Sunday, April 26, 2026

Happy Asian American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander Heritage Month! Happy KYLYN Festival

EVENT: KYLYN Festival | Building Media Literacy in Older AAPI Communities, Monday May 4, 2026, 6:30pm to 7:30pm, Ann Arbor District Library, Downtown Library, 343 South Fifth Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 4th Floor Program Room. Featured panelists include: Zosette Guir and Bill Kubota of Detroit PBS. Moderated by Chien-An Yuan. Join us for a panel discussion exploring the socio-cultural issues affecting the elder AAPI populations today. More than ever, this vulnerable demographic is facing a surge in being targets for scams, disinformation, and soft propaganda. These threats, often amplified through social media, exploit cultural, linguistic, and generational gaps, leading to severe financial, emotional, and social consequences. This panel discussion will focus on strategies being developed in solutions journalism to increase information literacy among AAPI elders and push back against these predatory tactics with evidence-based responses. This event is part of the KYLYN AAPI Arts & Culture Festival and is co-sponsored by Asian American Journalists Association Michigan Chapter.  https://aadl.org/node/668097


EVENT: KYLYN Festival | An Author's Journey: A Conversation on Publishing, Passion, and What Comes Next, Wednesday May 13, 2026, 6:30pm to 7:30pm, Ann Arbor District Library, Downtown Library, 343 South Fifth Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48104, Lower Level Program Room. Join a thoughtful conversation with AAPI authors A.H. Kim (A Good Family and Relative Strangers) and Michelle Yang (Phoenix Girl) as they discuss their journeys to get their books published, the positive reception of their work, and what comes next. Kim and Yang will offer reflections and insights on strategies for maintaining a sustained creative practice and provide valuable insight for aspiring writers and readers alike. This event is part of the KYLYN AAPI Arts & Culture Festival and co-sponsored by Asian American Journalists Association - Michigan Chapter. https://aadl.org/node/666500 


KYLYN Festival | Dance Performance: A Floating World, Friday May 15, 2026: 6:30pm to 7:30pm, Ann Arbor District Library, Downtown Library: 4th Floor Program Room. A Floating World is a movement-based performance from AAPI Performance Collaborative IS/LAND grounded in the belief that there exists an ephemeral “floating world” of ancestral consciousness and connectivity. We brush against this floating world in moments of sudden, yet inexplicable, familiarity - lucid dreaming, tasting something new that instantly feels known. These indecipherable encounters are surprising and confusing, yet they stir a profound, unconscious realization of a deeper reality that we cannot consciously understand. Intense emotional experiences, particularly grief, also evoke this connection to the 'floating world,' leaving us raw and destabilized. This event is part of the KYLYN AAPI Arts & Culture Festival. https://aadl.org/node/668218

Here are all the Kylyn events and AAPI events at AADL https://aadl.org/aapiheritagemonth 

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