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SUMMARY:Find Your Crew: Connecting Bay Area Filmmakers and Content Creators
DESCRIPTION:[vc_btn title=”REGISTER NOW” color=”warning” align=”center”] \nThe future of filmmaking is in the Bay Area! In 2023\, the film industry is finally recognizing that diversity in representation has a huge impact in the stories we tell and the audiences we connect with. From Black Panther to Shang-Chi\, the Bay Area has contributed incredible talent and storytelling to the film industry. At the same time\, content creation through social media influencer culture has democratized communication and storytelling\, giving everyone a platform to speak to the world (for better or for worse). When the film industry reflects the diversity of our communities both on-screen and behind the camera\, we get to be seen in our complexity and humanity\, and pass down our sacred stories\, something that audiences have been demanding for far too long. \nJoin us for a keynote from Pixar creative Theo Hollingsworth\, followed by a short film screening and mixer as we bring together the Bay Area’s brightest minds in the filmmaking and content creation industry. “Find Your Crew” is an opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals and build meaningful relationships that can take your career to the next level. We will feature short films from REEL\, an immersive film program that allows students to produce short films together as a crew. We invite local filmmakers at all levels of the industry to connect with us\, from seasoned professionals to those just starting out. Through this event\, we hope to empower and amplify our voices\, shaping tomorrow’s leaders one camera at a time. \nABOUT THE SPEAKER \nBio: Theo Hollingsworth is video creative with over 15 years of experience helping to produce videos\, TV\, and Film productions. He studied film production at Howard University. He’s been in Oakland for the past 8 years and has worked on a variety of projects including web series\, documentaries\, feature length films and more. He loves to tell the stories of black people and has an affinity for comedy and sci-fi. Now at Pixar he’s mission bound to help make the next great black animated feature length film! When he’s not working he can be found biking around the town or shopping at his favorite grocery store\, Mandela Grocery Cooperative. \n  \nABOUT THE PANELISTS \nJason Wu is a rapper\, producer\, and filmmaker from San Francisco\, California. His journey with media production began in high school when he started writing his own music\, and has since then expanded his skill set into video production as well. In addition to doing work for local businesses\, he also regularly works with local hip-hop artists and dance studios to help push the Bay Area’s hip-hop scene\, as well as creating social media content for his own music. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nJordon Briggs was born in Los Angeles and raised in Sacramento\, CA. He is a writer\, filmmaker and musician. Jordon writes across genres and forms and has had writing published in the disciplines of short fiction\, poetry\, creative nonfiction\, film criticism\, personal essay\, and others. His first documentary Her Hair was a finalist for SF3 Smartfone Flickfest’s Best Feature Film category. He graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing from Saint Mary’s College of California and holds a BA in Film from CSU-Sacramento. He currently lives in Oakland\, CA. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nEmily Yamauchi is a second-generation Japanese American writer and multidisciplinary artist based in Oakland\, CA. She writes fiction\, essays\, hybrid work\, graphic novel/memoir and comics. Her work has been supported by fellowships and residencies from Kundiman\, Hedgebrook\, VONA\, Real Time & Space\, A Place of Her Own and others\, and has been featured in various readings and exhibitions. She received her MFA in Creative Writing at Saint Mary’s College of California and BA from Brown University. Emily’s work disrupts the silent agreements that hold together historically engrained or ancestral patterns of behavior\, and insists that new patterns are possible\, playing with memory\, ambiguity\, form and nonlinear storytelling to uncover and understand our private and communal lives. \n  \n  \n  \nABOUT REEL \nFounded in 2016\, REEL is an immersive film program that allows students to produce short films together as a crew. They provide media education like cinema theory\, camera training\, professional development\, and more.  \nREEL is taught by Teaching Artists who are successful Bay Area filmmakers and multifaceted artists. Over the years\, students’ films have tackled topics such as racial political issues\, mental illness\, health\, and wellness. Ultimately\, REEL has created a creative and safe space for students to explore their own personal journeys while expressing it through multimedia.
