THE APPA Newsletter
February 28, 2006
Black History Month
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http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhm1.html
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. (substitute in
your Enterprise and company, etcÉ)
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ed. by Douglas Ikemi
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newsletter for all of 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005 are available at http://www.ikemi.info/APPA/newsletters.html
if you want to look up some past event. The website www.apa-pro.org
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Please send in
information on cultural events and news items to dkikemi@pacbell.net. 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
Los Angeles Public
Library Celebrates our DiverseCity
http://www.lapl.org/kidspath/events/diversecity/index.html
Korean Art
History Lecture Series
At Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles
February 8 Ð
March 22 , 2006, every Wednesday 6:30 p.m. -8 p.m. (6 weeks)* March 1st will be
closed
Lecturer:
Keehong Kim, Ph.D
The Korean
Cultural Center, Los Angeles offers a series of lectures on Korean culture in
English throughout the year. The first lecture will be on Korean art history.
Subsequent lectures focus on Korean film, food, architecture, and music. [Some
lecture topics may extend over two weeks or more.]
This new
program is designed to cover the full scope of traditional and contemporary
Korean culture. It offers a good opportunity for the general public as well as
for the English-speaking Korean community in Southern California to appreciate
the distinctiveness of Korean art and history.
Schedule of
classes
Class 1:
Introduction / Prehistoric Korean Arts
Class 2: The
Three Kingdoms and Unified Silla Period Part I Goguryeo(B.C. 37-668 C.E.)-Tomb
Wall Murals, King Gwanggaeto
Baekje(B.C. 18-660 C.E.)-the Royal Tomb of
King Munyeong
Class 3: The
Three Kingdoms and Unified Silla Period Part II
Old Silla (B.C.57~668 C.E.) Ð Various artifacts from Tombs
Unified Silla
(668~935) Ð Buddhist Art
Class 4: Korean Ceramic Art of Goryeo(918~1392)
and Joseon Periods (1392~1910)
Class 5:
Joseon Dynasty Period Part I Classic Style of Early and Middle Period
Master Jeong, Seon (1676~1759) and his Korean Landscape Paintings
Class 6:
Joseon Dynasty Period Part II The Golden Age of Korean Style
Master Kim,
Jeonghui (1786~1859) and his Calligraphy
Conclusion
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Korean
Cultural Center, Los Angeles, 5505 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90095
Free, registration required
open to the
public
For more
information please contact
Sejung Kim
Tel: 323-936-7141(x123)
sejung.kim@kccla.org
www.kccla.org
Feb 3-May 23
Japanese Paintings: Birds, Flowersand Animals at the Pavilion for Japanese Art,
Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
March 10-Jun 18
Reflections of Beauty : Women from JapanÕs Floating World at Pacific Asia
Museum, Pasadena.
March 11 A Divided
Community--A Staged Reading 2 PM
Conceived by Frank Chin,
this dramatic reading?based on Chin?s book Born in the USA and by Greg Robinson?s By Order of the President?focuses on the issues surrounding the U.S.
government persecution of Japanese America based on challenges to civil
liberties and the resistance to the draft by Americans behind barbed wire.
Read by actual resisters,
the presentation sheds light on gaps that have divided the Japanese American
Community since World War II.
Born in the USA and By Order of the President are available for sale at the Museum Store. Order
toll-free 1.888.769.5559 or at www.janmstore.com.
March 12 Point of
Departure: Yuriko in Conversation with Mindy Aloff and Bonnie Rychlak 2PM
Isamu Noguchi and Martha
Graham shared a respect for aesthetic clarity--organic movements, direct
gestures--and their partnership resulted in Noguchi designing twenty-one sets
for Graham's company. As one of Graham's principal dancers for over two
decades, Yuriko has a degree of knowledge about Noguchi and Graham's
collaborative efforts possessed by few others.
