THE APPA Newsletter
Oct. 17, 2007
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
(dkikemi@pacbell.net)
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Back issues of the
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
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
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
October
12, 2007 - January 21, 2008
Rank and Style :
Power Dressing in Imperial China
For
generations ChinaÕs rulers wore emblems on their robes that identified their
place in a complex system of rank and privilege. This exhibition explores how
this imperial hierarchy was maintained through the bestowing and wearing of
exquisitely woven and embroidered Ôrank badges,Õ as they have become known in
the West.
Identity and status, so
carefully crafted and preserved among ChinaÕs elite, were expressed primarily
through garments and their decoration, making them virtually a second skin Ð so
intimately connected to oneÕs person that even in death wearing the appropriate
badge assured a continuation of earthly status. The exhibition is rich in a
wide variety of rank and festival badges worn by the emperor, members of the
imperial household, and civil and military officials.
Rank and Style: Power
Dressing in Imperial China presents for the first time in the United States
selections from the Chris Hall Collection of Hong Kong. These rare and
exquisite rank badges date from 1500 to the mid-19th century, with many from
the Ming Dynasty (1368Ð1644). Numerous badges feature woven or embroidered
mythical creatures such as the dragon and phoenix, while others depict rabbits,
cranes and tigers. Additional pieces in the exhibition are drawn from the
collections of the Pacific Asia Museum and local collections.
Dale Gluckman, Guest
Curator
This exhibition will be
part of the fourth city-wide collaboration of PasadenaÕs cultural institutions,
ÒArt and Ideas.Ó
Related Events
Saturday,
November 3, 2007, 1-4pm,
Free Family
Festival
In
celebration of the new exhibition Rank and Style:
Power Dressing in Imperial China, this all-ages festival will focus
on activities related to Imperial Chinese culture and the symbolism of dragons,
birds, lions, tigers, flowers and lanterns in works of art. Free.
46 North
Los Robles Avenue, Pasadena California 91101 [Google Map]
Hours: Wed Ð Sun: 10:00am-6:00pm
Runs September 20 -
October 14, 2007 DURANGO
By Julia Cho
Directed by Chay Yew
When Boo-Seng Lee is laid
off from the job to which he has devoted the last 25 years of his life, he
decides to take his two sons Jimmy and Isaac on a road trip to Durango,
Colorado. As they make their way across the Arizona desert, they confront
family secrets, peeling back the layers of identity, alienation and duty that
define being Asian in America. DURANGO promises to be a thought-provoking
examination of the fears, fantasies, and failures of a family standing in the
shadow of the American Dream.
Single Tickets Available
Starting August 20th!
WEST COAST PREMIERE
Previews September 13 -
16, 2007
Opens September 19, 2007
Wednesday - Saturday @ 8
pm, Sunday @ 2:00pm
$60 Opening Night
$35 Regular Tickets
$30 Students &
Seniors
$20 Preview Tickets
American Sign
Language-interpreted performance October 7, 2007 @ 2:00 pm
$20 Tickets for Deaf
& Hard of Hearing Patrons
For more information,
please call East West Players at (213) 625-7000 or email info@eastwestplayers.org.
Click here to visit the Mark Taper Forum online
for more details.
September 15 Ð November
10, 2007 BUGU: THE SPIRIT OF THE SAMURAI WARRIOR
The Japanese American
Cultural & Community Center is proud to host this exquisite and extensive
exhibition of traditional Japanese arms and armor. With this exhibit, gallery
goers can travel back into feudal Japan and glance at some of the most
dangerous and romanticized professions of all time including Samurai Warrior
and Ninja. The exhibition will examine how Bugu is represented and conveyed
through manga (Japanese comics), and will include a section for gallery-goers
to try on replica armor and include video of kendo, sumo and yabusame bouts.
Presented by The Japan
Foundation, Los Angeles
George J. Doizaki
Gallery, Main Floor Admission Free
Tuesdays Ð Fridays:
12noon to 4pm Saturdays: 11am to 4pm Closed Sundays, Mondays and holidays
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
Aratani/Japan America
Theatre Box Office Info:(213) 680-3700
October 25, 2007 Zatoichi
Zatoichi (aka The Blind
Swordsman)
directed by "Beat" Takeshi Kitano
Japan,
2003
116 minutes, 35mm
The Crank presents
Zatoichi, Takeshi Kitano's acclaimed updating of the legendary hero from 1960s
and 70s Japanese cinema. Kitano plays the title character, a blind
masseur who defends a village against a ruthless gang of killers. The
film is, ultimately, more than a samurai film, but an exploration of the
"Beat" Takeshi persona developed in such films as Fireworks
(Hana-bi), Kikujuro, and other modern classics, a persona that crosses genres
as disparate as comedy, the gangster film, and the musical.
