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Dec. 7 - Dec. 13, 2001
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| NORTHERN CALIFORNIA |
ANNOUNCEMENTS
ARTS
Continuing Culture in California The Golden State Museum presents Traditions Through Craft: Japanese Culture in California from Dec. 7 through March 3, 2002. Tradition Through Craft is an exhibit on the Japanese American community of the Sacramento region, exploring how Americans of Japanese ancestry have kept their cultural traditions alive in California. The Golden State Museum, 1020 O St., Sacramento, is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. and Sunday, noon - 5 p.m. Admission is $5 for adults, $4 for seniors, $3.50 for children 6 to 13. For more information, visit the Web site at www.goldenstatemuseum.org.
Dong Kingman A retrospective exhibition Dong Kingman in San Francisco is open to the public at the Chinese Historical Society of America & Chinese American National Museum, 965 Clay St. at Powell St., San Francisco. General admission is $3, $2 for students and seniors. For more information, call 415-391-1188.
Elder Arts Celebrations Elder Arts Celebration invites you to view an exhibition at City College of San Francisco, Dec. 3 through Dec. 21 at the City College Art Gallery, Visual Arts Building, 50 Phelan Ave., San Francisco. EAC is an annual series of art exhibits that features the work of alumni, faculty, staff and students over the age 65 from several of San Francisco’s premier art-teaching institutions. It is a collaboration of these schools, the Fine Museums of San Francisco and San Francisco Bay Area Ministry to Nursing Homes. For more information, please call 415-441-2649.
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.
KPFA Community Crafts Fair On Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 8 and 9, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m., 220 thoughtfully juried craftsmakers and artists show their best work in a mellow ambiance offering foods from many cultures, world music and dance performances. Entry fee of $7 for adults, $5 for seniors or disabled, will benefit KPFA Free Speech Radio. For more information, please call 510-848-6767 x609 or go to www.kpfa.org.
Light over Ancient Angkor Kenro Izu: Light over Ancient Angkor continues through Dec. 16 in the Hearst Art Gallery at Saint Mary’s College in Moraga. The exhibition presents images of one of the world’s largest religious buildings, captured in rare platinum-palladium prints. Photographer Kenro Izu used a custom-made 14” x 20” format camera to document the coexistence of ancient stone monuments and the nature that surrounds them. The Hearst Art Gallery is open to the public Wednesdays through Sundays, 11 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. For more information, please call 925-631-4379.
Mathematica Designs by Charles and Ray Eames will be on display at the Exploratorium in conjunction with Mathematica: The World of Numbers and Beyond, their classic exhibition designed in 1961. The artifacts illustrate the range for the Eames work prior to the creation of Mathematica. They include iconic items such as their famous bent plywood chairs, as well as solar toys and molded plywood radion enclosures. The exhibit runs through May 5, 2002 at the Exploratorium, 3601 Lyon St., San Francisco. For more information, call 415-EXP-LORE.
Non-Space Elements Irène Pijoan shows a new body of work Non-Space Elements through Dec. 30 at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, 451 South First St., San Jose. For more information, call 408-283-8155 or go to www.sjica.org.
The Enemy Alien Files Today, American citizens, residents and visitors of Middle Eastern ancestry are targets of suspicion and harassment solely because of their ethnic origin. Sixty years ago, thousands of Japanese, German and Italian immigrants in the U.S. and Latin America, were subjected to relocation, internment and deportation for the same reasons. The Enemy Alien Files combines rare photographs, oral history excerpts, documents and artifacts to explore how wartime fears, anti-immigrant attitudes and racism affected men, women and children. The exhibit runs through Dec. 28, Monday - Friday, 12 - 5 p.m. at the National Japanese American Historical Society, 1648 Post St., San Francisco. For more information, call 415-921-5007.
The Messenger Paul De Marinis, a Stanford art professor, examines the form and nature of speech and the transmission of language for this installation, which runs through Jan. 27, 2002. Pieces in the exhibit include illuminated glass jars with electrodes, plastic skeletons with electrical mechanisms and enameled bowls with electronic controls, all connected to the Internet. This assemblage also explores non-verbal aspects of communication: pauses, silence, noise, ambiguity and misunderstanding. At the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, Lomiya Drive and Museum Way. For more information, call 650-723-4177.
