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June 1 - 7, 2001
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Cultural Equity Grants The San Francisco Arts Commission is offering a grants program to support the development, sustainability and growth of arts organizations deeply rooted in, and able to express the experiences of, historically underserved communities, such as African American, Asian American, disabled, Latino, Native American, Pacific Islander, gay/lesbian, and women. The deadline for Level One grants (up to $18,000, one year) is June 18. Proposals that build on the accomplishments of a previous CEI-supported initiative have a slight advantage. Applicants need to meet a minimum threshold of organizational capacity. For a list of proposal workshop times and dates, please leave name and address by calling 415-252-2553, or e-mailing sfacceg@thecity.sfsu.edu. Visit the Web site at http://sfac.sfsu.edu, or the offices at 25 Van Ness Avenue, Suites 60 and 240, San Francisco.
Electronic Art Seeks Partner The Center for Electronic Art is offering three scholarships for low-income youth and is seeking a partner from the Asian American nonprofit community to help select winners. The Center is a nonprofit school teaching individual classes and certificate programs in Web design and production, animation, and print design. Each scholarship covers full tuition in a CEA certificate program. Recipients must be high school graduates between the ages of 18 and 25, and be able to demonstrate past services to the community. Recipients will be required to use their new skills by volunteering in the nonprofit sector once they have finished their coursework at CEA. Applications (available on the Web at www.cea.edu/support/scholarhip.html) are now being accepted. Completed applications should be sent to: Scholarships, Center for Electronic Art, 250 4th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103. Scholarships will be awarded by CEA’s Digital Bridge Advisory Committee, which is composed of representatives from SFMOMA, Galleria de la Raza, OICW, Opnet, and a yet-to-be-determined partner from the Asian American nonprofit community. The Center is also seeking help from individuals and other nonprofit agencies to continue developing the scholarship program. Call 415-512-9300 or visit CEA’s Web site (www.cea.edu) for more details. Deadline: June 30.
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 ends 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 x106 or mediafund@naatanet.org.
ARTS
‘Air Purity Inc.’ Parodying the hyperbolic tone of market-driven fads (e.g., Pokeman, Susan Summer’s Thighmaster, etc.), Shane Montgomery’s ‘Air Purity Inc.’ is an ongoing project that uses a fictitious company and its products as a metaphor to question notions of social space and social interaction. ‘Air Purity Inc.’ is on view through June 3 at p o n d: a place for art, activism, and ideas, 214 Valencia St. between Duboce and 14th St. For more information, go to www.mucketymuck.org, or contact Marisa Jahn or Steve Shada at 415-437-9151, or bigmarshproductions@yahoo.com.
Code 33 Code 33 was a two-year project by a coalition of artists, activists, youth, and police that culminated in a performance event with 150 young people and 100 police officers. This installation — an archive of the event with video documentation, original audio soundtrack, event artifacts and ephemera, and youth-produced work — examines how art can be merged into the very fabric of community political life. The exhibition runs through June 16, at Intersection for the Arts, 446 Valencia Street, between 15th and 16 Streets, San Francisco. In conjunction, Critics Roundtable with Meiling Cheng, Jennifer Gonzales, Grant Kester and Armando Rascon will take place June 9. For more information, call 415-626-2787.
Nature on the Grid The Gallery at Montalvo presents Nature on the Grid, an exhibition of the work of Kyoung Ae Cho. Korean-born Cho’s large-scale “quilts” incorporate pine needles, hair and wood. Cho meticulously arranges these found natural materials using the geometry of a grid to reveal both the order and the flux innate in natural forms. The exhibition runs through Sept. 17, and the artist will host a gallery talk Thursday, May 31, at 6 p.m. at the Gallery, 15400 Montalvo Road, Saratoga. For more information, please call 408-961-5800.
Paintings by Lenore Chinn The fourth Annual United States of Asian American Festival highlights a major exhibition of paintings by Lenore Chinn in the Bay Gallery at SomARTS, 934 Brannan Street and 8th Street, San Francisco, through June 10. The exhibition is a collaborative program sponsored by three of the city’s cultural centers: SomARTS, the Asian/Pacific Islander Cultural Center, and the Queer Cultural Center. For more information, please go to www.apiculturalcenter.org or call 415-440-7148.
