THE APPA Newsletter

THE APPA Newsletter

October 28, 2003

See This Weekend

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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

(dkikemi@pacbell.net, dkikemi01@sprintpcs.com)

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The internet site is at:

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, 2001, 2002, and 2003 are available on the website if you want to look up some past event.

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APPA Board Meeting Schedule for 2003:

Evening meetings open to the public will be at the Hilton Garden Inn, 2100 Mariposa Ave.(corner of Nash)‎‎ 310/726-0100.

October 13 6PM

Detailed, updated calendar is again available on the internet at www.apa-pro.org in Acrobat and Excel formats . [I'm falling behind again!] Please send in information on cultural events and news items. Thanks to those who have.

Long range calendar items:

Chinatown Farmers Market Every Thursday, 3:00pm to 7:00pm Chinatown Business Improvement District http://www.ChinatownLA.com/ For Information (213)‎ 680-0243

Oct 3 through Nov 9 Play - Gao Xingjian's "The Other Shore" By the Sons of Beckett Theatre Company, Hollywood. The Sons of Beckett Theatre Company presents a performance of Chinese Nobel Prize winner Gao Xingjian's " The Other Shore", Fridays and Saturdays - 8:00 pm , Sundays - 2:00 pm and 7:00 pm. Special Festival Matinees: Saturdays: October 4, 11, & 18 - 12:00 pm and 4:00 pm. Tickets prices: $15 General, $10 Students/Groups, $5 with EdgeFest Passport during Edgefest. For reservations, call (323) 465-3136 or email sonsofbeckett@yahoo.com. Include name, phone number, performance date & time,quantity and type of tickets. The Sons of Beckett Theatre Company, 6425 Hollywood, Blvd., 4th Floor (between Wilcox & Cahuenga) Los Angeles, CA 90028, $15 general; $10 student tickets; $7 student group rate. For more information please contact:

The Sons of Beckett Theatre Company Tel: (323) 465-3136

Website: www.geocities.com/sonsofbeckett/

Nov 7- Nikkei Bridge Casino Night 8:00pm An elegant evening of gaming, raffle prizes, dancing, cocktails and hors d'oeuvres, at the Hilton Long Beach, 701 Ocean Blvd, Long Beach. $20 for presale tickets from Eric Kurimua (e-mail: ekurimura@aol.com); $25 at the door.

Nov 7 Fashion Show - Korean Traditional Costume At the Millemium Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles. To commemorate the centennial of Korean immigration to the United States, 50 of the most renowned Korean designers will showcase over 120 traditional Korean costumes. The origins of these costumes range from the early 14th century to contemporary times. 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM Millenium Biltmore Hotel, Biltmore Bowl, 506 S. Grand Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90071 $100. Send checks to KTCFS, 3345 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 500, LA, CA 90010. For more information please contact KTCFS Tel: 213-252-1052

Nov 7-14 Film Festival - Asian New Classics at AFI Fest 2003. The 2003 AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival celebrates the best of recent Asian cinema. The 2003 AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival presents " Asian New Classics ," celebrating the best of recent Asian cinema with premieres of the films below.

"The Blessing Bell "

Directed by Sabu; Los Angeles Premiere; Japan/87 min.

--- Writer/director Sabu has been fashioning a collection of films (DANGAN RUNNER, POSTMAN BLUES, DRIVE) that unite sound and vision in his own inimitable way. THE BLESSING BELL is a hypnotic tale of Igarashi (Susumu Terajima), a man who loses his job at the local factory and heads out on the road to see life.

Showtimes: Friday, November 14, at 9:30 p.m. & Sunday, November 16, at 3:45 p.m.

"Blind Shaft "

Directed by Li Yang; Los Angeles Premiere; China/Germany/100 min.

Li Yang will participate in a Q & A following the screenings

--- Every day, thousands of people risk their lives in China 's dangerous and often illegal mines. Banned in China , Li Yang's BLIND SHAFT tells the story of two of those people, Song and Tang. But these two have a plan—one that involves extortion and murder.

Showtimes: Friday, November 14, at 6:30 p.m. & Sunday, November 16, at 12:30 p.m.

"Blue Gate Crossing "

Directed by Yee Chih-Yen; Los Angeles Premiere; Taiwan/France/82 min.

--- Unexpectedly moving, Yee Chih-Yen’s romantic comedy proves that sometimes the simplest beginnings—such as a high school love affair—can lead to the most complicated, and satisfying, endings.

Showtimes: Sunday, November 9, at 6:45 p.m. & Tuesday, November 11, at 4:30 p.m.

"Chinese Odyssey 2002 "

Directed by Jeff Lau; Los Angeles Premiere; Hong Kong/105 min.

