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June 22 - June 28, 2000
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| NORTHERN CALIFORNIA |
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 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
Hall of Pioneers Gallery The Hall of Pioneers Gallery at Oakland’s Lion’s Foundation contains 12 custom-made showcases, each featuring selected individuals with historical photographs and artifacts. The 12 distinguished leaders and personalities were chosen by a Chinatown historical committee, which was formed more than 20 years ago by the late Reverend Frank G. Mar. Regular gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more information, please contact Ann G. Yee at 510-530-4590.
Modern Photography in Japan & Intimate Eyes Two very different, but equally important, exhibitions will show, July 24 - Sept. 30, at the Ansel Adams Center, 655 Mission St., San Francisco. The modern photography movements in both the United States and Japan reached peaks of dynamic creativity in the years prior to World War II. Modern Photograph in Japan: 1915 - 1940 and Intimate Eyes: The Paintings and Photography of Consuelo Kanaga provide insights into the artistic expression that emerged on both sides of the Pacific during this period. For more information, please call 415-495-7000.
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 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.
New Visions: Introductions 2001 Pro Arts presents New Visions: Introduction 2001, an exhibition of works by 70 talented emerging artists juried by artist/curator Rene Yanez and Pro Arts executive director Robbin Henderson. The show runs through Aug. 18 at Pro Arts, 461 9th St., Oakland. Gallery hours are Wednesday - Saturday, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. For more information, please call 510-763-4361.
Order in Chaos Dolby Chadwick Gallery presents Order in Chaos - A Personal Journal, an exhibition of oil paintings of interiors by Fan Yang runs through Aug. 18. For more information, please call 415-956-3560, or go to www.dolbychadwickgallery.com.
Shibori: Tradition and Innovation The Museum of Craft & Folk Art presents Shibori: Tradition and Innovation - East to West from Aug. 8 to Nov. 25, an exhibition of Japanese traditional kimonos and recent fashion innovations in shibori. The exhibition, divided between the Museum’s two galleries, will show the subtle elegance of shibori from ancient Japan, plus the dramatic new uses of shibori by artists working in contemporary art and fashion in the Americas. To compliment the exhibition, the Museum will also hold a symposium on shibori and a fashion show of contemporary shibori fashion on Sept. 12 at Fort Mason Center’s Cowell Theater. The public opening reception is from 5 - 7 p.m., Aug. 8. For more information on the exhibition and related events, please call 415-775-0991.
Sistahs: Ethnographic Ceramics The Women’s Cancer Resource Center Gallery is pleased to feature the creative works of Renata Gray. Gray’s work revolves around African patterns and designs. Her images are based on relationships and pay homage to men, children and the tremendous strength that women possess. The show runs through Aug. 22 at the WCRC Gallery, 3023 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley. For more information, call 510-548-9286 x307.
Soul on Rice Washington Square Gallery presents an exhibition of new work by two of San Francisco’s emerging artists. Both members of racial minorities, the artists are keenly aware of the social environment around them. Tomashi’s work is a never-ending series of works on paper that combine text and image in visuals which are grounded in the artist’s social experience. Del Rosario exhibits both large abstract work and a china set inspired by African American studies. The show will be on view through Aug. 5, with an artists’ reception on July 14, 6 - 8 p.m. For more information, please call 415-291-9255.
DANCE
Crazy Horse Theater of Yugen presents a Native American and Japanese Noh Theater production, Crazy Horse, on Sept. 14 and 15, outdoors in the Japantown Peace Plaza. The production is inspired by the Native American story of the hero of the Lakota Sioux in the 19th century, directed by Yuriko Doi, written by Erik Ehn, composed by Richard Emmert, with songs by Darrell Paskimin, and choreographed by Hanay Gieogamah and Masashi Momura. For more information, please call 415-621-7978 or visit www.theatreofyugen.org.
