Outdoor Showcase Performance - Nu Tekno and DJ YUKA YU

USAAF 2026 Event - In Partnership with Sunset Night Market!

Yuka Yu will DJ and play the Chinese flute and have a digeridoo player accompanying her. She will also display her video art in the background that represents a blend of Asian and Western culture. API communities use DJ and musical performances as powerful vehicles for community care and gathering. API DJs create spaces where traditional music from various Asian and Pacific Islander cultures gets woven together with contemporary genres like hip-hop, house, and electronic music. These sets become celebrations of cultural complexity – combining Chinese and western instruments layered over modern beats. This musical fusion reflects the lived experience of API communities navigating multiple cultural identities. Musical performances become community care through their emphasis on collective healing. DJ Yuka Yu incorporates Chinese traditional flute and Australian digeridoo into electronic sets. Dance floors become spaces for processing trauma and stress, where community members can release tension through movement while being held by familiar sounds and rhythms from their cultures. LGBTQ+ API communities use DJ performances to create affirming spaces that center their specific experiences. This includes events like queer API dance parties, drag performances that blend traditional cultural elements with contemporary queer expression, and DJ sets that celebrate queer API artists who might be marginalized in both mainstream and traditional API spaces. Many API traditions understand healing as inherently relational and intergenerational - not something that happens in isolation but through connection to ancestors, community, and cultural practices that have sustained survival across generations.

// Photo by Holoface