The PowerLeeGirls Miko Lee and Jalena Keane-Lee present “The Story Before” we talk with 3 APA artists at very different places in their careers. We ask them about how they got to present day where they are sharing skills with the next generation, creating innovative theatre, and talking about arts, activism and progressive change. Featuring APA artists: educator/filmmaker Bhwain Suchak, playwright and professor David Henry Hwang and filmmaker Alex Chu.  

More info on show themes:

Bhawin Suchak’s organization Youth FX

Bhwain’s film Outta The Muck

David Henry Hwang’s latest work Soft Power at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco playing through July 8, 2018

Alex Chu’s film For Izzy at Frameline42 playing Saturday, June 23 at the Roxie Theater

Other Calendar items

San Francisco Mime Troupe’s Seeing Red: A Time-Traveling Musical – July 4 -Sept. 9, 2017 – 59th Season

Ferocious Lotus Theatre Company, World Premiere of Leah Nanako Winkler’s Two Mile Hollow opening June 25th at Potrero Stage in San Francisco.

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Noted author and investigative journalist Pratap Chatterjee discusses his new graphic novel (shout out to co author Khalil Bendib); Kashmiri film maker Danish Renzu talks about his film Half Widow; and environmental journalist Nityanand Jayaraman updates us on the ongoing environmental crisis that has been festering in the small south Indian town of #Thoothukudi that led to 10 peacefully protesting civilians recently being killed by the state.

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A weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asians and Pacific Islanders from all corners of our community. The show is produced by a collective of media makers, deejays, and activists.

To end out the month of May PowerLeeGirls Miko Lee and Jalena Keane-Lee speak with storytellers who are making waves. We speak with An Excess Male Author Maggie Shen King. And hear from two of the culinary activists Kim Boral & Aileen Suzara from the Rooted Recipes Project which is part of the United States of Asian American Festival.

We talk with Heather White whose poignant documentary Complicit focuses on migrant electronic factory workers in China.

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Tonight, we will be in conversation with  Alleluia Panis, Director and Choreographer of Incarcerated 6×9, which runs on May 4-13. Alleluia Panis is a legendary elder and the driving force behind Kularts.Then, we’ll be talking with bay area filmmaker Kirthi Nath about her new feminist documentary, 98 Years and Counting (co-directed with Zel Anders), and will screen at the upcoming CAAMFest36. Also, we’ll be in conversation with local author, Dickson Lam, about his new memoir, Paper Sons, winner of the Autumn House Nonfiction Award. Tune in and catch up with your host: Tara Dorabji.

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Preeti Mangala Shekar spotlights the contentious campaign to determine the future of sex education instruction in the Fremont Unified School District.

We also shine a light on a fierce and feminist audio story project by ARROW, a Malaysia-based feminist research organization, on the power of storytelling to change hearts and minds about women’s reproductive rights and health.

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