The Walter Mitty Syndrome As part of Project Space at the Headlands Center for the Arts, Tom Chang creates The Walter Mitty Syndrome through June 3 at the Matin Headlands, 3/F, Building 944, Fort Barry, San Francisco. Forces in our culture’s value system make us susceptible to forbidden thoughts. Most of us never act out these impulses, and often make great efforts to repress and keep them secret. The Walter Mitty Syndrome, named after James Thurber’s fictional character who copes with life’s problems by retreating into his imagination, will offer seven private fantasy bays which correspond to the seven deadly sins. Participants will be able to act out their fantasies and create a photographic self-portrait. Check out www.headlands.org.
West and Far East/ Harmony in Spirit Gallery Piazza Arts & Culture celebrates its 11th Year Anniversary Exhibition with works by artists Doug Coffin, Chizuru Miyasako and Koichi Tanikawa. Doug Coffin is Potowatomi/Creek Native American. His art is a synthesis of colorful, modern design and traditional symbols. A native of Hiroshima, Japan, Chizuru Miyasako was born in 1947. She is a successful painter, an author with over 20 books to her credit and a well respected critic and essayist. Her most outstanding works are bright color artwork that give us visual pleasure, and wonderful peace of mind and freedom. Koichi Tanikawa was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1938. He carries the dual challenge of being a remarkably accomplished artist and a recognized art critic and author. Tanikawa’s works can be found in the collections of the Tokyo and New York Metropolitan Museums of Art. The exhibition continues through June 10 at Gallery Piazza Arts & Culture, Sausalito Piazza Building, 819 Bridgeway, Sausalito. For more information, call 415-331-6711.
Youth Art Every year the Palo Alto Art Center spotlights the imaginative spirit of the students from the Palo Alto Unified School District in the exhibition Youth Art. The artwork, by students in grades K-12, is selected by class instructors for innovation and accomplishment within the curriculum, featuring work in several media such as sculpture, drawing, painting and mixed media. The show runs through June 3. For more information, call 650-329-2366.
Zen: Painting and Calligraphy This exhibition at the Asian Art Museum opens June 27, and features 66 works created by Japanese monk-artists of Zen’s later days. The collection of works illustrates the Zen teachings that lie at the core of each artist’s search for inner spiritual discipline and outward peace and serenity. The museum’s Ching Moon Lee Center is located in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. For more information, please call 415-379-8800, or go to www.asianart.org.
DANCE
Ethnic Dance Festival Tickets are now on sale for the 23rd Annual San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival, which features 30 Bay Area dance companies performing during three weekends. All performances take place at the Palace of Fine Arts, on Bay and Laguna Streets, San Francisco, on the weekends of June 9-10, 16-17, 23-24. Saturday and Sunday matinees begin at 2 p.m., and Saturday evening shows begin at 8 p.m. Each weekend is under the artistic direction of one of three stage directors: Jeff O’Connor, Barbara Damashek, and Ellen Sebastian Chang. Stay tuned for more details on each week’s program, or visit www.worldartswest.org. Single tickets are $20, $25 and $30. Charge by phone by calling City Box Office at 415-392-4400.
EVENTS
Adventures in Art The Next Generation of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University announces its second annual event for families, Adventures in Art: Exploring Color, to be held Sunday, June 3, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Festivities include an art hunt, storytelling and entertainment for preschool- and elementary-age children. The Center invites parents and children to explore and discover the ways in which artists use color and design in painting, drawing and textiles. Interactive art projects and activities will be located throughout the Center. Tickets for the general public are $15 for adults and $10 for children age 12 and younger; the price includes lunch. Children under 2 are free. For more information, contact Next Generation at 650-725-7942 or www.stanford.edu/dept/ccva/ng/.
