Activating Creativity: Asian American Artists on Art & Community

Flyer: Sara

Hey folks! I’m speaking at a NAKASEC panel tomorrow with a couple of my fave folks, Shani Shih and Darakshan Raja. Join us! [RSVP: bit.ly/AsAmArt519]

📆 EVENT ‼ Activating Creativity: Asian American Artists on Art & Community
🕗 19 May 2021, 7-8PM EST
📧 RSVP to get Zoom link: bit.ly/AsAmArt519

Virginia & DC-based Asian American artists and teachers - Darakshan Raja (DJ), Les Talusan (DJ, photographer, curator), Luisa A. Igloria (professor, poet), Robin Ha (cartoonist), Shani Shih (painter, illustrator) - will hold a live, virtual conversation about their journeys and inspirations, and how their processes and artworks are at once creative and political expressions. There will be Q&A at the end!

For #APAHM / #APAHeritageMonth , NAKASEC VA is celebrating #AsianAmerican identity, art, joy, laughter, healing, and all the things that bring life to our movement! Stay tuned for more events from us this month.

Mt. Pleasant: The Social Power of Music

I’ve been DJing at Marx Café in Mt. Pleasant for almost 17 years now and have always loved the neighborhood. Tomorrow I’ll be on a sold out panel with some of my oldest pals.

First Ladies to Anthology of Booty: Women’s DJ Collectives in D.C.
Lost Origins Gallery | 3110 Mt. Pleasant St. NW, Washington, D.C.
August 8, 2019, Thursday, 7-9PM
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Join us for a discussion on the past, present, and future of women’s DJ collectives in Washington, D.C.

Moderator: Allison Wolfe (Bratmobile, riot grrrl, I’m in the Band podcast)

Panelists:

• Ebony Dumas (DJ Natty Boom)

• Les Talusan (Les The DJ)

• Maegan Wood (DJ Junebullet)

• Kristy Chavez-Fernandez (Kristy La rAt)

• Kristina Gray (DJ K La Rock)

This Smithsonian Folklife Festival event is co-presented by the D.C.: The Social Power of Music program and is supported in part by Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative.