THE APPA Newsletter
February 8, 2005
February is Black History
Month http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhm1.html
Bush Hosts African
Americans at Black History Month Ceremony http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-02-08-voa76.cfm
See This Weekend
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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 Š 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
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 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 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.
Feb 18-Mar 4 Nine Classics of Japanese Cinema Presented by the Los
Angeles County Museum of Art. Susan Sontag, the late critic, filmmaker and
novelist, was one of America's best-known and most-admired intellectuals, a
longtime, devoted enthusiast of Japanese cinema and a member of the Japan Society
Film Advisory Committee. In 2003, the Japan Society Film Center presented
"Critic's Choice: Susan Sontag on Japanese Film", a selection of
eight of her favorite films. Because of the extraordinary public response to
that program, the Japan Society requested that Ms. Sontag program a sequel to
her series, which she completed prior to her death in January of this year. We
are happy to bring nine of those rare classics films to LACMA.
February 18, 2005 (Fri)
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums
(1939 / 143 min / Dir: Kenji Mizoguchi)
February 19, 2005 (Sat)
When a Woman Ascends
the Stairs
(1960 / 86 min / Dir: Mikio Naruse)
High and Low
(1963 / 144 min / Dir: Akira Kurosawa)
February 25, 2005 (Fri)
The Love of Sumako
the Actress
(1947 / 96 min / Dir: Kenji Mizoguchi)
Repast
(1951 / 97 min / Dir: Mikio Naruse)
February 26, 2005 (Sat)
Fires on the Plain
(1959 / 105 min / Dir: Kon Ichikawa)
Pigs and Battleships
(1961 / 108 min / Dir: Shohei Imamura)
March 4, 2005 (Fri)
Drunken Angel
(1948 / 98 min / Dir: Akira Kurosawa)
Himatsuri
(1985 / 120 min / Dir: Mitsuo Yanagimachi) Time: 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Bing Theater, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA 5905 Wilshire Blvd.
Cost: $5
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 19 Chinese New Year Festival - "Year of the Rooster"
At the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Chinese New
Year festivities take center stage from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Saturday,
Feb. 19, at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens with
a family festival marking the start of the Year of the Rooster.
The centerpiece of the event will be a traditional Chinese
flower market in The Huntington's entrance pavilion, with colorful stalls of
cut flowers and blooming plants for sale. A number of flowers have
special New Year's significance in Chinese culture, including plum blossoms
(symbolizing the beginning of spring), peonies (prosperity), narcissus
(longevity), and other blooms such as orchids, forsythia, camellias, and golden
mums. Many of these will be offered at the event, subject to
seasonal availability.
Other activities will include lion dancers and martial arts
demonstrations (11 a.m. & 1 p.m.), folk dancers (11:30 a.m.), storytelling
(12:30 p.m.), Chinese musicians (1:30 & 3:30 p.m.), Chinese painting demonstration
(2:30 p.m.) and a public talk (2:30 p.m.) about the botanical and symbolic
aspects of plants and flowers of the Chinese New Year. Traditional
Chinese crafts for children (dough doll making, paper cutting, knotting, and
lantern making) and Chinese calligraphy workshops for youngsters and adults
will be offered throughout the day.
The event is made possible by the Carrie Kolb Foundation, East
West Bank, and Panda Restaurant Group. Time: 10:30 AM - 4:30 PM
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA 91108
Cost: All activities are included with general admission
For more information please contact Blackburn Lisa Tel: (626)
405-2140
lblackburn@huntington.org ,
www.huntington.org
Feb 19 Concert Š Shashank, South Indian Flute Virtuouso, and
Troupe
Presented by The Music Circle at Occidental College
Shashank, flute
P. Satish Kumar, mridangam
B. U. Ganesh Prasad, violin
Parupalli S Phalgur, khanjira
Sukanya Ramgopal, ghatam
A child prodigy, Shashank, now 27, has enthralled audiences the
world over. His unique contributions to the evolution of the South Indian flute
and its musical tradition are legendary. He has expanded the tonal range
of the flute to add lower sounds and correspondingly developed new techniques
to utilize it to its fullest. His performances feature an extraordinary range
of musical expression, from the deepest meditations to youthful playfulness and
astonishing virtuosity. All of the other young artists on the program are known
for accompanying leading South Indian musicians and have toured widely or
recorded with Shashank or other esteemed artists. Time: 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Thorne Hall
Occidental College
Campus Road and Westdale Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90041
Cost: General admission $25 / Members $15 / Students with ID $5
Tel: (626) 449-6987, MusicCircle@aol.com, www.MusicCircle.org
Feb 25
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 ŅKaten, 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)
Feb 10 Screening - Ni Tsutsumarete At University of California,
Irvine
Film at University of California, Irvine is proud to organize the
US premieres of three ground-breaking personal documentaries by Japan's
foremost female director, Kawase Naomi. While her work is still to be
discovered in the United States, Ms. Kawase has shown her films and won awards
in the most prestigious international film festivals in the world: Yamagata,
Rotterdam, Locarno, Festival du Reel in Paris and Cannes - where, at 27, she
was the youngest winner of the Camera d'Or with her first narrative feature,
Moe no Suzaku(1996).