Passing the Torch July 28, 7:30 p.m., at the Cubberley Theater, 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, Jaiwanti Pamnani, a disciple of Pandit Chitresh Das, performs a traditional Kathak solo, featuring Pandit Ramesh Misra on sarangi, Swapnamoy Banerjee on sarod, Debopriyo Sarkar on tabla and vocals by Debashis Sarkar. As the Kathak solo is performed less frequently because of its level of difficulty, this performance is a testament to the vitality and dedication of Chitresh Das to preserving the Kathak at its highest artistic and technical level. Tickets for the performance are $15 general admission, and $12 for students and seniors with ID. For tickets, call 415-499-1601, and for more information, please visit www.kathak.org.
San Francisco Butoh Festival The 7th annual San Francisco Butoh Festival expands into new frontiers with a bold concoction of (Non) Butoh dance, new discoveries, and the traditional style with a twist. In celebration of their pioneering spirit, the festival welcomes acclaimed artists and rising stars to premiere new works at Theater Artaud, Aug.1-5, as part of a 3-week festival. Look out for Op.Eklekt, NIBROLL and Yan-Shu with three different perspectives in contemporary Japanese performing arts. Tickets are $20-25. For more information and tickets, call 415-621-7797, visit www.ticketweb.com, or go to TIX/Union Square.
EVENTS
2001 Summer Festival The Diablo Japanese American Club announces its 45th annual Summer Festival on Saturday, Aug. 11, 1 - 9 p.m., and Sunday, Aug. 12, 12 - 8 p.m., at the Diablo Japanese American Cultural Center, 3165 Treat Boulevard, Concord. A wide array of displays, exhibits and demonstrations will be presented each day and evening, including Japanese floral arrangement and brush painting demonstrations, a bonsai tree show, several types of martial arts demonstrations, and music and dancing to celebrate the Obon Festival, which is observed each year during this time throughout Japan and in many Japanese American communities.
Filipino American Arts Expo The Filipino American Arts Exposition presents its 8th annual arts and cultural extravaganza featuring the Pearl of the Orient Parade along Market St. and Pistahan: A Legacy of Diversity and Excellence in the New Millennium, a two-day, outdoor fair with arts and crafts, visual exhibits from local and Philippine artists, and performances of singers, bands and folk dancers. The fair will be held at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, on Third St. and Mission St., San Francisco, and runs 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 11, and 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 12. For more information, contact Pistahan 2001 at 415-989-8088, or e-mail faae@aol.com.
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)
Traditions and Transformations On Aug. 23 and 24, Oakland Asian Cultural Center’s Traditions and Transformations: A Summer Performance Festival will present a wide array of Asian and Asian Pacific American performing arts, both traditional and contemporary. The festival will include performances by Francis Wong’s Gathering of Ancestors and Somei Yoshino Taiko Ensemble at the outdoor courtyard of the Pacific Renaissance Plaza in downtown Oakland. Please call 510-208-6080 for more information and a complete schedule of events.
FILM
Kon Ichikawa James Quandt of Cinématheque Ontario and the Japan Foundation have put together 26 Kon Ichikawa films, including Fires on the Plain, An Actor’s Revenge and The Burmese Harp, to tour in the first North American retrospective in 30 years. This series demonstrated Ichikawa’s gift for innovation, visual beauty, dark humor, social satire, and deep emotion. Screenings will take place through Friday, Aug. 31 at New PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way, UC Berkeley, Berkeley. General admission is $7 for one film and $8.50 for double bills. For more ticket and program information, please call 510-642-1412.
The Vertical Ray of the SunThe Vertical Ray of the Sun is now showing at Camera Cinemas in San Jose. Directed by Tran Anh Hung (The Scent of Green Papaya) the movie stars Tran Nu YenKhe, Nguyen Nhu Quynh, Le Khanh, Ngo Quang Hai and Chu Hung. In modern-day Hanoi, three sisters and their brother, prompted by the anniversary of their mother’s death, meet at the eldest sister’s cafe. They are obviously a close family, sharing their most intimate secrets without guilt or fear — or so it seems. Involved in relationships at various stages of development, they all hold back disturbing secrets of sexual complicity, most dramatically the youngest sister, Lian, who seeks a husband just like her brother Hai (with whom she has a complex and ambiguous relationship). When Lian investigates an aspect of their mother’s life previously unknown, the family is thrown into tumult. Her discoveries threaten the idealized memory of their parents that has kept the family fiercely connected. Vietnamese, with English subtitles. For more information and Camera Cinema locations, please call 408-998-3300.
