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March 9 - 15, 2001
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Media Fund The National Asian American Telecommunications Association (NAATA) is pleased to announce new deadlines for the Media Fund. Open Call for Production Funds has a deadline of Aug. 24. This round of funding is for applicants with public television projects in production and/or post-production phases. Projects in research and development or script development phases need not apply. Awards will average $20,000 to $50,000. Exceptions may be made. Open Door Completion Fund has no deadline. This round of funding is for applicants with public television projects in the final post-production phase. A full-length rough cut must be submitted. Awards average $20,000 and NAATA funds must be the last monies needed to finish the project and deliver the broadcast master. For more information, check out www.naatanet.org or contact the Media Fund department at 415-863-0814 x 106 or mediafund@naatanet.org.
ARTS
Arts With Elders The Tenth Annual Art With Elders Exhibit, which opened with great success last September at the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, featuring 90 paintings by AWE artists and the photography of Francis da Silva, is currently touring San Francisco and will be located for four weeks, from Feb. 12 to March 9, in the lobby of 201 Spear Street near Folsom. The public may view the exhibit Monday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. For more information on Art With Elders, visit www.sfmnh.org.
Atlas(t) Reviving the decades-long history of collaboration between Galería de la Raza and Kearny Street Workshop, the two organizations’ younger members are collaborating on an exhibition entitled atlas(t): a mapping expedition/ exhibition by Latino and Asian Pacific American Artists. The exhibition is a conceptual atlas comprised of over two dozen maps that demonstrate the imaginative range of the Bay Area’s young Latino and Asian American artists. The show runs through March 31. Don’t miss the performance on March 31 at 8 p.m. For more information, please call Gigi Otalvaro of Galería at 415-826-8009 or Claire Light of KSW at 415-503-0520 (Galería de la Raza, 2857 24th Street, San Francisco).
Bay Area Photographers Collective An exhibition of work by 27 members of the Bay Area Photographers Collective (BAPC) will be held March 20 to May 27 in the lower-level gallery at San Francisco's City Hall. An opening reception is scheduled for 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Thursday, March 22. The gallery, which is run by the San Francisco Arts Commission, is located on the lower level of City Hall, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, San Francisco. Members of BAPC whose work will be shown include: Rebecca Chang, Alameda; KeYin Desler, San Mateo; Maria Mejia, San Francisco; and Adrian Wong, Berkeley. The black-and-white photographs in the show illustrate the scope and range of members' work. It includes a variety of subjects and styles, such as documentary, portrait, and landscape, as well as alternative methods such as hand-produced albumen prints ancl digital prints. For further information, please call Jan Potts at 415-255-9569.
Live Forever Korean Artist Lee Bul will show a new body of work, “Live Forever — New Work by Lee Bul,” that expands upon her investigation of the body in a technologically-mediated society. Related to the 1999 Venice Biennale installation of karaoke booths, Lee will fabricate a new series of pod-shaped karaoke capsules produced at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia. In San Francisco, Lee will produce a new video work which explores her interest in lounge bands that inhabit that strange nomadic realm of hotels. The video Live Forever will be exhibited with the complete series of video productions Amateurs + Anthem + Live Forever. Finally, with a commitment to the process of art-making and with commissioning new work, the Art Institute will exhibit an extensive body of drawings and sketches of the project in progress. The show will run from April 5 to May 19, with an opening reception on April 5, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., at the Walter & McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute, 800 Chestnut Street, San Francisco. Visit www.sfai.edu for complete exhibition and public program information.
Mise-en-scÉne Mise-en-scène: New LA Sculpture, an exhibition of 31 works by six up-and-coming Los Angeles artists is currently in the Logan Galleries on the San Francisco campus of the California College of Arts & Crafts and will continue through March 10. Presented by the CCAC Institute, the exhibition features works in sculpture, drawing, video and film by Liz Craft, Evan Holloway, Jason Meadows, Jeff Ono, Paul Sietsema and Torbjörn Vejvi. (1111 Eighth Street, San Francisco. 415-703-9500.)
