Don’t miss a tantalizing night of film featuring work by 12 emerging writers, producers and directors from the Bay Area at APAture 2018’s Film Showcase. Writer, director and San Francisco Bay Area native Jody Stillwater will headline as the featured artist in film and present selected shorts. He is currently developing both a short form and a feature length film as well as continued study in new modes of commercial work, film-as-art and music videos, in addition to joining the jury at the San Francisco Dance Film Festival.
Don’t miss a tantalizing night of film featuring work by 12 emerging writers, producers and directors from the Bay Area at APAture 2018’s Film Showcase. Writer, director and San Francisco Bay Area native Jody Stillwater will headline as the featured artist in film and present selected shorts. He is currently developing both a short form and a feature length film as well as continued study in new modes of commercial work, film-as-art and music videos, in addition to joining the jury at the San Francisco Dance Film Festival.
APAture 2018: RE:place will showcase over 60 artists in book arts, film, literary arts, music, performing arts and visual arts, and will present their work to approximately 1,000 festival-goers across multiple dates and venues in the South of Market neighborhood.
APAture is Kearny Street Workshop’s annual multidisciplinary arts festival celebrating emerging Asian and Pacific American (APA) artists of the San Francisco Bay Area. For 16 years, APAture has been a site of dialogue, collaboration and political action between artists and community members around contemporary issues affecting the Asian and Pacific Islander community.
Founded in 1972, during the height of the Asian American cultural movement, Kearny Street Workshop (KSW) is the oldest APA multidisciplinary arts organization in the country. KSW offers classes and workshops, salons and student presentations, as well as professionally curated and produced exhibitions, performances, readings and screenings.
WHEN: Sunday, October 28, 2018, 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
WHERE: Z Space, 450 Florida Street, San Francisco
The celebration of art continues at APAture’s music showcase co-presented by Asian American Music Conference and featuring Seti X, a Los Angeles based MC building bridges between California and India. The music showcase will include diverse bodies of work by six artists with ties to the APA community and the Bay Area.
Seti X aka Mandeep Sethi is currently working as a teaching artist within the Los Angeles County juvenile detention system, building emotional and cultural bonds with the youth within the juvenile halls, while facilitating songwriting and beat production workshops that allow students to reflect on their emotional and spiritual process while resonating their stories with the world.
WHEN: Friday, November 2, 2018, 9:00 p.m. - 1:00 a.m.
WHERE: Hotel Utah, 500 Fourth Street, San Francisco
