APAture 2024: Return | Film Showcase

Co-presented by Roxie Theater, Kultivate Labs Balay Kreative, and Oakland Asian Cultural Center

October 22, 2024 6:00 - 9:00PM PDT

$15 / $60 all access (comes with free t-shirt, drink tickets, and more!)

Featuring Jalena Keane-Lee with aka productions, Joyce Keokham, Elaine Nguyen, Sophia E. Perez, and Teao Sense

Curated by David Cao, Lehua Taitano

This film showcase features the works of Teao Sense, Sophia Perez, aka productions, Joyce Keokham, Elaine Nguyen, and featured artist Jalena Keane-Lee. These varied and poignant works explore cultural knowledge and belonging through a variety of different lenses: educational shows and music videos that foreground the lived experience of the AAPI diaspora, reflections on cultural belonging and embodiment, and a documentary that highlights Indigenous Hawaiians' righteous struggles for self-determination.

The theme for this year is RETURN. From the Palestinian right to return, the call for Indigenous Land Back, and the various migrant histories and struggle for justice in our Pacific Islander and Asian communities, artists consider  what the idea of return means to them.