California Dreaming Asian American Arts, Culture, and Place

ABOUT THIS EVENT

Exploring the places of “Asian America” through the migration and circulation of the arts, California Dreaming: Movement and Place in the Asian American Imaginary is a multi-genre collection of works by Asian American artists based in California. Co-editors Christine Bacareza Balance and Lucy Burns will facilitate an extraordinary panel featuring several of the book’s contributors: novelist Karen Tei Yamashita, poet Mai Der Vang, playwright Prince Gomolvilas, and scholars Wendy Cheng, Lan Duong, and Nayan Shah. Highlighting creative processes, they will explore the rendering of California as both a specific locale and an identity marker that moves, linking its culture, labor, and economy with Asia Pacific, the Americas, and the world.