Arts & Entertainment Calendar
A regional roundup of events of special interest to Asian Americans

Arts
Arts of the Skih Kingdoms A comprehensive international exhibition that explores the artistic traditions of Punjab under Sikh rule mainly from 1799 to 1839. Asian Art Museum. (415-379-8787.)

From Bali to Brazil Photographs by Susan Sai-Wah Louie are on exhibit through Nov. 1. (Lakeview Club, 28th Floor, Kaiser Center Building, 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland. 510-271-4115.)

Genji and the 36 Poets A large folding screens and small paintings recall the highly colored emaki illustrations of late Heian (897-1185) and Kamakura (1185-1333) Japan. (Berkeley Art Museum, 2625 Durant, Berkeley. 510-642-0808.)

Hybrids and Abstractions Exhibition features the work of Filipino-American artist Edward Aglipay. (Big Pagoda Gallery, 1903 Fillmore Street, San Francisco. 415-563-8728.)

I American An introspective exhibition of mixed-media, drawings, oil, and acrylic works by various artists exploring the Filipino American experience. Nov. 6, noon-6 p.m. at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. (Oakland Cultural Asian Center, 388 9th Street Suite 290, 2nd floor of the Pacific Renaissance Plaza in Oakland’s Chinatown, near 12th Street BART. For more information, call 510-208-6088.)

New Stories from an Old Chapter Works by renowned Filipino artists Elmer Borlongan, Santiago Bose, Brenda Fajardo, Karen Flores, Mark Justiani and Noel Soler Cuizon will be on display. (Pacific Bridge, 95 Linden St. #6, Oakland Calif. 510-451-8840.)

Sou Sou Group 15th Anniversary exhibition from Japan at the Gallery Piazza. Exhibition runs through Nov. 21. (Gallery Piazza. Sausalito Piazza Building. 819 Bridgeway, Sausalito. For more information call 415-331-6711 or www.gallery-piazza.com.)

The Unending Path Twenty-three large-scale paintings by Hong Kong artist Harold Wong explore the artist’s stylistic transformation from traditional landscapes to abstraction. Ongoing. (Asian Art Museum, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. 510-559-9797.)

Dance
Detours:Common Ground II A world premiere collaboration between Dimensions Dance Theater and ily Cai Chinese Dance Co. will feature African and Chinese trained dancers. The event takes place Nov. 12-13. (Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street, San Francisco, 415-978-2787.)

Best of Diablo Ballet Program features classical and contemporary works by artists including choreographer Kelly Teo. Nov. 5, 8 p.m. at Zellerbach Hall. (Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley campus at Bancroft Way and Telegraph Avenue , Berkeley.)

Events
Asian Improv Saxophone Summit Featuring Jeff Chan, Hafez Modirzadeh, and Francis Wong. Nov. 5. (Clarion Music, 816 Sacramento Street, San Francisco, 415-391-1317.)

Festival of Harps The Tenth Annual Festival of Harps featuring Cui Jun Zhi will take place Nov. 14 at the Palace of Fine Arts. For more information, call the Festival of Harps 510-548-3326.

International Children’s Art Museum Auction Works by child artists in China, Thailand, Russia, India, Albania and other countries will be showcased Nov. 13. (Presidio Alliance Building No. 563, the Presidio, San Francisco, 415-772-9977.)

International Taiko Festival Cal Performances and San Francisco Taiko Dojo present the 31st International Taiko Festival showcasing the art of Japanese ritual drumming. Nov. 13-14. (UC Berkeley Campus, Zellerbach Hall, 415-92-TAIKO.)

Film
15th Film Arts Festival of Independent Cinema Films will be shown Nov. 3-7, and 10th at the Castro, Roxie, Victoria, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, SF Main Library, and the Exploratorium. (For more information, call 415-552-FILM or www.filmarts.org.)