Writer, scholar, and
educator, Mindy Aloff, and the Noguchi Museum's Curator, Bonnie Rychlak, join
the octogenarian dancer-choreographer in an exploration of one of the 20th
century's most affecting artistic partnerships.
*Program is free with
admission to Isamu Noguchi - Sculptural Design. Advanced reservations highly recommended. For
reservations or more information, call 213.625.0414.
In conjunction with the
exhibition Isamu Noguchi: Sculptural Design
March 17, 2006 Screening -
Angry Skies: A Cambodian Journey
At CSULB
The Department of
Sociology, Center for Community Engagement, Center for International Education,
Department of Anthropology, Department of Asian and Asian American Studies and
the Center for Asian Pacific American Studies, the Department of Film and
Electronic Arts, and the Cambodian Student Society at California State
University, Long Beach Proudly present: A Film Premiere Angry Skies: A
Cambodian Journey
Special guest: Dr. Blake
Kerr, Writer and Producer
The Angry Skies is a
documentary film that follows Dr. Blake Kerr, a New York physician who travels
to Cambodia to investigate one of the worst crimes perpetrated by a country on
its own people, the killing of over 2 million people under Pol Pot?s Khmer
Rouge Revolution. After infiltrating a renegade band of Khmer Rouge soldiers,
Dr. Kerr gains unprecedented access to the living architects of the Khmer Rouge
Revolution, including Nuon Chea, ?Brother Number Two.? Interviews with human
rights activists, survivors of Tuol Sleng, and Supreme Court Judges, as well as
Pol Pot?s telegraph operator, child soldiers, Khmer Rouge officers and surgeons
reveal how the Khmer Rouge utilized the hatred from U.S. bombing to rise from
300 soldiers in 1968 before U.S. bombing, to over 70,000 soldiers in 1973,
enough to take over the country. The Angry Skies offers strong parallels to
current U.S. foreign policy and occupation of Iraq.
Friday, 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
CSULB
Campus
Psychology Building Lecture Hall
Room 150
Los Angeles, CA
Cost: Free
For more
information please contact
Prof. Leakhena Nou,
Department of Sociology CSULB Tel: (562) 985-7439
lnou@csulb.edu
Hara
Uta Matsuri
Sunday,
March 19, 2006 at 1:00pmAratani/Japan
America Theatre
Japanese Folk Dance,
Karaoke show, Karate style Demonstration
General $25)
Ticket Sales- JAT box
office/Producer Pasadena Nikkei Seniors 323.722.4846
Japanese American
Cultural and Community Center 244 South San Pedro Street, Suite 505 (between 2nd and 3rd Streets) Los
Angeles (Little Tokyo), CA 90012 (213) 628-2725
March 25 Craft Class with
Ryosen Shibata: Mizuhiki 1-3PM
Design elaborate knots
using paper cords making the perfect accessory for decorating a special card or
gift. $8 for National Museum members and $15 for non-members, includes supplies
and Museum admission
JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM
369
East First Street
Los Angeles, California 90012, phone: (213) 625-0414,
fax: (213) 625-1770, www.janm.org
March 26 No More Cherry
Blossoms: Sisters Matsumoto and Other Plays by Philip Kan Gotanda 2PM
In recognition of WomenÕs
History Month, the National Museum presents acclaimed playwright Philip Kan
GotandaÕs anthology of four plays exploring the choices and challenges Japanese
American women face.
Set in different decades
of the 20th century, the plays are all absolutely modern in the human struggles
they depict. Gotanda will speak about his journey in writing and bringing to
stage stories of Asian Americans. The program will include a staged reading
from an act of one of the featured plays.
Book signing to follow.
Available at the Museum Store. Order toll free 1.888.769.5559 or at www.janmstore.com.
JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM
369
East First Street
Los Angeles, California 90012, phone: (213) 625-0414,
fax: (213) 625-1770, www.janm.org
June 17 Asia America
Symphony and Ahn Trio perform at
the Aratani Japan America Theatre, 8PM.
www.asiaamericasymphony.org
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This Weekend (and
earlier)
March 3 Asia America Symphony and guitar virtuoso Angel Romero perform at the Harlyne J.
Norris Pavilion, 27570 Crossfield Drive, Rolling Hills Estates, CA 90274
310-544-0403,
8PM www.asiaamericasymphony.org
March 4 The Four
Seasons of Japan through the Art of Nihon Buyo
Saturday, from 3:00pm
to 6:00pm
Aratani/Japan America
Theatre
Japanese American
Cultural and Community Center, 244
South San Pedro Street, Suite 505 (between 2nd and 3rd Streets) Los Angeles
(Little Tokyo), CA 90012 (213) 628-2725
General $25 (Balcony
$23)
JACCC members and
Senior and Students with ID $22 (Balcony $20)
Available at Box
Office (213) 680-3700
Bando Hidesomi (323)
269-3119
Hirata
Camera & Sound (310) 329-4911
March 04,
2006 Performance Ð South and North Indian
Traditions in an Instrumental Duet
At Herrick Chapel, Occidental College, Eagle Rock
The Music
Circle presents an evening concert with Shashank and Purbayan Chatterjee
accompanied by V.V. Ramana Murthy and Arup Chattopadhyay
The
Music Circle will present Shashank, one of India's celebrity musicians playing
the bamboo flute in the South Indian classical tradition and Purbayan
Chatterjee, acclaimed as one of the finest North Indian instrumentalists
playing the sitar today. Both artists were recognized at a very young age for
their musical prodigy and each now enthrall audiences throughout India, Europe,
the USA, Canada and Asia in their concerts and recordings. Shashank's flute
performances feature an extraordinary range of musical expression from deepest
meditations to youthful playfulness and astonishing virtuosity. Purbayan, just
thirty years old, is able to combine technical brilliance and amazing
virtuosity on the sitar with depth, discipline and exuberance in his
artistry. In this unique concert, a true musical dialogue between the two
performers will take place throughout the concert. They will be
accompanied on drums by V.V. Ramana Murthy on mridangam, a South Indian drum
and Arup Chattopadhyay on the tabla traditional to North India.
Saturday, 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Herrick
Chapel, Occidental College
Alumni Avenue & Campus Road
Los
Angeles, CA 90041
Cost: $25
General, $15 Music Circle Members, $5 Students
Special Instructions
Tickets
will be available at the door beginning at 7:30 p.m.
Tel:
626-449-6987 MusicCircle@aol.com www.MusicCircle.org
March 05,
2006 Performance - Dazzling Bombay Dreams
At Orange County Performing Arts Center February 21 Ð March 5, 2006
A
dazzling spectacle set amid IndiaÕs bustling film industry, Bombay Dreams
features a lush score, glittering costumes, and exotic dance numbers.
This
story of a handsome young boy from the slums of Bombay who dreams of fame and
romance is a musical journey, an exploration of the importance of cultural
heritage, the price of success, the bonds of friendship and the power of true
love.
Time
magazine declares the show Òsomething gorgeously newÓ and The New York Times
calls it a Òfeel-good fantasy!Ó
Sunday, 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Orange
County Performing Arts Center
Segerstrom Hall
600 Town Center
Drive
Costa Mesa, CA
Cost:
$20, $25, $49, $55, $59, $65
Special Instructions
Tuesdays-Fridays
at 8 p.m. Saturdays at 2 & 8 p.m. Sundays at 2 & 7:30 p.m
For more information please contact
CenterTix
Tel: (714) 556-2787
www.ocpac.org
Last weekend I went to:
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Links to
selected articles from the LA Times. To actually access the articles, you may
have to sign up for a free account.
A Textbook Debate Over
Hinduism
Some adherents seek
changes in information taught to sixth-graders. Their critics object.
