BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Oakland Asian Cultural Center - ECPv6.16.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Oakland Asian Cultural Center X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://oacc.cc X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Oakland Asian Cultural Center REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20230312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220423T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220423T150000 DTSTAMP:20260623T023534 CREATED:20220219T041621Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220423T231024Z UID:11910-1650720600-1650726000@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Celebrating Our HeART-filled Heritage: Hip Hop For Change Workshop DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 14\, 20266-8:30 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a fun\, relaxed social mixer and presentation celebrating the amazing Asian creators\, writers\, and producers shaping the world of children’s media! This gathering will connect industry pros (children’s book illustrator and designer Eugenia Yoh of Chronicle Books\, storyboard artist Nira Liu of Pixar Animation Studios\, and toy entrepreneur Elenor Mak of Jilly Bing) with local community to chat about storytelling\, innovation\, and Asian representation in kids’ content.   This event is co-presented by the Children’s Media Association Bay Area Chapter and the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. It is free to attend\, but registration is requested. Refreshments will be provided. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register for Free Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Eugenia Yoh is a Taiwanese-American author-illustrator in the Bay Area. She is a children’s book designer at Chronicle Books during the day and a children’s book illustrator during the night. Her first book\, This Is Not My Home (Little\, Brown 2023)\, is a love letter to Taiwan\, and her second book What If We… (Little\, Brown 2025)\, tells the story of two siblings who bond during an imaginative summer. With more picture books lined up\, she hopes to continue telling stories with heart and humor. She enjoys soup\, Japanese fiction novels\, bananagrams\, the Chinese yoyo and occasional folk-dancing. You can find her online at www.eugeniayoh.com. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nira Liu is a filmmaker\, comic artist\, story lead\, and bathroom rapper. He began his career as an intern at Blue Sky studios in 2015\, and is now a lead storyboard artist at Pixar Animation Studios. His recent credits include Onward\, Turning Red\, Elemental (2023)\, Win or Lose (2025)\, and Hoppers(2026).   Nira spent his early childhood in his great motherland of China and moved to the US as a teenager. In elementary school\, he would stare out the window and dream of turning into Ultraman and fighting different alien kaiju. In middle school\, he dreamed of becoming an underground rapper who had Jay-Z rapping hooks for him. Fortunately\, those two passions didn’t work out\, so now he has a career of telling whacky humorous stories with his drawings/writing. He enjoys telling gentle stories that make people feel less alone in this world. You can find Nira on Instagram @niradrawdrawdraaw. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Elenor Mak is the founder and CEO of Jilly Bing\, a toy company creating dolls that reflect Asian American children. The idea started when she searched for her daughter’s first doll and didn’t see anything that felt right\, so she decided to build it herself. Elenor and Jilly Bing have been featured on the Today Show\, Forbes\, Entrepreneur\, CBS Mornings\, and NextShark.   Previously\, Elenor co-founded Keaton Row\, an e-commerce fashion company\, and led go-to-market strategy for Target’s Entrepreneur-in-Residence team. She later joined Madison Reed\, where she helped expand retail and open flagship locations on both coasts.   Elenor holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a degree in economics from Dartmouth. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two children. You can find her online at jillybing.com. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/heart-filled-heritage-series-hh4c/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/20220416Thumbnail_HH4C-2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220428T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220623T160000 DTSTAMP:20260623T023535 CREATED:20220411T220206Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220713T183459Z UID:12246-1651156200-1656000000@oacc.cc SUMMARY:KCCEB Community Healing Space DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 14\, 20266-8:30 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a fun\, relaxed social mixer and presentation celebrating the amazing Asian creators\, writers\, and producers shaping the world of children’s media! This gathering will connect industry pros (children’s book illustrator and designer Eugenia Yoh of Chronicle Books\, storyboard artist Nira Liu of Pixar Animation Studios\, and toy entrepreneur Elenor Mak of Jilly Bing) with local community to chat about storytelling\, innovation\, and Asian representation in kids’ content.   This event is co-presented by the Children’s Media Association Bay Area Chapter and the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. It is free to attend\, but registration is requested. Refreshments will be provided. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register for Free Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Eugenia Yoh is a Taiwanese-American author-illustrator in the Bay Area. She is a children’s book designer at Chronicle Books during the day and a children’s book illustrator during the night. Her first book\, This Is Not My Home (Little\, Brown 2023)\, is a love letter to Taiwan\, and her second book What If We… (Little\, Brown 2025)\, tells the story of two siblings who bond during an imaginative summer. With more picture books lined up\, she hopes to continue telling stories with heart and humor. She enjoys soup\, Japanese fiction novels\, bananagrams\, the Chinese yoyo and occasional folk-dancing. You can find her online at www.eugeniayoh.com. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nira Liu is a filmmaker\, comic artist\, story lead\, and bathroom rapper. He began his career as an intern at Blue Sky studios in 2015\, and is now a lead storyboard artist at Pixar Animation Studios. His recent credits include Onward\, Turning Red\, Elemental (2023)\, Win or Lose (2025)\, and Hoppers(2026).   Nira spent his early childhood in his great motherland of China and moved to the US as a teenager. In elementary school\, he would stare out the window and dream of turning into Ultraman and fighting different alien kaiju. In middle school\, he dreamed of becoming an underground rapper who had Jay-Z rapping hooks for him. Fortunately\, those two passions didn’t work out\, so now he has a career of telling whacky humorous stories with his drawings/writing. He enjoys telling gentle stories that make people feel less alone in this world. You can find Nira on Instagram @niradrawdrawdraaw. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Elenor Mak is the founder and CEO of Jilly Bing\, a toy company creating dolls that reflect Asian American children. The idea started when she searched for her daughter’s first doll and didn’t see anything that felt right\, so she decided to build it herself. Elenor and Jilly Bing have been featured on the Today Show\, Forbes\, Entrepreneur\, CBS Mornings\, and NextShark.   Previously\, Elenor co-founded Keaton Row\, an e-commerce fashion company\, and led go-to-market strategy for Target’s Entrepreneur-in-Residence team. She later joined Madison Reed\, where she helped expand retail and open flagship locations on both coasts.   Elenor holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a degree in economics from Dartmouth. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two children. You can find her online at jillybing.com. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/kcceb-community-healing-space-2022/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/KCCEB-Community-Healing-Space-Flyer-Instagram-Post.png ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220430 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220601 DTSTAMP:20260623T023535 CREATED:20220427T012322Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220601T164241Z UID:12315-1651276800-1654041599@oacc.cc SUMMARY:OACC Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 14\, 20266-8:30 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a fun\, relaxed social mixer and presentation celebrating the amazing Asian creators\, writers\, and producers shaping the world of children’s media! This gathering will connect industry pros (children’s book illustrator and designer Eugenia Yoh of Chronicle Books\, storyboard artist Nira Liu of Pixar Animation Studios\, and toy entrepreneur Elenor Mak of Jilly Bing) with local community to chat about storytelling\, innovation\, and Asian representation in kids’ content.   This event is co-presented by the Children’s Media Association Bay Area Chapter and the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. It is free to attend\, but registration is requested. Refreshments will be provided. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register for Free Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Eugenia Yoh is a Taiwanese-American author-illustrator in the Bay Area. She is a children’s book designer at Chronicle Books during the day and a children’s book illustrator during the night. Her first book\, This Is Not My Home (Little\, Brown 2023)\, is a love letter to Taiwan\, and her second book What If We… (Little\, Brown 2025)\, tells the story of two siblings who bond during an imaginative summer. With more picture books lined up\, she hopes to continue telling stories with heart and humor. She enjoys soup\, Japanese fiction novels\, bananagrams\, the Chinese yoyo and occasional folk-dancing. You can find her online at www.eugeniayoh.com. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nira Liu is a filmmaker\, comic artist\, story lead\, and bathroom rapper. He began his career as an intern at Blue Sky studios in 2015\, and is now a lead storyboard artist at Pixar Animation Studios. His recent credits include Onward\, Turning Red\, Elemental (2023)\, Win or Lose (2025)\, and Hoppers(2026).   Nira spent his early childhood in his great motherland of China and moved to the US as a teenager. In elementary school\, he would stare out the window and dream of turning into Ultraman and fighting different alien kaiju. In middle school\, he dreamed of becoming an underground rapper who had Jay-Z rapping hooks for him. Fortunately\, those two passions didn’t work out\, so now he has a career of telling whacky humorous stories with his drawings/writing. He enjoys telling gentle stories that make people feel less alone in this world. You can find Nira on Instagram @niradrawdrawdraaw. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Elenor Mak is the founder and CEO of Jilly Bing\, a toy company creating dolls that reflect Asian American children. The idea started when she searched for her daughter’s first doll and didn’t see anything that felt right\, so she decided to build it herself. Elenor and Jilly Bing have been featured on the Today Show\, Forbes\, Entrepreneur\, CBS Mornings\, and NextShark.   Previously\, Elenor co-founded Keaton Row\, an e-commerce fashion company\, and led go-to-market strategy for Target’s Entrepreneur-in-Residence team. She later joined Madison Reed\, where she helped expand retail and open flagship locations on both coasts.   Elenor holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a degree in economics from Dartmouth. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two children. You can find her online at jillybing.com. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/aapi-heritage-month-2022/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th Street\, Suite 290\, Oakland\, CA 94607\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607 CATEGORIES:Past Events,Past Exhibitions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/APIA-Month.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220430T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220430T220000 DTSTAMP:20260623T023535 CREATED:20220422T210449Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220502T185038Z UID:12280-1651327200-1651356000@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Lotus Link Up: Tiger's Tap Room Party DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 14\, 20266-8:30 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a fun\, relaxed social mixer and presentation celebrating the amazing Asian creators\, writers\, and producers shaping the world of children’s media! This gathering will connect industry pros (children’s book illustrator and designer Eugenia Yoh of Chronicle Books\, storyboard artist Nira Liu of Pixar Animation Studios\, and toy entrepreneur Elenor Mak of Jilly Bing) with local community to chat about storytelling\, innovation\, and Asian representation in kids’ content.   This event is co-presented by the Children’s Media Association Bay Area Chapter and the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. It is free to attend\, but registration is requested. Refreshments will be provided. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register for Free Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Eugenia Yoh is a Taiwanese-American author-illustrator in the Bay Area. She is a children’s book designer at Chronicle Books during the day and a children’s book illustrator during the night. Her first book\, This Is Not My Home (Little\, Brown 2023)\, is a love letter to Taiwan\, and her second book What If We… (Little\, Brown 2025)\, tells the story of two siblings who bond during an imaginative summer. With more picture books lined up\, she hopes to continue telling stories with heart and humor. She enjoys soup\, Japanese fiction novels\, bananagrams\, the Chinese yoyo and occasional folk-dancing. You can find her online at www.eugeniayoh.com. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nira Liu is a filmmaker\, comic artist\, story lead\, and bathroom rapper. He began his career as an intern at Blue Sky studios in 2015\, and is now a lead storyboard artist at Pixar Animation Studios. His recent credits include Onward\, Turning Red\, Elemental (2023)\, Win or Lose (2025)\, and Hoppers(2026).   