Tuesday Night Project

🪻 TUESDAY NIGHT CAFE MAY NINETEENTH 2026. . FEATURING @jettkwong @bydanenakama Mojdeh Rezaeipour @apiriselosangeles @farhan__inc . 💫 It’s almost summer and that means it’s show four of the TNC season and we have a LINEUP. We have guzheng. We have projection. We’re trying and sharpening things. Time to be outside—come through, bring a friend, we’ll see you there. If it’s cold we’ll have the free tea station back in the courtyard! . Always free, open to the public, no tickets or assigned seating. Come through, make plans with a friend, like, comment, share, etc etc. . DJ @thatflypinay . 🎤Want to perform for our Open Mic? Make sure to sign up for our lottery by 7 PM, there will only be 3 spaces available, two performances per performer per season please! We may ask to review your content. Please read the rules at /how-to-perform . 🤿As a reminder, masking is required in our space, and we will have masks available on site. If you can’t join us in-person, we will continue to stream our shows on YouTube in our link in bio.

⭐WE’RE EXTENDING SUBMISSIONS! Submit your work now, link in bio. 👐Tuesday Night Cafe is now accepting featured artist submissions!! 🌿Tuesday Night Cafe is an Asian American/Los Angeles mic series that runs from April to October. We are open to all performing/presenting disciplines and all experience levels! 🌿Tuesday Night Cafe is not a showcase! We offer slots to artists who want space to try/workshop new work, build creative community, and perform for a warm audience. 🌿Tuesday Night Cafe is a volunteer-run space with limited slots and book as the season progresses so unfortunately will not be able to book or respond to all submissions! We promise that every submission will be reviewed! Searching for a place to share your work? Whether putting the absolute depths of your soul into a song or writing poems about your cat (the two not necessarily mutually exclusive), Tuesday Night Cafe might be the spot for you! ⭐Link in bio for full details (please read thoroughly before submitting!) and form - check it out, fill it out, tag a friend or three!

YEAR 28 IS HERE. . Tuesday Night Cafe, the longest (still) running Asian American mic series, is at the Union Center for the Arts in Los Angeles' Little Tokyo every first and third Tuesday from April through October. Tuesday Night Cafe is a free, volunteer-run interdisciplinary art+community space that presents Asian American/Los Angeles artists and a three-slot open mic. . Each show lineup will be released 2(ish) weeks before show date. Block off your calendars and we'll SEE YOU THERE. . We're very scrappy, please share, like comment, tag a friend, etc thank yooooou! . 🎨 @farawrsu

🕓 THIS SATURDAY. Free/pay what you can. . This Is Not A Showcase, a documentary about Tuesday Night Cafe from @benigfilms , premieres this Saturday, May 2nd as part of @vcmediaorg Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. 🎇 . May 2, 2026 4PM Democracy Center at the Japanese American National Museum Q&A with filmmakers to follow Free/pay what you can Link in bio . This is Not a Showcase centers on the courtyard of the Union Center for the Arts, the home of Tuesday Night Cafe. Contrasting meditations and reflections from the filmmaker and TNC’s staff with footage from the show’s 25th season, This is Not a Showcase takes us on a journey through time and space as we search for the meaning of community, home and belonging in Los Angeles. . Producers: @traciakemi1 , @farrah_su , Derek Benig Director of Photography: Farrah Su Editors: Derek Benig, Kelly Duong Archives Provided by Tuesday Night Project, Visual Communications and Johann Diel

*UPDATE: Unfortunately Manpreet is not able to join us tonight! We look forward to having her through very soon! ♉ TUESDAY NIGHT CAFE MAY FIFTH 2026. 👊 . 💫 We're in May, it's happening, Tuesday Night Cafe is back with another show. The weather is getting weird and we're leaning in! If it's warm we'll revel in the early summer energy. If it's cold we'll have free tea station back in the courtyard! . Always free, open to the public, no tickets or assigned seating. Come through, make plans with a friend, like, comment, share, etc etc. . FEATURING @kwonixmusic @rafaellaangelica_ @manpreetandthesun @vcmedia Archives Artist-In-Residence @miapagebarnett with Kathy Masaoka . DJ @waxstyles . 🎤Want to perform for our Open Mic? Make sure to sign up for our lottery by 7 PM, there will only be 3 spaces available, two performances per performer per season please! We may ask to review your content. Please read the rules at /how-to-perform . 🤿As a reminder, masking is required in our space, and we will have masks available on site. If you can’t join us in-person, we will continue to stream our shows on YouTube in our link in bio. Edited · 1w

And after years of filming, announcing This Is Not A Showcase, a documentary about Tuesday Night Cafe from @benigfilms . Premiering next Saturday, May 2nd as part of @vcmediaorg Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. 🎇 . Come watch, maybe you’ll catch yourself in it. . May 2, 2026 4PM Democracy Center at the Japanese American National Museum Free/pay what you can Link in bio . This is Not a Showcase centers on the courtyard of the Union Center for the Arts, the home of Tuesday Night Cafe. Contrasting meditations and reflections from the filmmaker and TNC’s staff with footage from the show’s 25th season, This is Not a Showcase takes us on a journey through time and space as we search for the meaning of community, home and belonging in Los Angeles. . Producers: traci kato-kiriyama, Farrah Su, Derek Benig
Director of Photography: Farrah Su
Editors: Derek Benig, Kelly Duong
Archives Provided by Tuesday Night Project, Visual Communications and Johann Diel

