Facing the Moon: Songs of the Diaspora

Why do we leave our homes? How do we find harmony with our ancestors and within ourselves? How do we join voices in chorus to forge a better future? 

Spend this year’s Mid-Autumn Festival with San Francisco’s poet-laureate Genny Lim who turns her gaze to the full moon to bring together our stories of this journey of hope. 

Voices of mothers and daughters, across continents and generations, anchor this multimedia performance with Lim’s poetry & new music by Chinese-diaspora composers Theresa Wong, Vivian Fung and Meilina Tsui. Del Sol Quartet centers the collaboration, building on their transformative Angel Island Project, with a theatrical visual experience by Olivia Ting and lasers by Mark Hellar. The musicians’ own histories, gathered through Genny Lim’s interviews, build connections between the musical sounds and Lim’s poetry. 

This project is made possible in part by a grant from The Creative Work Fund (a program of the Walter and Elise Haas Fund that also is supported by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation), the California Arts Council (a state agency), the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation, and Grants for the Arts.