This year’s Asian American Literature Festival — the first since 2019 — seemed destined to feel special. In a move that stunned the Smithsonian's partners for the event, the program was canceled just weeks before it was to take place in August.
destined to feel special.it was a completely different feeling. We’ve experienced so much loss, increased violence, discrimination,” said Neelanjana Banerjee, managing editor of Kaya Press, one of the organizers of the event. “This festival is more important than ever.”The biannual event, produced by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center , was relatively new.
The governments of Australia and New Zealand had invested $63,600 in funds for programs they had organized at and around the festival, which included a 10-day residency, a reading with New Zealand’s poet laureate and events at the New Zealand Embassy. Tan and McIntosh asked the Smithsonian for reimbursement of nearly $24,000 they had spent on flights, visas and other costs, as well as a clear explanation that they could provide to their funders.
She also wrote, “The festival was scheduled to undergo standard review by Smithsonian senior staff, conducted by the Office of the Under Secretary for Museums and Culture, on July 19th. The festival organizers were unable to prepare a full packet of confirmed materials for this review of the program and its content. As the festival could not be executed to the high-level standards required by the Smithsonian, the decision was made to cancel.”In a follow-up, St.
comprehensive list of audiovisual needs in June and a full schedule of programs on May 3. Any changes since then were minor, Hao said, and to be expected while planning a large, complex event. “None of those tweaks would have changed the core character of the festival or its scale,” she said.
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