THE APPA Newsletter
November 9, 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:
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 NakashimaÕs 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 Ð 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
ÒChanoma Film Festival
2004Ó presents nine various
Japanese heart-warming films from KurosawaÕs masterpiece to modern animation. The festival will
be held at LaemmleÕs Fairfax
Cinema in West Hollywood, LaemmleÕs One Colorado Cinema in Pasadena, and Laguna Hills Mall Cinemas in Orange
County. These films were depicted
from the familyÕs 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 2004Ó 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.
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
Nov 18 Performance - Buddhist Dance and Music II. The Los Angeles
County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents "Buddhist Dance and
Music." Organized by Ms. Hur Young-il, president of the World Ethnic
Dance Institute, this performance will feature important dancers and musicians
from the Korean National University of the Arts, Seoul, Korea. Highlights of
the dance section will include the Monk's Dance, a secular tradition influenced by
Buddhist folk dance, featuring a beautiful hooded costume with long sleeves;
the Butterfly Dance,
which takes place in a lotus pond, a narrative dance that has been
designated Important Cultural Property No. 40. The Instrumental section of the
show will feature varied examples of classical music performed by masters
from the School of Traditional Performing Arts. 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM. Los
Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Leo S. Bing
Theater, Los Angeles, CA 90036. Free and open to the public, but tickets are required. For more information please contact Los
Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Tel: (323) 857-6010
Nov 27, 28 Japan Expo at the LA Convention Center, http://www.japanexpo.org/
Nov 28 Japanese Folk Song
[Minyo]School ÒLA Chikurei KaiÓ to celebrate its 25th Anniversary at
the Aratani Theatre, 1PM. For tickets call 310-618-6845, 213-680-3700, $25, 244
S. San Pedro St., Downtown LA, 90012.
Nov 28 to appear at
Hollywood Christmas Parade
Dec 11 Yamabiko Kai
Theatrical Co. 1 & 7Pm, presents ÒTales of the EchoÓ musical based on
Japanese Folk Tales. Aratani/Japan America Theatre in Little Tokyo, Los
Angeles. Tickets $22, $19 JACCC Members, $25
orchestra, $22 balcony.
Dec 18
Mochitsuki, 7AM at the JACCC plaza, 213-628-2725
Jan 30 Kodo
Taiko Ensemble will perform at the Aratani Theatre, 244 S. San Pedro St., Downtown LA, 90012, $100, 47,
50, 213-680-3700
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)
Nov 10 Eigo Yose, a Rakugo performance in English
This performance is by SANSHOTEI Charaku, HAYASHIYA Imamaru and
KOMORITA Hiroko. The Japan
Foundation , Rakugo Artists
Association and the UCLA Center for
Japanese Studies present rakugo in English. Rakugo is a
centuries-old professional storytelling that depicts ordinary people's lives
with a comical twist at the end. The group of performers visiting UCLA at
this time includes a veteran rakugo artist SANSHOTEI Charaku, a kamikiri
(paper-cutting art) expert HAYASHIYA Imamaru, and ohayashi (musical
accompaniment) artist KOKORITA Hiroko. The performance will be followed
by an informal reception.
To learn more about rakugo in English, visit the following
pages:
http://www.english-rakugo.com/english_version/english_what.html
http://www8.plala.or.jp/y-naka/sub9.html
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM,
Fowler Museum Lenart Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA 90095
Free and open to the
public
Parking will be available for $7 at Lot 4. Enter the campus from
Sunset and Westwood.
For more information please contact Mariko Bird, 310-825-8681
Nov 13 Concert - Vietnamese International Film Festival 2005
Fundraising Concert
The ViFF 2005 Fundraising Concert will feature CLUB OÕ NOODLES
with two comedy skits "Cheesy Movie" and "Midway City by
Night." Vocalists and musicians Bich Ngoc, Bich Van, J.D. Hoang, Le Hong
Quang, Nguyen Cao Thang, Nguyen Vuong Huong, Nguyen Luan Vu, Peter Nguyen, Pham
Ha, Thuy Linh, Tuan Cuong, and VIET BAND (with James Le, Daniel Vu, Jimmy Tran,
Uy Vu, and Giang Nguyen) will join the celebration. There will be special
appearances by Katie Luong (actress/Spirits), Kathy Nguyen (actress/VAX TV
anchor), Long Nguyen (Actor/Green Dragon), Charlie Nguyen (director/Chances
Are), Ham Tran (director/The Anniversary), Lam Nguyen (producer/The
Anniversary), Victor Vu (director/Spirits)É Raffle with many great prizes will
be sponsored by Tick Tock Watches, Dr. Loan Ngo, Dr. Tran Ngo, and many othersÉ
6:00 PM - 10:00 PM,
Nguoi Viet Community Room, 14771 Moran Street
Westminster, CA . $12 (includes refreshments). Tickets are
now available at Tu Quynh Book Store (714) 531-4284, VAALA (714) 891-8172 or
"will call" by emailing Anne Hoang at anne102183-music@yahoo.com
Nov 13-14Chinese American Dance Festival, 7PM, San Gabriel Civic
Auditorium, 320 S. Mission Drive, San Gabriel. For tickets call 626-359-0867,
$15, 25, 50.
