EASTWIND EVENTS 2025
EASTWIND EVENTS 2025
Saturday. Feb 1, 2025 11am-4pm. Celebrating Lunar New Years and Black History Month. Oakland Asian Cultural Center. For more information, go to www.oacc.cc.
Wednesday. Feb 5, 2025. 5:30pm-7:30pm. Ethnic Studies Library (30 Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley). Sponsored by ES Library and Eastwind Books. Book Talk with Bianca Mabute-Louie on her book: Unassimilable: An Asian Diasporic Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century. Bianca Mabute-Louie, a Chinese American who was raised in the San Gabriel Valley will be in conversation with author-activist Michelle Mijung Lee (Wake Up: Closing the Gap Between Good Intentions and Real Change). Samoan poet-author Terisa Siagatonu (We the Gathered Heat: Asian American and Pacific Islander Poetry, Performance, and Spoken Word) will open the event space with poetry. Refreshments provided.
Friday. Feb 7, 2025. 5pm-7pm. International House Auditorium, UC Berkeley. Author Hua Hsu will introduce his book: Stay True, a memoir. HUA HSU is a staff writer at The New Yorker and a professor of Literature at Bard College. His book is a coming of age memoir that includes lessons from his Taiwanese American father, his attending UC Berkeley at the age of 18, and becoming politically and socially conscious. Admission Free. RSVP
Sunday. Feb 23, 2025 1pm-3pm. ARTogether (1200 Harrison St, Oakland, CA 94612). Sponsored by Eastwind Books. Poetry Reading & Report From Wadi Foquin (West Bank Palestine). Poetry by Genny Lim. Slide show and panel discussion by Rev. Michael Yoshii. https://www.friendsofwadifoquin.com/
Saturday. Mar 1, 2025 2pm-4pm. Oakland Asian Cultural Center. Book talk with local chef David Tu Phu on his book: The Memory of Taste: Vietnamese American Recipes from Phú Quoc, Oakland, and the Spaces Between [A Cookbook]
Thursday. Apr 24, 2025. Location and time to be decided. Sponsored by the Journalism School, UC Berkeley. Book sales by Eastwind Books. William Gee Wong will be in conversation with Bruce Koon. They will be discussing William Gee Wong’s new book: Sons of Chinatown: A Memoir Rooted in China and America. Both William Gee Wong and Bruce Koon graduated from UC Berkeley in Journalism and were chief editors of the Daily Californian. Refreshments provided.
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Eastwind Books Multicultural Services (EBMS) is a 501(3)c non-profit dedicated to the promotion and accessibility of Asian American and Ethnic Multicultural Literature. EBMS is the community education arm of Eastwind Books of Berkeley which is comprised of a dedicated staff of booksellers, artists, poets, and community workers. Our events are for educational purposes and we appreciate your tax-deductible donations and continued support. Visit us at www.asiabookcenter.com.
Saturday. Feb 1, 2025 11am-4pm. Celebrating Lunar New Years and Black History Month. Oakland Asian Cultural Center. For more information, go to www.oacc.cc.
Wednesday. Feb 5, 2025. 5:30pm-7:30pm. Ethnic Studies Library (30 Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley). Sponsored by ES Library and Eastwind Books. Book Talk with Bianca Mabute-Louie on her book: Unassimilable: An Asian Diasporic Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century. Bianca Mabute-Louie, a Chinese American who was raised in the San Gabriel Valley will be in conversation with author-activist Michelle Mijung Lee (Wake Up: Closing the Gap Between Good Intentions and Real Change). Samoan poet-author Terisa Siagatonu (We the Gathered Heat: Asian American and Pacific Islander Poetry, Performance, and Spoken Word) will open the event space with poetry. Refreshments provided.
Friday. Feb 7, 2025. 5pm-7pm. International House Auditorium, UC Berkeley. Author Hua Hsu will introduce his book: Stay True, a memoir. HUA HSU is a staff writer at The New Yorker and a professor of Literature at Bard College. His book is a coming of age memoir that includes lessons from his Taiwanese American father, his attending UC Berkeley at the age of 18, and becoming politically and socially conscious. Admission Free. RSVP
Sunday. Feb 23, 2025 1pm-3pm. ARTogether (1200 Harrison St, Oakland, CA 94612). Sponsored by Eastwind Books. Poetry Reading & Report From Wadi Foquin (West Bank Palestine). Poetry by Genny Lim. Slide show and panel discussion by Rev. Michael Yoshii. https://www.friendsofwadifoquin.com/
Saturday. Mar 1, 2025 2pm-4pm. Oakland Asian Cultural Center. Book talk with local chef David Tu Phu on his book: The Memory of Taste: Vietnamese American Recipes from Phú Quoc, Oakland, and the Spaces Between [A Cookbook]
Thursday. Apr 24, 2025. Location and time to be decided. Sponsored by the Journalism School, UC Berkeley. Book sales by Eastwind Books. William Gee Wong will be in conversation with Bruce Koon. They will be discussing William Gee Wong’s new book: Sons of Chinatown: A Memoir Rooted in China and America. Both William Gee Wong and Bruce Koon graduated from UC Berkeley in Journalism and were chief editors of the Daily Californian. Refreshments provided.
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Eastwind Books Multicultural Services (EBMS) is a 501(3)c non-profit dedicated to the promotion and accessibility of Asian American and Ethnic Multicultural Literature. EBMS is the community education arm of Eastwind Books of Berkeley which is comprised of a dedicated staff of booksellers, artists, poets, and community workers. Our events are for educational purposes and we appreciate your tax-deductible donations and continued support. Visit us at www.asiabookcenter.com.