THE APPA Newsletter
March 19, 2002
In the Newsletter:
Events this weekend
LA Times & other news articles
MISSION STATEMENT:
Promote full utilization of the capabilities of the Enterprise's employees and champion the betterment of the company and community. Promote interest in Asian Pacific issues and culture and act as a bridge to all groups within our community.
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ed. by Douglas Ikemi
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The internet site is:
www.apa-pro.org
Our own domain name, apa-pro.org, stands for Asian Pacific American Professionals. www.apa-pro.org/ gives you a menu of AP organization websites.
Back issues of the newsletter for all of 2000 and 2001are available on the website if you want to look up some past event.
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APPA Board Meeting Schedule for 2002:
Evening meetings will be at the Hilton Garden Inn, 2100 Mariposa Ave.(corner of Nash)310/726-0100. Noon time meetings will be on Raytheon premises
(In case you haven't figured it out, APPA is an umbrella organization to which AAPA-BSS belonged. APPA is still functioning.)
Schedule for 2002:
April 16 (Tu) at 12 pm
May 15 (W) at 6 pm
June 13 (Th) at 12 pm
July 10 (W) at 6 pm
Aug. 13 (Tu) at 12 pm
Sept. 11 (W) at 6 pm
Oct. 10 (Th) at 12 pm
Nov. 13 (W) at 6 pm
Detailed calendar is attached this week and is available on the internet at www.apa-pro.org in Acrobat and Excel formats. Events go into the calendar that I don't mention here. Please send in information on cultural events and news items. Thanks to those who have.
Long range calendar items:
April 6 concert by Visiting Violette at the Japan America Theatre, 8PM, $16, 213-628-2725
April 5-7 First Cherry Blossom Festival in Pasadena, 626-683-8243, wowproductions@earthlink.net
April 7 Keiko Matsui Jazz Concert, 5PM at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts, $45, 40, 35, 800-300-4343 or 562-916-8500
Performance artists Lida Abdullah and Denise Uyehara, April 21, 8:30PM, Highways Performance Space, 1651 18th St., Santa Monica, $12, www.highwaysperformance.org, 310-453-1755, reservations 310-315-1459
April 27 33rd Annual Manzanar Pilgramage, noon, interfaith memorial service, ondo dancing, guided walking tours. Evening program at 6:30PM, Legion Hall, Independence. www.manzanarcommittee.org, 323-662-5102
8 June, 2002 - 5 January, 2003 Rediscovered Imperial Treasures: Masterpieces From The Nanjing Museum at the Bowers Museum of Cultural Art in Santa Ana, www.bowers.org
The Pacific Asia Museum (46 N. Los Robles Ave., Pasadena, 91101, 626-449-2742) Family Festival schedule for 2002, Saturdays, 1-4:
April 20 Thai New Year Festival
May 11 Different Drummers Festival, Memorial Park
June 15 Costumes of Pan Asia
July 20 Origami Festival
Aug. 17 Flavors of India
Sept. 21 Lacquer Ware of Myanmar
Oct. 19 Pakistan Festival
Nov. 16 Buddha: Faces of Enlightenment
Dec. 14 Pasko Sa Nayon
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This Weekend
March 23, Struggle and Success: The African American Experience in Japan. Film Screening and Discussion at the JANM. Co-Sponsored by the USC Program in American Studies and Ethnicity and USC Asian Pacific American Student Services. Struggle and Success: The African American Experience in Japan is the first documentary to thoroughly examine the complex relationships of African Americans and Japanese people. Regge Life, executive producer and director, initially went to Japan as an Artist Fellow with the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission and Bunka-Cho. He is the recipient of many awards including a CINE Golden Eagle. 1:30 pm - 3:00
March 23 Anime Season Opener at the Japan America Theatre, 4 & 8PM, $7, Dragonball Z, Yu Yu Hakusho, Blue Gender
March 23 TAIKO AT CSUN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER of Cal State- Northridge 1811 Nordhoff St., Northridge, 8PM $10 box office at (818) 677-2488
March 23 Astronaut Daniel Tani will be the keynote speaker at the 15th Space Science Day sponsored by the Astronaut Ellison Onizuka Memorial Committee of S. Calif. In Marsee Auditorium of El Camino College, Redondo Bch. Blvd.,and Crenshaw in Torrance. Call 310-532-3670 or Bruce Fitzpatrick at 562-598-3722.