Nira spent his early childhood in his great motherland of China and moved to the US as a teenager. In elementary school\, he would stare out the window and dream of turning into Ultraman and fighting different alien kaiju. In middle school\, he dreamed of becoming an underground rapper who had Jay-Z rapping hooks for him. Fortunately\, those two passions didn’t work out\, so now he has a career of telling whacky humorous stories with his drawings/writing. He enjoys telling gentle stories that make people feel less alone in this world. You can find Nira on Instagram @niradrawdrawdraaw. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Elenor Mak is the founder and CEO of Jilly Bing\, a toy company creating dolls that reflect Asian American children. The idea started when she searched for her daughter’s first doll and didn’t see anything that felt right\, so she decided to build it herself. Elenor and Jilly Bing have been featured on the Today Show\, Forbes\, Entrepreneur\, CBS Mornings\, and NextShark.   Previously\, Elenor co-founded Keaton Row\, an e-commerce fashion company\, and led go-to-market strategy for Target’s Entrepreneur-in-Residence team. She later joined Madison Reed\, where she helped expand retail and open flagship locations on both coasts.   Elenor holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a degree in economics from Dartmouth. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two children. You can find her online at jillybing.com. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/lotus-link-up-1/ LOCATION:Tiger’s Taproom\, 308 Jackson Street STE 4\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/LL-Instagram-TTR.png ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220505T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220505T230000 DTSTAMP:20260623T023535 CREATED:20220429T213342Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220508T165602Z UID:12354-1651750200-1651791600@oacc.cc SUMMARY:AAPI Heritage Month Fundraiser at Co Nam DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 14\, 20266-8:30 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a fun\, relaxed social mixer and presentation celebrating the amazing Asian creators\, writers\, and producers shaping the world of children’s media! This gathering will connect industry pros (children’s book illustrator and designer Eugenia Yoh of Chronicle Books\, storyboard artist Nira Liu of Pixar Animation Studios\, and toy entrepreneur Elenor Mak of Jilly Bing) with local community to chat about storytelling\, innovation\, and Asian representation in kids’ content.   This event is co-presented by the Children’s Media Association Bay Area Chapter and the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. It is free to attend\, but registration is requested. Refreshments will be provided. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register for Free Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Eugenia Yoh is a Taiwanese-American author-illustrator in the Bay Area. She is a children’s book designer at Chronicle Books during the day and a children’s book illustrator during the night. Her first book\, This Is Not My Home (Little\, Brown 2023)\, is a love letter to Taiwan\, and her second book What If We… (Little\, Brown 2025)\, tells the story of two siblings who bond during an imaginative summer. With more picture books lined up\, she hopes to continue telling stories with heart and humor. She enjoys soup\, Japanese fiction novels\, bananagrams\, the Chinese yoyo and occasional folk-dancing. You can find her online at www.eugeniayoh.com. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nira Liu is a filmmaker\, comic artist\, story lead\, and bathroom rapper. He began his career as an intern at Blue Sky studios in 2015\, and is now a lead storyboard artist at Pixar Animation Studios. His recent credits include Onward\, Turning Red\, Elemental (2023)\, Win or Lose (2025)\, and Hoppers(2026).   Nira spent his early childhood in his great motherland of China and moved to the US as a teenager. In elementary school\, he would stare out the window and dream of turning into Ultraman and fighting different alien kaiju. In middle school\, he dreamed of becoming an underground rapper who had Jay-Z rapping hooks for him. Fortunately\, those two passions didn’t work out\, so now he has a career of telling whacky humorous stories with his drawings/writing. He enjoys telling gentle stories that make people feel less alone in this world. You can find Nira on Instagram @niradrawdrawdraaw. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Elenor Mak is the founder and CEO of Jilly Bing\, a toy company creating dolls that reflect Asian American children. The idea started when she searched for her daughter’s first doll and didn’t see anything that felt right\, so she decided to build it herself. Elenor and Jilly Bing have been featured on the Today Show\, Forbes\, Entrepreneur\, CBS Mornings\, and NextShark.   Previously\, Elenor co-founded Keaton Row\, an e-commerce fashion company\, and led go-to-market strategy for Target’s Entrepreneur-in-Residence team. She later joined Madison Reed\, where she helped expand retail and open flagship locations on both coasts.   Elenor holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a degree in economics from Dartmouth. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two children. You can find her online at jillybing.com. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/co-nam-fundraiser/ LOCATION:Co Nam\, 3936 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, 94609 CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/CoNam_IG.png ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220508T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220508T160000 DTSTAMP:20260623T023535 CREATED:20220214T215951Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220509T233346Z UID:12040-1652007600-1652025600@oacc.cc SUMMARY:OACC Connex: Community Screen Printing Workshop DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 14\, 20266-8:30 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a fun\, relaxed social mixer and presentation celebrating the amazing Asian creators\, writers\, and producers shaping the world of children’s media! This gathering will connect industry pros (children’s book illustrator and designer Eugenia Yoh of Chronicle Books\, storyboard artist Nira Liu of Pixar Animation Studios\, and toy entrepreneur Elenor Mak of Jilly Bing) with local community to chat about storytelling\, innovation\, and Asian representation in kids’ content.   This event is co-presented by the Children’s Media Association Bay Area Chapter and the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. It is free to attend\, but registration is requested. Refreshments will be provided. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register for Free Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Eugenia Yoh is a Taiwanese-American author-illustrator in the Bay Area. She is a children’s book designer at Chronicle Books during the day and a children’s book illustrator during the night. Her first book\, This Is Not My Home (Little\, Brown 2023)\, is a love letter to Taiwan\, and her second book What If We… (Little\, Brown 2025)\, tells the story of two siblings who bond during an imaginative summer. With more picture books lined up\, she hopes to continue telling stories with heart and humor. She enjoys soup\, Japanese fiction novels\, bananagrams\, the Chinese yoyo and occasional folk-dancing. You can find her online at www.eugeniayoh.com. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nira Liu is a filmmaker\, comic artist\, story lead\, and bathroom rapper. He began his career as an intern at Blue Sky studios in 2015\, and is now a lead storyboard artist at Pixar Animation Studios. His recent credits include Onward\, Turning Red\, Elemental (2023)\, Win or Lose (2025)\, and Hoppers(2026).   Nira spent his early childhood in his great motherland of China and moved to the US as a teenager. In elementary school\, he would stare out the window and dream of turning into Ultraman and fighting different alien kaiju. In middle school\, he dreamed of becoming an underground rapper who had Jay-Z rapping hooks for him. Fortunately\, those two passions didn’t work out\, so now he has a career of telling whacky humorous stories with his drawings/writing. He enjoys telling gentle stories that make people feel less alone in this world. You can find Nira on Instagram @niradrawdrawdraaw. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Elenor Mak is the founder and CEO of Jilly Bing\, a toy company creating dolls that reflect Asian American children. The idea started when she searched for her daughter’s first doll and didn’t see anything that felt right\, so she decided to build it herself. Elenor and Jilly Bing have been featured on the Today Show\, Forbes\, Entrepreneur\, CBS Mornings\, and NextShark.   Previously\, Elenor co-founded Keaton Row\, an e-commerce fashion company\, and led go-to-market strategy for Target’s Entrepreneur-in-Residence team. She later joined Madison Reed\, where she helped expand retail and open flagship locations on both coasts.   Elenor holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a degree in economics from Dartmouth. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two children. You can find her online at jillybing.com. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/oacc-connex-screen-print/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/OACC-Instagram-Post.png ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220514T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220514T210000 DTSTAMP:20260623T023535 CREATED:20220329T214136Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220517T173037Z UID:12206-1652556600-1652562000@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Solidarity & Resilience: Narrations through Traditional Vietnamese Music DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 14\, 20266-8:30 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a fun\, relaxed social mixer and presentation celebrating the amazing Asian creators\, writers\, and producers shaping the world of children’s media! This gathering will connect industry pros (children’s book illustrator and designer Eugenia Yoh of Chronicle Books\, storyboard artist Nira Liu of Pixar Animation Studios\, and toy entrepreneur Elenor Mak of Jilly Bing) with local community to chat about storytelling\, innovation\, and Asian representation in kids’ content.   This event is co-presented by the Children’s Media Association Bay Area Chapter and the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. It is free to attend\, but registration is requested. Refreshments will be provided. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register for Free Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Eugenia Yoh is a Taiwanese-American author-illustrator in the Bay Area. She is a children’s book designer at Chronicle Books during the day and a children’s book illustrator during the night. Her first book\, This Is Not My Home (Little\, Brown 2023)\, is a love letter to Taiwan\, and her second book What If We… (Little\, Brown 2025)\, tells the story of two siblings who bond during an imaginative summer. With more picture books lined up\, she hopes to continue telling stories with heart and humor. She enjoys soup\, Japanese fiction novels\, bananagrams\, the Chinese yoyo and occasional folk-dancing. You can find her online at www.eugeniayoh.com. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nira Liu is a filmmaker\, comic artist\, story lead\, and bathroom rapper. He began his career as an intern at Blue Sky studios in 2015\, and is now a lead storyboard artist at Pixar Animation Studios. His recent credits include Onward\, Turning Red\, Elemental (2023)\, Win or Lose (2025)\, and Hoppers(2026).   Nira spent his early childhood in his great motherland of China and moved to the US as a teenager. In elementary school\, he would stare out the window and dream of turning into Ultraman and fighting different alien kaiju. In middle school\, he dreamed of becoming an underground rapper who had Jay-Z rapping hooks for him. Fortunately\, those two passions didn’t work out\, so now he has a career of telling whacky humorous stories with his drawings/writing. He enjoys telling gentle stories that make people feel less alone in this world. You can find Nira on Instagram @niradrawdrawdraaw. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Elenor Mak is the founder and CEO of Jilly Bing\, a toy company creating dolls that reflect Asian American children. The idea started when she searched for her daughter’s first doll and didn’t see anything that felt right\, so she decided to build it herself. Elenor and Jilly Bing have been featured on the Today Show\, Forbes\, Entrepreneur\, CBS Mornings\, and NextShark.   Previously\, Elenor co-founded Keaton Row\, an e-commerce fashion company\, and led go-to-market strategy for Target’s Entrepreneur-in-Residence team. She later joined Madison Reed\, where she helped expand retail and open flagship locations on both coasts.   Elenor holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a degree in economics from Dartmouth. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two children. You can find her online at jillybing.com. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/solidarity-and-resilience-workshops-and-concert-2022/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/20220512-14SolidarityResilienceThumbnail-2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220515T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220515T183000 DTSTAMP:20260623T023535 CREATED:20220322T205058Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220517T173055Z UID:12167-1652634000-1652639400@oacc.cc SUMMARY:"Stories of Home" Community Screening DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 14\, 20266-8:30 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a fun\, relaxed social mixer and presentation celebrating the amazing Asian creators\, writers\, and producers shaping the world of children’s media! This gathering will connect industry pros (children’s book illustrator and designer Eugenia Yoh of Chronicle Books\, storyboard artist Nira Liu of Pixar Animation Studios\, and toy entrepreneur Elenor Mak of Jilly Bing) with local community to chat about storytelling\, innovation\, and Asian representation in kids’ content.   This event is co-presented by the Children’s Media Association Bay Area Chapter and the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. It is free to attend\, but registration is requested. Refreshments will be provided. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register for Free Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Eugenia Yoh is a Taiwanese-American author-illustrator in the Bay Area. She is a children’s book designer at Chronicle Books during the day and a children’s book illustrator during the night. Her first book\, This Is Not My Home (Little\, Brown 2023)\, is a love letter to Taiwan\, and her second book What If We… (Little\, Brown 2025)\, tells the story of two siblings who bond during an imaginative summer. With more picture books lined up\, she hopes to continue telling stories with heart and humor. She enjoys soup\, Japanese fiction novels\, bananagrams\, the Chinese yoyo and occasional folk-dancing. You can find her online at www.eugeniayoh.com. