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ASIA WEEK SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA ANNOUNCES EARLY PARTICIPANTS and PUBLISHES 2018 WEBSITE June 26, 2018 (San Francisco ASIA WEEK SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA ANNOUNCES EARLY PARTICIPANTS AND PUBLISHES 2018 WEBSITE June 26, 2018 (San Francisco, CA) - Asia Week San Francisco Bay Area is delighted to publish 2018 website and announce 21 early participants committed to its 2018 edition: ArtSpan Asian Art Museum of San Francisco Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive Bonhams Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco Chinese Historical Society of America Christie's Clars Auction Gallery Contempor'ati Studios Inner Eye Arts Japanese American Museum of San Jose Misho Gallery NanHai Art Peninsula Museum of Art San Jose Museum of Art Society for Asian Art Sotheby’s S.Bernstein & Co., Jade & Oriental Art The Mongolia Foundation Village Theatre and Art Gallery 2018 Asia Week SFBA program highlights include the largest solo exhibition of the renowned Vietnamese American Artist Dinh Q. Lê, the Arts of Asia lecture series of “Desert Encounters: Arts, Cultures and Kingdoms of the Silk Roads” and many more. To find out about Asia Week SFBA participants’ upcoming events and programs, please visit our newly published website asiaweeksf.com, and you are invited to follow and share: Facebook: Asia Week San Francisco Bay Area Instagram: @asiaweeksf Twitter: https://twitter.com/asiaweeksf Founded in 2015, Asia Week SFBA will be returning for the fourth edition on October 5 – 14, 2018. Asia Week SFBA is the Bay Area's first, region-wide event celebrating Asian arts and culture by bringing together galleries, non-profits, institutions and cultural organizations featuring programming on the arts and culture of countries throughout Asia. More participants and programs will be announced in August. Stay tuned! .
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