THE APPA Newsletter
May 22, 2007
Memorial Day
http://www.history.com/minisites/memorial/
http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/faq/memday/memday.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_Day
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
http://www.nea.org/mco/asianseducation.html?source=google&paidkeyword=asian+pacific+heritage+month
http://www3.kumc.edu/diversity/ethnic_relig/apahm.html
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/feature/asia/index.htm
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/asianhistory1.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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if you want to look up some past event. The website www.apa-pro.org
no longer exists. This newsletter was originally published under the auspices
of the Hughes Asian Pacific Professional Association (no longer extant). It
currently has no affiliation and is available to anyone who is interested in
downloading it.
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Please send in
information on cultural events and news items to dkikemi@pacbell.net or dkikemi@mac.com . Thanks to those who have.
Long range calendar
items:
Chinatown Farmers Market EVERY
THURSDAY FROM 2-6PM, the Chinatown Farmers' Market takes place at Hill &
Alpine bringing fresh fruits and produce by California Farmers to the Chinatown
Community. FRIED BANANA, FRIED YAM, HAWAIIAN CHICKEN. We invite you to come and
experience the Chinatown Farmers' Market. Free parking with purchase.
The Downtown Arts
District/Little Tokyo Farmers' Market
Weller Court 2nd & San
Pedro in
Little Tokyo Summer Hours
10-3pm
Features fresh produce,
Hawaiian Chicken, more food gifts...and live jazz band.
Tuesdays from 10 a.m.- 3
p.m.
The weekly market is held
every Tuesday from 10 a.m.- 3 p.m year round, rain or shine.
Sponsored by LARABA
the market will include farm-fresh produce, Asian produce, organic produce,
eggs, seafood, cheese, olives, olive oils, flowers, plants, bread and prepared
foods and more.
Hawaiian Chicken, Roasted
corn on the cobb
Local businesses
interested in having a prepared food booth at the market or individuals
interested in volunteering at this non-profit event, please contact Susan
Hutchinson at 323-660-8660 for more information
Los Angeles Public
Library Celebrates our DiverseCity
http://www.lapl.org/kidspath/events/diversecity/index.html
March 17 - July 29,
2007
Tokyo ADC Exhibition
A blend of pop,
tradition and innovation, this exhibition provides a glimpse into the world of
Tokyo Advertising Director's Club. Tokyo ADC promises to showcase some of the
most trend-setting minds in commercial visual arts in the world today through
examples of logos, print and television advertising, and book and product
design.
Simple avant garde,
comedic and crisp; the competition to stay ahead of the game is so intense,
that these commercial artists explore and discover new ways, and new twists on
a few old ways of delivering their products to the consumer market.
George J. Doizaki
Gallery
Admission Free
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday - Friday, 12
noon to 5pm
Saturday &
Sunday, 11am to 4pm
Closed Mondays &
Holidays
Tales of Krishna
Exhibition at LACMA Through July 2007
The South and Southeast
Asian Art Department presents an exhibition on the representation of Krishna
and his legendary deeds in the visual arts throughout India. Drawn primarily
from LACMA's renowned collection of South Asian art, the exhibition consists
principally of opaque watercolor paintings and drawings, but also includes
sculptures in a variety of media, decorative artworks, and ritual objects
associated with annual festivals devoted to Krishna. The thematically organized
exhibition explores various aspects of Krishna's life, Including his miraculous
birth, childhood pranks, heroic exploits, and romantic dalliances.
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Los Angeles County Museum
of Art
5905 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Cost: Free
FACES OF BATTLE: Japanese
Prints from the Permanent Collection
On display from May 26 -
September 26, 2006
This installation explores
the themes of samurai virtue in conflicts ranging from legends of pre-history
to epic moments of civil war in the late 19th century.
The thirty woodblock
prints from the installation are also presented online in an interactive
feature with stories of the protagonists, zoom screens enabling
close inspection of the images, and a brief biography of the influential
printmaker Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-92).
http://collectionsonline.lacma.org/MWEB/about/japan_about.asp
Los Angeles County Museum
of Art
5905 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90036
323 857-6000 (general
information)
323 857-0098 (TDD)
http://www.lacma.org
An Urban Oasis: The Orange
County Agricultural and Nikkei Heritage Museum at the Fullerton Arboretum
Spotlighting the rich
agricultural legacy of Orange County and the Japanese American communityÕs
contributions to that chronicle.
