My article for PBS NewsHour
Why Arab Americans are pushing for a ‘Middle East or North African’ category on the censusThe federal proposal for a separate MENA category would lead to more accurate federal data collection for Arab Americans.
Friday, April 28, 2023
Why Arab Americans are pushing for a ‘Middle East or North African’ category on the census | PBS NewsHour
The federal proposal for a separate MENA category would lead to more accurate federal data collection for Arab Americans.
Thursday, April 27, 2023
IS/LAND "Lost Constellation" at AAWAA Jade Wave Rising opening and exhibition in SF
My poem, "Lost Constellation," will be performed with IS/LAND movers
from AAWAA:
Over 20 Asian American Pacific Islander women artists stand up to have their voices heard at SOMArts Cultural Center’s Main Gallery
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, March 20, 2023 - Asian American Women Artists Association (AAWAA) and the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center (APICC) present the multidisciplinary art exhibition Jade Wave Rising: Portraits of Power, as part of the 26th annual United States of Asian America Festival opening on April 27, 2023, taking place at SOMArts Cultural Center’s Main Gallery. The opening reception takes place Thursday, April 27 at 6pm, followed by a community art workshop and gallery walk-through led by curator Yeu Q Nguyen on Sunday, April 30, and a closing event on Sunday, May 21.
Inspired by the jade gemstone’s various metaphysical and cultural meanings in its association with power, jewelry and crowns, JWR celebrates the diversity of AAPI women’s artistic voices while paying homage to overlooked historical figures and community leaders. “The exhibition aims to bring visibility to the myriad of ways API woman artists have embodied, expressed, and practiced their own power through art-making and community work. In doing so, it also establishes new faces and legacies of leadership in not only the API artistic community, but also society at large,” says curator and lead artist Yeu Q Nguyen.
Beyond unveiling a new large-scale interactive installation created by Nguyen, Jade Wave Rising also features an altar by Twin Walls Mural Company that highlights significant community leaders: Grace Lee Boggs, Violeta Marasigan and Yuri Kochiyama, along with images of youth activists and six lanterns representing the victims of the 2021 Atlanta shooting.
“This show emerges at a critical point in AAPI history when people in our communities are victimized as a result of unjust violence,” says AAWAA Director, Diana Li. “As AAPI women artists, we’re here to transform the narrative and stake a claim to the collective power and resilience behind our voices - voices that have existed in the legacy of our ancestors, families and communities for generations.
Jade Wave Rising follows a series of Asian and Asian American identified women being honored in the arts and mainstream media. The late Bernice Bing, a trailblazing abstract painter and community organizer who also found a home in AAWAA’s sisterhood, made headlines in the arts last year with her work being exhibited at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. Performance artist, Kristina Wong, is also a recent recipient of the Doris Duke Artist Award with an unrestricted prize of $550,000. There’s also no question that Michelle Yeoh’s recent wins at the Golden Globes and the Oscars speak volumes for Asian and Asian American women everywhere - further empowering artists like those at AAWAA to dream big and rise up against stereotypes of Asian women at all ages.
Join the Asian American Women Artists Association at the opening reception, Thursday, April 27 at 6pm. Spend the following Sunday afternoon at two empowering art workshops and exhibit walk-throughs for the community led by curator Yeu Q Nguyen, April 30 at 1pm and 3pm. On Sunday, May 21 at 1pm, the exhibition also closes with literary readings and a screening of “Manilatown Manang”, a documentary about the life and times of Jeanette Gandiongo Lazam, an original Tenant Defender of the International Hotel during the 1970s and the last evicted tenant to step out of the hotel on August 4, 1977.
The SOMArts gallery is open for visitors Thursday 3:00-7:30 PM, Friday 12:00-7:30 PM and Saturday/Sunday, 12:00-5:00 PM. A virtual 3D model of the exhibition will also be available online on the SOMArts website.