URL:https://oacc.cc/event/findyourcrew/
LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured,Past Events
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SUMMARY:Celebrating Our HeART-filled Heritage: Son of Paper
DESCRIPTION:[vc_btn title=”REGISTER NOW” color=”warning” align=”center”] \nWhere are you from? Where are you really from? Join us for this special performance featuring Son of Paper at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, as we come together to celebrate our complex lineage and deep histories as Asian Americans. This event is a unique opportunity to connect with our cultural roots\, from San Francisco to Oakland\, traditional and contemporary\, through the vibrant sounds of Son of Paper’s music. \nA part of Celebrating Our HeART-filled Heritage Series\, this will be an unforgettable evening of music\, culture\, food\, and community as we discover where we really come from\, and how we are connected as a community from Chinatown to Chinatown. This event will feature guest performances from Guzheng player\, Winnie Wong\, DRAGON OF THE WEST\, DJ Dailo Mac\, and Bianca Brown\, as well as other fun activities like: \n? Free 5 minute photo sessions for registered guests for “Generations of Joy”\, a project by Annie’s T Cakes\, Oakland Fortune Factory\, and Sasha’s House Oakland\n? Free snacks and light food provided for the community\n? Local vendors\n? And a dance party! \nParental Advisory: Please be advised that the performances may contain explicit language alluding to violence and racism. Listener discretion is advised. \n  \nABOUT Son of Paper \nA native of San Francisco\, Son of Paper (SOP) (he/him) is a songwriter and performing artist that blends Conscious Hip-Hop flows with R&B grooves and East Asian influences\, reflecting the rich and diverse cultural heritage of our community. \nSon of Paper is a great grandson of a Paper Daughter\, a term that describes Chinese people who immigrated to the U.S. by falsely claiming to be the child of Chinese-American citizen\, one of the only ways for Asian immigrants to enter the United States during the 83 year period of Chinese Exclusions. Son of Paper makes use of this history and seeks to reckon with Anti-Asian sentiment and racism both towards and within the Asian community. Looking inward\, Son of Paper knows he is a product of generations\, of combinations and of contradictions. He doesn’t reject this — instead\, he embraces it. \n  \n  \nFEATURING \nWinnie Wong \nWinnie Wong was born in Hong Kong and raised in San Francisco\, CA. She started her training on the guzheng in 1982 at the age of four under the expertise of guzheng virtuoso\, Ms. Weishan Liu. Being from a Chinese immigrant family\, guzheng allowed her to stay connected to her roots\, but more importantly\, share with the community the beauty and importance of diversity. \nIn 2003\, she founded the “China’s Spirit Music Ensemble” to give her growing population of guzheng disciples a “home” to share and develop their skills and understanding for the guzheng\, its culture\, as well as an outlet to share their musical achievements. On March 28\, 2016\, “Listen for Life” presented Ms. Wong with the “Musician of the Heart” award for her performances\, achievements\, and her dedication towards bridging cultures through music and encouraging a new generation of cultural musicians! \n  \nDRAGON OF THE WEST \nJason Wu\, also known as “Dragon of the West\,” is a rapper and producer from San Francisco\, California. \nThrough his intricate rhymes and meticulously crafted instrumentals\, he documents his experience as an Asian American immigrant growing up in the United States. He’s been making music since he was in middle school\, and uses his music to influence and inspire the future generation of Asian American youth. He draws his inspiration from anime and video games\, being that “Dragon of the West” is a reference to Uncle Iroh\, a character from the very popular TV series “Avatar: the Last Airbender”. \n  \n  \nDJ Dailo Mac \nMackenzee aka DJ Dailo Mac (she/her) has been djing in the Bay Area for over 20+ years and has performed at many venues all over the Bay Area.  \n  \n  \n  \n \nBianca Brown \nA graduate of Oakland School for the Arts\, Bianca (BB) Brown has grown up surrounded by music. While at OSA\, she was vocally trained in various genres including R&B\, musical theater\, jazz\, and classical music. She took what she learned there and combined it with her natural ear for music to teach herself piano. \nBB has performed at various venues around the Bay Area\, including Oakland City Hall\, The Fox Theater\, and at the top of Salesforce Tower. She is currently doing shows with community based organizations around the Bay Area\, private events\, and Sofar Sounds. \nWhether she is singing published music or something she has written herself\, BB believes in the power of music to heal and relate to her listeners and uses her music to communicate to the world around her. \n  \nABOUT THE SERIES \n“Celebrating Our HeART-filled Heritage” champions local Asian and Asian Pacific Islander performing artists\, with the goal of providing a platform for accomplished local performing artists and exposing our diverse community in the East Bay to compelling\, culturally relevant artists and performances that inspire intergenerational and cross-cultural exchange. The performing arts series is supported in part by the Walter and Elise Haas Fund. \nDonations are appreciated and no one will be turned away for lack of funds. \n 
URL:https://oacc.cc/event/cohh-sop/
LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured,Past Events
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SUMMARY:Celebrating Our HeART-filled Heritage: Joe Kye\, SURRIJA\, and Nikbo
DESCRIPTION:[vc_btn title=”REGISTER NOW” color=”warning” align=”center”] \nWhat does it feel like to be Asian American in 2023? How do we express the depth and nuance of our identities? Join us on Earth Day for this special performance featuring Asian-American soul-pop band Joe Kye & the Givers (Portland)\, electro-pop singer-songwriter SURRIJA (LA)\, and “third culture pop” musician Nikbo (SF)\, whose music and storytelling explore the Asian-American soul with vulnerability and personal perspective. A part of Celebrating Our HeART-filled Heritage Series\, this evening will hold and heal you\, unearthing your joy that you may root with intention and self-love. \n  \nFEATURED ARTISTS \n \nJoe Kye \nPortland-based musician and storyteller Joe Kye discharges worlds of emotion with his lush violin loops and eclectic style. From viral TikTok jingles skewering microaggressions to delivering keynote speeches about creativity and community\, Joe’s work taps into an inner core\, inspiring audiences to compassion and empathy. His band\, Joe Kye & the Givers\, is a unique blend of soul\, pop\, hip-hop\, and Korean traditional music–distinctly original yet familiar\, like blasting through outer space only to arrive at your childhood home. The project blurs genres and geographies\, arriving at a transnational sound that grooves as hard as it pushes against boundaries. Kye has opened for Yo-Yo Ma\, recorded a Tedx Talk\, and been featured on NPR. He is an Oregon Arts Commission 2023 Arts Fellow. \njoekye.com\ninstagram.com/joekye\nyoutube.com/joekye \n  \n  \n \nSURRIJA \nSURRIJA (sur–Rye–ya) is an electro art pop project by Jane Lui that plays with asymmetry\, glitch\, and electronic treatment of classical training. The album features drummer Matt Chamberlain (David Bowie\, Fiona Apple\, Perfume Genius)\, produced by Surrija\, Sophocles\, and Maxwell Gualtieri. The new sound is a departure from Jane’s singer–songwriter roots\, exploring lure and feral tendencies. “I’m a little addicted to change. I think – my love for playing tactilely plus a need for newness – lands me squarely in these micro electronic textures.” This album is about finding voice. \nSURRIJA (album) was Kickstarter funded ($40K) while she traveled as an arranger\, actor\, and multi–instrumentalist in Cambodian Rock Band (Lauren Yee) to Oregon Shakespeare Festival\, La Jolla Playhouse\, and NYC Off–Broadway Signature Theatre. She was composer and music director for Secret In The Wings (Mary Zimmerman)\, a production by Coeurage Theatre (Los Angeles). She has been named YouTube’s Unsigned Pick\, her music video Southern Winds earned Best Music Video in Dublin Web Fest 2017\, and multiple works have been featured on Virgin America\, Huffington Post\, Jezebel\, MAKE:Mag. Her song “How Do I” is currently