Tickets for tours are available on Eventbrite, unless otherwise stated. AAAS 2024 – Seattle Tours Anida Yoeu Ali: Hybrid Skin, Mythical Presence (Seattle Art Museum) Guided Tour + Refreshments Sunday, April 28, 2024 10 am – 1pm RSVP: https://bit.ly/49FkmpI Seattle Asian Art Museum South Gallery 1400 E Prospect St, Seattle, WA 98112 Post-Tour chat will take place in the Alvord Board Room. Capacity: 25 Persons Transportation: Attendees are kindly advised to arrange their own transportation to and from the museum. Please join us for a guided exhibition tour with Jose Diaz, Susan Brotman Deputy Director, and Tacoma-based artist Anida Yoeu Ali. The tour will be followed with an opportunity to speak with the artist, conference scholars and curators while enjoying light refreshments. In her work, Ali enacts fantastic mythical heroines as assertions of feminist, queer, and alternative visibilities. These personas are hybrids of different religious aesthetics to disrupt ideas around otherness. Her performances are invitations for viewers to wander, witness, and joyfully experience moments that transcend the ordinary. Central to many of her performances is her use of textiles, a practice rooted in her Cham-Muslim refugee migration experience—her family fled Cambodia with only the clothes on their backs. This exhibition explores two of Ali’s iconic performances: The Buddhist Bug and The Red Chador. A creation myth sprung from her interest in transcendence, humor, and spiritual turmoil, The Buddhist Bug features a huge saffron-colored creature that Ali activates in performance. Responding to a global rise of Islamophobia, misogyny, and racism, The Red Chador is an ongoing series of silent public interventions and documented performances that challenge perceptions and fears of the “other.” On view in the galleries will be artworks that extend the performative moment and Ali’s presence into video, photography, and installation. This tour is free with museum admission. Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. Seattle’s Chinatown-International District- Guided Tour Head Guide: Rahul K. Gupta, Director of Education and Tours, Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience Friday, April 26, 1-2:30 p.m. Cost: $20 per person Limit: 25 persons. Meeting Location: Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience (Theater) 719 South King St. Seattle, WA 98104 Transportation: Participants are kindly advised to arrange their own transportation to and from the museum. Light rail (International District/Chinatown station) will take you to within easy walking distance of the museum. Description: In an ever-changing neighborhood, Seattle’s Chinatown-International District offers a chance to understand the relationship between ethnic communities and their environments, including the challenges of early immigrants to build and transform their surroundings. Through Nihonmachi, Chinatown and Little Saigon, we will explore the stories of migrant laborers, founding businesses, women leaders, political activists, innovative artists and musicians, and more. The tour will include stops at Canton Alley, Eastern Hotel (with Cindy Domingo), Chiyo’s Garden, NP Hotel, Massage Parlor Outreach Project (with Ching-In Chen), and Hing Hay Park. Volunteer Park and Lakeview Cemetery – Guided Tour Head Guide: Connie So, American Ethnic Studies, University of Washington Cost: Shared transportation to Capitol Hill and admission tickets (optional) to the Seattle Asian Art Museum and the Conservatory. Thursday, April 25, 3-4:30 p.m. Limit: 25 persons. Cost: $20 per person Meeting Location: Lobby of the Sheraton Grand Seattle 1400 6th Ave Seattle, WA 98101 Transportation: Connie So will update registrants on the mode of transportation (bus or shared rides). Description: The tour will begin at Volunteer Park, created originally in “honor” of the volunteers for the Spanish-American War. While the placard honoring the veterans is gone, the sites nearby are significant in their own right. We will begin at the Seattle Asian Art Museum, which holds historical and contemporary artworks from China, Korea, Japan, India, the Himalayas, and Southeast Asia. We will then stop by Isamu Noguchi’s “Black (Hole) Sun” sculpture made famous by the local Seattle grunge band, Soundgarden, and the Conservatory. We will conclude the tour at Lakeview Cemetery, Seattle’s number one tourist destination where Bruce Lee and Brandon Lee are buried. Notably, April is the month of Qing Ming aka Tomb Sweeping Day (April 4, 2024). As we visit Lakeview Cemetery, we will see many flowers decorating the graves of the Chinese, Koreans, Vietnamese, Mien, among other Asian American groups. Along with Bruce and Brandon Lee, Lakeview Cemetery is the final resting place of Goon Dip (Chinese American pioneer, entrepreneur, and Chinese Consul to Seattle), Princess Angeline (daughter of Chief Sealth), the Denny Party (credited with Anglo settlement of Seattle), among other prominent Seattleites. University