THE APPA Newsletter

THE APPA Newsletter

November 11, 2003

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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.

(finished for the year)

Detailed, updated calendar is available on the internet at www.apa-pro.org in Acrobat and Excel formats . 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

Nov 1-Feb 1, Korean Costumes Exhibit at the Pacific Asia Museum, 46 N. Los Robles, Pasadena 91101, 626-449-2742.

Nov 17-21 Victims of Pacific Wars Photo Exhibition 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, 214 Kerckhoff Hall Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 90095. For more information please contact Center for Korean Studies, 825-3284, koreanstudies@ucla.edu, http://www.internationalucla.edu/korea

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 21 Anna Chi makes her directorial debut in “Blindness” at the Laemmle’s Music Hall Theater, 9036 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, 310-274-6869

Nov 22 Screening: The Secret of My Success (Wo chenggong de mimi), U.S. premier of a documentary about electoral politics & contraception in China (2002, China) Directed by Duan Jinchuan. Contraception meets electoral politics in this absorbing and comical documentary about the ambitions of Mr. Lu, the go-getting Birth Control Officer of remote Fanshen Village in northeastern China who will stop at nothing to keep his hold on power. Calamity ensues when a local woman who is pregnant with her third child flees the village, seriously violating the community's annual quota of newborns and jeopardizing the careers of all the village officials. Her disappearance prompts the scheming Mr. Lu into action as he conspires to fix the upcoming elections, which ultimately hinge on a question of absentee votes. Sharply observed details of human behavior and rich, painterly cinematography lend a fable-like quality to this microcosmic study of fledgling Chinese democracy. Producer: Jacqueline Elfick, Mark Frith. Cinematographer: Duan Jinchuan. In Mandarin with English subtitles. Beta-SP, 59 min. Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM. Location: James Bridges Theater, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095. General admission: $7; Students, seniors, & members of UCLA Alumni Assoc. (with ID): $5. For more information please contact Film & Television Archive Tel: 310 206-8013, www.cinema.ucla.edu

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

Dec 6 Fine Arts - Flowers in Harmony: The Japanese Art of Ikebana At the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, World of Art Family Workshop. Hisoko Shohara, president of the LA chapter of the Ohara School of Ikebana, will teach participants how to create their elegant arrangements while learning the design elements key to this art form. $5 material fee for Fowler members; $10 for non-members. Reservations required; call 310-825-8655. Not intended for young children. 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM, UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA Campus, Los Angeles, CA 90095, Free, $5 material fee for Fowler members; $10 for non-members. Reservations required; call 310-825-8655. For more information please contact UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History Tel: 310-825-8655, fowlerws@arts.ucla.edu, www.fowler.ucla.edu

Dec 7 Music of Edo Concert at the JACCC Garden Room, 2PM, $20. Japanese Traditional Performing Arts Organization, 310-378-3550

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)

Nov 12 Jazz vocalist Takako Uemura at Lunaria Jazz Club, 10351 Santa Monica Blvd., Century City, 9 and 10PM, $10, 310-282-8870

Nov 13 Discussion - Conversation: Tea/Cha At the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History. Moderated by Gaetano Kazuo Maida, this panel discussion will focus on the role of Buddhist practice in various Asian tea ceremony traditions. A tea tasting will follow the discussion. 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA Campus, Los Angeles, CA 90095. Free. For more information please contact UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History Tel: 310-825-4361, Email: fowlerws@arts.ucla.edu, www.fowler.ucla.edu

Nov 14 Pops Shakuhachi by Shohei, Monterey Park City Hall, 1:30PM, senior citizens free, and Centenary United Methodist Church, 300 S. Central Ave., Little Tokyo, benefit concert at 7PM, $10. Also appearing at Japan Expo Nov 15 at 3:30.

