Tiny Talks with Kenneth Tan: An IG Live Artist Talk
Bel Canto Books is delighted to host an IG Live Artist Talk with Kenneth Tan, TANS INTERWOVENBel Canto Books is delighted to host an IG Live Artist Talk with Kenneth Tan, TANS INTERWOVEN.This is a virtual event, presented on IG Live (www.instagram.com/belcantobooks).ABOUT THE BOOKA family is a collection of loose strands.It’s a choice to wind through life together.It’s a challenge to stay tightly knit.Meet the Tan family: Crescenciana, Olivia, Audrey, and Kenneth. They live their lives interwoven, their stories spanning time—from the 1920s to the modern day—and geographies—from the Philippines to Canada to the United States.After Kenneth did the running man for kindergarten show-and-tell, his older sister, Audrey, did a veritable quickstep inside their garage while balancing a tray of piping hot pastries. Their mother, Olivia, cha-chaed on Friday nights with her nursing school classmates, and her mother, Crescenciana, stole away for an evening waltz at a secret town fiesta even as Japanese forces occupied her village during World War II.Be it dancing or admiring women with rough hands or learning a super hard—yes, that is a technical term—language, the Tans find common threads running through the stories that they take turns sharing.TANS INTERWOVEN is an intergenerational collection of honest, Read More ...