--- Director Jeff Lau's keen sense of comedy keeps the laughs coming in this period piece that pokes fun at royalty and romance. A young emperor and his sister seem destined to wind up with a restaurant manager and her wandering brother, but the road to happiness is paved with gender confusion and class differences in this fast-paced, absurd fairy tale.

Showtimes: Wednesday, November 12, at 7:00 p.m. & Friday, November 14, at 4:30 p.m.

"The Coast Guard "

Directed by Kim Ki-Duk; North American Premiere; Korea/95 min.

--- Kim Ki-Duk has been stunning audiences for years with films such as BIRDCAGE INN, THE ISLE and BAD GUY. Now the former soldier turned filmmaker imagines a living nightmare shared by both the innocent and the guilty.

Showtimes: Saturday, November 8, at 7:00 p.m. & Monday, November 10, at 12:00 p.m.

"Dolls "

Directed by Takeshi Kitano; U.S. Premiere; Japan/113 min.

--- A kaleidoscope of color and searing images, Takeshi Kitano’s DOLLS offers a multi-layered, often transcendent, take on modern love. For those more familiar with Kitano’s earlier, more tactile films, such as BROTHER, FIREWORKS (HANA-BI), and SONATINE, DOLLS will be an eye-opening pleasure, perhaps even a revelation.

Showtimes: Friday, November 7, at 9:45 p.m. & Sunday, November 9, at 1:00 p.m.

"Double Agent "

Directed by Kim Hyun-jung; Los Angeles Premiere; Korea/120 min.

--- In 1980, Korean espionage agent Lim Byung-ho defects to South Korea , where he becomes a member of South Korea 's National Security Agency and receives his first order from the North.

Showtimes: Friday, November 14, at 9:45 p.m. & Saturday, November 15, at 10:00 p.m.

"Drifters "

Directed by Wang Xiaoshuai; U.S. Premiere; China/Taiwan/120 min.

--- From the acclaimed director of BEIJING BICYCLE comes another absorbing drama about life in modern China . A stowaway who lived in the US for several years is deported. Having left behind a son, he returns to his seaside village and drifts aimlessly until he learns that the boy has been brought to China . He must struggle with his own emotions and insecurities to regain purpose in life and become a father to his son.

Showtimes: Thursday, November 13, at 6:30 p.m. & Saturday, November 15, at 6:30 p.m. Passes are on sale now; i ndividual tickets go on s ale Friday, October 17. All screenings will take place at the ArcLight Hollywood, 6360 Sunset Boulevard at Ivar. For passes, tickets and screening details, p lease call 1.866.AFIFEST or visit www.AFI.com. Location: ArcLight Hollywood, 6360 Sunset Boulevard (At Ivar) Los Angeles, CA 90028

Nov 8 Mago's: Feeding a Generation of Japanese American Activists, 2-4PM at the JANM.

Nov 15 Little Tokyo Walking Tour, 10AM-2PM, JANM, $11.

Nov 15, 16 Japan Expo at the LA Convention Center, info@japanexpo.org.

Nov 15 Bamboo Flutes in Asia and the New World, performance by George Tetsuo Abe at the Fullerton Museum Center , 301 N. Pomona Ave., E. of Harbor Blvd., 7PM, $4,

Nov 18 Architect Tadao Ando will speak at LACMA, 6:30 in the Bing Theater, $12, 213-639-0777

Nov 20 Two in LA by Rhiana Yazzie, staged reading of a play about a young Navajo in LA. In collaboration with the East West Players Writer's Gallery, Performring Arts Series at the JANM, 7:30-9:30

Nov 29 Fugetsudo 100th Anniversary of Little Tokyo Confection Shop, 2-4PM, slide show and mochi pounding at the JANM.

Dec China Expo, LA Convention Center

March 21, 2004 Live at the Armstrong - George Takei. 4:00 pm Tickets $30.

As part of the American Perspectives Series ...Salute to Liberty

Recognized worldwide as a member of the original Star Trek cast, Los Angeles native, George Takei is an actor, community and political activist, author, long distance runner and lecturer. Mr. Takei spent most of his childhood behind the barbed-wire enclosures of United States internment camps during World War II. His optimistic vision is a world where people from all backgrounds work together to overcome problems. Armstrong Theatre at 3330 Civic Center Drive in Torrance. Questions: 310-738-8011. Box Office: 310-781-7171

April 3, 2004 Also the Peanut Gallery Series which is especially popular with children

two to six years of age is featuring Korean Classical Dance, Saturday Morning 10 am.

Tickets $5.50 - $8.00, Armstrong Theatre. The Company performs graceful and elegant ceremonial and social dances that present a stunning vision of traditional Korean art. A thrilling drum dance is featured in a rich and vaired repertoire of exciting dances that

are an integral part of the Korean culture.

