THE APPA Newsletter
January 25, 2005
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
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website if you want to look up some past event.
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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
November
13, 2004 Ð April 3, 2005 John Kwok: Line and Color exhibit. Chinese American Museum, 425 N. Los Angeles
Street, Los Angeles 90012 (In Olvera Street) 213-626-5240. http://www.camla.org/events/calendar.htm
Feb
2 Tony Award Winner PROOF at the East West Players, By David Auburn, Directed
by Heidi Helen Davis
Opens
February 2-27, 2005, Previews January 27-30, 2005
ASL-interpreted
performance February 12, 2005 at 2 p.m.
Cast
(alphabetically): includes Kimiko Gelman, David J. Lee, Dom Magwili and Joanne
Takahashi.
Catherine
spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, a famous
mathematician. Following his death, she must deal with her own volatile
emotions; the arrival of her estranged sister; and the attentions of her
fatherÕs former student. A burgeoning romance and the discovery of a mysterious
notebook create the most difficult problem of all: How much of her fatherÕs
madness - or genius - will Catherine inherit?
Single
Ticket Prices
Previews
$20 General (all seats)
$10 Student (all seats)
Opening
Night
$63 (all seats; includes a pre-show
hosted bar and post-show reception with the production cast, creative team and
crew; and East West Players Board of Directors and staff.)
General
$38 Orchestra
$33 Balcony
PROOF
is supported in part by the California Community Foundation.
Charge
by phone (213) 625-7000, x 20 (Monday through Saturday, 11 am - 5 pm)
http://www.eastwestplayers.org/proof.htm
Feb 5 San Gabriel Valley Annual Lunar New Year Parade and Festival. Parade - 11:00 am to 12:30 pm On Valley
from San Gabriel to Almansor. Beautiful floats, mighty bands, the energetic
winding dragon, as well as the lion dance with acrobatic martial arts will
embrace the spirit of the New Year. The parade will be watched by approximately
thirty thousand people lining the
1.5 mile route on Valley Blvd. Beginning in San Gabriel and ending in Alhambra.
It will also reach thousands of people at home through the live broadcasting on
KMNY 1370 AM Chinese radio. The delayed televised program will be shown on
local, cable, and satellite channels
Street Festival - 10 am - 5:30 pm On Valley Blvd. Between Garfield & Almansor. The Festival will be held in the heart of one of the largest Chinese / American commercial districts in the southland, becoming almost more of an outreach than a premier cultural celebration. The one day festivities attract about 50,000 people and consist of more than 100 booths and many theme-oriented venues such as the Cultural Village. The food court will be presenting many ethnic flavors. Admission is free. The Volvo Auto Square will be displaying a fleet of their latest vehicles renowned for safety and durability.
The festival will include an Entertainment Stage that features a
variety of programs including the JCPenney Fashion Show. The Cultural
Pavilion will be presenting
several exhibits that will provide a glimpse into Chinese culture and tradition
including the giveaway of one thousand red envelopes. Several special areas
will be provided for children. The Children's Fun Zone has a stage of its own for storytelling
and singing
A Worship Ceremony to Our Ancestors - 10 am - 11 pm
It is an essential new year custom for Asian people to pay respect
to and remember their ancestors, asking for prosperity and good health for the
coming year. Statues of Gods and more than 500 Chinese surnames written on
scrolls were displayed on the stage. A large table filled with flowers, fruits
and wine offerings. At 10 a.m., religious and civic leaders will gathered to perform
traditional rituals that asking our ancestors to bless our country and our
people.
Feb 6-May 1 Japan after Perry:
Views of Yokohama and Meiji Japan The opening of Yokohama to trade with the United States and Europe
in 1859 ended more than two centuries of Japanese isolation and transformed the
rural fishing village into a thriving international port. Curated by Ann
Yonemura, Senior Associate Curator of Japanese Art of the Freer Gallery of Art
and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, this exhibition documents this early history
of JapanÕs gateway to the world, artists produced colorful woodblock prints of
city scenes, urbane residents, and harbor views, capturing this tumultuous era
of JapanÕs transformation into a modern industrial state and international
power. Organized by the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian
Institution, Japan After Perry: Views of Yokohama and Meiji Japan showcases 24
woodblock prints from the collection gift of Ambassador and Mrs. William and
Florence Leonhart. The presentation at the Japanese American National Museum
commemorates 150 years of U.S.-Japan relations. http://www.janm.org/events/2005/02/
February 6, 2005 - July 24 Lasting Beauty: Miss Jamison and the
Student Muralists
This exhibition premiered in arkansas as part of Life Interrupted:
The Japanese American Experience in World War II Arkansas, a partnership between
the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and the National Museum with major
funding provided by the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation. http://www.janm.org/events/2005/02/
Feb 6 Satori Daiko and Yukiko Matsuyama on koto
will perform in concert at the Folk Music Center in Claremont at 7:30PM. 220
Yale Ave., (10 Fwy exit Indian Hill Ave., N) $10 in advance or $12 at the door,
call 909-624-2928.
