2020 AAPI Heritage Month Digital Event Calendar

Happy Asian Pacific American Heritage Month!

Here is a big calendar of virtual events compiled by Angry Asian Man

2020 AAPI Heritage Month Digital Event Calendar

Highlights include
Center for Asian American Media's (CAAMedia) Digital Town Hall 4/30 8pmEDT/5pmPDT
Digital Town Hall - Asian Americans in the Time of Covid-19

Laomagination 45 poetry open mic 5/1 7pmCDT/8pmEDT/4pmPDT w BTW
Our inaugural Laomagination:45 zOpen Mic will be... - Bryan Thao Worra

and a virtual dinner party 5/1 11pmEDT/8pmPDT w Angry Asian Man and friends
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/family-meal-a-virtual-dinner-party-tickets-103276242020?fbclid=IwAR0Cczy9B6duImA6v3iSj077YqLnyx2eGzI_WW6TXUvJyGAH68OUom1t3VI

And I will be speaking next week at Detroit Public Television's Asian Americans: The Detroit Story – Detroit Public TV Friday May 8, 12:00pm EDT/ 9amPDT/ 6amHSTand here is the facebook event page https://www.facebook.com/events/231411694704390/

Recording of my Talk at Harvard-Radcliffe

Thanks to Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Association for this recording of my and Wen-Hao Tien's talk re Asian American Resistance and Creative Clapbacks in a time of Covid-19 on April 27, 2020.

Creative_Clapbacks_April_2020.mp4 - Google Drive

Asian American Resistance and Creative Clapbacks in the Time of COVID-19 Today at Harvard

Speaking at Harvard today! Monday night, April 27, 6pm EDT/ 3pm PDT/ 12pm HST, w artist Wen-Hao Tien on Asian American Resistance and Creative Clapbacks in the Time of COVID-19. Big thanks to co-sponsors: Harvard University Asia Center, Task Force on Asian and Pacific American Studies at Harvard College, Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Association. Thanks to all my cool artist friends who join us today.

https://asiacenter.harvard.edu/events/virtual-event-asian-american-resistance-and-creative-clapbacks-in-the-time-of-covid-19-991

Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/258376922020035/

Free Creative Writing Webinar today at WCC at 1pm

Today at WCC!

I will be teaching a free 1-hour creative writing class this Sunday, April 26, 1-2 EDT, "Finding your Voice," through Washtenaw Community College on GoToMeeting. You have to register here to get the link, and scroll down to April 26, but I hope a few friends can join in this new experiment. If it works, we'll try again in May. Register here https://www.wccnet.edu/learn/our-offerings/webinars-campaign.php

Also sign up for more creative writing classes at WCC as we will try to move them online, esp note
Continuing Writing Workshop: Finding the Writer Within, starting May 3 on Sundays 12-2, 5 weeks
Creative Writing Classes - Washtenaw Community College Division of Economic & Community Development

Speaking at Harvard on Monday (tell my mom!)

I’m speaking at Harvard on Monday night, April 27, 6pm edt, w artist Wen-hao Tien on Asian American Resistance and Creative Clapbacks in the Time of COVID-19. Co-sponsors: Harvard University Asia Center, Task Force on Asian and Pacific American Studies at Harvard College, Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Association. hope y’all can join us (and tell your moms to tell our moms lol) there will likely be shout-outs to our cool artist friends

https://asiacenter.harvard.edu/events/virtual-event-asian-american-resistance-and-creative-clapbacks-in-the-time-of-covid-19-991

Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/258376922020035/

Free Webinar this Sunday "Finding your voice" (Creative Writing) at WCC

Friends! I will be teaching a free 1-hour creative writing class this Sunday, April 26, 1-2 EDT, "Finding your Voice," through Washtenaw Community College on GoToMeeting. You have to register here to get the link, and scroll down to April 26, but I hope a few friends can join in this new experiment https://www.wccnet.edu/…/our-offerings/webinars-campaign.php

Free webinars from WCC

I'm teaching a free creative writing webinar at WCC this Sunday, April 26, 2020. Register now!


Finding Your Voice (Creative Writing)
Frances Wang
1:00pm-2:00pm

Free webinars from WCC

"A Suggestion of Salt" poem | Knight's Library Magazine

So excited to announce that "A Suggestion of Salt," a collaborative poem I wrote with poet Ravi Shankar, has been published in Knight's Library Magazine's Spring 2020 issue. There is also a nice interview with me as the featured poet. Hope you like it

http://online.fliphtml5.com/pszqz/ojld/

'We're nesting. We prepared his room': Families adopting children from China anxiously wait | NBC News

My article for NBC Asian America

"I hope that these children don't get lumped in with the racism that Asian Americans and particularly Chinese Americans are experiencing as a result of the coronavirus," said JaeRan Kim, an assistant professor of social work at the University of Washington Tacoma who researches transracial and transnational adoption. "We know Chinese adoptees, like other Asian adoptees and Asian Americans in the United States, are experiencing racism in their schools and communities."

'We're nesting. We prepared his room': Families adopting children from China anxiously wait

New upcoming events, the virtual coronavirus edition

I'm starting to be invited to give virtual keynotes and to teach online courses. These are tentative dates, links to come later

Washtenaw Community College Writing Your Family Stories--April 6, 13, 20

Boston University Pardee School of Global Studies--April 27

Washtenaw Community College Finding your Voice--April 26, 1-2, free webinar

Toyota Asian American Society in Alliance (TAASiA) A/PIA Heritage Month--May 5

Univ of Michigan Rackham Program in Public Scholarship/Institute for Social Change--May 15

Washtenaw Community College Writing in Extraordinary Times--May? free webinar, tentative