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June 15 - 21, 2001
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| NORTHERN CALIFORNIA |
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 under-served 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/scholarship.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
CHUSHINGURA II: STORY AND TEXTILE ART This exhibition at the Japan Information Center opens June l8 and features several quilted tapestries, as well as explanatory texts about an epic event of l8th century Japan, the revolt of forty-seven samurai. For three centuries, artworks of various kinds have been created about this legend. The current exhibit was created by Midori McKeon, Masahiko Minami, and Lois Lyles, professors at San Francisco State University, and by Hitomi Minami. The display can be viewed at the Japanese Consulate, room 2200, 50 Fremont Street, San Francisco. Exhibit hours are Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., except for a lunchtime closing, noon - l p.m. daily. The exhibit, which is free and open to the public, runs June l8 - July ll. For more information, call Lois Lyles, SFSU, at 4l5-338-74ll.
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 — a condensed archive of the event in a gallery environment 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. 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, at the Gallery, 15400 Montalvo Road, Saratoga. For more information, please call 408-961-5800.
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 16-17 and 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 via City Box Office at 415-392-4400.
Queer Dance: Sex and Comedy The 5th Anniversary celebration of the San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Dance Festival kicks off with a fun, campy, and bawdy program, Queer Dance: Sex and Comedy from June 15 to 17. Contemporary ballet, theater, modern dance, and site-specific performance art by eight different choreographers commingle into a fanciful collage about the gender-queer body, fantasy and flight attendants, the importance of sex, grief and transformation, extreme states that push the mind and body, wild satire and the power of a quiet, erotic adagio. All performances at Dance Mission Theater, 3316 24th Street at Mission Street. Tickets are $15 advance, $17 at the door. For tickets, call 415-273-4633.
EVENTS
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 Oakland Asian Cultural Center. 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 on Monday evening, June 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 perfomances 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.
Poetry and Jazz By Oakland Youth On Saturday June 16, 3:30 - 5 p.m., East Bay youth will perform their original poetry and play jazz pieces at the Golden Gate Branch Library, 5606 San Pablo Avenue, Oakland. For more information, call 510-597-5023.
FILM AND VIDEO
Born in the Bay Area Locus 1640 Post in conjunction with the National Asian American Telecommunications Association (NAATA) presents Born in the Bay Area, a narrative and experimental short film program that showcases Bay Area Asian American film by established and award-winning filmmakers such as Arthur Dong and Emiko Omori, as well as works by emerging filmmakers like Corey Ohama and Michael Arago. The program will take place at Locus 1640 Post on Wednesday, June 27 at 8 p.m. Running time is approximately 89 minutes. Suggested donation is $5. For more information, please visit www.locusarts.org, or please call Julia Kim at 415-269-0698 or Chi-hui Yang at 415-863-0814 x 110.
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
Center of Sound Festival #2 After a highly successful Center of Sound Festival#1 with Chicago’s Fred Anderson Trio with Tatsu Aoki and Hamid Drake, the Alliance of Emerging Creative Artists (AECA) will officially turn one year old with the arrival of Center of Sound Festival #2 on July 1 at 8 p.m. This year AECA features a solo Komungo (Korean 4th Century fretted-board zither) concert by critically acclaimed composer / musician Jin Hi Kim. Kim will perform both on acoustic and electric Komungo from a set of her compositions entitled, Komungo Muse and Permutations. Kicking off this year’s festivities will be AECA’s Co-Director, composer and saxophonist Jeff Chan. Jeff Chan’s Turn of the Century featuring special guest Francis Wong is an ensemble with percussionist/vocalist Donna Kwon, contrabassist Adam Lane and dancer/percussionist Dohee Lee. Ticket prices are as follows: $10 advance tickets, $12 general admission. For tickets, please call (510)208-6080. For more info, please call 510-208-6088.
Readings & Lectures
Melding Memory, Heritage and Passion On Sunday, July 1, from 3 - 4:30 p.m., AECA in association with Korea Society will be offering a lecture/demonstration entitled, Introduction to Korean Music: Melding Memory, Heritage and Passion presented by Jin Hi Kim. For musicians and music enthusiasts alike, this presentation will serve as a preface to the evening performance and offer the concert audience an opportunity to engage in dialogue with composer/musician, Kim, regarding Korean history and musical practices. She will also discuss contemporary issues surrounding music, culture, and the innovations in hybrid musical forms as well as Kim’s own compositional approaches for the traditional acoustic Komungo (4th Century Korean fretted-board zither) as well as the electric Komungo (MIDI computer-controlled) created especially for Kim in 1999. The lecture will include audio and video demonstrations as well as a slide show and a talk. A Q&A session follows. For more information, please call 510-208-6088.
THEATER
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.
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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
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.
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 runs 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. For more information, call 206-783-6593, or go to www.sedersgallery.com.
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.)
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EAST COAST
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Seeking Submissions for the Asian American International Film Festival The 24th Annual Asian American International Film Festival will be held in New York City at the French Institute/Alliance Française July 20-28. It is currently seeking feature-length screenplay submissions for staged readings during the festival. A director and actors will be provided, and the performance is open to the Asian American creative community for discussion and critique. Asian Cinevision, the Asian American Arts Alliance and the Asian American Writer’s Workshop are co-sponsoring the reading. Please send a PDF, Word file or hard copy to: NaRhee Ahn, Panel and Workshop Coordinator, panels@asiancinevision.org or the Asian Cinevision offices at 133 West 19th Street, New York, NY 10011. For more information, call 212-989-1422.
ARTS
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 on view 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 basedon an acclaimed book by Lisa See, continues through Sept. 30 in the Smithsonian’s Arts and Industries Building, 900 Jefferson Drive S.W, Wash., 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.
Not on the Menu Not on the Menu: From Asian/Pacific Islander Roots to American Reality is an exhibit by Corky Lee of private and public moments of Asian American daily life. The show runs through Nov.30 at the Museum of Chinese in the Americas, 70 Mulberry St., 2nd Fl, New York City. For more information, call 212-619-4785.
EVENTS
Hook’t On Hip Hop The Asian Arts Initiative invites you to our next Rap Series — Hook’t On Hip Hop June 15, 8 p.m., at the Asian Arts Initiative, 1315 Cherry Street, 2/F, Philadelphia. Ever wonder what this Hip Hop craze is all about? Then come sample some of the best Asian American artists around including: Kuttin Kandi — Filipina DJ from New York; D’Lo — A political performance artist whose work revolves around her identity as a gay Sri Lankan who strongly believes in the creation and continuum of social and political; and more. Admission is: General: $7; Members: $5. For more information, please call 215-557-0455.
MUSIC
Senjo Acitve Eye, a new performance company, presents as its inaugural production the original piece, Senjo: an opera in four parts. Senjo is based upon the Zen koan “Senjo and her Soul are Separated.” Interweaving the sounds of a string quartet performed live by counter)induction (a New York-based contemporary music ensemble), Buddhist liturgical chanting, the poetic language of playwright Lucas Hnath, and movement inspired by both East and West, this unique experimental opera brings an ancient Chinese ghost story to the American stage. All performances take place at the Ontological Theater at St. Mark’s Church, 131 East 10th Street, New York City. The opening night performance will take place Friday, June 8, at 8 p.m., with performances through June 17. Admission is $12. Tickets can be reserved by calling 212-533-4650. For more information, go to www.activeeye.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.-
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NATIONAL
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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