"...film that seems alive in the sense that it appears to
have free will." -- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
The Crank
is a film club run by the graduate students of UCLA's Department of Film,
Television, and Digital Media. Its mission is to program film series
which showcase the treasures of the UCLA Film and Television Archive. The
Fall 2007 quarter highlights some of the best in contemporary international art
house cinema.
Thursday, 5:00 PM - 7:00
PM
Bridges Theater
Melnitz Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095
October 25, 2007 Center
for Chinese Studies Reception
Annual reception of the
Center for Chinese Studies. All are welcome!
Please join us on
Thursday, October 25, 2007, for our annual reception in honor of the
students and faculty in Chinese studies at UCLA.
Refreshments will be
served.
RSVP: china@international.ucla.edu
or 310 825-8683
Thursday, 5:30 PM - 7:30
PM
Sequoia Room
Faculty Center
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095
For more information
please contact
Richard Gunde
Tel: 310 825-8683
Saturday, October 27,
2007 8pm 26th Annual Los Angeles Season Rhapsody In Taps
West Coast. Debut of
Special Guest Artists Tap and Tray Ð Kurt and Klaus Bleis, from
Germany
Guest Musicians: Leo Chelyapov, clarinet Claire Bergen, violin
Artistic Director Linda
Sohl-Ellison and her troupe of seven tap dancers, five jazz musicians and
percussionists bring together the art of rhythm tap dance, the freedom of live
jazz music and percussion and original repertoire for a unique visual and
musical event!
Recognized for
choreographic invention and experimentation, RIT on presents several exciting
premieres this season including Tribute to Foster Johnson, Accent Simpatico
Sextet, Higher Learning, solos by RITÕs Òfast feet,Ó Bob Carroll, a new duet by
Sohl-Ellison and master percussionist, Monti Ellison plus Laughing With Tears,
Rhapsody In TapsÕ critically acclaimed tap and Klezmer music collaboration with
Russian born composer and clarinet virtuoso, Leo Chelyapov. As an added bonus,
the company is proud to present two special guest artists from Germany, Tap and
Tray (Kurt Albert and Klaus Bleis) in their West Coast debut. Tap and Tray are
hailed in Europe for their brilliant and hilarious vaudevillian styled
choreography and clean tapping, all done while spinning trays!
For information visit www.rhapsodyintaps.com
For Hoofer's Circle and
Group rates call (310) 858-1676.
Aratani/Japan America
Theatre
$40 Hoofer's Circle, $32
Orchestra, $24 Balcony
October 29, 2007 DOUBLE EDGE Lecture Series: Kyong Park
Associate professor of
public culture and urbanism at UC San Diego, and Director of the International
Center for Urban Ecology, Singapore
Kyong Park was the
founding director, in 2005, of the Centrala Foundation for Future Cities in
Rotterdam, the Netherlands; co-curator of "Europe Lost and Found," a
project on the future geography of Europe; and a founding member of "Lost
Highway," a mass expedition through nine cities in the western Balkans. In
addition, he was the editor of "Urban Ecology: Detroit and Beyond"
(2005), co-curator of "Shrinking Cities" in Berlin (2002Ð04),
founding director of the International Center for Urban Ecology in Detroit
(1999Ð2001), curator of the Kwangju Biennal in South Korea (1997), a Loeb
Fellow at Harvard University (1996), and founder and director of the StoreFront
for Art and Architecture in New York (1982Ð98).
Monday, 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Decafe
Perloff Hall, Room 1302
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Tel: (310) 267-4704
Sponsor(s): Department of Architecture and Urban Design
DAWN'S LIGHT: THE JOURNEY
OF GORDON HIRABAYASHI
By Jeanne Sakata
Directed by Jessica
Kubzansky Based on a true story. During the Japanese Internment of WWII, UW
student Gordon Hirabayashi refused evacuation orders as a violation of his
civil rights and became a federal prisoner. His 1942 conviction was not
overturned until 1987.
WORLD PREMIERE
Previews - November 1 -
4, 2007
Opening Night - Wednesday
November 7, 2007
Performance Run - November
8 - December 2, 2007
Wednesday - Saturday @ 8
pm, Sunday @ 2:00pm
*NO PERFORMANCE Thursday,
November 22, 2007
$60 Opening Night
$35 Regular Tickets
$30 Students &
Seniors
$20 Preview Tickets
American Sign
Language-interpreted performance Sunday, November 25, 2007 @ 2:00 pm
$20 Tickets for Deaf
& Hard of Hearing Patrons
For more information,
please call East West Players at (213) 625-7000 or email info@eastwestplayers.org.
Click here to visit the Mark Taper Forum online
for more details.
