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Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month Celebrated at San Leandro Library

The performance will take place at the Main Library. Admission is free.

From the City of San Leandro

The San Leandro Public Library will be  hosting an evening of musical entertainment with guzheng instrumentalist Winnie Wong in celebration of Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month on Thursday, May 30 from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.

The performance will take place  at the Main Library, located at 300 Estudillo Avenue in Downtown San Leandro. Admission is free.

Ms. Winnie Wong has been playing the guzheng since 1983 at the age of four and a half and started performing by the age of five. She has performed throughout California and in China.

In 1990, Ms. Wong was promoted to the position of Director of the San Francisco Guzheng Music Society’s Youth Ensemble. She became a music instructor in 1992 and began composing soon afterward.

In 2003, she co-founded the China’s Spirit Music Ensemble, a traditional Chinese musical ensemble.

The guzheng is a plucked-string traditional musical instrument that has existed in China for over 2,500 years. The modern guzheng, Japanese koto, Korean gayageum and Mongolian yatga are developed from the traditional Chinese guzheng, making the instrument an extremely important piece of Asian musical culture.

For more information about this library program, please call (510) 577-3971.


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