Feb 12 Los Angeles Chinese Chamber of Commerce
New Year Festival, 10AM-7PM, Golden Dragon Parade 2-5PM. Feb. 13 10AM-6PM. http://www.lagoldendragonparade.com/
Feb 13, 2005 Los Angeles Chinatown Firecracker 5k/10k, Celebrating
the Year of the Rooster, Lunar Year 4703 http://www.firecracker10k.org/
February 17,
2005 Cold Tofu Salutes the Oscars
7:30PM at the Japanese
American National Museum. The hilarious
improvisational troupe Cold Tofu returns to the National Museum and they're
ready for their close-up. Join us for an evening that's all about Hollywood.
Cold Tofu is dedicated to promoting diverse images of Asian Pacific Americans
through comedy and to developing multiethnic talent through education and performance.
Visit Cold Tofu online at www.coldtofu.com.
Feb.
17-20 Violinist Midori plays Beethoven at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in
downtown LA. Tickets start at $36, for info call 323-850-2000. 8PM Thu, Fri,
2PM on Sun.
February 19, 2005 Little Tokyo Walking Tour from the Japanese
American National Museum. 10:15AM The Little Tokyo community in Los Angeles was
once a thriving residential, business, and cultural center of the largest
Japanese American community in the US 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/events/2005/02/
February 19, 2005 Day of Remembrance 2PM at the Japanese American
National Museum. "Patriotism" and "loyalty" were volatile
issues in America's concentration camps during World War II and continue to be
controversial topics today. The program will examine the response of Japanese
Americans to the US government's test of loyalty (Questions 27 and 28) --
including responses from resistors -- and our responsibility to defend those
whose constitutional rights are currently being denied. The Day of Remembrance
commemorates the signing of Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942, which
led to the incarceration of nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans. Day of
Remembrance is co-sponsored by Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress, Japanese
American Citizens League/Pacific Southwest District, Japanese American Cultural
and Community Center, and the Japanese American National Museum http://www.janm.org/events/2005/02/
February
19 Lantern Festival 2005,12 noon
at the Chinese American Museum / El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument.
http://www.camla.org/events/calendar.htm
Feb 26 Mingei (Japanese
Folk Crafts) Lecture at the JACCC by David Coates, presented by Community
Travel Service of Albany. 1PM, in the Cultural Room on the 5th
floor, JACCC building in Little Tokyo. Call 510-528-0600, info@comtravel.net.
March 5,6 Japanese
Classical Dance Performance, by the Wakayagi School, 12:30PM, in the Japan
America/Aratani Theatre in Little Tokyo. $35, Call Hana-no-Kai at 323-257-5412
or the Box Office at 213-680-3700 Includes performances by new dancers and by
guests from Tokyo.
March 17-June 19 The Art
of the Japanese Sword: The Yoshihara Tradition exhibit at the Pacific Asia
Museum
March 19, 20 Ikebana
International Los Angeles Chapter 4 opens ÒKaten, the Art of Japanese Flower
Arrangement ShowÓ in Ayres Hall at the Los Angeles Arboretum, 301 N. Baldwin
Ave., Aracadia, 91007, 626-821-3222
July 16 to Oct 16 From
the Fire: Contemporary Korean Ceramics exhibit at the Pacific Asia Museum
Nov 18 to Feb 12, 2006
Place/Displace, Three Generations Taiwanese Art exhibit at the Pacific Asia
Museum
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This Weekend (and
earlier)
Jan 27 At the Los
Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Leo S. Bing
Theater, Los Angeles, CA 90036. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art
(LACMA) presents "Court Songs and Folk Songs." The Society
of Traditional Korean Musicology will present an evening of traditional music
of Korea. Featured selections include an important performance of lyrical folk
music (p'ansori) by a
distinguished Korean singer, as well as court music from the Choson dynasty and
folk songs (minyo)
from different regions of the country. The event is free but tickets are
required. Visit LACMAÕs ticket office beginning October 1 to obtain
tickets.
