APAture Festival 2006

September 18th, 2006

On Tuesday here in lovely San Francisco, APAture festival kicks off at 6pm at Space 180. APAture, a long-running multidisciplinary arts produced by Kearny Street Workshop now in its’ 8th year, showcases the various works of 100+ Asian Pacific American artists that either live or work in the San Francisco Bay Area. It “includes a visual arts show, film screenings, workshops, literary readings, performances in spoken word, music, dance, theater, and other performance genres, and an area for zinesters and comic artists to display and sell their work.”

Particularly of note this year are the participation of eight Mission District venues to showcase works, as opposed to previous years’ one. Yours truly will be on-hand to emcee the literary arts/spoken word and music events held on Tuesday the 26th with filmmaker, Bantercut bassist, buddy, and fellow Filipino Jim Espinas. In addition, I’ll be co-mastress of closing ceremonies on Saturday the 30th with neighbor, wacky gal pal, and fellow APA female blogger MJ Kim.

And lastly, in addition to all that — APAture’s organizer, Samantha Chanse — is sitting here in my living room right now. So if you’d like a brush of greatness, be sure to thank her if you do make it out to an event and enjoy it. (And she didn’t put a gun to my head to write this; I totally started it before she got here.)

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