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nira Liu is a filmmaker\, comic artist\, story lead\, and bathroom rapper. He began his career as an intern at Blue Sky studios in 2015\, and is now a lead storyboard artist at Pixar Animation Studios. His recent credits include Onward\, Turning Red\, Elemental (2023)\, Win or Lose (2025)\, and Hoppers(2026).   Nira spent his early childhood in his great motherland of China and moved to the US as a teenager. In elementary school\, he would stare out the window and dream of turning into Ultraman and fighting different alien kaiju. In middle school\, he dreamed of becoming an underground rapper who had Jay-Z rapping hooks for him. Fortunately\, those two passions didn’t work out\, so now he has a career of telling whacky humorous stories with his drawings/writing. He enjoys telling gentle stories that make people feel less alone in this world. You can find Nira on Instagram @niradrawdrawdraaw. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Elenor Mak is the founder and CEO of Jilly Bing\, a toy company creating dolls that reflect Asian American children. The idea started when she searched for her daughter’s first doll and didn’t see anything that felt right\, so she decided to build it herself. Elenor and Jilly Bing have been featured on the Today Show\, Forbes\, Entrepreneur\, CBS Mornings\, and NextShark.   Previously\, Elenor co-founded Keaton Row\, an e-commerce fashion company\, and led go-to-market strategy for Target’s Entrepreneur-in-Residence team. She later joined Madison Reed\, where she helped expand retail and open flagship locations on both coasts.   Elenor holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a degree in economics from Dartmouth. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two children. You can find her online at jillybing.com. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/stories-from-home-screening/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/20220515StoriesFromHome_Thumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220521T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220521T173000 DTSTAMP:20260623T023535 CREATED:20220421T204851Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220524T170158Z UID:12151-1653148800-1653154200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Celebrating Our HeART-filled Heritage: Bochan Huy DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 14\, 20266-8:30 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a fun\, relaxed social mixer and presentation celebrating the amazing Asian creators\, writers\, and producers shaping the world of children’s media! This gathering will connect industry pros (children’s book illustrator and designer Eugenia Yoh of Chronicle Books\, storyboard artist Nira Liu of Pixar Animation Studios\, and toy entrepreneur Elenor Mak of Jilly Bing) with local community to chat about storytelling\, innovation\, and Asian representation in kids’ content.   This event is co-presented by the Children’s Media Association Bay Area Chapter and the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. It is free to attend\, but registration is requested. Refreshments will be provided. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register for Free Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Eugenia Yoh is a Taiwanese-American author-illustrator in the Bay Area. She is a children’s book designer at Chronicle Books during the day and a children’s book illustrator during the night. Her first book\, This Is Not My Home (Little\, Brown 2023)\, is a love letter to Taiwan\, and her second book What If We… (Little\, Brown 2025)\, tells the story of two siblings who bond during an imaginative summer. With more picture books lined up\, she hopes to continue telling stories with heart and humor. She enjoys soup\, Japanese fiction novels\, bananagrams\, the Chinese yoyo and occasional folk-dancing. You can find her online at www.eugeniayoh.com. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nira Liu is a filmmaker\, comic artist\, story lead\, and bathroom rapper. He began his career as an intern at Blue Sky studios in 2015\, and is now a lead storyboard artist at Pixar Animation Studios. His recent credits include Onward\, Turning Red\, Elemental (2023)\, Win or Lose (2025)\, and Hoppers(2026).   Nira spent his early childhood in his great motherland of China and moved to the US as a teenager. In elementary school\, he would stare out the window and dream of turning into Ultraman and fighting different alien kaiju. In middle school\, he dreamed of becoming an underground rapper who had Jay-Z rapping hooks for him. Fortunately\, those two passions didn’t work out\, so now he has a career of telling whacky humorous stories with his drawings/writing. He enjoys telling gentle stories that make people feel less alone in this world. You can find Nira on Instagram @niradrawdrawdraaw. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Elenor Mak is the founder and CEO of Jilly Bing\, a toy company creating dolls that reflect Asian American children. The idea started when she searched for her daughter’s first doll and didn’t see anything that felt right\, so she decided to build it herself. Elenor and Jilly Bing have been featured on the Today Show\, Forbes\, Entrepreneur\, CBS Mornings\, and NextShark.   Previously\, Elenor co-founded Keaton Row\, an e-commerce fashion company\, and led go-to-market strategy for Target’s Entrepreneur-in-Residence team. She later joined Madison Reed\, where she helped expand retail and open flagship locations on both coasts.   Elenor holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a degree in economics from Dartmouth. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two children. You can find her online at jillybing.com. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/heart-filled-heritage-series-bochan-huy/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/20220521Thumbnail_Bochan.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220525T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220525T200000 DTSTAMP:20260623T023535 CREATED:20220422T225830Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220527T003756Z UID:12286-1653494400-1653508800@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Lotus Link Up: Cocktails\, Comedy\, and Connection for AAPI & ALLIES DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 14\, 20266-8:30 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a fun\, relaxed social mixer and presentation celebrating the amazing Asian creators\, writers\, and producers shaping the world of children’s media! This gathering will connect industry pros (children’s book illustrator and designer Eugenia Yoh of Chronicle Books\, storyboard artist Nira Liu of Pixar Animation Studios\, and toy entrepreneur Elenor Mak of Jilly Bing) with local community to chat about storytelling\, innovation\, and Asian representation in kids’ content.   This event is co-presented by the Children’s Media Association Bay Area Chapter and the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. It is free to attend\, but registration is requested. Refreshments will be provided. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register for Free Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Eugenia Yoh is a Taiwanese-American author-illustrator in the Bay Area. She is a children’s book designer at Chronicle Books during the day and a children’s book illustrator during the night. Her first book\, This Is Not My Home (Little\, Brown 2023)\, is a love letter to Taiwan\, and her second book What If We… (Little\, Brown 2025)\, tells the story of two siblings who bond during an imaginative summer. With more picture books lined up\, she hopes to continue telling stories with heart and humor. She enjoys soup\, Japanese fiction novels\, bananagrams\, the Chinese yoyo and occasional folk-dancing. You can find her online at www.eugeniayoh.com. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nira Liu is a filmmaker\, comic artist\, story lead\, and bathroom rapper. He began his career as an intern at Blue Sky studios in 2015\, and is now a lead storyboard artist at Pixar Animation Studios. His recent credits include Onward\, Turning Red\, Elemental (2023)\, Win or Lose (2025)\, and Hoppers(2026).   Nira spent his early childhood in his great motherland of China and moved to the US as a teenager. In elementary school\, he would stare out the window and dream of turning into Ultraman and fighting different alien kaiju. In middle school\, he dreamed of becoming an underground rapper who had Jay-Z rapping hooks for him. Fortunately\, those two passions didn’t work out\, so now he has a career of telling whacky humorous stories with his drawings/writing. He enjoys telling gentle stories that make people feel less alone in this world. You can find Nira on Instagram @niradrawdrawdraaw. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Elenor Mak is the founder and CEO of Jilly Bing\, a toy company creating dolls that reflect Asian American children. The idea started when she searched for her daughter’s first doll and didn’t see anything that felt right\, so she decided to build it herself. Elenor and Jilly Bing have been featured on the Today Show\, Forbes\, Entrepreneur\, CBS Mornings\, and NextShark.   Previously\, Elenor co-founded Keaton Row\, an e-commerce fashion company\, and led go-to-market strategy for Target’s Entrepreneur-in-Residence team. She later joined Madison Reed\, where she helped expand retail and open flagship locations on both coasts.   Elenor holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a degree in economics from Dartmouth. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two children. You can find her online at jillybing.com. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/lotus-link-up-2/ LOCATION:Somar Bar & Lounge\, 1727 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/LL-Instagram-Somar-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220527T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220527T193000 DTSTAMP:20260623T023535 CREATED:20220405T020211Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220531T182449Z UID:12216-1653674400-1653679800@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: "The All-American Crew" with Author Russell N. Low DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 14\, 20266-8:30 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a fun\, relaxed social mixer and presentation celebrating the amazing Asian creators\, writers\, and producers shaping the world of children’s media! This gathering will connect industry pros (children’s book illustrator and designer Eugenia Yoh of Chronicle Books\, storyboard artist Nira Liu of Pixar Animation Studios\, and toy entrepreneur Elenor Mak of Jilly Bing) with local community to chat about storytelling\, innovation\, and Asian representation in kids’ content.   This event is co-presented by the Children’s Media Association Bay Area Chapter and the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. It is free to attend\, but registration is requested. Refreshments will be provided. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register for Free Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Eugenia Yoh is a Taiwanese-American author-illustrator in the Bay Area. She is a children’s book designer at Chronicle Books during the day and a children’s book illustrator during the night. Her first book\, This Is Not My Home (Little\, Brown 2023)\, is a love letter to Taiwan\, and her second book What If We… (Little\, Brown 2025)\, tells the story of two siblings who bond during an imaginative summer. With more picture books lined up\, she hopes to continue telling stories with heart and humor. She enjoys soup\, Japanese fiction novels\, bananagrams\, the Chinese yoyo and occasional folk-dancing. You can find her online at www.eugeniayoh.com. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nira Liu is a filmmaker\, comic artist\, story lead\, and bathroom rapper. He began his career as an intern at Blue Sky studios in 2015\, and is now a lead storyboard artist at Pixar Animation Studios. His recent credits include Onward\, Turning Red\, Elemental (2023)\, Win or Lose (2025)\, and Hoppers(2026).   Nira spent his early childhood in his great motherland of China and moved to the US as a teenager. In elementary school\, he would stare out the window and dream of turning into Ultraman and fighting different alien kaiju. In middle school\, he dreamed of becoming an underground rapper who had Jay-Z rapping hooks for him. Fortunately\, those two passions didn’t work out\, so now he has a career of telling whacky humorous stories with his drawings/writing. He enjoys telling gentle stories that make people feel less alone in this world. You can find Nira on Instagram @niradrawdrawdraaw. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Elenor Mak is the founder and CEO of Jilly Bing\, a toy company creating dolls that reflect Asian American children. The idea started when she searched for her daughter’s first doll and didn’t see anything that felt right\, so she decided to build it herself. Elenor and Jilly Bing have been featured on the Today Show\, Forbes\, Entrepreneur\, CBS Mornings\, and NextShark.   Previously\, Elenor co-founded Keaton Row\, an e-commerce fashion company\, and led go-to-market strategy for Target’s Entrepreneur-in-Residence team. She later joined Madison Reed\, where she helped expand retail and open flagship locations on both coasts.   Elenor holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a degree in economics from Dartmouth. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two children. You can find her online at jillybing.com. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/all-american-crew-book-talk-2022/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/20220527AllAmericanCrew_Thumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220604T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220604T160000 DTSTAMP:20260623T023535 CREATED:20220510T234849Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220604T231421Z UID:12397-1654351200-1654358400@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Creative Voices of the Vietnamese Diaspora DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 14\, 20266-8:30 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a fun\, relaxed social mixer and presentation celebrating the amazing Asian creators\, writers\, and producers shaping the world of children’s media! This gathering will connect industry pros (children’s book illustrator and designer Eugenia Yoh of Chronicle Books\, storyboard artist Nira Liu of Pixar Animation Studios\, and toy entrepreneur Elenor Mak of Jilly Bing) with local community to chat about storytelling\, innovation\, and Asian representation in kids’ content.   