The Arab Liberation Mural / Will To Live: Youssef Alaoui, Jason Bayani, Genny Lim & Michael Warr 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 […]
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 […]
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).
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Thursday, April 5th – Sunday, April 8, 2018, Joe Henderson Lab Curated by SFJAZZ Poet Laureate Genny Lim, the 2018 Wordology Festival featured “the greatest poets of the Bay Area and beyond, centered on the concept of ‘wordology.’” Web Gallery Genny Lim and Francis Wong at SFJazz Poetry Festival 2018 “I want poets to… let […]
Genny Lim with Anthony Brown & the Asian American Orchestra: “We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite” Sunday, April 9, 8:00pm, Joe Henderson Lab The SFJAZZ Poetry Festival 2017 was curated and hosted by Genny Lim, SFJAZZ Poet Laureate. The program on Sunday, April 9 featured poetry and music by poet devorah major, and then […]
Web Gallery A Mural Consecration Ceremony was held on February 7, 2016 at UC Santa Cruz’s Hong-Kingston Hall, where students created a mural honoring Maxine Hong-Kingston and Genny Lim. Genny recalled, “We both came to the event and met the wonderful students. Hong-Lim Hall was formerly Oakes Hall, the dorm where students of color reside. […]
Reading and signing. 30 writers marking the 10th year of the War on Terror. Genny reads her poems, “Revoked,” “Resurrection from Egypt to Wall Street,” “Exile,” “37 Practices of a Bodhisattva,” “This is My Country,” “Life is a Riff” and “The People’s Prayer” at the DNA Lounge, 375 Eleventh Street, San Francisco. The book, Conversations […]