November 02, 2007
Spiritual Sounds of Central Asia
Central Asia concert
presented by UCLA LIVE
Some of the world‰Ûªs most
ancient and mysterious music and epic poetry comes to Royce Hall in a
remarkable concert featuring 18 of Central Asia‰Ûªs greatest singers and
musicians, many of them appearing in the U.S. for the first time. Performed
against a backdrop of vibrant projected images, ‰ÛÏSpiritual Sounds of Central
Asia‰Û includes artists from the volatile, mountain-ringed region of Asia
bordered by Russia, Iran, China and Pakistan including Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Karakalpakstan (Uzbekistan) and Kalmykia. Closed to the
West for 70 years, this former Soviet controlled area has experienced a
resurgence in ancient musical traditions since the fall of the Soviet Empire.
Showcasing some of the most exotic musical traditions on the planet, the
concert includes the legendary mugham singer Alim Qasimov and his virtuosic
four-man ensemble, trance-inducing mystical songs by the seven-person
Badakhshan Ensemble, and an illustration of Central Asian musical styles by the
once taboo, all-female ensemble Bardic Divas. With supertitles for texted
songs.
Friday, 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
UCLA Royce Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Cost: $46, 36, 24 ($15
UCLA Students)
Tel: 310.825.2101
Posted by: Asia Institute
Sponsor(s): UCLA Live
November 03, 2007
Forty-eight Buddhas of Measureless Life: Court Eunuch Patronage at the
Sculpture Grottoes of Longmen
Amy McNair presents the
Twentieth Sammy Yukuan Lee Lecture in Chinese Archaeology & Art
The centerpiece of the
sculpted cave-shrines at Longmen is the colossal Vairocana assembly sponsored
by Emperor Gaozong and Empress Wu during the Tang dynasty (618-907). Fifty
years after its completion, however, a consortium of court eunuchs added a
display of forty-eight Buddha figures to its walls. This intrusive project
allows us to explore questions about the spiritual and social purposes of
Buddhist statuary and patronage in medieval China.
Amy McNair is the author
of Donors of Longmen: Faith, Politics, and Patronage in Medieval Chinese
Buddhist Sculpture, published in 2007 by the University of Hawaii
Press. She is Associate Professor of Chinese Art at the University of
Kansas, where she teaches and researches early and medieval Chinese art.
PARKING: Enter UCLA from
Sunset Blvd. at Westwood Plaza. Proceed directly ahead to Lot 4. There is
an elevator at the southeast end of Lot 4 and a stairwell at the northeast end,
closest to the museum. Parking is $8.
Saturday, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Lenart Auditorium
Fowler Museum of Cultural
History
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095
For more information
please contact
Richard Gunde
Tel: 310 825-8683
Posted by: Center for Chinese Studies
Sponsor(s): Center for Buddhist Studies,
Center
for Chinese Studies
http://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/showevent.asp?eventid=5940
November 10 and 17 The
World of Murakami: MOCA Exhibit
UCLA Extension course in
conjunction with MOCA exhibit
In Conjunction with MOCA's
exhibition, © MURAKAMI, UCLA Extension offers a two session course exploring
the work of internationally acclaimed between the artist's work, traditional
Japanese painting, and Western pop art through exhibition walkthroughs, slide
lectures, and discussion.
Instructor: Mika
Yoshitake, MOCA Project Coordinator for © MURAKAMI and doctoral student in the
Department of Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles
The Geffen Contemporary at
MOCA
Los Angeles, CA 90066
Cost: $85 MOCA members;
$95 nonmembers
Tel: (310) 825-9971
Posted by: Asia Institute
Sponsor(s): UCLA Extension
http://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/showevent.asp?eventid=6035
November 10, 2007
Rethinking China and Europe: Connections and Comparisons
A day-long conference
presented in conjunction with the Southern California China Colloquium
Organizer: Professor
Jeffrey Wasserstrom (History, UC Irvine)
Presenters:
Robert Bickers
Professor of Historical Studies, University of Bristol.
Wai-kit Choi
Assistant Professor of Sociology, California State University, Los
Angeles.
Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley
Associate Professor of History, San Diego State University.
Richard S. Horowitz
Associate Professor of History, California State University, Northridge.
Ruth Rogaski
Associate Professor of History, Vanderbilt University.
Wensheng Wang
Mellon/ACLS Fellow and doctoral candidate in History, University of
California Irvine.
Jeffrey Wasserstrom
Professor of Histoy, University of California, Irvine. P
Titles and additional
information soon.
Saturday, 10:00 AM - 4:30
PM
6275 Bunche Hall
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095
For more information
please contact
Richard Gunde
Tel: 310 825-8683
Sponsor: Center for
Chinese Studies
Nov 17-19 4th Annual Chinese Food Festival, Los Angeles
Chinatown
http://www.chinesefoodfestivalla.com/media.html
Sunday, November 18,
2007 1pm & 4:30 pm
U.S. Premiere Special
appearance by Director Hisako Yamada
ÒFudeko Sono Ai
Tenshi no PianoÓ (Fudeko - The Angel's Piano) 2006
Directed by Hisako
Yamada Starring Takako Tokiwa, Emiya Ichikawa In Japanese with English
subtitles ÒFudekoÓ is the inspiring true story of Fudeko Ishii; a pioneer who
established education, care and social services for developmentally disabled
children in Japan in the Meiji era. Popular Japanese actress Takako Tokiwa
portrays FudekoÕs very dramatic life and Kabuki actor Emiya Ichikawa makes his
film debut. Adding to the authenticity of the film mentally disabled children
have been cast in the film. The director, Hisako Yamada has dedicated her
career to producing movies introducing unknown historical figures of
significant achievement to a wide audience.