This event is co-presented by the Children’s Media Association Bay Area Chapter and the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. It is free to attend\, but registration is requested. Refreshments will be provided. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register for Free Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Eugenia Yoh is a Taiwanese-American author-illustrator in the Bay Area. She is a children’s book designer at Chronicle Books during the day and a children’s book illustrator during the night. Her first book\, This Is Not My Home (Little\, Brown 2023)\, is a love letter to Taiwan\, and her second book What If We… (Little\, Brown 2025)\, tells the story of two siblings who bond during an imaginative summer. With more picture books lined up\, she hopes to continue telling stories with heart and humor. She enjoys soup\, Japanese fiction novels\, bananagrams\, the Chinese yoyo and occasional folk-dancing. You can find her online at www.eugeniayoh.com. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nira Liu is a filmmaker\, comic artist\, story lead\, and bathroom rapper. He began his career as an intern at Blue Sky studios in 2015\, and is now a lead storyboard artist at Pixar Animation Studios. His recent credits include Onward\, Turning Red\, Elemental (2023)\, Win or Lose (2025)\, and Hoppers(2026).   Nira spent his early childhood in his great motherland of China and moved to the US as a teenager. In elementary school\, he would stare out the window and dream of turning into Ultraman and fighting different alien kaiju. In middle school\, he dreamed of becoming an underground rapper who had Jay-Z rapping hooks for him. Fortunately\, those two passions didn’t work out\, so now he has a career of telling whacky humorous stories with his drawings/writing. He enjoys telling gentle stories that make people feel less alone in this world. You can find Nira on Instagram @niradrawdrawdraaw. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Elenor Mak is the founder and CEO of Jilly Bing\, a toy company creating dolls that reflect Asian American children. The idea started when she searched for her daughter’s first doll and didn’t see anything that felt right\, so she decided to build it herself. Elenor and Jilly Bing have been featured on the Today Show\, Forbes\, Entrepreneur\, CBS Mornings\, and NextShark.   Previously\, Elenor co-founded Keaton Row\, an e-commerce fashion company\, and led go-to-market strategy for Target’s Entrepreneur-in-Residence team. She later joined Madison Reed\, where she helped expand retail and open flagship locations on both coasts.   Elenor holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a degree in economics from Dartmouth. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two children. You can find her online at jillybing.com. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/creative-voices-vietnamese-diaspora-panel-talk/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/20220604CreativeVoicesPanel_Thumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220604T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220604T200000 DTSTAMP:20260623T023535 CREATED:20220505T225348Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220605T044854Z UID:12366-1654363800-1654372800@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Queer Trans Asian Pride - A Community Gathering DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 14\, 20266-8:30 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a fun\, relaxed social mixer and presentation celebrating the amazing Asian creators\, writers\, and producers shaping the world of children’s media! This gathering will connect industry pros (children’s book illustrator and designer Eugenia Yoh of Chronicle Books\, storyboard artist Nira Liu of Pixar Animation Studios\, and toy entrepreneur Elenor Mak of Jilly Bing) with local community to chat about storytelling\, innovation\, and Asian representation in kids’ content.   This event is co-presented by the Children’s Media Association Bay Area Chapter and the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. It is free to attend\, but registration is requested. Refreshments will be provided. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register for Free Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Eugenia Yoh is a Taiwanese-American author-illustrator in the Bay Area. She is a children’s book designer at Chronicle Books during the day and a children’s book illustrator during the night. Her first book\, This Is Not My Home (Little\, Brown 2023)\, is a love letter to Taiwan\, and her second book What If We… (Little\, Brown 2025)\, tells the story of two siblings who bond during an imaginative summer. With more picture books lined up\, she hopes to continue telling stories with heart and humor. She enjoys soup\, Japanese fiction novels\, bananagrams\, the Chinese yoyo and occasional folk-dancing. You can find her online at www.eugeniayoh.com. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nira Liu is a filmmaker\, comic artist\, story lead\, and bathroom rapper. He began his career as an intern at Blue Sky studios in 2015\, and is now a lead storyboard artist at Pixar Animation Studios. His recent credits include Onward\, Turning Red\, Elemental (2023)\, Win or Lose (2025)\, and Hoppers(2026).   Nira spent his early childhood in his great motherland of China and moved to the US as a teenager. In elementary school\, he would stare out the window and dream of turning into Ultraman and fighting different alien kaiju. In middle school\, he dreamed of becoming an underground rapper who had Jay-Z rapping hooks for him. Fortunately\, those two passions didn’t work out\, so now he has a career of telling whacky humorous stories with his drawings/writing. He enjoys telling gentle stories that make people feel less alone in this world. You can find Nira on Instagram @niradrawdrawdraaw. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Elenor Mak is the founder and CEO of Jilly Bing\, a toy company creating dolls that reflect Asian American children. The idea started when she searched for her daughter’s first doll and didn’t see anything that felt right\, so she decided to build it herself. Elenor and Jilly Bing have been featured on the Today Show\, Forbes\, Entrepreneur\, CBS Mornings\, and NextShark.   Previously\, Elenor co-founded Keaton Row\, an e-commerce fashion company\, and led go-to-market strategy for Target’s Entrepreneur-in-Residence team. She later joined Madison Reed\, where she helped expand retail and open flagship locations on both coasts.   Elenor holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a degree in economics from Dartmouth. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two children. You can find her online at jillybing.com. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/qtapi-week-2022/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/20220604QTAPI_Thumbnail-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220611T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220611T160000 DTSTAMP:20260623T023535 CREATED:20220519T190452Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220613T163811Z UID:12469-1654956000-1654963200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Telling Our Stories: A Celebration of Oakland and Bay Area’s Diverse Voices DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 14\, 20266-8:30 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a fun\, relaxed social mixer and presentation celebrating the amazing Asian creators\, writers\, and producers shaping the world of children’s media! This gathering will connect industry pros (children’s book illustrator and designer Eugenia Yoh of Chronicle Books\, storyboard artist Nira Liu of Pixar Animation Studios\, and toy entrepreneur Elenor Mak of Jilly Bing) with local community to chat about storytelling\, innovation\, and Asian representation in kids’ content.   This event is co-presented by the Children’s Media Association Bay Area Chapter and the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. It is free to attend\, but registration is requested. Refreshments will be provided. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register for Free Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Eugenia Yoh is a Taiwanese-American author-illustrator in the Bay Area. She is a children’s book designer at Chronicle Books during the day and a children’s book illustrator during the night. Her first book\, This Is Not My Home (Little\, Brown 2023)\, is a love letter to Taiwan\, and her second book What If We… (Little\, Brown 2025)\, tells the story of two siblings who bond during an imaginative summer. With more picture books lined up\, she hopes to continue telling stories with heart and humor. She enjoys soup\, Japanese fiction novels\, bananagrams\, the Chinese yoyo and occasional folk-dancing. You can find her online at www.eugeniayoh.com. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nira Liu is a filmmaker\, comic artist\, story lead\, and bathroom rapper. He began his career as an intern at Blue Sky studios in 2015\, and is now a lead storyboard artist at Pixar Animation Studios. His recent credits include Onward\, Turning Red\, Elemental (2023)\, Win or Lose (2025)\, and Hoppers(2026).   Nira spent his early childhood in his great motherland of China and moved to the US as a teenager. In elementary school\, he would stare out the window and dream of turning into Ultraman and fighting different alien kaiju. In middle school\, he dreamed of becoming an underground rapper who had Jay-Z rapping hooks for him. Fortunately\, those two passions didn’t work out\, so now he has a career of telling whacky humorous stories with his drawings/writing. He enjoys telling gentle stories that make people feel less alone in this world. You can find Nira on Instagram @niradrawdrawdraaw. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Elenor Mak is the founder and CEO of Jilly Bing\, a toy company creating dolls that reflect Asian American children. The idea started when she searched for her daughter’s first doll and didn’t see anything that felt right\, so she decided to build it herself. Elenor and Jilly Bing have been featured on the Today Show\, Forbes\, Entrepreneur\, CBS Mornings\, and NextShark.   Previously\, Elenor co-founded Keaton Row\, an e-commerce fashion company\, and led go-to-market strategy for Target’s Entrepreneur-in-Residence team. She later joined Madison Reed\, where she helped expand retail and open flagship locations on both coasts.   Elenor holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a degree in economics from Dartmouth. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two children. You can find her online at jillybing.com. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/homemade-celebration-screening/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/HM-Particpant0.png ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220618T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220618T153000 DTSTAMP:20260623T023535 CREATED:20220510T230605Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220618T223738Z UID:12388-1655560800-1655566200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Celebrating Our HeART-filled Heritage: Hālau KaUaTuahine DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 14\, 20266-8:30 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a fun\, relaxed social mixer and presentation celebrating the amazing Asian creators\, writers\, and producers shaping the world of children’s media! This gathering will connect industry pros (children’s book illustrator and designer Eugenia Yoh of Chronicle Books\, storyboard artist Nira Liu of Pixar Animation Studios\, and toy entrepreneur Elenor Mak of Jilly Bing) with local community to chat about storytelling\, innovation\, and Asian representation in kids’ content.   This event is co-presented by the Children’s Media Association Bay Area Chapter and the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. It is free to attend\, but registration is requested. Refreshments will be provided. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register for Free Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Eugenia Yoh is a Taiwanese-American author-illustrator in the Bay Area. She is a children’s book designer at Chronicle Books during the day and a children’s book illustrator during the night. Her first book\, This Is Not My Home (Little\, Brown 2023)\, is a love letter to Taiwan\, and her second book What If We… (Little\, Brown 2025)\, tells the story of two siblings who bond during an imaginative summer. With more picture books lined up\, she hopes to continue telling stories with heart and humor. She enjoys soup\, Japanese fiction novels\, bananagrams\, the Chinese yoyo and occasional folk-dancing. You can find her online at www.eugeniayoh.com. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nira Liu is a filmmaker\, comic artist\, story lead\, and bathroom rapper. He began his career as an intern at Blue Sky studios in 2015\, and is now a lead storyboard artist at Pixar Animation Studios. His recent credits include Onward\, Turning Red\, Elemental (2023)\, Win or Lose (2025)\, and Hoppers(2026).   Nira spent his early childhood in his great motherland of China and moved to the US as a teenager. In elementary school\, he would stare out the window and dream of turning into Ultraman and fighting different alien kaiju. In middle school\, he dreamed of becoming an underground rapper who had Jay-Z rapping hooks for him. Fortunately\, those two passions didn’t work out\, so now he has a career of telling whacky humorous stories with his drawings/writing. He enjoys telling gentle stories that make people feel less alone in this world. You can find Nira on Instagram @niradrawdrawdraaw. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Elenor Mak is the founder and CEO of Jilly Bing\, a toy company creating dolls that reflect Asian American children. The idea started when she searched for her daughter’s first doll and didn’t see anything that felt right\, so she decided to build it herself. Elenor and Jilly Bing have been featured on the Today Show\, Forbes\, Entrepreneur\, CBS Mornings\, and NextShark.   Previously\, Elenor co-founded Keaton Row\, an e-commerce fashion company\, and led go-to-market strategy for Target’s Entrepreneur-in-Residence team. She later joined Madison Reed\, where she helped expand retail and open flagship locations on both coasts.   Elenor holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a degree in economics from Dartmouth. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two children. You can find her online at jillybing.com. