THE APPA Newsletter

October 12, 2004

See This Weekend

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)

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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 2004:

Wednesday evening meetings open to the public will be at the Hilton Garden Inn, 2100 Mariposa Ave.(corner of Nash) at 6PM.

October 13

December 15

Detailed, updated calendar is available on the internet at www.apa-pro.org in Acrobat and Excel formats [I'll update it someday when I have some more time] 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 13-Nov 17 Film Festival - Reel China: Six Nights of New Chinese Documentaries At UCLA every Wednesday, October 13 - November 17, 2004. The Critical Studies, Department of Film and Television at UCLA presents Reel China: Six Nights of New Chinese Documentaries. This screening series is part of the ongoing fall 2004 REEL CHINA: New Chinese Documentary Festival in New York and Boston. It is perhaps not until late 1980s when documentary filmmaking in China started to realize the medium's major raison d'etre as social expression and critique in the most grassroots way possible. The appearance of such new documentaries - termed as the "New Documentary Movement" (xin jilu yundong) in China - is the combined result of a number of factors: a general mixed sense of hope and loss amidst an era of dramatic change; greater freedom in the economic sector plus technological advancement in digital media that makes independent and amateur filmmaking increasingly possible, etc. This is a movement that does not have a conscious manifesto but has doubtless grown out of the collective psyche of China around the turn of the century.

PROGRAM:

Oct.13 Houjie Township (2002, 80m, dir. ZHOU Hao)

Grandpa Jing and His Old Clients (2003, 55m, dir. SHI Runjiu)

Oct.20 DV China (2002, 92m, dir. ZHENG Dasheng)

Walk-on Roles (2002, 75m, dir. ZHU Chuanming)

Oct.27 Out of Phoenix Bridge (1997, 110m, dir. LI Hong)

TBA: Following the screening is a discussion with Prof. LU Xinyu, Fudan University, author of Documenting China: The Contemporary Documentary Movement in China (2003).

Nov.3 Along the Railroad (2001, 126m, dir. DU Haibin)

San Yuan Li (2003, 44m, dir. OU Ning and CAO Fei)

Nov.10 The Happy Life (2002, 90m, dir. JIANG Yue)

Dance with the Farm Workers (2001, 57m, dir. WU Wenguang)

Nov.17 Equilibrium (2000, 150m, dir. PENG Hui)

All films will be screened in DVD or VHS format with English subtitles

Parking: Free on Loring Ave. (south of Sunset Blvd., east of Hilgard Ave. at Charing Cross Rd.) after 6 pm daily. $7 in Lot 3, adjacent to Melnitz Hall. Purchase parking at the Wyton Dr. entrance to UCLA (at Wyton Dr. and Hilgard Ave.) before 7pm, or at the Lot 3 gate after 7pm.

Organized by: Critical Studies, Department of Film and Television, UCLA

Thanks to: REC Foundation/Dept. of Cinema Studies, NYU

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM, UCLA, 1422 Melnitz Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095. Cost: Free

Sept 12- Jan 2, 2005 George Nakashima: Nature, Form & Spirit at the JANM. This exhibition will feature a range of George Nakashima’s designs from the immediate post-World War II period until his death in 1990. Photographs, ephemera, and other archival materials pertaining to Nakashima will also be on display. Most of the objects come from the collection of the Nakashima family and will be supplemented with local loans. A video piece by John Terry Nakashima, a media producer and nephew of George, will be on view in the Terasaki Orientation Theater. George Nakashima: Nature, Form & Spirit is based on an exhibition organized by the Mingei International Museum in San Diego with Mira Nakashima, curatorial consultant. http://www.janm.org/exhibits/nakashima/

Oct 2 – Jan 2, 2005 Exhibition - Rinko Kawauchi: AILA

At the UCR/California Museum of Photography. UCR/California Museum of Photography is pleased to present AILA, the first major solo debut for Rinko Kawauchi, a young photographer based out of Tokyo, Japan. UCR/California Museum of Photography, 3824 Main Street, Downtown Riverside, CA 92501. $1 for the general public and free to members, students and seniors. Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 12 PM to 5 PM. For more information please contact Linda Theung, 951-827-5017

