Cinematic SF, API Cultural Center’s premiere film program, will be previewing and speaking with filmmakers who highlight the Bay Area’s most underserved and underrepresented communities.

With the steadily increasing fear of displacement, many artists ask, what is our role and how can we both make space and retain the ones we currently occupy?

Beginning in May, USAAF will be showcasing Aesthetic Blitz (Asian American Women Artists Association) and Waves of the Past (College of Ethnic Studies at SF State).  As products of a few of San Francisco’s long-standing arts and culture programs, they encapture how we see ourselves as people and as artists.

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Drawing on parallels between the displacement of the working-class in San Francisco and the indigenous communities in Mindanao, the second largest island in the Philippines, San Francisco to Salupongan, a multi-disciplinary arts exhibition, will showcase work commenting on their mirrored experiences, highlighting their struggle and resistance.

Preview and download a full copy of the USAAF 2016 Calendar Program

Check out all of our events for the 19th Annual United States of Asian America Festival: Civil Dis(place)ment!

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