{"id":134034,"date":"2025-08-10T09:44:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T09:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/134034\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T09:44:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T09:44:06","slug":"solo-shows-take-aim-at-harmful-stereotypes-at-the-japanese-national-museum-coloradoboulevard-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/134034\/","title":{"rendered":"Solo Shows Take Aim at Harmful Stereotypes at the Japanese National Museum \u2039 ColoradoBoulevard.net"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/a> \u201cBreaking the Frame: Two Solo Shows on Art and Identity\u201d (Photo \u2013 Laurel Hinton)The Daniel K. Inouye National Center for the Preservation of Democracy at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) presents \u201cBreaking the Frame: Two Solo Shows on Art and Identity,\u201d August 21\u201323, 2025, in the Tateuchi Democracy Forum.<\/p>\n

By News Desk<\/strong><\/p>\n

A post-show Q&A with the artists will follow the matinee performance on August 23. Tickets are $20 and available at janm.org\/democracy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cBreaking the Frame: Two Solo Shows on Art and Identity\u201d<\/strong> explores what happens when two Asian American solo performers fall deeply in love with Western art forms, film and opera, only to realize they may be entangled in mediums that don\u2019t fully love them back. In the wake of recent \u201cyellowface\u201d controversies on Broadway, Hmong American actor Bee Vang (of Clint Eastwood\u2019s Gran Torino) and local-born actor and opera singer Kurt Kanazawa present emotionally charged, satirical indictments of two Western artistic traditions that have long marginalized Asian Americans and BIPOC communities.<\/p>\n

The performance is directed by Jeff Liu (East West Players) and co-directed by Kalina Ko (Hedgerow Theatre Company), with lighting design and assistant direction by Josh Bennett.<\/p>\n

Opening the program is Vang\u2019s solo piece, Your Movie Guide to Life (2025), in which the actor and lifelong cinephile explores the shaping power of cinema, Hmong history, anti-war activism, and his complicated legacy in Gran Torino. This 45-minute performance weaves existential horror in film with inherited personal and geopolitical histories.<\/p>\n

Closing the program is Kanazawa\u2019s solo show, L\u2019OPERA! (2024), a funny and multilingual 52-minute journey following a Japanese and Filipino American opera singer who gets into The Juilliard School\u2014only to lose his voice. Set across New York City, Southern Italy, Hollywood, and Beijing, and featuring live performances of both classic and original songs, L\u2019OPERA! challenges the Eurocentric traditions of classical opera while embracing the artist\u2019s multicultural identity.<\/p>\n

Breaking the Frame: Two Solo Shows on Art and Identity<\/strong>
\nAugust 21-23, 2025
\n7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
\nLocation<\/strong>
\nJapanese American National Museum
\nDemocracy Center
\n100 North Central Ave.
\nLos Angeles, CA 90012
\nTo purchase tickets, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cBreaking the Frame: Two Solo Shows on Art and Identity\u201d (Photo \u2013 Laurel Hinton)The Daniel K. Inouye National…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":134035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,224,5337],"class_list":{"0":"post-134034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-losangeles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115003828959021986","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}