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM. For more information please contact (323) 857-6010
Jan 27 Screening of Nobody Know. Melnitz Movies and UCLA Center
for Japanese Studies Presents a Japanese film by Hirokazu Kore-eda Official
Selection: 2004 Cannes Film Festival; Cannes' Winner: Best Actor, Yuuya Yagira
(14 years old)
Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda (Distance, Afterlife, Maboroshi)
Screenwriter: Hirokazu Kore-eda
Cinematographer: Yutaka Yamasaki (Shara, Distance,
Afterlife)
Actors: Yuuya Yagira, Ayu Kitaura, Hiei Kimura, Momoko
Shimizu, Hanae Kan, You. Four siblings live happily with their mother in a
small apartment in Tokyo. The children all have different fathers. They
have never been to school. The very existence of three of them has been hidden
from the landlord. One day, the mother leaves behind a little money and a note
asking her 12-year-old boy to look after his younger siblings. And so begins
the childrenÕs odyssey, a journey nobody knows. Despite their motherÕs abandonment,
the four children do their best to survive in their own little world, devising
and following their own set of rules. But when they have no choice but to
engage with the world outside the apartment, the fragile balance that has
sustained them collapses.
Kore-eda incorporated documentary techniques to make this film
extraordinarily intimate and unaffected. Filmed chronologically over a year,
ÒNobody KnowsÓ captures the young amateur actors growing as their characters
do, highlighting the details of the childrenÕs lives, whether the nuances of a
manicure, a toy piano, squeaking sandals, a cup of instant noodles, or a box of
chocolates, to evoke not only the distinctive world of these particular
abandoned children, but the gentleness and beauty of every childhood.
* FREE to the UCLA community, including students, staff, faculty
and guests.
* Tickets are available at the Melnitz box office the day of the
screening, one hour before show time.
For more information and to view the entire JANUARY CALENDAR,
please visit http://gsa.asucla.ucla.edu/~melnitz
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM, UCLA James Bridges Theater, Los Angeles,
CA 90024
For more information please contact Malnitz Movies melnitz@gsa.asucla.ucla.edu
http://gsa.asucla.ucla.edu/~melnitz/
Jan 28 Screening - TRAVELLERS & MAGICIANS At Nuart Theatre
Khyentse Norbu's follow-up to his audience favorite THE CUP has
been screened at the Toronto, Cannes and Deauville Film Festivals, and was a
highlight of the recent Asian-American Film Festival in New York City. One of
Himalayan Buddhism's most revered lamas, Khyentse (aka Dzongsar Khyentse
Rinpoche) weaves parallel fable-like tales about two men who seek to escape their
mundane lives in TRAVELLERS & MAGICIANS.
Time: 11:00 AM - 8:00
PM, Nuart Theatre, 11272 Santa Monica Boulevard
West Hollywood, CA 90025, (310) 281-8223
www.zeitgeistfilms.com/film.php?directoryname=travellersandmagicians
Jan 29 Experiences of War Times, 4-6PM with vets Mike Nakayama,
Nick Nagatani, Jose Buktaw, and community activist from that time, Kathy
Masaoka with a representative from Òmilitary free schoolsÓ organization of LA.
For info call Mo at 323-371-4502.
January 29 Keiko Matsui live at the Richard and Karen Carpenter
Performing Arts Center on the CSULB campus, 8PM. $30/39, call 562-985-4274.
Jan 30 Kodo Taiko Ensemble. Kicking
off the JACCC's 25th Anniversary,
this benefit concert brings the legendary taiko drummers from Sado
Island back to the Aratani/Japan America Theatre for their only Los Angeles
performance. This special
performance will support Kodo's North American non profit cultural organization,
Kodo Arts Sphere America (KASA). This organization seeks to support the
development of taiko in North
America. Tickets: Anniversary Patron: $100, Reserved seating: $50 orchestra,
balcony $47, JACCC Members: $45 orchestra, balcony $42. More info on tickets:
call the Box Office at 213.680.3700. Aratani Theatre,
244 S. San Pedro St., Downtown LA, 90012, $100, 47, 50, 213-680-3700
Jan 30 Book Presentation - Wanderlust by Mark Edward Harris At
Pacific Asia Museum
MARK EDWARD HARRIS with a slide presentation on his new book,
WANDERLUST Join the award-winning travel/documentary photographer and
journalist on a photographic expedition visiting tribes in northern Vietnam,
traveling down the Yangtze River, venturing into the tense demilitarized zone
between the two Koreas, trekking to the top of Mount Fuji, exploring the exotic
islands of the South Pacific and more. His elegant first book of
photographs, The Way of the Japanese Bath, will also be available. Time: 2:00
PM - 4:00 PM
Pacific Asia Museum
46 N. Los Robles Ave
Pasadena, CA
Tel: (626) 449-2742,
ext. 20
Jan 30 Play - 36 ViewsAt Laguna Playhouse through January 30, 2005
In 36 Views, Naomi Iizuka has created a carefully textured
exploration of the meaning of truth--not just in the art world but in the human
heart as well.