Seeing Time March 17 through April 14, Washington Square announces a new exhibition, Seeing Time that pairs two Bay Area artists whose work is deeply rooted in West Coast culture and images. Yeung Ha’s new series of monotype prints records the first year of the new millennium through a visual diary. Each month, she created a new piece, incorporating the front page of a newspaper, a photograph of something she did, and paintings of rose bushes in her garden into multi-layered reflections. Suzan Friedland combines the techniques of textile work, painting and pottery in her artwork. She adopts methods from a variety of different sources, using media as diverse as adobe and sumi ink on the same “canvas.” Her forms are derived from the natural landscape of Northern California, where she lives. Washington Square Gallery is located at 1821 Powell Street between Filbert and Greenwich Streets. For more information, please call Hilary Snow at 415-291-9255.
Sugar ‘n’ Spice ‘n’ Everything Nice The exhibition Sugar ‘n’ Spice ‘n’ Everything Nice: Lives, Loves and Legacies of Women of Color opens March 14 and continues through April 21. These works by women of color inspire survival through their struggles, show how obstacles and stereotypes become strategies for resistance, and how these strategies have the power to subvert oppressive forces. Aissatoui Vernita, creator of Oakland’s Ebony Museum, fashions jewelry and sculpture from foods that were the historic staple of slaves. Flo Oy Wong, Tomoko Negishi, Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, and Jung Mee Jaime Kim show works about immigration and how it has affected their families and their psyches. Transformations of the body and materiality inspire Candi Farlice and Katherine Westerhout to poetic visions. Both Karin Turner and Yvonne Browne create works imbued with irrepressible optimism, humor and compassion born of the Black woman’s experience. Opening reception is on Thursday, March 15, 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. at Pro Arts, 461 9th Street, Oakland. Programs include Women’s Herstory, Part 1 and 2, March 24 and 31.
Taoism and the Arts of China This exhibition explores one of China’s primary indigenous philosophies and religions, an understanding of which is critical to comprehending Chinese culture, both historically and today. Approximately 150 works of art will be used to explore conceptual and artistic achievements in the history of Taoism, including paintings, sculpture, calligraphy, textiles, ritual objects and rare books borrowed from nearly seventy lenders in over ten countries. Significantly, 33 works will be borrowed from institutions in the People’s Republic of China, only two of which have been previously exhibited in the West. The show runs through May 31. For museum hours and general information, call 415-379-8800 or go to www.asianart.org. (Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco)
DANCE
“5/14/45-the last dance” The Headlands Center for the Arts will open its 2001 Public Programs Spring Season with “5/14/45 - the last dance”, a collaborative work-in-progress dance performance from choreographer June Watanabe, visual artist John Woodall, composer Alvin Curran and storyteller/band leader George Yoshida. “5/14/45 - the last dance” is a 1940s community swing dance set in Japanese American internment camps but extending beyond to embrace the universal tragedies of war, prejudice, injustice, and destruction. The performance will take place March 11 at 4 p.m. in the Gym at Headlands Center for the Arts, Fort Barry. For reservations and more information, please call 415-331-2787.
Dancing Downtown 2001 ODC/San Francisco celebrates its 30th anniversary season, Dancing Downtown, at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, April 4 - 22. This extended three-week season promises to be the unique mix of physical dynamism and choreographic eloquence that has long been a trademark of the Bay Area’s leading contemporary dance company. Dancing Downtown 2001 offers three programs: five world premieres by ODC’s award winning choreographers and six outstanding repertory favorites. Season music includes Mozart, Mark O’Connor/Yo Yo Ma/Edgar Meyer, Zap Mama. Legendary blues artist Dr. John, Duke Ellington, Philip Glass and live performances by the Cypress String Quartet playing a new work by Jay Cloidt. Tickets ($15/$28/38) are on sale at the Yerba Buena Center box office 415-978-2787 or online at www.ticketweb.com.
Diablo Ballet Celebrates 7th Anniversary Artistic Director Lauren Jonas announces Diablo Ballet’s Seventh Anniversary Celebration Performances on March 16 and 17 at the Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek. Fresh from well-received performances at Zellerbach Hall, the company performs its premiere of Balanchine’s Who Cares?, two World Premieres and the repeat of Val Caniparoli’s critically acclaimed Open Veins. For tickets, call 925-943-7469. Individual tickets range from $30 to $35, and student, senior and group discounts are available. The Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts is located in downtown Walnut Creek at 1601 Civic Drive.