By Teresa
Watanabe, Times Staff Writer
February 27, 2006
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-hindu27feb27,1,1937288.story?ctrack=1&cset=true
THE STATE
Costa Mesa's Border Heat
Puts a Chill in Its Latinos
By
Christopher Goffard, Times Staff Writer
February 25, 2006
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-costamesa25feb25,1,2510024.story
Little Saigon Street Name
Debate
Westminster officials
won't rename a road after the city's first Vietnamese publisher. Many say he
doesn't qualify for the honor.
By Jonathan
Abrams, Times Staff Writer
February 24,
2006
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-do24feb24,1,6045295.story
COLUMN ONE
Inquiring Gringos Want to
Know
In 'Ask a Mexican,' a
politically incorrect OC Weekly columnist fields readers' frank questions. He's
a wiseguy with a cultural objective.
By Daniel
Hernandez, Times Staff Writer
February 23, 2006
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-me-gustavo23feb23,1,462504.story
Shanghai Celebrates Giant
Port Amid Worries of Overcapacity
The huge project raises
concern that Chinese shipping facilities are growing too rapidly.
By Don Lee,
Times Staff Writer
February 22, 2006
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-shanghaiport22feb22,1,1301715.story
Railroads Back on Track?
They're posting record
profits and expanding their operations, but rising rates and delays irritate
some customers.
By Ronald D.
White, Times Staff Writer
February 21, 2006
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-rail21feb21,1,101110.story
Job Hopping Is Rampant as
China's Economy Chases Skilled Workers
The trend amid an erosion
of old values spurs wage hikes and poaching. Some take their bonus and run.
By Don Lee,
Times Staff Writer
10:35 PM
PST, February 20, 2006
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-bolt21feb21,1,3705599.story
Japan's FamilyMart Takes
the Convenience Store Upscale
The company plans to have
as many as 30 Famima shops in the L.A. area this year.
By Juliet
Chung, Times Staff Writer
February 20, 2006
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-mart20feb20,1,5540608.story
Two Worlds in One City
Fresno is starkly divided
between well-off and poor. The poverty isn't new, but aid seekers are: families
with two workers.
By Ann M.
Simmons, Times Staff Writer
February 19, 2006
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-fresno19feb19,1,6770911.story
[STYLE]
LITTLE SAIGON
Hanoi Heart Throbs
Their CD sales might be
minuscule, but to their Vietnamese fans, they put out the best beats
By Andrew
Vontz, Andrew Vontz writes for Outside and Rolling Stone.
February 19,
2006
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/orange/la-tm-nuvpop8feb19,1,5473095.story
BELIEFS/RELIGION NOTEBOOK
Churches Seek Ways to
Build Understanding
By
Kelly-Anne Suarez, Times Staff Writer
February 18, 2006
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-beliefs18feb18,1,4339196.story
Small Cars in U.S. a Big
Opportunity for Japan
Asian automakers will roll
out fuel-efficient subcompacts, another possible blow to Detroit.
By John
O'Dell , Times Staff Writer, Times Staff Writer
February 14, 2006
http://www.latimes.com/classified/automotive/highway1/la-fi-smallcars14feb14221912,1,34440.story
Asian Cars Dominate
'Green' List
By John
O'Dell, Times Staff Writer
February 14, 2006
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-green14feb14,1,6501759.story
Roy Lee's gold-plated recycling
bin
Importing moody Asian
horror films to be remade in America, he spawned the new shriek chic. But why
stop there?
By Rachel
Abramowitz, Times Staff Writer
February 12, 2006
http://www.latimes.com/business/custom/cotown/la-ca-roylee12feb12,1,1467350.story
Brig. Gen. Robert L.
