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GINGERLILY LOWE Actor, Director, Writer, Songwriter, Teaching Artistand San Diego’s ASIAN STORY THEATER
Gingerlily has been a teaching artist with Arts for Young Audiences, Institute for Arts Education, and currently is on the teaching artist staff for Guitars in the Classroom. She is the Education Director for ASIAN STORY THEATER, writing curriculum for the theater’s education component. Gingerlily is a retired classroom teacher spending many years in San Ysidro, San Diego Unified, and The Museum School where her students always participated in lots of integrated art projects and activities–including script and lyric writing.
She performed her radio theater play, “ASIAN SCARY THEATER” at the 2024 SAN DIEGO INTERNATIONAL FRINGE FESTIVAL. Her play “BOUND” was presented at the OLD GLOBE THEATER’S Powers New Voices Festival, 2023. She was one of the Co-Directors and contributing song-writer’s for ASIAN STORY THEATER’s new musical “NOT WORKING” –which premiered fall 2021, and performed as Ah Toy, the second Chinese woman to arriving in the US in the 1800’s in ASIAN STORY THEATER’s, “THE GOLDEN RULE” at SAN DIEGO INTERNATIONAL FRINGE FESTIVAL, 2022.
Gingerlily and her husband, Kent Brisby, performed together in the PLAYWRIGHTS PROJECT 38TH “PLAYS BY YOUNG WRITERS” 2023. Currently they are working together on the LAST CENSUS PROJECT, where they have produced/commissioned over 30 scripts of varying lengths (a small festival of the plays including AST’s “CENSUS AND CENSIBILITY” were part of the OLD GLOBE 360 PROJECT 2025) leading towards a culminating production in June 2025 of “THE LAST CENSUS.”
email Gingerlily@asianstorytheater.org
ABOUT ASIAN STORY THEATER
History & Future
Asian Story Theater began in 1989, dramatizing Chinese folk tales as a project sponsored by the San Diego Chinese Center. The first production was The White Snake (1989-90), presented at the Lyceum Space Theatre and subsequently toured to county schools, libraries, and recreation centers. In 1991 the company staged its first adaptation based on the 16th century fantasy novel Journey to the West, featuring the Monkey King with additional productions following each year. In 1995 the company incorporated as the Asian Story Theater, independent of the San Diego Chinese Center, to diversify programming and expand touring operations to San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Each year since, we have produced at least one production in pursuit of our mission. Touring and scale of production has varied depending on funding, talent, and venue availability. Recent years have led to increasingly diverse programs, including a full-length musical about the artist Paul Gauguin (PRICK: The Musical Paul Gauguin, November 2011-May 2012), as well as partnering to produce a pilot television episode, based on our 2006 project SHAVE ICE (December 2013). We are also committed to continuing a series of annual touring theater productions related to the Lunar New Year Celebrations, presenting WHEN THE TIGER SMOKED A PIPE, for Year of the Tiger.
WHEN THE TIGER SMOKED A PIPE, for Year of the Tiger.
We continue to explore new production partners and collaborators, such as for WHAT ARE YOU? (2019) and THE GOLDEN RULE, 2020-2022, NOT WORKING 2022- a new original musical featuring songs from our BIPOC creative community about our shared experiences during COVID, THECOFFEE PLAYS 2023 celebrating coffee stories and coffee culture around the world, and our latest endeavors Asian SCARY Theater 2023/2024 a radio theater project with “chicken-skin” storytelling and TWO DRAGONS 2024 featuring a Balinese naga shadow puppet play and a radio theater style dragon story from China. WHERE WE LAY OUR SORROWS DOWN 2024 a Cultivating Joy project
In 2024 ASIAN STORY THEATER in collaboration with TEATRO MASCARA MAGICA and SAN DIEGO BLACK ENSEMBLE is developing a new program about the census, to be presented in 2025.
FRIDAY MAY 30 — ORDER YOUR TICKETS NOW — CHRIS HEDGES IS RETURNING TO SAN DIEGO AND TO KNSJ ON TOUR WITH HIS LATEST BOOK
A Genocide Foretold, Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine
St Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral, 2728 Sixth Ave, San Diego 92103, Entrance on 5th Avenue
Tell your friends and neighbors. Another dynamic book showing Hedge’s astute observations and critical eye on the truth, his first-hand experiences and his eloquent writing style. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and New York Times best-selling author. Chris will also be in Los Angeles for KPFK and in San Francisco for KPFA.