Proceeds from the
screenings will go to benefit the Little Tokyo Service Center.
Aratani/Japan America
Theatre $15 General Admission
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
December 1, 2007 at 2pm A Special Event to Celebrate the Holidays! Back
by Popular Demand!
NIHONMACHI The Place to Be
A Musical Journey to the Whole Family
Written by Soji Kashiwagi Musical
Direction by Scott Nagatani
Featuring The Grateful Crane Ensemble Yoko Ibuki, Haruye Ioka, Keiko
Kawashima, Kurt Kuniyoshi, Merv Maruyama, and Helen Ota
Featuring nostalgic Japanese and popular American songs, ÒNihonmachi:
The Place to BeÓ will take you back through time to the special place where it
all began: Nihonmachi. ¥ A third-generation manju maker decides to shut down
his family manju-ya after 99 years in business. But as his doors are about to
close, the spirit of his Issei grandfather returns to Nihonmachi to take him to
J-Town the way it used to be. Through this journey, he learns his family story,
finds his roots and in the end, discovers himself.
Aratani/Japan America Theatre $35 orchestra, $30 balcony $30, $27 JACCC
Members, $32, $28 Groups (10+), Senior, & Students $20 Children 13 and
under with adult purchase Post performance reception
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
Dec 1, 2 Japan Expo 2007
Japan Expo, now in its
28th year, is the largest US/Japan event that strengthens the ties of
friendship between the United States and Japan. Japan Expo will be held on
December 1st and 2nd, 2007 at the Los Angles Convention Center in South Hall K.
Admission is $12.00. Children under 12 are free.
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December, 1(Sat) |
9:00am ~ 11:00am (with
invitations only) 11:00am ~ 7:00pm
(public) |
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December, 2(Sun) |
10:00am ~ 6:00pm |
LOCATION
Los Angeles Convention
Center (Down town Los Angeles)
<SOUTH HALL-K>
1201 South. Figueroa
Street, Los Angeles, CA 90015
Tel: (213) 741-1154 *www.lacclink.com
PARKING
Los Angeles Convention Center
1201 South Figueroa Street
Los Angeles, California 90015
Phone: (213) 741-1151
Parking: $10.00/day
arking and Traffic Information: Radio Station 1630 AM
The Los Angeles
Convention Center is conveniently located at the intersection of the Santa
Monica Freeway (10) and the Harbor Freeway (110). Japan Expo 2004 is accessible
from the the South Hall Parking Garage.
December 01, 2007
Comparative Perspectives on Rhetorical Narratives
A day-long conference
presented in conjunction with the Southern California China Colloquium
Oganizer: Professor Lisa
Raphals (University of California, Riverside)
A great deal of
scholarship in recent years has focused on the rhetorical dimensions of
historical, philosophical and religious narratives. That scholarship tends
to be embedded in one discipline or one genre. A particularly interesting
example is the problem of women's biography, which tends to be considered in
isolation from other comparable rhetorical narratives. The papers in this
panel attempt to open new ground, each examining a rhetorical narrative context
through a comparative perspective, with significant attention to how and
whether rhetorical narratives can be approached comparatively by genre, by
area, or by time period. One session will focus on hagiographies and other
biographical narratives. The other will address other comparative asepcts of
rhetoric.
Details soon.
Saturday, 9:30 PM - 5:00
PM
10383 Bunche Hall
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095
For more information
please contact
Richard Gunde
Tel: 310 825-8683
Posted by: Center for Chinese Studies
Sponsor(s): Center for Chinese Studies
*NOVEMBER/DECEMBER
Chinese American Museum, El
Pueblo de Los Angeles, www.camla.org
Jake Lee exhibit opens.
THE CHINESE AMERICAN
MUSEUM AND AUTO CLUB GIVE LEGENDARY CALIFORNIA PAINTER DAY IN SUNSHINE
California Artist Fused
Chinese Heritage with California Scenes
(LOS ANGELES, Oct. 31,
2007) ÐÑ Jake Lee, a highly respected, yet quiet and enigmatic painter who
influenced numerous other artists in California for decades, has not been the
subject of a major retrospective, until now. ÒSunshine & Shadow: In Search
of Jake LeeÓ an exhibition hosted by the Chinese American Museum of Los
Angeles, co-produced with the Automobile Club of Southern California, marks the
first comprehensive and critical review of a prolific artist who embraced
California landscapes and city scenes through watercolor.