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
Nov
14 Celebration of Awakening: A One-Day
Multi-Cultural Festival of Spiritual Art. Experience the unveiling of
the 34 foot high Thangka of Liberation, the largest ever Tibetan thangka (silk
tapestry) displayed in North America, followed by performances and talks by
spiritual leaders from many traditions. Hosted by Lama Lhanang Rinpoche and Jigme
Lingpa Center, with support from Pacific Asia Museum's Himalayan Arts Council.
10:00
AM - 4:00 PM. Pacific Asia Museum , 46 N. Los Robles Ave., Downtown Pasadena,
CA 91101. Free and includes free admission to museum galleries.
Information and reservations, please call Rosa Zee at 626.449.2742 ext. 39, or
send an e-mail to rosazee@yahoo.com. www.pacificasiamuseum.org
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Last Weekend(s)
Caught a little of the
autumn festival at the Van Nuys Japanese Garden
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.)
Nov 7 THE WORLD
Italy's Migrants Moving Up to Front Office
Nonnatives are no longer relegated to
jobs behind the scenes. But the nation is still getting used to its nascent
multicultural identity.
By Tracy
Wilkinson, Times Staff Writer
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-newfaces7nov07,1,7692219.story
Nov 6 CALIFORNIA
FBI Eases Up; Muslims Still Feel Pain
New questioning of
immigrants seeks to balance civil rights and national security.
By Solomon Moore, Times Staff Writer
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-interviews6nov06,1,4902781.story
Nov 5 CALIFORNIA
Clearly Cut Out for This Work
No matter how you
slice it, a Mexican immigrant has found satisfaction and success as a sushi
chef.
By James Ricci, Times Staff Writer
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-sushiman5nov05,1,7317168.story
Nov 5 ORANGE COUNTY
Makers Defend 'VAX' at Forum
At a Westminster
gathering, producers of the TV show on the Vietnamese community defend it as a
history lesson for youth.
By Mai Tran and David Haldane, Times Staff Writers
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ocvax5nov05,1,2908873.story
Nov 4 ORANGE COUNTY ELECTIONS
Tran's Step Up to Assembly Is a Community's Giant Leap
The Garden Grove
Republican's victory is a source of pride to Vietnamese Americans.
By Mai Tran and Jean O. Pasco, Times Staff Writers
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-tran4nov04,1,4029833.story
Nov 7 LOS ANGELES
Rights a Victim of Terror War, U.S. Judge Says
A. Wallace Tashima,
in a talk in L.A., decries the courts' failures when he was interned in World
War II and warns 'it's happening ... again.'
By Steve Hymon, Times Staff Writer
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-japanese7nov07,1,3398782.story
Nov 6 THE WORLD
Russia Ratifies Kyoto Protocol
From
Associated Press
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-kyoto6nov06,1,3231221.story
Nov 7 THE WORLD
Kalmykia,
Russia's Buddhist Outpost in Europe, Toes the Kremlin Line
By David
Holley, Times Staff Writer
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-rusbuddha7nov07,1,6235507.story
Nov 3 DISPATCH FROM BEIJING
From Mao to Microsoft: an American's Chinese Odyssey
Sidney Rittenberg,
now a consultant for U.S. firms doing business in China, began his life there
in the 1940s as a backer of revolution.
By Ralph Frammolino, Times Staff Writer
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-rittenberg3nov03,1,5569818.story
Nov 6 BELIEFS
U.S. Muslims Temper Ramadan Giving With Caution
Concerned that some
overseas relief groups fund terrorists, many donate only to known charities.
Domestic agencies are benefiting.
By Teresa Watanabe, Times Staff Writer
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-beliefs6nov06,1,3550504.story
Nov 9 Guantanamo Trial Is Ruled Unlawful
Judge says that detainee was denied due process, and that Pentagon
tribunals are inva
By John Hendren, Times Staff Writerlid.
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-na-gitmo9nov09,1,1108650.story