SOUND CHECK! THE MUSIC WE MAKE
October 15, 2023 through October 6, 2024 in the Special Exhibition Gallery at Wing Luke Museum
ABOUT THE EXHIBIT
Sound Check! The Music We Make
October 15, 2023 through October 6, 2024
Special Exhibition Gallery
This exhibition explores the role music has played in Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander lives & communities as an element of cultural heritage/identity, a form of personal/creative expression, a commercial industry, a connecting/healing force, and an integral part of thriving communities and culture.
The interactive exhibit includes behind the scenes-photos, framed artworks, podcasts, artifacts, storylines, audio, and video that feature AANHPI artists’ expressions of cultural identity.
Sound Check! The Music We Make reflects the Wing Luke Museum’s mission to highlight personal stories from while connecting the community to the dynamic history, cultures and art of AANHPI through vivid storytelling and inspiring experiences to advance racial and social equity.
MUSIC IN & BEYOND THE EXHIBIT
KEXP LISTENING
Listen to Eastern Echoes with Diana Ratsamee with guest Blake Nakatsu, Exhibit Developer for "Sound Check! The Music We Make"! on November 2, 2023 at 7PM
MORE SILENT DISCO
Tune in to the Giant Steps Jazz Show hosted by DJ John Pai which was featured during the Exhibit’s Opening reception
Mondays from 11 PM to 12 AM Pacific on KBCS
“Music connects us to our homelands and our ancestors and can be an entry point into the cultivation of new cultural identities. I hope that the exhibit, which features a broad range of performers in a diversity of musical genres, will give visitors a sense of how deeply AANHPI musicians have influenced and shaped the popular music canon” - Paul Kikuchi, contributing artist
Simon Tam, founder of the Slants, 2016. (Chinese American, pop/rock). Photo by Faina
Carly Ann Calbero at the National Women’s Music Festival, 2018. Photo by Janice Rickert
Franklin High School Jazz Lab at National Jazz Festival in Reno, NE, 1974. Courtesy of Chuck Chinn
Sunny Jain performing with Red Baraat. Photo by Wills Glasspiegel for NPR
IN THE NEWS
Listen, sing karaoke and dance at new Wing Luke Museum exhibition, KING 5, October 18, 2023
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EXHIBITION EVENTS
EXHIBIT OPENING CELEBRATION!
OCTOBER 14, 2023
Renew your Museum Membership today to guarantee an invite to this special exhibit celebration featuring a local QTBIPOC performers, live music, and tasty food!
MEMBERS GET FIRST LOOK
Becoming a Wing Luke Museum member grants you access to special member-only receptions, free admission, and early exhibition looks.
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