Name: Stories for Oranges
Start: 2025-02-28T17:30:00-08:00
End: 2025-02-28T19:30:00-08:00
Location: On Waverly

Bring your friends and family to celebrate New Year through sharing stories at an Open Mic.
About this Event

Stories for Oranges, a New Year celebration. Bring your friends and family to celebrate New Year through sharing stories at an Open Mic, through crafts at the Kids Table, and to one other in our Parents Are Human Booth. Our goal is to capture stories from the people that make Chinatown what it is today. Videos, photos, and audio recordings will live in-store to be enjoyed for years to come.

The Open Mic topics are family, New Year, and our favorite things about our respective cultures. You can sign up at the event. Speakers will receive a lucky orange for their bravery and storytelling.
Special guest, longtime author and advocate, Shizue Seigel will kick off the open mic with a reading from her new book, Courting a Man Who Doesn't Talk.
The Kids Table will focus on our heroes. Who are they, and why do they inspire us? These answers will live on a family tree in our store.
The Parents Are Human booth will be a private space where you and your loved ones can talk about deeper topics through the Parents Are Human question game. You are welcome to record this for your own family history.

All ages welcome.–––This experience was designed by YUNNY STUDIOS in collaboration with the On Waverly team.About YUNNY STUDIOS:YUNNY STUDIOS is a local art and design studio run by Caroline Yunny Luu. Its mission is to create immersive experiences that allow people to heal, connect, and get wacky. Caroline is an artist and designer with a background in experience design, writing, and teaching. Follow YUNNY STUDIOS on Instagram to learn about future events https://www.instagram.com/yunnystudios/ . Learn more about Caroline at www.carolineluu.com.About Shizue Seigel:Shizue Seigel is a Japanese American writer, visual artist and arts activist who has supported 500+ writers and artists of color with workshops, events and publications since 2015 through herarts organization Write Now! SF Bay.Her nine books include books on the Japanese American experience and five Write Now! SF Bay anthologies.Her poetry, memoir and personal essays have been published in journals and anthologies such as Ginsoko, Porter Gulch Review, Colossus:Body, Memoir Magazine, Soundings East, Persimmon Tree, Away Journal, sPARKLE + bLINK, and others.