Paula Te designs and builds interfaces at the intersection of learning, crafting, and culture. She specializes in hybrid digital-physical artifacts and environments that explore alternative visions of the future. Her practice centers community and people from diverse backgrounds, welcoming folks to co-create and contribute their vision of the future, allowing for multiplicities of experiences to unfold.

Paula built a platform named Collaboratura as an Instigator Fellow for the San Francisco Opera (2022-2023) to explore tools for creative collaboration across disciplines in the creative arts. She was previously a design researcher at Dynamicland (2015-2019), investigating a new computational medium woven into physical space. Her work on digital fabrication and interfaces has been featured in Ars Electronica, SIGCHI Interaction Design & Children and Eyeo Festival.

A believer of bridging cross-cultural connection through sustainable community craft, she was a Dinacon Node Leader in Sri Lanka (2022) and facilitated the creation of a recycling machine that turns plastic waste into raw material for new products (2022). Her mini-zine on decolonization has been published in the Interwoven: Black/Asian Solidarities Zine (2022). Born to Indonesian-Chinese immigrants in the US, Paula currently resides in Duwamish, Seattle, Washington state. Visit paulate.com for more info.

Edward Gunawan is a storytelling artist and cultural producer whose multimedia projects and community work meditates upon themes of displacement and (be)longing, healing and intimacy, kinship and citizenship within the contexts of post-colonial queer transnationality.

A queer immigrant from Indonesia and of Chinese heritage, Edward is the author of chapbooks The Way Back (winner of Start a Riot! Prize, Foglifter Press, 2022) and Press Play (Sweet Lit, 2020), and has completed over 25 feature and short films as writer, producer, actor, and/or director. Their last two producing projects—How to Win at Checkers (Every Time) and By the Time It Gets Dark—premiered in Berlin and Locarno respectively, and were both honored as Thailand's Best Foreign Language Film entries for the Academy Awards. Edward served as the Featured Film Artist at Kearny Street Workshop’s 2021 APAture multi-disciplinary arts festival, and their work has been published in TriQuarterly, Aquifer, and The Town anthology (Nomadic Press, 2023), amongst others.

Now residing on Ohlone land in Oakland, Edward is the founder and lead organizer of HOME MADE @ ARTogether—a series of literary arts gatherings that connects, cultivates, and celebrates the stories and storytellers of immigrant and refugee backgrounds in the Bay Area. They also curate and facilitate community gatherings such as “Stories of Marin” mental health storytelling workshop for National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI) Marin County and “Press Play: Exhibition” at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center to normalize and destigmatize mental health conversations—for which, they have received support from California Arts Council, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, City of Oakland Cultural Funding Program, and East Bay Community Foundation. Visit addword.com for more info.

APICC proudly presents the annual United States of Asian America Festival (USAAF), showcasing diverse artistic works in music, dance, film, visual art and more from API artists throughout San Francisco.

The Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center’s (APICC) mission is to support and present multidisciplinary art reflective of the unique experiences of Asian Pacific Islanders living in the United States.

APICC was founded in 1996 by representatives of five nonprofit arts groups: Asian American Dance Performances, First Voice, Asian Improv aRts, the Asian American Theater Company, and Kearny Street Workshop. Since 1998, the center has promoted the artistic and organizational growth of San Francisco’s API arts community by organizing and presenting the annual United States of Asian America Festival as well as commissioning contemporary art for and by the Asian American and Pacific Islander community.

HOME MADE @ ARTogether is an intimate literary arts gatherings that connect, cultivate, and celebrate the stories and storytellers from immigrant and refugee communities