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Tickets now available for Say Something Bunny! through January 2019. Visit: saysomethingbunny.com/performances

The third Covert Docs Program (which includes Music is Magic)screens at the following stations and times: KVMD Los Angeles Friday July 27 11-11:30PM Channels 23 (digital)/31 (virtual) WCIU Chicago Friday July 27 2-2:30AM Channels 27(digital)/26 (virtual) KELO Sioux Falls Saturday, July 28 2:30AM-3:AM Channel 11

Happy Family Market Curated by Angeline Gragasin & Farihah Zaman HUNGRY AF (ASIAN FAMILIES) • 4:20PM – 5:30PM • Co-Presented by UnionDocs From a Pancit (Filipino Spaghetti) Western take on sisterly revenge to the real life tale of a young girl in India whose tiny garden is the key to her future, the families in… Continue reading Summer 2018 Screenings

December 12 , 2017 From Alex To Alex screens at Light Industry: A Sleeping World presented by Joshua Gen Solondz December 11, 2017  Selfie Gifs screens at Schermerhorn Hall (Columbia University) reception with food and drinks, 5:30 at the Stronach Center (8th Floor, Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia University), Screening, 6:30, Room 614 (6th Floor, Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia University)… Continue reading Upcoming Screenings and Events

Say Something Bunny! Extended New York City run until January 2018, tickets available at: saysomethingbunny.com

With Say Something Bunny!, Alison S. M. Kobayashi and UnionDocs present an immersive and enthralling performance based on an amateur audio recording made over sixty years ago. The origin of this audio was a mystery. Two spools of thin steel wire were found tucked inside an obsolete sound device purchased by a collector at an estate… Continue reading Say Something Bunny! in NYC, Previews start May 5

The Toronto visual arts community chooses its favourite shows of 2016 We surveyed artists, curators and our own writer to see which 2016 shows moved them most. Their answers reveal an immense range of artistic visions. Link to article: https://nowtoronto.com/art-and-books/art/toronto-best-art-shows-of-2016/

I’m including a rare photographic print of my work in this year’s Photorama fundraiser for Gallery TPW. Collector’s Preview Thursday, November 24, 2016, 6 – 9 pm Opening Reception Friday, November 25, 2016, 6 – 9 pm Sale continues Saturday, November 26 – Saturday, December 3, 2016, 12 – 6 pm We will be open Sunday, November 27, 12 –… Continue reading Photorama at Gallery TPW

Photos from Sunday, November 13th premiere of Rites of Passage including Music is Magic or Goddamn You, Half-Japanese Girls and the live score by Ohbijou.

Alison S. M. Kobayashi’s new multimedia performance piece, Say Something Bunny!, first shown in Toronto at Gallery TPW this past winter, combines found and invented documents, theatrical staging, costumes, props, and multiple screens. Kobayashi and Allen’s striking re-imagination of the life and times of a Jewish family is based on a fragment of whose story was captured on… Continue reading Brooklyn Rail: Interview by Tess Takahashi

Sunday November 13, 2016 7 pm Isabel Bader Theatre, Toronto Buy Tickets MUSIC by Ohbijou (in attendance) FILMMAKERS Alison S. M. Kobayashi, Casey Mecija, Shasha Nakhai, Leslie Supnet and May Truong Working from personal home videos, filmmakers Kobayashi, Mecija, Nakhai, Supnet and Truong use experimental editing techniques, animation and documentary interviews to reflect on their understandings of cultural heritage and… Continue reading Music is Magic in Rites of Passage, Reel Asian Film Festival

Dan Carter included in the first program by new Milwaukee screening series, aCinema. October 28th, 2016 7pm PMat Woodland Pattern Book Center. Screening artists include Kim Kielhofner, Alison SM Kobayashi, Colleen Plumb, Eeva Siivonen, Josh Yates, and more. http://www.acinema.space/

Alex to Alex has been included in a program by Collectivo Toronto presented at Club Cultural Matienzo, Buenos Aires. Wednesday December 14th, 8pm 1249 Pringles, Buenos Aires For more information about the program or about Collectivo Toronto visit: http://guillerminabuzio.com/Colectivo-Toronto

Open Ears Fri, May 27, 2016 9:00pm Sun, Jun 26, 2016 11:59am Kitchener Sky Gallery 12-34 Young St Kitchener, ON, N2H 6P6 Canada Curated by Karie Liao When Open Ears wanted to animate the Cube in City Hall with a reel of GIFs that would tie-in to our festival theme - ReReRe – we immediately appealed… Continue reading Open Ears, Kitchener

“Having received from a friend a 64 year old wire recording purchased at an estate sale, the Toronto and Brooklyn-based artist manages to unspool a multigenerational yarn of Rothian heights.” MORE HERE.

Thursday, March 24, 2016, 8pm Gallery TPW, 170 St. Helen’s Ave, Toronto In conjunction with the exhibition Say Something Bunny! join Alison Kobayashi, Christopher Allen and Tess Takahashi for drinks and conversation about live documentary, identity contortion, reenactment, play, staging, research, family dynamics, and whatever else you want to bring to the table. Participant Biographies:… Continue reading Alison S.M. Kobayashi and Christopher Allen in conversation with Tess Takahashi

Saturday, November 7th. 6-7p. Free Comic Signing by José Luis Medina at Comic Arts Brooklyn Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church 12 Havemeyer St Brooklyn, NY I’m proud to have published Medina’s first comic book, I Walk Alone in Darkness: A Trilogy at UnionDocs this past June. Join us this evening for a one hour… Continue reading Upcoming Events and Exhibitions

Sunday, November 8th, 2015. 7.30p. $9 UnionDocs 322 Union Avenue, Brooklyn NY Curated with Johanna Linsley. Begins with David Helbich’s No Music – ‘Ohrstücke’, a performative rehearsal followed by presentations by artists Brian House, Laure Fernandez, Brian Fuata and Alison S. M. Kobayashi. Concludes with an open discussion. Performing Lost, Stolen and Misplaced Sounds This… Continue reading EAVESDROPPERS, VENTRILOQUISTS AND GHOSTS at UnionDocs