Asian American Women Artists Association
JADE WAVE RISING: PORTRAITS OF POWER
SOMArts, San Francisco
JADE WAVE RISING: PORTRAITS OF POWER
SOMArts, San Francisco
Opening Thursday, April 27 at 6pm (dancers live with video recording)
Exhibition April - May (video recording)
This is my fourth or fifth time in this art exhibition, and this is IS/LAND's first time performing in CA!
https://www.aawaa.net/jade-wave-rising
https://www.aawaa.net/jade-wave-rising
See the video or our premiere performance at Detroit Institute of Arts: https://youtu.be/LRHWNcE3arU
from AAWAA:
Over 20 Asian American Pacific Islander women artists stand up to have their voices heard at SOMArts Cultural Center’s Main Gallery
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, March 20, 2023 - Asian American Women Artists Association (AAWAA) and the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center (APICC) present the multidisciplinary art exhibition Jade Wave Rising: Portraits of Power, as part of the 26th annual United States of Asian America Festival opening on April 27, 2023, taking place at SOMArts Cultural Center’s Main Gallery. The opening reception takes place Thursday, April 27 at 6pm, followed by a community art workshop and gallery walk-through led by curator Yeu Q Nguyen on Sunday, April 30, and a closing event on Sunday, May 21.
Inspired by the jade gemstone’s various metaphysical and cultural meanings in its association with power, jewelry and crowns, JWR celebrates the diversity of AAPI women’s artistic voices while paying homage to overlooked historical figures and community leaders. “The exhibition aims to bring visibility to the myriad of ways API woman artists have embodied, expressed, and practiced their own power through art-making and community work. In doing so, it also establishes new faces and legacies of leadership in not only the API artistic community, but also society at large,” says curator and lead artist Yeu Q Nguyen.
Beyond unveiling a new large-scale interactive installation created by Nguyen, Jade Wave Rising also features an altar by Twin Walls Mural Company that highlights significant community leaders: Grace Lee Boggs, Violeta Marasigan and Yuri Kochiyama, along with images of youth activists and six lanterns representing the victims of the 2021 Atlanta shooting.
“This show emerges at a critical point in AAPI history when people in our communities are victimized as a result of unjust violence,” says AAWAA Director, Diana Li. “As AAPI women artists, we’re here to transform the narrative and stake a claim to the collective power and resilience behind our voices - voices that have existed in the legacy of our ancestors, families and communities for generations.
Jade Wave Rising follows a series of Asian and Asian American identified women being honored in the arts and mainstream media. The late Bernice Bing, a trailblazing abstract painter and community organizer who also found a home in AAWAA’s sisterhood, made headlines in the arts last year with her work being exhibited at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. Performance artist, Kristina Wong, is also a recent recipient of the Doris Duke Artist Award with an unrestricted prize of $550,000. There’s also no question that Michelle Yeoh’s recent wins at the Golden Globes and the Oscars speak volumes for Asian and Asian American women everywhere - further empowering artists like those at AAWAA to dream big and rise up against stereotypes of Asian women at all ages.
Join the Asian American Women Artists Association at the opening reception, Thursday, April 27 at 6pm. Spend the following Sunday afternoon at two empowering art workshops and exhibit walk-throughs for the community led by curator Yeu Q Nguyen, April 30 at 1pm and 3pm. On Sunday, May 21 at 1pm, the exhibition also closes with literary readings and a screening of “Manilatown Manang”, a documentary about the life and times of Jeanette Gandiongo Lazam, an original Tenant Defender of the International Hotel during the 1970s and the last evicted tenant to step out of the hotel on August 4, 1977.
The SOMArts gallery is open for visitors Thursday 3:00-7:30 PM, Friday 12:00-7:30 PM and Saturday/Sunday, 12:00-5:00 PM. A virtual 3D model of the exhibition will also be available online on the SOMArts website.
Saturday, April 22, 2023
Performing poetry with IS/LAND PRESENTS TETRA at A2AC
Performing "Tetra: A Suggestion of Salt" with the amazing movers of IS/LAND at the Ann Arbor Art Center (A2AC), downtown Ann Arbor, MI
IS/LAND PRESENTS TETRA
The 2023 Main Gallery season includes expanding A2AC’s vision for the Arts.
