Date: Wednesday, May 14, 7-9pm, FREE
Location: SomArts Cultural Center, 934 Brannan Street (at 8th Street)
Moderator: Berin Golonu, Associate Curator, YBCA 
Panelists: TBA


The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery is pleased to present The Location of Identity, a panel discussion in conjunction our exhibition After the Revolution. The panel discussion is co-presented with the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center’s East of the West exhibition and their 11th Annual United States of Asian America Festival.


More information about the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center Events:
EAST OF THE WEST
Co-curated by Taraneh Hemami and Anuradha Vikram
May 1-24, 2008
SomArts Bay Gallery – 934 Brannan St.
Opening Night: Thursday May 1, 5-8:30pm

Artists: Taha Belal, Youmna Chlala, Ali Dadgar, Dina Danish, Osama Dawod, Ala Ebtekar, Amir Esfehani, Mitra Fabian, Hiba Kalachi, Bessma Khalaf, Taraneh Hemami, Nazanin Shenasa, Hadi Tabatabai, Taravat Talepasand, Nomi Talisman, Shadi Yousefian.

How can we understand a region as diverse and far-ranging as the Middle East? Curators Taraneh Hemami and Anuradha Vikram pose this question to a selection of artists with roots in the region and beyond, working in all visual arts media. Topics of particular concern include how to represent religious, ethnic and cultural diversity within an area of the world too often homogenized in discussions of current events; the roles and status of women and queer or transgendered persons within traditional cultures; and the changes to self-identification that immigration engenders.

The 11th Annual United States of Asian America Festival is a six-week celebration of the Silk Road Diaspora’s deeply influential artistic culture. Produced by the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center in conjunction with artists and San Francisco cultural institutions, this one-of-a-kind festival celebrates the creative voices and the diverse range of exemplary Asian Pacific Islander American artists that call the Bay Area home.