AAPI Artists Self-Care Workshop with Ginger Klee
A Collaboration of The Umbrella Stage Company and Asian American Playwright Collective
May 28, 7PM EDT
In the face of rising anti-Asian racism and violence, this workshop led by Ginger Klee MS, LMFT, LPCC focuses on mental health and self-care for members of the extended Asian American and Pacific Islander theater community in Greater Boston.
As part of its AAPI Heritage Month programming, The Umbrella Arts Center is proud to partner with the Asian American Playwright Collective to offer a Zoom-based, 90-minute workshop offering safe discussion and practical strategies for dealing with racialized trauma. The session will be moderated by Michelle Aguillon and Hortense Gerardo (AAPC), Stewart Ikeda (The Umbrella Stage Company), and Sarah Shin (Asian American Theater Artists of Boston). This meeting will not be recorded.
FREE, but registering in advance is required HERE.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
ABOUT GINGER KLEE
Ginger Klee MS, LMFT, LPCC (GingerKlee.com) is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor based in Los Alamitos, CA. A multiethnic, Korean and White practitioner herself, Klee’s areas of specialization encompass treating trauma and acculturative stress, as well as issues related to sexuality, gender, and being multiethnic, BIPOC, Asian, and LGBTQ+. She treats individuals and families through a Feminist, culturally humble lens.
ABOUT THE MODERATORS
Michelle Aguillon (she/hers) is a Filipino-American, Asian & Pacific Islander. She has worked in Boston-area theatre for more than 25 years as a director, actor and producer. Directing credits at The Umbrella Stage Company include Fences, The Joy Luck Club, Disgraced, To Kill a Mockingbird, True West. Elsewhere: Augusta and Noble (Emerson Theater), Vietgone (Company One), Sylvia (Theatre Uncorked, Calderwood), Proof (The Nora, Central Square Theater); also Rabbit Hole, Marjorie Prime, Pillowman, Kimberly Akimbo, Looking for Normal, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Of Mice and Men, Clybourne Park, and G.R. Point. Current projects include The Boston Resilience Project: East Boston, Nos Vemos (SpeakEasy Theatre) and The Walking Plays: Chinatown Gates to Dewey Square (Lyric Stage Co), The Mountaintop (Lexington Players at the Monaco World Theater Festival), The 4th Annual Asian American Playwright Collective PlayFest (AAPC) at Starlight Theater this Fall. She currently serves on StageSource as VP of the Executive Board and for the Board of Directors at the New Rep Theatre Company. She also Co-Chairs the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Task Force for the Eastern Massachusetts Association of Community Theaters (EMACT). Michelle is currently the Executive Director of the Creative Arts School, which has been providing music, theatre, and art programs in Reading, MA since 1978.
Dr. Hortense Gerardo is a playwright, filmmaker, and anthropologist, and serves as the Director of the Anthropology, Performance, and Technology (APT) program at the University of California, San Diego. Her works have been performed nationally and internationally, including: LaMama Experimental Theatre, the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in Boston, the International Performance Art Festival, the Venice Biennale, and the Nuit Blanche International Festival in Toronto. For more information go to: www.hortensegerardo.com
Sarah Shin (she/her/hers) is a Korean American director/performer/producer. Recent directing credits: Final Conctact (Central Square Theater), A Very Herrera Holiday by Alexis Scheer (New Repertory Theater), The First Pineapple And Other Folktales by Micah Rosegrant (Central Square Theater). More Collaborative Endeavors/Friends: Endlings (NYTW), Moby Dick (ART), Something Else: A Love Cycle (BU), My H8 Letter 2 The Gr8 American Theatre by Diana Oh (The Public EWG, Ma-Yi/AYE DEFY), ZAPI Artists, MCC Theater, Sparkhaven Theatre, Company One Theatre. Asian American Theatre Artists of Boston (AATAB) Co-Founding Member, API Arts Network Steering Committee Member, StageSource Board Member, and Boston Playwrights’ Theatre Advisory Board Member. She is currently in virtual residence at Asian American Arts Alliance. Equitable & Inclusive Representation, Community, Music, Joy, Food. BFA Theatre Arts Boston University. www.sarah-shin.com IG: @shinnysarah
Stewart Ikeda (he pronouns) is Director of Marketing & Strategic Communications at The Umbrella Arts Center in Concord, MA. In addition to decades of marketing and communications experience in industries ranging from publishing and recruitment to education and travel, he is an experienced editor, author, and public speaker with an education in the performing and literary arts. A hapa yonsei -- multiracial, fourth-generation Japanese American and European American -- he is author of What the Scarecrow Said, a novel of the Japanese American immigration, internment, and relocation experience. He taught Asian American Studies at Boston College, and the Universities of Michigan-Ann Arbor and Wisconsin-Madison; and was vice president of the multicultural publishing company, IMDiversity. He lives in Arlington, where he co-chairs the Town Commission for Arts & Culture.
This project is made possible in part by a LAB Grant to AAPC from The Boston Foundation.