MUSIC
Musical Conversation Experience the next wave of South Asian music when Stern Grove Festival presents Karsh Kale in a free performance/lecture at SomArts Cultural Center, 935 Brannan St., San Francisco, on Friday, Aug. 10 at 5:30 p.m. A leading figure in the Asian Massive movement, Kale infuses the traditional sounds of ancient India with post-millennial electronic dance styles such as trance and drum ’n’ bass. In addition to the performance/lecture, Kale will appear with Bill Laswell, Zakir Hussain, Talvin Singh, and Ustad Sultan Khan in a world premiere free performance at Stern Grove Festival on Sunday, Aug. 12. For more information, please visit www.sterngrove.org or call 415-252-6252.
World Remix 264(i)World Remix and the Lumin CD release party happens Friday, July 27, 8:30 p.m., at CELLspace, 2050 Bryant St. at 18th St., San Francisco. The evening features performances by Lumin, the Hadra Ensemble, D’Yara and the Human Sewing Machine, a butoh performance by CELLspace members Delphine Mei and Issac Immanuel with special guest Ledoh. Tickets are $12 - $50, sliding scale. For more information, go to www.cellspace.org.
READINGS & LECTURES
The Life of Frida Kahlo Director of the Museum of Latin America Gregorio Luke presents a kaleidoscopic portrait of Frida Kahlo. Using over 300 slides of her paintings, documentary photographs, as well as rare film footage, this panoramic lecture reveals a multi-faceted Kahlo whose persona was deeply rooted in Mexican culture and popular art traditions. The lecture is on July 26, 7 - 9 p.m., at the Phyllis Wattis Theater, SFMOMA, 151 Third St., San Francisco. General admission is $11, $7 for SFMOMA members. For more information, call 415-357-4102, or go to www.sfmoma.org.
THEATER
1 of 8 Women. Statistics. Lost stories. Join this cast of Pinay and Pinay-inspired characters as they explore the gamut of fresh and “not-so-fresh” moments in the day of the life of women. This multimedia/multidisciplinary program is brought to you by the Bindlestiff Pinay collective and the letter “o” (for ovary). 1 of 8 will be at the Bindlestiff Studio, 185 6th St. at Howard, San Francisco, at 8 p.m., Thursday - Friday, July 26 - Aug. 11. Tickets are $12, general admission, and $10 for students and seniors with ID. For reservations, please call 415-974-1167, e-mail events4u@bindlestiffstudio.org, or visit www.bindlestiffstudio.org.
All in the Timing All in the Timing by David Ives will show you what happens when you place three chimps in a cage with three typewriters, how Trotsky lives for 24 hours with an ax in his head, and why restaurant service is always bad. The show runs through Aug. 18, at 8 p.m., at Exit Theater, Taylor St., San Francisco. Tickets are $15. For reservations and information, call 415-778-4050, or visit www.oneheartproductions.com.
Deep Cut Golden Thread Productions presents the West Coast premiere of Deep Cut, an award-winning play by Karim Alrawi. Farah, an unhappily married woman, confronts her father Andrew, a liberal American psychiatrist who is about to remarry. How does their relationship mirror our nation’s selective intervention policy? A wider context is brought to bear on the stormy conflict of a young Chinese surgeon, one of Andrew’s patients, who was tortured during the events at Tiananmen Square. The play runs through July 29, Thursday - Sunday, at 8 p.m., at the Thick House, 1695 18th St., San Francisco. General admission is $18. For reservations and information, please call 510-986-9194.
E Nana I Ke Kumu The Asian American Theater Company presents E Nana I Ke Kumu — Look to the Source Leilani Chan, Aug. 9 - 12 and 16 - 19, 7 p.m., at New Langton Arts, 1246 Folsom Street, San Francisco. This one-woman show is a unique collaboration between a performance artist and her kumu hula teacher Clarice Wahineali’i Nuhi. E Nana I Ke Kumu exposes the struggles of identity, displacement and survival through the weaving of monologue, storytelling, poetry and dance. For more information, please call 415-440-5545, or visit www.asianamericantheatercompany.org.
