Open process with de Young Artist Fellow Lenora Lee – beginning May 1st
Lenora Lee
The Escape and Rescued Memories: New York Stories
Presented with Asian Improv aRts, Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center, Chinese Historical Society of America Museum, and Donaldina Cameron House
The Escape and Rescued Memories: New York Stories are interdisciplinary companion performance pieces inspired by stories of women who had become vulnerable upon arrival into the U.S. during the early 20th Century. The pieces seek to shed light on the experiences of these women in the context of the social history of the period for the Chinese in America as well as for women in the society as a whole with the struggles and achievements of the 20th Century Women’s Movement, which took on such issues as child labor and human trafficking. Throughout the year, Lenora Lee and an ensemble of artists will develop these two new pieces, which will be presented as works in progress and final productions throughout her yearlong fellowship.
By Lenora Lee Dance
With Kei Lunch Martial Arts and Enshin Karate, South San Francisco Dojo
Featuring media design by Olivia Ting, music by Francis Wong, text by poet Genny Lim, lighting by Patty-Ann Farrell, and videography directed by Tatsu Aoki, filmed by Ben Estabrook, Eric Koziol, and Heath Orchard
RELATED EVENTS
May 1 – June 2, 2013 | Wednesdays–Sundays, 1-5 pm plus Friday Nights until 8:45 pm | Kimball Education Gallery/Artist Studio
Open process rehearsals by Lenora Lee Dance
Friday, May 10 | 6 pm | Kimball Education Gallery
Open rehearsal and panel discussion of The Escape with representatives from Cameron House, Asian Women’s Shelter, and Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach
Saturday, May 11 | Kimball Education Gallery
Poem and etching activity based on the Angel Island Immigration Station experience, hosted by the Chinese Historical Society of America Museum
Friday, May 17 | 7 pm | Koret Auditorium
Live performance by composer Francis Wong, Miyoshi Sketches, and Lenora Lee Dance, excerpt from The Escape
Friday, May 31 | 6-8 pm | Kimball Education Gallery
Artist Reception and Lion dance by Kei Lun Martial Arts
November 8 and 9 | 7 pm | The Escape and Rescued Memories: New York Stories. Ticket info tba.
Kimball Gallery, de Young Museum
Golden Gate Park
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive • San Francisco, CA 94118
For more info http://deyoung.famsf.org/
All events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise stated. Space is limited and first come, first served.
For more information, visit deyoungmuseum.org/artistfellows, call 415-750-3531, or e-mail amartin@famsf.org. Join us on Facebook and Twitter: de Young museum.
The Artist Fellows program is generously funded by The James Irvine Foundation’s Innovation Fund and the Institute of Museum and Library Services/Museums for America. Additional support is from Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University, Asian Women Giving Circle, California Arts Council, CA$H, a grants program administered by Theatre Bay Area in partnership with Dancers’ Group, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, San Francisco Arts Commission, WKK Donor-Advised Fund of the San Francisco Foundation, and Zellerbach Family Foundation.
Thank you also to our community partners: Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation, Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach, Asian Women’s Shelter, Enshin Karate, South San Francisco Dojo, Kei Lun Martial Arts, New York Asian Women’s Center, and San Francisco Department on the Status of Women.
