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46 N Los Robles Ave, Pasadena, California 91101
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/performancepam-american-dreamsasian-nightmares-tickets-423595133447Join the USC Pacific Asia Museum for a sonic exploration of the Asian American experience, and its many beautiful contradictions.
This performance is a follow-up to the 2021 theatrical podcast Blood on Gold Mountain, which gained national recognition for its portrayal of the 1871 LA Chinatown Massacre.
American Dreams/Asian Nightmares engages with Anti-Asian violence and rhetoric from the inside out. The three-part program combines Asian and American music traditions, Data Sonification and Anti-Colonial performance art to break down barriers of Race and Nationality, and spark new dialogues about what it means and how it feels to be Asian-American.
National Endowment of the Arts Award performance
This program is free. Reservations are required.
More about the performers:
In addition to being international performers, Dr. Hao Huang is a four-time USIA Artistic Ambassador emeritus to Europe, Africa and the Middle East; Micah Huang is a former Fulbright Fellow to the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest Hungary; Emma Claire Gies was an artistic in residence in Wairapa, New Zealand. They have produced the nationally rnaked podcast series “Blood on Gold Mountain;” performed the UCLA Chancellor’s Arts Initiative award event in the El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument park; performed at the Chinese American museum of LA, sponsored by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation program.
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