THE WHOLE WORLD’S WATCHING The Whole World’s Watching, a documentary photo exhibition which examines the rich history of the social movements of the 1960s and 1970s, runs through Sunday, Dec. 16 at the Berkeley Art Center, 1275 Walnut Street in Live Oak Park, Berkeley. Admission is free. Berkeley Art Center is open from noon to 5 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday. The exhibition presents 100 images taken during these turbulent times by noted photographers including Jeffrey Blankfort, Nacio Jan Brown, Cathy Cade, Bob Fitch, Robert Hsiang, Ken Light, Richard Misrach, Ronald J. Riesterer, Stephen Shames, Ted Streshinsky, Michelle Vignes and Douglas Wachter among others. For directions to the Berkeley Art Center call 510-644-6893.
Year of the Dragon The San Francisco Arts Commission Chinatown Community Arts Program presents Year of the Dragon: Four Seasons in the Life of Chinatown, San Francisco — a photography show at the Chinatown Community Arts Program Gallery through Saturday, Jan. 12. This exhibition will feature the digital photographs by local photographers, Hiromi Oda and Kieran Ridge. The Chinatown Community Arts Gallery is located in the Holiday Inn, 750 Kearny Street, 3/F, San Francisco. For more on Kieran and Hiromi, please visit www.thestreetsofsanfrancisco.com.
DANCE
Cockroach inkBoat, a sonically driven Butoh dance and Physical Theater performance company under the direction of Shinichi Momo Koga, presents Cockroach with special musical guests Degenerate Art Ensemble from Seattle and Sleepytime Gorilla Museum from the Bay Area. Cockroach runs Dec. 5 - 8 at Theater Artaud, 450 Florida St. at 17th, San Francisco. Tickets are $15 - 18, and can be purchased by calling the Box Office at 415-621-7797, or visiting www.ticketweb.com or www.theaterartaud.org.
EVENTS
Sign of the Times La Pena Cultural Center presents the Hecho En Califas series’ grand finale of the year Sign of the Times — a Chicano-Asian collaboration featuring the Taco Shop Poets from San Diego; Bay Area pinoy poets 8th Wonder; Pan Asian collaboration from New York City to Oakland, Feedback Poets; Chicano Groove Rockers from East L.A., Ollin; Dj Aztec Parrot (‘65 Crew) and Dj Treat.U.Nice (Collective Soul). The event is on Saturday, Dec. 15, 8 p.m. Tickets are $7 for students, $10 for adults. No advance tickets for this show must purchase at door. La Pena Cultural Center is located at 3105 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley. For more information, call 510-849-2568 or go to www.lapena.org.
TELLING OUR OWN STORIES Join Great Leap for a fun-filled adventure creating a theater piece with stories about you and your “relations.” Using theater games, tai chi, movement, story gathering sessions and more, you will have the chance to express yourself in your own unique way. This series will end in a live performance at the MACLA Stage in downtown San Jose. Get the opportunity to perform in front of your friends and family. Workshop leaders are Nobuko Miyamoto, artistic director of Great Leap and Hung Nguyen, former director and founder of Club O’Noodles. Workshop dates are Saturdays, 12 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., through Dec. 8, at Asian Americans for Community Involvement (AACI), 2400 Moorpark Ave., Suite 111, San Jose. For more information, contact CATS at 408-298-2287, e-mail catsonline@yahoo.com or go to www.asiantheater.org. For more information on Great Leap or the workshop leaders go to www.greatleap.org.
FILM
Director’s Cut NAATA presents a four-part interactive screening and discussion series exploring the behind-the-scenes creative process of how a film is made and examining recent trends in Asian Pacific American cinema. All monthly events, now through December, will be held at Locus 1640 Post, San Francisco. Coming up on Wednesday, Dec. 12, 7 - 9 p.m., NAATA presents an evening with renowned playwright and filmmaker Philip Kan Gotanda in discussion about the making of his award-winning short film The Kiss. Gotanda not only directed The Kiss, but was also its writer and lead actor. In this session, he will comment on his multiple roles and discuss the production of the film from each of these creative capacities, from writing for the screen to visual storytelling. Tickets can be ordered by calling 415-863-0814 x 117 or by fax at 415-863-7428. Fax order forms are available on the NAATA Web site at www.naatanet.org/festival. Ticket prices are $7 for general admission, $6 for members, and $5 for students and seniors.