Sowing Dreams, Cultivating
Lives: Nikkei Farmers in Pre-World War II Orange County.
Opens February 10, 2007.
The Orange County
Agricultural and Nikkei Heritage Museum has been built on the grounds of the
Fullerton Arboretum and has been designed along the lines of a packing house.
California State University, Fullerton, and the Fullerton Arboretum are working
together to open the museum to the public. The inside of the building is
divided into four sections: Nikkei, Pioneer, Educational, and Transportation
and Geography. There is a small bookstore and the Potting Shed will move its
plant sales adjacent to the bookstore alcove.
The museum will highlight
the history, development, and impact of agriculture, as well as the
contributions of the Japanese American community and the local pioneer
families, to the growth of Orange County. This introductory exhibit will be a
peek into upcoming planned exhibitions and will be open throughout the summer.
The first major exhibit
will focus on the Nikkei. Sowing Dreams, Cultivating Lives: Nikkei Farmers in
Pre-World War II Orange County will journey with the early Japanese immigrants
to California, and follow their stories as they establish permanent communities
in Orange County by marrying, raising families, founding schools and social
groups, and above all, cultivating the land.
Fullerton Arboretum,
California State University, Fullerton
1900 Associated Road
Fullerton, California
92831
Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art:
Experimentations in the Public Sphere in Postwar Japan, 1950-1970
Daily through June 3, 2007
Research Institute
Exhibition Gallery, Getty Center
At the end of World War
II, Japan was left in ruins and in a relative cultural void. Numerous
anti-establishment artistic collaboratives emerged during this period, notably
Jikken Kooboo Experimental Workshop, Gutai, Group Ongaku, Tokyo Fluxus, Neo
Dada, Hi Red Center, Vivo, Provoke, and Bikyootoo. These collectives eschewed
traditional commercial art practice in favor of radical work that provoked its
audience conceptually, politically, and socially. In experimenting with new
materials and processes of art making and disruption of conventional art forms,
the work of these artists reflected the dramatic changes and disjunctive
character of everyday life in Japan over the course of two decades following
the war. Drawn exclusively from Research Library holdings, the works presented
in Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art range
from musical scores and photo essays to performance documentation and
interactive art kits.
http://www.getty.edu/visit/calendar/days/05162007.html
The
Sculpture of Ruth Asawa: Contours in the Air
March 10-May 27
As one of America's most
important women artists of the 20th century, Ruth Asawa produced a body of work
celebrating the richness and beauty of everyday life through the use of
graceful and intricate forms as demonstrated in her famous wire sculptures.
Born on a truck farm in
Southern California, Asawa was incarcerated at Rohwer concentration camp in
Arkansas during World War II. In the 1940s, she attended Black Mountain
College, the famous experimental art school in North Carolina. The Sculpture of
Ruth Asawa begins with her earliest sculptures, drawings, and paintings created
at Black Mountain College, and highlights the signature wire sculptures that
formed her visual vocabulary of looped and tied open forms, which she continued
to experiment with throughout her career.
Organized by the Fine Arts
Museum of San Francisco, this exhibition of approximately 43 sculptures and
over 20 works on paper constitutes the first complete retrospective of the Ruth
Asawa's enduring and richly varied career.
This exhibition is curated
by Daniell Cornell, Curator of Fine Arts at the Fine Arts Museum of San
Francisco.
In the Weingart Foundation
Gallery, Dr. & Mrs. Edison Miyawaki Gallery and Taul & Sachiko Watanabe
Gallery
The Los Angeles
presentation of The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa: Contours in the Air is made
possible, in part, by the generous support of The Henri & Tomoye Takahashi
Charitable Foundation, the Aratani Foundation, and The James Irvine Foundation.
Additional support was provided by Ernest & Kiyo Doizaki, Mariko O. Gordon
& Hugh Cosman, and Hazel & Kokki Shindo. Media sponsors: Los Angeles
Downtown News, LA 18 KSCI-TV, and The Rafu Shimpo.
JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM
369 East First Street
Los Angeles, California
90012
phone: (213) 625-0414
fax: (213) 625-1770
June 3 Torrance Oodles of Noodles Festival
Now in its 11th
year, Ooodles of Noodles is a free family festival celebrating the
communityÕs diversity and preserving its cultural heritage. Presented in
the Torino Festival Plaza, the event features music and dance performances,
hands-on folk art activities, and noodle tasting of different ethnic cuisines
provided by more than 20 restaurants.
