APAture is Kearny Street Workshop’s annual multidisciplinary arts festival celebrating emerging Asian and Pacific Islander artists of the Bay Area.

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For 15 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.

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This year, our theme is “Here.”

 

We are interested in locations, spaces, homes; the way in which we move through and live in these places. We are interested in the intimacy of our bodies, our narratives, as they relate to being “here,” and our histories, our continued presence, our dreams here. We are living in a pivotal historical moment, and have arrived here, together, each in our own ways.

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What is APAture?

 

APAture is Kearny Street Workshop’s annual multi disciplinary festival that showcases emerging Asian and Pacific American artists from the Bay Area. Each year, this two week festival is organized by a volunteer run General Planning Committee who help curate each showcase.

 

APAture has six showcases held at various locations around the SoMA District of San Francisco: Comics & Illustration, Film, Literary Arts, Music, Performing Arts, and Visual Arts. Each showcase is a one day event, except the Visual Arts showcase, which will be on view until the end of the festival.

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I love what you're doing, how can I help?

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Contributions to our Indiegogo campaign will help us ensure that APAture 2016 will continue to provide spaces for emerging Asian Pacific American artists. We're also looking for day-of-event volunteers to make sure our artists and audiences have the best experience possible!