Showcasing at the Chinese
American Museum (CAM) from Dec. 1 to April 13, 2008, ÒSunshine & ShadowÓ
will highlight more than 60 watercolors, including eight from the Auto ClubÕs
WESTWAYS cover art collection. The collection will also illustrate with photos
and letters more details of the artistÕs professional career and his family
life, which he kept distinctly separate for many years.
ÒJake Lee is
among the most well known and prolific watercolor artists of the 20th Century,
yet we found very little published about his personal life as we researched
this exhibition,Ó said Dr. Pauline Wong, Executive Director of the museum. ÒWe
had no problem locating his art and his influence Ð it lives in collections
throughout the state and in the hearts of his many students. But it was more
challenging to find the man. We believe this exhibition and catalogue will
result in new appreciation for his artistic production and his influence.Ó
*SPRING 2008
Corky Lee exhibit opens.
http://camla.org/
See LA
Library DiverseCity events at http://www.lapl.org/kidspath/events/diversecity/index.html
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This Weekend (and earlier/later)
2007
U.S. Tour - Bunraku: The National
Puppet Theatre of Japan
Because
Bunraku is based in Osaka, Japan, special attention was given to Kansai-area
Sister Cities in the United States.
The troupe will perform in Boston, MA; Champaign, IL; Evanston, IL; Berkeley, CA;
San Francisco, CA;
concluding its tour in Los Angeles with four performances at the
Japanese American Cultural & Community Center, Aratani/Japan America
Theatre. In 2007, San Francisco
celebrates its 50th anniversary of Sister City Affiliations with the city of
Osaka.
Dates: October 2 Ð 20, 2007
Program: An Introduction to Bunraku (25 minutes)
Tsubosaka Kannon Reigenki Ð
Miracle at the Tsubosaka Kannon
Temple (55 minutes)
Date Musume Koi no Higanoko Ð
OshichiÕs Burning Love (25 minutes)
Company: 16 Puppeteers, Musicians and
Narrators, with an 17 additional
touring
staff of wig masters, costumers, and stage technicians.
October
12, 2007
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
October
13 & 14, 2007
Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley, CA
University of California, Berkeley
October
18, 19 & 20, 2007
Aratani/Japan America Theatre, Los
Angeles, CA
Japanese American Cultural &
Community Center
An
Exclusive Southern California Engagement
Experience
Bunraku in its first full-scale U.S. performance in nearly two decades!
Presented
in Japanese with English super titles.
Thursday
October 18, 2007 8pm
Friday
October 19, 2007 8pm
Saturday
October 20, 2007
2pm
& 8pm
Aratani/Japan
America Theatre
$100
Opening Night Gold Circle Seating (includes Reception)
$65
orchestra, $58 balcony
$60,
$55 JACCC Members
To purchase tickets,
or for more information call the Aratani / Japan America Theatre box office at
(213) 680-3700 from noon to 5 pm, Monday through Saturday and Sundays only on
performance days.
Fax orders to (213)
680-1872 or send email inquiries to boxoffice@jaccc.org.
Call 213-628-2725 to become a JACCC Member and receive Priority
Handling!
The
2007 U.S. Tour of Bunraku: The National Puppet Theatre of Japan is
produced and coordinated by the Japanese
American Cultural & Community Center.
,October 20, 2007
Masterpiece of Buddhist Art: The Works of Korean Living Treasure Master Jin
Hyung Lee
Silk Roads Gallery and
Korea Sah International Temple of Los Angeles are hosting Masterpieces of
Buddhist Art: The Works of Korean Living Treasure Master Jin Hyung Lee.
Silk Roads Gallery, along
with the Korea Sah International Temple is hosting an exhibit of the works of
Master Jin Hyung Lee, a Korean National Treasure from October 20th to December
16 at Silks Roads Design Gallery on La Brea Avenue. It is the first tine
Master LeeÕs works will be exhibited outside of Asia. Entitled
Masterpiece of Buddhist Art: The Works of Korean Living Treasure Master Jin
Hyung Lee, the exhibit will feature over 30 bronze and wood statues gilded in
24 carat gold of Buddhas, Bodhisattvas and monks, as well as ritual implements,
including a life size seated triad of Shakyamuni Buddha flanked by
Manjushri and Samantabhadra. All the work in the exhibition will be available
for purchase.
Master Jin Hyung LeeÕs
works are in over 60 Buddhist Temples throughout Korea, including the Song
Kwong Sah (one of the ÔThree JewelsÕ of Korean Buddhist Temples and a National
Treasure) and Beob Ryun Sah.Ó The Korea Sah International Temple in Koreatown,
Los Angeles has a remarkable collection of Master LeeÕs work including an
unusual relief of ÔThe Thousand BuddhasÕ behind the main alter.
Silk Roads encourages educational
or other interested groups to contact them to set up individual tours and
lectures on Master LeeÕs work and Korean Buddhist Art in the Gallery and at the
Korea Sah International Buddhist Temple during the exhibition dates.
