Carmen Hom
SAAFF shorts showcase the diversity of being Asian and living in the Pacific Northwest
The 2023 Seattle Asian American Film Festival’s “Bring It Home: Pacific Northwest Shorts”
program was an homage to the Asian American/Canadian diaspora in our region from Seattle to Spokane, Portland to Vancouver. The highlight, of...
How Ming-Ming Tung-Edelman built Refugee Artisans Initiative on the fabric of social and environmental...
It is all because of a turquoise, cape chiffon dress, gifted and sewn by her grandmother.
Carried in Ming-Ming Tung-Edelman’s suitcase from Taiwan, to Saudi Arabia, and finally to America, it became a symbol of...
Garfield Centennial Celebration spans across generations
It was a purple and Bulldog tidal wave at the Garfield Centennial Celebration.
The energy was boisterous as alumni, grandparents, family, children, and students gathered at Garfield High School to celebrate its 100th year anniversary...
“Celebrate Little Saigon” returns with colorful flair
On August 20, 2022, the nonprofit Friends of Little Saigon hosted the 11th Annual “Celebrate Little Saigon” event, bringing neighbors and visitors together to eat, drink, and celebrate Vietnamese community and culture. This event...
Q&A: DJ Sharadawn on caretaking as a DJ, Nurse, and a Mother
Sharadawn Reith has been spinning on Seattle-area stages for 15 years, her passion initiated from her love of hip-hop in college. Reith, also known as DJ Sharadawn, regularly plays at STK in Bellevue, and...
Q&A: DJ Accia Used Music Theory to learn how to DJ
Woon Ji Kim is a producer and a DJ with the stage name “DJ Accia (ah-chee-ya)”. She’s an award winning pianist in Korea, and for the last five years she’s been exploring the DJ...
Three Lunar New Year stories around Seattle: Remembering, discovering, and transitioning
Lunar New Year is a widely celebrated holiday across Asia and throughout Asian diasporic communities in the world. I talked to three Asian-Americans around Seattle, wondering about their memories of Lunar New Year, their...
Car caravan from Renton to Bellevue rallies in solidarity with Indian farmworkers
This past Sunday, a large group of cars gathered at the Gurdwara Singh Sabha in Renton, which serves 50,000 Sikhs in the region, as the meeting spot for a car march organizing in solidarity...
A city-slicker turned organic farmer: Amy Wu of Rest Awhile Country Market
At a few of Seattle’s farmers markets, there is a simple stall adorned with crates of organic fruits from the fertile soils of the Methow Valley. In the fall, handwritten signs indicate the variety...
Sidhu Farms: A small family farm adapts in the era of COVID-19
The nature of working a small farm is constantly adjusting to volatility: uncertain storms, unwanted pests, and in the case of 2020, a global pandemic. Farmers markets can no longer function as the community...