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/heart-filled-heritage-series-halau-ka-ua-tuahine/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/20220618Thumbnail_Halau.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220624T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220624T140000 DTSTAMP:20260623T023535 CREATED:20220607T215718Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220713T183302Z UID:12589-1656075600-1656079200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Become a Changemaker: Learn More About Recycling & Composting in Oakland DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 14\, 20266-8:30 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a fun\, relaxed social mixer and presentation celebrating the amazing Asian creators\, writers\, and producers shaping the world of children’s media! This gathering will connect industry pros (children’s book illustrator and designer Eugenia Yoh of Chronicle Books\, storyboard artist Nira Liu of Pixar Animation Studios\, and toy entrepreneur Elenor Mak of Jilly Bing) with local community to chat about storytelling\, innovation\, and Asian representation in kids’ content.   This event is co-presented by the Children’s Media Association Bay Area Chapter and the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. It is free to attend\, but registration is requested. Refreshments will be provided. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register for Free Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Eugenia Yoh is a Taiwanese-American author-illustrator in the Bay Area. She is a children’s book designer at Chronicle Books during the day and a children’s book illustrator during the night. Her first book\, This Is Not My Home (Little\, Brown 2023)\, is a love letter to Taiwan\, and her second book What If We… (Little\, Brown 2025)\, tells the story of two siblings who bond during an imaginative summer. With more picture books lined up\, she hopes to continue telling stories with heart and humor. She enjoys soup\, Japanese fiction novels\, bananagrams\, the Chinese yoyo and occasional folk-dancing. You can find her online at www.eugeniayoh.com. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nira Liu is a filmmaker\, comic artist\, story lead\, and bathroom rapper. He began his career as an intern at Blue Sky studios in 2015\, and is now a lead storyboard artist at Pixar Animation Studios. His recent credits include Onward\, Turning Red\, Elemental (2023)\, Win or Lose (2025)\, and Hoppers(2026).   Nira spent his early childhood in his great motherland of China and moved to the US as a teenager. In elementary school\, he would stare out the window and dream of turning into Ultraman and fighting different alien kaiju. In middle school\, he dreamed of becoming an underground rapper who had Jay-Z rapping hooks for him. Fortunately\, those two passions didn’t work out\, so now he has a career of telling whacky humorous stories with his drawings/writing. He enjoys telling gentle stories that make people feel less alone in this world. You can find Nira on Instagram @niradrawdrawdraaw. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Elenor Mak is the founder and CEO of Jilly Bing\, a toy company creating dolls that reflect Asian American children. The idea started when she searched for her daughter’s first doll and didn’t see anything that felt right\, so she decided to build it herself. Elenor and Jilly Bing have been featured on the Today Show\, Forbes\, Entrepreneur\, CBS Mornings\, and NextShark.   Previously\, Elenor co-founded Keaton Row\, an e-commerce fashion company\, and led go-to-market strategy for Target’s Entrepreneur-in-Residence team. She later joined Madison Reed\, where she helped expand retail and open flagship locations on both coasts.   Elenor holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a degree in economics from Dartmouth. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two children. You can find her online at jillybing.com. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/changemaker/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/changemaker_thumb-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220630T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220630T123000 DTSTAMP:20260623T023535 CREATED:20220603T213722Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220713T183320Z UID:12567-1656586800-1656592200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Jikimee - AAPI Elder Voices DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 14\, 20266-8:30 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a fun\, relaxed social mixer and presentation celebrating the amazing Asian creators\, writers\, and producers shaping the world of children’s media! This gathering will connect industry pros (children’s book illustrator and designer Eugenia Yoh of Chronicle Books\, storyboard artist Nira Liu of Pixar Animation Studios\, and toy entrepreneur Elenor Mak of Jilly Bing) with local community to chat about storytelling\, innovation\, and Asian representation in kids’ content.   This event is co-presented by the Children’s Media Association Bay Area Chapter and the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. It is free to attend\, but registration is requested. Refreshments will be provided. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register for Free Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Eugenia Yoh is a Taiwanese-American author-illustrator in the Bay Area. She is a children’s book designer at Chronicle Books during the day and a children’s book illustrator during the night. Her first book\, This Is Not My Home (Little\, Brown 2023)\, is a love letter to Taiwan\, and her second book What If We… (Little\, Brown 2025)\, tells the story of two siblings who bond during an imaginative summer. With more picture books lined up\, she hopes to continue telling stories with heart and humor. She enjoys soup\, Japanese fiction novels\, bananagrams\, the Chinese yoyo and occasional folk-dancing. You can find her online at www.eugeniayoh.com. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nira Liu is a filmmaker\, comic artist\, story lead\, and bathroom rapper. He began his career as an intern at Blue Sky studios in 2015\, and is now a lead storyboard artist at Pixar Animation Studios. His recent credits include Onward\, Turning Red\, Elemental (2023)\, Win or Lose (2025)\, and Hoppers(2026).   Nira spent his early childhood in his great motherland of China and moved to the US as a teenager. In elementary school\, he would stare out the window and dream of turning into Ultraman and fighting different alien kaiju. In middle school\, he dreamed of becoming an underground rapper who had Jay-Z rapping hooks for him. Fortunately\, those two passions didn’t work out\, so now he has a career of telling whacky humorous stories with his drawings/writing. He enjoys telling gentle stories that make people feel less alone in this world. You can find Nira on Instagram @niradrawdrawdraaw. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Elenor Mak is the founder and CEO of Jilly Bing\, a toy company creating dolls that reflect Asian American children. The idea started when she searched for her daughter’s first doll and didn’t see anything that felt right\, so she decided to build it herself. Elenor and Jilly Bing have been featured on the Today Show\, Forbes\, Entrepreneur\, CBS Mornings\, and NextShark.   Previously\, Elenor co-founded Keaton Row\, an e-commerce fashion company\, and led go-to-market strategy for Target’s Entrepreneur-in-Residence team. She later joined Madison Reed\, where she helped expand retail and open flagship locations on both coasts.   Elenor holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a degree in economics from Dartmouth. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two children. You can find her online at jillybing.com. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/jikimee/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/jikimee_thumbnail.png ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220709T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220709T113000 DTSTAMP:20260623T023535 CREATED:20220511T005430Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220713T183223Z UID:12416-1657360800-1657366200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Natto Presentation & Tasting Session DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 14\, 20266-8:30 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a fun\, relaxed social mixer and presentation celebrating the amazing Asian creators\, writers\, and producers shaping the world of children’s media! This gathering will connect industry pros (children’s book illustrator and designer Eugenia Yoh of Chronicle Books\, storyboard artist Nira Liu of Pixar Animation Studios\, and toy entrepreneur Elenor Mak of Jilly Bing) with local community to chat about storytelling\, innovation\, and Asian representation in kids’ content.   This event is co-presented by the Children’s Media Association Bay Area Chapter and the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. It is free to attend\, but registration is requested. Refreshments will be provided. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register for Free Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Eugenia Yoh is a Taiwanese-American author-illustrator in the Bay Area. She is a children’s book designer at Chronicle Books during the day and a children’s book illustrator during the night. Her first book\, This Is Not My Home (Little\, Brown 2023)\, is a love letter to Taiwan\, and her second book What If We… (Little\, Brown 2025)\, tells the story of two siblings who bond during an imaginative summer. With more picture books lined up\, she hopes to continue telling stories with heart and humor. She enjoys soup\, Japanese fiction novels\, bananagrams\, the Chinese yoyo and occasional folk-dancing. You can find her online at www.eugeniayoh.com. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nira Liu is a filmmaker\, comic artist\, story lead\, and bathroom rapper. He began his career as an intern at Blue Sky studios in 2015\, and is now a lead storyboard artist at Pixar Animation Studios. His recent credits include Onward\, Turning Red\, Elemental (2023)\, Win or Lose (2025)\, and Hoppers(2026).   Nira spent his early childhood in his great motherland of China and moved to the US as a teenager. In elementary school\, he would stare out the window and dream of turning into Ultraman and fighting different alien kaiju. In middle school\, he dreamed of becoming an underground rapper who had Jay-Z rapping hooks for him. Fortunately\, those two passions didn’t work out\, so now he has a career of telling whacky humorous stories with his drawings/writing. He enjoys telling gentle stories that make people feel less alone in this world. You can find Nira on Instagram @niradrawdrawdraaw. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Elenor Mak is the founder and CEO of Jilly Bing\, a toy company creating dolls that reflect Asian American children. The idea started when she searched for her daughter’s first doll and didn’t see anything that felt right\, so she decided to build it herself. Elenor and Jilly Bing have been featured on the Today Show\, Forbes\, Entrepreneur\, CBS Mornings\, and NextShark.   Previously\, Elenor co-founded Keaton Row\, an e-commerce fashion company\, and led go-to-market strategy for Target’s Entrepreneur-in-Residence team. She later joined Madison Reed\, where she helped expand retail and open flagship locations on both coasts.   Elenor holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a degree in economics from Dartmouth. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two children. You can find her online at jillybing.com. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/natto-presentation-and-tasting/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/20220709NattoDemo_Thumbnail-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220709T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220709T153000 DTSTAMP:20260623T023535 CREATED:20220511T002657Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220713T183217Z UID:12406-1657373400-1657380600@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Japanese Knife Sharpening Workshop DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 14\, 20266-8:30 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a fun\, relaxed social mixer and presentation celebrating the amazing Asian creators\, writers\, and producers shaping the world of children’s media! This gathering will connect industry pros (children’s book illustrator and designer Eugenia Yoh of Chronicle Books\, storyboard artist Nira Liu of Pixar Animation Studios\, and toy entrepreneur Elenor Mak of Jilly Bing) with local community to chat about storytelling\, innovation\, and Asian representation in kids’ content.   This event is co-presented by the Children’s Media Association Bay Area Chapter and the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. It is free to attend\, but registration is requested. Refreshments will be provided. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register for Free Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Eugenia Yoh is a Taiwanese-American author-illustrator in the Bay Area. She is a children’s book designer at Chronicle Books during the day and a children’s book illustrator during the night. Her first book\, This Is Not My Home (Little\, Brown 2023)\, is a love letter to Taiwan\, and her second book What If We… (Little\, Brown 2025)\, tells the story of two siblings who bond during an imaginative summer. With more picture books lined up\, she hopes to continue telling stories with heart and humor. She enjoys soup\, Japanese fiction novels\, bananagrams\, the Chinese yoyo and occasional folk-dancing. You can find her online at www.eugeniayoh.com. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nira Liu is a filmmaker\, comic artist\, story lead\, and bathroom rapper. He began his career as an intern at Blue Sky studios in 2015\, and is now a lead storyboard artist at Pixar Animation Studios. His recent credits include Onward\, Turning Red\, Elemental (2023)\, Win or Lose (2025)\, and Hoppers(2026).   Nira spent his early childhood in his great motherland of China and moved to the US as a teenager. In elementary school\, he would stare out the window and dream of turning into Ultraman and fighting different alien kaiju. In middle school\, he dreamed of becoming an underground rapper who had Jay-Z rapping hooks for him. Fortunately\, those two passions didn’t work out\, so now he has a career of telling whacky humorous stories with his drawings/writing. He enjoys telling gentle stories that make people feel less alone in this world. You can find Nira on Instagram @niradrawdrawdraaw. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Elenor Mak is the founder and CEO of Jilly Bing\, a toy company creating dolls that reflect Asian American children. The idea started when she searched for her daughter’s first doll and didn’t see anything that felt right\, so she decided to build it herself. Elenor and Jilly Bing have been featured on the Today Show\, Forbes\, Entrepreneur\, CBS Mornings\, and NextShark.   Previously\, Elenor co-founded Keaton Row\, an e-commerce fashion company\, and led go-to-market strategy for Target’s Entrepreneur-in-Residence team. She later joined Madison Reed\, where she helped expand retail and open flagship locations on both coasts.   Elenor holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a degree in economics from Dartmouth. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two children. You can find her online at jillybing.com. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/knife-sharpening-workshop-2022/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/20220709KnifesharpeningWorkshop_Thumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220715 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220829 DTSTAMP:20260623T023535 CREATED:20220224T222156Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220907T205631Z UID:12082-1657843200-1661731199@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Bandung To The Bay: Intersections of Solidarity DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 14\, 20266-8:30 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a fun\, relaxed social mixer and presentation celebrating the amazing Asian creators\, writers\, and producers shaping the world of children’s media! This gathering will connect industry pros (children’s book illustrator and designer Eugenia Yoh of Chronicle Books\, storyboard artist Nira Liu of Pixar Animation Studios\, and toy entrepreneur Elenor Mak of Jilly Bing) with local community to chat about storytelling\, innovation\, and Asian representation in kids’ content.   This event is co-presented by the Children’s Media Association Bay Area Chapter and the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. It is free to attend\, but registration is requested. Refreshments will be provided. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register for Free Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Eugenia Yoh is a Taiwanese-American author-illustrator in the Bay Area. She is a children’s book designer at Chronicle Books during the day and a children’s book illustrator during the night. Her first book\, This Is Not My Home (Little\, Brown 2023)\, is a love letter to Taiwan\, and her second book What If We… (Little\, Brown 2025)\, tells the story of two siblings who bond during an imaginative summer. With more picture books lined up\, she hopes to continue telling stories with heart and humor. She enjoys soup\, Japanese fiction novels\, bananagrams\, the Chinese yoyo and occasional folk-dancing. You can find her online at www.eugeniayoh.com. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nira Liu is a filmmaker\, comic artist\, story lead\, and bathroom rapper. He began his career as an intern at Blue Sky studios in 2015\, and is now a lead storyboard artist at Pixar Animation Studios. His recent credits include Onward\, Turning Red\, Elemental (2023)\, Win or Lose (2025)\, and Hoppers(2026).   Nira spent his early childhood in his great motherland of China and moved to the US as a teenager. In elementary school\, he would stare out the window and dream of turning into Ultraman and fighting different alien kaiju. In middle school\, he dreamed of becoming an underground rapper who had Jay-Z rapping hooks for him. Fortunately\, those two passions didn’t work out\, so now he has a career of telling whacky humorous stories with his drawings/writing. He enjoys telling gentle stories that make people feel less alone in this world. You can find Nira on Instagram @niradrawdrawdraaw. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Elenor Mak is the founder and CEO of Jilly Bing\, a toy company creating dolls that reflect Asian American children. The idea started when she searched for her daughter’s first doll and didn’t see anything that felt right\, so she decided to build it herself. Elenor and Jilly Bing have been featured on the Today Show\, Forbes\, Entrepreneur\, CBS Mornings\, and NextShark.   Previously\, Elenor co-founded Keaton Row\, an e-commerce fashion company\, and led go-to-market strategy for Target’s Entrepreneur-in-Residence team. She later joined Madison Reed\, where she helped expand retail and open flagship locations on both coasts.   Elenor holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a degree in economics from Dartmouth. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two children. You can find her online at jillybing.com. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/bandung-to-the-bay-exhibition/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Exhibitions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/20220715BandungtotheBay_Thumbnail-e1673653068165.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220716T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220716T170000 DTSTAMP:20260623T023535 CREATED:20220524T175034Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220803T212947Z UID:12499-1657980000-1657990800@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Minhwa Family Workshop DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 14\, 20266-8:30 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a fun\, relaxed social mixer and presentation celebrating the amazing Asian creators\, writers\, and producers shaping the world of children’s media! This gathering will connect industry pros (children’s book illustrator and designer Eugenia Yoh of Chronicle Books\, storyboard artist Nira Liu of Pixar Animation Studios\, and toy entrepreneur Elenor Mak of Jilly Bing) with local community to chat about storytelling\, innovation\, and Asian representation in kids’ content.   This event is co-presented by the Children’s Media Association Bay Area Chapter and the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. It is free to attend\, but registration is requested. Refreshments will be provided. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register for Free Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Eugenia Yoh is a Taiwanese-American author-illustrator in the Bay Area. She is a children’s book designer at Chronicle Books during the day and a children’s book illustrator during the night. Her first book\, This Is Not My Home (Little\, Brown 2023)\, is a love letter to Taiwan\, and her second book What If We… (Little\, Brown 2025)\, tells the story of two siblings who bond during an imaginative summer. With more picture books lined up\, she hopes to continue telling stories with heart and humor. She enjoys soup\, Japanese fiction novels\, bananagrams\, the Chinese yoyo and occasional folk-dancing. You can find her online at www.eugeniayoh.com. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nira Liu is a filmmaker\, comic artist\, story lead\, and bathroom rapper. He began his career as an intern at Blue Sky studios in 2015\, and is now a lead storyboard artist at Pixar Animation Studios. His recent credits include Onward\, Turning Red\, Elemental (2023)\, Win or Lose (2025)\, and Hoppers(2026).   Nira spent his early childhood in his great motherland of China and moved to the US as a teenager. In elementary school\, he would stare out the window and dream of turning into Ultraman and fighting different alien kaiju. In middle school\, he dreamed of becoming an underground rapper who had Jay-Z rapping hooks for him. Fortunately\, those two passions didn’t work out\, so now he has a career of telling whacky humorous stories with his drawings/writing. He enjoys telling gentle stories that make people feel less alone in this world. You can find Nira on Instagram @niradrawdrawdraaw. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Elenor Mak is the founder and CEO of Jilly Bing\, a toy company creating dolls that reflect Asian American children. The idea started when she searched for her daughter’s first doll and didn’t see anything that felt right\, so she decided to build it herself. Elenor and Jilly Bing have been featured on the Today Show\, Forbes\, Entrepreneur\, CBS Mornings\, and NextShark.   Previously\, Elenor co-founded Keaton Row\, an e-commerce fashion company\, and led go-to-market strategy for Target’s Entrepreneur-in-Residence team. She later joined Madison Reed\, where she helped expand retail and open flagship locations on both coasts.   Elenor holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a degree in economics from Dartmouth. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two children. You can find her online at jillybing.com. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/minhwa-family-workshop-2022/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/20220716MinhwaWorkshop_Thumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220730T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220730T170000 DTSTAMP:20260623T023535 CREATED:20220603T050838Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220803T212936Z UID:12562-1659193200-1659200400@oacc.cc SUMMARY:"Lil Tokyo Reporter" 10th Anniversary Screening DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 14\, 20266-8:30 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a fun\, relaxed social mixer and presentation celebrating the amazing Asian creators\, writers\, and producers shaping the world of children’s media! This gathering will connect industry pros (children’s book illustrator and designer Eugenia Yoh of Chronicle Books\, storyboard artist Nira Liu of Pixar Animation Studios\, and toy entrepreneur Elenor Mak of Jilly Bing) with local community to chat about storytelling\, innovation\, and Asian representation in kids’ content.   This event is co-presented by the Children’s Media Association Bay Area Chapter and the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. It is free to attend\, but registration is requested. Refreshments will be provided. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register for Free Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Eugenia Yoh is a Taiwanese-American author-illustrator in the Bay Area. She is a children’s book designer at Chronicle Books during the day and a children’s book illustrator during the night. Her first book\, This Is Not My Home (Little\, Brown 2023)\, is a love letter to Taiwan\, and her second book What If We… (Little\, Brown 2025)\, tells the story of two siblings who bond during an imaginative summer. With more picture books lined up\, she hopes to continue telling stories with heart and humor. She enjoys soup\, Japanese fiction novels\, bananagrams\, the Chinese yoyo and occasional folk-dancing. You can find her online at www.eugeniayoh.com. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nira Liu is a filmmaker\, comic artist\, story lead\, and bathroom rapper. He began his career as an intern at Blue Sky studios in 2015\, and is now a lead storyboard artist at Pixar Animation Studios. His recent credits include Onward\, Turning Red\, Elemental (2023)\, Win or Lose (2025)\, and Hoppers(2026).   Nira spent his early childhood in his great motherland of China and moved to the US as a teenager. In elementary school\, he would stare out the window and dream of turning into Ultraman and fighting different alien kaiju. In middle school\, he dreamed of becoming an underground rapper who had Jay-Z rapping hooks for him. Fortunately\, those two passions didn’t work out\, so now he has a career of telling whacky humorous stories with his drawings/writing. He enjoys telling gentle stories that make people feel less alone in this world. You can find Nira on Instagram @niradrawdrawdraaw. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Elenor Mak is the founder and CEO of Jilly Bing\, a toy company creating dolls that reflect Asian American children. The idea started when she searched for her daughter’s first doll and didn’t see anything that felt right\, so she decided to build it herself. Elenor and Jilly Bing have been featured on the Today Show\, Forbes\, Entrepreneur\, CBS Mornings\, and NextShark.   Previously\, Elenor co-founded Keaton Row\, an e-commerce fashion company\, and led go-to-market strategy for Target’s Entrepreneur-in-Residence team. She later joined Madison Reed\, where she helped expand retail and open flagship locations on both coasts.   Elenor holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a degree in economics from Dartmouth. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two children. You can find her online at jillybing.com. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/lil-tokyo-reporter-10th-anniversary-screening/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/20220730LittleTokyoReporterScreening_Thumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220806T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220806T163000 DTSTAMP:20260623T023535 CREATED:20220614T174706Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220907T205707Z UID:12605-1659798000-1659803400@oacc.cc SUMMARY:"Painting The Streets" Book Talk [POSTPONED] DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 14\, 20266-8:30 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a fun\, relaxed social mixer and presentation celebrating the amazing Asian creators\, writers\, and producers shaping the world of children’s media! This gathering will connect industry pros (children’s book illustrator and designer Eugenia Yoh of Chronicle Books\, storyboard artist Nira Liu of Pixar Animation Studios\, and toy entrepreneur Elenor Mak of Jilly Bing) with local community to chat about storytelling\, innovation\, and Asian representation in kids’ content.   This event is co-presented by the Children’s Media Association Bay Area Chapter and the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. It is free to attend\, but registration is requested. Refreshments will be provided. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register for Free Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Eugenia Yoh is a Taiwanese-American author-illustrator in the Bay Area. She is a children’s book designer at Chronicle Books during the day and a children’s book illustrator during the night. Her first book\, This Is Not My Home (Little\, Brown 2023)\, is a love letter to Taiwan\, and her second book What If We… (Little\, Brown 2025)\, tells the story of two siblings who bond during an imaginative summer. With more picture books lined up\, she hopes to continue telling stories with heart and humor. She enjoys soup\, Japanese fiction novels\, bananagrams\, the Chinese yoyo and occasional folk-dancing. You can find her online at www.eugeniayoh.com. