Tuesday Night Project

01/26/2021

The Park's Finest

Support The Park's Finest a core part of our community!

We’ve missed hanging out together as a community. The COVID-19 crisis has been hard on many fronts for all of us. As we traversed and adjusted to the current situation, we also make efforts and strides to keep the most positive and impactful components of the past moving forward. This includes protecting our elders, encouraging and supporting the drive and initiative of the youth, and maintaining our space that can provide safety, support, and comfort for our neighborhood and the greater community.

We’re excited to announce that @Vans is lending a hand during these challenging times. As one of the small business partners for the Vans Foot the Bill Program, we designed a shoe with @MabuhayMassive, a family-operated design team that loves to skate and draw together.

Our intergenerational, collaborative design with Mabuhay Massive embraces and personifies The Park’s Finest style, values, and culture. Drawing inspiration from an Ilokano textile motif, the diamonds depict the watchful and protective eyes of the ancestors behind messages of “ingat” (take care) and “serve the people” with a range of characters that make up and build community. The anting-anting in the Philippines are talismans that provide protection for the wearer. The shoes carry images, phrases, and symbols that convey care and protection coupled with LA visuals that exemplify the spirit of The Park’s Finest.

For every #VansCustoms shoe purchased with our design in this limited release of 500 pairs, the net proceeds support us in continuing the Feed the Frontliners Project to provide hot catered meals to LA County healthcare workers during this painstaking time.

Thank you, Vans and Steve Van Doren, for the opportunity and for your example of a Southern California family institution that’s looking out for us independent, small businesses.

Visit the link in our bio for our exclusive release with Vans.

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https://www.vans.com/footthebill?partner=parks-finest

01/07/2021

South Asian Writers Resists - Thursday, January 21. An incredible line-up of South Asian writers present readings that respond to urgent global issues. This reading — held eighteen months after the Indian government stripped the province of Kashmir of its special status and just one day after the transfer of power in the US — will create space for writers to forge connections across local and global borders.

Featuring Tanzila “Taz” Ahmed, Neelanjana Banerjee, Torsa Ghosal, Arshia Haq, Sorayya Khan, Mahmud Rahman, Shreerekha Subramanian, and hosted by Sehba Sarwar.

Presented by Beyond Baroque supported in part by Poets & Writers, and co-presented by the Los Angeles Poet Society, Tia Chucha Press, and Tuesday Night Project. Tickets below.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/south-asian-writers-resist-tickets-133012270281

12/08/2020

Japanese American National Museum

As winter settles in, we will be writing letters of compassion and support to those currently incarcerated in Otay Mesa Detention Center in Southern California and spending some time in personal reflection. Prompts will be provided by special guests and Traci Akemi Kato-kiriyama, former Little Tokyo +LAB Artist-in-Residence at Japanese American National Museum . Make yourself a cup of tea, get comfortable, and join us online for this interactive monthly program! All ages are welcome to participate.

This program will take place on Wednesday, December 9 at 6 PM PST. RSVP with the link below!

Gather with us in the comfort of your own home to share tea and conversation! As winter settles in, we will be writing letters of compassion and support to those currently incarcerated in Otay Mesa Detention Center in Southern California and spending some time in personal reflection. Prompts will be...

11/11/2020

The Ford

Just in case you missed our LIVE show with The Ford, catch up here: https://fb.watch/1H5KMrjdMW/.

Thank you again to all our viewers and folx who made this program happen! Sean Miura Traci Akemi Kato-kiriyama Johneric Concordia Jenny Yang, Comic/Writer Tanzila Ahmed Sunday Jump Common Ground Palms Up Academy

Join Tuesday Night Project (TNP) for a showcase of Asian American creative expression and discussion about their multigenerational, intersectional approach to art and community. The festival includes a look back at the history of TNP’s flagship program, Tuesday Night Café. For more than 20 years based in Little Tokyo, Tuesday Night Café has provided a space for artists of Asian and Pacific Islander descent to express themselves through hip-hop dance, improv comedy, spoken word, music, the visual arts, and more. Happening Tuesday, Novemeber 10, at 6:30pm PT. #StateofLA #TheFord

10/29/2020

Join us on Tuesday, Nov. 10 at 6:30pm for Not Just The Asian Night, part of @thefordla digital programing series, State of LA! We’ll take a look back at our history of multigenerational, intersectional approach to art and community. Free to attend! Click here for more details: http://bit.ly/Promo_TNP

09/28/2020

Our friend Chiwan Choi is starting a column in the Cultural Weekly called “The Next Gen” for younger writers who have writer parents and grandparents!
If you are a writer and your children are interested, please email {chiwanchoi at gmail.com} to learn more about the opportunity!

08/25/2020

Don’t forget to complete the #2020Census today! Though this survey is not yet one that accurately captures our identities, it still affects our communities in numerous ways (such as social services!).

