Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Celebration (APIAHC) Calendar

Our ongoing blog series takes a look at Asian and Pacific Islander American folks and events, providing a highlight for different - often untold - experiences in our history. Posts will go out throughout the month of May on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.

Time: 10:00 a.m.

For more information, please visit https://apimedaatucsd.wordpress.com/.

Sponsored: APIMEDA Programs & Services

Come to the UCSD Women's Center to check out some of the library books we have related to Asian Pacific Islander American Heritage Month! They will be on display around the center, and they are available for checkout as well. Loan periods are three weeks, with two week renewal periods.

Time: 10:00 a.m. 

Location: UC San Diego Women's Center

For more information or questions please mail us at women@ucsd.edu, or find us on Instagram @ucsdwc!

Sponsored by: UC San Diego Women's Center

Join us as we come together, as collaborators, listeners, and friends to celebrate the vastly, culturally diverse Asian American and Pacific Islander experiences, creativity, and pop culture representations through films and discussions.

Time: 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.

Location: The Loft 

To reserve, please fill out https://forms.gle/VaMjgffFBwuU3tj69.

Sponsored by: PISA, APSA, Sangam SD, and The Loft

Come join us to celebrate the publication of the anthology Closer to Liberation: Pin[a/x]y Activism in Theory and Practice! Co-editors Amanda Solomon Amorao and DJ Kuttin Kandi will share the theoretical framework of the anthology and how the chapters illuminate the multiple pathways we can take in the name of Fiipina/x American feminism to get us all closer to liberation.

Time: 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Location: Sixth College Lodge

To RSVP ,please fill out https://forms.gle/8QUJ5qpZZdFYhzfd8.

Sponsored by: Thurgood Marshall College, Dimensions of Culture, History Department, AAPI Studies Program and APIMEDA Program

Please join us to celebrate the APIAH month and learn more about APIMEDA figures from our blod series, sharing our invisible histories.

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Location: Sixth College Lodge

Sponsored by: APIMEDA Programs & Services

Please join us for the 17th Annual Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Celebration and Scholarship Awards. This year's keynote speaker is Manny Crisostomo, Pulitzer Prize winning, multimedia photo journalist. Entertainment provided by UC San Diego's hip-hop dance group, KOTX.

Time: 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Location: Price Center West Ballroom

To reserve a table or purchase tickets, please contact apiahcelebration@ucsd.edu.

Sponsored by: Equity Diveristy and Inclusion office

Join us for an Artist Reception featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning CHamoru multimedia photojournalist, Manny Crisostomo. The photo series "Wayfinding: My Personal Pacifika" highlights methods of wayfinding of the islands of the Pacific and his life journey of cultural identity through photography . The gallery will be on display throughout Asian & Pacific Islander Heritage Month. During the Artist Reception Manny Crisostomo will share more about his journey and works. Light refreshments will be provided. 

Our quarterly Artist Reception features Pulitzer Prize-winning CHamoru multimedia photojournalist, Manny Crisostomo. The photo series "Wayfinding: My Personal Pacifika" highlights methods of wayfinding the islands of the Pacific and dance. Manny shares that photography has assisted his life journey of cultural identity and his work is a stunning display of the rich culture. During the Artist Reception Manny Crisostomo will share more about his journey and works. Light refreshments will be provided. 

The gallery will be on display throughout Asian & Pacific Islander Heritage Month. 

Time: 2:00-3:00pm

Location: Cross Cultural Center  

Sponsored by: CCC

Join us as we come together, as collaborators, listeners, and friends to celebrate the vastly, culturally diverse Asian American and Pacific Islander experiences, creativity, and pop culture representations through films and discussions.

Time: 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.

Location: Price Center Theater

To reserve, please fill out https://forms.gle/VaMjgffFBwuU3tj69.

Sponsored by: PISA, APSA, Sangam SD, and The Loft

Pianist and provocateur Connie Han has created an edgy blend of modern and traditional jazz with her incendiary Mack Avenue Records debut CRIME ZONE. At 26, this young lioness is on a fast-climbing trajectory to jazz stardom with rave reviews from the New York Times, Jazziz magazine, Downbeat magazine, and more. The New York Times describes her as “the rare musician with fearsome technical chops, a breadth of historical knowledge and enough originality to write tunes that absorb your ear easily.” Weaving in and out of the
tradition, Han pays tribute to McCoy Tyner, Mulgrew Miller, and Kenny Kirkland with her own unique edge and fire at the piano.

Time: 8:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

Location: The Loft

To learn more, please visit https://artpower.ucsd.edu/event/connie-han-trio/.

