The Bay Area's Hub for Asian Pacific American Community Arts Since 1972
Lydia's Funeral Video Bay Area Launch with Sam Chanse
with special guests Claire Light & The Invisible Cities
Co-presented by Kaya Press and Kearny Street Workshop
February 1st, 2016
Arc Gallery & Studios
1246 Folsom Street
San Francisco, CA 94106
Doors: 7:30pm Start: 8pm
ADMISSION:
Supporter: $20 (pre-sale), $23 (door) | includes discounted copy of Lydia's Funeral Video
General Admission: $7 (pre-sale, $10 door) | without copy
In SAM CHANSE'S satirical one-woman play, LYDIA'S FUNERAL VIDEO, set in a near distant future, devout bank clerk Lydia Clark-Lin has 28 days to terminate an unplanned pregnancy, shoot her own funeral video, and do some stand-up comedy. Come celebrate the recent publication of Lydia's Funeral Video by Kaya Press, which, along with the full script, features a full counterpoint narrative, stream-of-consciousness illustrations (a flip book!), essays, notes, and more. Sam Chanse will read from the book, and then discuss it with Claire Light—plus music by The Invisible Cities.
Sam Chanse is a writer and theater artist based in New York and California. A 2015 Sundance Ucross Playwright Fellow and member of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab, her work has also been supported by the Lark Play Development Center, Labyrinth Theater, the Actor's Studio Playwrights/Directors Unit, Bindlestiff Studio, Asian American Theater Company, the San Francisco Arts Commission, and more. Her plays, musicals, and theater work include Fruiting Bodies, Gilgamesh & the Mosquito (with composer Bob Kelly), Lobsters Live Forever (also with Bob Kelly), Marian Jean, About that Whole Dying Thing, Back to the Graveyard, and Lydia's Funeral Video—which was also published by Kaya Press as a book in 2015. She received an MFA in playwriting from Columbia University, and in musical theater writing from NYU's Tisch School for the Arts. She is the former artistic director of Kearny Street Workshop and the co-director of Locus Arts.
Claire Light is a Bay Area writer and cultural worker. She has worked for 17 years in nonprofit administration, particularly arts in the Asian American community. Her earned her MFA in fiction from San Francisco State University, and some of her fiction is published in McSweeney's, Hyphen, Farthing, and The Encyclopedia Project. A short collection of her short stories, called SLIGHTLY BEHIND AND TO THE LEFT, was published by Aqueduct Press in 2009.
The Invisible Cities are a SF/NYC band formed sometime around 2000. To date, the band have released three albums: Watertown (2004), Houses Shine Like Teeth (2009) and Meet The Lampreys (2012). You can hear what they sound like at theinvisiblecities.bandcamp.com.