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Latest Past Events

To Heal Concert | Kylyn APIA Arts & Culture Festival

Ann Arbor District Library 343 S. Fifth Street, Ann Arbor

Join us for a safe, restorative, and inclusive afternoon concert of music and song, poetry and prose readings, and ambient electronic soundscapes in honor of AAPI Heritage Month. The concert will feature APIA artists Kioto Aoki, Naomi Columna, Zosette Guir, Zilka Joseph, Haruhi Kobayashi, Kyunghee Kim, and Sherina Rodriguez Sharpe.

Here/Now Concert | Kylyn APIA Arts & Culture Festival

Ann Arbor District Library 343 S. Fifth Street, Ann Arbor

​Join us for a concert celebrating the art of collaborative electro-acoustic improvisatory music featuring a remarkable line-up of APIA musicians across the Midwest for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, including artists Kioto Aoki, Naomi Columna, Haruhi Kobayashi, Kenji Lee, Chien-An Yuan, and Julie Zhu.

Imperial Moods: Mid-Century Music and the Cold War | Kylyn APIA Arts & Culture Festival

Ann Arbor District Library 343 S. Fifth Street, Ann Arbor

The Kylyn APIA Arts & Culture Festival hosts a talk and Q&A with actor and comedian Manan Desai. Desai's presentation explores U.S. media representations of the Third World, the global bloc of decolonizing nations in Asia and Africa during the Cold War, through the development of the mid-century music genre known as Exotica.