2023-2024 Season

Kyoung’s Pacific Beat announces its inaugural season highlighting “Community Safety, Community Cares.”

Our New Devised Works and Community Co-Lab programs will offer a hybrid season, featuring both live and virtual events including:

A public reading of OTHER NO MORE in Brooklyn
A rough-cut screening of NERO – Act II at The Exponential Festival
The World Premiere of NERO at Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater in the Bronx
~~Whiteness~~ on Fire and Weaving Histories via Zoom

KPB’s 2023-2024 season centers radical hospitality and a pay-what-you-can ticketing scale.

Our full season announcement is available on Broadwayworld.com.

Membership

Become a Member by making a donation of $150 here. KPB Members will receive:

Two tickets for our live and virtual offerings (except our Virtual Gala)
Reserved seating for our live events
Invitations to Members-only gatherings
Quarterly updates on KPB activities

Upcoming Events

OTHER NO MORE – Reading

December 8th, 2023
6:30-8:30pm
ART/NY’s Great Room
138 South Oxford Street
Brooklyn, NY 11217
RSVP for Free Tickets HERE

OTHER NO MORE is a docudrama based on NYC-based queer elders of color who lobbied the US Surgeon General to disaggregate Asian-Americans and Native Americans from the “Other” box in the US Census to address the healthcare needs of BIPOC LGBQT+ communities during the HIV/AIDS crisis.

OTHER NO MORE will be a verbatim play featuring interviews from prominent organizers including Suki Terada Ports, Johnny Monzon-Santos, Gil Gerald, Curtis Harris-Davia, Joo-Hyun Kang, Cara Page, John Chin and more.

NERO – Act 2 Rough-Cut Screening

January 2024
The Exponential Festival
The Brick Aux
Stay Tuned for More Details!

NERO-Act 2 Rough-Cut Screening will feature a screening of KPB’s new work-in-progress, NERO, followed by a panel with Theresa Buchheister (Founding Artistic Director, The Exponential Festival), Kyoung H. Park (NERO playwright/director), and diverse theater critics examining the innovations in hybrid theater and pandemic art.

Past Events

Whiteness on Fire

September 21, 2023
7:00pm-8:30pm EST
Zoom

Celebrating the UN International Day of Peace, KPB launches its inaugural 2023-2024 season with a virtual gathering. When abolishing racialized, gendered, and homophobic violence – where are we now?

Whiteness on Fire – Where Are We Now? is a continuation of KPB’s virtual series launched September 2020 to address white supremacy. This event will be facilitated by Ishmael Thaahir and Joe Tolbert (Producing Director and Board Member, Kyoung’s Pacific Beat) and feature guest speakers Mohamed Q. Amin (Founder & Executive Director, Caribbean Equality Project), Joo-Hyun Kang (Former Executive Director, Communities United for Police Reform), Derrick Leon (Executive Director, Asians Fighting Injustice) and Rohan Zhou-Lee (Founder, The Blasian March).

Community Cares – All Together Now

November 14, 2023
6:30pm-8:30pm EST
Zoom

Community Cares: All Together Now is KPB’s bi-annual virtual gala, honoring KPB Board Member Tiffany Vega-Gibson and Theater Advocate Arnaldo J. López, with Special Guests Raquel Almazan (Board President, IndieSpace) and Maria Lopez de Leon (National Artistic Advisory Council, NEA).

Facilitated as a stakeholder meeting between KPB artists, community partners, staff, Board, and funders, Community Cares is an opportunity for our community to name the pressing needs we wish to tackle through the work of Kyoung’s Pacific Beat. We hope our community will rally once more to radically imagine our collective future.