Crescendo Radio EP04: Genny Lim

Crescendo Radio Episode 04: Genny Lim
This week's installment of Crescendo Radio showcases Genny Lim, a poet, playwright, performer, and longtime cultural worker who was the first Chinese American Poet Laureate of San Francisco. A key artistic collaborator with Asian Improv Arts and Records since the 1980s, Genny has continuously worked with musicians to connect writing, performance, and community activism. Genny Lim reflects on the lack of spaces to share and preserve collective histories in Asian and Asian Pacific Islander communities and how collaboration through the arts helps keep those sacred memories alive. Genny Lim’s life work is integral to Crescendo: How Art Makes Movements (1981–1999), highlighting how storytelling and collaboration sustain cultural memory and collective, embodied resistance.
Crescendo Radio episodes are produced by Rowhome Productions