Russian Hamlet: The Son of Catherine the Great Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg, critically acclaimed as Russia’s most innovative contemporary dance company, returns to the Bay Area with Boris Eifman’s lavish new masterpiece, Russian Hamlet: The Son of Catherine the Great. In Russian Hamlet, Eifman takes a piercing look into the tragic life of Prince Paul (Pavel Pekovich) and casts new light on one of the most complex and fascinating figures in Russian history. Paul I was born in 1754 to Peter III and Catherine the Great. At the age of eight, he witnessed his father’s murder by the order of his mother, who then became the Empress of All Russia. Five performances are scheduled March 29 - April 1 in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre. Tickets now on sale, call 415-392-4400.
The Nature of Nature Facing East Dance & Music (FEDM), an all Asian American female dance company combining modern dance with an Asian aesthetic and live music, announces the evening-length premier of The Nature of Nature. With five Chinese elements (Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water), five dance soloists and five musicians, The Nature of Nature explores the connections between the natural world, the physical body and the personality, using a collaboration of dance, live music, spoken word and visual design. FEDM Artistic Director and Choreographer Sue Li-Jue’s collaboration features Li-Jue’s visually breathtaking choreography; original music composed and performed live by Somei Yoshino Taiko Ensemble; thought provoking text written by FEDM Associate Director, Vivien Dai; sculptural set designs by FEDM Set Designer, Richard Jue; and provocative costumes by haute couture designer, Colleen Quen. Performances of The Nature of Nature: 5 Elements, 5 Dancers, 5 Musicians are March 16-17 and 23-24 at 8 p.m. and March 25 at 3p.m. All performances are located at the Asia Pacific Cultural Center (formerly Oakland Asian Cultural Center) in Oakland’s Chinatown (9th St. and Webster/12th St. BART Station). Tickets are $20 in advance and $22 at the door with $5 discounts for students and seniors, and half price for children under 12. To purchase tickets by phone, call the Asia Pacific Cultural Center Box Office at 510-208-6080. For more information, call 510-891-9496 or visit www.fedm.org.
Euphorium For those with an adventurous spirit, check out Antenna’s virtual opium trip The Euphorium, playing Wednesdays through Sundays, Feb. 14 through March 10 at Building 920 in the Presidio. Antenna Direction Chris Hardman has turned this Crissy Field warehouse into a surreal, walk-through dreamscape using Antenna’s signature headsets, digital audio effects, three dimensional paintings, and a few Coney Island funhouse tricks thrown in for good measure. Based on Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s opium-induced poem “Kubla Khan.” Doors are open 7 p.m. -10 p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays, 7 p.m. - midnight Fridays and Saturdays, 3 - 7 p.m. Sundays. Admission is $15 general, $12 for students and seniors. One person enters every two minutes, so reservations are recommended. Call 415-332-9454. For more information, check out www.antenna-theater.org.
EVENTS
Fourth Annual Sonoma Valley Film Festival Sonoma Valley residents and film buffs will enjoy a wealth of both cutting-edge and classic works at the Fourth Annual Sonoma Valley Film Festival, this year featuring the theme "Art, Passion, and Politics." The Festival, presented by the Sonoma Valley Film Society and supporting local arts and education programs, encompasses four days of screenings of world premieres, rarely seen classics, works by independent and student filmmakers, and newly restored short films. The Festival will also present special programs of restored films (including a screening of a Lon Chaney silent with live accompaniment), panel discussions with notable industry leaders, and a gala dinner event. Among intriguing new films to be screened are Standing on Fishes, Meredith Scott Lynn and Bradford Tatum's film of gender dynamics, featuring Kelsey Grammer and Jason Priestley; the Emmy-nominated "Coming Out Under Fire," an independent documentary by Arthur Dong (a recent recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship) about gay and lesbian soldiers coming out during World War II; "Riding The Tiger," a modern look back at the profound impact of the Vietnam War; "Talk To You Later," a comedy of one woman's neuroses with dating; "The Dishpan Man," a short film about the strange and wonderful turns ambition can take; and "Weeki Wachee Girls," Kim Cummings' insightful tale of 15-year-old friends coming to terms with their emerging sexuality. Directors from each of these films will be in attendance during the Festival. The Fourth Annual Sonoma Valley Film Festival will be held March 29 through April 1 in Sonoma. For tickets and information, or to become a member of the Sonoma Valley Film Society, call 707-258-5929 or visit www.sonomafilmfest.org.
