The Democracy Center presents two solo shows that explore what happens when two Asian American performers fall deeply in love with Western mediums—movies and opera—they discover that they both may be in too deep.  

Bee Vang’s Your Movie Guide to Life delves into an actor’s existential journey through cinema, Hmong history, his antiwar activism, and his role in Clint Eastwood’s film, Gran Torino. Kurt Kanazawa’s L’Opera! explores what happens when a fun-loving Japanese and Filipino American opera singer is accepted into The Juilliard School loses his voice.