In this episode, we bring you a conversation with Hoi Leung, the Deputy Director of the Chinese Culture Center. Hoi oversees the internal culture, programs and operations of the organization. Leung was born in Hong Kong and immigrated to the US in 2004. Previously, Leung was the Curator at CCC for 4 years, where she established a distinct practice specializing in Asian diasporic contemporary art, developing emerging artists, and designing community engagement in immigrant neighborhood settings. Leung is an emerging leader in the field as she devotes her unique background in artist support and community curation into building a healthy, sustainable, and imaginative arts ecosystem.

Transmission Studio is a series of intimate conversations with the independent artists and community-based organizations living and working within the vibrant, complicated and ever-evolving ecosystem of San Francisco arts and culture. It aspires to inform, inspire and more importantly spark meaningful and critical dialogue on the state of the artists who remain committed to this city in spite of unprecedented social, economic and political challenges.

Watch Transmission Studio on SF COMMONS every 2nd and 4th Thursday at SFC.TV

SF COMMONS is the home of public access TV in San Francisco, broadcasting live from our state-of-the-art studio. We offer our services to help you develop the skills to create broadcast-ready content. Interested in producing your own how? Find out more at https://www.sfc.tv

Credits:

• Transmission Studio is produced by SF Commons x BAVC Media

• Executive Producer: Andy Kawanami

• Producers: Javan Jiles, Isa Nakazawa

• Host: Isa Nakazawa

• Editor: Javan Jiles

• Design & Animation: Katherine Pertuso

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COMMUNITY PRACTICE with Connie Zheng

In this episode, we bring you a conversation with Connie Zheng, a Chinese-born artist, writer and filmmaker based out of xučyun / Oakland, California. Connie is a former Artist-in-Residence at 41 Ross - The Chinese Culture Center’s exchange platform for emerging API artists to develop work and expand on community-based practices located in SF’s Chinatown. Projects such as large-scale maps, speculative seed exchanges, seed-making workshops, and experimental films are strategies for navigating diasporic memory, the continued weight of history and the possibilities for collective imagining amidst ongoing and future ecological transformations.

Transmission Studio is a series of intimate conversations with the independent artists and community-based organizations living and working within the vibrant, complicated and ever-evolving ecosystem of San Francisco arts and culture. It aspires to inform, inspire and more importantly spark meaningful and critical dialogue on the state of the artists who remain committed to this city in spite of unprecedented social, economic and political challenges.

Watch Transmission Studio on SF COMMONS every 2nd and 4th Thursday at SFC.TV

SF COMMONS is the home of public access TV in San Francisco, broadcasting live from our state-of-the-art studio. We offer our services to help you develop the skills to create broadcast-ready content. Interested in producing your own how? Find out more at https://www.sfc.tv

Credits:

• Transmission Studio is produced by SF Commons x BAVC Media

• Executive Producer: Andy Kawanami

• Producers: Javan Jiles, Isa Nakazawa

• Host: Isa Nakazawa

• Editor: Javan Jiles

• Design & Animation: Katherine Pertuso

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CREATING CULTURE NOT CAREERS with Family Not A Group Part 2

In this episode, we are brought part two of our conversation with 3 additional members of Family Not A Group, an SF-based artist collective “bringing communal healing from the stoop to the world!” boasting an impressive roster of 17 local artists, rappers, comedians, producers, filmmakers and more reflecting the beauty, grit and heart of the city. We learn about FNG’s organic origin story and see San Francisco through the eyes of artists who were born and raised on its soil.

Transmission Studio is a series of intimate conversations with the independent artists and community-based organizations living and working within the vibrant, complicated and ever-evolving ecosystem of San Francisco arts and culture. It aspires to inform, inspire and more importantly spark meaningful and critical dialogue on the state of the artists who remain committed to this city in spite of unprecedented social, economic and political challenges.

Watch Transmission Studio on SF COMMONS every 2nd and 4th Thursday at SFC.TV

SF COMMONS is the home of public access TV in San Francisco, broadcasting live from our state-of-the-art studio. We offer our services to help you develop the skills to create broadcast-ready content. Interested in producing your own how? Find out more at https://www.sfc.tv

Credits:

• Transmission Studio is produced by SF Commons x BAVC Media

• Executive Producer: Andy Kawanami

• Producers: Javan Jiles, Isa Nakazawa

• Host: Isa Nakazawa

• Editor: Javan Jiles

• Design & Animation: Katherine Pertuso

Follow BAVC Media for updates:

• https://www.facebook.com/bavcmedia

• https://www.instagram.com/bavcmedia

• https://www.twitter.com/bavcmedia

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