Saturday, May 1, 2021
2:00 PM – 2:40 PM
Japantown, San Francisco
Category: Special Event
Official kickoff event to launch the month-long celebration of APA Heritage Month.
Event in compliance with San Francisco’s Health Order has limited capacity for in-person attendance.
Saturday, May 01, 2021
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
2 Waverly Place, SF Chinatown
Category: Music & Performances
Clarion celebrates APA Heritage Month and its Grand Reopening on May 1 with four hours of indoor and outdoor activities. Music, Poetry, Open Mic and Film Social.
Ultra World X-Tet World Fusion Jazz with Sax/ flute, guzheng, bass and drums. Noon to 1 pm on 2 Waverly Place. This is an outdoor concert.
Saturday, May 01, 2021
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Category: Youth & Family
Learn about Asian Americans trailblazers who deserve more recognition in history textbooks with authors Oliver Chin and Phil Amara and illustrator Juan Calle.
Saturday, May 01, 2021
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Category: Music & Performances
See Lion Dance Me, a Runner up winner on America’s Got Talent, will perform lion dancing with an acrobatic flair every Saturday on car free Grant between Sacramento and Clay.
Saturday, May 01, 2021
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Category: Films
Clarion celebrates APA Heritage Month and its Grand Reopening on May 1 with four hours of indoor and outdoor activities. Music, Poetry, Open Mic and Film Social.
Chinatown Shorts: You Are Here, is a new documentary series by James Q Chan. Season One (Fall/Winter 2020) roots in themes of individual and collective transformation during times of crisis, struggle, and hope.
Thursday, May 06, 2021
5:00 PM -6:00 PM
Category: Other Special Events
Anti-Asian racism and xenophobia are not new. Learn more about the history and current day significance of the former US Immigration Station at Angel Island.
Saturday, May 08, 2021
10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Category: Other Special Events
Tune in for the annual Taiwanese American Cultural Festival, a celebration of Taiwanese American music, authors, food, and culture.
May 8-9, 2021
11:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Portsmouth Square (map)
Chinatown, San Francisco
This photo exhibit chronicles the Chinese American experience from January 2020 to the present, celebrating the community’s resilience through the Covid-19 pandemic as well as the resultant economic challenges and anti-Asian hate.
Saturday, May 08, 2021
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Category: Films
A film by Yuanyuan Luka Yang and Carlo Nasisse. It is a love story of Coby, a 92 year old retired nightclub dancer and a man 20 years her junior.
Sunday, May 09, 2021
12:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Category: Music & Performances
The San Francisco Chinatown Visitor Information Center is proud to join other communities by showcasing several talented local artists and performers at the Walkway Weekends in Chinatown on May 9th between noon and 3 pm. Come join us and support our local businesses as well.
Wednesday, May 12, 2021
5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Category: Arts & Crafts
Join CCC and APIENC’s Dragon Fruit Project for an interactive zine-making workshop where you’ll learn more about zine-making as a transformative tool.
Queer API Stories Zine Making Workshop uplifts LGBTQ API voices and creativity, using transformative tools to advocate feminist and queer experiences.
No experience needed! All you’ll need is some paper, something to write with, and any other art materials you want to bring–no need for anything fancy!
Friday, May 14-28, 2021
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
41ROSS Alley, San Francisco Chinatown
Category: Art Exhibits
“By Youth, For You x QWOCMAP” is a programming of “WOMEN: From Her to Here,” an exhibition at the Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco exploring local and universal experiences of queer belonging and agency.
In celebration of APA heritage, CCC will provide special exhibition tours to celebrate the APA LGBTQ communities.
Saturday, May 15, 2021
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Category: Films
A film by Rick Quan documented Dorothy Toy, dance legend, from her childhood to her celebrating a century of life devoted to dance.
Sunday, May 16, 2021
12:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Category: Music & Performances
The San Francisco Chinatown Visitor Information Center is proud to join other communities by showcasing several talented local artists and performers at the Walkway Weekends in Grant Avenue in Chinatown on Sunday, May 16th between noon and 3 pm. Come join us and support our local businesses as well.
Sunday, May 16, 2021
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Category: Other Special Events
A conversation with Grande Lum on his book, “America’s Peacemakers:The Community Relations Service and Civil Rights.” Hosted by Clara Hsu.
Thursday, May 20, 2021
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Category: Other Special Events
InspirASIAN is celebrating Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month by honoring the teachings of Bruce Lee and awakening the Inner Warrior within ourselves with Shannon Lee, Producer, Writer and Daughter of Bruce Lee.
Saturday, May 22, 2021
12:00 PM
Category: Other Special Events
Join CHSA and Frank Wu, Queens College, City University of New York, for a conversation about Frank’s work at Queen College and academic writing.
May 22-29, 2021
QTAPI Week is presented by the Bay Area QTAPI Coalition: GAPA, Prism Foundation, APIENC, The Connection, Rice Rockettes, Parivar Bay Area, APIQWTC, and Red Envelope Giving Circle.
Friday, May 28, 2021
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Category: Music & Performances
Time for some lighthearted entertainment. Join us for a virtual show of cultural performances that spotlight some amazingly talented performers in the AAPI community.
Saturday, May 29, 2021
12:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Larkin street between Eddy and O’farrell
A food and culture festival to celebrate AAPI month in partnership with APA Heritage Foundation.
Saturday, May 29, 2021
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Category: Music & Performances
A presentation of the 24th Annual United States of Asian America Festival, YUGTO will showcase choreography using Filipino folkloric movements to tell contemporary stories that are absent from traditional Philippine folkloric dance.
Sunday, May 30, 2021
Category: Music & Performances
Join APICC in a day of outdoor art, performances and music at Portsmouth Square, featuring presentations by Jon Jang, Macro Waves, Audrey Thao Berger and Noah Wang, Megan Lowe Dances, Erina Alejo and TNT SideCaraoke, as part of USAAF 2021: Forging Our Futures – SoMa & Chinatown
April 30-May 23, 2021
12:00 PM
SOMArts Cultural Center
Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center presents the 24th annual United States of Asian America Festival, featuring multidisciplinary art events under the theme “Forging Our Futures – SoMa & Chinatown.” USAAF 2021 kicks off with Sowing Agency, a visual arts exhibition May 1-23 at SOMArts Cultural Center, co-presented by the Asian American Women Artists Association.
May 2021
Gallery Hours:
Appointment recommended/Walk-in Welcomed
Wed – Fri: 10 – 4 pm
From femme sensibilities to a queer state of mind, “WOMEN我們: From Her to Here” brings together artistic works that embodies feelings and experiences rooted in the non-binary—an awareness, a liminal space, and a source of power to be and be seen.
Between and beyond this exhibition are local and universal expressions of queer and feminist liberation, cultivation, and imaginations.
Centered on Asian diasporic perspectives, the exhibition features video and film works, mixed media installation, photography, paintings and publications by artists of diverse gender & sexual identities across the Bay Area, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, and more.
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This is the official celebration of Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month for the City and County of San Francisco.
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