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ChuanFest – An AAPI Contemporary Performance Festival @ Manhattan

July 9 @ 5:30 pm - July 10 @ 10:30 pm EDT
$29 – $70

ChuanFest is a four-day performance festival featuring AAPI and immigrant artists across poetry, movement, performance, and installation.  Six shows, one durational installation, one performance ritual, one poetry workshop, one community party, four days, two venues.

ChuanFest is an AAPI interdisciplinary performance festival organized by the award-winning in-version ensemble. The Festival, spanning four days (July 9–July 12), has six main shows alongside an interactive installation, a prelude poetry workshop, and a community gathering with food-making, across two venues in the East Village and Astoria, Queens.

Lineup

Program A (Day 1 and Day 3):

  • HAMLETMACHINE (Performance, Movement) by ZIWEI子维
  • Before it Hurts (Movement, Poetry) by Jillian Faye Garibaldi & Cerulean long
  • I am that I am (Choreopoem) by Hung Ha with opening After the Burning (Performance) by Wisteria Deng

Program B (Day 2 and Day 4):

  • Study of Skin (Lecture Performance) by Jane Jian Su
  • Even Monkeys Fall From Trees (Solo Performance, Theater) by Stella Oh
  • SeekSaw (Performance) by Jieru Wang

Free Programs:

  • Vanishing 4.0 – Recollection (Durational Performance, Interactive Installation): Day 1–4 throughout the festival
  • Vanishing 2.0 – Community Gathering (Food sharing & network event): Day 3
  • To the Other Shore (Poetry Workshop): June 28 at Accent Sisters Union Square

 

Details

Event RSVP Website:
https://in-versionensemble.com/chuanfest-2026/
Start:
July 9 @ 5:30 pm EDT
End:
July 10 @ 10:30 pm EDT
Cost:
$29 – $70
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