11th United States of Asian America Festival

USAAF Discount Ticket Series This WEEKEND ONLY! May 8th, 10th, & 11th: To purchase tix please click link!
The Cooking Show Con Karimi y Castro: a live cooking performance for your heart, mind, stomach & funny bone

WHERE:
SomArts Cultural Center
934 Brannan Street, San Francisco

WHEN:
Preview Performance, Thursday, May 8th @8pm ($5.00)
Saturday, May 10th @8pm ($15.00)
Sunday, May 11th @7pm (Mother's Day Special: 2 for 1 $10.00)

Thursday, May 15th-Sunday, May 18th
General Admission $18.00/Advance, $20.00/Door

Savor a tasty theatrical experience with revolutionary chefs Mero Cocinero Karimi and Comrade Cocinero Castro as they dish up Iranian-Guatemalan-Filipino food, cultural consciousness and humor.
The two chefs create revolutionary recipes LIVE onstage, serving up stories, healthy political discussion combined with delicious culinary samples, guaranteeing every audience member their own satisfying taste.

Save The Date: Friday, May 14th 7-9pm and Friday, May 16th 5-8pm
Panel Discussion: The Location of Identity
co-sponsored by APICC and the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, in conjunction with East of the West and After the Revolution at San Francisco City Hall.
The panel, moderated by Berin Golonu, Associate Curator at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, will feature artists Youmna Chlala (East of the West) and Naciem Nikkah (After the Revolution), critic Soraya Murray and historian Maziar Behrooz.
WHEN: Wednesday, May 14, 7:00-9:00 pm
VENUE: SomArts Bay Gallery
ADMISSION: FREE

Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi's Third Friday Art Reception Presents,
Extension of East of the West

Opening Reception: Friday, May 16, 5-8pm
Exhibition: May 16-June 17
VENUE: City Hall
Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi's Office
1 Dr. Carlton Goodlett Place, Room 244
San Francisco, CA 94102-4689
ADMISSION: Free

Curators Taraneh Hemami and Anuradha Vikram posed this question to a selection of artists with roots in the region and beyond working in all visual arts media for the exhibit, East of the West, part of APICC's United States of Asian America Festival at SomArts. For Third Friday, the artists chose small works to further distill their response to this query.

Save the Date: Saturday, May 17th 4-6pm
70/30 Panel Discussion:
A Conversation with Flo Oy Wong
Moderated By Moira Roth
Trefethen Professor of Art History, Mills College, Oakland, CA

SomArts Main Gallery, 934 Brannan Street, San Francisco
Admission: FREE

Flo Oy Wong is a Bay Area artist well known for her ground-breaking explorations of community issues through art. To honor the 70th birthday of this important artist, APICC is presenting a retrospective exhibition of selected works from her 30 years of art-making.