Storytelling

“Aoki’s storytelling runs the gamut from Japanese ghost tales to personal narratives interwoven with Asian legends and every day life.” New York News
Since 1976, storyteller Brenda Wong Aoki has enchanted audiences throughout the world. Of Chinese, Japanese, Spanish and Scots descent, this award-winning artist tells tales that touch the heart.She is a founding faculty member of Stanford University’s Institute for Diversity in the Arts, holds a K-12 teaching credential, an Early Childhood Development Certificate and she continues to teach and perform internationally.

Brenda is available for Performances, Workshops, Lectures and Master classes. 

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Full- length Theatrical Monodramas

Legend of Morning Glory – A Kabuki love story about a poor boy and a rich girl

Uncle Gunjiro’s Girlfriend – The true story of a Samurai and the Archdeacon’s daughter,  the first Japanese-Caucasian marriage in California1909

Mermaid Meat: The Secret to Immortality - Supernatural tales of passion, power, and love

Performances for Schools

Brenda in San Francisco

Brenda in San Francisco

Tales of the Pacific Rim - Grades K-5

Pan-Asian stories like The Red Oni, Silly Saburo, Twilight Crane and How a Little Girl Saves the World all explore the impact of individual action and behavior

NEW! Full Color, 12 page Study Guide for Teachers: CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD

Ghosts and Warriors - Grades 6-12
Identity, peer pressure, mass hysteria, the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII and ghost legends from ancient Japan are some of the stories in this program

The Queen’s Garden - Grades 9-12
A tale set on the wrong side of the flood control amongst Pacific Island street gangs and the polyglot of cultures that make up The Westside. This program explores race, class, the cost of change and first love between a good girl and a bad boy

Booking Brenda

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Upcoming Events

September 18-19, 2010: Brenda Wong Aoki performing at Kennesaw State University, Georgia.

September 20-26, 2010: Brenda Wong Aoki performing at the International Storytelling Center, Jonesborough, Tennessee.

October 28, 2010: Brenda Wong Aoki and Mark Izu perform Japanese Ghost Stories for Matcha Night at the Asian Museum, 5-9 PM

October 30, 2010: Brenda Wong Aoki and Mark Izu perform Japanese Ghost Stories at 142 Throckmorton Theatre.

October 31, 2010: Brenda Wong Aoki and Mark Izu perform Japanese Ghost Stories at Yoshi's Jazz Club, San Francisco

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Founded by Brenda Wong Aoki and Mark Izu in 1995, the mission of the non-profit First Voice is to create and develop the stories and music of people living between worlds. Critical to this mission is "personal experience" or "voice" as essential to authentic pan-world culture. Please help support First Voice with a donation.

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