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Kira Simon-Kennedy. I help creative people do impactful and interesting things as the co-founder & co-director of 爻 yáo collaborative, and an independent film producer. I like writing guides, redistributing resources, and curating meme tactics.
Kira Simon-Kennedy is the co-founder & co-director of 爻 yáo collaborative, a multifaceted arts nonprofit that has supported hundreds of different international creative...
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Since 2010, Amanda has been producing creative community spaces for Asian American, Asian diasporic, and queer & trans people of color communities. She is interested in solidarity economics, transf...Cleo was born in Zhejiang, China, and lived in Boston and New York before moving to Hamburg for an MA. She is a visual artist, film producer, animator, and designer playing with the absurdity and r...Josue Chavez is doctoral student in the Hispanic program at the University of Pennsylvania, focused on contemporary artists from Central America and their relationship to global political economy....After working at Red Gate residency in 2009, Kira and Crystal started China Residencies to support, promote, and interlink creative spaces in China and beyond. She continues running it to this day...Adam Short is the Associate Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations at Virginia Tech. He formerly coordinated corporate and foundation efforts in the Northeast region for the American Red Cr...An Xiao Mina is a technologist, writer and artist. She leads the product team at Meedan, and is an affiliate researcher at the Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. Passionate abou...Christina is an ethnographer helping organizations understand how their customers incorporate technology into their lives, with over a decade of experience in observing and orchestrating social int...Ian Yang is currently based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and works as Advisor China, Japan and South Korea at DutchCulture, centre for international cooperation. Yang was a grantee of the Erasmus...Angel is an artist, designer, and curator based in Beijing. She graduated from Bowie State University, where she studied digital media arts and studied abroad for three semesters in Harbin at Heilo...Hong is currently a senior visual designer at Alibaba in Hangzhou. She studied visual communication at Virginia Commonwealth University and has an undergraduate degree from Jiaotong University in S...Jialong Li 李家隆 graduated from CUNY, Queens College, with Master degrees in Urban Studies in 2015, and holds a BA in Publishing & Arts from Sichuan University in Chengdu. He is originally from Beiji...Julia interned for China Residencies during the summer of her junior year at Tufts, where she graduated with a major in International relations & English, and spent time studying abroad at SOAS in...Nancy Murphy, Brian Wallace, Kristin Congdon, Catherine Croll, Ed Dadey, Gordon Laurin, Joanne Wei-ching Chen, Daniel Szehin Ho, Emma Karasz, Ming Lin, Thea Baumann, Maïa Sert, Christina Yuen Zi ChungFilm & Video: Li-Lian Ahlskog-Hou, Nathaniel J. Brown, Grace Naw / Beijing Program Manager: Jennifer Lindsay / Writing & Editing: Rebecca Catching, Fei Liu, Iona Whittaker, Yang Yiran, Willem Moles...Mikail is a Visual Artist, Designer and Researcher from the Washington D.C. metro area whose practice focuses on intercultural interactions, folk art and queer communities. His family business, The...Shaonan is interested in queerness, biopolitics, planetarity, and the relationship between aesthetics and politics. Shaonan is originally from Kunming and is now based in Shanghai after studying ar...Kira Simon-Kennedy is the co-founder & co-director of 爻 yáo collaborative, a multifaceted arts nonprofit that has supported hundreds of different international creative exchanges to...
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Kira Simon-Kennedy participated in our Executive Program in 2015 and our Impact+ House in 2018. She talked to us about China Residencies, the organization she founded; “Commodity City,” the documentary she produced; and her thoughts about using art to work towards social change.
Kira Simon-Kennedy is a documentary film producer. She was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Documentary Feature for the film Ascension. Selected filmography. Ascension (2021; co-nominated with Jessica Kingdon and Nathan Truesdell) References
Nov 9, 2021 · Ascension (2021), directed by Jessica Kingdon and produced by Kira Simon-Kennedy and Nathan Truesdell, is a vividly striking documentary set in China that examines each stage of the supply chain and the day-to-day realities of workers who enable the lavish consumption of the upper class.