Email: linda.theung@email.ucr.edu

Website: www.cmp.ucr.edu/pr

“Chanoma Film Festival 2004” presents nine various Japanese heart-warming films from Kurosawa’s masterpiece to modern animation. The festival will be held at Laemmle’s Fairfax Cinema in West Hollywood, Laemmle’s One Colorado Cinema in Pasadena, and Laguna Hills Mall Cinemas in Orange County. These films were depicted from the family’s view point and give us a chance to re-think what a family is to us. Audiences can enjoy the films regardless of their age. Our goal was to deliver a further cultural exchange and mutual understanding of the Japanese culture to the American and Japanese audience living in Los Angeles. Chanoma Film Festival 2004” will present Japanese films from September through December one week per month at West Hollywood. In addition, Japanese films will be presented in Pasadena and Orange County for one week in October.

http://www.chanoma.org

Laemmle's Fairfax Cinemas, Los Angeles

7907 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90048 Tel: 323-655-4010

Website: http://www.laemmle.com/theatres/fairfax/fairfax.html

Classics by Director Akira Kurosawa October 8 - October 14, 2004

Ikiru 1:00pm / 7:30pm

Red Beard 3:55pm

Revival of Chanoma Film Festival 2003 November 12 - November 18, 2004

Remembering the Cosmos Flower 1:00pm / 7:35 pm

Sand Castle -Model Home Family- 3:15pm / 9:50pm

Sukiyaki 5:30pm

Japanese Animations December 10 - December 16, 2004

Catnapped! 1:00pm / 4:30pm / 8:00 pm

The Day the Earth Moved 2:45 pm / 6:15pm / 9:45pm

Laemmle's One Colorado Cinemas, Pasadena

42 Miller Alley, Pasadena, CA 91103 Tel: 626-744-1224

Website: http://www.laemmle.com/theatres/onecolorado/onecolorado.html

Featuring Director Junichi Suzuki October 22 - October 28

Go Rascals! 1:00pm / 9:45pm

Sukiyaki 3:10pm

Sand Castle -Model Home Family- 5:25pm

Remembering the Cosmos Flower 7:40pm

Oct 22 Gods, Goddesses and Ancestors: Masked Rituals of Kerala, India, Ravi Gopalan Nair, Artistic Director, U.S. Premiere, Royce Hall, UCLA, Tickets: $42, 35, 25. Kerala, a lush state at the southernmost tip of India, maintains a distinct culture, rich in spectacular folk, classical and performing arts traditions. Touring for the first time in the U.S., these dancers recreate the sacred beauty of the region’s most dramatic ancient dance ritual, the Theyyam, or “God’s Dance.” http://www.performingarts.ucla.edu/Event.asp?Event_ID=151

Oct 23 Rhapsody In Taps, A Tribute to Gregory Hines 8pm

Location: Aratani/Japan America Theatre. Under the artistic direction of Linda SohlEllison, Rhapsody In Taps presents a "Tribute to Gregory Hines" with the reconstruction of the pieces he created for the company. The program will be highlighted by the premiere of a new work by Monte Ellison all performed by the seven-member ensemble on stage with a live jazz quintet. Tickets: $30, $25, $19 JACCC Members, $36 Hoofers Circle, $28 orchestra, $22 balcony. More info: call the Box Office at 213.680.3700

Oct 23 Craft Class with Ryosen Shibata: Sumi-e Flowers. Draw California’s state flower, the poppy, using the art of Sumi-e. Class fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, includes Museum admission and supplies. Reservations are recommended. 1PM at the JANM, www.janm.org

Oct 28 National Museum Presents! Cold Tofu’s Soy-pooky Halloween Show. What could be scarier than improv comedy? Don’t be a couch pumpkin! Freak out your friends with the Halloween-iest improvisation you’ll ever see. Just bring your imagination and join Cold Tofu for laughs and a little music as we celebrate Halloween. Cold Tofu is dedicated to promoting diverse images of Asian Pacific Americans through comedy and developing multiethnic talent through education and performance. 7:30-9PM at the JANM, www.janm.org