An art dealer and an art historian discover what they
think is an ancient manuscript--a priceless Japanese pillow book--and try to
learn whether it's authentic. Their search becomes an erotic game of greed,
love, and mental hide-and-seek as the play explores the relationships between
feelings and words, objects and photographs of objects, antiques and perfect
copies, and a woman's heritage and her physical features. Time: 8:00 PM - 10:00
PM
Laguna Playhouse
606 Laguna Canyon Rd.
Laguna Beach, CA 92651
Cost: $45.00-$54.00, $29.00-$33.00 previews
Special Instruction
Schedule: Tuesday 8:00pm / Wednesday 8:00pm / Thursday 8:00pm /
Friday 8:00pm / Saturday 2:00pm & 8:00pm / Sunday 2:00pm & 7:00pm
Tel: 949-497-2787
Currently playing
Japanese feature length anime Appleseed.
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Last Weekend: (food
poisoning)
Links to selected articles
from the LA Times. To actually access the articles, you may have to sign up for
a free account.
Jan 25 From the Chicago Tribune
TELEVISION: THE WATCHER
Don't blame
'24'
By Maureen Ryan, Tribune staff reporter
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/chi-tribtv,1,7726876.story?ctrack=1&cset=true
Jan 25 THE NATION
Subject of
Immigration Saga Is Held in Wife's Stabbing Death
By Lisa
Getter, Times Staff Writer
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-slay25jan25,1,4053224.story?ctrack=2&cset=true
Jan 21 BEST BITES
Get a taste
of the exotic at Mitsuwa
Greer Wylder,
Daily Pilot
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/pilot/ent/la-dpt-bestbites21jan21,1,667140.story
Jan 23 OBITUARIES
Shigeya
Kihara, 90; the Last Original Teacher at Army's 1st Language School
By Dennis
McLellan, Times Staff Writer
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-kihara23jan23,1,6605664.story
Jan 23 Oedipal journey
Kafka on the
Shore A Novel Haruki Murakami Translated from Japanese by Philip Gabriel Alfred
A. Knopf: 436 pp., $25.95
By Richard
Eder, Richard Eder, the former book critic for The Times, was awarded a
Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 1987
http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/books/la-bk-eder23jan23,1,541826.story
Jan 21 MY TURN
A celebration
of language
FLO MARTIN
Bonne AnnŽe! Chestita Nova Godina!
GlŸckwunsch zum NeuJahr! Are we confused yet? Are we suffering from paralytic
monolingualism?
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/pilot/news/opinion/la-dpt-myturn21jan21,1,5263948.story
Jan 24 Security Concerns Over IBM Deal
U.S.
officials may be worried that the sale of the PC business to China's Lenovo
Group could invite espionage.
From
Bloomberg News
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lenovo24jan24,1,3663094.story
Jan 22 EDITORIAL
A
Language-Challenged U.S.
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-ed-language24jan22,1,3989979.story
Jan 21 STORY IN FIVE PARTS
Part 5: 'Hope's Whisper'
The story so
far: Hope is trying to help the old woman she saw crying at the mall but she's
having a hard time understanding her.
By Nancy
D'Aleo-Russey, Special to The Times
http://www.latimes.com/features/kids/readingroom/la-et-story21jan21,1,4717763.story
Jan 21 THE WORLD
China Confronts Its Daunting Gender Gap
Officials seek corrective
measures as a one-child policy and a preference for male offspring mean men now
significantly outnumber women.
By Ching-Ching Ni, Times
Staff Writer
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-babies21jan21,1,4968332.story
Jan 20 Bridging cultures at Edison
Elementary school students,
staff learn about each other's heritages during Culture Week.
By Darleene Barrientos,
News-Press and Leader
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/glendale/news/la-gnp-culture20jan20,1,4002601.story
Jan 20 COLUMN ONE
An Old Dogma's New Twist
Residents of the Chinese
village of Nanjie have happily reverted to communism. The secret to their
success? A hefty dose of capitalism.
By Ching-Ching Ni, Times
Staff Writer
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-fg-village20jan20,1,6182504.story