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DESCRIPTION:Where We Are Now: Activism Today\n\nFeaturing Eric Mar, Diana Pei Wu, 
 Favianna Rodriguez, and Le Tim Ly, and moderated by Robynn Takayama\nan 
 Activist Imagination event\n\nJoin Kearny Street Workshop and a panel of 
 activists, artists, and organizers for a discussion about the present state 
 of activism, the arts and community.\n\nWhere We Are Now: Activism Today 
 takes place Tuesday, January 22nd, at Kearny Street Workshop's space180, 
 located at 180 Capp Street, at 17th Street, San Francisco. The panel 
 features San Francisco School Board member Eric Mar, National Network for 
 Immigrant and Refugee Rights Program Director Diana Pei Wu, artist-activist 
 and founding member of Eastside Arts Alliance Favianna Rodriguez, and 
 activist and co-founder of Liberation Ink Le Tim Ly, and is moderated by 
 community artist Robynn Takayama, and will examine, explore, and challenge 
 the state of activism today.\n\nWhere We Are Now: Activism Today, is the 
 second in a series of discussions that is part of KSW's Activist 
 Imagination program exploring the past, present, and future of arts and 
 activism. The Activist Imagination also features an exhibition of new work 
 developed by three lead artists, Bob Hsiana, Donna Keiko Ozawa, and 
 Christine Wong Yap, responding to and exploring the themes raised in the 
 program. The visual exhibition opens Friday, February 29th, 2008, at KSW's 
 space180.\n\nDate & Time: Tuesday, January 22, 2008; 7pm\n\nLocation: 
 Kearny Street Workshop's space180, 180 Capp Street, 3rd Floor, @ 17th 
 Street, San Francisco\n\nCost: Free and open to the public.\n\nThe Activist 
 Imagination project is made possible in part by a grant from the Creative 
 Work Fund through support from the Walter and Elise Haas Fund, The William 
 and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the James Irvine Foundation. Activist 
 Imagination is also supported in part by a grant from the San Francisco 
 Foundation and from KSW's members and individual donors.\n\nAbove: banner 
 image based on graphic design by Jenifer Wofford | 
 www.wofflehouse.com.\n\n\nMore information: sam@kearnystreet.org; 
 415.503.0520; www.kearnystreet.org\nAbout the panelists and moderator\n\nLe 
 Tim Ly is a first generation Chinese immigrant from Vietnam. He currently 
 serves on the board of Youth United for Community Action (YUCA) in East 
 Palo Alto and recently joined the staff at the Partnership for Immigrant 
 Leadership and Action (PILA) as one of the program coordinators. In his 
 experience working with grassroots social justice organizations, he found 
 that the often tenuous relationships with foundations and the demands and 
 expectations of the funding world represented a barrier to developing a 
 long-term, visionary grassroots movement for justice. In 2004, Le 
 co-founded Liberation Ink, an all volunteer apparel design and printing 
 collective, to provide a new and alternative source of funding for 
 grassroots organizing.\neric marEric Mar is a parent, teacher, and 
 progressive educational leader who was elected to his first term to the San 
 Francisco Board of Education in November 2000. As an independent, 
 responsive and effective advocate for students, parents and teachers, Eric 
 has an impressive track record of leadership and accomplishments which have 
 improved educational opportunity and achievement for all public school 
 students in San Francisco.\n\n\n\nEric is a longtime educator and community 
 activist who has taught Ethnic Studies and Asian American Studies at San 
 Francisco State University since 1992. He is the past director of the 
 Northern California Coalition for Immigrant Rights and former Acting Dean 
 of New College of California School of Law. As a political leader, Eric was 
 elected to the San Francisco Democratic Party Central Committee for three 
 consecutive terms and served as its Second Vice-Chair. As a public interest 
 attorney he served on the Human Rights Committee of the State Bar of 
 California and the Civil Rights Committee of the National Asian Pacific 
 American Bar Association. Eric lives in San Francisco’s Richmond District 
 with his partner Sandra Chin Mar, an SFUSD teacher, and their 4 year old 
 daughter Jade Justicia Mar. For more information please visit 
 www.ericmar.com\n\n\n\nFavianna Rodriguez is an Oakland-based 
 artist-activist, technologist, and institution builder. She is one of the 