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nira Liu is a filmmaker\, comic artist\, story lead\, and bathroom rapper. He began his career as an intern at Blue Sky studios in 2015\, and is now a lead storyboard artist at Pixar Animation Studios. His recent credits include Onward\, Turning Red\, Elemental (2023)\, Win or Lose (2025)\, and Hoppers(2026).   Nira spent his early childhood in his great motherland of China and moved to the US as a teenager. In elementary school\, he would stare out the window and dream of turning into Ultraman and fighting different alien kaiju. In middle school\, he dreamed of becoming an underground rapper who had Jay-Z rapping hooks for him. Fortunately\, those two passions didn’t work out\, so now he has a career of telling whacky humorous stories with his drawings/writing. He enjoys telling gentle stories that make people feel less alone in this world. You can find Nira on Instagram @niradrawdrawdraaw. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Elenor Mak is the founder and CEO of Jilly Bing\, a toy company creating dolls that reflect Asian American children. The idea started when she searched for her daughter’s first doll and didn’t see anything that felt right\, so she decided to build it herself. Elenor and Jilly Bing have been featured on the Today Show\, Forbes\, Entrepreneur\, CBS Mornings\, and NextShark.   Previously\, Elenor co-founded Keaton Row\, an e-commerce fashion company\, and led go-to-market strategy for Target’s Entrepreneur-in-Residence team. She later joined Madison Reed\, where she helped expand retail and open flagship locations on both coasts.   Elenor holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a degree in economics from Dartmouth. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two children. You can find her online at jillybing.com. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/painting-the-streets-book-talk-2022/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/20220806PaintingTheStreetsBookTalk_Thumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220901 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220926 DTSTAMP:20260623T023535 CREATED:20220803T214002Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221005T210939Z UID:12648-1661990400-1664150399@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Stories From My Mother's House DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 14\, 20266-8:30 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a fun\, relaxed social mixer and presentation celebrating the amazing Asian creators\, writers\, and producers shaping the world of children’s media! This gathering will connect industry pros (children’s book illustrator and designer Eugenia Yoh of Chronicle Books\, storyboard artist Nira Liu of Pixar Animation Studios\, and toy entrepreneur Elenor Mak of Jilly Bing) with local community to chat about storytelling\, innovation\, and Asian representation in kids’ content.   This event is co-presented by the Children’s Media Association Bay Area Chapter and the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. It is free to attend\, but registration is requested. Refreshments will be provided. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register for Free Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Eugenia Yoh is a Taiwanese-American author-illustrator in the Bay Area. She is a children’s book designer at Chronicle Books during the day and a children’s book illustrator during the night. Her first book\, This Is Not My Home (Little\, Brown 2023)\, is a love letter to Taiwan\, and her second book What If We… (Little\, Brown 2025)\, tells the story of two siblings who bond during an imaginative summer. With more picture books lined up\, she hopes to continue telling stories with heart and humor. She enjoys soup\, Japanese fiction novels\, bananagrams\, the Chinese yoyo and occasional folk-dancing. You can find her online at www.eugeniayoh.com. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nira Liu is a filmmaker\, comic artist\, story lead\, and bathroom rapper. He began his career as an intern at Blue Sky studios in 2015\, and is now a lead storyboard artist at Pixar Animation Studios. His recent credits include Onward\, Turning Red\, Elemental (2023)\, Win or Lose (2025)\, and Hoppers(2026).   Nira spent his early childhood in his great motherland of China and moved to the US as a teenager. In elementary school\, he would stare out the window and dream of turning into Ultraman and fighting different alien kaiju. In middle school\, he dreamed of becoming an underground rapper who had Jay-Z rapping hooks for him. Fortunately\, those two passions didn’t work out\, so now he has a career of telling whacky humorous stories with his drawings/writing. He enjoys telling gentle stories that make people feel less alone in this world. You can find Nira on Instagram @niradrawdrawdraaw. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Elenor Mak is the founder and CEO of Jilly Bing\, a toy company creating dolls that reflect Asian American children. The idea started when she searched for her daughter’s first doll and didn’t see anything that felt right\, so she decided to build it herself. Elenor and Jilly Bing have been featured on the Today Show\, Forbes\, Entrepreneur\, CBS Mornings\, and NextShark.   Previously\, Elenor co-founded Keaton Row\, an e-commerce fashion company\, and led go-to-market strategy for Target’s Entrepreneur-in-Residence team. She later joined Madison Reed\, where she helped expand retail and open flagship locations on both coasts.   Elenor holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a degree in economics from Dartmouth. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two children. You can find her online at jillybing.com. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/stories-from-my-mothers-house/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Exhibitions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/20220901StoriesFromMothersHouse_Thumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220910T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220910T123000 DTSTAMP:20260623T023535 CREATED:20220824T212839Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220914T172608Z UID:12701-1662805800-1662813000@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Stop the Violence - Solidarity Now! Forum 1 DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 14\, 20266-8:30 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a fun\, relaxed social mixer and presentation celebrating the amazing Asian creators\, writers\, and producers shaping the world of children’s media! This gathering will connect industry pros (children’s book illustrator and designer Eugenia Yoh of Chronicle Books\, storyboard artist Nira Liu of Pixar Animation Studios\, and toy entrepreneur Elenor Mak of Jilly Bing) with local community to chat about storytelling\, innovation\, and Asian representation in kids’ content.   This event is co-presented by the Children’s Media Association Bay Area Chapter and the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. It is free to attend\, but registration is requested. Refreshments will be provided. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register for Free Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Eugenia Yoh is a Taiwanese-American author-illustrator in the Bay Area. She is a children’s book designer at Chronicle Books during the day and a children’s book illustrator during the night. Her first book\, This Is Not My Home (Little\, Brown 2023)\, is a love letter to Taiwan\, and her second book What If We… (Little\, Brown 2025)\, tells the story of two siblings who bond during an imaginative summer. With more picture books lined up\, she hopes to continue telling stories with heart and humor. She enjoys soup\, Japanese fiction novels\, bananagrams\, the Chinese yoyo and occasional folk-dancing. You can find her online at www.eugeniayoh.com. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nira Liu is a filmmaker\, comic artist\, story lead\, and bathroom rapper. He began his career as an intern at Blue Sky studios in 2015\, and is now a lead storyboard artist at Pixar Animation Studios. His recent credits include Onward\, Turning Red\, Elemental (2023)\, Win or Lose (2025)\, and Hoppers(2026).   Nira spent his early childhood in his great motherland of China and moved to the US as a teenager. In elementary school\, he would stare out the window and dream of turning into Ultraman and fighting different alien kaiju. In middle school\, he dreamed of becoming an underground rapper who had Jay-Z rapping hooks for him. Fortunately\, those two passions didn’t work out\, so now he has a career of telling whacky humorous stories with his drawings/writing. He enjoys telling gentle stories that make people feel less alone in this world. You can find Nira on Instagram @niradrawdrawdraaw. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Elenor Mak is the founder and CEO of Jilly Bing\, a toy company creating dolls that reflect Asian American children. The idea started when she searched for her daughter’s first doll and didn’t see anything that felt right\, so she decided to build it herself. Elenor and Jilly Bing have been featured on the Today Show\, Forbes\, Entrepreneur\, CBS Mornings\, and NextShark.   Previously\, Elenor co-founded Keaton Row\, an e-commerce fashion company\, and led go-to-market strategy for Target’s Entrepreneur-in-Residence team. She later joined Madison Reed\, where she helped expand retail and open flagship locations on both coasts.   Elenor holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a degree in economics from Dartmouth. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two children. You can find her online at jillybing.com. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/solidaritynow/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/20220910_BAMCForum_thumbnail.png ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221001 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221101 DTSTAMP:20260623T023535 CREATED:20220824T220054Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221214T195618Z UID:12869-1664582400-1667260799@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Press Play: Exhibition - Raising Mental Health Awareness DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 14\, 20266-8:30 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a fun\, relaxed social mixer and presentation celebrating the amazing Asian creators\, writers\, and producers shaping the world of children’s media! This gathering will connect industry pros (children’s book illustrator and designer Eugenia Yoh of Chronicle Books\, storyboard artist Nira Liu of Pixar Animation Studios\, and toy entrepreneur Elenor Mak of Jilly Bing) with local community to chat about storytelling\, innovation\, and Asian representation in kids’ content.   This event is co-presented by the Children’s Media Association Bay Area Chapter and the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. It is free to attend\, but registration is requested. Refreshments will be provided. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register for Free Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Eugenia Yoh is a Taiwanese-American author-illustrator in the Bay Area. She is a children’s book designer at Chronicle Books during the day and a children’s book illustrator during the night. Her first book\, This Is Not My Home (Little\, Brown 2023)\, is a love letter to Taiwan\, and her second book What If We… (Little\, Brown 2025)\, tells the story of two siblings who bond during an imaginative summer. With more picture books lined up\, she hopes to continue telling stories with heart and humor. She enjoys soup\, Japanese fiction novels\, bananagrams\, the Chinese yoyo and occasional folk-dancing. You can find her online at www.eugeniayoh.com. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nira Liu is a filmmaker\, comic artist\, story lead\, and bathroom rapper. He began his career as an intern at Blue Sky studios in 2015\, and is now a lead storyboard artist at Pixar Animation Studios. His recent credits include Onward\, Turning Red\, Elemental (2023)\, Win or Lose (2025)\, and Hoppers(2026).   Nira spent his early childhood in his great motherland of China and moved to the US as a teenager. In elementary school\, he would stare out the window and dream of turning into Ultraman and fighting different alien kaiju. In middle school\, he dreamed of becoming an underground rapper who had Jay-Z rapping hooks for him. Fortunately\, those two passions didn’t work out\, so now he has a career of telling whacky humorous stories with his drawings/writing. He enjoys telling gentle stories that make people feel less alone in this world. You can find Nira on Instagram @niradrawdrawdraaw. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Elenor Mak is the founder and CEO of Jilly Bing\, a toy company creating dolls that reflect Asian American children. The idea started when she searched for her daughter’s first doll and didn’t see anything that felt right\, so she decided to build it herself. Elenor and Jilly Bing have been featured on the Today Show\, Forbes\, Entrepreneur\, CBS Mornings\, and NextShark.   Previously\, Elenor co-founded Keaton Row\, an e-commerce fashion company\, and led go-to-market strategy for Target’s Entrepreneur-in-Residence team. She later joined Madison Reed\, where she helped expand retail and open flagship locations on both coasts.   Elenor holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a degree in economics from Dartmouth. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two children. You can find her online at jillybing.com. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/pressplay/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Exhibitions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/20221001PressPlay_thumbnail.png ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221015T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221015T173000 DTSTAMP:20260623T023535 CREATED:20220823T002613Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221019T220218Z UID:12705-1665855000-1665855000@oacc.cc SUMMARY:26th Anniversary Gala — Celebrate Asian Love DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 14\, 20266-8:30 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a fun\, relaxed social mixer and presentation celebrating the amazing Asian creators\, writers\, and producers shaping the world of children’s media! This gathering will connect industry pros (children’s book illustrator and designer Eugenia Yoh of Chronicle Books\, storyboard artist Nira Liu of Pixar Animation Studios\, and toy entrepreneur Elenor Mak of Jilly Bing) with local community to chat about storytelling\, innovation\, and Asian representation in kids’ content.   