Tickets Available Now. Place Your Order Before They’re Gone.bit.ly/KNSJ2025
“An authoritative argument against the singularity of the conflict and an indictment of Western media narratives that present it as exceptional and beyond critique.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
“Chris Hedges writes with heart and extraordinary moral clarity about a genocide that has unfurled in front of our eyes. A Genocide Foretoldindicts not only the racist bloodlust that has overtaken Israeli society, but the full complicity of the U.S. government and media, and the hypocrisies at the heart of the West’s most cherished illusions.” —Beh Ehrenreich, author of The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine
“With a searing urgency, Chris Hedges brings readers face to face with Israel’s devastation of Gaza. A Genocide Foretold is a scathing denunciation of the long violence of the Zionist project and its U.S. and European backers. The writing reflects his deep experience as a correspondent from Central America to Bosnia and his passionate moral outrage against both war and the hypocrisy that justifies it. Fast-paced and dazzling, the book gives first-hand accounts of the horrors of war and the courage of those resisting it.” —Aviva Chomsky, coeditor of Organizing for Power and author of Central America’s Forgotten History
“Chris Hedges profoundly describes exactly what is happening in Palestine and talks on behalf of the victims. In his painful writings, he makes their voices heard. This is genocide as I lived it in Gaza for three months. The book is full of stories, information, and shocking realities. This is not just reporting from there or about them, it is a courageous challenge to all attempts to misinform us about what life looks like in Gaza. Profound, honest, painful, moving and real…the book takes us through history, geography, politics, and news and helps us better understand the Zionist occupation. We cannot escape after learning about it! Chris is telling us: now you know.”—Atef Abu Saif, Minister of Culture of Palestine and author of Don’t Look Left: A Diary of Genocide
STOP & TALK with Grant Oliphant Fri 8am You won’t want to miss this. Thoughtful conversations and a good way to start the day!
STOP & TALK dives deep into the themes of purpose and opportunity, guided by the insights of leaders in the arts and culture, health, philanthropy, finance, and innovation fields. Together, we celebrated local achievements and envisioned what’s possible in San Diego County. https://stopandtalkpodcast.com/
Friday’s Features: the latest news and voices you rarely, if ever, hear on mainstream media. Interviews and conversations with guests who are free to talk about their own experiences and what they see in their neighborhoods and in their own communities. Guests who are experts in their fields and understand the world view. Guests who talk about working together and respecting one another, and much more
6am Making Contact
6:30 Building Bridges
7am Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez
8am Stop & Talk with Grant Oliphant
9am-noon Live The Thom Hartmann Show. Call-in with your comments and mention that you are listening to him on KNSJ, your San Diego Public Community station. Call 202-808-9925
12pm Native America Calling
1pm Nader Radio Hour “with the man himself Ralph Nader”
2pm Background Briefing with Ian Masters
3pm Talk of the Town with former San Diego City Attorney Mike Aguirre
4pm San Diego Screenwriter’s Studio with screenwriter Gail Stewart
4:30 pm Re: Work with voices telling us their experiences and stories
5pm East County Magazine with award-winning investigative journalist and editor Miriam Raftery
6pm Democracy Now! News Replay in case you missed it this morning
7pm Peace Talks
8pm-6am KNSJ’s Fantastic music block with our amazing San Diego DJs spinning vinyl. Check out their programs by pressing the Music Tab at the top of this page, or by linking at https://music.knsj.org
Olivia Mercedes is a perpetually overwhelmed human who relies on creative mediums to process the intense spectrum of her conscious experience. Her poetry has been published, her artwork has been exhibited, her voice has been featured, but her most beloved accolades are the moments of real-life connection in response to her authenticity. She finds hope and gratitude in inspiring someone to feel, to question, to learn, to heal, to express, and ultimately to be more fully human.
Host Susan Taylor is a wife, mother, and six-time grandmother. She loves living in a diverse and friendly neighborhood in San Diego and can be seen walking her dog Duffy to coffee shops and happy hours.. Susan writes poems and short stories, tutors English, and is an avid volunteer with social justice organizations. Susan is the author of The Electric Picnic: Poetry For Nice People And Good Dogs. Her poems can also be found on haikuuniverse.com, thepoetryhighway.com, and in the San Diego Anthology of Poetry, and Verbatim Bookstore. Susan has also been selected for inclusion in A Year in Ink, Volume 17, 2024.
Tune in to Saturday Afternoon’s Lineup Covering News Not Covered on Mainstream Radio and Creative Arts Programming. Then tonight our local DJ’s take over from 8pm-6am (every night) with a Full Round of Eclectic Music Spinning Vinyl, Only on YOUR Local Independent Station KNSJ.
2-3pm FRIENDLY FIRE with Don Kimball, a Show for and About Veterans
3-4pm CODE PINK
4-5pm ALTERNATIVE RADIO
5-6pm LAW AND DISORDER
6-7pm WRITER’S VOICE
7-8pm THE ELECTRIC PICNIC with SUSAN TAYLOR POETRY SPOKEN WORD PROSE
THE EMPTYING OF GAZA with Guest NORMAN FINKELSTEIN
Norman Finkelstein, Middle East Scholar, and Hedges assess the current state of the genocide in Palestine as well as how the media and the universities have all but abandoned their principles in servitude to the Zionist agenda.
One of the most renowned and courageous Middle East scholars, Norman Finkelstein, has assiduously documented the Palestinian plight for decades.
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TODAY–DEI with GUEST SETCHE KWAMU-NANA
WHY ARE SOME AFRAID OF DEI? WHAT ARE THE FREE SPEECH IMPLICATIONS?
Setche is a dynamic Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity (IDE) consultant and trainer. She helps organizations and teams move from IDE rhetoric to impact, and beyond symbolism to transformation. She drives employees to commit to championing IDE, and helps organizations operationalize IDE, making the practice part of their DNA. She has a strong track record of cultural transformation, developing and delivering effective training, building collaborative teams, and championing and implementing innovative tools & strategies.
Setche says: These are the values by which I live and work. Through my workshops and initiatives, I inspire and cultivate a culture of:
