Celebrating AAPI Heritage: Call For Young Artist, Writers and Performers

MLCCC INVITES
PA Commission on Asian Pacific American Affairs 
Joined with many other AAPI agencies 
Celebrating AAPI Heritage in a Year of Resilience
with TWO (2) Statewide Virtual Events

*Call for Participation of Young Artists and Writers (K-12)
*Call for Participation of Performance Videos (K-Adults)

Statewide Virtual Event #1:
Wednesday, May 19th,  12PM-1PM
(Showcase of Selected Arts, Essays and Performances)

Statewide Virtual Event #2:
Saturday, May 22nd, 5PM-6PM
Showcases of Art Performance / Display Videos

Young Painters and Writers:
Sign up and upload your work here

Young Artists: 
Sign up and upload your performance/display here

***Event and Submission Guidelines***

Partnering with Multi-Agency Asian Pacific American Committee

Celebrating Traditions in a Year of Resilience

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month 2021 Artist Virtual Event

Saturday, May 22nd; Time 5:00 – 6:00 pm

Governor Wolf’s Advisory Commission on Asian Pacific American Affairs in a celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (APAHM) invites all professional artists/groups who reside in Pennsylvania and are performing/practicing artists in Asian American and Pacific Islander origin art. This will be a one-hour Virtual event (pre-recorded/submitted videos) to be held online during the APA Heritage Month (APAHM) on Saturday, May 22, 2021, from 5:00 –6:00 pm. 

Selected videos will also be showcased in the PA State APAHM Celebration on May 19th. The theme of the online exhibition of performances to celebrate the 2021 Asian Pacific American Heritage Month is “Celebrating Tradition in a year of Resilience.”
This project aims to capture the journey of Pennsylvania artists/performers of Asian and Pacific Islander origin over this past year, as the pandemic modified their daily lives and made them adopt new methods and modes of showcasing their talent. We hope to showcase these individuals/groups together to honor the resilience, sacrifice, and journey of the APA community in Pennsylvania.

GENERAL GUIDELINES
1. Professional/Trained Artists from across PA in the areas of AAPI art: music, dance, art,
martial art, instrumental, or calligraphy/painting video.
2. Age limit: all ages, add consent in form for under 18
3. Artists may or may not be of AAPI background
4. Videos – 1 hour online through FB live event
5. Selected videos will be presented as part of a to the state government APAHM virtual
event
6. Virtual Event details: May 22, Saturday, Time 5 – 6 pm
Video Details
● Videos – Total video time 3 mins or less. Submit written description of artist and art form
details through the form
● Videos can be either groups or individuals
● All videos must be created in 2020 and up to the present date.
● Videos need to be in Landscape (horizontal mode)
● We will not have the ability or capacity to edit any videos, so ensuring that your video
and audio quality is good remains with the submitting person/group
● Videos should not have any inappropriate content
Submission Details
● All submissions will be accepted through a google form pasted below
● Each form can take up to six names (if you are a group). Please fill additional forms
depending on the size of the group
● Please upload your video on your OWN GOOGLE DRIVES or YOUTUBE and share the
link with us in the submission form
● The uploaded video should be made public so that we can download it at our end
● All accepted file types in the format: mp3, mp4, wav, mov
● All submissions are due by Friday, April 30th by 5:00 PM
● Submissions are not guaranteed to be selected for either the Virtual Cultural Event or the
PA State APAHM Celebration and the Commission reserves the right to select the final
videos.
All entries can be submitted below
SUBMIT FORM (CLICK HERE)

Partnering with Multi-Agency Asian Pacific American Committee

2021 Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (APAHM) Celebrations

Call for Entries from K-12 Students for Online Art and Writing Exhibition

***“APA QUILT OF HOPE”***

APAHM 2021’s “APA QUILT OF HOPE,” an online student exhibition of art and writing to celebrate the

2021Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, is calling for individual entries from current K-12 students of AsianPacific American origin, who reside in Pennsylvania.

This project aims to capture the journey of APA students in PA, as the pandemic modified their daily lives, and tested their patience and resolve. Through art or written word submissions, we hope to share what the year has meant for them, their families, friends, and communities, and their hopes for the future. We will bring these individual entries together to create a shared APA Quilt of Hope to honor the resilience, journey and dreams of the APA students in PA. Some entries may be included in a presentation to the Governor, others featured on the

Commission’s social media, or in potential exhibitions.

Submission Guidelines: Entries must be received by April 30, 2021, at 11:59 pm.

Each student can submit only ONE entry, fitting the Theme of HOPE in one of four age categories: K-2; Grades 3-5; Grades 6-8, or Grades 9-12. Each entry has two required and one optional component:

a) REQUIRED: one-page art entry (drawings, paintings, mixed media, photography, watercolors, collage,

paper or digital art) saved as Last Name_First Name_Art_Grade# OR a one page writing entry (poetry or

short essay) saved as Last Name_First Name_Word_Grade# uploaded digitally to your OWN GOOGLE

DRIVE, and the link shared via the Google Entry Submission form below.

b) REQUIRED: A Google Entry Submission form available here, with parental consent for minors.

c) OPTIONAL: A photo of the student with the art/word entry, saved as the Last Name_First

Name_Photo_Grade# uploaded digitally to your OWN GOOGLE DRIVE, and the link shared via the

Google Entry Submission form above.

Digital File resolution must be at least 300 dpi or 1600×1200 pixels. Images should be no smaller than 1 MB and

no larger than 5 MB. Images should be JPEG or PNG files, and word files should be pdf.

Other Guidelines:

1. Entries must be original and sole work of the student, created between March 2020 and present day.

2. Entries must not contain offensive language, hate speech, inappropriate depictions, partisan messages,

commercial messages or any threat to public safety.

3. Entries may be featured on Pennsylvania Governor’s Advisory Commission on Asian Pacific American Affairs

(GACAPAA) social media and during other APAHM celebrations, or in online or physical exhibits later, or in

a presentation to the Governor and First Lady, or in a display in government buildings.

4. GACAPAA will review all entries; entry does not guarantee selection for programs or exhibitions.

5. All submissions will become the property of GACAPAA and will not be returned. They will be held in accordance with the record retention schedule for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

6. Entrants retain ownership of, and all rights to, their submission. However, they grant GACAPAA and its chosen affiliates, a royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual, non-exclusive license to publish for exhibition or education purposes, and make any alterations needed for the purposes of bringing the work together to the final exhibition form, and to make use of the submission for education and exhibition purposes without requiring the payment of any compensation or consideration to, or the receipt of approval, from the entrant.

PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR ENTRY HERE.

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