Get Out of Camp Produced by the National Japanese American Historical Society, this interactive exhibit gives the audience an experiential overview of what World War II was like for Japanese Americans with replicas, photographs and music. The exhibition is on display through July 31, and is free and open to the public. Gallery hours are Mondays through Fridays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (NJAHS Gallery, 1684 Post St., San Francisco. 415-921-5007.)
MUSIC
Love American Style, a special concert highlighting American music, presented by Gay Asian Pacific Alliance (GAPA). Featuring GAPA Men’s Chorus and GAPA Dance Company, 7 p.m., at the ODC Theater, 3153 17th Street, San Francisco. Tickets may be purchased in advance or at the door. For additional information, call 415-282-GAPA, email info@gapacultural.org, or go to www.gapacultural.org.
Other Minds Festival VII Other Minds, dedicated to new and unusual music in all its forms, brings the latest ideas and trends in new music to the Bay Area this spring with Other Minds Festival VII. The festival is a rare opportunity to hear works by great musical innovators from around the world and the Bay Area. The 2001 festival program spans nearly a century of music invention, highlighting some early roots of new music and presenting four world premiere performances. The festival will include artist forums and three evenings of concerts at Cowell Theater, Fort Mason, March 8-10. Featured artists include: Alvin Curran (Oakland/Rome); Andrew Hill (New York); Hi Kyung Kim (Santa Cruz, born Korea); Aleksandra Vrebalov (Ann Arbor, born former Yugoslavia). For more information, please call Other Minds at 415-934-8134.
Suzanne Teng & Mystic Journey Award-winning Contemporary World Music band Suzanne Teng & Mystic Journey will present their grand Bay Area homecoming concert on Saturday, March 10, at 8 p.m. at the Julia Morgan Center for the Arts located at 2640 College Avenue. Original compositions feature Berkeley native Teng on flutes from around the world; Gilbert Levy on world percussion; Fritz Heede on sitar, Turkish saz and guitar; and Barry Newton on string bass. They are joined by special guest artists Prince Diabate, a master kora player from Guinea West Africa, and Bay Area locals Mark and Elisabeth Bell on Middle Eastern drums and wind instruments. General tickets are $15, and $10 tickets for students and seniors available through CBON 925-798-1300. For more information, call 310-859-5846, 510-845-8542 or go to www.suzanneteng.com.
Violinist Kyung-Wha Chung to Perform Kyung-Wha Chung returns to San Francisco on Monday, March 12 at 8 p.m. for the first time since 1994, for a Davies Hall recital in San Francisco Performances Virtuosi Series. Accompanied by pianist Itamar Golan, Chung perform’s Stravinsky’s Duo Concertanto for Violin and Piano, Georges Enescu’s Sonata No.3 for Violin and Piano in A minor, Op. 25 Prokofiev’s Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor, and Op. 80 and Op. 6 of Rachmaninoff. Tickets for Kyung-Wha Chung’s recital range from $15 to $63 and are available at City Box Office, 180 Redwood Street, Suite 100, or by phone at 415-392-4400. Tickets can also be purchased online at www.SFPerforming.org. Half-price tickets for students and senior citizens are sold at the theater on the day of the performance, subject to availability. (Davies Symphony Hall, Grove Street, San Francisco.)
READINGS AND LECTURES
International Women’s Day Book Party Celebrate International Women’s Day at a book party for the new edition of The Radical Women Manifesto: Socialist Feminist Theory, Program and Organizational Structure. Featuring commentary by labor movement organizer Nancy Reiko Kato and readings from the book. March 11 from 1 - 4 p.m., program begins at 2 p.m. International appetizer buffet served throughout for a $7 donation. New Valencia Hall, 1908 Mission Street (near 16th St. BART), San Francisco. Sponsored by Radical Women. Call 415-864-1278 for more information.
Writers on Writing with Ruthanne Lum McCunn Raised in Hong Kong and now residing in San Francisco, Ruthanne Lum McCunn has published seven books on the experience of Chinese people in America, including the classic Thousand Pieces of Gold, Sole Survivor, and Wooden Fish Songs. In The Moon Pearl, McCunn’s first novel in five years, the best-selling author once again explores the world of 19th-century women who defy tradition. The reading is funded by the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund, with support from the Friends & Foundation of the San Francisco Public Library, on March 11 at the lower level of the Main Library, in the Latino/Hispanic Community Meeting Room-B, 1 p.m. - 4 p.m. More information on Library Programs can be found at http://sfpl.org.
