First Voice

First Voice Interdisciplinary work that interprets the pluralistic nature of the American experience from a Japan

04/23/2026

Opening tonight.

“Lineages of Organizing” marks 30 years of the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center, an institution I’ve been part of since its earliest days.

Mark and my performance work lives inside this exhibition, threads from a longer cultural movement that continues to unfold.

To witness these histories gathered, honored, and carried forward is deeply meaningful.

We are part of the lineage, and the lineage continues.

04/22/2026

Today, I return to solo performance.

I’ll be sharing a new work from my upcoming album at the Earth Day Poetry Reading and Storytelling gathering.

It’s been years since I’ve stood alone in this way, voice, body, and story without distance.

This piece comes from where I am now.
Not a return backward, but forward.

If you’ve known my work before, this is something new.









04/22/2026

This past Sunday, I walked in the 59th Annual Cherry Blossom Parade with my son, KK Aoki Izu.

We walked as descendants.

My grandfather, Rev. Chojiro Aoki, was one of the founders of Japantown San Francisco, the first Japantown in the United States, and among the first fully ordained Japanese Christian ministers in the world.

To walk those streets with my son felt like time collapsing, past and future moving together.

Lineage lives in the body.

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