Oct 28 Performance - Korean Dance and Music At the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents "Korean Dance and Music." Paul Lee, president of the Korean Classical Music Institute of America, will present the finest music and folk songs of Korea, such as classical music in the court style, bamboo flute melodies, and operatic folk songs. The event is free but tickets are required. Visit LACMA’s ticket office beginning October 1 to obtain tickets. 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM. Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Leo S. Bing Theater, Los Angeles, CA 90036, (323) 857-6010

November 6th & 7th, Aquarium of the Pacific Autumn Festival, Celebrating the cultures of Japan, China, Korea and Viet Nam. Some of the participants include:

Southern California Korean Dancing School,

Acrobatic Balancing Acts & Magic by Sha Sha Lui & Pedro Chan,

Art Nakane and his One Man Band

Angi Ma Wong - Feng Shui Demonstrations

Orgami Demonstrations by Michael Ujin Sanders

Japanese Dancing by Bando Mitsuhiro Kai

Cultural Storytelling by Actors of SAG Foundation, BookPals

Northern Shaolim Kung Fu Association - Chinese Lion Dance, Dragon Dance & Kung Fu & Weaponry and

Cultural Dive Presentations in the Blue Cavern

Kids Kraft Area with Fish Kites, Origami and Lantern Making

Visual Communications presents ...

PAST/FORWARD

NOVEMBER 14, 2004, 7:30 PM

at the Aratani/Japan America Theatre in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles

Despite heated requests for the infamous celebration of Asian Pacific

American chili and rice and cinema, Visual Communications has formally

announced that it will not be having its community ChiliVisions event this

summer.

Originally scheduled for August, ChiliVisions has been replaced by

Past/Forward, a fundraiser to benefit the Linda Mabalot Legacy Fund and

Visual Communications' programs.

http://www.vconline.org/pastforward/nochili.html

Dec 11 Yamabiko Kai Theatrical Co. 1 & 7Pm, presents “Tales of the Echo” musical based on Japanese Folk Tales. Aratani/Japan America Theatre in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles. Tickets $22, $19 JACCC Members, $25 orchestra, $22 balcony.

The Van Nuys Japanese Garden needs volunteers on Sundays in work in the Shoin Tea House, 11AM-3PM, 1 or 2 Sundays each month. Volunteers needed to either prepare tea or serve. Gift shop volunteers also needed, Mon-Thu and Sunday, mornings or afternoons, 2-3 hour shifts. Contact: The Japanese Garden, Attn: Betty Ethridge, 6100 Woodley Ave., Van Nuys, CA 91406.

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This Weekend (and earlier)

Oct 14 National Museum Presents! Barbed Wire and Hip-Hop CD Release Launch. In order to increase teens’ awareness of the injustices Japanese Americans faced as a result of racism and wartime hysteria during World War II, the group Project J, Justice designed a booklet of historical photos and text accompanied by a fusion of music. Barbed Wire and Hip-Hop incorporates audio excerpts from the Los Angeles Hearings of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC) with hip-hop, rap, and jazz. Written by Miya Iwataki of the National Coalition for Redress and Reparations (NCRR) with music production by David Iwataki, Barbed Wire and Hip-Hop will make its public debut at the National Museum. The event will include artists featured in the original recording. At the JANM, 7:30PM, www.janm.org

Oct 15 Miramar Air Show: Painting Chinese Landscape Painting At the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. San Diego Museum of Art and the Miramar Air Show presents "Painting Chinese Landscape Painting." Internationally renowned artist, Cai Guo-Qiang will create public artwork in the skies over San Diego in an unprecedented collaboration between San Diego Museum of Art and the Miramar Air Show. Cai's piece will be executed by the aviation team, Lima Lima, using six skywriting T-34 propeller planes in conjunction with SDMA's major exhibition Past in Reverse: Contemporary Art of East Asia. A video documenting the process and execution of Cai's work for the Miramar Air Show will be displayed in the Past in Reverse exhibition galleries at the San Diego Museum of Art, beginning November 6. For information on attending the Miramar Air Show, please log on to www.miramarairshow.com. 9:30 PM - 11:30 PM. Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, San Diego, CA 92145. (858) 577-4126

