Featured Artists
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GenRyu Arts: Gen Ensemble, Gen Taiko, and Odori School The GenRyu Arts has produced over 20 full evening length concerts at the Japanese Cultural Community Center of Northern California, Gershwin Theater at the University of San Francisco, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Grand Performances in Los Angeles, Asian Art Museum, and Museum of Contemporary…
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Photo by Bob Hsiang Genny Lim is San Francisco Jazz Poet Laureate emeritus. Lim’s award-winning play, Paper Angels, was the first Asian American play aired on PBS’s American Playhouse in 1985 and has been performed throughout the U.S., Canada and China. She is author of five poetry collections, Winter Place, Child of War, Paper Gods…
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Drummer/percussionist Karen Stackpole started out as a rock drummer in the late ‘80s and became fascinated with improvised music and multi-media collaboration. She joined forces with SF Bay Area musicians, playing new music and stretching beyond established boundaries as well as working with dancers and experimental film. In 1991 she was exposed to the wonder…
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AK Black
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AK Black (writer, rapper) was born in Sunnydale and raised in Bayview Hunter’s Point, San Francisco. He began rapping in 1987, as a way of expressing social and political concerns that plague Black communities and other communities of color. AK Black broke into the Bay Area hip hop scene in 1991, and has performed throughout…
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Clare “Jiro” Hess is a life-long model builder and has been building wooden ship models for nearly 30 years. For the last 7 years, he has focused much of his attention on researching and modeling Japanese traditional watercraft or “wasen”. He has studied the details of Japanese wooden boat construction under Mr. Douglas Brooks, an…