This Is Not A Showcase. A documentary short from @benigfilms , centered around the courtyard of the Union Center for the Arts, home of Tuesday Night Cafe, premiering as part of @vcmediaorg Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. . Documentary premiere Saturday, May 2nd 4PM Democracy Center at the Japanese American National Museum Free/pay what you can . 🎧 @surrija - La Vie en rosé . Producers: @traciakemi1 , @farrah_su , Derek Benig�Director of Photography: Farrah Su�Editors: Derek Benig, Kelly Duong�Archives Provided by Tuesday Night Project, Visual Communications and Johann Diel

We’d like to thank everyone who joined us in launching our season opener on April 7th! From our performers, vendors, DJ, photographer, and volunteers to our audience members who came out! Photos by @gwendystar.media

🌆 SECOND SHOW OF THE SEASON. The poets are going to save us all. 🥬 On Tuesday April 21, Tuesday Night Cafe celebrates National Poetry Month . 💫 It’s our third(!) annual National Poetry Month Show where we’re inviting new and old friends to shuffle through their poems live and share across two rounds through the night. We’ll have prompts, pens, and paper for you to write and reflect—or to just take it in! . Always free, open to the public, no tickets or assigned seating. Come through, make plans with a friend, like, comment, share, etc etc. . FEATURING Aisha Weththasingha Jesenia Chavez @lamikethepoet @sehbasarwar @sahhhrena_ A special tribute to S. Pearl Sharp from Dorothy Randall Gray . DJ DJ LOMO HOSTS @tazzystar @traciakemi1 . 🎤Want to perform for our Open Mic? Make sure to sign up for our lottery by 6:40 PM, there will only be 3 spaces available, two performances per performer per season please! We may ask to review your content. Please read the rules at /how-to-perform . 🤿As a reminder, masking is required in our space, and we will have masks available on site. If you can’t join us in-person, we will continue to stream our shows on YouTube in our link in bio.

sending you my friday love 🌹❣️ this is 'Casualty' ~ a song from my debut EP, released one year ago. to celebrate its anniversary, i created a limited edition 12" vinyl! physical media !! 🌀 Side A has the full EP, Side B has bonus tracks: In Bloom, Butterflies, and Sino. ❤️ i'm currently working on putting out Lotti's next EP, Maharlika Highway 🛣️💫 and every vinyl purchased goes directly into bringing that project to life 🇵🇭❤️ Lottimusic.com/vinyl 💌 Thank you for supporting me, my music, and this journey. You're helping make my indie girl dreams come true. 🙏🏽💘✨ Thank you @tnproject for your work. For fueling me, for fueling artists to keep pouring our love into making music, art, community and connection. ❤️ filmed by: @alexnauta

Recap of the July 15th, 2025 show from last year’s season of Tuesday Night Café! Spaces like Tuesday Night Café are so special, and I feel so honored to volunteer to photograph all these amazing people and their art. May mask-required performance art spaces flourish! Come to the upcoming April 7, 2026 season opener show next week! Maybe you’ll see me there... (you will, I’ll be doing photography again hehe) 😸 I’ll be catching up on posting last season over the next couple weeks, so follow along @gwendystar.media for more! Photographer: Gwendolyn Hill @gwendystar.media Performance Art Space: Tuesday Night Café @tnproject Performances: SURRIJA (Jane Lui) @surrija Animated shorts by Haneen Koraz's workshop students in Gaza @animator_haneen Tanzila "Taz" Ahmed @ tazzystar Open Mic Performers @jo.an_li (Please let me know if you want to be tagged!) Okinawa Association of America @oaamensore Jenevieve Ting @tingrolls Vendor: Arya of Filter Feeder Press @seastarya @filterfeederpress DJ: DJ Waxstyles @waxstyles Alt text embedded & image descriptions in a comments thread

✨IT'S THE FIRST SHOW OF 2026. Flyer updated with the correct year. 🫠 We're doing our best over here!! . Tuesday Night Cafe is back for year 28! We've been planning for months and are kicking things off on the first Tuesday of April--come through, make plans with a friend, like, comment, share, etc etc. . FEATURING @jtowntaikoclub @its.saki UNION -- a short film by Form FOLLOWS Function Miya Iwataki @dusteesound DJ @thatflypinay RESIDENT HOST @farmerjohneric VENDOR @thescrapmart . 🎤Want to perform for our Open Mic? Make sure to sign up for our lottery by 6:40 PM, there will only be 3 spaces available, two performances per performer per season please! We may ask to review your content. Please read the rules at /how-to-perform . 🤿As a reminder, masking is required in our space, and we will have masks available on site. If you can’t join us in-person, we will continue to stream our shows on YouTube in our link in bio.