Screenings:
7:00 pm NI TSUTSUMARETE & KATATSUMORI
9:00 pm MOE NO SUZAKU (Suzaku, 1997, 95min)Film and Video Center
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697
Cost: Free www.humanities.uci.edu/fvc/
Feb 12 Conference - BREAKING THE SILENCE: EXPOSING PILIPINO
AMERICA, KABABAYAN at UC Irvine presents the 6th annual KABABAYAN CONFERENCE
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Registration& Breakfast
9:00 AM - 9:50 AM Welcome/Keynote Speaker
10:00 AM-10:50 AM Workshops I
11:00-11:50 Lecture I
12:00-1:15 Lunch/Entertainment
1:30-2:20 Workshops II
2:30-3:20 Lecture II
3:30-4:20 Workshops III
4:30-5:30 Alumni
5:30-6:00 Closing Remarks
Workshops:
Pilipino Identity
Pilipino Dance Culture and Heritage
Philippine American War: Through the Eyes of the Pilipino
Pilipinos in the Media
Tagalog and Pilipino Studies
Our Unsung Heroes: Veterens Workshop
Pilipino Music Culture and Heritage
Pilipino Immigration/Labor
The Philippine Sex Trade
Political is Personal: Poetry Workshop
History of Filipino-American Student Activism at UCI
Alumni Panel Time: 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM
UCI Student Center
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92612
Cost: Pre-registration by FEBRUARY 10: $8 per person UCI
STUDENT/$10 NON-UCI (includes continental breakfast, lunch, reception, and
performances)
After February 10: $15 Registration forms available at:
http://spirit.dos.uci.edu/kababayan Contact: Uriel de los Reyes, External Vice
President, udelosre@uci.edu or Willard Lacro, President, wlacro@uci.edu
http://spirit.dos.uci.edu/kababayan
Chinatown Celebrates Chinese New Year
Chinatown February 12 through 13, 2005
Los Angeles, CA - On Saturday and Sunday, February 12 and 13,
2005, Chinatown will welcome in the Chinese New Year, the Year of the Rooster
4703, with a two-day celebration featuring the 106th Annual Golden Dragon
Parade, a car show, the "Firecracker 5K/10K Run/Walk," and a free family
festival.
The festival will take place at 727 N. Hill Street and will
feature food, carnival games, music and cultural entertainment, and craft
booths. Festival hours are 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, and 10:00 a.m.
to 6:00 p.m. on Sunday. Admission is free.
The "Falken Tire SHOWOFF Chinatown Car Show" will take
place at 777 N. Broadway, in the Cathay Bank parking lot. Show hours are 11:00
a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Sunday, February 13. Admission is $10.00. Also on Sunday,
the "Firecracker 5K/10K Run/Walk" will take place. Visit www.firecracker10K.org for details.