Nov 14-16 Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Asian Men v. 3 directed by Dan Kwong at Highways Performance Space, 8:30PM, 1651 18^th St., Santa Monica, $15, 310-315-1459, www.highwaysperformance.org

Nov 14,16 “The Blessing Bell,” written and directed by Japanese director Sabu, screens as part of AFI Fest 2003 at Arclight Hollywood, 6360 Sunset Blvd., $11, in Japanese with subtitles. Nov 14 at 9:30PM and Nov 16 at 3:45. Call 866-AFI-FEST or go to www.afi.com

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 15 Fine Arts - East Asian Tea Ceremonies At the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History. The UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History presents " The Ways of Tea/Cha ." Four different tea ceremonies, including a brief introduction to their forms and an opportunity for audience questions, will be presented in the "From the Verandah" gallery on November 15 and 16, 2003, n oon and 3 pm daily, by masters of Japanese, Chinese, Taiwanese, and Korean traditions. An informal tea tasting in the Fowler courtyard follows each event. Free; reservations required - call 310-825-8655. This event is held in conjunction with the opening of the exhibition "From the Verandah: Art, Buddhism, Presence ," on view at the museum from October 5, 2003 to January 4, 2004. 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM, UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA Campus, Los Angeles, CA 90095. Free. Reservations required - call 310-825-8655. For more information please contact UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History Tel: 310-825-4361, fowlerws@arts.ucla.edu, www.fowler.ucla.edu

Nov 15 Film Screening - Johnny's To's "PTU" At the James Bridges Theater in Melnitz Hall, UCLA. The neon-drenched streets of Kowloon at night have never looked so stylish as in Johnnie To’s minimalist crime drama that evokes both the existential cruelty of American film noir as well as the taut pacing of To’s own masterpiece "The Mission." When a hapless plainclothes detective (Lam Suet) loses his gun, two elite Police Tactical Units step in to retrieve it and soon find themselves entangled between a gang war and an Internal Affairs investigation. Hong Kong star Simon Yam is unspeakably suave as a PTU cop with a perverted knack for suspect interrogation, and Lam Suet’s character performance gives the film its heart. Brilliantly choreographed as an extended set-piece unfolding over one night, PTU alternates languid passages and tense moments, exploding in a climactic shootout that provides catharsis as it upends genre expectations. Producer: Li Kuo-Hsing. Screenwriters: Au Kin-Yee, Yau Nai-Hoi. Cinematographer: Cheng Siu-Keung Cheng. Editor: Law Wing-Cheong. With: Simon Yam, Lam Suet, Ruby Wong, Maggie Siu. 35mm, in Cantonese with English subtitles, 87 min. For further info, please call 310.206.FILM or log on to www.cinema.ucla.edu. This film screens at the James Bridges Theater in Melnitz Hall, located on the northeast corner of the UCLA campus, near the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Hilgard Avenue. Free street parking after 6 pm daily on Loring Ave. at Charing Cross Rd.; or for $7 in Lot 3, adjacent to the James Bridges Theater. Tickets are available online at www.cinema.ucla.edu or at the theater one hour before showtime. General admission tickets are $8 online/$7 at the door. Students, seniors, and UCLA alumni with ID - $5, at the door only. 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM.

Nov 16 Lecture - Yellow Flowers on a Rainy Day, Part of the Pacific Asia Museum's November Authors on Asia Program, reading and book-signing by Tanya Hyonhyeko. In Yellow Flowers on a Rainy Day , a book of poetry, award-winning writer Hyonhyeko documents the journey of a young woman from courtship through marriage to motherhood, addressing universal themes of family and friendship, love and passion, joy, hope, and humor. Books will be available for purchase and signing. Please call 626-449-2742, ext. 20 for reservations and more information. Authors on Asia programs are presented free with museum admission: $7 adults, $5 students and seniors, free for museum members and children under 12. 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM. Pacific Asia Museum, 46 N. Los Robles Ave., Pasadena, CA 91101. Free with museum admission: $7 adults, $5 students and seniors, free for museum members and children under 12 www.pacificasiamuseum.org

Nov 16 Koi Auction at at the Earl Burns Miller Japanese Garden, Earl Warren Drive near the Bellflower Blvd. entrance to Cal State LB, 562-985-8410

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Last Weekend

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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)

Nov 11 THE KIDS' READING ROOM

Part 2: 'Birthday Bows for Mr. Lee'

By Tori Smith, Special to The Times

http://www.latimes.com/features/kids/readingroom/la-et-story11nov11,1,2681570.story

Nov 6 COLUMN ONE

Huge Urns Hold a Big Mystery

Thousands of ancient containers are scattered on Laos' Plain of Jars. What once might have been a burial ground is a budding tourist site.

By Richard C. Paddock, Times Staff Writer

http://www.latimes.com/la-fg-jars6nov06,1,2028838.story

Nov 6 O.C. Farmer Named to Cabinet

Schwarzenegger appoints A.G. Kawamura agriculture secretary.

By Peter Nicholas and Scott Martelle, Times Staff Writers