Events

“Transform what people think is possible.” Koyuki Yip

Activist Songbook is currently being researched and developed in three phases:

Phase 1: Interviews, Meetings, Songwriting
Phase 2: Workshops, Invitations, Template-creation

Phase 3: Activist Songbook 2020

Below is an informational diagram of the overlapping phases, followed by a calendar of events and interviews.

Events
2020

through June
Activist Songbook Online
International Festival of Arts & Ideas, New Haven CT

February 15
Activist Songbook Workshop
International Festival of Arts & Ideas, New Haven CT

January 25
Activist Songbook Workshop
International Festival of Arts & Ideas, New Haven CT

2019

November 17
Activist Songbook Music-Focused Workshop
International Festival of Arts & Ideas
Dixwell Avenue United Church, New Haven CT

October 19
Activist Songbook Introductory Workshop
International Festival of Arts & Ideas
Ives Main Library, New Haven CT

October 11
Compassion Has No Walls Vigil
ICE Building · San Francisco CA

September 6
We All Count: Representation, Voice, and Activism in 2020
Critical Diversity Studies Forum, University of San Francisco CA

April 27
Creating Infrastructure for Resistance through Music Panel
Association for Asian American Studies, Madison WI

2018

November 11
Music of Asian America Conference and Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival
Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia PA

August 5
James and Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership, Detroit MI

July 20
We the People
Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga CA

June 4-30
Lucas Artists Residency
Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga CA

May 8-10
Alexandra Amati’s class with singer Benjamin Pither
University of San Francisco CA

May 3-5
25th Anniversary Celebration
Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia PA

April 29-May 1
(ex)CHANGE Residency
Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia PA

March 10-18
(ex)CHANGE Residency
Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia PA

January 20
Community Workshop
Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia PA

January 17
Community Workshop
Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia PA

January 15-22
(ex)CHANGE Residency
Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia PA

2017

December 7-14
Lucas Artists Residency
Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga CA

October 14-18
(ex)CHANGE Residency
Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia PA

October 1
(ex)CHANGE Convening
Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia PA

Activists and Organizers Interviewed
2019

11-12 Mike Ishii, New York
09-20 Nancy Ukai, San Francisco
09-13 Gary Okihiro, New Haven
7-22 Jeannia Fu, New Haven

2018

09-16 Joan Osato, San Francisco
07-17 Tommy Leung and Nathan Perkins (Count Love), Boston
06-30 Helen Zia, Berkeley
06-29 Judy Dang, Susan Hayase, Tom Izu · California History Center, Cupertino
06-29 PJ & Roy Hirabayashi, San Jose
02-27 Philip Kan Gotanda, Berkeley
01-19 Melanie Hsu · Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia
01-19 Jackie Soro · Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia
01-17 Latasha Morris, Alex Bechtel, TJ Harris, Marina Nir · Philadelphia
01-16 Pax Ressler, Rob Tucker · Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia
01-07 Vân Ánh Võ, Fremont CA
01-07 Francis Wong · Chinese Historical Society of America, San Francisco
01-07 Jon Jang, San Francisco
01-07 Anthony Brown, Berkeley

2017

10-17 Gayle Isa · Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia
10-17 Peter Van Do · Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia
10-16 Sham-e-Ali Nayeem, Cynthia Dewi Oka · Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia
10-16 Alison Budschalow, Frances Nan · Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia
10-16 Masaru Edmund Nakawatase, Rorng Sorn · Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia
10-16 Hiro Nishikawa · Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia
10-16 Wei Chen · Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia
10-15 Stephanie Sun · Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia
10-15 Mariko Franz, Kao Kue, Koyuki Yip · Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia
10-01 Mary Yee · Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia

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