Online: https://www.2020census.gov
Phone: (844) 330-2020

All answers are confidential and protected by law; it only takes a few minutes to be counted and shape the next 10 years. #CensusWeek

08/20/2020

Come join us for a quick talk on what's happening with the different artists and cultural organizations of Little Tokyo as part of Nisei Week!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN8UPoAZ7Qs
https://www.facebook.com/EWPlayers/live

06/17/2020

Support Black Lives Matter - Los Angeles and local bakers, including our friends The Park's Finest, THIS SATURDAY at their bake sale fundraiser! Pre-orders are going quickly! Pick up at HiFi Kitchen.

06/09/2020

Events | Japanese American National Museum

Reach out to loved ones who may be feeling most vulnerable or isolated during tomorrow's Tea and Letter Writing in partnership with JANM.

For more details: https://www.facebook.com/events/2785475331739175/
FREE. RSVP here: http://www.janm.org/events/#10

During these tea & letter writing sessions, we are taking time to reach out to those we love who are the most vulnerable or isolated in this time. This session we are focusing especially on queer and trans people of color who are currently incarcerated. We will also provide time for creative reflect...

06/09/2020

Letters for Black Lives

Here are some potentially helpful letters, translated to multiple languages, in getting the conversation started with your families about Black Lives Matter!
https://lettersforblacklives.com/

An Open Letter Project on Anti-Blackness.

05/29/2020

**DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JUNE 12th, 2020!**

We’re still accepting creative proposals centered around “art+community” for our first TN Zine! We want to see your poetry, essays, illustrations, recipes, letters, self-portraits, and more. Use your creative voice and tell us how community grounds, inspires, and educates you. Open to artists of all different experience levels, who work in different mediums. We encourage collaboration on pieces, as well!

Submit your proposal at our submission form here http://www.tuesdaynightproject.org/TNZine2020

05/29/2020

Tuesday Night Project

**DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JUNE 12th, 2020!**

We’re still accepting creative proposals centered around “art+community” for our first TN Zine! We want to see your poetry, essays, illustrations, recipes, letters, self-portraits, and more. Use your creative voice and tell us how community grounds, inspires, and educates you. Open to artists of all different experience levels, who work in different mediums. We encourage collaboration on pieces, as well!

Submit your proposal at our submission form here http://www.tuesdaynightproject.org/TNZine2020

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05/26/2020

We're highlighting some of our amazing donors over the past year!

Connie K. Lim, better known by her stage name MILCK, has been a long time community member and occasional featured artist at Tuesday Night Cafe. From her first feature at TNC, she has come into her own voice, leading to the critical acclaim of her song “Quiet” during the 2017 Women’s March. The track landed at No. 2 on NPR’s Year in Music list and was featured as part of NPR’s American Anthem series.

Her music calls for the self-reflection, healing, and change that speak to the hopeful parts of us. As a gesture of gratitude and reverence to the movement, MILCK started the #ICANTKEEPQUIET fund to benefit nonprofits that are working tirelessly to collaborate with underrepresented communities with the goal of amplifying their unique voices. We have been fortunate to be one of only 3 organizations that MILCK has chosen to receive a portion of the proceeds.

Our relationship has grown over the years, and with her dedication and commitment through many seasons of TNC we have been able to create a space for all our artists to thrive. Alongside many others in the TNP network of artists, she has gone above and beyond with her support of our fundraising efforts and fellow artists. We consider her a part of the TN Family for life, as we do so with anyone that joins our community, We are grateful for her partnership and the above-and-beyond support she gives to us and so many! Thank you, MILCK!

Listen to her EP, Into Gold (https://tinyurl.com/y9ocrqcz), an ode to those who have gone from survivor to thriver, If I Ruled the World (Stripped) (https://tinyurl.com/ydaoocfu), and Gold (Stripped) (https://tinyurl.com/y7lkjxk9), produced by MILCK and Wayne Miller.

05/02/2020

TN Zine, a zine by Tuesday Night Project, is now accepting submission proposals for works encompassing the theme of “art+community”.

We are interested in artists of all different experience levels, who work in different mediums. We seek your poetry, essays, illustrations, recipes, letters, self-portraits, and more. Using your creative voice, share with us how community grounds, inspires, and educates you. We encourage collaboration on pieces, as well.

To submit your proposals, please fill out our submission form at https://www/tinyURL.com/TNZine2020.
Submissions will be open until May 31.

05/02/2020

Today on Bandcamp, 100% of the profits are going to the artists! Support TNC artists and treat yourself to some great music! https://bit.ly/2VSyOHC

04/18/2020

Japanese American Cultural & Community Center - JACCC and Sustainable Little Tokyo present Little Tokyo Little Podcast! Stretch with Rajio Taiso, hear the seasons changing through haiku poems, listen to music from local musicians, and hear cute local news! There will be new episodes every other week in English, Japanese, Korean or Spanish. The first episode features TN family members and a special message from George Takei! Visit the SLT website to listen online or via phone.

Website: http://sustainablelittletokyo.org/projects/little-podcast

04/16/2020

Hollis Wong-Wear

Hollis Wong-Wear X TNP Brunch livestream this Sunday 4/19 at 11AM PDT featuring special guest TNP director/artist/organizer Traci Akemi Kato-kiriyama, James Choi of Cafe Dulce, musician Shinkawasaki and actor Keiko Agena to support Go Little Tokyo's Community Feeding Community Fund providing relief for LA’s Little Tokyo hospitality workers and small businesses!

