Arts & Entertainment Calendar A regional roundup of events of special interest to Asian Americans
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Announcements, workshops, and opportunities for community, family and career.

REGIONS:

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Northern California
Southern California
National

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NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Yuri Kochiyama Leadership Institute WILD for Human Rights invites Bay Area women aged 17–23 to apply for the newly created Yuri Kochiyama Leadership institute. The series of nine workshop sessions will bring together 12 young women of diverse ethnic backgrounds and experiences who are strongly interested in making social change in their communities to practice leadership skills, meet revolutionary women, take action and connect their life struggles. Sessions will meet March 15 – June 21. Deadline: Feb. 24. For more info: 415-345-1195 x405 or www.wildforhumanrights.org.

YOUth Speaks Slams Performance-oriented poets aged 13–19 are invited to register for the first rounds of the 7th annual Youth Poetry Slam. The competition, which takes place March 8–29, is the first step for Bay Area young poets on the road to the international Youth Poetry Slam Festival in Chicago, in April. Deadline: March 6. For more info: 415-255-9035 x12 or www.wouthspeak.org.

City Year Wondering what to do with that year off from, or just after college or high school? Heading off to the ends of the earth with the Peace Corps a little daunting? Don’t fancy working for Uncle Fred? Serve the community and earn work experience as a team member of City Year, a paid national youth service organization for 17-24 year-olds. Assignments range from tutoring to community activism, in cities all over the country. Find out more at an informational meeting for City Year San Jose, Wed., Feb. 12, 6 p.m. at 116 Paseo de San Antonio, San Jose. For more info: 408-907-6538 or www.cityyear.org.

EVENTS

Day of Remembrance Commemorate Executive Order 9066, which sent Japanese Americans to internment camps during WWII with the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California. On Sun., Feb. 23, the JCCCNC will hold Defending the Constitution Then and Now, a benefit event featuring a screening of the new documentary film Hidden Internment: The Art Shibayama Story, at the AMC Kabuki Theatre, 1881 Post St., San Francisco. Tickets: $15–20. For more info: 415-921-5007.

Spay Day Oh boy! Love is in the (almost) spring air, and it’s time to be a responsible pet owner and get your cat or dog spayed or neutered, at the San Francisco SPCA’s low-cost spay neuter clinic. Mark your calendar for Spay Day, Tue., Feb. 25, and bring your pet in to be spayed or neutered, and get free nail clipping, microchipping and a goodie bag. For more info: 415-554-3084.

Asian Peace Officers’ Association Join Supervisor Fiona Ma, Asessor Mabel Teng and Superior Court Judge Lenard Louie for the installation of the executive officers of the San Francisco Asian Peace Officers Association. The evening will feature Hawaiian music and dancing, “special singing performances” and all the APA cops you can shake a stick at. Or perhaps you’d better not. Instead, come support them, Fri., Feb. 28 at the Harbor Village Restaurant, 383 Bay St., San Francisco. Tickets: $50. For more info: 415-775-7005.

LOCAL TO GLOBAL

United Against War Join your voice to the growing opposition to war in Iraq, at one of this weekend’s marches and rallies. In Sacramento, meet on the west steps of the Capitol Sat., Feb. 15, 12–5 p.m. for performances and a candlelight circle; in San Jose, assemble Sat., Feb. 15, 11 a.m. at Roosevelt Park, Santa Clara St. at 19th St., and march to Cesar Chavez Plaza for a rally at 1 p.m.; in Oakland, the call is to “Stop the War that Began in 1492,” in a tribunal Sat., Feb. 15, 1 p.m. at the Mandela Arts Center, 1357 5th Street. Finally, in San Francisco, meet Sun., Feb. 16 at 11 a.m. at Embarcadero and Market, and march to the Civic Center for a rally at 2 p.m. For more info: 415-864-1278 or www.bauaw.org.

