Denise Uyehara is an award-winning performance artist and writer whose work has been presented in the U.S., London, Vancouver, Helsinki, Tokyo and Hairou in China. She will perform an excerpt from her work-in-progress, Big Head, which explores racial profiling of Japanese Americans, Arab Americans and Muslims during times of crisis. Uyehara was recently a Poets & Writers resident artist at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Beyond Baroque Literary Center.