There will be a Gala Opening
and Artist Reception held on October 20th at 7pm at Silk Roads Design Gallery,
located at 145 North La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles. Master Lee will be in
attendance and there will be performances by two groups of Korean singers Ð who
are also nationally recognized by the Korean Government as ÔIntangible Cultural
AssetsÕ.
Saturday 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Silk Roads Design Gallery
145 N. La Brea Ave Suite C
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Cost: Free
Special Instructions
RSVPs for the opening are
required.
For more information
please contact
Cari Markell
Tel: (323) 857-5588
Posted by: Center for Korean Studies
October 20, 2007 Los
Angeles Queer Studies Conference 2007
Organized by the UCLA
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program. Asia-related
presentations are highlighted.
This year's LA Queer
Studies Conference is the successor to the QGrad conferences held annually at
UCLA beginning in 1999. Although we have abandoned the conference for graduate
students only, we have encouraged substantial graduate student participation,
since one of the goals of the current format is to foster the exchange of ideas
between graduate student and faculty scholars.
Asia-related
presentations:
9:15-10:45 Panel Session
Two
Asian America in the Archives
Mel Chen, UC
Berkeley
Everywhere Archives and the Asian FTM Transgendered Body
11:00-12:00 Keynote
Address
Nayan Shah, UC San Diego
Migrants, Stranger Intimacies,
and Queer Ways of Life
1:15-2:45 Panel Session
Three
Queering the Cold War
Todd A. Henry, Colorado State
University
Spotlighting Male Same-Sex Workers: The Politics of Media
Visibility in US-Occupied Japan, 1945-52
3:00-4:30 Panel Session
Four
Queer Femininities
Rachel Lewis, Cornell University,
Musicology
Seeing Differently: Transnational Perspectives on Music and
Lesbian Desire in Deepa MehtaÕs 'Fire'
For the full program,
please see the UCLA LGBT
Studies website
Saturday, 9:15 PM - 6:30
PM
Royce Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Cost: Free
Special Instructions
Parking is available in
UCLA Parking Structure Lot 4 for $8.00 per day.
Tel: (310) 206-0516 lgbs@humnet.ucla.edu
http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/lgbts/events/LAQSC2007.html#Information
Posted by: Asia Institute
Sponsor(s): UCLA Lesbian,
Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program
New Chinese Cinema: The
Unofficial Stories of Tang Tang, Piggy, Little Moth, & Others
Screenings -- this year
including films from Hong Kong and Taiwan -- from October 5 to October 26
For this latest edition of
the UCLA Film & Television ArchiveÕs New Chinese Cinema series, we are
pleased to welcome the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) as a partner
and to expand the biennial series into a cross-town venture: with Archive
screenings at the Billy Wilder Theater and CalArts screenings at the Roy and
Edna Disney/CalArts Theater.
The programmatic geography
has changed as wellÑfrom an exclusive focus on Mainland China to a selection
that encompasses Hong Kong and Taiwan, both of whose cinemas the Archive has
also presented in years past but in discrete film series. By changing from a
territorial framework of Ònational cinemaÓ to a pan-Chinese, regional one, we
recognize not only the transnational movement and exchange of people, capital,
ideas and commodities that has been a defining economic and social verity of
the formerly Òthree,Ó now Òtwo ChinasÓ for over 20 years (indeed ever since the
Deng Xiaoping-orchestrated ÒopeningÓ of Mainland China to capitalist
development in 1978), but also the cultural and historical ties that bind
across the divides of Chinese polity.
*NOTE: Please visit <www.redcat.org> for information about
additional New Chinese Cinema film titles screening at REDCAT.
Wednesday, October 17,
7:30 p.m.
West Coast Premiere
TROUBLE MAKERS
(GUANGRONGDE FENNU)
China,
2006
dir/scr/edit: Cao Baoping. based on ÒVillage OperationÓ by Que
Diwei. prod: Zhang Yaoli, Cao B.P., Cindy M. Li. cin: Tao Shiwei. art: Lou Pan.
cast: Wu Gang, Li Xiaobo, Kong Qingsan, Wan Yanhui.
Friday, October 19, 7:30
p.m.
- A Tribute to Edward Yang
A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY Ñ
DirectorÕs Cut(GULING JIE SHAONIAN SHA REN SHIJIAN)
Taiwan, 1991 dir: Edward
Yang. prod: Yu Weiyan. scr: E. Yang, Yan Hongya, Yang Shunqing, Lai Mingtang.
cin: Zhang Huigong. art: Yu W.Y., E. Yang. ed: Chen Bowen. cast: Lisa Yang,
Zhang Zhen, Zhang Guozhu, Elaine Jin.