This event is co-presented by the Children’s Media Association Bay Area Chapter and the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. It is free to attend\, but registration is requested. Refreshments will be provided. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register for Free Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Eugenia Yoh is a Taiwanese-American author-illustrator in the Bay Area. She is a children’s book designer at Chronicle Books during the day and a children’s book illustrator during the night. Her first book\, This Is Not My Home (Little\, Brown 2023)\, is a love letter to Taiwan\, and her second book What If We… (Little\, Brown 2025)\, tells the story of two siblings who bond during an imaginative summer. With more picture books lined up\, she hopes to continue telling stories with heart and humor. She enjoys soup\, Japanese fiction novels\, bananagrams\, the Chinese yoyo and occasional folk-dancing. You can find her online at www.eugeniayoh.com. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nira Liu is a filmmaker\, comic artist\, story lead\, and bathroom rapper. He began his career as an intern at Blue Sky studios in 2015\, and is now a lead storyboard artist at Pixar Animation Studios. His recent credits include Onward\, Turning Red\, Elemental (2023)\, Win or Lose (2025)\, and Hoppers(2026).   Nira spent his early childhood in his great motherland of China and moved to the US as a teenager. In elementary school\, he would stare out the window and dream of turning into Ultraman and fighting different alien kaiju. In middle school\, he dreamed of becoming an underground rapper who had Jay-Z rapping hooks for him. Fortunately\, those two passions didn’t work out\, so now he has a career of telling whacky humorous stories with his drawings/writing. He enjoys telling gentle stories that make people feel less alone in this world. You can find Nira on Instagram @niradrawdrawdraaw. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Elenor Mak is the founder and CEO of Jilly Bing\, a toy company creating dolls that reflect Asian American children. The idea started when she searched for her daughter’s first doll and didn’t see anything that felt right\, so she decided to build it herself. Elenor and Jilly Bing have been featured on the Today Show\, Forbes\, Entrepreneur\, CBS Mornings\, and NextShark.   Previously\, Elenor co-founded Keaton Row\, an e-commerce fashion company\, and led go-to-market strategy for Target’s Entrepreneur-in-Residence team. She later joined Madison Reed\, where she helped expand retail and open flagship locations on both coasts.   Elenor holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a degree in economics from Dartmouth. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two children. You can find her online at jillybing.com. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/celebration-asian-love/ LOCATION:Pacific Renaissance Plaza\, 388 Ninth Street\, Suite 290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/heart_hand-1@3x.png ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221015T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221015T200000 DTSTAMP:20260623T023535 CREATED:20220527T172552Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220824T213255Z UID:12525-1665856800-1665864000@oacc.cc SUMMARY:OACC Gala 2022 DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 14\, 20266-8:30 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a fun\, relaxed social mixer and presentation celebrating the amazing Asian creators\, writers\, and producers shaping the world of children’s media! This gathering will connect industry pros (children’s book illustrator and designer Eugenia Yoh of Chronicle Books\, storyboard artist Nira Liu of Pixar Animation Studios\, and toy entrepreneur Elenor Mak of Jilly Bing) with local community to chat about storytelling\, innovation\, and Asian representation in kids’ content.   This event is co-presented by the Children’s Media Association Bay Area Chapter and the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. It is free to attend\, but registration is requested. Refreshments will be provided. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register for Free Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Eugenia Yoh is a Taiwanese-American author-illustrator in the Bay Area. She is a children’s book designer at Chronicle Books during the day and a children’s book illustrator during the night. Her first book\, This Is Not My Home (Little\, Brown 2023)\, is a love letter to Taiwan\, and her second book What If We… (Little\, Brown 2025)\, tells the story of two siblings who bond during an imaginative summer. With more picture books lined up\, she hopes to continue telling stories with heart and humor. She enjoys soup\, Japanese fiction novels\, bananagrams\, the Chinese yoyo and occasional folk-dancing. You can find her online at www.eugeniayoh.com. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nira Liu is a filmmaker\, comic artist\, story lead\, and bathroom rapper. He began his career as an intern at Blue Sky studios in 2015\, and is now a lead storyboard artist at Pixar Animation Studios. His recent credits include Onward\, Turning Red\, Elemental (2023)\, Win or Lose (2025)\, and Hoppers(2026).   Nira spent his early childhood in his great motherland of China and moved to the US as a teenager. In elementary school\, he would stare out the window and dream of turning into Ultraman and fighting different alien kaiju. In middle school\, he dreamed of becoming an underground rapper who had Jay-Z rapping hooks for him. Fortunately\, those two passions didn’t work out\, so now he has a career of telling whacky humorous stories with his drawings/writing. He enjoys telling gentle stories that make people feel less alone in this world. You can find Nira on Instagram @niradrawdrawdraaw. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Elenor Mak is the founder and CEO of Jilly Bing\, a toy company creating dolls that reflect Asian American children. The idea started when she searched for her daughter’s first doll and didn’t see anything that felt right\, so she decided to build it herself. Elenor and Jilly Bing have been featured on the Today Show\, Forbes\, Entrepreneur\, CBS Mornings\, and NextShark.   Previously\, Elenor co-founded Keaton Row\, an e-commerce fashion company\, and led go-to-market strategy for Target’s Entrepreneur-in-Residence team. She later joined Madison Reed\, where she helped expand retail and open flagship locations on both coasts.   Elenor holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a degree in economics from Dartmouth. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two children. You can find her online at jillybing.com. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/gala-2022/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/OACC-Gala-IG.png ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221021T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221022T160000 DTSTAMP:20260623T023535 CREATED:20221013T205538Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221026T182514Z UID:13020-1666350000-1666454400@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Community Ofrenda Building 2022: Celebrating Día De Los Muertos with OMCA DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 14\, 20266-8:30 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a fun\, relaxed social mixer and presentation celebrating the amazing Asian creators\, writers\, and producers shaping the world of children’s media! This gathering will connect industry pros (children’s book illustrator and designer Eugenia Yoh of Chronicle Books\, storyboard artist Nira Liu of Pixar Animation Studios\, and toy entrepreneur Elenor Mak of Jilly Bing) with local community to chat about storytelling\, innovation\, and Asian representation in kids’ content.   This event is co-presented by the Children’s Media Association Bay Area Chapter and the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. It is free to attend\, but registration is requested. Refreshments will be provided. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register for Free Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Eugenia Yoh is a Taiwanese-American author-illustrator in the Bay Area. She is a children’s book designer at Chronicle Books during the day and a children’s book illustrator during the night. Her first book\, This Is Not My Home (Little\, Brown 2023)\, is a love letter to Taiwan\, and her second book What If We… (Little\, Brown 2025)\, tells the story of two siblings who bond during an imaginative summer. With more picture books lined up\, she hopes to continue telling stories with heart and humor. She enjoys soup\, Japanese fiction novels\, bananagrams\, the Chinese yoyo and occasional folk-dancing. You can find her online at www.eugeniayoh.com. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nira Liu is a filmmaker\, comic artist\, story lead\, and bathroom rapper. He began his career as an intern at Blue Sky studios in 2015\, and is now a lead storyboard artist at Pixar Animation Studios. His recent credits include Onward\, Turning Red\, Elemental (2023)\, Win or Lose (2025)\, and Hoppers(2026).   Nira spent his early childhood in his great motherland of China and moved to the US as a teenager. In elementary school\, he would stare out the window and dream of turning into Ultraman and fighting different alien kaiju. In middle school\, he dreamed of becoming an underground rapper who had Jay-Z rapping hooks for him. Fortunately\, those two passions didn’t work out\, so now he has a career of telling whacky humorous stories with his drawings/writing. He enjoys telling gentle stories that make people feel less alone in this world. You can find Nira on Instagram @niradrawdrawdraaw. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Elenor Mak is the founder and CEO of Jilly Bing\, a toy company creating dolls that reflect Asian American children. The idea started when she searched for her daughter’s first doll and didn’t see anything that felt right\, so she decided to build it herself. Elenor and Jilly Bing have been featured on the Today Show\, Forbes\, Entrepreneur\, CBS Mornings\, and NextShark.   Previously\, Elenor co-founded Keaton Row\, an e-commerce fashion company\, and led go-to-market strategy for Target’s Entrepreneur-in-Residence team. She later joined Madison Reed\, where she helped expand retail and open flagship locations on both coasts.   Elenor holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a degree in economics from Dartmouth. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two children. You can find her online at jillybing.com. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/communityofrenda2022/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/10212022_CommunityOfrenda_Thumbnail.png ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221104 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221219 DTSTAMP:20260623T023535 CREATED:20220914T223149Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230524T225521Z UID:12918-1667520000-1671407999@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Distant Journeys of Cultural Exchange DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 14\, 20266-8:30 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for a fun\, relaxed social mixer and presentation celebrating the amazing Asian creators\, writers\, and producers shaping the world of children’s media! This gathering will connect industry pros (children’s book illustrator and designer Eugenia Yoh of Chronicle Books\, storyboard artist Nira Liu of Pixar Animation Studios\, and toy entrepreneur Elenor Mak of Jilly Bing) with local community to chat about storytelling\, innovation\, and Asian representation in kids’ content.   This event is co-presented by the Children’s Media Association Bay Area Chapter and the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. It is free to attend\, but registration is requested. Refreshments will be provided. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register for Free Tickets\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE PANELISTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Eugenia Yoh is a Taiwanese-American author-illustrator in the Bay Area. She is a children’s book designer at Chronicle Books during the day and a children’s book illustrator during the night. Her first book\, This Is Not My Home (Little\, Brown 2023)\, is a love letter to Taiwan\, and her second book What If We… (Little\, Brown 2025)\, tells the story of two siblings who bond during an imaginative summer. With more picture books lined up\, she hopes to continue telling stories with heart and humor. She enjoys soup\, Japanese fiction novels\, bananagrams\, the Chinese yoyo and occasional folk-dancing. You can find her online at www.eugeniayoh.com. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Nira Liu is a filmmaker\, comic artist\, story lead\, and bathroom rapper. He began his career as an intern at Blue Sky studios in 2015\, and is now a lead storyboard artist at Pixar Animation Studios. His recent credits include Onward\, Turning Red\, Elemental (2023)\, Win or Lose (2025)\, and Hoppers(2026).   Nira spent his early childhood in his great motherland of China and moved to the US as a teenager. In elementary school\, he would stare out the window and dream of turning into Ultraman and fighting different alien kaiju. In middle school\, he dreamed of becoming an underground rapper who had Jay-Z rapping hooks for him. Fortunately\, those two passions didn’t work out\, so now he has a career of telling whacky humorous stories with his drawings/writing. He enjoys telling gentle stories that make people feel less alone in this world. You can find Nira on Instagram @niradrawdrawdraaw. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Elenor Mak is the founder and CEO of Jilly Bing\, a toy company creating dolls that reflect Asian American children. The idea started when she searched for her daughter’s first doll and didn’t see anything that felt right\, so she decided to build it herself. Elenor and Jilly Bing have been featured on the Today Show\, Forbes\, Entrepreneur\, CBS Mornings\, and NextShark.   Previously\, Elenor co-founded Keaton Row\, an e-commerce fashion company\, and led go-to-market strategy for Target’s Entrepreneur-in-Residence team. She later joined Madison Reed\, where she helped expand retail and open flagship locations on both coasts.   Elenor holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a degree in economics from Dartmouth. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two children. You can find her online at jillybing.com. URL:https://oacc.cc/event/distant-journeys/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events,Past Exhibitions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/distantjourneys_thumbnail.png ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR