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Berkeley Poetry Festival 2022

Post author By hoisanpoet
Post date January 22, 2022

Genny Lim receives the Berkeley Poetry Festival’s 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award.

Poster design by Kara Yoon Frame https://karaframe.com/

Poetry & Dance with dNaga Dance Company

Join the Live-streamed Festival via Zoom or on the Bay Area Poetry Festival Facebook page on Saturday, January 22, from 3:00pm-4:00pm, for poetry and dance with dNaga Dance Company, featuring recorded poetry readings by Genny.

Saturday, January 22, 3:00–4:00pm • https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82962508028 • On Facebook Live

With special thanks to Claudine Naganuma, Artistic Director of dNaga Dance Company — a unique ensemble made up of multi-generational dancers including young artists, professionals, and elders. Through workshops, classes, choreography and productions, the dance company explores the nature of our human condition and its relationship to our greater community.

The Remembered, dNaga Dance Co. Lifetime Achievement Awardee Genny Lim recites her poem “The Remembered” January, 2022. Berkeley Poetry Festival.

Dance for PD® Oakland Performs “Prayer for Jasper” Poem. Lifetime Achievement Awardee Genny Lim recites her poem “Prayer for Jasper” January, 2022. Berkeley Poetry Festival. For more, visit dnaga.org

This is My Country, dNaga Dance Co. Lifetime Achievement Awardee Genny Lim recites her poem “This is My Country” January, 2022. Berkeley Poetry Festival.

Myths, dNaga Dance Co. Lifetime Achievement Awardee Genny Lim recites her poem “Myths” January, 2022. Berkeley Poetry Festival.

Lifetime Achievement Award and Reading

On Sunday, January 23, from 3:00pm-4:00pm, enjoy readings by poets Maw Shein Win and Minal Hajratwala, and the presentation of the Lifetime Achievement Award to Genny by City of Berkeley Councilperson Terry Taplin.

Sunday, January 23, 3:00–4:00pm • https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82344447103 • On Facebook Live

Messages from Francis Wong, Jon Jang, Elena Serrano and Nancy Hom

The Berkeley Poetry Festival is funded by the City of Berkeley Civic Arts Commission and Poets & Writers

In Honor of Genny Lim: City of Berkeley Proclamation, January 23, 2022

Tags Berkeley Poetry Festival, Claudine Naganuma, Dance for PD, dNaga Dance Company, Elena Serrano, Francis Wong, Jon Jang, Maw Shein Win, Minal Hajratwala, Nancy Hom, Terry Taplin

Performance

PEN Oakland Awards

Post author By hoisanpoet
Post date December 4, 2021

Genny Lim receives the Reginald Lockett Lifetime Achievement Award

Join the 32nd Annual PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Literary Awards. The PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Awards, named for the late poet and professor at the University of California at Berkeley, were created to provide recognition for outstanding literary achievement from the entire spectrum of America’s diverse literary community. In addition, there is an Adelle Foley Award, a Reginald Lockett Lifetime Achievement Award, a Gary Webb Anti-Censorship award, and a Reginald Martin Award for Excellence in Criticism.

The 2021 PEN Oakland Award winners will be formally recognized on Saturday, December 4, from 2:00-5:00 P.M. PST. This will be a free virtual event, which will be broadcast live on Facebook on the Oakland Public Library Facebook page.

The 2021 PEN Oakland Award Recipients Are:

Josephine Miles Award

Joy Harjo, Leanne Howe, Jennifer Elise Foerster and Contributing Editors, When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through, A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry (Norton, W.W. & Company, Inc.)

Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing (Algonquin Press)

Derf Backderf, Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio (Abrams Books)

Christopher Bernard, The Socialist’s Garden of Verses (Regent Press)

Daphne Brooks, Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound (Belknap Press)

Nikki Giovanni, Make Me Rain poems & prose (William Morrow)

Terry McMillan, It’s Not All Downhill From Here: A Novel (Ballantine Books)

Adelle Foley Award

Margaret Porter Troupe

Gavin Newsom

First Annual Reginald Martin Award for Excellence in Criticism

Jerry Ward

Gary Webb Anti-Censorship Award

Roxane Gay

Reginald Lockett Lifetime Achievement Award

Genny Lim

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Interview

In the Green Room: Layering Legacies of Asian and Black American Women in Jazz

Post author By hoisanpoet
Post date October 21, 2021

SAN FRANCISCO, October 21, 2021 — Poet, playwright, performer, and educator Genny Lim speaks to Jen Shyu and Sumi Tonooka about the evolution of her career as an artist and writer. This is a part of Asia Society’s In the Green Room: Layering Legacies of Women in Jazz.