12-4PM
Performing Artists
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Patti Amelotte &
Friends Celtic Music |
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Matsumae Kai &
Nippon Minyo Kenkyukai L.A. Shibu |
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Likas Pilipinas Folk
Arts |
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Hanmi Dance Academy |
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Shakti Dance Company |
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Torrance Chinese School |
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Babylon Mood Dancers |
This is a program of the Cultural
Services Division of the Torrance Community Services Department
presented in co-sponsorship with Arts Council of Torrance and other community
organizations.
Torino Plaza Torrance
Cultural Arts Center
3330 Civic Center Drive N.
http://www.torrancelive.us/index_files/Page377.html
Saturday, June 9,
2007, 8pm
Asia America Symphony
Orchestra
David Benoit, Music
Director and Conductor
Special Guest Keiko Matsui
Jazz Superstar and
Japanese treasure Keiko Matsui performs with Orchestra. Works by Ravel,
Copeland and others will complete the program.
For more information
visit: www.Asiaamericasymphony.org.
Aratani/Japan America
Theatre
$75 VIP orchestra and
reception
$35 Premiere orchestra,
$25 orchestra and balcony
Aratani
/ Japan America Theatre
244
S. San Pedro St.
Los
Angeles, CA 90012 (Little Tokyo)
213-680-3700
ww.jaccc.org
June 9 Books & Conversations
''A Place Where
Sunflowers Grow'' by Amy Lee-Tai with Illustrations by Felicia Hoshino
2PM
It's World War II and
eight-year-old Mari, along with 120,000 innocent Americans, is deprived of her
rights, possessions, and freedom by the United States government. Under such
staggering circumstances, how does a child cope?
A Place Where Sunflowers
Grow is the only children's book about the incarceration in a bilingual English
and Japanese format. Lee-Tai's gentle prose and Hoshino's stunning
illustrations make this the perfect book for any age. Book signing to follow.
This program is made
possible by a grant from the California Civil Liberties Public Education
Program.
This book is available
for sale through the Museum Store Online. You can also order by
phone at 888.769.5559.
JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM
369 East First Street
Los Angeles, California
90012
phone: (213) 625-0414
fax: (213) 625-1770
Adults $8.00
Seniors (62 and over) $5.00
Students (with ID) and
Children (6-17) $4.00
Children 5 and under and
Museum Members, Free.
Free general admission every Thursday from 5 to 8 p.m. and every third
Thursday of the month.
Special group rates and rentals available.
For reservations call (213)
625-0414.
June 17 Opening of the
exhibition ''Landscaping America: Beyond the Japanese Garden''
Gardens were among the
first forms of Japanese culture to gain popularity in the United States. Since
their introduction to the American public at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in
Philadelphia, Japanese-style gardens have proliferated across the country.
Landscaping America
reveals the personal stories, historical journeys, communities, and creativity
that underlie the surface of the "Japanese garden." This multimedia
exhibition highlights how West Coast Japanese Americans drew upon their
agricultural and ethnic backgrounds to carve out a viable vocational niche in
gardening while reinterpreting Japanese garden traditions, offering alternative
approaches to working with nature, and contributing to the diversity of the
American landscape.
Landscaping America:
Beyond the Japanese Garden is made possible, in part, by major support from the
Aratani Foundation and the Annenberg Foundation. Generous support was also
provided by The James Irvine Foundation, the National Endowment of the
Humanities, and The Boeing Company.
Media Sponsors: Los
Angeles Downtown News, LA18 KSCI-TV and The Rafu Shimpo.
JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM
369 East First Street
Los Angeles, California
90012
phone: (213) 625-0414
fax: (213) 625-1770
Adults $8.00
Seniors (62 and over)
$5.00
Students (with ID) and
Children (6-17) $4.00
Children 5 and under and
Museum Members, Free.
Free general admission
every Thursday from 5 to 8 p.m. and every third Thursday of the
month.
Special group rates and rentals available.
For reservations call
(213) 625-0414.
June 30 Special Screening
of Films Sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program
The National Museum will
host a mini festival of films funded by CCLPEP. Titles include From a Silk
Cocoon, 9066 to 9/11, and Stand Up for Justice, among others.
