It's also for LA Asian American arts communities making a natural habitat in front of a church converted into a theater and arts center. Beautiful time-lapse photography of the June 5th Tuesday Night Cafe, from set-up to clean-up, by Ant Barrerra of Fistic Soul (a.k.a. long-time TNC sound engineer a.k.a. cool dad a.k.a. stylish downtown resident):
TNC still feels like home, though it's been nearly a year since I ran around as Stage Manager/Co-Producer. Such a magical, intimate space (intimacy and cliquey-ness can be mistaken for each other; when I first arrived, I observed it as the former and thought Cool, a place where people don't act like strangers and have obvious history/chemistry with one other).
Here is a terribly incomplete list of some of the folks currently making the magic happen and where they putter on the internet! Go look! I do. Often...maybe too often?
- Audrey Kuo
- Cara Van Le
- Quincy Surasmith
- Susan Diep
- traci kato-kiriyama
- Chris Hanh
- waxstyles
- Sean Miura
- Dustin Hamano
- Belinda Vong