Past Appearances & Workshops

 Past Appearances – 2015-2022

2015

  • August 10-16, 2015: Aimee at Ghost Ranch, New Mexico for A Room of Her Own Foundation’s retreat/residency, where she presents a WAVES discussion, reads her poetry, offers a Studio Hour workshop for “In This Skin” and offers one-on-one consultations in performance coaching.

  • August 24, 2015, 7pm: Aimee performs at the Congreso: People, Power and Policy conference, Holiday Inn Capital Plaza, 300 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95814

  • October 2015: Info TBA, Litcrawl with CIIS

  • October 10 2015: Aimee receives WILLA Finalist award, Oregon

2016

  • January 23, 2016 7:30pm, Timkin Hall, California College for the Arts, SF: Aimee’s short play, “Bracing for the Storm” will have a public staged reading as a part of Poet’s Theater, hosted by Small Press Traffic. Details: http://smallpresstraffic.org/2691

  • April 13, 6:30-8:30pm, 370 Dwinelle Hall at UC Berkeley, “The Body of the Migrant in Literature and Diaspora” – a Filipina writer’s panel featuring Aimee Suzara, Mia Alvar and Joi Barrios.

  • April 14-17, in attendance and on April 16, Aimee leads her WORKSHOP, “In This Skin: a Writing and Performance Workshop” at the Split This Rock Poetry Festival, Washington, DC

  • April 21-23, Various locations in San Francisco, CA: Kuwentuhan (Talkstory), a poetry residency sponsored by the San Francisco Poetry Center and led by Barbara Jane Reyes, with live public performances by seven writers, beginning with a launch event on Thursday 4/21 featuring all seven writers. Click on link for full calendar.

  • April 22, 7pm, Bayanihan Cultural Center, San Francisco. Aimee’s featured reading along with Arlene Biala and Urayoen Noel, as a part of Kuwentuhan (Talkstory)

  • May 4, 7pm, Las Positas College, Lecture hall 2420, “In This Skin” reading/performance/talk with me and students of the Poetry Club.

  • May 7-8, CNMAT – Center for New Media and Audio Technologies, UC Berkeley (1750 Arch Street, Berkeley, CA) at UC Berkeley, a multidisciplinary performance of poems from my book, SOUVENIR, with composition and artistic direction by Ursula Kwong-Brown; video by Kaitlin Forcier; cello by Janne De Mars; and acting by Hunt Scarritt. Event page here. .

  • May 11, Aimee appears at Skyline College, and students; event begins 11 am with students; Aimee Suzara at 12:30pm; Multicultural Center, Building 4.

  • May 14, see the AYPAL youth “guerilla theater” group Aimee is teaching/supporting to perform at their May Arts festival, as a resident artist through the Artist-Investigator Program, CalShakes, San Antonio Park (details TBA)

  • (This workshop was rescheduled until further notice) May 28, 1-5pm, Hugo House, Seattle, WA: Aimee lead’s an introductory intensive workshop, “Poetic Moments: Flashplays and Writing for Performance.”

  • June 9, at the Starline Social Club, 2236 Martin Luther King, Oakland, CA. Aimee will be one of several artists performing at Breaking Through Concrete – An Arts & Activism Celebration: artists exploring the impact of interconnected social and environmental justice issues that threaten the health and safety of our communities and our future, and offering solutions. Visit the link for more info!

  • August 26, 2016, 7pm: Aimee reads at Cleave: Bay Area Women Writers, a series based at the Octopus Literary Salon in Oakland, 2101 Webster St @ 22nd, Oakland. This evening features Judy Halebsky, Kelly Jean Egan, Mei Li Ooi, and Aimee Suzara. Books will be available for sale and signing.

  • September 10-17, 2016: Aimee in residence to lead one week of theater-making, playwriting and performance during Whitman College’s Instant Play Festival in Walla Walla, WA.

2017

  • January 16, 2017, 8pm, Berkeley Repertory Theater, Aimee’s short play “The Bedtime Story” is premiered by Playground along with 5 other short plays. Directed by Lisa Marie Rollins.

  • January 18, 2017, 7pm, Conrad Prebys Music Center, La Jolla, CA. Composer Tiange Zhou performs a song, “hEArT based upon Aimee’s poem “The heart is a hollow.”

