Panel: Strong Like Bamboo 3 (Part 2)

Please join us for inspiring stories and songs to nourish your soul in these trying times. Performed by professional tellers from Chicago and the Bay area, by Hapa, LGBT and elders, as an audience member you will also have the chance in small groups to share your experiences and concerns about the racist acts being perpetrated against people of color. 

Building allyship and community across all ethnicities is critical at this time and we hope Strong Like Bamboo will be a place for you to experience inspiration, camaraderie, comfort, connection and the power of sharing and being heard in our communities.

A partnership between Eth-Noh-Tec and the Chinese Center of San Francisco Public Library. 

Eth-Noh-Tec, an AsianAmerican kinetic storytelling non-profit founded in 1981 by Nancy Wang and Robert KIkuchi-Yngojo, has gained international recognition through their unique and awarded interdisciplinary style of storytelling. ENT is known for their repertoire of 200+ ancient pan-Asian folktales as well as for their contemporary personal and family historical stories.

Participant Bios

Archy Jamjun is the curator of Outspoken LGBTQ stories at Sidetrack. He is a storyteller, stand up, and teaches in Chicago. He has performed at the Sierra Storytelling Festival, been featured at the NSN conference and for The Moth.

Eleanor Clement-Glass is a Filipina-African American storyteller specializing in folktales and personal family stories from her Black and Filipino cultures, performing for the SF Asian Art Museum, conferences and concerts.

Lillian Shoji is an Asian American artist and performer currently residing in Chicago, IL. Since she was young she's held the belief that art is what nurtures our ability to witness and deeply know the joy, beauty, and heart of the world around us. Through spoken language and physical articulation, she is currently exploring the connections that lie within the everlasting need for identity and honesty.

Nancy Wang, playwright, director, actor, dancer, and project manager of Eth-Noh-Tec draws on her background in modern and ethnic dance, theater and playwriting.

Robert Kikuchi-Yngojo, composer, creative consultant, multi-media graphic designer and storyteller began composing and performing songs celebrating vanishing towns and heroes of Asian America in 1977.