Press Room
2021
Tribute to Janice Mirikitani
Nichibei Weekly
Sept. 2, 2021
Japanese Joy
Nichibei Weekly
June 10, 2021
2019
SECRET SAMURAI OF SALT LAKE CITY
Catalyst Magazine
April 1, 2019
How Brenda Wong Aoki Rocks the Kimono - Past, Present and Future
SF Chronicle
February 14, 2019
2017
2016
SFGate
Uncle Gunjiro's Girlfriend Returns to SF
May 17, 2016
NBC Bay Area
Celebrate 40 Years as Performing Duo: Uncle Gunjiro's Girlfriend
Video Features:
Uncle Gunjiro's Girlfriend Part I
April 2016
Seattle Times
Tracing Roots Creates a New Picture by Jerry Large
August 5, 2015
California ArtBeat
BLOG: Suite J-Town: The Art of Resilience
August 5, 2015
The Rafu Shimpo
The Sweetness of Community by Nancy Ukai Russell
April 24, 2015
2000s
SF Examiner
Ghosts and Jazz haunted San Francisco this Halloween! by Johnathan Bakan
November 3, 2010
Marin Independent Journal
When Japanese storyteller Brenda Wong Aoki and her composer husband, Mark Izu, perform, it’s often hair-raising
October 20, 2010
San Francisco Examiner
Mark Izu and Christopher Blasdel's new CD fuses jazz and traditional Asian music by Rick Marianetti
June 4, 2010
Monterety Herald
Legend' synthesizes variety of cultures, techniques by Lily Dayton
April 15, 2010
Arts Monthly
Wong Aoki Work Featured at Ethnic Dance Festival by Jean Schiffman
June 2009, Volume 18 Number 11
Indy Theatre Habit
Brenda Wong Aoki at the 2008 Hoosier Storytelling Festival by Hope Baugh
October 17, 2008
Booking
BRENDA WONG AOKI
For more information on Brenda's work, contact wongaoki@firstvoice.org or call (415) 221-0601
MARK IZU
For more information on Mark's work, contact mizu@firstvoice.org or call (415) 221-0601
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Kauaii Arts Magazine
Passionate Performance and Storytelling
May 2006
Ballet Magazine
Kuan Yin: Our Lady of Compassion by Rene Renouf
December 2002
The Advertiser
Uncle Gunjiro’s Girlfriend by Samela Harris
March 11, 2002
Los Angeles Times
Speaking of the Unspoken by Scarlet Cheng
April 30, 2000
1990s
Time Out
Berkeley Symphony Pulls Off Bold Program by Georgia Rowe
May 17, 1997
American Theatre
Review of Queens Garden
July/August 1992
International Press
Kaze, Japan
Article in Japanese: ブレンダ・ウォン・アオキ ~日米の物語を語る3世のソロ・パフォーマー~
February 28, 2010
Intoxicate Magazine, Tokyo
Review of Mark Izu
February 2008
The Straits Times, Singapore
A Lesson in Compassion by Hong Xinyi
February 24, 2005
Thessaloniki: University Studio Press, Greece
Theatre, Society, Nation: from America to the United States by Dr. Savas Patsalidis
Thessaloniki: University Studio Press, Greece
Article in Greek: THEATRO, KINONIA, ETHNOS: APO TEN AMERIKI STIS INOMENES POLITIES.