Digital Humanities for the first time today at UMich Connecting Digital Scholarship Symposium at Hatcher Grad Library Wed., February 5, 2020, 10-11:30am Connecting Digital Scholarship – Teaching and Technology Collaborative

Sunday, January 26, 2020

Michigan Lion Dance | Detroit Institute of Arts Museum

Michigan Lion Dance performing at DIA Sunday 1:00

Lion Dance | Detroit Institute of Arts Museum

Saturday, January 25, 2020

AACCOM Weekly News 1/7/2020 – Ann Arbor Chinese School (AACCOM)

I'll be MC at the Ann Arbor Chinese Center of Michigan Chinese Lunar New Year celebration on Sat., Jan 25, 2020, at Washtenaw Community College, Morris Lawrence Building. Games 3:30-5:00, Dinner 5:00-6:30, Performances 6:30-8:30pm. Details below. Hope to see you there!

AACCOM Weekly News 1/7/2020 – Ann Arbor Chinese School (AACCOM)

Thursday, January 23, 2020

Mary Kamidoi speaks on Japanese internment, preserving A/PIA history | The Michigan Daily

Great article in Michigan Daily about our UMich APIA Civil Rights class and our fave guest lecturer, the amazing Mary Kamidoi, talking about growing up in Rohwer concentration camp during WW2 and all the fights she continues to get into today

Mary Kamidoi speaks on Japanese internment, preserving A/PIA history | The Michigan Daily

Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Celebrating lunar new year's at the Governor's Residence

Happy Lunar New Year from Michigan Lion Dance at the Governor's Residence yesterday. I had so much fun introducing our amazing teenagers to Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, State Senator Stephanie Gray Chang, and Michigan Asian Pacific American Affairs Commission chair Jamie C Hsu (even if in the middle of finals week), that I forgot to introduce myself to the governor.