Hip Hop Showcase
Returning for the sixth consecutive year at PAAFF is our Asian American Hip Hop Showcase, featuring some of the up-and-coming musical talents in our community. Scott Jung aka CHOPS from the legendary Mountain Brothers will emcee the event and will be joined by longtime collaborator DJ Roli Rho.
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Experimental Video Art Festival
The 3rd iteration of the 12G Contemporary Video Art Festival celebrates contemporary video art—that is, contemporary art using recorded moving images, created by artists from or about the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia.
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“Has Asian American Studies Failed?” // Day 1
In 2012, Timothy Yu published a short article titled “Has Asian American Studies Failed?”
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“Has Asian American Studies Failed?” // Day 2
In 2012, Timothy Yu published a short article titled “Has Asian American Studies Failed?”
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“Has Asian American Studies Failed?” // Day 3
In 2012, Timothy Yu published a short article titled “Has Asian American Studies Failed?”
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Pacific Showcase (Presented by Pacific Islanders in Communications)
Native Hawaiian Resistance Shorts
3:20-4:30pm Known as the “Paradise of the Pacific,” Hawaii’s beauty masks a history of political strife and the gradual erosion of indigenous rights.
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Moananuiākea
Witness the voyage that began as a dream but became a movement. In 1976, a voyaging canoe sparked a cultural revival that quickly spread throughout Polynesia, breathing life into ancient myths and legends. More than four decades later, Hōkūle‘a continues to inspire a new generation of navigators and voyagers to…
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Eating Up Easter
In a cinematic letter to his son, native Rapanui (Easter Island) filmmaker Sergio Mata’u Rapu explores the modern dilemma of their people, descendants of the ancient statue builders, who risk losing everything to the globalizing effects of tourism.
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For My Father’s Kingdom
Driven by his deep faith in God and traditional culture, a flat-broke Tongan pensioner must navigate not only the rough streets of South Auckland but also his tumultuous relationship with his New Zealand-born son. For My Father’s Kingdom follows Saia Mafile’o and his family as they are stretched to the…
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PAPA Mini-Residencies
Daniel Park: Emma Stone
11am-12:30pm Emma Stone (working title) is a collaboratively created solo-performance by Daniel Park and Dean Rawlins. Mixing stand-up comedy, performance art, and multi-media, the work creates a space in which the anger of people of color is legitimized, released, and healed.
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Dance Artist: Annielille Gavino
Filipinx dance artist Annielille Gavino will present a mixed media film and dance performance as part of the PAPA Mini-Residency Showcase. The performance will consist of two pieces and a post-performance talkback.
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Philly Asian Histories
Philadelphia Asian Performing Artists (PAPA) presents an artist showcase featuring selected pieces from their August 2019 production, Philly Asian Histories. For this show a team of eight performing artists from varying creative backgrounds have devised and cultivated individual performances, with each featuring a different moment in our city’s Asian American…
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Artist Bash
Since 2017, PAAFF has been a founding partner of the Barnes Foundation event series titled Artist Bash. This series is dedicated to showcasing performance artists of color within the museum space in an attempt to overcome the historical lack of representation in a predominantly white institution. Held three times a…
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