March 23, 1:00 pm Craft Class with Ryoko Shibata
at the JANM, Pop-up Cards. Call 213.625.0414 to make reservationsMarch 24 Cherry Blossom Festival sponsored by the West Los Angeles Japanese American Community Center and Stoner Park, at Stoner Park Playground, 1835 Stoner Ave., WLA. 11:30AM-3PM
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Last Weekend
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April 6 Pantomimist Kyoichi Kita performs at the Dan Gallery, 7966 Melrose Ave., free, but RSVP required, 323-782-0080
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April 6 "Talk Story, Mainland Style," Issei and Nisei Japanese Americans share their stories, 7PM, SFV JACL Community Center, 12953 Branford St., Pacoima
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May 5, 2 p.m. Denise Chávez
A native of New Mexico, Chávez is a performance writer as well as a novelist and short story writer. Her newest novel, Loving Pedro Infante, is "a terrific novel full of abuelita wisdom and raunchy carnita wit." (Publisher’s Weekly) A reading/performance accompanied by movie clips. Moderator: Josh Kun, Sundance Writers Fellow & Asst. Professor at UC Riverside. Downtown LA Public Library, Mark Taper Auditorium * Richard J. Riordan Central Library, Reservations recommended, call (213) 228-7025, $8 – Single Program Tickets, www.lapl.org/events/wordofworld/index.html. Also, at the library:
June 9, 2 p.m.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
A native of Calcutta and long-time Bay Area resident, Divakaruni has for many years been involved in women’s’ issues, working with Afghani women refugees and in shelters for battered women. Moderator: Marisela Norte, poet and playwright
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State Hate Crime Hotline, 866-460-HELP, toll free
Connects caller to Fair Employment and Housing counselors who can refer to other services and local district attornerys
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LA Times:
March 19
VENTURA COUNTY Federal Racial Profiling Suit Is Dismissed
Oxnard: Judge rules that the African American plaintiffs gave no evidence that race was a factor in traffic stop. Police chief says officers will get more training.March 17 TEXAS The Mainstreaming of Latino Politics
By GREGORY RODRIGUEZ, Gregory Rodriguez, a contributing editor to Opinion, is a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-000019413mar17.story
March 14 TIMES POLL
Poll Analysis: Mayor Hahn vs. Police Chief Parks: Black Angelenos Say "No Contest"
Parks garners higher job approval rating than Hahn among city residents, the LAPD higher yet.
By JILL DARLING RICHARDSON, Times Poll Assoc. Director
http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/timespoll/la-031402poll-469pa1an.story
March 18 Ex-Japan Official Decries Koizumi [Makiko speaks out]
By JOJI SAKURAI, Associated Press Writer
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-japan-tanaka0319mar18.story
March 18 AT ISSUE
Fear has changed our definitions of what is right
Upland High School teacher Judith A. Wenrick asked juniors in her advancedplacement language composition class to research and write about issues ofconcern to them that have surfaced since the eve
By Layla Belton
http://www.latimes.com/tcn/ontario/news/front/la-iv0021282mar18.story
March 18 Wireless Video Project in Works
By Associated Press
http://www.latimes.com/technology/wire/sns-ap-japan-mobile-phones0318mar18.story
March 17 NEWS, TIPS & BARGAINS
Cherry Blossoms Set to Peak for D.C. Festival [Gee, mine has already done its thing!]
By Compiled by Jane Engle
http://www.latimes.com/travel/la-000019448mar17.story
March 17 L.A. THEN AND NOW
Little Tokyo Landmark Plans a Comeback [One of the first APPA luncheons was held at the Far East Cafe; My father has told me stories of it from before the war.]
By CECILIA RASMUSSEN, TIMES STAFF WRITER
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-000019509mar17.story
March 14 CLAREMONT
Vacation proves to be man's last
Longtime Claremont resident Mits Okazaki, a veteran of World War II, disappeared on a trip to Alaska with his wife and brother.
By Gene Maddaus / gene.maddaus@latimes.com
http://www.latimes.com/tcn/ontario/news/la-iv0021164mar14.story