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 using 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)
Godzilla West Presents: Friday Night Live Godzilla West presents Friday Night Live, a fresh new open-mike venue, featuring Asian Pacific Islander monologists and comedians, as well as spoken word artists, musicians and dancers. The vision is to create a nurturing space where artists of any medium can come to express and create. The open mike takes place on the first Friday of every month at the Asia Pacific Cultural Center - Oakland. For more information, call 510-208-6080. (388 9th Street, Suite 290, Oakland)
Intersections III Intersections III: Five Nights of Literature and Music, the third annual literary and music performance series by the San Jose Museum of Art, will be held Monday evenings, June 4, 11, 18 at 7:30 p.m. Organized by Quincy Troupe, Intersections III features stimulating, eclectic and unpredictable performances by some of our nation’s most brilliant and adventurous artists. Among this year’s performers are: Nobel laureate poet Derek Walcott; preeminent American poet Adrienne Rich; best-selling novelists Maxine Hong Kingston and Bebe Moore Campbell; jazz innovators Henry Threadgill, Muhal Richard Abrams and Hamiet Bluiett; Pulitzer Prize 2000 poet C.K. Williams; playwright and poet Amiri Baraka; and newer voices such as novelist Lois-Ann Yamanaka and Alfredo Véa, and poet Arthur Sze. All programs will be presented at the San Jose Repertory Theater, 101 Paseo de San Antonio, San Jose. For advance ticket purchase or a brochure, call 408-271-6840, or go to www.sjma.com. For more information, go to www.sjmusart.org, or call 408-271-6840.
Tribute to Glenn Horiuchi On Saturday, June 9, the life of musician, composer, and activist Glenn Horiuchi will be celebrated one year after his passing in the First Annual Tribute to Glenn Horiuchi, a daylong program curated by longtime Horiuchi collaborators, William Roper and Francis Wong. This very special inaugural event is part of Asian Improv aRts’ ongoing efforts to look after the artistic, social, and spiritual legacy of this pioneering artist and community advocate. “The Documentation of Impermanence” will be a roundtable perspective on how Horiuchi’s artistic and spiritual path shaped and continue to influence those close to him, as well as how other artists and spiritual leaders inject a unifying consciousness of art, spirituality, and community into their own personal work. The day will close with “Celebrating Glenn!” — a concert that will feature Glenn’s colleagues, in addition to a host of emerging talent who have benefited from this great artist’s legacy. The event will take place at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center, located at 388 Ninth Street, Suite 290 on the upper level of the Pacific Renaissance Plaza in downtown Oakland. OACC is a two-block walk from 12th Street/City Center BART station. Paid underground parking is available in the Pacific Renaissance Plaza garage. Tickets are $14 general/$12 advance. Please call 510-208-6080 for ticket purchases. For more information, please call 510-208-6088 or visit www.asianimprov.com.
FILM AND VIDEO
Eureka The Shooting Gallery presents the last film of the spring film series, Eureka, a three-hour-40 minute, beautifully composed black & white film that explores a transcendent story of redemption. On what seems to be a normal morning in southwest Japan, a crazed killer, apparently without motive, hijacks a city bus. The three survivors’ lives are intertwined thereon after. The film runs 5 p.m. daily at the Lumiere Theater, 1572 California Street, San Francisco.
Shinto and Bushido On June 13, form noon to 1 p.m., the Japan Information Center presents Shinto: Way of the Gods and Bushido: Way of the Warrior. The Shinto program explores the fundamental nature of Shinto and introduces the religion-based culture of Japan. This program includes scenes from plays derived from Shinto ritual as well as a discussion of its role in the daily life of the Japanese. The Bushido program informs the moral code that regulates the behavior and everyday relationships between the samurai and their feudal lords. The Japan Information Center is located at 50 Fremont Street, Suite 2200, San Francisco. For more information, please contact Steven Goldman at 415-356-2464.
Ranma 1/2 The San Francisco Public Library invites you to view Ranma 1/2 videos on June 21 and 28, at the Chinatown Branch Library, 1135 Powell Street, San Francisco, at 2:30 p.m. Ranma 1/2 is a popular anime comic book and video series. For more information, please call the library’s public affairs department at 415-557-4277, or check out www.sfpl.org.