nominated for Best Pop Song at San Diego Music Awards 2022. She has worked with Matt Chamberlain\, Jason Mraz\, Felicia Day\, CDZA\, Son Lux. \nyoutube.com/luieland\nfacebook.com/surrija\ninstagram.com/surrija \n  \nNikbo \nNikbo (she/they/siya) is a Filipinx and Third Culture artist who makes music for deep-feelers and collective freedom-seekers. Blending elements of art pop and neo-soul with sounds from their childhood living in Morocco\, Malawi\, and Kazakhstan\, Nikbo shares stories from the diaspora and provides sonic refuge to process the highs and lows of living in these times. \nTheir music video for “Be A Little Lonely” won an Independent Music Award in 2020 as an audience favorite\, and their 2021 song\, “We Need Each Other\,” was featured in Smithsonian Magazine\, and included in the “We Rise” Spotify Playlist featuring revolutionary voices in Asian-American music. \nFor their latest project\, Breathe Underwater\, Nikbo collaborated with family in the Philippines and Canada. “Making this EP was a way to feel close to them during the pandemic\,” they explain. “And I wanted to do something to tend to the grief that has been building up over the last couple of years. While our society views grief as something to hide\, making Breathe Underwater was a way to for me to experience grief as love. Something that wants to be shared. Something to embrace\, listen to\, and learn from.” \nnikbomusic.com\npatreon.com/nikbomusic\ninstagram.com/nikbomusic \n  \nABOUT THE SERIES \n“Celebrating Our HeART-filled Heritage” champions local Asian and Asian Pacific Islander performing artists\, with the goal of providing a platform for accomplished local performing artists and exposing our diverse community in the East Bay to compelling\, culturally relevant artists and performances that inspire intergenerational and cross-cultural exchange. The performing arts series is supported in part by the Walter and Elise Haas Fund. \nDonations are appreciated and no one will be turned away for lack of funds. \n 
URL:https://oacc.cc/event/cohh-rootingself/
LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured,Past Events
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SUMMARY:Current Exhibition: Li Ching World
DESCRIPTION:Li Ching World can be viewed at OACC during OACC’s business hours (Wednesday – Saturday\, 12 PM-5 PM) starting March 1st\, 2023 through April 22nd\, 2023.\n\nAs an immigrant Asian–American woman artist\, Li Ching Accurso wants her art to be an encouraging message to the Asian American community and beyond. Her work elevates the voices and perspectives of the community\, showcasing the creativity and resilience of Asian Americans. While Li Ching works in the western traditional medium of oil on canvas\, one can see the Asian sense of beauty in the subject of landscape\, floral compositions\, and poetic representations of moonlight.  These oil paintings\, ceramics\, and watercolors serve as a celebration of the Asian community’s history and a testament to its perseverance\, inspiring others to take pride in their cultural roots and to keep their traditions alive. Further\, her life as an Asian–American woman artist has been a faith journey; her identity is in Christ. Beauty\, hope\, joy\, wonder\, and curiosity are the aims in my art and everyday life. Li Ching’s art work not only adds to the broader cultural discourse but also provides a platform for underrepresented voices to be heard.  \n  \nMore about Li Ching: \nLi Ching Accurso was born in Taiwan in 1962.  Her family immigrated to the United States when she was fourteen years old.  She attended UC Berkeley for both a BA in Fine Art and an MFA in Painting.  She was awarded the prestigious Eisner Price in Painting at Berkeley when she received her Master’s degree and soon after was a Fulbright Scholar\, 1991-1992.  She has been an Art Professor at Columbia College in Sonora\, CA since 1995.  \nShe desires to share her joy and passion in Art.  Li wishes to celebrate life and bring beauty to all who encounter her art works.  \nFor inquiry please contact (209)588-1530 or accursol@yosemite.edu  \n 
URL:https://oacc.cc/event/lichingworld-2/
LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured,Past Exhibitions
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