To our KPB Community –
One of the many things that we value most about our work and relationship with you is our ability to speak freely and be transparent. As many of you (particularly) in the humanities / arts / social service world know, our arts community is facing devastating funding cuts, which is forcing us to amend programming and to consider some structural changes within KPB.
At the moment we are heartbroken to share that we’ve had to cancel our planned spring season, which includes our world premiere of NERO at Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater and public sharing of our Weaving Histories conversation series.
As a vital part of our community, we will keep you posted about our world and how we see the most healthy ways to weather the fiscal crises that so many of us are facing. And if there are ways we can be of support to you, please let us know.
Most warmly,
Jess Applebaum
Board Member of Kyoung’s Pacific Beat
Past Events
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Community Cares – All Together NowNovember 14, 2023 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. |
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OTHER NO MORE – ReadingDecember 8th, 2023 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. |
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NERO – Act 2 Rough-Cut ScreeningFebruary 1, 2024 NERO-Act 2 Rough-Cut Screening will feature a screening of KPB’s new work-in-progress, NERO, followed by a panel examining the innovations in hybrid theater and pandemic art with Diep Tran (Editor, Playbill), Juan Michael Porter (HIV Advocate, Culture Critic), Theresa Buchheister (Artistic Director, The Exponential Festival) and Kyoung H. Park (NERO playwright/director). |