The Pacific Asia Museum (46 N. Los Robles Ave., Pasadena, 91101, 626-449-2742) Family Festival schedule for 2003, Saturdays, 1-4:

Nov. 15 Himilayan Festival

Dec 13 Pasko Sa Nayon

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This Weekend (and earlier)

Oct. 29 Chinese Indonesian American visual artist CINDY XIAN SURIYANI will have her first FASHION SHOW. She is collaborating with Pilipino born, Australian designer Paul e Magalad and his label SAN PAREDES for a LA Fashion Week preview of urban semi-couture silhouettes for Spring/Summer 2004. Parade 7:30 p.m. (Doors Open 6:00 p.m. RSVP needed for the Event ONLY to aria@apr-consulting.com. Enter through the MOUNTAIN BAR, 475 Gin Ling Way, Chinatown. On Saturday, November 1, 2003, SURIYANI and SAN PAREDES will host an opening ART RECEPTION for Suriyani’s new body of work, “Xishi: the Beautiful American,” which includes the 13 collaborated pieces with San Paredes. 7:00 - 10:00 p.m. BAMBOO LANE GALLERY, 418 Bamboo Lane, Chinatow

Oct 30 Trick Or Tofu, Cold Tofu Halloween Show, 7:30-9:30 at the JANM, www.coldtofu.com.

Oct 31 pm Authors on Asia at the Pacific Asia Museum, Julie Otsuka ,When the Emperor Was Divine 7-9PM. In her evocative, quietly powerful new novel, Julie Otsuka portrays the experience of Japanese-American internment during World War II and its enduring repercussions in the life of one family. Authors on Asia programs are presented free with Museum admission and reservations are recommended. For reservations and program confirmations, please call 626.449.2742, ext. 20. http://www.pacificasiamuseum.org/calendar/calendar2003oct.htm

Nov 1 Festival - Japanese Cuisine and Culture. The Japanese Restaurant Association of Southern California presents the Japanese Food Festival . Experience and explore Japanese cuisine and culture; taste sushi, tempura, yakitori, healthy food, etc; and enjoy a Japanese taiko drum show, koto and jazz. A grand prize of a round-trip airfare for two to Japan will be raffled; first 300 persons will receive a gift bag. 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM, New Otani Hotel & Garden, 120 S. Los Angeles Street, Suite 450, Los Angeles, CA 90012. Adult $25; Advance Ticket (before 10/24) $20; Children under 10 $8. For more information please contact Japanese Restaurant Association of Southern California (JRA), 213-687-4055, www.jrasc.com

Nov 2 Shipwrecked: Adventure on the High Sea, Family Sunday at the JANM. At 11AM & 2PM Nakahama Manjiro's Tale of Discovery Play.

Nov 2 Blossoms in the Desert: Topaz High School Class of 1945, presented by the alumni of the Utah concentration camp., reading and discussion 1:30 at the JANM.

Nov 2 Performance - Kahena Ewe: Flowing Lineage - Past, Present and Future At the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center. The Ke Po`okela Cultural Foundation and Halau Nameakanu O Laka O Hawai`i present " Kahena Ewe: Flowing Lineage - Past, Present and Future ," a concert featuring Makaha Sons and Kainani Kahaunaele. Special guest performance from Hawai`i, under the direction of Kumu Hula Aunty Mae Kamamalu Klein, will present "Papa `Uniki Lau`e 2003". Following an intense three year kumu hula program, Aunty Mae Klein will present some of her recent Kumu Hula, including Kumu Hula Mohala Reese of Lakewood (Nameakanu O Laka O Hawai`i) and Kumu Hula Patrick Makuakane of San Francisco. 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center, 1935 Manhattan Beach Blvd., Redondo Beach, CA 90278, $20; $25. For more information please contact Ke Po`okela Cultural Foundation Tel: 562-961-3131