In April, IS/LAND performance collaborative brings their innovative approach to storytelling into the A2AC Main Gallery. Through a series of movement and sound-based performances as well as paper crane workshops in collaboration with Tsuru for Solidarity, IS/LAND seeks to honor the sacred role of paper in Asian cultural traditions.
https://www.annarborartcenter.org/is-land/
https://www.annarborartcenter.org/is-land/
Evening, Sat., April 15, 2023, 7:00 pm, $10
Matinee, Sun., April 16, 2023, 2:00 pm, $8
Evening, Sat., April 22, 2023, 7:00 pm, $10
Matinee, Sun., April 23, 2023, 2:00 pm, $8
The performances are around 45 minutes with no intermission. Performances are best for ages 10 years and older. A2AC encourages caregivers to use their best judgment with concern to their child’s attention. Purchase Evening Tickets
ABCs of Publishing at WCC starting today
Starting today
ABCs of Publishing
2 Saturdays, Apr 22-29, 2023, 10am-12pm EST, Washtenaw Community College, Zoom
2 Saturdays, Apr 22-29, 2023, 10am-12pm EST, Washtenaw Community College, Zoom
Friday, April 21, 2023
1990 Institute Newsletter
How do you bring your heritage and culture to Earth Day?
Volume 3, Issue 8
April 21, 2023
https://1990institute.salsalabs.org/1990newsletter_vol3_issue8
Saturday, April 15, 2023
Performing "IS/LAND PRESENTS TETRA" at Ann Arbor Art Center
Performing "Tetra: A Suggestion of Salt" with the amazing movers of IS/LAND at the Ann Arbor Art Center (A2AC), downtown Ann Arbor, MI
IS/LAND PRESENTS TETRA
The 2023 Main Gallery season includes expanding A2AC’s vision for the Arts.
In April, IS/LAND performance collaborative brings their innovative approach to storytelling into the A2AC Main Gallery. Through a series of movement and sound-based performances as well as paper crane workshops in collaboration with Tsuru for Solidarity, IS/LAND seeks to honor the sacred role of paper in Asian cultural traditions.
https://www.annarborartcenter.org/is-land/
https://www.annarborartcenter.org/is-land/
Evening, Sat., April 15, 2023, 7:00 pm, $10
Matinee, Sun., April 16, 2023, 2:00 pm, $8
Evening, Sat., April 22, 2023, 7:00 pm, $10
Matinee, Sun., April 23, 2023, 2:00 pm, $8
The performances are around 45 minutes with no intermission. Performances are best for ages 10 years and older. A2AC encourages caregivers to use their best judgment with concern to their child’s attention. Purchase Evening Tickets
Friday, April 7, 2023
1990 Institute Newsletter
Reflecting on our families’ immigration journeys
Volume 3, Issue 7
April 7, 2023
https://1990institute.salsalabs.org/1990newsletter_vol3_issue7_
Monday, April 3, 2023
Upcoming courses at Washtenaw Community College (WCC) Spring and Summer
After Free College Week, Register today for my upcoming creative writing and publishing courses at Washtenaw Community College (WCC)
Spring 2023
Finding the Writer Within Continuing Writers Workshop
5 Sundays, May 7-Jun 11, 2023, 12-2pm EST, Washtenaw Community College, Zoom
Introduction to Magazine Writing
2 Saturdays, May 13-20, 2023, 10am-12pm EDT, Washtenaw Community College, Zoom
Writing to Save the World
2 Saturdays, June 3-10, 2023, 10am-12pm EDT, Washtenaw Community College, Zoom
Summer 2023
Finding the Writer Within Continuing Writers Workshop
5 Sundays, July 30-Aug 29, 2023, 12-2pm EDT, Washtenaw Community College, Zoom ?
Finding your Voice, University of Hawaii Hilo, July 2023?
