API Equality – Northern California (APIENC) works to build LGBTQ API power by amplifying our voices and increasing visibility to our communities. Through organizing, we inspire and train leaders, establish intergenerational connections, and document and disseminate our histories. The Dragon Fruit Project is a program of APIENC and is an intergenerational oral history project that explores […]
Applications due March 30, 2018!!! Performing Resilience is an eight-week personal narrative storytelling and performance workshop, featuring storytellers who identify as LGBTQ APA.
We’re headed to Oakland this fall After a standing room only performance and exhibition in San Francisco, we’re headed to Oakland in summer 2018. More details coming soon, aka, as soon as we know you’ll know!
June 6th, 2017 is the launch of the Resilience Archives digital history tour alongside a multi-disciplinary event
Lenore Chinn Lenore Chinn has been known primarily for her painting, focusing on portraiture to explore the super-realistic depiction of a wide spectrum of people of color, lesbians and same sex couples. Employing a coded iconography rooted in a lesbian/gay cultural perspective, these images fuse an Asian aesthetic of sparseness and clarity with visual narratives […]
THE CULTURAL IMPACT OF PAINTING & PRINTED MEDIA: Artist lecture & creative lab We ensure our histories are not lost by documenting them and Lenore Chinn has been documenting the broader LGBTQ community in San Francisco for over 30 years. Her larger photo-realist paintings began as community portraits, of her friends really, and are now […]
Participants will learn how to create storytelling videos and participate in a 2-day hands on film-making workshop led by filmmaker, Mia Nakano (Visibility Project Director & Hyphen co-founder) and supported by emerging community filmmakers Sal Tran and MLin.
“This act of choosing—the stories we tell versus the stories we leave out—will reverberate across the rest of your life. […] Your stories are essential.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda, UPenn Graduation Speech May 16, 2016.