ART & PERFORMANCE PRACTICE OF STORYTELLING
ART & PERFORMANCE PRACTICE OF STORYTELLING
“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.
There are many reason why we share our stories. For some it is a form of release. It is a way for us to reach out for support or simply feel heard. At the heart of sharing our personal stories, we are attempting to connect more deeply with others. At Guerrilla Rep, we believe that every social movement begins with one person telling their story. Your story matters and has the power to bring people together. Led by performance artist, Kat Evasco, this workshop is designed for you to explore your personal narrative and cultivate your storytelling and performance skills so that you can share your story in the most engaging way possible. It’s a great lead into the “Film & Documenting Oral Histories” workshop.
INSTRUCTORS
Kat Evasco: Artistic Director, Guerrilla Rep
Mia Nakano: Director, Visibility Project
DATE & TIME
Saturday, July 16th
1pm – 5pmLOCATION
San Francisco Public Library
Learning Studio
100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
Bring an object that has a significant meaning to you. It can be a rock, a photo, or an old letter – anything that is important and can be sacred.
- Listen to a story from the Visibility Project or Dragonfruit Project for inspiration of community history. We recommend Lenore Chinn from the Visibility Project.
- Think of significant stories or experiences that’s important to you, as an LGBTQ APA individual, that you may want to “perform”
ABOUT THE RESLIENCE ARCHIVES
LGBTQ Asian Pacific Americans have made historic contributions to art, labor rights, and immigration reform, but their stories are truncated footnotes, if mentioned at all. APAs are the fastest growing population in the U.S., but have one of the lowest amounts of visibility in media.
With little to no LGBTQ AAPI representation in popular culture or history, it is often up to these individuals to seek out their own community in order to hear stories and experiences. This process can be a huge struggle, resulting in conflicts of identity, religion, familial obligation, and self worth. LGBTQ AAPIs face intense discrimination and racism from mainstream LGBTQ communities, and must often choose to be LGBTQ or Asian.
The Resilience Archives will exist online as community created history through photographs, slideshows, audio clips, multi-media, and much more. The first iteration of the project starts in the SF Bay Area with a series of four free workshops that teach practical, technical, and artistic skills in different mediums: archiving, storytelling, print media, performance arts, and film practices.
WHO CAN PARTICIPATE
Workshops are open to LGBTQ APA community, family, and allies. Due to limited space in some workshops, priority will be given to LGBTQ APA community members. Please view individual workshop pages to see if there are any restrictions.
