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July 19 - July 25, 2002
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| NORTHERN CALIFORNIA |
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Call For Artwork Submissions Submissions are requested from Bay Area APA artists ages 18 - 35 for APAture: A Window on the Art of the Young Asian Pacific Americans. Exhibit is scheduled to show Sept. 23 - 28 at SomArts. Deadline is July 19, 6 p.m. SomArts is located at 934 Brannan St., San Francisco. For more info: www.somarts.org.
Chinese Brush Painting Classes Respected instructor Guang Li Zhang will provide demonstration lessons, workshops and sketching practices, working with traditional gong bi (fineline) and xie-i (expressive idea) techniques. The classes will be held at Pacific Asia Museum, located at 46 N. Los Robles Ave. in Pasadena. The member fee for six lessons is $90 and $99 for non-members. For more info: 626-449-2742 x31.
Women Writers Women of Color invites complete papers (4,000 - 6,000 words) by women of color writers who critically explore political, social and personal uses for an anthology. WOC encourages both imaginative and theoretical writers to submit papers that create cross-genre dialogues between women of color writers. Complete papers are due July 26. For more info: WOC_Writers@hotmail.com.
ARTS
Awakening the Sleeping Monkey John Yoyogi Fortes juxtaposes Filipino and pop imagery, Disney iconography and more in monumental paintings. Using humor as a vehicle, Fortes confronts viewers with unsettling global human interactions, which often culminate in the transformation of societies. The exhibit runs through Aug. 4 at the Triton Museum of Art, located at 1505 Warburton Ave. in Santa Clara. Admission and parking are free. For more info: 408-247-3754 or www.tritonmuseum.org.
Children’s Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy The San Francisco Arts Commission Chinatown Community Arts Program and the Academy of Chinese Arts present an exhibition of children’s Chinese paintings and calligraphy until Aug. 24 at the Chinatown Community Arts Program Gallery, located at the Holiday Inn, 750 Kearny St., third floor, San Francisco. Admission is free. For more info: 415-957-1146.
China and Beyond China and Beyond: Artistic Influence Into and Out of China comprises more than 80 objects from the collections of members of the Society of Asian Art. The exhibition includes paintings, ceramics, bronzes, jades and sculptures. All works will either be from China that reflect a foreign influence, or objects from Tibet, Japan, Vietnam, Korea and even Europe that were inspired by Chinese motifs. The exhibit will run through Aug. 18 at the Chinese Culture Center, located at 750 Kearney St., third floor, San Francisco. For more info: 415-986-1822 or www.c-c-c.org.
Got Art? The Chinese Culture Center will be showcasing works by emerging Asian artists called got art?. The exhibition, which runs Aug. 3 and 4, will highlight various types of artistic designs from young APA artist including paintings, photography, graphic design, fashion design, illustrations and others. A reception will be held Friday, Aug. 2, 7 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. at the Chinese Culture Center, 750 Kearny St., third floor, San Francisco. For more info: www.c-c-c.org.
Mayumi Oda The Ren Brown Collection Gallery, located at 1781 Highway One, Bodega Bay, is featuring Mayumi Oda’s Open the Gate, Laughing through Sept. 2. The exhibit is the artist’s story of her inner journey towards healing and creative freedom through gardening and Zen Buddhism. For more info: 707-875-2922 or www.renbrown.com.
New Visions Pro Arts will present an exhibition entitled New Visions: Introductions ’02 that displays the works of California’s most talented emerging artists. The exhibit runs through Aug. 10 at Pro Arts, located at 461 Ninth St., in downtown Oakland (two blocks from the 12th Street Bart Station). Artists will speak on their works Saturday, July 20 at 1 p.m. For more info: 510-763-4361.
Radiance of Life The Chinese Culture Center will be presenting an exhibition of 30 paintings by famous poet, painter and scholar Chu Ko until Aug. 10 at the center’s South Gallery, located at 750 Kearny St., third floor, San Francisco. For more info: 415-986-2825 or www.c-c-c.org.
