{"id":280,"date":"2024-06-17T20:28:04","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T20:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jadedpittsburgh.com\/?page_id=280"},"modified":"2025-07-11T04:29:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T04:29:31","slug":"2024-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jadedpittsburgh.com\/index.php\/2024-2\/","title":{"rendered":"PRESENCE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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PRESENCE<\/em><\/strong>:<\/em>
10 WORKSHOPS, <\/em>
2 EXHIBITIONS, <\/em>
1 POETRY READING, <\/em>
1 PICNIC, <\/em>
1 FESTIVAL <\/em><\/h1><\/div>

June – Sept, 2024

organized by Bobbie Fan, Sara Tang, & Elina Zhang<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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about our programming<\/p>

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Entering into the year of the Wood Dragon, we took seriously the need for grief and rest in the face of loss and tumultuous change. We have been dreaming on all the possibilities for building sustainability for future directions and to thrive in our bodies, to foster kinship, to bring awareness and celebrate our communities. These layers of inward and outward relationships further collective human liberation.

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We dream of creating alternate power outside of Western institutions fueling genocide in Palestine, Congo, Sudan, and more. We note what is revealed as arts institutions fall into this system of wrongs, and know that imagining a free Palestine forces us to imagine a free world; to seek to create that in the spirit of abolitionism, small little experiments, circles.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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about our programming<\/p>

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As AANHPI (Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander) Heritage Month is over and we are now in Pride Month, we celebrate our community and we also want to name the real limitations of  representation and visibility.  Are we going to seek the vertical protection of institutions, states, companies, or are we building horizontal solidarity, something new?

We\u2019ve been seeping into these horizontal spaces with you, in third spaces, in reading rooms, in dreammaking, in so much more. May we find each other again and again in grief and in solidarity.

We are grateful to all our partners: Opportunity Fund, Rangoli Pittsburgh, Source Pittsburgh, Bunker Projects, Assemble Pittsburgh, Karavansarai, Brew House Arts, and Organization of Chinese Americans – PGH<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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presence 2024<\/p>

Programming Schedule<\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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01. June 01, 2024<\/p>

Third Space Picnic<\/h3><\/div>

in collaboration with Rangoli Pittsburgh<\/a>

This year we’re celebrating the sixth LGBTQ+ AAPI Day of Visibility and kicking off pride month by creating a third space where we can eat, laugh, breathe, and live. we invite you to bring a dish, snacks, or drinks to share, and we promise you’ll make friends.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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02. june 15, 2024 & July 14, 2024<\/p>

Dreams From the Orchid Den<\/h3><\/div>

workshop for only AAPI members with artist Sara Tang and professor, anthropologist, abolitionist, acupuncturist Tyler Phan, PhD as we excavate, write, and share our personal and familial mythologies & stories <\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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03. july 7 – aug 4, 2024<\/p>

Read-Shifiting Web w\/ Bunker Projects<\/h3><\/div>

What happens when we rethink the book as a standard literary vehicle? When we rethink with the book toward other modes of reading and relation? Curated by Jenna Peng & Elina Zhang \ud835\udc79\ud835\udc6c\ud835\udc68\ud835\udc6b-\ud835\udc7a\ud835\udc6f\ud835\udc70\ud835\udc6d\ud835\udc7b\ud835\udc70\ud835\udc75\ud835\udc6e \ud835\udc7e\ud835\udc6c\ud835\udc69 is a communal reading room and literary art exhibition, featuring books borrowed from the personal libraries of local Asian\/American artists and organizers. <\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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04. july 20, 2024<\/p>

How to Hold a Book w\/ Anisha Baid<\/a><\/h3><\/div>


This 30 min group meditation will reflect on reading as a bodily experience, moving one\u2019s attention from the physical reality of the book to an interior space where the book and the self collide.

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05. July 28, 2024<\/p>

Living Scripts & Moving (Per)Formances w\/ Ariel Xiu<\/a><\/h3><\/div>

This Embodied Research session invites those interested in exploring different notions of \u201creading\u201d and \u201cwriting\u201d through the body. Made up of unequal parts mining the Read-Shifting Web library, games, exercises, witnessing, improvising, & facilitated discussion, we will engage with the creative processes of making body\/movement-based performance & its potential to highlight (pre) existing scripts encoded within & around us. 

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06. august 2, 2024<\/p>

Read-Listening Web w\/ Iris Kang<\/a><\/h3><\/div>

August’s First Friday, come enjoy Iris’ A Live Sound Collage, an ambient sound set you can read to (and into) with sounds coming from books, readers, & the room

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07. august 4, 2024<\/p>

Words Removed from Their Homes w\/ Brent Nakamoto<\/a><\/h3><\/div>

In this text collage workshop Brent Nakamoto<\/a> will teach you how to use your words. Using the books in the reading room as source material, we will be creating collages of found text & image.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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08. aug 1 – 31, 2024<\/p>

In The Ways We Tell<\/h3><\/div>

IN THE WAYS WE TELL is an art exhibition curated by Shimul Chowdhury and Sara Tang that presents a selection of diverse works from local AAPI artists telling stories of memory, of fantasy, of dreams, and of becoming.

Partnering w\/ Assemble Pittsburgh<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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09. august 10, 2024<\/p>

Poetic Justice w\/ Karavansarai <\/h3><\/div>

Join us for a night of poetry and other art performances, centering Palestinian solidarity. @karavansarai_chai<\/a> will be serving Palestinian sage tea!

The event is free, but we\u2019ll be selling the first edition of the zine Pittsburgh for Palestine, a collection of visual and written works by Pittsburgers reflecting on Palestinian liberation and liberation from imperialism. 

All proceeds from the zine sales will be donated, split evenly between Palestine Legal and individual Go Fund Me pages for Gazans.

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