THE APPA Newsletter

October 19, 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.

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.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

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 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 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 20 Performance - Pollen Revolution by Akira Kasai At the Aratani / Japan America Theatre. The Japanese American Cultural and Community Center Presents the Los Angeles Premiere of “Pollen Revolution” by Akira Kasai. Dance magazine writes "The art of Akira Kasai is somewhere between the fanciful forays of Kazuo Ohno (considered the father of butoh) and the tortured journeys of Min Tanaka. He is a more athletic performer than those two. Presented in spring 2002 for Kasai's New York debut, this daring solo performance takes the audience on an almost surreal journey through time, cultures and states of being. Acclaimed as one of Japan's most highly acclaimed butoh artists, Kasai has been described as the "Nijinsky of Butoh." He begins the performance costumed as a woman in a kabuki drama and appears to perform traditional Japanese dance that is a complete improvisation. He transforms into a street dancer, a solitary actor, and a contemporary traveler. "Pollen Revolution" is funded in part by the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts, with lead funding from National Endowment for the Arts and Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Additional funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Ford Foundation. This performance is supported by The Japan Foundation through its Performing Arts JAPAN program. For further information call the box office at 213-680-3700. 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM. Japanese American Cultural & Community Center (JACCC) , George & Sakaye Aratani Japan America Theatre, 244 South San Pedro Street, Los Angeles (Little Tokyo), CA 90012

Oct 21 Reception and Exhibition - Impressions of Cambodia 2003. Reception for the Artist October 21. Exhibition runs October 21 - December 7, 2004. Michael Burr's photography exhibition, Impressions of Cambodia 2003, is making it's L.A. debut. 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM. SEWJEANNIE BOUTIQUE at Mani's Bakery & Deli, 2507 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA . For more information please contact Michael Burr, 310.399.4767, m.burr@gte.net, www.mburrphoto.com

Oct 25 An Evening with Aimee Phan. Come celebrate the publication of her book: WE SHOULD NEVER MEET Stories (St. Martin's Press) about Vietnam and Vietnamese Americans. Join us for a special evening of readings and discussions of the texts' themes moderated by Dr. Thu-huong Nguyen-Vo, Assistant Professor in Asian American Studies. UCLA students Satomi Zeigler & Shekahr Darke will open the evening with their own works. AAS MA student, Tram Le will be the emcee for the evening.

7:00 - 7:30 PM - Welcome by Tram Le and Performances by Satomi Zeigler, Shekahr Darke

7:30 - 8:15 PM - Reading by Aimee Phan. Introduced by AAS Associate Professor David Wong Louie

8:15 - 8:45 PM - Q & A facilitated by AAS Assistant Professor Dr. Thu-huong Nguyen Vo

8:45- 9:00 PM - Book signing

ABOUT AIMEE PHAN: Aimee Phan (UCLA alum, 2000) grew up in Orange County, California - home to Little Saigon, the largest community of Vietnamese Americans in the country. She received her MFA from the University of Iowa, where she won a Maytag Fellowship. She lives in Las Vegas, where she teaches part-time and is at work on a novel.

ABOUT WE SHOULD NEVER MEET Stories: Compelling, moving, and beautifully written, the interlinked stories that make up We Should Never Meet alternate between Saigon before the city's fall in 1975 and present-day "Little Saigon" in Southern California - exploring for us the reverberations of the Vietnam War in a completely new light.

Intersecting the lives of eight characters across three decades and two continents, these stories each surround the events of Operation Babylift, the emergency evacuation of 2,000 Vietnamese and Amerasian orphans from Vietnam under the executive order of President Gerald Ford just weeks before the fall of Saigon. Unwitting reminders of the war, these children were considered "bui doi," the dust of life, and faced an uncertain, dangerous existence if left behind in Vietnam. Light refreshments will be served. 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Ackerman Viewpoint Lounge, UCLA Campus, Los Angeles, CA 90095. Free and open to the public. Purchase $ 7 parking permit from Westwood Boulevard entrance for Lot 6 To RSVP-via email: aascrsvp@aasc.ucla.edu or by phone (310) 825-2974. For more information please contact Irene Soriano, (310) 825-2974, aascrsvp@aasc.ucla.edu

See Reel China above

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Last Weekend(s) Went on the Aidswalk, see http://www.aidswalk.net/losangeles/

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 14 OBITUARIES

Alfred H. Song, 85; Legislature's First Asian American Left Under a Cloud

By Elaine Woo, Times Staff Writer

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/politics/cal/la-me-song14oct14,1,3302383.story

oct 18 IN BRIEF / HAITI

Chinese Police Join Peacekeeping Force

From Times Wire Reports

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-briefs18.2oct18,1,986712.story

Oct 18 Yao Mania

It's that and more as the Chinese star basks in an overwhelming welcome in NBA's return to his country.

By Ralph Frammolino, Times Staff Writer

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-yao18oct18,1,6231526.story