Micah Rose carves queer divinity in breath, word, and movement. They are a memory artist who embraces oral & embodied traditions like theatre, story circles, biomimicry, spoken word, and more as paths for communal care.
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Thank you to those who joined our Nurturing Our Voices event and helped make it a success!
Nurturing Our Voices showed us how amazing it is when we can hear from community members about what the Center means to them, and how important it is to support, uplift, and amplify API voices.
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“I really want this story to find anyone who's never felt "enough" of something, or really, anyone who had a kind of weird time growing up, figuring out who they are in different contexts, and having to look for the context they feel the most comfortable in.” — Jessica Lu’u Pelletier
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"Brush painting is not limited by time, age, culture, or geography. It is a relaxing process that supports personal wellbeing."-- Xiaoyong Liu
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On May 8th, Pao Arts Center was joined by friends of the Arts Center – Grace Talusan and Bren Bataclan, for an engaging and interactive event – What's in Your Lumpia? An Author Presentation and Creativity Workshop. We were joined by dozens of participants who learned about Bren and Grace’s experiences writing their memoirs and then had a chance to draw and write their stories.
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“We have to push the power of art as not only a creative, but a social practice, one that is involved in complex problem solving, community building, collaborative engagement, inspiration for next generations, a voice for the underrepresented, a powerful vehicle of connection and representation of diverse perspectives and processes.”
—— Lenora Lee
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On April 9, Pao Arts Center collaborated with BCNC’s Youth Center on our latest “Chinatown Presents: How to Maybe Get into an Ivy League College”.
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