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SUMMARY:Stories from the Edge of Sea: A Book Launch With Andrew Lam
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, May 17\, 2026\n2-4 pm\nFREE\n \nJoin us for a book launch\, film screening\, and discussion with Vietnamese American author Andrew Lam. He will be reading from his new book of short stories\, Stories from the Edge of the Sea\, which explore love and loss\, lust and grief\, longing and heartbreaks through the lives of Vietnamese immigrants and their children in California. The reading will be followed by a segment of the PBS documentary\, My Journey Home and a Q&A with UC Davis professor Dr. Kiều-Linh Caroline Valverde discussing Lam’s 30 years of writing as a Vietnamese American author and essayist\, and the future prospect of immigrant narratives.  \n  \nThis book reading is presented by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center in partnership with the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network. It is free to attend\, but registration is requested. \n  \nPraise for Stories from the Edge of the Sea \n  \n“Universal and personal.”—Maxine Hong Kingston\, author of The Woman Warrior \n  \n“Maps the moveable feast of the Vietnamese diaspora.”—Scott Lankford\, author of Tahoe Beneath the Surface \n  \n“Taste the desires of comedians\, soldiers\, tomboys\, friends\, queers\, mothers\, and refugees.”—Long Bui\, author of Returns of War: South Vietnam \n					\n									Register for Free Tickets\n					 \nAbout Andrew Lam \n  \nAndrew Lam is a long time Bay Area journalist and author who writes about Vietnamese immigrants. He has published 4 books\, including Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora\, his memoir of being a Vietnamese refugee in America\, which won a 2006 PEN Award. His most recent book\, Stories from the Edge of the Sea\, explores love and loss among Vietnamese in the Bay Area. He is the subject of a PBS documentary called My Journey Home. Lam lives in San Francisco and travels to his homeland Vietnam frequently. He is working on a novel.  \n  \nAbout Dr. Kiều-Linh Caroline Valverde \n  \nDr. Kiều-Linh Caroline Valverde is an Associate Professor of Asian American Studies and Founding Director of the New Viet Nam Studies Initiative at the University of California\, Davis. She was a Fulbright\, Rockefeller\, and Luce scholar. She authored “Transnationalizing Viet Nam: Community\, Culture\, and Politics in the Diaspora.” Professor Valverde founded the movement ‘Fight the Tower’ with women of color and in the academy and co-edited the anthology\, “Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy.” She is also working on her third manuscript\, “National Aesthetics\,” and the revitalization of ethnic spaces like Chinatown Square in Sacramento and Little Saigon in Oakland. Her future research project looks at spirit realm beliefs and the history of its exclusion from the US academy\, as well as the importance of its return. More on Professor Valverde can be found at kieulinh.com.
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LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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SUMMARY:Queer Asian World Cinema: QWOCFF Satellite Screening
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, May 22\, 2026\n6:30-9 pm\nFREE\n\nQueer Women of Color Media Arts Project-QWOCMAP presents the 22nd annual International Queer Women of Color Film Festival—47 films by queer women\, nonbinary\, and trans filmmakers of color\, screening from May through October 2026. This year’s festival theme\, “We Resist\, and We Roll\,” holds the fullness of what this community does. We push back against the forces that try to erase us. And we keep making films. WRaWR—because we’ve always done both at the same time. \nOACC is honored to host one of the Film Festival’s opening events\, the Queer Asian World Cinema satellite screening. Experience a dance floor turned into history. A teenager seeing themselves clearly at last. Two best friends holding onto one last summer. A collective built against silence. A body that can’t close its eyes and a desert haunted by water. A girl and her ramen rewriting the West. Love and hurt imagined before birth. A night that pulls two sisters off course. Eight films moving between memory\, diaspora\, and dream where identity flickers\, stretches\, and insists on being seen. \nThis screening is presented by QWOCMAP in partnership with the Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center (APICC)\, and Visual Communications in Los Angeles. It is free to attend\, but registration is requested at the link below. Masking will be required\, and free masks will be provided at the event. \nThe Queer Asian World Cinema screening will include the following films: \n• Stay Hot Stay Chill by Nancy YiYu Chen \n• Memoria by Ross Vasallo \n• Stroke of Dreams by Tracy Nguyen \n• Because of You: A History of Kilawin Kolektibo by Barbara Malaran & Desireena Almoradie \n• Somewhere To Be by Libby Chun \n• Hugs & Kisses by Alexandra Orr \n• A Swim in the Desert by Coffee Kang \n• Ramen Western by Meloddy Gao \n\nRegister for Tickets\n \nABOUT QWOCMAP \nQueer Women of Color Media Arts Project-QWOCMAP builds narrative power by transforming the world’s most expensive art form into a tool for liberation. Founded in 2000\, QWOCMAP funds\, creates\, exhibits\, and distributes high-impact films to shatter stereotypes and bias\, reveal the lived truth of inequality\, and illuminate the incisive leadership and creative brilliance of LBTQIA+ people of color. \nQWOCMAP provides critical support and resources for LBTQIA+ BIPOC filmmakers. Over 500 films have been created through our award-winning Filmmaker Training Program\, the largest catalog of films by LBTQIA+ BIPOC filmmakers in the world. QWOCMAP presents its annual International Queer Women of Color Film Festival to build community and cross-movement solidarity. QWOCMAP’s curatorial practice and boutique film distribution strengthens political education and movement building. Our vision advances cultural resistance and renewal through filmmaker-activists who reshape power structures and create futures where justice and equity are the norm.
