The state-level battles brewing in America over LGBTQ+ rights | PBS NewsHour broadcast

On the broadcast talking about recent MI LGBTQ+ legislation

The state-level battles brewing in America over LGBTQ+ rights

More than a dozen GOP-led states have passed bans with limits ranging from healthcare to sports participation, while Democratic-controlled states have sought to shore up protections for LGBTQ+ rights. Geoff Bennett discussed the efforts with NewsHour Communities correspondents Gabrielle Hays in Missouri, Adam Kemp in Oklahoma and Frances Kai-Hwa Wang in Michigan.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/the-state-level-battles-brewing-in-america-over-lgbtq-rights

Performing "Kizuna Tree" with IS/LAND at AADL downtown

Performing a new poem, "Kizuna Tree," with the fabulous movers of IS/LAND and poets Zosette Guir and Kyunghee Kim, and musician Chien-An Yuan

IS/LAND Presents: Kizuna Tree
Saturday May 20, 2023: 6:00pm to 7:30pm 
Ann Arbor District Library, Downtown Library: 1st Floor Lobby

https://aadl.org/node/612231 

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 AAPI performance collaborative IS/LAND, Detroit Public Television, and Rising Voices. 

https://www.facebook.com/islandperformance/posts/pfbid0cerRmDjJT8co4cLPadWYwpfGYo4PRdP4PEMnPNFgmA92VY3jurS7wBESxsEiXzq1l

1990 Institute Newsletter

Will you fold a tsuru (origami crane) for community solidarity?

Volume 3, Issue 10

May 19, 2023

https://1990institute.salsalabs.org/1990newsletter_vol3_issue10

Speaking Today: Kizuna Tree Panel: Storytelling as an Act of Resistance at AADL downtown

Speaking today with a great panel of folks

Kizuna Tree Panel: Storytelling as an Act of Resistance
Wednesday May 17, 2023: 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Ann Arbor District Library, Downtown Library: 4th Floor Meeting Room

How do we use storytelling to create real world change? How do we find our voices and get our message out? How does the sharing of stories help build community? How do we use storytelling to touch, inspire, persuade, and provoke readers to action?

Join our panel featuring author and interdisciplinary artist Frances Kai-Hwa Wang of PBS News Hour, documentary producer Zosette Guir of Detroit Public Television, Jasmine Rivera, Executive Director of Rising Voices, and interdisciplinary artist Okyoung Noh.

Hosted by Chien-An Yuan, in partnership with AAPI performance collaborative IS/LAND, Detroit Public Television, and Rising Voices. This event is part of a series leading up to the performance of Kizuna Tree on May 20th.

https://aadl.org/node/616347

The Library will be providing a live stream of this event and we intend to make it available for future viewing. A video player will appear on this page 1 hour before the start of the event.

Teaching "Writing to Save the World: Academia Version" today at Rackham

Looking forward to teaching my "Writing to Save the World: Academia" writing workshop today at Univ. of Michigan Rackham Graduate School Program in Public Scholarship Institute for Social Change, 

Tues., May 16, 2023, 3-4:30pm (private)

The Institute for Social Change (ISC) is a cohort-based spring program that allows students to explore the conceptual and practical dimensions of public scholarship—the diverse ways we can create and circulate knowledge for and with publics and communities. The program introduces graduate students to an array of publicly engaged scholarship, pedagogy, and practices focused on social change and university-community partnerships.

https://rackham.umich.edu/professional-development/program-in-public-scholarship/institute-for-social-change/

Starting today Introduction to Magazine Writing at WCC

Starting today

Introduction to Magazine Writing

2 Saturdays, May 13-20, 2023, 10am-12pm EDT, Washtenaw Community College, Zoom

Next classes 

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

Register here: Creative Writing Classes - Washtenaw Community College Division of Economic & College Development

Starting today Finding the Writer Within Continuing Writers Workshop at WCC

Starting today

Finding the Writer Within Continuing Writers Workshop
5 Sundays, May 7-Jun 11, 2023, 12-2pm EST, Washtenaw Community College, Zoom

Next classes:

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

Register here: Creative Writing Classes - Washtenaw Community College Division of Economic & College Development

1990 Institute Newsletter

Where can we find ourselves in film and TV?

Volume 3, Issue 9

May 5, 2023

https://1990institute.salsalabs.org/1990newsletter_vol3_issue9

Exhibit | Kizuna Tree with IS/LAND

Exhibit | Kizuna Tree with IS/LAND
Monday May 1, 2023: 10:00am to Wednesday May 31, 2023: 8:00pm
Ann Arbor District Library, Downtown Library: 1st Floor Lobby
https://aadl.org/kizunatree

Kizuna Tree is an interactive installation/performance collaboration between Detroit Public Television, WDET, and IS/LAND. Comprised of an Ikebana Tree designed by Celeste Shimoura Goedert, sound recordings from the collaborative series ‘AAPI Stories’ developed by Zosette Guir of DPTV and Dorothy Hernandez of WDET as a response to the Atlanta spa shootings in 2021, and movement and readings by AAPI Performance Collaborative IS/LAND, Kizuna Tree is an exploration of communal healing for AAPI peoples, across generations, communities, and ethnicities; offering the audience an experiential exploration of the interactive connections between the dancers with each other, the audience, and the tree itself.

This exhibit is in partnership with IS/LAND and is in conjunction with the events: Exiled to Motown: The History of Detroit's Japanese American Community (May 4), Kizuna Tree: Origami Cranes (Tsuru) for Community and Solidarity (May 8 and May 16), Lessons for the Future, Lessons from the Past with Japanese Internment Camp Survivor Mary Kamidoi (May 15), Kizuna Tree Panel: Storytelling as an Act of Resistance (May 17), and IS/LAND Presents: Kizuna Tree (May 20).