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Locus Arts is an all-volunteer organization of Asian American artists and arts supporters dedicated to promoting community and consciousness through the arts. We are currently incorporated and under the fiscal sponsorship of Asian Improv aRts. Locus Arts is a space that showcases the music, theatre, performing, literary and visual arts of the Asian Pacific American community. We believe in: pan APA artists and inclusive audiences, a community supporting artists and the artists supporting a community, a physical space for creative collaboration and face-to-face connection. Locus Arts seeks to nurture and cultivate young emerging APA artists by providing a physical space to develop, rehearse, perform and display their works. How Locus began As a result of their efforts, the initiative of Julia Kim and the generosity of Henry Kim, Locus came to be, in the form of a performance space at Korea House Restaurant (1640 Post St in Japantown), in a time when the availability of arts spaces was scarce. Over the next three years, Locus presented
an amazing amount of quality programming, spanning from emerging
local artists such as Teri Untalan and 8th Wonder to artists who
came across the country and around the world such as Beijing's punk
rock band Reflector and I Was Born With Two Tongues. But most importantly,
Locus became a place for APA artists and audiences to call home. ******************************** Sign up for our email list and receive news about upcoming shows by emailing us@locusarts.org with "Subscribe to list" as subject of the email. ********************************
New York City-born and bred technologist Glenda Bautista arrived in the Bay Area in 2003, on a road paved with pixels. She has been writing, designing, and developing her website, Agendacide.com since 1998, and publishing zines since she was 10-years-old. More recently, she has launched a videoblog at glenda.wordpress.com. Her column "Bi-Coastal Disorder" also appears in the Chicago-based webzine Negative Waves. Glenda is a current Co-Director of Locus Arts, and is a product manager and ad systems architect by profession. She has specialized in online media and search taxonomies for most of her career at companies such as news media titan McClatchy Company, online ad giant DoubleClick, and blog search start-up Technorati. In her online past lives, she's also been a web developer and web designer. As a writer, journalist and artist by education, her personal and professional mission is to fuse art and science through the creation of both media and technologies. Brandon Bigelow is a guitar player and has volunteered and helped cultivate music and the sound arts in the Asian American community for ten years. He's been lead sound engineer for the annual PinoisePop music festival for nine years and a volunteer recording engineer and sound designer for Bindlestiff Studio, Jeproks Productions, various bands, spoken word artists, DJs and of course Locus Arts. Brandon brings to the table his years of community building through the love of music.
Samantha Chanse is a writer & performer who moved to the bay area in 2001 and has been bitching about the weather ever since. she's been a member of the fairly sinister crew of locus co-directors since 2001, & is the artistic director of another sf-based api arts nonprofit, kearny street workshop. she performs standup comedy in & around sf, engages in playwrighting & other theater activities, & does music stuffs with the band formerly known as bantercut. a native new yorker with a knack for public humiliation, she finds the sf bay area frightfully yet compellingly incestuous, and is involved in a lovehate relationship with her cyberdominion, whiskeyandacigarette.org. if you question her claim to a dot org address, samanthachanse.com works too. Glenn Fajardo is a social entrepreneurship-y person by day and the dynamic bassist of the alternative rock band Lumaya by night. Glenn's bass playing style has been described as "punchy," "funky," and "dirty," though he disagrees with those characterizations... except for maybe the last one. Mostly self-taught on bass, Glenn formally studied cello and piano for 10 years each. He is on a constant search for unexpected combinations and creations that groove, flow, and resonate. Formally trained in nuclear engineering sciences and public policy analysis, Glenn does neither now. He is a former president of the Young Filipino Professional Association and a strong believer in building effective networks in a variety of arenas. Glenn was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and was raised in Florida. In his spare time, he enjoys cooking. Carolyn Thuy Linh Tran is a young,
angry woman trying to make a difference. She is currently a student
at SF State, where she hopes to finish her degrees in Asian American
Studies and Human Sexuality before the Governor "terminates"
the CSU system. When she's not volunteering at community functions,
you can find her providing non-judgmental information about sex
and human sexuality to the country with San Francisco Sex Information.
Locus Program Committee: Kenni Camota is a musician, community arts supporter, sound technician and is addicted with being on the internet as much as possible. Formerly of the bands, Recipe and Ethereality (both have performed at Locus, Recipe performed the first year of Locus), Kenni plays saxophone. When not performing, he has also worked for numerous theaters and bands, writing and arranging music. Kenni likes sitting in parking lots and just watching people. He also makes an awesome lumpia -sorry only for meat eaters. You'll recognize him at Locus events because he always dresses like it's summer.
James Espinas is a big fan of Locus Arts and the supportive
environment it creates for emerging artists. He's a filmmaker who
recently completed his first documentary, Bloodlines: A Medical
Mission to Iloilo, Philippines. The film is currently making
its way to film festivals and college campuses. Nowadays, he uses
his documentary-style filmmaking to help tell compelling stories
of nonprofit organizations such as Global Nomad Group and RYLA (Rotary
International). He also plays bass for BanterCut Strategy. Born
and raised in the Bay Area, James never plans to leave but does
hope to travel to the all corners of our shrinking world. A San Francisco native, Julia Kim and her father Henry, owner
of Korea House, collaborated to start Locus in 2000. She received
her BFA in Textiles from the Rhode Island School of Design and is
currently getting her masters at CCAC in Visual Criticism.
Jane Kim is a community organizer
at the Chinatown Community Development Center directing their youth
empowerment and leadership program serving Asian American high school
youth in SF. She also serves on the Asian American Theater Company
board and the Women's Foundation's Community Action Grant Committee.
Jane also helped to coordinate the first two years of Third Thursdays.
She originally hails from New York City (where she went to school
with Sam).
Annie Koh really really really likes
Spam (the kind that comes in a can). She helped start Locus and
Hyphen Magazine, an Asian American news and culture magazine. Since
her arrival in the Bay Area, Annie has worked at a dot com, Kearny
Street Workshop, the Asian Pacific Fund, an Asian American Foundation,
and a toy store. She wrote a chapter in the book "How to Get Stupid
White Men Out Of Office" and right now is on tour with the League
of Pissed Off Voters to promote political engagement by young people
and communities of color.
Diana Lee works in Public Relations
at Yahoo! and has volunteered as the Publicity Director for Locus
for the last three and a half years. She is an appreciator of all
things art (well most things people call art) and volunteers with
kids and art to keep her soul happy. She has a penchant for puns
and is always up for a good game of Taboo. She grew up in the San
Gabriel Valley (aka suburban Chinatown) and went to UCLA. She is
also on the College Trak committee for East Bay Habitat for Humanity.
Marilyn Yu is an insidious cultural
worker undermining the society of the United States, living and
working in San Francisco. She makes three-dimensional things, costumes,
clothing (www.plutoniumclothing.com), and cartoons, among other
things. As a member of the SF art community Marilyn is a co-founder
of Locus, a board member of Kearny Street Workshop, and an employee
at the Galerķa de la Raza.
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