Sony Music Group Celebrates APIDA Heritage Month ‘23
Could 31, 2023
This Could for Asian, Pacific Islander, Desi, and Asian American (APIDA) Heritage Month, we’re proud to embrace the theme “The Golden Diaspora: Exploring a New Period for the APIDA Neighborhood.”
During the last 12 months, the APIDA group has been acknowledged and applauded in media, music, and leisure, dawning a brand new period for APIDA illustration. The Asian group will not be a monolith, which is why we have fun “APIDA.” This time period encompasses all of the Asian, Pacific Islander, Desi and Asian American communities, which all have distinctive cultures, languages, and histories.
SMG honors and commemorates the various contributions of the APIDA group and embrace fairness and help for the Asian diaspora.
Celebrating the Golden Diaspora
Our month-long celebration of APIDA tradition and illustration began with a dialogue at our New York Metropolis workplace that includes members of the three-time Tony Award-nominated musical, KPOP. Moderated by Okay-pop professional Jeff Benjamin, we listened to Helen Park—the primary Asian American girl composer in Broadway historical past—and KPOP forged members Abraham Limand Kevin Woo communicate concerning the international affect of Korean popular culture in addition to their private journeys and experiences on and off the stage.
Park defined that it was uncommon for her to see correct Asian illustration in American theater and media rising up. “Most of the Asian centric tales had been written by non-Asians. It was oftentimes exotified with stunning music, however the authenticity was questionable.” This prompted her to reward KPOP for its dedication to authenticity and permitting its Korean forged and crew members to be unapologetic about their tradition.
We continued our APIDA Heritage Month celebrations with an ‘Ori Tahiti’ dance class led by Madilyne Nguyen-Acosta—SMG’s Range, Fairness & Inclusion Specialist—at our New York Metropolis workplace. As a Tahitian dancer since childhood, Nguyen-Acosta was thrilled when she was requested to share her information and keenness for the artform together with her fellow teammates.
“I seen that Polynesian tradition was not as prevalent in New York Metropolis in comparison with my house state, California, so once I had the chance to share it at Sony Music, I didn’t hesitate to say sure,” she mentioned. “It was enjoyable instructing Tahitian dance to my Sony teammates, and I believe everybody had plenty of enjoyable studying as nicely.”
Lastly, we tuned into an in-person and on-line hybrid chat withJohn C. Yang, President and Govt Director, andTiffany Chang, Director of Neighborhood Engagement at Asian Individuals Advancing Justice | AAJC, a non-profit companion by way of the Sony International Social Justice Fund. The dialog—which was moderated by SMG’s Govt Vice President and Chief Range & Inclusion Officer Tiffany R. Warren—highlighted the historical past and mission of Asian Individuals Advancing Justice | AAJC, the efforts to handle the nationwide rise in hate crimes in opposition to the AAPI communities, and the significance of allyship.
An enormous thanks to everybody who participated in our APIDA Heritage Month celebrations—particularly those that joined us from outdoors of SMG:
And a particular shoutout to Sony Masterworks Broadway and Expertise Advisory Teams (TAGs) HUE (Serving to Unite Everybody) and Wellful for dedicating effort and time to coordinating this month’s inside programming.
Our Ongoing Efforts to Help the APIDA Neighborhood
By way of our International Social Justice Fund, we proceed to have fun and help the APIDA group worldwide past the month of Could. Beneath, study a number of of our companion organizations who’re advancing social justice in numerous communities throughout Asia:
Yayasan Sosial Indonesia untuk Kemanusiaan (Indonesia) – An empowered group in combating for a simply, dignified, and affluent life for all inside the framework of human rights and pure preservation.
Milaan Basis (India) – Empowering women to face up for themselves by advancing their abilities, rights, and alternatives to unlock their voice, alternative, and internal energy.
Fashionable Girls’s Basis (Taiwan) – With a agency power, we try to defend the rights and pursuits of ladies and kids who witnessed home violence, and to remove inequality within the system and trendy tradition. By offering skilled companies, we consolation the injured hearts and souls, and we hope to change into essentially the most trusted group for gender-based violence victims.
Swadhar Institute for Improvement of Girls and Kids (India) – Swadhar envisions a society the place in girls in misery and underprivileged kids are empowered to uplift themselves and change into accountable members of our society.