Contagion: An American Book of the Dead Campo Santo + Intersection with Alma Delfina Group present the World Premiere of John Steppling’s Contagion: an american book of the dead through March 11 at the Intersection. Contagion is directed by Sean San José and features Michael Cheng, Nina Gold, Comika Griffin, Steve Marvel, Luis Saguar, Machiko Saito and Paul Santiago, designed by Temple Crocker, Annie Kunjappy, Alex Nichols, Tom Ontiveros and Drew Yerys. Music by Scheheradze Stone and choreography by Emiko Lewis. In Contagion, seven people who have lived lives of deception, prostitution, pornography and drug abuse struggle from the shadows to put their pasts in order. These are ghostlike people who dwell in the marginal, but very real, places in this world; American expatriates who travel farther and farther from home — to China, Pakistan, Africa and beyond — in order to get closer to their own histories. With a visceral and lyric intensity, Steppling exposes a diseased American soul journeying recklessly toward imperfect enlightenment. In the end, only one person’s story will survive. For tickets and information, please call 415-626-3311. (Intersection, 446 Valencia St., San Francisco)
THEATER
Getting Out A young woman, with a lifetime of mistakes and disadvantages behind her, comes home after serving an eight-year prison sentence. Getting Out tells the story of her first 24 hours in the outside world, as she wrestles with her past and the emotional and physical threats that challenge her first true liberation. Marsha Norman’s award-winning and innovative play asks important questions about crime and punishment and the powerful impact they can have on a young identity. Directed by Margo Whitcomb at Il Teatro 450, 449 Powell Street, San Francisco through March 25, every Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 7 p.m. General admission is $18, students $15. For more information and reservations, call 415-433-1172.
Stop Kiss A work that manages to be both funny and provocative, Stop Kiss tells the story of Sara and Callie, two “straight girls” in their late twenties who are the last to realize they are falling in love. When their first tentative kiss provokes an act of violence, their worlds are turned upside down. Location: Brava! For Women in the Arts. Dates: through Sunday, March 11. Times: Wednesday - Sunday at 8 p.m. Admission: $12 for previews; $18 - $24 on Wednesday; $18 - $26 on Thursday & Sunday; $20 - $30 on Friday & Saturday. For more information, go to http://www.sfstation.com/theatre/brava.htm#kiss.
Theater Artaud The forecast for Theater Artaud’s winter 2001 season calls for gusts of powerful artistry, chilling emotionalism and hot world premieres. The forefront of the performing arts will storm through San Francisco’s best performance space through March 24 with artists Karen Finley, Company Chaddick, Paul Dresher with Rinde Eckert and Kim Epifano. From the icy reality of Below Zero to the sweet stickiness of Shut Up and Love Me, unexpected shifts in tempo and temperature make the stage a wildly unpredictable gathering point for this heat wave of creativity. For ticket information, call 415-621-7797 or visit www.theaterartaud.org.
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ARTS
Knowable Objects The ten artists in the exhibition share an involvement with the commonplace of everyday life and the possibility of transformation, impelling materials, and subjects beyond their original intent. Woo Song Bang, Liza Hennessey Botkin, Liz Chilsen, Hyun Sook Cho, Connie Goldman, Judith Foosaner, Anita Getzler, Debbie Han, Kyung Joo Kim and David Spagnolo are all part of the exhibition that commemorates the 20th anniversary of the Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles. (KCC, 5505 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles. 323-936-7141).
More Than a Game The Japanese American National Museum presents this ongoing exhibit that tells the story of an immigrant group’s journey in America through the universal theme of sport, using artifacts such as team uniforms, photographs, news clippings, interactive kiosks and videos. (Japanese American National Museum, 369 East First St., Los Angeles. 213-625-0414.)