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LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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SUMMARY:Celebrating Our HeART-Filled Heritage: Celebrating the Zither—Asian American Identity and Cultural Survival
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, May 30\, 2026\n7-9 pm\nFREE\n\nCelebrating the Zither: Asian American Identity and Cultural Survival invites audiences into a powerful musical journey with accomplished musicians Shirley Muramoto and Winnie Wong\, where tradition becomes resilience and heritage becomes liberation. Through the luminous sounds of the koto and guzheng\, this program explores how cultural access is not just preservation—but survival—especially in the wake of histories like Japanese American incarceration and the ongoing shaping of Asian American identity. \nThough visually similar\, the koto and guzheng carry distinct cultural lineages\, each echoing stories of endurance\, adaptation\, and belonging. In this concert\, they meet in collaboration and creative reimagining—bridging past and present\, individuality and shared experience. \nThis is a celebration of multiplicity: of holding many worlds at once\, of honoring what makes us unique while finding connection through sound. Through new works\, cross-cultural dialogue\, and bold reinterpretations\, Celebrating the Zither offers a space where music becomes a living testament to identity\, memory\, and the freedom to define what it means to be Asian-American. \n\nRegister for Free Tickets\n\n \nAbout Shirley Muramoto \nShirley Kazuyo Muramoto\, Koto musician\, teacher\, band leader\, filmmaker\, event producer\, has played the Japanese koto since a young child under the tutelage of her mother\, Kazuko Muramoto. She continued to study traditional Japanese koto and jiuta shamisen music with masters Chikushi Katsuko\, Kazue Kudo\, and Yoko Gates. Shirley plays the koto in various styles and genres\, expanding the repertoire of traditional music through collaborations\, arrangements\, and compositions. \nBased in Oakland\, Calif.\, she received her Shihan koto teaching credential with Yushusho (highest) honors and her Dai Shihan master’s credential from the Chikushi Kai in Japan. This year is her official 50th anniversary since receiving her koto teaching certification. In 2012\, the Hokka Nichi Bei Kai inducted Shirley into the Bunka (Japanese cultural arts) Hall of Fame. In that same year\, the National Park Service’s Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program awarded her funding for the documentary film “Hidden Legacy: Japanese Traditional Performing Arts in the World War II Internment Camps” (2014)\, culminating her decades-long research on this little-known part of U.S. history. \nIn 2024\, Shirley became one of the artists awarded by the Alliance for California Traditional Arts and Mellon Foundation for the inaugural Taproot Fellowship’s recognition of traditional artists and culture bearers across the U.S. in 2024. Shirley continues to talk to students and organizations about the history of music in the WWII camps\, and the importance of keeping cultural heritage practices in our lives. \n \nAbout Winnie Wong \nWinnie Wong is a Hong Kong–born\, San Francisco–raised guzheng artist who began training at age four under virtuoso Weishan Liu and debuted publicly at five. Deeply rooted in her Chinese heritage\, she uses the guzheng not only to preserve tradition but to foster cultural connection and diversity within her community. \nOver four decades\, Wong has built a distinctive artistic voice that blends Chinese classical and traditional music with jazz\, world music\, and improvisation. She is the founder of China’s Spirit Music Ensemble\, creating a nurturing space for students to develop both technical skill and cultural understanding. Expanding beyond tradition\, she performs as principal guzheng soloist with The Ultra World X-tet and collaborates in cross-cultural projects such as the Irish-Chinese duo Willow Stream and Asian zither collaborations. \nWong’s work is defined by storytelling through sound—her compositions weave imagery\, emotion\, and global influences into immersive musical experiences. Her career reflects a lifelong commitment to bridging cultures\, inspiring new generations\, and redefining the guzheng as a dynamic\, contemporary instrument. She was honored with the “Musician of the Heart” award in 2016 for her cultural impact and artistic dedication.
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LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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