Oct 16 Little Tokyo Walking Tour from the JANM. 10:15am - 12:15pm

The Little Tokyo community in Los Angeles was once a thriving residential, business, and cultural center of the largest Japanese American community in the United States until World War II. Relive history and learn about present day Little Tokyo with National Museum volunteers on this historical walking tour. Fees are $5 for National Museum members and $11 for non-members, includes Museum admission. Reservations and comfortable shoes and clothes are recommended. http://www.janm.org

Oct 16 Lecture - Gardens In Asia: Varied Traditions

At the Pacific Asia Museum. Lecture by Dr. Bruce Coats. Mughal paradise gardens, Chinese courtyard gardens and Japanese stroll gardens will be among the major landscape traditions discussed in this lecture that will survey the history of garden design in Asia. Dr. Bruce Coats is Professor of Art History and the Humanities at Scripps College and teaches about garden history and Asian arts for the Claremont Colleges. This program is free with museum admission. 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Pacific Asia Museum, 46 N. Los Robles Ave. Pasadena , CA 91101. Cost: Free with museum admission: $7 adults, $5 students and seniors, free for museum members and children under 12. For more information please contact: Pacific Asia Museum Tel: 626-449-2742

Website: www.pacificasiamuseum.org

Oct 16 Performance - Hayato: Gekidan Niji Theater Company At the Aratani / Japan America Theatre. The Japanese American Cultural and Community Center presents Hayato with the Gekidan Niji Theater Company, directed by Hayato Murakami. There will be two performances, 1 pm and 7 pm. Gekidan Niji Theater Company performs the poignant autobiography of Hayato Murakami, a fugitive of the INS system who has been deported to Japan 10 times. Hayato is an orphaned victim of 1940 war-torn Asakusa, Tokyo.

George & Sakaye Aratani Japan America Theatre, 244 South San Pedro Street

Los Angeles (Little Tokyo), CA 90012. Cost: $30 General Admission, $20 JACCC Members, $35 orchestra, $25 balcony. More info: call the Box Office at 213.680.3700. www.jaccc.org

Oct 17 A Conversation with Sam Maloof. Master woodworker Sam Maloof, like his friend and fellow artist George Nakashima, set the standard for contemporary American furniture making. In a rare public conversation, Maloof will discuss his unique work, process, and vision. 2-3PM at the JANM, www.janm.org

Oct 17 Performance - Charity Concert Featuring Shreya Ghoshal At the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center. Pratham presents a charity concert featuring Indian singing sensation, Shreya Ghoshal. For the first time in the United States, Indian born and raised singing sensation Shreya Ghoshal of “Devdas- Dola Re” fame will perform at a charity concert organized by Pratham, a non-profit that helps to educate underprivileged children in India. Shreya is the winner of 8 prestigious awards, all received before she even turned 18 years old, including India’s Best New Talent of the Year in 2003. Pratham is a community-based grass roots movement to promote literacy amongst the most underprivileged children in India. Initiated by UNICEF in 1994 and starting with 2000 children in Mumbai, Pratham now has 30 projects in 10 states across India. “Without education a person can’t deal with life”, said Pratham ambassador, Waheeda Rehman. The Pratham initiative with its vision of “Every Child In School, and Learning Well” moves forward. Pratham has provided a ray of hope for 1 million children, with programs designed to meet the needs of the children it serves. The cost of supporting a child is only $10/ per year. Pratham is able to invest almost 90 percent of a dollar into its projects. For more information or to purchase tickets, please contact Priya Ahuja at pahuja@prathamusa.org. 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center, 1935 Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center, Redondo Beach, CA 90278. Cost: $35, $45, $55, $65, $75, $100, VIP, and VVIP

July 17, 2004 through October 17, 2004 The Occupations of Shôwa Japan in Pictures: The Woodblock Prints of Wada Sanzô at the Pacific Asia Museum. Modern Japanese society and culture is often imagined in dramatic conflict between western-style modernity and enduring tradition. This tension emerged in the Meiji era (1868-1912) and continues today, but was most pronounced during the early Shôwa period (1926-1989). This was a time when the nation rejected European values as part of war ideology, then enthusiastically re-embraced western culture during the Allied Occupation of 1945-52. www.pacificasiamuseum.org

