Bel Canto Books + Gold House are delighted to present a conversation with Ellie Yang Camp, Soo Jin Lee, Linda Yoon and Carolyn Huynh.Bel Canto Books + Gold House are delighted to present "Asian American Identity, Solidarity, and Self-Love: A Conversation with Ellie Yang Camp, Soo Jin Lee and Linda Yoon, moderated by Carolyn Huynh."Kindly RSVP so we can plan accordingly. Please stay home if you feel sick.This event will be held indoors at KUBO LB (3976 Atlantic Avenue, Long Beach CA).EVENT SCHEDULE3:45PM - Event check-in begins4:00pm - Welcome & event start4:15-5:00pm - Writers reading, conversation, and Q&A5:00pm-6:00pm - Book signing & shopping time6:00pm - Event endsABOUT THE AUTHORSEllie Yang Camp is an artist and educator from the San Francisco Bay Area. The proud daughter of Taiwanese immigrants, she has been a high-school history teacher, a full-time parent, a calligrapher, an anti-racist educator, and now an author. She has a bachelor’s degree in political science from UC Berkeley and a master’s degree in education from Stanford. (Author photo by Amy Hu)Soo Jin Lee is a licensed marriage and family therapist, executive director of Yellow Chair Collective, and cofounder of Entwine Community. Soo Jin's experiences as an undocumented Asian immigrant have Read More ...

Bel Canto Books is delighted to host Writing Against Asian American Stereotypes w/Christine Ma-Kellams, Janie Kim, Sonali Kohli + Karen Yin.Bel Canto Books at KUBO LB is delighted to host Writing Against Asian American Sterotypes: Authors in Conversation featuring: Christine Ma-Kellams, THE BANDJanie Kim, WE CARRY THE SEA IN OUR HANDSSonali Kohli, DON’T WAIT: THREE GIRLS WHO FOUGHT FOR CHANGE AND WONKaren Yin, THE CONSCIOUS STYLE GUIDEKindly RSVP so we can plan accordingly. Please stay home if you feel sick.This event will be held indoors at KUBO LB (3976 Atlantic Avenue, Long Beach CA).EVENT SCHEDULE3:45PM - Event check-in begins4:00pm - Welcome & event start4:15-5:00pm - Author reading, conversation, and Q&A5:00pm-6:00pm - Book signing & shopping time6:00pm - Event endsABOUT THE AUTHORSChristine Ma-Kellams is a Pushcart-nominated writer, Harvard-trained cultural psychologist, and college professor who occupies the intersection where story-telling meets an empirical understanding of what makes people tick.Her empirical studies on culture, social perception and relationships have also been widely covered in GQ (Australia), Esquire (Middle East), Boston Globe, Vice News, Elle Magazine (UK), the Atlantic, Yahoo News, MSN News, Fox News, New York Post, and Daily Mail. Her academic textbook, Cultural Psychology: Cross- and Multicultural Perspectives, has been adopted in Read More ...

Bel Canto Books is delighted to host a Poetry Reading & Book Release Party with Jason Magabo Perez + Renaissance HS Poets at KUBO LBBel Canto Books is delighted to host a Poetry Reading & Book Release Party with San Diego Poet Laureate Jason Magabo Perez and Renaissance High School poets Ashley Vasquez, Jule Loven, Nahlah Sweet, and Georgia Topper.Light refreshments will be served. Kindly RSVP so we can plan accordingly. Please stay home if you feel sick.This event will be held indoors at KUBO LB (3976 Atlantic Avenue, Long Beach CA).EVENT SCHEDULE3:45pm - Welcome & event start4:00pm - Event welcome, author and poets introductions4:15pm-5:00pm - Poetry readings, conversation and Q&A5:00pm - Book signing, meet-and-greet, and shopping time6:00pm - Event endsABOUT THE BOOKJason Magabo Perez's second full-length book of poetry is an extended elegy set in the alleyways and Pacific-bound boulevards of San Diego, California during the current global health crisis. Called “an antidote to despair” (Muriel Leung, Imagine Us, The Swarm) and poetry that “complicates notions of solidarity, community and justice, distilling the quotidian into something sacred” (Rachelle Cruz, God’s Will For Monsters), I ask about what falls away serves as an intimate grief manifesto against the daily violations Read More ...