of Washington Seattle Campus – Guided Tour Head Guide: Connie So, American Ethnic Studies, University of Washington Saturday, April 27, 1-2:30 p.m. Cost: $10 Additional Cost: Public transportation to UW and admission fee to the Burke Museum (optional). Limit: 25 persons. Meeting Location: Lobby of the Sheraton Grand Seattle 1400 6th Ave Seattle, WA 98101 Transportation: Participants will meet in the hotel lobby and walk to take light rail to the UW campus. Connie So and UW students will lead a tour of the University of Washington, including stops at: Ethnic Cultural Center Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Husky Union Building, featuring artwork “Bruce Lee Ascending,” Odegaard Undergraduate Library Henry Art Gallery Husky Football Stadium and the waterfront. Tacoma Nihongo Gakko to Northwest Detention Center: Remembrance & Resistance Sunday, April 28, 2024, 1pm – 3pm PT Meet at the Japanese Language School Memorial S 17th Street and Pacific Avenue Tacoma, WA Cost: $15 Transportation is not provided Join Tsuru for Solidarity and La Resistencia on Sunday, April 28, for a Remembrance Program and Resistance March from the Nihongo Gakko Memorial to Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) tracing a path of removal and resistance from past to present. The Nihongo Gakko (Japanese Language School) served a thriving Japanese community in Tacoma until WWII, when the U.S. government ordered the removal of all Japanese Americans on the West Coast to detention camps. A memorial to Nihongo Gakko and this sad history was dedicated on the site in 2014. Since 2004, Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) has used NWDC, just one mile north of the Nihongo Gakko Memorial, as a detention camp for migrants awaiting removal orders. #FreeThemAll https://www.tacoma.uw.edu/news/remembering-tacomas-nihongo-gakko Home About La Resistencia A Radical Walking Tour of Seattle’s International District/Chinatown Through a walking tour of neighborhood landmarks, learn how Seattle’s Asian communities have organized to resist violence, state repression, labor exploitation, and gentrification over the course of the city’s history. Tour participants will receive a copy of A Radical Walking Tour of Seattle’s International District, a booklet published by Seattle’s Left Bank Books ( https://leftbankbooks.com/ ), collectively run since 1973. Location: Meet outside Hood Famous Cafe + Bar, 504 5th Ave S #107a, Seattle, WA 98104 Transportation: Participants are kindly advised to arrange their own transportation to and from the tour. Light rail (International District/Chinatown station) is a convenient option. Day and Time and Length: TBD, 2 hours in length Cost: 35 Numerical Limit: 25 Filipino American National Historical Society (FANHS) National Pinoy Archives Guided Tour Head Guide: Emily P. Lawsin, 4Culture Historic Preservation Program Manager and FANHS National President Emerita Day and Time: Friday, April 26, 2024, 11:30 AM to 1PM (90 minutes in length) Brief Description: Meet and eat merienda/snacks with the 92-year-old Founder/Executive Director of the Filipino American National Historical Society (FANHS), Dr. Dorothy Laigo Cordova, plus National Treasurer, Maria Batayola, National President Emerita Emily P. Lawsin, and other local volunteers, as you tour the FANHS National Office and National Pinoy Archives (NPA), located on the basement level of the historic Immaculate Conception School in the Central District of Seattle. Since its founding in 1982, through its all-volunteer-run National Office, archives, Museum, biennial conferences, Filipino American History Month observances, Journal, and 43 chapters across the country, FANHS collects, preserves, and shares historical records of Filipino Americans, including primary resource materials such as newspaper and magazine clippings, publications, research reports, oral history interviews, photographs, political signs, and more. (Since the pandemic, FANHS is open by appointment and masks are encouraged.) Learn more about FANHS at www.fanhs-national.org or follow FANHS National on Facebook or Instagram: @fanhs_national. Tour Location: Filipino American National Historical Society (FANHS), in the historic Immaculate Conception School Building, 810 18th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122. Ring the front doorbell to enter and take stairs to the basement level. (Please contact Emily Lawsin (206) 477-3110 by April 19 if you require an accessible entrance or have severe food allergies.) Transportation: Participants are kindly advised to arrange their own transportation to and from Filipino American National Historical Society (FANHS), 810 18th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122. (King County Metro Buses #2 and #3 stop three blocks from FANHS. Or to share a taxi or ride, you can meet each other outside the Sheraton Lobby Entrance and leave by 11:15 AM.) Cost: $30 per person (includes merienda/light refreshments) Limit: 25 persons.