*Introduced by John
Anderson, film critic and author of ÒEdward YangÓ (2005)
Saturday, October 20 7:30
p.m. U.S. Premiere
LITTLE MOTH (XUE CHAN)
China,
2007
dir/scr/edit: Peng Tao. prod: Peng T., Zeng Wenwen. cin: Huang Yi.
art: Hu Qingsheng. cast: Hong Qifa, Han Dequn, Zhao Huihui, Zhang Lei
U.S. Premiere
THIRTEEN PRINCESS TREES
(SHISANKE PAOTONG)
China, 2006 dir: Lu Yue.
scr: Ying Liu, Lu Y., based on ÒBlade vs. BladeÓ by He Dacao. prod: Chris Liu,
Wang Qingyong, Hao Jiangguo. cin: Xu Wei. art: Zhao Anqi. ed: Yan Tao. mus: Liu
Suola. cast: Liu Xin, Zhao Mengqiao, Duan Wenbo, Wang Jing, Zhong Ping.
Friday, October 26, 7:30
p.m. West Coast Premiere
HE POST-MODERN LIFE OF MY
AUNT (YIMADE HOUXIANDAI SHENGHUO)
Hong Kong/China, 2006 dir:
Ann Hui. scr: Li Qiang, based on a novel by Yan Yan. prod: Er Yong. cin: Kwan
Pun-leung, Yu Lik-wai. art: Wu Lizhong. ed: Liao Ching-song. mus: Joe Hisaishi.
cast: Siqin Gaowa, Chow Yun-fat, Vicky Zhao Wei, Lisa Lu.
http://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/showevent.asp?eventid=6103
Archive programs screen at
the Billy Wilder Theater, 10899 Wilshire Blvd. @ Westwood Blvd. (courtyard
level of the Hammer Museum)
TICKETS: Advance tickets
are available for $10 at www.cinema.ucla.edu.
Tickets are also available
at the Billy Wilder Theater box office starting one hour before showtime: $9,
general admission; $8, Cineclub members, students, seniors and UCLA Alumni
Association members with ID; $7, Cineclub members who are students or seniors.
PARKING: After 6 p.m., $3
in the lot under the theater. Enter from Westwood Blvd., just north of
Wilshire.
INFO: www.cinema.ucla.edu / 310.206.FILM
Oct 6-28 Award-winning New
Asian American Play At Electric Lodge Timescape Arts Group, with the support of the Japanese American National
Museum, presents the world premiere of
INNOCENT WHEN YOU DREAM, winner of the
2006 Pacific Rim Playwrights Award, in October at
Electric Lodge in Venice. Ken Narasaki,
who also co-wrote the critically acclaimed and popular THE MIKADO
PROJECT, has written a new drama about a
Japanese American war veteran who finds himself returning to a lost memory,
while his third-generation children struggle to interpret his wishes
and unravel his past. The play
flips back and forth between two time periods until past and present finally
come together in an instant. Actor and
activist George Takei called this play, ÒOne of the most moving things IÕve ever seen.
I hope it finds the broadest possible audience.
ItÕs funny, itÕs sad, itÕs
important, itÕs beautiful.
IÕm passionately in love with this play.Ó Directed by Alberto Isaac, the play stars Sab Shimono, Emily Kuroda, Sharon Omi, John Miyasaki, Mike Hagiwara, and Ken Narasaki. Set Design: Mina Kimukawa Sound: Dennis Yen. Lights: Chris
Singleton. Costume: Ken Takemoto. Videographer: John Flynn. Photographer: Emily Kuroda. Stage Manager: Darlene Miyakawa. The play runs from October 6 though October 28,
2007, Fridays and
Saturdays at 8pm, with Saturday
and Sunday matinees at 3pm, at Electric
Lodge, 1416 Electric Avenue (one block east of Abbot Kinney). Directions to the theatre can be found at:
www.electriclodge.org. ThereÕs free
onsite parking, and the solar-powered theatre is handicapped accessible.
Tickets will be $20 at the door, or they can be purchased at: www.brownpapertickets.com, or by calling
1-800-838-3006.
For more information about group sales, call Sharon Omi at: 310-592-1160. From the
Santa Monica 10 Freeway: Exit Lincoln
Blvd. &; travel South about 3 miles to Venice Blvd.
Turn right on Venice Blvd. Then right on Abbot Kinney. Then right on California Avenue and An immediate
right on Electric Ave. The Electric
Lodge is the second building on your left. Turn left into our FREE parking lot, and welcome to the Electric Lodge!
