Genny Lim reads her poem, “Facing the Moon,” along with Clara Hsu’s reading of her Cantonese translation of the poem.
Facing the Moon: Songs of the Diaspora, featuring poetry written by SF Poet Laureate Genny Lim, premieres on October 19, 2025 at 2pm at the Presidio Theatre in San Francisco.
Voices of mothers and daughters, across continents and generations, anchor this multimedia performance with new music by Chinese-diaspora composers Theresa Wong, Vivian Fung and Meilina Tsui. Del Sol Quartet centers the collaboration, building on their transformative Angel Island Project, with a theatrical visual experience by Olivia Ting and Mark Hellar. The musicians’ own histories, gathered through Genny Lim’s interviews, build connections between the musical sounds and Lim’s poetry.