Tue, Apr 29
|Knuth Hall, Creative Arts Building SFSU
ImprovisAsians! Festival 2025: GENERATIONS
A 3-day series of performances and panel that honor the spirit of cultural expression and collective action!
Time & Location
Apr 29, 2025, 12:00 PM – Apr 30, 2025, 9:00 PM
Knuth Hall, Creative Arts Building SFSU, San Francisco State University, Creative Arts, 1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco, CA 94132, USA
About the Event
Celebrate Community, History, and Music at the ImprovisAsians! Festival 2025
Asian Improv Arts, in collaboration with the Sound and Social Justice Commons and the School of Music's Creative Music Studies Program, invites you to a three-day series of performances and workshops that honor the spirit of cultural expression and collective action.
📅 Festival Dates:
April 29, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
April 30, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
May 1 2025 | 12:00 - 2:00 PM & 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
📍 Location: Knuth Hall, Creative Arts Building, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Ave., San Francisco, CA 94132
🎟️ Admission: Free and open to the public
Sponsors: School of Music, Asian Improv Arts
Contact: School of Music
📧 Email: music@sfsu.edu
📞 Phone: 415-338-7613
FULL SCHEDULE:
Tuesday, April 29 Knuth Hall, College of Creative Arts
12 pm - 1 pm Asian Improv Legacies: Panel Discussion
Dr. Hafez Modirzadeh and Francis Wong, MA: ImprovisAsians at SFSU 2003-present
Lenora Lee: Archive in Motion
1pm - 2pm Scott Oshiro (Deciphering Rhythms Collective): Performance
featuring Scott Oshiro (flute and electronics), Djean Vasciannie (drums), Katie Quan (visual art)
Wednesday, April 30
1-2pm: Karl Evangelista Group: Performance
Karl Evangelista Group featuring Karl Evangelista (guitar) Jordan Glenn (drums), Lisa Mezzacapa (bass), Francis Wong (saxophone)
.May 1st Thursday (Knuth)
12pm - 2pm Sounding Resolution!
Dahveed Behroozi (piano); Conrad Benedicto (Filipino kulintang); Ayla Davila (electric bass); Ken Filiano (bass); Nasim Gorgani (Kurdish daf, royal hartigan, drumset); Genny Lim (poetry); Sirvan Manhoobi (Kurdish Iranian Oud); Rebecca Rodriguez (Afro-Cuban percussion); Shahin Shahbazi (Persian tar); Tim Volpicella (guitar); Francis Wong and Hafez Modirzadeh (saxophone), SF State Chamber String Quintet.
7pm - 9pm That Was Now, This Is Then! How the Black Student Union & Black Arts Movements Changed Education Forever
Presented by Prof Mark Allan Davis (Africana Studies), SFSU Music Department, and Asian Improv aRts