Readings
odette meyers and nellie wong will read as part of the Tuesday Night Reading Series at Intersection for the Arts. Nov. 9, 8 p.m. (Intersection for the Arts, 446 Valencia Street, San Francisco. For more information, call 415-626-2787..)

ohana open mic Senior Asian-American Women Writers presents an open mic night Nov. 19, 7:30-9:30 p.m.at the Pro Arts Gallery. This event is free of charge. (Pro Arts Gallery, 461 9th Street @Broadway, Downtown Oakland.)

the poetry center and american poetry archives presents a reading with Debra Kang Dean and Forrest Hamer on Nov. 11 at 4:30 p.m. (The Poetry Center Reading Room, Humanities 512, San Francisco State University.)

Theater
Hamlet The Random Acts Theatre Company will perform Hamlet through Nov. 14 at the Noe Valley Ministry. Call 415-337-8963.

Arts
An American Diary:Paintings by Roger Shimomura A traveling exhibition of paintings and prints by sansei (third-generation Japanese American) artist Roger Shimomura through Jan. 16. (Japanese American National Museum, 369 East First Street, Los Angeles. 213-625-0414.)

Arts of Pacific Asia Thousands of artwork and artifacts will be on display at the Eighth Annual show held at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Nov. 22–14. (Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, for more information, call (310) 455-2886.)

Gods and Goblins: Japanese Folk Painting from Otsu Paintings of foolish monkeys, wrestling gods, playful goblins and humorous caricatures make up the first major West Coast exhibit of folk art from the town of Otsu, Japan. Ongoing. (Pacific Asia Museum, 46 N. Los Robles Ave., Pasadena. 626-449-2742.)

In Search of Gold Mountain An exhibit about the photographic history of Chinese Americans in San Diego is on view. Ongoing. (San Diego Chinese Historical Museum, 404 Third Ave., San Diego. For more information about this exhibition, call 619-338-9888.)

The Three Graces: Music, Painting and Poetry in the Art of India Fifty-one works include 40 paintings personifying Indian ragas, or poeticized musical modes. (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles. For more information, call 213-857-6000.)

Urishi/Lacquer An exhibition of 70 pieces of urishi (Japanese lacquer) by Nagatoshi Onishi. (Exhibit at the Mingei International Museum, 1439 El Prdao, Balboa Park, San Diego. Call 619-239-0003 for more information .)

Arts
A Good Place to Land One’s Feet An exhibit documenting Brooklyn’s new Chinese American community, based on oral histories and photographs, is on display. Ongoing. (Museum of Chinese in the Americas, 70 Mulberry St., New York City. 212-619-4785.)

China: Fifty Years Inside the People’s Republic A new photography exhibit of the past 50 years in mainland China features 160 works by 33 photographers. The Asia Society, 725 Park Ave. New York. (212-288-6400.)

Family Portraits Images of New York Chinatown’s diverse families are feature in this ongoing exhibition. (Museum of the Chinese in the Americas, 70 Mulberry St., Second Floor, New York. 212-619-4785.)

Fin de SiEcle Rituals: Contemporary Taiwanese Art Featured artists in this exhibition include Hung Tung, Huang Chin-ho, Wu Tien-chang, Hou Chun-ming, and Chen Chieh-jen. (Taipei Gallery, McGraw-Hill Building, 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York. For more information about this exhibition, call 212-373-1854.)

Where Is Home? Chinese in the Americas Artifacts and personal testimony documenting the Chinese diaspora, as it relates to women, faith, youth and home is on view in this ongoing exhibition. (Museum of the Chinese in the Americas, 70 Mulberry St.,Second Floor New York. For more information about this exhibition, call 212-619-4785.)

Theater
The Lunar Conspiracy: Birth of An Asian Stir-Friday Night!, the Chicago Asian American sketch comedy troupe, returns for their eighth original revue. Performances will be held on Fridays through Nov. 13. (Live Bait Theater, 3914 N. Clark Street, Chicago. For more information and tickets, call 773-973-4522.)

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