Munakata Shiko From April 4 through June 30, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents a retrospective of Munakata Shiko’s work. Shiko is considered one of the greatest Japanese artists of the twentieth century. He received the Imperial Order of Culture from the Japanese government, achieving a higher status than Living National Treasure. Due to receiving the first prize at the São Paulo Bienal in 1955 and the Grand Prix at the Venice Biennale, he was the first Japanese artist to receive international recognition in the post-war era. Through his work, he brought about the general acceptance in Japan of woodblock printing as a fine art; until his time, wood block printing had been considered a production craft. The exhibition includes 128 prints, calligraphy, paintings, and ceramics primarily borrowed from the holdings of the Munakata Museum in Kamakura, established as a foundation in the artist’s residence and studio after his death. For more information on museum programs, please call 323-857-6035.
Superflat Superflat surveys a tendency in Japanese art, animation, fashion and graphic design towards two-dimensionality through work by 19 artists. The inaugural exhibition at the MOCA Gallery at the Pacific Design Center remains on view through May 6. Organized by artist Takashi Murakami with MOCA, the exhibition features painting, photography, works on paper, video, computer animation, fashion, cartoons and sculpture by some of the most provocative artists working in Japan. (8687 Melrose Avenue, West Hollywood, Los Angeles. 213-621-2766).
EVENTS
Dinners with Authors on Asia Pasadena Pacific Asia Museum is honored to host 18 intriguing authors at the Dinners with Authors on Asia Series. Enjoy scintillating conversation with a notable author and a sumptuous meal in appealing surroundings on Sunday March 18, 2001. The event begins with an afternoon cocktail reception in Pacific Asia Museum’s Chinese Courtyard Garden. Later that same evening, the affair continues with individual dinners hosted in eighteen private homes. Featured authors include: Aimee E. Liu, Dr. Elizabeth Wayland Barber, Mediha Saliba, Angi Ma Wong, Theodora Lau, Stanley A. Wolpert, Ed Reingold, Roxanna M. Brown, Dale Furutani, Michael Foster, Romulus Hillsborough, Duong Van Mai Elliot, Pamela Logan, Adeline Yeh Mah, Paul and Elaine Lewis, Ed Rothfarb and Frank Chin. For further information, contact Special Events at 626-449-2742 x12.
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ARTS
Blue-and-white Japanese Porcelain Approximately 100 pieces of exquisite Japanese porcelain grace the gallery at the Seattle Art Museum in Hirado Porcelain of Japan from the Kurtzman Collection. The exhibition runs through July 8. Museum hours are Tuesdays through Sundays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on Thursdays until 9 p.m. (1400 E. Prospect St., Volunteer Park, Seattle)
Signs of Fortune, Symbols of Immortality This installation of Japanese hanging scrolls, screens and textiles features works from the 17th through 20th centuries. Museum hours are Tuesdays through Sundays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Thursdays until 9 p.m. (Seattle Art Museum, 1400 E. Prospect St., Volunteer Park, Seattle).
The Art of Protest A cross-cultural exhibition of works from Seattle Asian Art Museum’s collection that use a wide range of media and visual imagery to make social comment, address political issues and advocate for change. For more information, call 206-654-3100 (SAAM, Volunteer Park, 14th Avenue at East Prospect St.)
MUSIC
Japan Nite at SXSW Six Japanese bands — Love Psychedelicos, the Plagues, Heart Bazaar, Dr. Strangelove, Jerry Lee Phantom, and Bleach — will be showcased on Japan Nite at America’s premier music industry event, SXSW in Austin, Texas during March 14-18. Japan Nite will take place March 16 at Entertainment at Jazz. The Japan Nite Tour will perform in New York March 19, Chicago March 20, Seattle March 22, Los Angeles March 23, and San Francisco March 23, after appearing at SXSW. For more information, please email JapanNite@ipgmusic.com.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Third World Newsreel Applications are now available for the 2001 Film & Video Production Workshop at Third World Newsreel. An application and general information about the Workshop are available on the Web site www.twn.org under Artist Services. If you have any questions, call 212-947-9277 x 301 or email twn@twn.org.
ARTS
Can We feed Ourselves ? For more than 20 years Hiroji Kubota has traveled and photographed the countries and cultures of Asia, finding compelling evidence that Asia is facing an imminent crisis of food production, population explosion and environmental destruction. The Asia Society presents an exhibition of Kubota’s photographs, Can We Feed Ourselves? A Focus on Asia: Photographs by Hiroji Kubata, on view at the Asia Society at Midtown, 502 Park Avenue, New York City. For more information call 212-288-6400 or go to www.asiasociety.org.