Watch on YouTube Live this Sunday! https://youtu.be/E8SBA8DSDHs

powering up w @tnproject for brunch with Little Tokyo’s all stars 🌟 we’ll be supporting @golittletokyo’s Community Feeding Community Fund providing relief for LA’s Little Tokyo hospitality workers and small businesses. Really hype to do brunch with these powerhouses: dyanmite artist/organizer @traciakemi1, prolific musician @shinkawasaki, iconic actor @keikoagena & James Choi of @cafedulcela, home to my FAVORITE baked goods 🤤 Tuesday Night Cafe was one of my first solo live performances and I felt so encouraged and held by the community they’ve gathered; it’s an honor to hold space for a neighborhood that truly needs our help during this time. ♥️ (and big shouts to @seanmiura for being the glue as always!!! real aapis know!! Lol)

04/16/2020

Thank you to everyone who joined in last night’s edition of Tea & Letter Writing! Special shout outs for the support of site partner JANM and our own TNTalks initiative.

We had a wonderful turnout and letters are on their way in - destinations include seniors in resident housing in Little Tokyo and folks currently detained at Otay Mesa Detention Center.

Please feel free to join us again for our next Tea & Letter Writing on Wednesday, May 6, 6:00 PM -7:45 PM!

04/08/2020

Tonight would have been the first show of our 22nd season of Tuesday Night Cafe. We were excited to kick off the year together. We're sad that we can't share space with you all, but we continue to be inspired by all of you who are stepping up in this moment. We aren't going quiet though. Keep watching this space. We'll be back together again soon.

In the meantime, check out this photo essay by Rino Kodama of Visual Communications, documenting our 2019 season: https://vcmedia.org/latest-news/rino-kodama-and-tnc

03/26/2020

TNP COVID-19 Response and Update

To our Tuesday Night Project family,

For the past two decades, we have been grateful to hold space for our communities and our city. By coming together through community partnerships, long-term artist support, and especially our flagship Tuesday Night Cafe series, we’ve found comfort in gathering and a sense of togetherness through hard times.

As we are all experiencing now, the world has changed drastically over the past few months. Though circumstances are shifting every day, our number one priority as an organization has always been to guard the safety and health of our community. With “safer at home” orders expected to continue and to do our part in flattening the curve by keeping spatial distance from each other, we have decided to postpone the 2020 Tuesday Night Cafe season indefinitely.

Read our full statement here: tuesdaynightproject.org

To our Tuesday Night Project family, For the past two decades, we have been grateful to hold space for our communities and our city. By coming together through community partnerships, long-term artist support, and especially our flagship Tuesday Night Cafe series, we’ve found comfort in gathering ...

03/26/2020

Family Style: An AAPI Food Anthology by Cynthia Yuan Cheng

Family Style: An AAPI Food Anthology is now available online! 🥘

Pay what you want, all donations go to a mutual aid fund run by Asian Americans for Housing Justice to support the Los Angeles AsAm community affected by COVID-19.

https://cynthiaycheng.itch.io/family-style-zine

44-page anthology publication by Asian and Asian American and Pacific Islander creators

03/26/2020

Our neighbors in Little Tokyo need your help! Several businesses are still offering takeout/delivery/gift cards; every purchase will help them through this difficult time!

03/23/2020

Check out Not a Cult's online, donation-based creative workshops this week at http://notacult.media/events:

• 3/23 @ 7p | Close (writing workshop) with Edwin Bodney
• 3/25 @ 2p | Self Development in a Time of Isolation (training) with TN Fam beau sia
• 3/25 @ 7p | To The Bloom (writing workshop) with Yesika Salgado
• 3/27 @ 2p | The Hauntings and Celebrations of the Homeland through poetic narratives (writing workshop) with Karla Cordero

03/19/2020

Hello! Consider making an order soon for pickup from The Park's Finest - They’re doing everything they can to take care of their employees and community. Time to give back in any way we can. Thank you Johneric, Christine, Ann, Mike and the whole team for ALWAYS being there for us and feeding everyone who comes through TNC to perform, volunteer and produce. Be sure to support them supporting the community!

03/16/2020

When all the cancellations and postponements began raining in with the storm last Thursday, we realized quickly that no one would be attending our Tea & Letter Writing event at the Japanese American National Museum. Our team moved swiftly and held a a session anyway, inviting folks to join us via Zoom for a virtual gathering of tea drinking, anxiety-lifting conversation, and letter writing hosted by Traci Akemi Kato-kiriyama, Mya Worrell and Lauren Moon.

Stay tuned for our next virtual session - coming soon! (Thank you Linn and Kady for letting us post your lovely faces!)

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Tea & Letter Writing was developed in traci's +LAB Residency last summer in Little Tokyo. JANM is a site partner and the event is now supported by TNP's TNTalks initiative.