  • February 7, 2017, 6:30-8:30pm, Co-Munity Workspace 3207 Lakeshore Avenue, Oakland, Aimee facilitates Day 2 of “Open Love Letters: the Writing Workshops.” The Open Love Letters Writing Workshop Series provides new, emerging and experienced writers with tools to investigate, instigate and prioritize healing. Our instructors will guide you through a series of writing prompts chosen from An Open Love Letter to Black Fathers, by Delina Patrice Brooks. Sign up

  • February 8-11, various. Washington Convention Center & Washington Marriott Marquis, Washington DC, AWP (Association of Writers and Writing Programs) conference. Aimee will appear in two panels, R258. Writerism: The Intersection of Community Activism and Writing Within and Beyond the Academy (on Feb 9, 3pm), and F160. National Monuments: The Poetry of Contested Spaces (on Feb 10, 10:30am). More info

  • February 9, 6 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. True Reformer Building, 1200 U Street. Aimee will be sharing poetry at the reading, “Floricanto in Solidarity with Standing Rock.” Also featuring Los Angeles Poet Laureate Luis Rodriguez, Librotraficanto founder Tony Diaz, writer and Huizache Magazine founding editor Dagoberto Gilb, and others.

  • February 18, 3pm, Cesar Chavez Library in Fruitvale, Oakland. Featured reading at Jingletown Reading Series, more details TBA.

  • March 3, Aimee Suzara: Poems from the Resistance featured performance, at Town Biz, 349 15th St Oakland CA

  • March 11 text-dance collaboration w Natalia V. Aceves-Ghezzi at Standing Rock benefit 6-10pm, MVMT Dance, 2973 Sacramento St, Berkeley, CA

  • March 17 TBC guest at Oakland variety show

  • March 22 4:30-6:30 hosting “Justice for All?” poetry event at Euphrat Museum, De Anza College

  • March 24-25 guest collaboration w/ Natalia V. Aceves-Ghezzi & company at the DIRT Festival 2017 – Dance In Revolt(ing) Times

  • March 30, 6pm, moderating a panel of fierce women choreographers at CubaCaribe 2017 – Panel & Reception: Movers and Shakers

  • April 8, 2-5pm, short poetry set at Transformative Visions, Oakstop, Oakland CA

  • May 10, 7pm, Bindlestiff Studios: Aimee teaches a writing workshop, Silbihan. Sign up and get more info

  • November 6, 2017, 7pm: Staged Reading of TINY FIRES, a new play by Aimee Suzara. Live Oak Theater, 1301 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, California 94709 Information here

2018 (under construction)

2019 (under construction)

  • October 18, 2019: Speaking Axolotl Filipinx Latinx Reading

2020

  • March 7, 6pm and 8:30pm, ODC Theater. Aimee appeared in ECHOES, a spoken word chamber opera. Composed by Danny Clay on texts by Gabriel Cortez, Smiley, Suzara, Turner, Willis, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Enrique Garcia Naranjo, and Youth Speaks workshop participants, Echoes explores through poetry, music, dialogue, and recorded streetscapes the experiences of San Francisco’s youth during the recent period of seismic change to the city’s physical, socioeconomic, and cultural landscapes. Information and Tickets

  • May 22 (Fri), 5-6:30pm PST: Aimee appears on the evening arts programming for incredible, free online convergence, THE IMPOSSIBLE SUMMIT. Co-features are Rising Appalachia, Haleh and Chris Eclipse. Website Facebook event

  • June 3 for 6 weeks: Aimee teaches Intro to Poetry, an online workshop.