Raul Cordero The San Francisco Art Institute is pleased to announce the residency and exhibition of works by Cuban artist Raul Cordero. Cordero’s October residency will culminate in the presentation of two newly commissioned video installations: 6 Chances and The Perfect Woman and other recent work. Four installations will be on view at SFAI’s Walter and McBean Galleries, 800 Chestnut St., San Francisco, Dec. 7 - 29, opening with an extended reception on Thursday, Dec. 6, 5:30 - 8:30 p.m. For more information, please call 415-749-4564 or visit www.sfai.edu.
The Journey Harish Saluja’s The Journey opens at 4 Star Movie, 2200 Clement St. at 23rd Ave., San Francisco. A family-oriented comedy drama, the award-winning The Journey is regarded by many critics to be one of the best films about Indian immigrants in America. For information about the film, please visit www.newray.com.
MUSIC
Berkeley Symphony Maestro Kent Nagano and the Berkeley Symphony continue their season-long exploration of Franz Schubert on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 8 p.m. at Zellerbach Hall by opening the second concert of the 2001-2002 season with Schubert’s rarely performed masterpiece Symphony No. 3. Pianist Mari Kodama returns after six seasons as soloist in Schoenberg’s Piano Concerto (1942). Tickets are $21-45 and available through Berkeley Symphony Ticket Services at 510-841-2800. For more information, go to www.berkeleysymphony.org.
Ching Ching Chorus Ching Ching Chorus has just celebrated its 20th anniversary in the end of September. The annual concert for its 20th year will be held at Louis Mayer Theater in Santa Clara University on Dec. 8, 7:30 p.m., and Dec. 9, 2 p.m. Tickets are $10. For more information, please contact David Wu at 408-737-9315 or Jen Liou at 408-718-6486.
Symphonic Cinema On Sunday, Jan. 27, 2002 at 2 p.m., the Oakland East Bay Symphony presents Symphonic Cinema, a family day concert at the Paramount Theater, 2025 Broadway, Oakland. Michael Morgan conducts with pianist Christine Yu, flutist Janelle Fontela and violinist Margot Schwartz in works by Verdi, Hanson, Dukas, Liszt and Wagner. For tickets, call 510-625-8497. For more information, go to www.oebs.org.
READINGS AND LECTURES
Kids Like Me In China On Dec. 9, Sunday at 3 p.m., meet eight-year-old Ying Ying Fry who wrote Kids Like Me In China, a children’s book about her return trip back as an adopted orphan to her hometown in China. She will read from her photo-illustrated book, as well as show her rare video-footage inside a China orphanage. The reading will take place at Eastwind Books of Berkeley, 2066 University Ave. between Shattuck and Milvia, Berkeley. For more information, call 510-548-2350.
War & Peace PEN Oakland and Literature Without Borders present War & Peace, dealing with those issues through poetry and prose from Bay Area authors. The event will take place at Pro Arts, 461 9th St., Oakland, on Dec. 7, from 5:30 - 8 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, please call Kim McMillon at 510-525-3948.
THEATER
Seven-Star General From Nov. 24, 2001, to Jan. 6, 2002, the Hua Yi Chinese Performing Group brings an award-winning comedy to Cowell Theater, Fort Mason Center, Landmark Building A, San Francisco. Seven-Star General satirizes the disorderly life of modern Taiwan. A scholar who has returned with a Ph.D. from the United States has seven ladies in his life. Ultimately, all of them discover that he is just a playboy, and he is left alone. Playwright/director Tom Tsuei won Taiwan’s Educational Art Award for this work. The play is performed in Mandarin with English subtitles. Hua Yi is a San Francisco-based nonprofit organization established in 1992 by a group of Chinese immigrant artists. It includes recent immigrants as well as new citizens from throughout the Bay Area. Bound together by a common vision, the core management team has dedicated its efforts to promoting Chinese culture through the performing arts. For tickets and more information, call 415-345-7575 or go to www.fortmason.org. Ticket Price: $15; $14 for senior and student with ID.
