Songs That Raised Us ; Face (Part 1/2)

Drawing on native vernacular + formative music memory, we will peel off the distortion of saving Orientalized ‘face’, hear a case of moving national tradition toward modernity, and relink the diasporic time capsule to a family of language that brings vibrancy to soundbites of cultural difference.

This dual community music exchange and micro language lab may be of particular interest for heritage learners while all skill levels and heritage-curious are welcome!

Meet Our Instructor; Laura Ng

An interdisciplinary culture worker-sense maker and aspiring Canto diaspora, Laura Ng uses design inquiry and provocation to facilitate collective discovery.

Their Heritage Restoration practice reclaims assimilated genealogy in American/transnational movements toward a new relating—of opt-in—contributing research + editorials in Arts for America, CCA Design Is, and Getty Pacific Standard Time.

Her present interests involve the worldviews embodied in language and somatic currents of social signaling, principled on reconnection to cultural transmission as it is lived.

This is a virtual event, Zoom information will be emailed closer to the date of the event! This event will be two parts, with the second being on May 28th.