WORKSHOPS

Relax with tax The tax man cometh, and California Lawyers for the Arts is ready to help artists and arts organizations with their tax woes. CLA will sponsor two half-day seminars, Sat., Feb. 15, 1:30–4:45 p.m. at the Fort Mason Center, Building C, Room 230, and Sat., March 1, 3:30–6:30 p.m. at Pro Arts Gallery, 461 9th St., Oakland. Admission: $40. For more info: 510-444-6351.

OHMY! No lions, tigers or bears, just youth and their allies working to create safer and more supportive schools for LGBTQ young people. Sponsored by the Gay-Straight Alliance, LYRIC and the San Francisco Public Library, the free Overcoming Homophobia Meeting for Youth will take place Sat., Feb. 15, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. at Horace Mann Middle School, 3351 23rd St., San Francisco. For more info: 415-552-4229.

Shintaido for Caregivers Professional and volunteer caregivers for people with AIDS and terminal diseases are invited to a weekend shintaido and brushwork workshop, sponsored by Hospice by the Bay and the American School of Japanese Arts. The workshop will take place Feb. 15–17 at Rodeo Beach in the Marin Headlands and will include moving meditation, brushwork and a tea ceremony. For more info: 415-626-5900.

Faces of the Soul Open yourself up to your ancestors and spirit guides at a workshop hosted by the Lifelong Learning program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Artists and authors Kaleo and Elise Dirlam Ching will guide participants through chi gung and acupressure therapy, then lead the group in creating plaster molds of their own faces, embellished with the inspiration of their ancestors and spirit guides. It’s an archetypal wisdom fest, and its happening Feb. 28 and March 1, at CIIS, 1453 Mission St., San Francisco. For more info: 415-575-6100 or www.ciis.edu.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

LOCAL TO GLOBAL

Butoh for Peace Corpus Delicti is putting the movement back in peace movement: Join these performers as they snake through the streets of L.A., dressed all in white, using simple butoh movements to create collective, ritualistic protest against war. Performance/protest date undetermined. No dance experience necessary. For more info: corpusdance@hotmail.com

Peace in Orange County In San Francisco the lion dancers will be warming up, but in Orange County, they will be Pounding the Pavement for Peace. It’s the next scheduled anti-war event, and it’s happening Sat., Feb. 15, 12–3 p.m. at Hark Park, City of Orange. For more info: 714-637-8313 or www.ocpeace.org.

VOLUNTEERING

Chinese Lantern Festival The Chinese American Museum needs volunteer storytellers in English and other languages to help make its annual Chinese Lantern Festival a success, by staffing the storytelling booth for half-hour periods during the afternoon. The festival will be held Sat., Feb. 22, 1–7 p.m. For more info: 818-492-5237.

NATIONAL

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Wellness Awards Nominees are being sought for the Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center’s annual awards program. Nominate an APA health hero for the Grassroots Award, Ally Award or National Award: past recipients include GAPA, Nancy Pelosi, Helen Zia and other. Deadline: Feb. 18. For more info: 415-292-3420 or www.apiwellness.org.

Filipino Student Conference Are you a student interested in exploring the Filipino heritage and the Filipino American community? You are invited to the Filipino Intercollegiate Networking Dialogue’s conference, Explore, Expand, Excel: The Filipino-American Experience, to be held at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, March 7 – 8. For more info: 202-299-2669 or www.find2003.org.

APAHC Scholarships APA high school seniors are eligible for $1,000 and $2,000 scholarships in the fields of public service, political science, law or science, in a program sponsored by the Asian Pacific American Heritage Council. Applicants must submit, with their application, a 1,500-2,000 word essay on the subject “Salute to Liberty.” Deadline: March 15. For more info: 301-983-1845 or www.apahc.org.

“Voluntary Interview” Investigation The General Accounting Office (the investigative branch of Congress) is conducting an inquiry into the “voluntary interviews” of Arab and Muslim men post-Sept. 11. If you have any information you think would be useful to this investigation, contact Rebecca Thornton at the Lawyers’ Committee for Human Rights, 212-845-5295 or thorntonr@chr.org.