The Shakespeare Revue The Young People’s Teen Musical Theater Company presents The Shakespeare Revue, directed by Diane Price, as the culmination of their 2001 summer theater program, July 27 - 29. The show is a joyous word-and-music anthology in memory of the Bard. It weaves together the finest comic writing inspired by Shakespeare with classic songs and sketches by such well-known names as Stephen Sondheim, Cole Porter, Noel Coward, Tom Lehrer, and Beyond the Fringe Team. All performances take place at Randall Museum Theater, 199 Museum Way, San Francisco. Tickets are $4-7. For more information, call 415-554-9523.
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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 Sts, 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.
READINGS & LECTURES
Karen Tei Yamashita Pacific Asia Museum presents an “Authors on Asia” session on Saturday, July 28, at 2 p.m. Author Karen Tei Yamashita will read from and sign her powerful new book, Circle K Cycles. Winner of the American Book Award and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Award, this acclaimed author blends fiction and essay, story and history as she explores important issues of the new century in modern-day Japan. Labor, nationalism, and the effects of cultural diaspora are topics included in this darkly comic collection. For more information or reservations for the author program, please call the Museum Store at 626-449-2742 x20. (Pacific Asia Museum, 46 N. Los Robles Avenue, Pasadena)
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ARTS
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.)
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)
Tangible Grace The stately yet subtle lines of Chinese furniture from the Seattle Art Museum’s permanent collection are highlighted in the new installation, Tangible Grace: Chinese Furniture from the Museum Collection, opening on July 26, and continuing through July 2002 at the Seattle Asian Art Museum, 1400 E. Prospect St., Volunteer Park, Seattle. For more information, visit the museum’s Web site at www.seattleartmuseum.org.
Wonders of Clay and Fire This comprehensive survey of Chinese ceramic history, from the fifth millennium B.C. through the 15th century A.D., continues with a reinstallation of this remarkable display of objects on loan from the private Jiurutang Collection and Jinglexuan Collection. (SAAM, 14th Ave. E and East Prospect St. Volunteer Park, Seattle. 206-654-3100. www.seattleartmuseum.org)
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ARTS
Fly to Freedom Museum of Chinese in the Americas (MoCA) announces the opening of its exhibition Fly to Freedom: The Art of the Golden Venture Refugees at the Smithsonian Institute, sponsored by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program under the leadership of Dr. Franklin Odo. The exhibition is housed in the Arts & Industries Building, 900 Jefferson Drive, S.W., Washington, D.C. The show consists of 25 selected works of folded-paper and papier-mâché art. Along with the paper sculptures, the traveling exhibit presents the background history of the Golden Venture story and the outcome of the refugees’ struggles. For further information, please call MoCA at 212-619-4785 or visit www.MoCA-nvc.org.
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.
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., 2/F, New York City. For more information, call 212-619-4785.
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 the 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.
EVENTS
Worshipping the Ancestors Chinese opera, ghost story films, gallery talks, storytelling and activities for children complement Worshipping the Ancestors: Chinese Commemorative Portraits, an exhibition at the Smithsonian’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 1050 Independence Ave., S.W., through Sept. 9. Highlights of the exhibition include intricately detailed and brightly colored life-size portraits, textiles, jewelry, furniture and other Chinese objects used in the ritual of ancestor worship created between 1451 and 1943. For more information, call 202-357-2700 or 202-357-1729 (TTY) or visit www.asia.si.edu.
FILM AND VIDEO
White Man’s Burden Five video shorts by New York-based artist Julia Cowing, will show in the four-woman group show, The World We Bear Inside at the Visual Arts Gallery, 137 Wooster St., New York City. Cowing’s pieces and play-acting poke fun at people’s prejudices as she depicts historical events and “incidents” against Asians in America. The opening reception is on Aug. 1, 5 - 7 p.m. The exhibition runs Aug. 1 through Aug. 18. For more information, call 212-598-0221, or go to www.indigoforest.com/wooster.
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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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