Ruth Asawa Ruth Asawa: Completing the Circle will be on view through Sept. 22 at the Oakland Museum of California, located at 10th and Oak streets. The retrospective survey spans more than 40 years of Asawa’s work. The exhibition includes some 75 works featuring tied, crocheted, cast metal and cast concrete sculptures, as well as drawings, life masks, models of public art and other works. For more info: 510-238-2200 or www.museumca.org.
Su-Chen Hung Headlands Center for the Arts presents Bay Area installation artist Su-Chen Hung to the Project Space through July 28 at the Headlands Center for the Arts, third floor, Building 944, Fort Barry, Marin Headlands. Hung works with light, space, sound, movement and stillness, and her installations are often interactive. For more info: 415-331-2787 or www.headlands.org.
Unity for Peace In his first major U.S. exhibit, Korean-born Dominican priest and artist Kim En Joong brings his newest works, Unity for Peace, to Grace Cathedral, located at 1100 California St., San Francisco. The show will run through Aug. 15. For more info: 415-749-6340 or richardd@gracecathedral.org.
Wanxin Zhang Ceramic sculptor Wanxin Zhang is exhibiting his work at the Triangle Gallery, 417 Kearny St., San Francisco until Aug. 10. For more info: 415-392-1686.
Yes Yoko Ono This premiere American retrospective draws from Ono’s 40-year career as an artist, poet and composer. Works from the 1960s to the present include conceptual paintings and film, as well as her most recent projects in bronze sculpture and installation. YES YOKO ONO will be on view until Sept. 8 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, located at 151 Third St., San Francisco. For more info: 415-357-4170 or commassistant@sfmoma.org.
DANCE
Butoh Festival Dance Network, in association with Fort Mason’s Cowell Theatre, presents The San Francisco Butoh Festival Season 8: The Grand Finale Aug. 8 - 11 at the Mainstage Performances at Fort Mason. In its final year, the festival comes full circle as it celebrates the art of contemporary butoh and its influence on American and European artists. Tickets: $16 - $24. For more info: 415-345-7575 or www.ticketweb.com.
Summer Dance Festival 2002 Take over 20 workshops with acclaimed dancers at Dancers’ Group’s Summer Dance Festival 2002, which includes performances, panel discussions and special events until July 26 at Dance Mission Theater and The Marsh, located at 3316 24th St. (at Mission), San Francisco. For more info: 415-920-9181 or www.dancersgroup.org.
West Wave Dance Festival Summerfest/Dance presents West Wave Dance Festival 2002, featuring 28 West Coast choreographers. The festival format offers 12 performances of six different programs including two works by Sue Li-Jue, Paper Walls and Barrack Landscape. The performances will be held until July 28 at Cowell Theatre, located in San Francisco’s Fort Mason Center (Marina Boulevard and Buchanan Street). Tickets: $15 - $20. For more info: www.voiceofdance.com.
EVENTS
Haiku Discussion The Fort Mason Center in San Francisco presents a free quarterly haiku meeting where haiku poets of Northern California share and discuss poetry on Sunday, July 21, 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. at the Gatehouse. For more info: 415-567-8143.
KidsSings Schola Cantorum presents its annual series of free singing and music workshops for children ages 5 - 9. These sing-along sessions will be led by local choral directors and music teachers Thursday until Aug. 15; 5 p.m. - 5:50 p.m. for kids ages 5 - 6 and 6 p.m. - 7 p.m. for kids ages 7 - 9 p.m., at Congregational Community Church, Room 1, 1112 S. Bernardo Ave., Sunnyvale. For more info: 650-254-1700 or www.scholacantorum.org.
READING AND LECTURES
East Bay Living History Project Japanese American Citizens League - Berkeley Chapter and local Japanese American residents will share their experiences in a panel discussion and through personal narratives on Japanese American life in the East Bay. The last lecture of a three-part series will take place Sunday, Aug. 11, 2 p.m. - 4 p.m. at the Buena Vista Methodist Church, 2311 Buena Vista Ave., Alameda. For more info: 510-272-8286 or www.berkeleyjacl.org.