The 106th Annual Golden Dragon parade will be held on Saturday,
February 12 beginning at 2:00 p.m. along Broadway and Hill Streets with over 50
floats, bands, and parade elements participating, including the newly crowned
Miss L.A. Chinatown Queen and Court. Sponsored by the Chinese Chamber of
Commerce of Los Angeles, the Golden Dragon Parade is the oldest parade in the
country and attracts over 80,000 attendees. Time: 10:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA , Cost: Free
For more information please contact Chinatown Business Improvement
District Tel: (213) 680-0243
Feb 13, 2005 Los Angeles Chinatown Firecracker 5k/10k, Celebrating
the Year of the Rooster, Lunar Year 4703 http://www.firecracker10k.org/
Feb 13 Asian Film Festival featuring new Chinese films At Rose
Hills Theater
Curated by Rick Berg
Sundays at 7:30 p.m. on the following dates: 2/6, 2/13,
2/20, 2/27, 3/6
The following titles will be screened:
Frozen (Jidu Hanleng, 1995, 93 min.), directed by Wang Xiaoshuai
East Palace, West Palace (Dong Gong, Xi Gong, 1997, 94 min.),
directed by Zhang Yuan Suzhou River (Suzhou He, 2000, 83 min.), directed by Lou
Ye
The Orphan of Anyang (Anyangde Guer, 2001, 84 min.), directed by
Wang Chao
Blind Shaft (Mang Jing, 2003, 93 min.), directed by Li Yang
For a film festival program brochure, contact 909/607-8065. Rose
Hills Theater
Smith Campus Center
170 E. 6th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Cost: Free
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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.
Feb 8 Chow May Be About to Say Ciao
USC offensive
coordinator has been offered the same position with the NFL's Titans and could
accept as soon as today.
By Gary
Klein, Times Staff Writer
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-uscfb8feb08,0,5039222.story?coll=la-home-sports
Feb 6 Tran Is First and Doesn't Forget It for a Second
O.C.
assemblyman is mindful of his unique role as a trailblazing Vietnamese
legislator.
By Mai Tran,
Times Staff Writer
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-vantran6feb06,1,3672368.story?ctrack=1&cset=true
Feb 4 Exercise as art
Each morning,
a park comes alive with the graceful movement of tai chi.
By Gayle
Pollard-Terry, Times Staff Writer
http://www.latimes.com/features/lifestyle/la-et-taichi4feb04,1,7995674.story?ctrack=2&cset=true
Feb 3 THE ALTERNATIVES
Comics that draw girls
American
tweens are snapping up shojo manga, a concept born in Japan and available at a
mall near you.
By Susan
Carpenter, Times Staff Writer
http://www.latimes.com/features/lifestyle/la-wk-alt3feb03,1,2598645.story?ctrack=3&cset=true
Feb 7 CIA to
Detail Cold War Ties to Former Nazis
From Reuters
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-cia7feb07,1,5867497.story
Feb 5 A Lifelong Lesson in Justice
Gathering
will pay tribute to the mostly white teachers who followed their Japanese
students into WWII internment camps.
By Teresa
Watanabe, Times Staff Writer
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-teachers5feb05,1,5500501.story
Feb 7 BOOK REVIEW
A wrinkle in the timeline
Curious
Notions A Novel Harry Turtledove Tor: 272 pp., $23.95
By James
Sallis, Special to The Times
Feb 5 Judge Urged to Reverse Decision Ending FBI Espionage Case
Prosecutors say they were
trying to guard classified data, not bar witness from talking to defense.
By David Rosenzweig, Times
Staff Writer
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-spy5feb05,1,185072.story
Feb 5 BELIEFS
Long-Hidden
Buddhist Relics Come to Southland
By Larry B.
Stammer, Times Staff Writer
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-beliefs5feb05,1,1916665.story
Feb 3 A Fowl Year to Wed?
Chinese Tradition Shuns
Rooster-Year Nuptials
By David Pierson, Times Staff
Writer
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-rooster3feb03,1,7075653.story
Feb 3 THE WORLD
China Environment Agency Takes On Giant Dam Corporation
The fledgling ecological unit
succeeds in halting work on three projects linked to Three Gorges development
that it says fail to meet standards.
By Ching-Ching Ni, Times
Staff Writer
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-dam3feb03,1,6964338.story
Feb 3 OBITUARIES
Dan Lee, 35; Designed
Characters for Pixar's 'Finding Nemo'
By Dennis McLellan, Times
Staff Writer
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-lee3feb03,1,2972417.story
Feb 2 THE WORLD
Chinese Tree Savior Put Himself Out on a Limb
The former millionaire has
lost nearly all in his quest to save what remains of the forest of his childhood
from being cut for timber.
By Ching-Ching Ni, Times
Staff Writer
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-treeman2feb02,1,5596158.story
Feb 2 BOOK REVIEW
Outsiders on the inside track
The Jewish Century The Jewish
Century Yuri Slezkine Princeton University Press: 438 pp., $29.95
By Walter Laqueur, Special to
The Times
http://www.latimes.com/features/lifestyle/la-et-book2feb02,1,4600393.story