The Bay Area's Hub for Asian Pacific American Community Arts Since 1972
Astig Vegan
Born and raised in Bacoor Cavite, Philippines, RG would help her mom cook traditional Filipino food for the entire family. Later on, she and her family migrated to the San Francisco Bay Area where she continued to pursue her passion for cooking. Although she doesn’t consume animal products anymore, she didn’t want to give up on the food that she loved so much as a kid. Undeterred, she resolved to go deeper in learning Filipino food and share her discoveries along the way. One of the most amazing discoveries she uncovered was that it IS possible to achieve delicious, healthy, and vegan Filipino food without losing its soul. Her passion for both vegan Filipino cooking and sharing her recipes led to blogging on astigvegan.com and a cooking show on YouTube on youtube.com/rcestudios
www.astigvegan.com
Heavenly Soap Company
Heavenly Soap Company is located at Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco. We love soap. We love nature. We love the green earth. We believe in nature's power. That's why we provide all natural and no palm products. Live naturally, live heavenly!
http://heavenlysoapcompany.com/
Moonroot
MOONROOT is a creative collective of womyn, trans, and genderqueer folks of Asian and Pacific Islander descent, living and loving in diaspora. We are an evolving experiment in building loving, radical community across social and geographic borders that began in 2011. Rooted in a deep desire to resist isolation and invisibility, we are committed to enacting creative possibilities that move all of us towards healing, wholeness, and self-determination. Our zines are just one way we are growing space to share our love, pain, and joy with each other and affirm our existence in a world in which our voices are marginalized, misunderstood, or ignored.
www.moonroot.info
Empire in the Air
Founded in 2010, ChiChai began Empire in the Air to chase her own dream: utilize fashion, art, writing and travel to give back to those who inspired her along the way. The word “Empire” represents that legacy she strives for and “in the air” signifies everyone that said her head was in the clouds. Empire in the Air defies all those who doubted her. The earlier chapters of this brand’s journey consisted of one-shirt-at-a-time, spray-painting in a dorm room, and hauling a grocery cart of clothes to events. Years later, Empire in the Air transformed itself from a solo-brand into a creative collective. Because we hope to encourage others to build their own Empires, each collection represents that message for our supporters to proudly wear. Whether it be music, art, photography or fitness, Empire is a lifestyle to support all your passions.
www.empireintheair.com
Inks of Truth
Rey is a Filipino immigrant who came to San Francisco with family in 1993 to the South of Market neighborhood, 6thStreet corridor. Rey is a self-taught black and white film photographer with a focus on street / candid photography. In 2008, his first camera was a Nikkormat FT2 was intended as a birthday gift for a close friend, but passed away due to a pedestrian / vehicle accident two months before. This started a journey of self-realization and affirmation through arts and photography. In 2009, Rey started the art collective Inks of Truth, with a focus of empowering individuals and community through art".
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Art Without a Frame
Crafts and designs by Hoi-Fei Mok and Cynthia Fong. Selling buttons, art prints, cards, art originals, postcards.
www.etsy.com/shop/ArtWithoutAFrame
Wahab Algarmi
Wahab Algarmi, an Oakland native, graduated from the AACU in San Francisco in 2000. Wahab has been a regular exhibitor at various comic book conventions on the west coast since 2001. His comic, “The Society of Unordinary Young Ladies” garnered rave reviews and was named one of the top ten comics of 2009.
http://sturdy-wahab.tumblr.com/
Vendors
Dhaya Lakshminarayanan
Dhaya Lakshminarayanan was named Best Comedian 2013 in the San Francisco Bay Guardian’s “Best of the Bay” Readers’ Poll. Comedy Central Asia crowned her the Grand Prize Winner of “The Ultimate Comedy Challenge” (2013). In addition, Dhaya is a storyteller appearing on NPR’s Snap Judgment, The Risk podcast “Live in Austin,” and ON24’s “Best Travel Disaster Story.” She is currently the host of San Francisco’s monthly Moth StorySLAM.
Phuong Vuong
Phuong is a 1.5 generation immigrant, vietnamese-american, educator, poet, a work in progress. She may be one of the few Oakland natives left in Oakland. In her day job, you can find her studying literature with middle school youth. She has self-published a chapbook called growing persimmons and is currently working on a book-length collection of poetry about trauma, healing, and love in the Vietnamese/American and Asian/American community. She is a recipient of fellowships from VONA/Voices and Kearny Street Workshops’ Interdisciplinary Writers Lab.
464
Jazlynn Pastor, Nikki Sanchez, and Melanie Shrock like to call themselves "464", a name derived from Jazlynn's dorm room due to lack of creativity and last minute naming when formed for an open mic last May. These three ladies came together at the University of San Francisco thanks to the Filipino organization on campus, Kasamahan. Realizing their common interests in music and living on the same dorm hall floor, 464 likes to harmonize to popular artists in their very, very limited free time.