Writing with Style, Finding your Voice
2 Saturdays, August 19, 26, 2023, 10am -12pm EDT, Washtenaw Community College, Zoom
Finding the Writer Within Continuing Writers Workshop
5 Sundays, May 7-Jun 11, 2023, 12-2pm EST, Washtenaw Community College, Zoom
Introduction to Magazine Writing
2 Saturdays, May 13-20, 2023, 10am-12pm EDT, Washtenaw Community College, Zoom
Writing to Save the World
2 Saturdays, June 3-10, 2023, 10am-12pm EDT, Washtenaw Community College, Zoom
Summer 2023
Finding the Writer Within Continuing Writers Workshop
5 Sundays, July 30-Aug 29, 2023, 12-2pm EDT, Washtenaw Community College, Zoom ?
Finding your Voice, University of Hawaii Hilo, July 2023?
Writing with Style, Finding your Voice
2 Saturdays, August 19, 26, 2023, 10am -12pm EDT, Washtenaw Community College, Zoom
Sunday, April 2, 2023
IS/LAND Presents: Kizuna Tree | Ann Arbor District Library
I'll be reading poetry with my friends at this incredible dance, music, art, and poetry performance
IS/LAND Presents: Kizuna Tree
Saturday May 20, 2023: 6:00pm to 7:30pm Add to Calendar / Add to Google Calendar
Ann Arbor District Library Downtown Library: 1st Floor Lobby
343 S 5th Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Kizuna Tree is an interactive installation/performance collaboration between AAPI performance collaborative IS/LAND, Detroit Public Television, and Rising Voices. Comprised of an Ikebana Tree designed by Celeste Shimoura Goedert, sound recordings from the collaborative series AAPI Stories originally co-developed by Zosette Guir of DPTV and journalist Dorothy Hernandez as a response to the Atlanta spa shootings in 2021, and movement, visuals, and readings by IS/LAND, Kizuna Tree is an exploration of communal healing for AAPI peoples, across generations, communities, and ethnicities. The restorative and healing properties through this physical movement and storytelling offers the audience an experiential exploration of the interactive connections between the dancers with each other, the audience, and the tree itself.
This event is in partnership with Detroit Public Television and IS/LAND, a performance collaborative comprised of Asian Pacific Islander American and Asian artists.
Saturday, April 1, 2023
WCC Free College Week this week
I'll be teaching 8 free writing and publishing classes this week at Washtenaw Community College WCC Free College Week, coming up April 3 - April 7. All classes on zoom, one hour, and FREE! Preregistration required.
Each class is one hour long, so short and fun. Bring your elders and your friends! The second class session will be exactly the same as the first, so don't need to go to both unless you want to. Or you could create your own free week-long writing workshop series. And you might find some other classes that you think are fun (The Geneaology Instructor is amazing!). I'll be teaching:
Writing to Save the World (Mon Apr 3, Wed Apr 5, 6-7pm EDT)
Learn How to Publish in Magazines (Mon Apr 3, Wed Apr 5, 7-8pm EDT)
Jumpstart your memoir (Tues Apr 4, Thurs Apr 6, 6-7pm EDT)
ABC's of publishing in books (Tues Apr 4, Thurs Apr 6, 7-8pm EDT)
All you have to do is go to this link https://www.wccnet.edu/events/free-college-week.php
Then click on the "register" button at the top
Then fill in your information
Then you can click to choose the classes and times you are interested in (some classes are not listed on the landing page above)
Washtenaw Community College will send you a Zoom link when the time comes.
Learn How to Publish in Magazines (Mon Apr 3, Wed Apr 5, 7-8pm EDT)
Jumpstart your memoir (Tues Apr 4, Thurs Apr 6, 6-7pm EDT)
ABC's of publishing in books (Tues Apr 4, Thurs Apr 6, 7-8pm EDT)
All you have to do is go to this link https://www.wccnet.edu/events/free-college-week.php
Then click on the "register" button at the top
Then fill in your information
Then you can click to choose the classes and times you are interested in (some classes are not listed on the landing page above)
Washtenaw Community College will send you a Zoom link when the time comes.
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