FULL INTERVIEW (52 min., 26 min.)

https://asiasociety.org/video/green-room-genny-lim

In the Green Room: Layering Legacies of Asian and Black American Women in Jazz comprises performances, a series of video interviews with women in jazz, and interactive workshops with a cohort of millennial musicians. Harnessing the power of music and storytelling, Jen Shyu and Sumi Tonooka draw upon their own personal stories and those recorded with Toshiko Akyoshi composer/ jazz pianist/big band leader, Genny Lim, poet/playwright/ performer/ educator, Terri Lyne Carrington, drummer/composer and Linda May Han Oh, bassist/composer. The weaving of these extraordinary stories creates an intimate portal into living histories across generations. The project was conceived by composer/vocalist/multi-instrumentalist, Jen Shyu, and composer/pianist, Sumi Tonooka. They were joined in performance by drummer/composer, Terri Lyne Carrington, and bassist/composer, Linda May Han Oh.

Jen Shyu and Sumi Tonooka’s October 2021 interview with Genny begins at 15:13.

Funding for In the Green Room: Layering Legacies of Asian and Black American Women in Jazz is provided by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Additional funding has been provided by the Asia Society Performing Arts Fund and Helen and Will Little.

Tags Asia Society, In the Green Room: Layering Legacies of Women in Jazz, Jen Shyu, Linda May Han Oh, Sumi Tonooka, Terri Lyne Carrington, Toshiko Akyoshi

Performance

El Tecolote

Post author By hoisanpoet
Post date September 18, 2021

Poetry Tribute, dedicated to Victor Martínez, Francisco X Alarcón, & Alfonso Texidor, in honor of El Tecolote’s 50th anniversary.

Saturday, September 18, 2021, 7pm • Facebook Live @ El Tecolote and @Acción Latina

Performance

Wall + Response

Post author By hoisanpoet
Post date July 25, 2021

The Arab Liberation Mural / Will To Live: Youssef Alaoui, Jason Bayani, Genny Lim & Michael Warr

*The Arab Liberation Mural / Will To Live* (2018) by Art Forces, Arab Resource Organizing Center (AROC), and Arab Youth Organizing (AYO)

Friday, June 25, 2021 at 7 pm, on Facebook

A four-event series presented by Clarion Alley Mural Project (CAMP) called Wall + Response, featuring sixteen Bay Area poets responding to the social/ political/ racial/ justice narratives of four murals on Clarion Alley. Curated by CAMP artist and organizer Megan Wilson (wall) and poet Maw Shein Win (response), the fourth and final event in the series featured Youssef Alaoui, Jason Bayani, Genny Lim and Michael Warr responding to the mural The Will To Live (2018) by Art Forces, Arab Resource Organizing Center (AROC), and Arab Youth Organizing (AYO).

Wall + Response was originally conceived to culminate in four quarterly public events to be presented on Clarion Alley. However, due to the pandemic the poets were filmed by videographer Mahima Kotian reading their work in front of the murals on Clarion Alley.

Wall + Response is made possible by the generous support of the San Francisco Art Commission and the Zellerbach Family Foundation.

Tags Clarion Alley, Wall + Response

Performance

“Angel Island Insight”

Post author By hoisanpoet
Post date May 22, 2021

Del Sol Performing Arts Organization’s “Angel Island Insight” explores the history of the Angel Island Immigration Station by offering a suite of virtual and in-person programs that examines the musicality of the disappearing Hoisan-wa dialect by The Last Hoisan Poets and The Del Sol Quartet.

United States of Asian America Festival 2021: Angel Island Insight with The Last Hoisan Poets & Del Sol Quartet

Zoom performance on Saturday, May 22, 2021, 2pm-3:30pm, presented by the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center’s “United States of Asian America Festival” (2021: Forging our Future – SoMa & Chinatown)

Three descendants of Angel Island immigrants, the Last Hoisan Poets – Genny Lim, Nellie Wong and Flo Oy Wong – use poetry to speak their individual truths and creatively reclaim the Hoisan-wa language and culture. The program weaves together their poetry with performances by the Del Sol Quartet, music by Asian-American composers Kui Dong, Theresa Wong, Jungyoon Wie, Huang Ruo, and a collaborative composition. Q&A moderated by Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation’s executive director Edward Tepporn.

This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. This project was also funded in part by a grant from Grants for the Arts.

SF Wednesdays: The Last Hoisan Poets & Del Sol Quartet in Union Square

Wednesday, October 6, 2021, 12-2pm. Free to the public — 2 sets at 12pm & 1pm, with pop-up exhibits by the Chinese Historical Society of America on the history of Angel Island and the Chinese in the Sunset.

World Premiere: Huang Ruo’s ANGEL ISLAND: Oratorio for Voices and Strings

The world premiere of Huang Ruo’s ANGEL ISLAND: Oratorio for Voices and Strings, featuring Del Sol Quartet and Volti with poetry readings by The Last Hoisan Poets, was performed on Friday, October 22, 8pm at the Presidio Theatre and on Saturday, October 23 in the Angel Island Immigration Station barracks on Angel Island, with performances at 11:30am and 1:30pm.

