Events

Upcoming!

June 16: Reading at Books Inc. in Alameda with Giovanni Singleton

Past Events:

Lone Glen Reading Series with Raina Leon, curated by Alexandra Mattraw, San Francisco, May 12, 2012

AAWAA presents Asian American Women and Her Digital/Real Body: A Visual Poetics, curated by Margaret Rhee, La Pena Cultural Center, Berkeley, May 10, 2012

Taking Root: Our Stories, Our Community, Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center Community Event, 518 Valencia, San Francisco, May 3, 2012

The News! @ SOMArts, curated by Kolmel, San Francisco, May 1, 2012

AAWAA presents The Enchanted Loom: Writers, Artists and the Brain, curated by Pireeni Sundaralingam, Thoreau Center for Sustainability, San Francisco, April 28, 2012

A Page Between Poem and Song, NOHSpace, San Francisco, April 16, 2012

Stop the Sentence – A Night of (Inter) Active Readings, Red Rover Reading Series, Outer Space Studio, Chicago, March 3, 2012

Ancestors: A Queer Writers of Color Reading, Center on Halstead, Chicago, March 1, 2012

Past Present | Future Imperatives: Queer Space Time with Viet Le, Genevieve Erin O’Brien and Tina Takemoto, Sabina Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, February 25-March 24, 2012

Classroom presentation, Pitzer College, Course: Writing the Body, Instructor: Brent Armendinger, February 23, 2012

Film Screening and Artist Talk, Pitzer College, Benson Auditorium, Claremont, CA, February 22, 2012

Valentine’s Day Hangover: A Kearny Street Workshop Reading Celebrating the Chapbook, ARC Studios & Gallery, San Francisco, February 15, 2012

The Blood-Jet Writing Hour web radio show with Margaret Rhee, hosted by Rachelle Cruz, January 25, 2012

Forks, Knives and Pens, Oakland, January 21, 2012

Goodbye Rabbit! Reading curated by Miranda Tsang and Sally Wen Mao, featuring Dan Lau, Carolyn Ho, Debbie Yee, Vickie Vertiz and Rona Luo, 826 Valencia, San Francisco, January 13, 2012

2011

Small Press Traffic panel discussion led by Barbara Jane Reyes on APIA poetries and the avant-garde, with Margaret Rhee, Eileen Tabios, Truong Tran and Jean Vengua, Artist Television Access, San Francisco, December 18, 2011

Canessa Park Reading Series with Amber DiPietra and Denise Leto, Canessa Gallery, San Francisco, December 12, 2011

Small Press Distribution Open House reading with Pamela Lu, Marvin K. White, Donna de la Perrière, and Judith Goldman, Berkeley, CA, December 4, 2011

Acts of Love/Gifts for Change Fundraiser and Silent Auction, Eastside Arts Alliance, Oakland, CA, November 18, 2011

Tom / Trans / Thai and TomboiGatoeyMango Episodes 1 and 2 film screenings, My People Film Series Shorts Program, Kelly-Strayhorn Theater, Pittsburgh, PA, November 8, 2011

Multicultural and Community Alumni Dinner for bridges Multicultural Resource Center and One Week: Celebrating 15 Years of Reclaiming Diversity, UC Berkeley, October 14, 2011

“my heart eats with its hands” collaborative performance piece with Charleston Chu, Rally the Troupes VII, Mills College, Oakland, September 16, 2011

New Poetry Books by Margaret Rhee, Jai Arun Ravine and Kevin Simmonds, 554 Ashbury, San Francisco, August 27, 2011

Red Rover Reading Series Experiment #48: Magnetic Affinities and Altered Relations, Outer Space Studio, Chicago, July 16, 2011

แล้ว and then entwine presentation, Asian American Studies r2b Summer Session, Instructor: Margaret Rhee, UC Berkeley, June 29, 2011

Ms Tang Tang Show, Buriel Clay Theater @ African American Art & Culture Complex, San Francisco, June 23, 2011

Re-stacking the Deck: A Cave Canem and Kundiman Poetry Reading, Eastwind Books of Berkeley, June 5, 2011 (Co-organizer and MC)

working [class] reading series #2: an akilah oliver celebration, Oakland, June 3, 2011

The Nature of Nomenclature: An Exploration of (Re)Naming Within Queer Communities, Subterranean Arthouse, Berkeley (Artist in Residency program), February 25-26, 2011 (Co-organizer and performer)

“My Funny Valentine” solo with video and group pieces with Freeplay Dance Crew, “Chet and Ella,” The Garage, San Francisco, November 17-18, 2010 and January 26, 2011

DVAN (Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network) Holiday Fundraiser, Infinity Complex, San Francisco, January 14, 2011

2010

Changed: Poetry You Can Believe In (A Post-Election Campaign), I-Hotel Manilatown Heritage Center, San Francisco, November 3, 2010

Make Drag Not War 2, Dance Mission Theater, San Francisco, October 31, 2010

Squart: Spontaneous Queer Art, The Lab, San Francisco, October 30, 2010

45×45: An Experiment on Collaboration, THEOFFCENTER, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, San Francisco, October 6, 2010

In-progress showing of TOMBOIGATOEYMANGO live performance, Subterranean Performance Investigation Salon #1, Subterranean Arthouse, Berkeley, September 19, 2010

Kundiman West Poetry Reading, Eastwind Books of Berkeley, August 21, 2010 (Co-organizer)

In-progress showing of video work (!smileyfaceheart, STRATA, BLINDVOICE BLINDSIDE, TOMBOIGATOEYMANGO Episode 1), ArtFag #15, Million Fishes Collective, San Francisco, August 8, 2010

West Coast Kundiman Reading, Part 3 at Eastwind Books of Berkeley, July 11, 2010 (Co-organizer and reader)

gender < moving: queer bodies/home, Philadelphia, PA, June 25, 2010

Kundiman West Berkeley Reading and Chapbook Release Party, UC Berkeley, May 29, 2010 (Co-organizer and reader)

2009

“letters of a drag language” presentation, Gender Transgressive Individuals of the Asian Diaspora panel, Butch Voices Conference, August 23, 2009

Launch party for The Body as a Site of Discrimination, El Rio, San Francisco, June 19, 2009

Uni-T, benefit for Trans March, El Rio, San Francisco, May 28, 2009

2008

Trans March, San Francisco, June 27, 2008

Movement Research Spring Festival, Judson Memorial Church, New York City, May 29, 2008

The Rice Kings – an Asian & Pacific Islander drag king troupe (2008-2009)

2007

kari edwards memorial reading, Edge Gallery, Denver, Colorado, March 10, 2007

2006

Podcast on queer and mixed race borderlands and a performance of “letters of a drag language” for Addicted to Race (August 28, 2006)