About this Event
MEET KRISTINA WONG IN PERSON at the OC Film Fiesta in Santa Ana on Sat., Oct. 17 @ 4:30pm at 1666 N Main in Santa Ana! Tickets and info at www.ocilfmfiesta.org.
Meet the acclaimed and extremely funny writer, performer and Pulitzer Prize finalist at Media Arts Santa Ana's TVGB Digital Arts Space, located at 1666 N Main in Santa Ana, at 17th St across from Norms and conveniently close to the 17th St exit off the 5 freeway in Santa Ana!
4:30pm - Booksigning, Auntie Kristina's Guide to Asian American Activism - FREE!
5pm - Documentary Screening, The Auntie Sewing Squad Resistance Playbook - Orange Count Premiere!
THE AUNTIE SEWING SQUAD RESISTANCE PLAYBOOK is a feature-length documentary that follows the Auntie Sewing Squad, a collective of mostly BIPOC women volunteers who saved the world at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
At the start of the COVID-19 crisis in March 2020 in the U.S., due to the Trump administration’s botched response to the pandemic, the bottom dropped out of the surgical facemask supply as healthcare workers scrambled for PPE.
From this chaos the Auntie Sewing Squad emerged, when performance artist Kristina Wong created the Auntie Sewing Squad facebook group in mid-March 2020.
ABOUT KRISTINA WONG
Kristina Wong is a Doris Duke Artist Award winner, Guggenheim Fellow and the first Asian American woman to be named Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Drama. She’s a performance artist, comedian, actor, writer and former elected official who has been presented across North America and internationally. Notable solo shows include: Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Going Green the Wong Way, The Wong Street Journal, and Kristina Wong for Public Office.
Her role in accidentally starting the Auntie Sewing Squad, a national mutual aid mask sewing network during the Covid-19 pandemic, was the subject Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord— a New York Times Critics Pick that premiered off-Broadway at New York Theater Workshop. That show was the 2022 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Drama and winner of the Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Solo Performance.
Event venue & nearby stays
TVGB's, 1666 N Main, Santa Ana, United States
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