From Number to Name

What is incarceration? What is freedom? What is forgiveness? Witness the culminating production of a writing and performance process exploring incarceration, undoing prison politics, and restorative justice in Asian Pacific Islander Communities. Laugh, cry and listen as this ensemble of performers share real stories from life on the inside while re-imagining the future of the criminal justice system and freedom for our communities.

Directed and devised by Kristina Wong featuring the formerly incarcerated members of API RISE, their families and supporters.

Each pay-what-you-will performance will take place live over Zoom and is followed by a Q&A with API RISE, a nonprofit organization that seeks to empower the Asian, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander American communities and specifically those individuals who have been impacted by the criminal justice system.

FROM NUMBER TO NAME is presented in partnership with API RISE and made possible with an Artist-in-Residence grant from the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs.⁠

From Number to Name Zoom Performance

BLACK AND API SOLIDARITY YOUTH MURAL PROJECT

Over this past summer (July - October, 2021), we received modest funding support from LA County (Human Relations Commission and the Office of Violence Prevention) for a Black and API YOUTH Solidarity Mural. Approximately six Black and six API youth met to learn about each other’s culture and history through workshops, sharing meals (from locally owned Black or API eateries, NO corporate or chain restaurants); and painting a Solidarity mural located at AADAP’s Youth and Family Program on Crenshaw Blvd, in the historic Crenshaw/Leimert Park district of South Central. In 2022, we plan to expand this program into other communities, to be determined after we gather input from mural team participants and API RISE members.