 founders of Tumis. The mission of TUMIS is to develop effective 
 communication strategies for the success of our communities. Offering 
 services in technology, design and strategic planning. TUMIS is a 
 people-of-color owned company with a team of planners, designers, artists, 
 and computer programmers. With over 10 years of experience in our fields of 
 expertise, our award-winning projects have garnered national recognition 
 and impact. TUMIS is located in the heart of the San Antonio District in 
 East Oakland, one of the most diverse neighborhoods in the country. They 
 form part of a mixed-use building project – with 16 units of affordable 
 housing, a nonprofit children’s’ art and literacy space, grassroots 
 community office spaces and a cornerstone community-serving, neighborhood 
 Cultural Center. TUMIS, in collaboration with the other tenants, is serving 
 as an anchor to community development happening in East Oakland’s long 
 neglected 23rd Avenue Corridor. Favianna's dynamic political prints and 
 posters tell a history of social justice, capturing the daily sentiments of 
 a people in daily struggle, to document their efforts and celebrate their 
 victories. Favianna’s work attempts to reclaim public space – community 
 centers, streets, billboards – and to redefine that space through art, 
 through youth workshops, and through the establishment of collective 
 cultural spaces. Favianna is currently co-editing a book project entitled 
 Reproduce and Revolt!, a graphic toolbox of over 600 high-quality black & 
 white illustrations and graphics about political activism. With her 
 signature energy and zeal, Favianna travels to share her inspirational work 
 with others abroad. She has lectured numerously in Tokyo and Mexico City 
 about the role of art and culture in community building. For more 
 information visit www.favianna.com.\n\nImage credit: Xicana Power: Viva La 
 Xicana! Black and white sticker by Favianna Rodriguez.\n\n\n\nRobynn 
 Takayama is an award winning community artist whose audio work has been 
 presented through video, web, radio, and gallery installation in San 
 Francisco, Berkeley, Los Angeles, and Chicago. While working at Kinko’s, 
 she published Static, a print zine on scams, pranks, and workplace 
 sabotage. Her webzine, Nonogirl Radio, was featured in the Bay Guardian’s 
 “SF Underground” and won a Machete Women of Color Award for Design and 
 Content. She is a founding member of Webzine ‘98, a celebration of 
 independent content online; an advisory member to Kearny Street Workshop; 
 and a segment producer for Crossing East, an eight-hour radio documentary 
 airing on public radio in May 2006. For more information, please visit 
 www.webzine.nonogirl.com.\n\n"img 
 src="http://www.kearnystreet.org/images/dianapeiwu.jpg">\n\nDiana Pei Wu 
 started organizing in the late 1980s on environmental issues in her high 
 school, and on human rights after the massacre in Tiananmen Square. She is 
 the Program Director of Education & Capacity Building at the National 
 Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights and continues to be an Associate 
 of the Movement Strategy Center. Diana also continues to support local 
 organizations working at the intersection of justice, movement building, 
 community organizing, and cultural activism, such as Chin Jurn Wor Ping and 
 Estación Libre Oakland. Diana has a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, plays capoeira 
 with Capoeira Sangue Forte and dances with the Chinese drumming group Hei 
 Gu.\n\nKearny Street Workshop is a community-based arts nonprofit based in 
 San Francisco. Founded in 1972, KSW's mission is to produce and present art 
 that enriches and empowers Asian Pacific American communities. Our vision 
 is to achieve a more just society by connecting APA artists to community 
 members to give voice to our cultural, historical, and contemporary issues. 
 KSW offers workshops, visual exhibitions, readings, artist salons and panel 
 discussions, an annual arts festival, and more. For more information, 
 please visit www.kearnystreet.org\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/01/11/18471792.php
SUMMARY:Activist Imagination: exploring and imagining the past, present and future of activism
LOCATION:Kearny Street Workshop's space180, 180 Capp Street, 3rd Floor, @ 17th 
 Street, San Francisco 94110
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/01/11/18471792.php
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