Join us at Stand4 Gallery in Bay Ridge for an evening with tea, film, and conversation with director Hsuan-Yu Pan. We are going to watch her introductory film HEAR, EAT, HOME, a 50-min film featuring Syrian musician Kinan Azmeh, visual artist Kevork Mourad, and Japanese American musician Kaoru Watanabe.
All ticket donations will support the production of the Feature Documentary.
Local musician Roland Ramos will join us to warm up the space before we start screening the film.
About Hsuan-Yu Pan
Originally from Taiwan, Husan-Yu Pan is an NYC-based documentary filmmaker who loves to explore human stories through her camera lens. Pan began her career in 2011 at BRIC TV, a Brooklyn-based community TV station. She worked there for 10 years until the pandemic changed the paths of many people. She launched HEAR, EAT, HOME in 2016 and invited the artists to be part of the project. Immigrants from the Middle East and Asia are often discriminated against when they come to the United States. It’s amazing to see these artists turn their disadvantages into something unique and utilize their abilities and artistic skills to reach different cultures. There’s always a possibility in a setback. Interviewing world-class immigrant artists has taught her and the team to learn from those who have been through adversity. Life and art can be complex, and that is apparent in the music, food, and memories shared in this project.
As an immigrant and artist herself, Pan feels the connection to the artists’ philosophy and she is honored to observe them through their art and lives. They have been on a creative and inspiring trip for the past 6 years. This is Director Pan’s project but is a shared journey.
About Stand4 Gallery
Founded in January 2017 as an artist-run initiative, Stand4 Gallery and Community Art Center’s pursuit is to be alive and working towards a better world through the arts as an active medium of engagement. Stand4 serves as a generator of meaning, action, agency, collaboration, and social justice. It is shapeless, non-conforming, and responsive to the times. Stand4 is meant to exist as a catalyst: a way to envision a more socially and environmentally just future.
Housed in a former medical office in the heart of Bay Ridge, Stand4 brings the visual arts and programming to the center of the community, opening up opportunities for social, political and cultural connections and creating a discourse that bridges culture and tradition and includes new voices towards a more sustainable future inspired by local interests.
About Roland Ramos
Roland Ramos Is an active musician and producer. His most recent music credits include a 2020 tour through Croatia, Germany, Czeck-Republic, Austria, India (Sandscape and DessertFest), and Istanbul performing his music, coming home to JFK the day before international airports stopped admitting international flights.