EVENTS
EVENTS
With just under 200 concerts in 5.5 days GALA Choruses plan to take over the city of Minneapolis with LGBTQ+ singers and fans! GAPA Men’s Chorus debuted in Denver in 2016 and plans to make it to Minneapolis in 2024.
Join GAPA Theatre and GAPA Men’s Chorus at “Echoes in the Diaspora,” our upcoming show on June 15th at Z Space in San Francisco. With a diverse roster of QTAPI talents, the program features spoken word pieces and dramatic vignettes from GAPA Theatre, as well as an exclusive preview of songs the GAPA Men's Chorus will present at the GALA Choral Festival in July in Minneapolis.
A Year of the Dragon lunchtime celebration.
We will be singing at a fundraiser for the Filipino Arts & Cinema, International or FACINE. It is a nonprofit media arts organization that is committed to develop and promote Filipino-American media arts and advance the interests of cinemas from the Philippines and the Filipino diaspora.
We are invited to sing once more with our friends at Eden UCC for Sunday service. Eden Church, founded in 1865, is an LGBTQIA+ Open & Affirming Congregation and a Sanctuary Congregation of the United Church of Christ.
San Francisco will officially designate May 28th to June 3rd as QTAPI Week. Come for a fun and relaxing day of activities, drag performances, music, history, vendors, drag queen story hour, and GENERALLY A GOOD TIME in a block party celebrating our intersecting identities and the transition between API Heritage Month and the start of Pride season.. Party starts 11am and goes until 5PM on Noe St between Market and Beaver.
Kicking off Pride Month at the historic Filoli House, joining drag performers The Screaming Queens and our friends The Rice Rockettes, a Dance party with DJ Bear Mittens, performances from Cheer SF, and much more. We’ll be singing and sparkling! (Photo: Courtesy of filoli.org).
The BCSF has been inviting GAPA Men’s Chorus to sing for many years. We will be singing once more with our friends during Mother’s Day at this historic Jodo Shinshu church. (Logo by BCSF).
We are taking our concert set on the road and entertain our elders at The Fountaingrove Lodge, one of the few dedicated luxury LGBTQ+ and allies senior and assisted living facility in the country. Happy Holidays!
GAPA Men’s Chorus and Music Director Randy Kikukawa present Peace on Earth.
Start the Holidays with songs to celebrate what we need most in these times - a season of peace.
On October 01, 2022, the annual GAPA Banquet is back after a three-year hiatus! Join GAPA and the featured keynote of our friend California Attorney General Rob Bonta at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center for a night of celebration and community!
A 61 year-old Filipino artist and activist juxtaposes and draws parallels from living through the AIDS and COVID-19 pandemics.
Join us for a night of fashion, glamour, and entertainment as we celebrate the artistry, talent, and humanity of our QTAPI community! As GAPA's crown jewel event, we're coming back from a 3-year Covid hiatus with all the energy and ideas Runway deserves!
GAPA Open Mic night will bring together LGBTQ+ Asian and Pacific Islander performers, poets, vocalists, drag entertainers, storytellers, musicians, dancers, spoken word artists, and more to share their talents to connect, to hold space, to build community, and to celebrate the power and pride in the diversity of our QTAPI communities.
Hearts & Minds is a collaborative production with selected works by GAPA Men’s Chorus and a collection of new works developed by the GAPA Theatre collective speaking to the hearts and minds of the LGBTQ Asian and Pacific Islander lived experience.
GAPA Theatre invites you to attend a public reading of new works-in-progress presented by the 2022 Hearts and Minds Artist Cohort.
GAPA Theatre presents an informal online reading, with pieces that explore this turbulent year from a Queer & Trans API perspective.
Part of Thursday Nights at the Asian Art Museum. Join us for an evening of spoken word, short plays, and storytelling monologues with GAPA Theatre. A significant cultural component of the GAPA Theatre is its intergenerational collective of writers, performers, and storytellers. Their mission is to mentor and support emerging queer and trans-Asian Pacific Islander artists to tell their stories.