  • September 23, 11am PST / 1pm EST, The Department of Literatures, Languages, and Cultures at UC Merced is pleased to present a free public event featuring poetry reading performance with Aimee Suzara. Details

  • October 17 short feature between 2-3:30, Jingletown Reading series, Zoom: zoom id: 992 1716 1772 pswd: justice

2021

  • May 7, 7pm PST: Aimee’s play, Tiny Fires, on Zoom, presented by Custom Made Theater

  • May 24, appearance as part of Thou Art Woman online

  • Sept 23 - Nov 3: Movements & Moments (Hugo House)

  • Sept 15 - Oct 26: Poetry for Social Justice (Grubstreet) (class link forthcoming)

2022

April 13: WORKSHOP - Writing Motherhood

Motherhood changes us, and all of us in different ways: it can affect our roles in society and our families, our sense of time and priorities, our bodies, and even our writing. Becoming a parent and beginning to care for a child is a creative practice, yet we may find it difficult to find the time, or the motivation, to put pen to paper during the labor that is mothering. This workshop is for writers who have become mothers (self-defined), or mothers who need to write. 4 weeks starting April 13th.

Sign up and more info HERE

May 4: WORKSHOP (4 weeks) - Belonging: Writing Home & Identity for Writers of Color

May 4: WORKSHOP (4 weeks) - Non Exotic: Poetry on Asian American Identity

AUGUST 2022

Writing Motherhood, 4 Fridays, 1-4pm PST (4-7 EST) hosted by Grubstreet - starting August 19. Live on Zoom Sign up and learn more here.

Belonging: Writing Home & Identity for Writers of Color hosted by Grubstreet - a 1-day seminar on Zoom, August 24, 1-4pm PST (4-7 EST). Sign up and learn more here.

SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER 2022

Diggin' the Crates: Archival Materials & Research in Poetry, 6 weeks online on video chat hosted by Catapult. Wednesdays, Sept. 14 - Oct. 19, 1-3 p.m. PT  / 4-6 p.m. ET / 10 p.m. - 12 a.m. +1 CET  Sign up and learn more here.

Belonging: Writing Home and Identity for Writers of Color hosted by Grubstreet (Asynchronous on Wet.ink),  NEW START DATE!: Sept 28-Oct 25, 4 weeks. Sign up and learn more here.

Poetry for Social Action, hosted by Hugo House, (Live on Zoom) NOW Oct 17-Nov 21, Mondays 10-12am PST. Sign up and learn more here.

Writing Retreat for Writing Mothers (free!), hosted by Grubstreet (on Zoom), 1 day retreat, Friday, October 7th, 4:30pm-8:30pm (EST) Sign up here: https://grubstreet.org/accounts/classes/8677/

OCTOBER-DECEMBER 2022

Not Exotic:  for Asian American Writers, hosted by Hugo House (Live on Zoom) Oct. 7 - 28, Fridays, 10-12am PST.  Sign up and learn more here. 

Writing Motherhood, hosted by Grubstreet (Asynchronous on Wet.ink), Oct 19-Nov 30; 6 weeks  - new, longer version based on popular demand! Sign up and learn more here

Writing the Body, hosted by Grubstreet (Asynchronous on Wet.ink), Nov 2-Dec 14; 6 weeks. Sign up and learn more here

6 Weeks, 3 Poems, hosted by Grubstreet  (Asynchronous on Wet.ink), Nov 2-Dec 14;  6 weeks. Sign up and learn more here

Performance Lab: From the Page to the Body, hosted by Grubstreet (on Zoom), Friday, November 4th, 4:00pm-7:00pm (EST). Sign up and learn more here

2023

FEBRUARY-MARCH

ONLINE WORKSHOP, Writing Motherhood (ASYNCHRONOUS, on WET.INK), 6 weeks, 2/1/2023 to 3/8/2023 hosted by Grubstreet. Motherhood changes us...Becoming a parent and beginning to care for a child is a creative practice, yet we may find it difficult to find the time, or the motivation, to put pen to paper during the labor that is mothering. This workshop is for writers who have become mothers (self-defined), or mothers who need to write. In this four-week class, we will read and discuss texts on the topic of motherhood from a diversity of perspectives, and explore and interrogate our own relationship with motherhood through our writing. Sign up here!

ONLINE WORKSHOP, Not Exotic: Poetry on Asian American Identity (ASYNCHRONOUS, on WET.INK), 4 weeks, 2/13/2023-3/12/2023, hosted by Hugo House. This class will focus on poetry by Asian American writers in the United States. We will engage with poetry and spoken word, considering themes of belonging and otherness, homeland and loss, and racism and immigration. Special attention will be given to challenging silence, misrepresentation, the current climate of anti-Asian sentiment, and how we challenge it by telling our own stories. Sign up here!