MUSIC
246(i) WORLD REMIX CELLspace Soundlab presents a monthly concert series celebrating music traditions from around the world and all the cross-cultural collaborations flourishing in the global community. The opening event June 1 features the Ali Khan Band, an incredibly rich synthesis of Qawwali, jazz fusion, rap, and Bhangra featuring two of the most powerful voices in Qawwali/Indian-Pakistani music today, Riffat Salamat Ali Khan and her brother Sukhawat, and the extraordinary instrumentalist Richard Michos and ensemble; Joujou (Balkan, Appalachian, Italian, and Greek songs — goofy international folk jazz); and Mixtape from Mars (an otherworldly techno tribal collective specializing in odd sounds from homemade and store-bought instruments, with emphasis on extreme vocal techniques, improvisation, looped beats, and audience participation — check out www.mp3/mixtapefrommars); with your hosts the CELLspace Soundlab/Legumes crew and DJs happy ft and pod p. creating a World Remix Café where you will be immersed in global community culture(s). CELLspace, 2050 Bryant St. at 18th St., San Francisco. Doors open 8:00 p.m., show begins 8:30 p.m. $12-15 sliding scale for reservations. $15 at the door. For information and reservations, contact sound@cellspace.org or call 415-430-1269 x2126.
In Storm & Sunshine From circus march to Asian lullaby, from modern tone poem to symphonic classic, the San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band presents a rousing mix of music for Pride month. Conducted by artistic director Jadine Louie, the program includes the finale from Dvorak’s “New World Symphony,” Del Borgo’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night,” Chance’s “Variations on a Korean Folk Song” and more. Part of the 2001 Community Concert Series, In Storm & Sunshine is performed 8:15 p.m., Tuesday, June 12 at Bethany United Methodist, 1268 Sanchez Street at Clipper, San Francisco. Admission is free. For more information the Jon Sims Center for the Arts and its other programs, please call Charles Wilmoth at 415-554-0402.
THEATER
Beach Blanket Babylon Now in its 27th year, Steve Silver’s Beach Blanket Babylon plays Wednesdays and Thursdays at 8 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays at 7 and 10 p.m., at Club Fugazi, 678 Beach Blanket Babylon Blvd. (Green St.), between Columbus and Powell, San Francisco.
New American Playwrights Festival San Jose Repertory Theater’s fifth annual New American Playwrights Festival introduces three new plays by Naomi Iizuka, Lynn Nottage, Polly Pen and James Milton, on June 9-10. Each playwright at this year’s festival plays a significant role in the changing landscape of the American Theater scene. Naomi Iizuka’s The Language of Angels was recently produced at Campo Santo, and her play, 36 Views, premieres simultaneously this fall at the Joseph Papp Public Theater in NYC and at Berkeley Rep. Iizuka’s Garuda’s Wings will be read June 10 at 1:30 p.m. at the Studio Theater, San Jose Repertory Theater, 101 Paseo de San Antonio, San Jose. For more information and tickets, please call 408-367-7255 or go to www.sjrep.com.
Texas R/evolution Theater Company presents the Northern California premiere of Judy Soo Hoo’s award-winning play, Texas, from June 16 to July 8 at the Thick House, 1695 18th Street at Carolina Street, San Francisco. Directed by Kelvin Han Yee, Texas is a darkly comic, Asian American view of the West. Steve “the college boy” (Samuel Sheng) comes to stay with two whacked-out brothers, Duke “the butcher” (Feodor Chin) and Danny “the kid” (Robert Wu), who live in a cramped trailer on the flats of Texas. During a night of vicious psychological and physical games, Steve learns the awful truth about the brothers and their secret past. He is ultimately forced to pit one brother against the other to escape their world. Tickets are $15-$18. For tickets, call 415-401-8081. For information, visit www.texastheplay.homestead.com or http://getit.at/texas.
The Clouds, the Ocean and Everything in Between Asian American Theater Company is proud to present the world premiere of Michael P. Premsrirat’s The Clouds, The Ocean and Everything in Between, directed by Pamela Wu, at the New Langton Arts, 1246 Folsom Street, San Francisco. The show features actors Lisa Hori-Garcia, Samantha Chanse, Biraj LaLa and Matt Dingess. The Clouds is a dark comedy that follows two girls and a guy of mixed heritage from the optimism of college to the harsh realities of our post-dot-com, apocalyptic landscape. The play runs through Sunday, June 10. For reservations and times, please call 415-440-5545, or contact info@asianamericantheater.org.
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ARTS
American Families American Families by artist Momo Nagano, which commemorates the names of Japanese Americans who lived in a specific neighborhood of Los Angeles prior to World War II when the U.S. government unlawfully forced them to leave their homes forever, will be on display at the Japanese American National Museum, 244 South San Pedro St., between 2nd and 3rd Streets, Los Angeles, through Oct. 7. For more information on American Families, call the Japanese American National Museum at 213-625-0414. For more information on Momo Nagano: Personal Visions, call the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center at 213-628-2725.
