Date: October 18, 2001
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Description: Tina Gordon embodies rock'n'roll. In light of all the music venues being shut down in 2001, she wanted to build a mobile rock unit, the Rambler. And several people backed her idea, performing for fundraisers and volunteering to buildout the van.
Broadcast History: Radio Seugue, KUSF
Date: April 6, 2005
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Description: A group of us at KPFA have been working on a queer youth series in collaboration with National Radio Project. The concept is to place a queer lens on youth issues. We developed 12 segments to fit into four themes; the first show dealt with identity.
I worked on this piece, which was to be part of the health and safety show, but our timeline fell off track, so we just took the three completed shows and packaged them together: queer youth in the foster care system, surviving child sexual abuse (my piece), and disabilities.
Broadcast History:
Making Contact, National Radio Project
Pacifica LGBTQ Pride National Coverage, KPFA
Date: January 5, 2005
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Description: My dad surprised me in July when he complained about a water shortage on Maui. I thought, "A water shortage in this lush and green state!? How can that be?" and I'm sure others suffer the same confusion. But once again, it's an issue of how to best utilize resources and often it's money talking, not science, culture, nor tradition.
When I heard Crossing East would send me to Hawaii in November to conduct interviews, I tried to maximize the trip and pitched this water story to two outlets.
Justin at NRP helped a great deal with their version and it's the lead story. The Pactime version was held up because of a different water issue that took precedent: the Indonesian tsunami!
Broadcast History:
Making Contact, National Radio Project
Pacific Time, KQED
Date: June 27, 2004
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Description: While debate over the right to same sex marriage continues, some gay, lesbian, and transgender people are building famlies regardless of their legal recognition.
A new coloring book created by artists Libby Black and Jennifer Lovvorn shares images of these families so that the children of LGBTQ families and "traditional" families alike, can be exposed to different kinds of families.
Broadcast History:
Pacifica's LGBTQ National Pride Coverage
Date: April 14, 2004
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Description: My friend at the NRP had been encouraging me to file for Making Contact, but the topics always seemed too policy oriented for me. But she snagged me on what was to be a No-No boy story for the war resistance show.
Through research, I learned there is a difference between No-Nos and draft resisters and focused on the story of Japanese American men who refused to be drafted out of World War II internment camps.
The mp3 link above is to my "director's cut" of the piece as I revised it some after producing the NRP version.
Broadcast History:
Making Contact, National Radio Project
WETA (licensed, but I'm not sure how/when they used the piece)
Date: September 2003
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Description: Who could have been prepared for the news? Two deaths in less than one month. Itzolin to suicide. Linda to lung cancer. But the profound loss the movement feels is transformed into action as we keep their passions alive.
Broadcast History:
Full Circle, KPFA
APAture 2003 OG Night (Kearny Street Workshop)
APEX Express, KPFA
One Act Radio Drama, KPFA
Radio Chronicles, KPFA
Photo by David Huang
Date: September, 2002
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Description: When the Chicago Asian American Showcase accepted Mike Sakamoto's film to the festival, we booked our tickets and prepared for an adventure. Mike hauled around his video camera and I double fisted with my digital camera and minidisc recorder.
We captured all of our explorations of the city and the adventures that were peaked by the attendance of the Better Luck Tomorrow cast and crew!
I wanted to do something with all the material and turned it into a CD and audio installation that integrated a map of Chicago with my own highlights of the city. This project became Remapping Chicago and was accepted into KSW's 2002 APAture gallery show.
Collaborators: Jo Slota was a huge help in making this a real installation piece. He built a mock railroad rail to house the cd players, figured out how to hang the huge map, and offered moral support.
Broadcast History:
APAture 2002 (Kearny Street Workshop)
Full Circle, KPFA
Date: January 1, 2002
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Description: I didn't know how to respond after 9/11, but the community around me built on existing infrastructure to quickly support the soon to be scapegoated Muslim American community and demand a peaceful response to the 9/11 destruction.
I captured these responses including the dance community raising funds for South Asian victims of hate crimes, a peace vigil in Japantown's Peace Plaza, and a Walk of Shame to the consulate of several Asian countries for buying into Bush's war on terror.
Collaboration: Because of the controversial issues this piece raises about forms of patriotism, I really wanted to be able to share the work in a gathered community rather than in isolation through radio. Dhamaal's Janaka helped me hook up with their video crew and Kyle Burrows/Skip Intro helped me create figurative moving images to accompany my audio.
We made a master track with color and movement, which Skip Intro then would use to mix in other video sources in a live "jam" for an improvised element to the screening.
Broadcast History :
Private airing on New Year's Day 2002
Radio Segue, KUSF
Morning Show, KPFA
APEX, KPFA
Post-Day of Remembrance screening (Living Room)
Los Angeles Asian Pacific American Film and Video Festival 2002 (Visual Communications)
Color of Patriotism 2002 (Locus Arts)
Chicago Asian American Showcase 2003 (FAAIM)
Date:November 16 , 2001
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Description: My friend Thy has a wealth of knowledge, particularly in the area of food history. When I heard the theme for the Soko Arts Festival was food, I was excited to work with her on developing a story. I had hoped that while playing the piece, we could also serve the bahn xeo, but time didn't allow for it.
Collaboration:Thy Tran and Soko Arts Festival
Broadcast History:
Radio Segue, KUSF
Soko Arts (the food themed event) 2001
Date: September, 2001
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Description: In preparation for a zinester reading put on by KSW and Locus, I created a personal audio piece based on my journal writing. Bob helped me pull together images i could show in a timed slide show to accompany the piece, which was mixed with music. What resulted was a powerful piece. After the reading, someone encouraged me to drop it all into some video editing and with Paul's help, the video premiered at KSW's APAture. And it links to my existing body of work online.
Collaboration: Kearny Street Workshop and Locus Arts for inviting me to the reading, Paul Jaffe for help making the video, and KSW's APAture for accepting it into APAture.
Broadcast History :
Zine-licious (KSW and Locus)
APAture 2001 (KSW)
Women of Color Film Festival 2002 (UCB)
PinoisePop 8, 2003 (Bindlestiff)