Scott, 97; World War II Flying Ace Wrote 'God Is My Co-Pilot'
From
Associated Press
March, 1
2006
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/state/la-me-scott1mar01,1,7189599.story
TELEVISION REVIEW
Fairy tale setup without
expected ending
By Paul
Brownfield, Times Staff Writer
February 25, 2006
http://www.latimes.com/business/custom/cotown/la-et-olyreview25feb25,1,1623816.story
20TH WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES
Land of Rising Stars
Arakawa becomes the first
Japanese gold medalist in Olympic figure skating with a solid,
stays-on-her-skates performance that pushes former world champion past Cohen,
Slutskaya
By Helene
Elliott, Times Staff Writer
February 24, 2006
http://www.latimes.com/sports/olympics/la-sp-olyfigwinner24feb24,1,5426096.story
In Search of Justice and
Enlightenment
A Japanese Buddhist monk
who clashed with his high priest has faced punishment he says amounts to
harassment. So he formed a labor union.
By Bruce
Wallace, Times Staff Writer
February 23, 2006
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-monk23feb23,1,2537810.story
Remembering a Camp's
Survivors
Tule Lake Segregation
Center, which housed Japanese Americans during World War II, is designated a
national historic landmark.
From
Associated Press
February, 19 2006
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-historic19feb19,1,4496780.story
[STYLE]
LITTLE SAIGON
Fast, but Not Furious
'Japanese muscle car'
might sound like an oxymoron, but these mechanics prove it's all about the fast
twitch
By David
Lansing, David Lansing writes about wine and spirits for The Times.
February 19, 2006
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/orange/la-tm-nuhotrods8feb19,1,7041450.story
REARVIEW MIRROR
1942
In Manzanar's Shadow, a
Plea for Racial Equality
February, 19
2006
http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/magazine/la-tm-rearview8feb19,1,4633944.story
20TH WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES
Apolo's Day in the Sun
Ohno, skating in perhaps
his final Olympics, wins short-track gold in 500, rallies U.S. to relay bronze
and equals Heiden's record of five career medals
By Alan
Abrahamson, Times Staff Writer
February 26, 2006
http://www.latimes.com/sports/olympics/la-sp-olyshort26feb26,1,1251252.story
The crash of civilizations
February 27, 2006
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-ferguson27feb27,1,3504795.column
China Toughens Stance on
Environmental Protection
By
Ching-Ching Ni, Times Staff Writer
February 22, 2006
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-pollute22feb22,1,3830129.story
Going to Church in Quest
for Students
Seeking to boost the
enrollment of black youths, Cal State officials urge parents in South L.A. to
push their children to go to college.
By Jessica
Garrison, Times Staff Writer
February 27,
2006
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-college27feb27,1,1319940.story?ctrack=1&cset=true
Double the joy, double the
image
This
Learning Link was written and provided by the Museum of the American West, 4700
Western Heritage Way, Los Angeles, CA 90027.
February, 22 2006
http://www.latimes.com/features/kids/readingroom/la-et-kidcal22feb22,1,1851377.story
Festival Marks the Dog
Days of Spring as Winter Blusters
Music, dancing, crafts and
a parade celebrate Chinese culture at a party at the Huntington.
By Martha
Groves, Times Staff Writer
February 19, 2006
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-huntington19feb19,1,7840358.story
Yahoo Urges Nations to
Fight Web Censorship
From
Bloomberg News
February, 14 2006
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-yahoo14feb14,1,6535198.story
Octavia Butler, 58; Author
Opened the Galaxies of Science Fiction to Blacks
By Jocelyn
Y. Stewart, Times Staff Writer
February 28, 2006
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-butler28feb28,1,1152401.story
AMERICAN GULAG
Before Guantanamo
The U.S. policy of
detention without trial had an earlier life -- in South Africa under apartheid.
By Gillian
Slovo, GILLIAN SLOVO's latest novel, "Ice Road," is published by
Norton. She is also the author, with Victoria Brittain, of the documentary play
"Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom."
February 26, 2006
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-op-slovo26feb26,1,1376588.story