Contemporary Crafts Market The Contemporary Crafts Market will be held June 15-17 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. Over 250 artists from across the nation will come together to display and sell expertly designed decorative, functional and wearable art inspired by a vast array of cultural and artistic traditions and styles. The event is held at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, located at 1855 Main Street at Pico Boulevard. Free parking is available. Show hours are Friday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Admission is $6 for adults, and children 12 and under are free. For more information, please call 310-285-3655 or visit the Web site at www.craftsource.org.
Mexico And Korea: Images Of Female Creativity The Mexican Cultural Institute and the Korean Cultural Center are joining in celebration of the Cinco de Mayo Festival with an art exhibit that features Mexican and Korean female painters and sculptors. The exhibit at the Institute runs through June 15, Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the Korean Cultural Center gallery, 5505 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles. The exhibit features the works of art of three Mexican and three Korean renowned women who have been breaking boundaries throughout their careers. Going hand in hand with their fellow Korean painters, Lidice Figueroa Lewis and Norma Michel, both from Mexico, bring their contemporary paintings to life through vivid colors and shapes in images that provide the viewers a sensation of motion and life. Artists Ji Young Oh and Hee Nam Jung’s works reveal an ideal of existence that implies to the spectator a realization of the modern age in which we live. Sculptors Lourdes Huerta Galvez and Yoonchung Park Kim present a variety of three-dimensional works, ranging from vessel shapes to figurative forms, expressing the reality of life itself with remarkable details. For more information, please call 323-936-7141.
Munakata Shiko 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. Receiving first prize at the São Paulo Bienal in 1955 and the Grand Prix at the Venice Biennale, Shiko 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.
EVENTS
Children’s Program of Asian Literature and Art Reading Explorers is a new program for children 5-10 years old held on Saturday, June 2, starting at 2 p.m. at the Pacific Asia Museum. Participants will learn about the arts and cultures of Asia through literature and art activities. Reading Explorers combines Asian stories and folktales with hands-on art activities, as well as guided explorations of art in the museum’s galleries. After each session, young explorers will take home their completed project. Sessions are $5 per day. Pacific Asia Museum is located at 46 N. Los Robles Avenue in Pasadena. The museum is open to the public Wednesday through Sunday, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., and until 8 p.m. on Thursdays. For more information and pre-registration, call 626-449-2742 x41.
Happy 30th Birthday On Saturday, June 9, Pacific Asia Museum celebrates thirty years of presenting their own extraordinary collection along with specially curated shows and exhibits, and educational programs towards furthering intercultural understanding through art. This year’s birthday bash will include a live swing band for dancing, jugglers, fortune-tellers, magicians and hors d’oeuvres reflecting Pacific Asian cuisine. Single tickets for this fundraiser are $75. To make reservations, call 626-449-2742 x12. The Pacific Asia Museum is located at 46 N. Robles Avenue in Pasadena and is open to the public Wednesday through Sunday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and until 8 p.m. on Thursdays.
THEATER
Double Whammy Highways Performance Space presents a double-header of Rochelle Fabb’s latest work, At First Blush, and the world premiere of Michael Sakamoto’s theater piece, The Forsaken, June 15-17 at 8:30 p.m. at 1651 18th Street, Santa Monica. The Forsaken is an interdisciplinary theater work for five performers based on the fictional Dr.Chi science fiction film series. The show will be in three languages and four acts, each consisting of scenes from different Dr.Chi films from the 1920s and 1960s in Germany and France. Tickets are $15 each. Call 310-315-1459 for reservations.
Yankee Dawg You Die Two very different generations and sensibilities clash when veteran actor Vincent Chang meets up-and-coming star Bradley Yamashita at a Hollywood party. This now-classic Asian American play explores where film, identity, politics, and art converge. As relevant today as when it was first workshopped at East West Players, Philip Gotanda’s work takes a look at stereotypes and hard choices in this serio-comic paean to Asian American actors, past and present. The play continues Thursdays through Saturdays at 8 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays at 2 p.m., through June 17. David Henry Hwang Theater at the Union Center for the Arts, 120 Judge John Aiso Street (formerly San Pedro Street), Los Angeles.