This program is made
possible by the generous support of the California Civil Liberties Public
Education Program.
JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM
369 East First Street
Los Angeles, California
90012
phone: (213) 625-0414
fax: (213) 625-1770
Adults $8.00
Seniors (62 and over)
$5.00
Students (with ID) and
Children (6-17) $4.00
Children 5 and under and
Museum Members, Free.
Free general admission
every Thursday from 5 to 8 p.m. and every third Thursday of the
month.
Special group rates and rentals available.
For reservations call
(213) 625-0414.
August 18-26 Nisei Week
Aug 18-19
Tofu Festival
Dec 1, 2 Japan Expo 2007
See LA
Library DiverseCity events at http://www.lapl.org/kidspath/events/diversecity/index.html
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This Weekend (and earlier/later)
May 23, 2007 "Angry
Monk": An Evening of Film and Poetry
Tibetan Buddhist Studies
Presentation with Donald Lopez and Khen Rinpoche Kachen Lobzang Tsetan
Screening of "Angry
Monk: Reflections on Tibet," (2005) a documentary by Luc Schaedler about
the life of Gendun Choepel (1903-1951), the legendary dissident monk of early
20th-century Tibet who criticized the religious conservatism and cultural
isolation of his country. The film was screened at the 2006 Sundance Film
Festival.
Donald Lopez, Arthur E.
Link Distinguished University Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies at the
University of Michigan, has written and edited over twenty books on Buddhism
and Asian religions, including The Madman's Middle Way: Reflections on Reality
of the Tibetan Monk Gendun Chopel. His is currently a Visiting Scholar at the
Getty Research Institute, working on the topic, "Uses of the Buddha."
Prof. Lopez will read his translations of the poetry of Gendun Choepel,
accompanied by Khen Rinpoche Kachen Lobzang Tsetan, Abbot of Tashi Lhunpo in
Karnataka, India, who will recite the poetry in the original Tibetan.
Wednesday, 7:00 PM - 10:00
PM
314 Royce Hall, UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Cost: Free
Special Instructions
Seating is limited. RSVP
required to rharwood@support.ucla.edu or (310)206-3072.
For more information
please contact
Robert Buswell
May 26, 2007 Conference on
21st Century Perspectives on China
US-China 2nd Annual Sister
Cities Conference, sponsored by Pasadena Sister Cities, hosted by the
Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, underwritten by
Morning Bridge International.
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE:
Registration and Coffee:
8:30-9:00 a.m.
Guest Speakers: 9:00
a.m.-12:30 p.m.
> John E. Wills Jr.,
Emeritus Professor of History, USC: ÒMaritime China: Pasts, Presents, and
FuturesÓ
> Agatha Fung, Head of
International Banking, East West Bank: ÒBanking on China: Facets of a Big
FutureÓ
> George De Roza,
Professor of Chinese Literature and Film, Whittier College: ÒThe Marketing of
Chinese Cinema: Self- Representation and the Western GazeÓ
Lunch: 12:30-1:30 p.m.
Garden Terrace
ÒShowcaseÓ 1:30-2:30 p.m.
Tabletop exhibits by
California sister cities, highlighting their exchange activities with China.
Chinese Garden
Presentation: 2:30-3:00 p.m.
The development of the Chinese Garden at
the Huntington.
Tour of the Chinese
Garden: 3:00-3:45 p.m.
Wear comfortable shoes.
REGISTRATION:
Registration, $30.00
Student registration,
$10.00
Registration at the door,
$40.00
Registration fee includes
morning coffee and lunch.
Please return registration
form with your check by May 18th.
Mail to:
Pasadena Sister Cities
Committee
Alan Lamson, China
Sub-committee
2459 Brigden Rd.
Pasadena, Ca 91104
Make checks payable to:
Pasadena Sister Cities Committee
Registration will be confirmed by
e-mail.
FOR REGISTRATION FORM, http://www.international.ucla.edu/china/papers/flyer_china_conference07.pdf
Please arrive by 8:30 a.m.
to sign-in and collect your lunch ticket.
Saturday, 8:30 AM - 4:00
PM
Huntington, Friends Hall
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
For more information
please contact
Alan Lamson
May 26 One of the features
of the National Museum's DiscoverNikkei.org Web site is the Nikkei
Album--an exciting and versatile online tool that allows Nikkei and others from
around the world to share their personal family stories, community histories,
lesson plans, and much more through photos, text, audio, and video.
