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Monday, February 11, 2008 from 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM (PT)
San Francisco
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Monday, February 11, 2008
6:00 pm Registration/6:30 pm Program
Chinese Culture Center
750 Kearny Street, Third Floor, San Francisco, CA
Co-sponsored with Asia Society & Hyphen magazineThis program brings together a range of artists of mixed Asian descent -- a musician, a visual artist, a filmmaker and a writer -- in a panel discussion moderated by mixed Asian scholar Dr. Wei Ming Dariotis.
Is there a mixed Asian community? What kinds of experiences define it? How do mixed Asian artists relate to loaded labels like Hapa, Eurasian, Afroasian, Amerasian, etc.? How is art used to express mixed Asian identity? How does artistic expression help to create a mixed Asian community? Though the panel is diverse in terms of artistic disciplines and ethnic identities, the discussion will focus on the common experiences and creative interpretations that help hold the mixed Asian community together.
Dr. Wei Ming Dariotis is an
Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies, with an emphasis on Asians of
Mixed Heritage and Asian Pacific American Literature, Arts, and Culture at San Francisco State University.
Dr. Anthony Brown is a
percussionist, composer, and ethnomusicologist. Dr. Brown received his Ph.D. in
music from U.C. Berkeley, where his research focused on the musics of his mixed
heritage. Widely known for his use of Asian musical instruments in jazz, he
founded the critically acclaimed Anthony Brown's Asian American Orchestra in
1998.
Lori Kay is a sculptor and mixed
media artist who has held exhibitions and received public commissions in
various cities including San Francisco.
Her work has been widely exhibited on the local, national and international
levels.
Stuart Gaffney has been making films
and videos about queer and Eurasian identity since 1994. His works have
screened at APAture, the Guggenheim
Museum, the San Francisco
International Asian American Film Festival, as well as on KQED Television.
Dr. Persis Karim is a Bay Area
native who writes about the Iranian diaspora. Her poetry has been published in
numerous literary journals, and she is the author of numerous articles on Iranian
American literature. Dr. Karim is currently an associate professor of English and
Comparative Literature at San
Jose University.
Location: 750 Kearny Street, 3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
The Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco is a major community-based, non-profit organization established in 1965 to foster the understanding and appreciation of Chinese and Chinese American art, history, and culture in the United States. The facilities of the Center, totaling 20,000 square feet, include a 299-seat auditorium, a 2,935 square-foot gallery, book shop, classroom, and offices.
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