Tags Angel Island, Angel Island Insight, Angel Island Oratorio, Del Sol Quartet, Flo Oy Wong, Huang Ruo, Nellie Wong, The Last Hoisan Poets, Union Square, USAAF

Performance

Healdsburg Jazz: A Celebration of Maya Angelou

Post author By hoisanpoet
Post date April 3, 2021

Healdsburg Jazz’s A Celebration of Maya Angelou, a live outdoors and distanced event, was held on Saturday, April 3, 2021, with Poet Laureate Enid Pickett, and poets Genny Lim and Michael Warr, accompanied by Marcus Shelby (bass) and Rob Sudduth (saxophones).

Tags Healdsburg Jazz, Marcus Shelby, Maya Angelou

Music Performance

Words

Post author By hoisanpoet
Post date February 20, 2021

Del Sol Quartet plays Rzewski, with poetry by Genny Lim

Saturday, February 20, 2021, 6:00pm – 8:00pm

The brilliant composer/pianist Frederic Rzewski joined Del Sol Quartet to present new online performances of Rzewski’s compositions. The program included Words for speaking string quartet and Winter Nights for solo piano, and between musical performances, distinguished San Francisco author Genny Lim contributed a reading of her poetry.

https://www.delsolquartet.com/calendar/2021/2/20/music-of-frederic-rzewski

Del Sol Quartet founder Charlton Lee and Genny Lim join Wanda’s Picks Radio Show on February 19, 2021. Genny reads Word on the Street (for Breonna Taylor) with Del Sol Quartet’s recorded performance of Kerwin Young’s In the Amazon.

Tags Breonna Taylor, Del Sol Quartet, Kerwin Young, Wanda's Picks

Film

CAAMFest 2021: Legacy and Lineage Shorts

Post author By hoisanpoet
Post date June 19, 2020

Legacy and Lineage is a series of short films profiling the unique journeys of 5 Asian American community artists – Sammay Dizon, Genny Lim, Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, Sami See, Francis Wong – whose works consistently place community at the center. The films explore the reasons that drive these outstanding artists and legacies that may point to the direction of the future of Asian American artists in San Francisco. Produced by Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center.

Co-presented by Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center (APICC) and the Center for Asian American Media, the series premiered on demand for CAAMFest, May 13-23, 2021.

Legacy & Lineage: Genny Lim

Released Friday, June 19, 2020

DESCRIPTION: “When you have that power, that ability other people don’t have, it’s how you use your authority and your power that counts. It’s not that you have it. It’s what you do with it.” From broadcast journalism to creative writing, Genny discusses the power of poetry and art to speak truth and transform systems.

About the filmmakers: Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center’s (APICC) mission is to support and present multidisciplinary art reflective of the unique experiences of Asians and Pacific Islanders living in the United States. APICC was founded in 1996 by representatives of five nonprofit arts groups: Asian American Dance Performances, First Voice, Asian Improv aRts, the Asian American Theater Company, and Kearny Street Workshop. Since 1998, the center has promoted the artistic and organizational growth of San Francisco’s API arts community by organizing and presenting the annual United States of Asian America Festival (now in its 24th year) as well as commissioning contemporary art for and by the Asian American and Pacific Islander community.

SERIES FILM PRODUCTION TEAM

Laura Priscilla Paule, Director

Willis Lai, Cinematographer & Editor

Diana Chen, Video Assistant & Editor

Co-Presenters: Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center, BAVC

Tags APICC, BAVC, CAAM, CAAMFest, Legacy & Lineage

Performance

We All Come from Water

Post author By hoisanpoet
Post date June 9, 2020

First Voice: Offerings to Mother Earth

Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day, First Voice proudly presented a series of artist videos, all made during shelter in place, from the First Voice family of artists and healers. With these offerings, we radiate healing energy, and resonate in new and ancient ways with Mother Earth, so we can remember how to love and care for Her and one another.

http://www.firstvoice.org/earth-dance-offerings

“I’ve known Brenda and Mark for 35 years. We’ve collaborating on many projects over the years from my 1987 performance piece, XX, about the oppression of women, which featured Brenda in the lead to my many poetry and music collaborations with Mark Izu in the early period of Asian American Jazz in the seventies till now. It gives me great pleasure to culminate our decades-old friendship as artists-in-arms to be a part of First Voice’s Offerings to the Earth.

My ode to water is a plea. If we continue to desecrate, pollute and waste this precious element, we will hasten the death of our planet for all living beings. Sea levels have risen to its highest annual level in just the past year and our coastlines are receding. At the same time, the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the catastrophic state of water justice. Twenty-one million Americans, that’s six percent of the population, get water from systems that violate health standards. The Navaho Nation has seen the highest rate of infections per capita in the U.S. and thirty to forty percent of its population have no running water or electricity. It’s time we reverse our course and heal our oceans, rivers and streams, starting with our melting glaciers.”

Tags Earth Day, First Voice, Offerings to Mother Earth, We All Come from Water

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