Poetry Benefit Reading Squaw Valley Community of Writers presents its 11th annual poetry benefit reading on July 27, featuring Yusef Komunyakaa and Li-Young Lee, among others. The event will take place at the Ira & Leonore S. Gershwin Theater at the University of San Francisco, 2350 Turk Blvd. (at Masonic), San Francisco. Doors open at 6 p.m.; reading starts at 7 p.m. Admission: $15, students $10. For more info: 877-537-8073 or squawpoet@ureach.com, or www.squawvalleywriters.org/benefit.html.
THEATER
Summer’s Eve Bindlestiff Studio presents Summer’s Eve, a play about three women who delve into sexuality, taboo, memory and nationalism. The play runs Thursday through Saturday until July 20 at Bindlestiff Studio, 185 Sixth St. (at Howard), San Francisco. Tickets: $12 - $15. For more info: 415-974-1167 or lorna@bindlestiffstudio.org.
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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
ARTS
Beauty of Traditional Korean Wedding Culture The Korea Craft Promotion Foundation, in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, will launch the exhibition Beauty of Traditional Korean Wedding Culture July 26 - Aug. 14 at the Korean Cultural Center Art Gallery, 5505 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles. Admission is free. For more info: 323-936-7141.
Digital Art Exhibit The erotic, surrealist and sometimes whimsical digital photography by Zvia Sadja will be exhibited until July 26 at the Santa Monica College Photography Gallery, located on the second floor of the Technology Building, 1900 Pico Blvd. For more info: 310-434-4289 or www.smc.edu/photo.
MUSIC
Kodo The Orange County Performing Arts Center, in association with Clear Channel Entertainment, presents KODO, the Japanese drum and percussion ensemble at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine, Thursday, Aug. 8 at 8 p.m. Tickets: $13.25 - $78.25. For more info: 714-556-ARTS.
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ARTS
Contemporary Art Talks Renowned artists will give presentations Saturday, July 27 and Wednesday, Aug. 7 at the Seattle Asian Art Museum in Volunteer Park, Seattle. Alok Hsu Kwang-han and Do-Ho Suh will lecture on their works, respectively. Free with museum admission. For more info: 206-654-3100 or www.seattleartmuseum.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 August at the Seattle Asian Art Museum, 1400 E. Prospect St., Volunteer Park, Seattle. For more info: 202-654-3100 or www.seattleartmuseum.org.
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EAST COAST
EVENTS
Outdoor Asian Dance, Music and Films The Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington, D.C., present contemporary dance from Dana Tai Soon Burgess and Co., music and dances from the southern Philippines and Malayo-Polynesian dances from Taiwan. Other programs include the Made in Hong Kong film festival, curator talks, ImaginAsia children’s art workshops and a series of storytelling sessions. Museums will stay open until 8 p.m. every Thursday through Aug. 29. For more info: 202-357-2700 or www.asia.si.edu.
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NATIONAL
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Actress Wanted Major New York- and Paris-based film production company, Forensic Films, is seeking a 50-something-year-old actress to play the lead role of Shin Ja in a romantic comedy, Jersey Seoul. Some professional acting/performance experience a must; Korean language is a plus. Interviews with director/writer Johanna Lee will be scheduled soon in major U.S. cities. For more info: Charlie Chun at 310-502-9932 or beingu@aol.com.
Free Poetry Contest The International Library of Poetry has announced that $58,000 in prizes will be awarded this year in the International Open Poetry Contest. Poets from the San Francisco area, particularly beginners, are welcome to vie for over 250 prizes. To enter, send an original poem on any subject and in any style to: The International Library of Poetry, 1 Poetry Plaza, Owings Mills, MD 21117. Deadline for the contest is July 31; entry is free. For more info: www.poetry.com.
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