Celebration of the First Decade Dai Ichi Arts, Ltd. is please to announce an exhibition and sale titled Celebration of the First Decade — Ceramic Art by Japanese & Americans at 24 West 57th Street, Suite 607. This exhibition will premier on March 17 through April 14. The carefully selected works are mostly in the orbit of tea ceremony, from the Six Ancient Kiln sites of Japan, and of Chinese and Korean cultural legacy. Dai Ichi Arts also discovers American talents, who create wonders in the same aesthetic and value with quintessential American spirit. For more information, please call 212-262-2330.
Living Heritage From now until June 10, China Institute presents Living Heritage: Vernacular Environment in China. Originating in Hong Kong, this exhibition features photographs, furniture and architectural components depicting the living environments from different regions of China. The Chinese house is viewed as a microcosm of Chinese society, representing its organization, economy, technology, traditions, beliefs and aspirations. (China Institute, 125 East 65th Street, New York City. 212-744-8181. www.chinainstitute.org)
Tong Zhi/Comrade: Out in Asia America The first one-person exhibition by New York-based, Hong Kong-born artist Ken Chu. Chu has a fascinating background of travel and activism. Tong Zhi/Comrade brings the discourse of sexual orientation into our communities, and looks at what might be a safe public space for Asian Americans in Chinatowns, Koreatowns, Manilatowns, Little Tokyos, Little Saigons and Little Bombays across the country. Exhibition runs through April 14, 2001. (Museum of Chinese Americas, 70 Mulberry Street, 2nd Floor, New York.)
Worlds Revealed The dawn of Japanese and American cultural exchange is charted in this exhibition that showcases more than 200 artworks, cultural objects and documents, dating from as early as 1800 when the Salem ships began making trips to Nagasaki and bringing back beautiful arts and crafts. The exhibition runs through March 17 at the Peabody Essex Museum. (East India Square, Salem, Mass. 978-745-9500.)
MUSIC
Akiko Yano Akiko Yano is one of the most famous people you have never heard of. She has recorded with many of the world’s great musicians, and has been a major star in Japan since she was 21. Born in Tokyo in 1955, Akiko quit school at 18 when she ascended to the top ranks of Japan’s studio musicians as a pianist and synthesizer player. At 21, she released her debut CD “Japanese Girl”, largely recorded in L.A. with her fans Lowell George and Little Feat. She began a collaboration with Yellow Magic Orchestra, who played on her next recording, and joined them on their worldwide tours. Yano has continued to collaborate with some of the world’s most renowned musicians such as Thomas Dolby, Pat Metheny, and the Chieftains. Nonesuch Records has released three CDs internationally — Akiko Yano, Love Life, and Piano Nightly. She now lives in the U.S. and is an artist with Epic/Sony records. Yano will be opening her American tour at Joe’s Pub, 425 Lafayette St, New York City, on Thursday, March 15 at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $25. Please call 212-539-8778 for reservations.
READINGS AND LECTURES
Hiro on Meiji Japan On March 31, form 10 a.m. to 11 a.m., Hiro, cross-cultural East-West artist and lecturer, will present a slide talk at The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, for the Institute on the arts of Japan. Hiro will speak on “Meiji Japan, the Art and Politics/Trade with Europe and America.” This is in conjunction with the two-day institute for art and social studies teachers, which will be held on two consecutive Saturdays in March. For further information and registration, please contact Barbara Baxter at 410-547-9000 x 234 or bbaxter@thewalters.org.
THEATER
SLANT Across America 2001 SLANT will be touring across the country in April-May 2001. And they can drive right into your city, right into your town, right to your campus auditorium, as they make their way from New York City to Los Angeles. Do you want to “get on the bus” with SLANT? Then write back right away if your group is interested in hosting a live performance of their critically-acclaimed Big Dicks, Asian Men, as part of their unprecedented and historic “SLANT Across America 2001” film-making tour. That’s right! You can see SLANT perform live AND you can be part of their docu-performance film. The schedule: Kick-off performance March 29-April 1, La Mama Theater, New York City. The SLANT Mobile hits the road, beginning the week of April 2nd, driving through points in between, all the way to the west coast. The Los Angeles show is on April 28 at the East-West Players, David Henry Hwang Theater. Return trip through mid-May. Contact www.slantperformancegroup.com, 212-714-7189 or 212-736-2246 for performance and booking information.
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