Project staff presents a
workshop on how to browse and contribute to Nikkei Album. Free with National Museum admission. Reservations
are required. Maximum 30 attendees.
For more information and to RSVP, e-mail editor@DiscoverNikkei.org.
11AM-12:30PM
JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM
369 East First Street
Los Angeles, California
90012
phone: (213) 625-0414
fax: (213) 625-1770
Adults $8.00
Seniors (62 and over)
$5.00
Students (with ID) and
Children (6-17) $4.00
Children 5 and under and
Museum Members, Free.
Free general admission every Thursday from 5 to 8 p.m. and every third
Thursday of the month.
Special group rates and rentals available.
For reservations call
(213) 625-0414.
May 27 & 28 Exhibition: Santa Anita Bonsai Society
Ayres Hall & Gate
& Kitchen
Arboretum of Los Angeles
County
301 N. Baldwin Ave.
Arcadia, CA, 91007
626-821-3222
May 30 - Works in Progress
presents Executive Order 9066 featuring
A Divided Community, a play by
Momo Yashima, Frank Chin & the Resisters at Nakano Theatre, 7Ñ9 PM
Wed. For its fourth consecutive year, Works in Progress presents dramas of
compelling contemporary events in the intimate Nakano Theatre at Torrance
Cultural Arts Center.
2007 is the 65th
anniversary of the legal action that deprived more than 120,000 people of their
constitutional rights without due process. Through theater and film,
Works in Progress will explore the effects of this action on the Japanese
American community.
Q & A and reception
will follow each event
Tickets $25 Adults / $23
Senior & Students / $21 Subscribers @ 310-781-7171 Call Box Office for
tickets (310) 781-7171
Torrance Cultural Arts
Center
3330 Civic Center Drive
Torrance CA 90503
http://www.torrancelive.us/index_files/Page1332.html
Last
weekend (or so) I went to:
Another
stop at Manzanar, this time when the interpretive center was open. New display
case on fishing.
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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.
Guest worker program
survives
A bid by Democrats to
throw out a key part of the Senate immigration overhaul is defeated. More
fights are brewing.
By Nicole
Gaouette, Times Staff Writer
May 23, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/la-na-immig23may23,1,5064983.story
David Henry Hwang's
identity issues
The writer wonders what is
truly authentic. The results are contained in the play 'Yellow Face.'
By Charles
McNulty, Times Staff Writer
May 22, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-yellow22may22,1,967136.story
A road beyond
ethnicity
David Henry Hwang's new
play takes us to a place past race.
May 21, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-rodriguez21may21,1,4009572.column
Businesses, families
have a lot riding on immigration change
By Teresa
Watanabe, Times Staff Writer
May 21, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-immig21may21,1,3575697.story
At UCLA, Spring
Festival of World Music and Jazz strikes a common chord
University's collection of
instruments serves as tools to forge a global harmony.
By Blair
Tindall, Special to The Times
May 20, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-ca-instruments20may20,1,5415700.story
Police pare list of
10 worst gang fugitives
LAPD says its list of
most-wanted is bearing fruit, with four in jail and one dead after a standoff
May 7.
By Patrick
McGreevy, Times Staff Writer
May 20, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-wanted20may20,1,6181087.story
Hu takes Yalies under
his wing
China's president rolls
out the red carpet for 100 faculty and students.
By Mitchell
Landsberg, Times Staff Writer
May 18, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-yale18may18,1,5159274.story
Japan to launch
'Nobel Prize' for overseas manga artists
From Associated
Press
May 22, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/business/la-et-comicprize22may22_wr,1,2276868.story
'Chinatown
bus' service makes inroads
By Rosemary
McClure, Los Angeles Times
May 18, 2007
http://travel.latimes.com/articles/la-tr-99sidemay20
O.C. freeway fatality
an international case
A Hyundai executive left for
Korea after a motorcyclist who hit his disabled SUV was killed. There's a
warrant for his arrest.
By Christine
Hanley, Times Staff Writer
May 23, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-hyundai23may23,1,781890.story
Illegal immigrants
skeptical about overhaul bill
They worry about the cost
of the fines and having to return to their native countries to apply for a
green card.
By Anna
Gorman and Teresa Watanabe, Times Staff Writers
May 18, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-immigreax18may18,1,2109010.story