Yellow Pearl's 40th and Kanako

The Yellow Pearl 40th Year Reunion was held at Project Reach 39 Eldridge St in NYC on the night of October 14th, 2011.  It was a wonderful and heartwarming evening with great company, great food, presentations and performances.

Participants in creating the Yellow Pearl graphic publication 40 years ago gathered to take a group picture.

Participants in Basement Workshop join together to take a reunion picture.

Performance by the FIERCE JONES band with guest crazy man, artist, cartoonist, editor, creator of G.I Joe comics who is worshiped by so many people who are now adults etc, etc, Larry Hama.

Poetry readings by artist and poet Nancy Hom.  She began in New York with Basement's beginnings but soon left for San Francisco where she has been very active. 

The audience at the Yellow Pearl 40th Reunion. 

Some of the staff members of the Asian American Arts Centre at a reunion for Kanako Iwase who was AAAC's former archivist and intern.  She now works in Hawaii as a professional archivist and continues to advice us from afar (from the left:

Bob, John, Kanako, Eleanor, Misa, Karen, and Adliana)