Nov 2 Fine Arts - Chasen Kuyo (Tea Whisk Offeratory) At the Zenshui Soto Zen Mission, Little Tokyo. The Chado (Japanese Tea Ceremony) community invites the public to join in the annual Chasen Kuyo Event (Tea Whisk Offeratory) at the Zenshui Soto Zen Mission in Little Tokyo. Honored guest and lecturer will be Hirokazu Kosaka, artist/Shingon Buddhist priest/kyudo master/art curator, speaking on the topic "Veranda: Ma." Zen Buddhists in Japan (and abroad) hold "kuyo" rituals for renewal and rededication of cultural/religious/artistic practice and work. In this case, chado practitioners each will offer a worn bamboo tea whisk to show appreciation for its utility. Tradition sutras will be chanted by the temple's priests. Zenshuji has an active Sadobu (tea ceremony teaching organization) which has hosted this public program for many years. This group presented chanoyu demonstrations at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City . The temple is renown for exceptionally beautiful and delicious traditional "home cooked" Zen temple vegetarian cuisine. An ordained Shingon Buddhist priest, master teacher of Japanese archery and multi-media artist, Kosaka-sensei is curator of the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center's Doizaki Gallery and of the current exhibition "From the Verandah: Art Buddhism Presence" at UCLA's Fowler Museum of Cultural History. He is renown for his ritual archery, one of the traditional Zen arts which has had an impact on the Way of Tea as practiced by the samuri class. A donation of $40 includes offertory service/lecture, shojin ryori tenshin (traditional en vegetarian lunch) and a bowl of tea and sweet during a chanoyu temae (tea ritual presentation). Reservations by October 27 are essential. For more information, please call Zenshuji 213-624-8658. 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM, Zenshuji Soto Zen Mission, 123 S. Hewett St., Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, CA 90012. A donation of $40 includes offertory service/lecture, shojin ryori tenshin (traditional en vegetarian lunch) and a bowl of tea and sweet during a chanoyu temae (tea ritual presentation). Reservations by October 27 are essential. For more information, please call Zenshuji 213-624-8658.

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Last Weekend

" Music and Dance of Korea " as part of its Johnny Mercer Foundation Family Music Days concerts. The Hiza Yoo Dance Academy will perform traditional Korean folk dances in gorgeous, colorful costumes. Events I missed:

GATES MILLENNIUM SCHOLARSHIP (GMS) - APPLY ONLINE

Washington, DC - The Gates Millennium Scholars program is pleased to announce the launching of its website for the 2004 - 2005 GMS awards. Apply online or download nomination materials from www.gmsp.org. General information, detailed instructions, and current scholar profiles can also be found on the website. Principals, teachers, guidance counselors, tribal higher education representatives, and other professional educators are invited to nominate students with outstanding academic records, strong leadership potential, and commitment to community service. Nominators and recommenders must act in their personal capacity. Institutional nominations will not be accepted. All completed nomination materials must be postmarked or submitted online no later than January 16, 2004.

The Gates Millennium Scholars program was established in 1999 through a grant provided by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to provide Asian Pacific Islander Americans, African Americans, American Indians/Alaska Natives, and Hispanic Americans with an opportunity to complete a college education. The goal of GMS is to promote academic excellence and to provide an opportunity for thousands of outstanding students with significant financial need, particularly those intending to study mathematics, science, engineering, education or library science, to reach their fullest potential. Additionally, GMS provides opportunities for Scholars to prepare for leadership roles in their profession and communities through a leadership development program. GMS selected 1,000 high-achieving students for the 2003-2004 academic year, bringing the total number of students awarded GMS scholarships to more than 7,000 since the program's inception.

The United Negro College Fund (UNCF), with the support of the Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA), the American Indian Graduate Center Scholars (AIGCS), and the Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF), administers the Gates Millennium Scholars program.

Eligibility Criteria

In the 2004-2005 academic year, individuals are eligible to be considered for a Gates Millennium Scholarship if they:

* are Asian Pacific Islander American, African American, Hispanic American or American Indian/Alaska Native;

* are a citizen, legal permanent resident or national of the United States;

* have a minimum GPA of 3.3 on a 4.0 scale;

* will be entering a U.S. accredited college or university as full-time, degree-seeking freshmen in the academic year 2004-2005;

* have demonstrated leadership commitment through participation in community service, extracurricular, or other activities that reflect leadership abilities; and

* meet the Federal Pell Grant eligibility criteria. Eligibility for Federal Pell Grant can only be determined though the submission of a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) to the U.S. Department of Education, Federal Student Aid Programs.

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For information on the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion which participated in the liberation of Dachau, start at http://www.goforbroke.org and follow the directions to the Museum of Tolerance website.

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LA Times: (The Times are requiring registration again, but you might as well sign up for the free on-line access to their articles. This week they may even be accessible without registration)

Oct 25 MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK | 1898-2003

Charismatic, Feared Emissary of China's Nationalist Regime

By Elaine Woo, Times Staff Writer

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-fg-chiang25oct25000421,1,7277964.story

Oct 25 Pak Makes Cut in Men's Event

From Associated Press

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-nwirebox25oct25,1,354148.story

Oct 24 Against the Odds Is How They Have Prevailed

By Rebecca Trounson, Stuart Silverstein and Doug Smith, Times Staff Writers

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ucadmit24oct24,1,4067882.story

Oct 26 METROPOLIS / CHAT ROOM

The Godzilla-Sized Appeal of Japan's Pop Culture