APRIL-MAY

ONLINE WORKSHOP, 6 Weeks, 3 Poems (ASYNCHRONOUS, on WET.INK), 6 weeks, 4/5/2023 to 5/10/2023, hosted by Grubstreet. Want to experiment with new forms of poetry, but aren’t sure where to begin? Or do you find yourself with too many ideas to commit to one? Whatever the case, if you’re ready to produce new work, this class is for you! In this course, you will have one goal: to write three new poems. Over six weeks, we’ll explore different poetry forms and themes, reading published examples, and studying the craft behind them. Sign up here!

VIRTUAL LIVE WRITING GROUP, Halo-Halo Cafe for Asian and Asian American Writers, 6 Wednesdays, starting 4/26/2023, 3-430P PST, 6-730pm EST, hosted by Grubstreet. Need some structure away from the daily grind to write? Do you crave writing in a space that's safe and encouraging? Or do you just want to be in fellowship with other Asian and Asian-American writers? Bring your halo-halo, boba, matcha or kalamansi juice and join the instructor-led Halo-Halo Cafe: a virtual space specifically dedicated to Asian-identified writers! In this relaxed environment, we'll meet for 90 minutes once a week on Zoom to write, connect, get support, and share snippets of our work, all while the instructor plays focus-friendly music. This is a facilitated group meeting without readings, that will begin with a check-in and end with a check-out.  *Halo-Halo is a popular Filipino dessert that literally means "mix-mix" in Tagalog.  All genres, including mixed genres, welcomed! Sign up here!

ONLINE 1-DAY WORKSHOP, Belonging and Alterity: Writing Race, Culture & Identity, 3 hours, 4/28/2023 4-7EST (12-3PST), hosted by Grubstreet. This seminar is intended to highlight Writers of Color and encourage directly writing about race, culture and identity (intersectionally, including gender, sexual orientation, ability, nationality, etc) during these times. We'll watch and read short works together by BIPOC writers, do writing exercises and have space to share about being writers of various groups who may not commonly see ourselves in the dominant narrative and mainstream spaces. This pairs well with the 4-week workshop also called “Belonging” (see below) or can stand alone. Sign up here!

ONLINE WORKSHOP, Belonging: Writing Home & Identity for Writers of Color, 4 weeks, 5/3/2023 to 5/24/2023, hosted by Grubstreet. For self-identified writers of color of various identities, this class will explore identity, borders, multilinguality, migration, race and origins (real, imagined, and everything in between).  We will explore what it means to belong or feel outsiderhood in the United States; we will write to first challenge and respond to dominant narratives and create narratives that reflect ourselves, self-define ourselves in all our complexities. Sign up here!

ONLINE LIVE WORKSHOP, Revolutionary Mothering: Writing at the Intersections of Race & Identity, 4 weeks, 5/5/2023-5/26/2023, 10a-12pm PST, hosted by Grubstreet. Inspired by the anthology Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines, which "places marginalized mothers of color at the center of a world of necessary transformation," this class focuses on people who identify as mothers and BIPOC. We will read, discuss, and write at the intersections of identity, recognizing how race, ethnicity, language, class, gender, sexual orientation, and ability intersect with mothering and conceptions of intergenerational motherhood. Sample readings include essays/poems from Revolutionary Mothering, Raising Mothers, Maya Angelou, Ali Wong, Toi Derricotte, and more. Sign up here!

Fall 2023

OCTOBER

World Premiere of TINY FIRES, Oct 19-29. Tickets here! Performances at CounterPulse (80 Turk Street, San Francisco)

WRITING MOTHERHOOD - asynchronous/on demand writing workshop, opens Oct 11 for 6 weeks! Enroll here

Winter 2024

January 24 for 6 weeks, asynchronous workshop: Intro to Poetry

February 2-23, 4 weeks 10-12am PST Fridays on zoom: Revolutionary Mothering (for BIPOC-identified mothering people)

Jan 14, 11am-2am Jan 15, Artists Against Genocide – Counterpulse, San Francisco

Jan 19, 5-8pm PST, Poets for Palestine – Eastside Arts Alliance, 2277 International Blvd, Oakland, CA 94606