July 2025
Art to the Power of Love
MAPP (Mission Art Performance Project)Saturday, October 5th, 20247:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. THIS IS A FREE EVENT(Donation is encouraged)https://www.flipcause.com/secure/donate/MTY5MTk0
June 2025
Entanglements Publication Party
Join us in celebrating regional creatives who are featured in Entanglements: a curated collection of contemporary culture. Entanglements is an anthology of West Coast artists and writers curated by Nanette Wylde.
Bay Area Book Festival
Reading with our legendary Maxine Hong Kingston at the Bay Area Book Festival on Sunday! We will be reading in English and Chinese from our recent publication of Maxine’s collection of haiku and my translations, featured in POETRY Poetry Foundation & Poetry Magazine. Maxine’s event will be the closing event. Please come to join us […]
April 2025
Celebrating National Poetry Month at Mechanics’ Institute
Come to celebrate National Poetry Month on Thursday (4/17 @ 6:00 pm) in a multilingual world poetry event co-hosted by the Mechanics’ Institute Library and Two Languages / One Community with poets Genevieve Lim (our current San Francisco Poet Laureate!), Rafael Jesús González, Maw Shein Win, Shabnam Piryaei, Michael Warr, and myself. Hope to see […]
February 2025
3rd Saturday Poetry in Chinatown
About the Event Open mic before and after the featured poets. Sign up at 1 pm. The event will be Live streamed on our YouTube Channel. Chun Yu, Ph.D. is an award-winning bilingual poet, artist, and translator. She is the author of the memoir in verse Little Green: Growing Up During the Chinese Cultural Revolution (Simon & […]
September 2024
August 2023
City Lights 70th Anniversary Poetry Reading — Live in Kerouac Alley
Join us as we gather some of the Bay Area’s best poets to help us celebrate our 70th anniversary!Emceed by Peter Maravelis, with readings by Micah Ballard, Chris Carosi, Garrett Caples, Neeli Cherkovski, Norma Cole, Gillian Conoley, Sophia Dahlin, Tiff Dressen, Nadia Elbgal, Agneta Falk Hirschman, erica lewis, Randall Mann, Alexandra Mattraw, Alejandro Murguía, Achy […]
July 2023
Bird & Beckett Poetry Reading
Poet Michael Warr and poet/translator Chun Yu, co-founders of Two Languages / One Community, present work that has evolved out of the project, which includes contributions from renowned authors from Chinese American and African American communities. The collaboration—which emerged during a period defined by COVID, injustice, violence, and social division—reflects the possibility of unity rooted […]
June 2023
February 2023
Black History Month & Chinese New Year Poetry Reading on Angel Island by Chun Yu & Michael Warr
Poets Chun Yu and Michael Warr co-founded Two Languages/One Community to exchange culture and common experiences between African Americans and Chinese Americans using poetry and translation. The poets stand in solidarity with both communities in ensuring safety and peace against all forms of violence, hatred, and discrimination. You are invited to experience their poems and […]
January 2023
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