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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)
Darkness that Plays With the Light Sumi and mixed paintings by Alan Lau will be featured in the main gallery at Francine Seders Gallery, 6701 Greenwood Avenue North, Seattle. The show links three bodies of Lau’s work, including one that explores “what the process of nature and bacteria do to perishables.” The show runs from June 8 to July 1, with an artist’s reception on June 10, from 2-4 p.m. For more information, call 206-783-6593, or go to www.sedersgallery.
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, Seattle.)
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ARTS
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)
Mountains and Valleys, Castles and Tents A new exhibition featuring rare artifacts and documentary materials illustrating Tibetan society and history is on view for the first time in New York at the Paine Webber Art Gallery through June 22. Drawn from the unrivaled Tibetan collection of the Newark Museum, Mountains and Valleys, Castles and Tents explores the ancient culture of Tibet through artifacts and ornaments of the aristocracy, herders and traders dating back to the 13th century, as well as a documentary film and photographs from the early 1900s. Paine Webber’s Corporate Headquarters, 1285 Avenue of the Americas, between 51st and 52nd Streets, New York City. Gallery hours are 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Free admission. For recorded information, call 212-713-2885.
NGC 6093 The first major New York installation by artist Hiro Yamagata, NGC 6093, is showing at the Ace Gallery New York, 275 Hudson Street. Combining laser beam technologies with refractive surfaces and techniques, the artist makes use of the entire 25,000 square foot gallery space to present his monumental exploration of the solar system’s impact on human existence. The installation changes several times during the course of the exhibition, offering a new and equally unexpected experience each visit. For more information, please call Ace Gallery at 212-255-5599.
On Gold Mountain: A Chinese American Experience On Gold Mountain: A Chinese American Experience, an exhibition organized by the Autry Museum of Western Heritage in Los Angeles and based on an acclaimed book by Lisa See, continues through Sept. 30 in the Smithsonian’s Arts and Industries Building, 900 Jefferson Drive S.W, Washington, D.C. The exhibit is organized chronologically and thematically, beginning with the journey from China to America, continuing with Chinese labor in the 19th-century West, the adoption and repeal of the Exclusion Act, the evolution of Los Angeles’ Chinatown, up through the diverse face of Asian immigration in the last 30 years. For more information, please call 202-357-2700.
Point Arabesque The paintings of Charles Yuen inhabit an enigmatic world, one of indeterminate location suspended on the margins of imagination, full of intimations and innuendo, of meanings in flux. Point Arabesque is on view through June 23 at the Asian American Arts Center, 26 Bowery St., New York City. For more information, call 212-233-2154, or e-mail aaartsctr@aol.com.
READINGS AND LECTURES
Red Boat on the Canal Join the Museum of Chinese in the Americas on Tuesday, June 19, from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., for its debut publication which features the museum’s unique collection of Cantonese opera costumes and artifacts. Red Boat on the Canal, featuring scholarly essays and over 60 illustrations, examines the important role of Cantonese opera and opera clubs in the social life of New York’s Chinese American Community. MoCA is located at 70 Mulberry Street, 2/F, New York City. For more information, please call 212-619-4785, or go to www.moca-nyc.org.
THEATER
Asian American Playwrights’ Exchange A two-day series, curated by Alvin Eng and Sung Rno, featuring scene readings of seven plays by emerging and established playwrights including Nancy Bulalacao, Julia Cho, Alvin Eng, John Fukada, Suzanne Hui Sun Kim, Ralph Pena and Sung Rno. Public admission is $10 or $15 for both nights at the door. RSVP to 212-941-9208.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
New Voices Award Lee & Low Books, the award-winning publisher of multicultural books for children, is pleased to announce the second annual New Voices Award. The award will be given for a children’s picture book story by a writer of color. The award winner will receive a cash grant of $1,000 and a standard publication contract, including an advance against royalties. An honorary award winner will receive a cash grant of $500. Manuscripts will be accepted through Sept. 30, 2001, and must be post-marked by that date. Submissions should be sent to: New Voices Award, Lee & Low Books, 95 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016. For details on eligibility, please e-mail info@leeandlow.com
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