Last
weekend (or so) I went to:
Visited the Pacific
Asia Museum and took a quick look at the impressive exhibition on Chinese court
dress and rank insignia:
Rank & Style: Power
Dressing in Imperial China
An exhibit at the Pacific
Asia Museum through January 27, 2008
ÒIn the past Chinese
silk was so valuable that the Roman Empire was nearly bankrupted by the cost of
importing it, while Columbus discovered America by accident in his attempt to
sail to China and buy Chinese silk at source. Unfortunately silk is fragile so
very little has survived to show what our ancestors spent so much time and gold
to acquire. It therefore gives me pleasure to show some of the few Ming badges
that are still in good condition and enable people to appreciate the
achievements of Chinese textile artists of the past.Ó Ð Chris Hall
For generations ChinaÕs
rulers wore emblems on their robes that identified their place in a complex
system of rank and privilege. This exhibition explores how this imperial
hierarchy was maintained through the bestowing and wearing of exquisitely woven
and embroidered Ôrank badges,Õ as they have become known in the West. Identity
and status, so carefully crafted and preserved among ChinaÕs elite, were
expressed primarily through garments and their decoration, making them
virtually a second skin Ð so intimately connected to oneÕs person that even in
death wearing the appropriate badge assured a continuation of earthly status.
The exhibition is rich in a wide variety of rank and festival badges worn by
the emperor, members of the imperial household, and civil and military
officials.
Rank and Style: Power
Dressing in Imperial China presents for the first time in the United States
selections from the Chris Hall Collection of Hong Kong. These rare and
exquisite rank badges date from 1500 to the mid-19th century, with many from
the Ming Dynasty (1368Ð1644). Numerous badges feature woven or embroidered
mythical creatures such as the dragon and phoenix, while others depict rabbits,
cranes and tigers. Additional pieces in the exhibition are drawn from the
collections of the Pacific Asia Museum and local collections.
Dale Gluckman, Guest
Curator
For further informartion
on related events, visit the website of the Pacific Asia Museum. Click
here>>
Time: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Pacific Asia Museum
46 N. Robles Ave.
Pasadena, CA 91101
Tel:
(626) 449-2742
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Links to selected
articles from the LA Times. To actually access the articles, you may have to
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Bush to attend Dalai Lama
ceremony
Unlike their previous
encounters at the White House residence, this one will be at an official
setting: the Capitol. China has taken note.
By James Gerstenzang, Los
Angeles Times Staff Writer
October 12, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-na-dalai12oct12,1,2914921.story
Big L.A. law firms score
low on diversity survey
The numbers of female,
black, Latino, Asian and gay partners and associates lag significantly behind
their representation in the city's population, according to a study.
By Henry Weinstein, Los
Angeles Times Staff Writer
October 11, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-diversity11oct11,1,661263.story
Scuffle exposes a racial
rift
Intense feelings follow a
skirmish between three black students and a white guard in Palmdale last month.
By Ann M. Simmons, Los
Angeles Times Staff Writer
October 11, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-palmdale11oct11,1,3593051.story
Advice to U.S. troops in
Iraq ages well
A World War II booklet
aimed at Americans in the Mideast nation has been reprinted -- and found a
large audience.
By Tony Perry, Los Angeles
Times Staff Writer
October 17, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-book17oct17,1,2406759.story
Buddhist congregation
allowed to pursue lawsuit
An appeals panel says the
Little Tokyo group's action against an umbrella organization can continue.
From a Times Staff Writer
October 17, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-buddhistbrief17oct17,1,3416185.story
Red Sox's Matsuzaka takes
his playoff lumps
Right-hander is showing
the stress after a no-decision and loss to the Angels and Cleveland.
By Mike DiGiovanna, Los
Angeles Times Staff Writer
October 17, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-alrep17oct17,1,2112048.story
As the world turns older,
more for gerontologists to study
Scientists seeking to
understand longevity have growing populations to evaluate. Notable are
communities in Japan and a California religious sect.
October 15, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-esoterica15oct15,1,4721169.column
In South Korea, patriotism
rears its dragon-like head
Critics call the film
'D-War' a fantasy fiasco. But viewers see it as a national treasure, and
they're breathing fire on any naysayers.
By Bruce Wallace, Los
Angeles Times Staff Writer
October 15, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-deewar15oct15,1,6859711.story
Kisho Kurokawa, 73;
influential Japanese architect who designed adaptable structures
By Bruce Wallace, Los
Angeles Times Staff Writer
October 14, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-kurokawa14oct14,1,9479.story
Taps sound for mariachi
mecca
The MacArthur Park
landmark La Fonda de Los Camperos is closing. Oct. 28 is the last show.
By Agustin Gurza, Los
Angeles Times Staff Writer
October 13, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-culture13oct13,1,6638908.story
Restored carousel rounds
out the revival of Lincoln Park
Multimillion-dollar
cleanup effort led by Councilman Ed Reyes has cut crime, added family-oriented
activities and promoted community healing.
By Teresa Watanabe, Los
Angeles Times Staff Writer
October 14, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-carousel14oct14,1,6467469.story
Nolan A. 'Sue' Herndon,
88; one of Doolittle's Raiders
By Valerie J. Nelson, Los
Angeles Times Staff Writer
October 15, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-herndon15oct15,1,1831802.story
Beyonce will perform in
China
The international tour
also includes show in Macau.
By the Associated Press
October 15, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/music/la-et-beyonce15oct15,1,3809462.story