Oct 17-18 Nikkei Bruin Conference: Buddhism In (and Out of) Place. This two day event (October 17-18) is co-sponsored by UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies and Center for Japanese Studies and the Nikkei Bruin Colloquium Fund

Speakers: Mark Blum (SUNY), William Bodiford (UCLA), Robert Brown (UCLA), Robert Buswell (UCLA), Bernard Faure (Stanford Univ.), Richard Jaffe (Duke Univ.), MATSUO, Kenji (Yamagata Univ.), Donald McCallum (UCLA), OKUBO, Ryoshun (Waseda Univ.), SASAKI, Shizuka (Hanazono Univ.), SATO, Hiroo (Tohoku Univ.), Gregory Schopen (UCLA), SHIMODA, Masahiro (Tokyo Univ.), Jonathan Silk (UCLA), SONEHARA, Satoshi (Tohoku Univ.), Jacqueline Stone (Princeton Univ.), SUEKI, Fumihiko (Tokyo Univ.), Mimi Yiengpruksawan (Yale Univ.) 9:00 AM - 5:30 PM, Royce Hall 306

Los Angeles, CA 90095. Cost: Free and open to public---PARKING $7 @ Lot 3

For more information please contact Mariko Bird, Tel: 310-825-8681

Website: http://www.international.ucla.edu/buddhist/showevent.asp?eventid=2034

Oct 19 National Museum Presents! Pacific Crossing: Yosuke Yamashita’s New york Trio with Guest Kabuki Musicia at the JANM, 7:30pm. Legendary Japanese jazz pianist, Yosuke Yamashita, composed Pacific Crossing to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the relationship between Japan and the United States. Integrating rhythmic structures and melodies from traditional Japanese music with those found in American jazz, the concert also features Cecil McBee? and Pheeroan alLaff. Joining this line-up are acclaimed kabuki musicians Meisho Tosha and Kiyohiko Semba. National Museum members $8, non-members $10. Advance purchase recommended. http://www.janm.org

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Last Weekend(s)

Oct 10 KATSUDO SHASHIN (Moving Pictures): Japanese Classic Films Return to Little Tokyo. Location: Aratani/Japan America Theatre. This series of classic post-war Japanese films showcases popular and rarely screened masterpieces from 1949 to 1960. These films cast light on the dramatic changes Japanese society underwent following the war. Award winning actress Yoko Sugi, featured in two of the films will make a special appearance to introduce the films.

1 pm "Yuki Guni" (Snow Country) 1957 (Toho, 120 min) Director Shiro Toyoda. Komako (Keiko Kishi) is a beautiful geisha with a deep affection for Shimamura (Ryo Ikebe), a handsome but cold city-dweller. Komako's relationships with others are strained by her love for Shimamura, whose distance is reflected in the dramatic, winter scenery of this film.

Before seeing the above movie, I went with my mother to the reunion for Japanese Americans who were interned at the Poston I concentration camp during World War II.

Local History: As you go up the 110 to Downtown LA. there is a sign for the Dosan Ahn Chang Ho interchange. Learn more at:

http://www.riversideca.gov/museum/rmm/ahn.html

http://www.unipeak.com/gethtml.php?_u_r_l_=aHR0cDovL2dvcGtvcmVhLmJsb2dzLmNvbS9mbHlpbmd5YW5nYmFuLzIwMDQvMDYvbGFfaW50ZXJjaGFuZ2VfLmh0bWw=

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. Calendar articles are usually only accessible with a paid subscription.)

Oct 13 COMMENTARY

21st Century Book-Burning

By Steven J. Ross

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-ross13oct13,1,2369963.story

Oct 10 DESTINATION: SOUTH KOREA

In Seoul, club-hop till it hurts

For a reasonable price, revelers can rock the night away at 10 bars during Club Day in the Asian capital.

By Joshua Richman, Special to The Times

http://www.latimes.com/travel/la-tr-korea10oct10,1,5411811.story

Oct 7 CALIFORNIA

Acting Jobs Decline for Latinos, Asians

By Lorenza Muñoz, Times Staff Writer