The Crazy Wisdom Sho George Coates Performance Works celebrates its 25th Anniversary season with a new play with music, The Crazy Wisdom Sho, opening at Performance Works, 110 McAllister St. at Leavenworth, San Francisco. The “crazy wisdom” inspired performances of the extraordinary Nigerian actor and musician Babatunde´ Garaya and virtuoso comedienne singer Sara Moore upend our understanding of the world, using the trickster myth, ancient Zen teachings and a humorous perspective to examine recreational panic, complacency and other twisted perspectives on knowledge and human behavior. Performances are 8 p.m., Dec. 14, 15, 21, 22, 26 - 31. Tickets are $18-28, and can be obtained by calling City Box Office at 415-392-4400. For more information, please call www.georgecoatesperformanceworks.org.
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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
FILM AND VIDEO
Tell Me Something Laemmle Theatres and Kino International present Tell Me Something, a grisly South Korean detective thriller which set attendance records in its native country, now playing at the Grande 4-Plex Theatre, 345 S. Figueroa Ave., Los Angeles. For more information, please call 213-617-0268 for recorded show time information.
THEATER
Flower Drum Song The first production of the Mark Taper Forum’s 2001-2002 season Flower Drum Song runs through Jan. 13, 2002. Flower Drum Song is produced in association with Benjamin Mordecai, Michael Jenkins, Dallas Summer Musicals, Lexington Road Productions, Grace Elizabeth Hwang, Robert G. Bartner, Ernest Escaler and Stephanie P. McClelland. Tickets can be purchased by calling 213-628-2772, in person at the Center Theater Group box office at the Music Center or online at www.taperahmanson.com. Prices are $55-60. Mark Taper Forum is located at the Music Center, 135 North Grand Ave., Los Angeles. For more information, go to www.taperahmanson.com.
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REST OF THE WEST
ARTS
An American Diary The Bellevue Art Museum presents An American Diary. This exhibition of paintings by Roger Shimomura is based upon the diaries kept by his grandmother Toku Shimomura while interned in Camp Minidoka, Idaho, during World War II. Also included is Memories of Childhood, the artist’s own memories of internment — a personal look at prejudice and hardship experienced by Japanese Americans during and after WWII. Bellevue Art Museum is located at 510 Bellevue Way NE, Bellevue, Washington. For more information, please call 425-519-0770 or visit www.bellevueart.org.
From Awareness to Healing As HIV and AIDS reaches its 20th year in the public consciousness, the Wing Luke Asian Museum marks the milestone with a new exhibit about AIDS in the Asian Pacific American community called From Awareness to Healing: AIDS and the Asian Pacific American Community. The exhibit is open to the public at 407 7th Ave. South, International District, Seattle, until Jan. 6, 2002. For complete information, visit www.wingluke.org.
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, 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.
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EAST COAST
ARTS
Banana The Lower East Side Tenement Museum launches its year-long Digital Artist in Residence Program with Claudia Chow’s Banana. In addition to the online exhibit, Banana will include an installation at the Museum’s tenement building. Through these works, Chow examines the influences shaping the lives of Chinese American youth. The installation is on view till Dec. 16, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, 1 - 5 p.m., at 97 Orchard St., New York City.
Fantasy and Reality in Japanese Miniature Sculpture Beginning about 1700, fashionable Japanese men used netsuke — intricately carved sculptures used as toggles to secure objects such as tobacco cases or purses, suspended from kimono sashes. The Museum of Fine Arts Boston presents an exhibition of these small masterpieces through March 10, 2002. Located on 465 Huntington Ave., Boston, Mondays and Tuesdays, 10 a.m. - 4:45 p.m.; Wednesdays through Fridays, 10 a.m. - 9:45 p.m.; and Saturdays and Sundays, 10 a.m. - 5:45 p.m. For more information, call 617-267-9300 or go to www.mfa.org.
Poetry of the Loom Persian textiles have long been central to the cultural life of Iran. Persian poets use metaphors such as “weaving words together” to describe their art, and many of the images on Persian textile have been inspired by poetic literature. Sixty Persian textiles, spanning 15 centuries, will be on display through Jan. 21, 2002 at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 265 Huntington Ave., Boston. Museum hours are Mondays and Tuesdays, 10 a.m. - 4:45 p.m.; Wednesdays through Fridays, 10 a.m. - 9:45 p.m.; Saturdays and Sundays, 10 a.m. - 5:45 p.m. For more information, call 617-267-9300 or go to www.mfa.org.
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