Sponsored by: ArtPower

In 1986, Professor Jim Lin taught the first course in Asian American Studies at UCSD. He obtained Academic Senate approval for a Minor in Asian American Studies in 1988 and this led to the creation of an Ethnic Studies Department in 1990. Dr. Lin will be discussing the hurdles he faced and why Asian American Studies is relevant today.

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Location: Sixth College Lodge

Sponsored by: APIMEDA Programs & Services, Generating and Reclaiming Our Wisdom (GROW), Asian Pacific Islander Student Alliance (APSA), OCA and OTTA

Activity: Ceramics, Block print and Mosaics (Smash Your Stress)
Special Focus: Uplifting Generations through the Spirit of Community

Time: 12:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Location: Craft Center

Sponsored by: PASA

Did you know that Pacific Islander students are among the smallest populations of students at UC San Diego? Learn more about our PI student popluation, including how to use data to find ways to improve their experience here.

Time: 12:00 p.m. - 12:50 p.m.

Location: Sixth College Lodge

Sponsored by:APIMEDA Programs & Services, Indigenous Futures Institute, Intertribal Resource Center

Join us as we come together, as collaborators, listeners, and friends to celebrate the vastly, culturally diverse Asian American and Pacific Islander experiences, creativity, and pop culture representations through films and discussions.

Time: 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.

Location: Price Center Theater

To RSVP, please fill out https://forms.gle/VaMjgffFBwuU3tj69.

Sponsored by: PISA, APSA, Sangam SD, and The Loft

Come together with fellow staff to read, discuss, and learn from & with each other. This month's read is Crying in HMart by Michelle Zauner.

Time: 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Location: Cross-Cultural Center

To RSVP, please fill out tinyurl.com/cccbeyondthepages.

For more information, please visit https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTeMzYH4Ghp2A9Q1zVuQ-TLme7v3IfhZw4ZadOK62MEjxmEdt2l-yEqc33ACNSPB-gRkmCnY9XkbHDw/pub

 Sponsored by: CCC

Travel back in time with harpsichordist and UC San Diego lecturer Takae Ohnishi as she teams up with friends from the San Diego Symphony to revel in the joys of a springtime evening in the Baroque era. It is certain to be a lighthearted evening filled with virtuosic performances of some of the great works written for the harpsichord.

Time: 8:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

Location: Department of Music's Conrad Prebys Concert Hall

To learn more, please visit https://artpower.ucsd.edu/event/takae-ohnishi-2023/.

Sponsored by: ArtPower

Join the APIAH Committee for a fun Lei Making class with Adrianne Neves, Kumu of the Huapala Sweetheart Dancers! Refreshments will be provided! Materials fee: $20

Time: 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Location: Booker Conf. Suite, Jacobs Hall, 2nd Floor

To RSVP, please contact Chelsea Largoza via email clargoza@eng.ucsd.edu 

Sponsored by: APIAH Committee

Join us as we come together, as collaborators, listeners, and friends to celebrate the vastly, culturally diverse Asian American and Pacific Islander experiences, creativity, and pop culture representations through films and discussions.

Time: 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.

Location: Price Center Theater

To reserve, please fill out https://forms.gle/VaMjgffFBwuU3tj69.

Sponsored by: PISA, APSA, Sangam SD, and The Loft

This staff facing event aims to educate professional staff on the vast umbrella that is "API(meda)", a non-monolithic community with connecting intersections as well as unique differences. Provost K. Wayne Yang will be presenting a condensed version of his keynote at last years inaugural "Symposium on Enhancing the Experiences of Students of Asian, Pacific Islander, and Middle Eastern Descent" will be presented at Triton Time - a Student Affairs professional development space. As UC San Diego has just received its designation as an Asian and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution (AANAPISI), there is value in colleagues gaining a deep understanding of the population of students we currently serve.

Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Location: ZOOM

For more information, please visit https://vcsa.ucsd.edu/staff/professional-development/triton-time.html.

Sponsored by: Triton Time

Join us at a book launch party!

Time: 1:00 p.m.

Location: UCSD Bookstore

Sponsored by: Bookstore

Join us as we come together, as collaborators, listeners, and friends to celebrate the vastly, culturally diverse Asian American and Pacific Islander experiences, creativity, and pop culture representations through films and discussions.

Time: 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.

Location: The Loft

To reserve, please fill out https://forms.gle/VaMjgffFBwuU3tj69.

Sponsored by: PISA, APSA, Sangam SD, and The Loft

Time: 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Location: Harland Brewing One Paseo

RSVP at https://forms.gle/Yn979U9XrgHdzqci7

Sponsored by: PASA