Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

May

Glendale Library, Arts & Culture is paying tribute to Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, celebrating AAPI history, culture and honoring the community’s struggle for inclusion and equity.

Be The Change by exploring these booklists:

• Adult Booklist

• Teen Booklist

• Children's Booklists

Be The Change by exploring these online resources:

• Advancing Justice-LA is the nation’s largest legal and civil rights organization for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders. Explore their K-12 Education Curriculum resources as well as Untold Civil Rights Stories.

• LA vs Hate is a community centered, artist driven campaign to support all residents of Los Angeles County. Led by the Human Relations Commission, the LA vs. Hate Campaign partners with community partners from every district of the county representing a diverse coalition of voices committed to ending hate.

• Tuesday Night Project (TNP) is an Asian American grassroots and volunteer-based organization fiercely devoted to bridging communities by providing programming and interactive spaces for people to connect through artistic expression and strong, creative, community partnerships.

• Embracing the value of kapwa (shared being), the mission of the Association for the Advancement of Filipino American Arts and Culture’s (FilAm ARTS) is to facilitate community synergy and transformation by advancing the arts and diverse cultural heritage of Filipinos through arts services, presentation, and education.​

• Kollaboration today is a community organization dedicated to supporting Asian, Pacific Islander, and Desi Americans (APIDA) who aspire to pursue a career in the arts.

• The Korean Cultural Center of Los Angeles (KCCLA) welcomes the general public to experience the rich traditions and history of Korea through specialized programs, sponsored events, and multiple learning resources.

• The mission of the Chinese American Museum (CAM) is to foster a deeper understanding of, and appreciation for, America’s diverse heritage by researching, preserving, and sharing the history, rich cultural legacy, and continued contributions of Chinese Americans.

• The Chinese Historical Society of Southern California works towards the goals of collecting, preserving, and sharing Chinese American history.

• Japanese American Cultural & Community Center (JACCC) located in Little Tokyo, seeks to create a permanent center for the community where arts and culture come alive and can flourish for future generations.

• JAPAN HOUSE Los Angeles seeks to foster awareness and appreciation for Japan around the world by showcasing the very best of Japanese art, design, gastronomy, innovation, and technology.

• The Asian Pacific Resource Center (APRC) is a special collection of the County of Los Angeles Public Library the emphasis of the collection is on the Asian American / Pacific Islander American experience, with core holdings on the history, art, and culture - of China, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, Vietnam, Hawaii, and American Samoa.

• Stop DiscriminAsian (SDA) started as a small group of friends in New York and Los Angeles who were looking to each other for support after enduring anti-Asian attacks in March 2020, at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The group expanded to art workers in the San Francisco Bay Area and Chicago, and has since collaborated with other groups fighting racism, within the arts and beyond. Collectively, they descend from regions that include present-day China, Hong Kong, India, Pakistan, the Philippines, South and North Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Be The Change by exploring these online resources:

• Stop AAPI Hate, the center tracks and responds to incidents of hate, violence, harassment, discrimination, shunning, and child bullying against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States.

• Asia Society is the leading educational organization dedicated to promoting mutual understanding and strengthening partnerships among peoples, leaders, and institutions of Asia and the United States in a global context.

• The Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience offers an authentic and unique perspective on the American story.

• The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco connects art to life. Their mission is to inspire new ways of thinking by connecting diverse communities to historical and contemporary Asian art and culture through our world-class collection, exhibitions and programs.

• The Korean American National Museum's mission is to preserve and interpret the history, experiences, culture and achievements of Americans of Korean ancestry.

• The mission of the Japanese American National Museum is to promote understanding and appreciation of America’s ethnic and cultural diversity by sharing the Japanese American experience.

• The Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center brings history, art and culture to you through innovative museum experiences and digital initiatives.