THEATER American Family Project Rising Circle Theater Collective Now thru Sunday, March 11th Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, 8:00pm Saturday and Sunday matinees, 2:00pm Teatro La TEA Clemente Soto Velez Community Center 107 Suffolk Street, Suite 200 between Delancey & Rivington New York City $18 www.risingcircle.org | Tickets: www.smarttix.com Rising Circle Theater Collective presents the world premiere of "American Family Project" an original play exploring the transformation of the family ideal. Rising Circle Theater Collective-nominated in six categories by the New York Innovative Theatre Awards, and winner in the Outstanding Ensemble category for their first original play, "Pulling the Lever"-presents its newest original play, American Family Project. The play illuminates the experiences of five unique people among them a Korean adoptee and a fourth generation biracial Korean woman. This dynamic theatrical event uses text from transcribed interviews to explore their experiences and how they've shaped their lives. With Catherine Jhung, Nancy Kim, Kerry Mantle, Arlando Smith, and Paula Wilson.

TELEVISION PREMIERE Explorer: Inside North Korea Wednesday, March 7th, 11:00pm Saturday, March 10th, 7:00pm Sunday, March 11th, 4:00pm Wednesday, March 14th, 11:00pm Tuesday, March 27th, 11:00am Wednesday, May 2nd, 4:00pm National Geographic Channel Channel 63, Time Warner Cable National Geographic To obtain material for her latest documentary ?a look inside North Korea's secretive culture ?Lisa Ling went undercover last June, posing as a medical coordinator documenting the work of a Nepalese eye surgeon who was allowed in the country on a rare humanitarian mission. Ling, a correspondent for National Geographic Channel's "Explorer," gave officials her real name and nationality but did not reveal that she was a journalist. She was shadowed by half a dozen minders during her 12-day stay but still managed to smuggle out tapes with footage of life in Pyongyang. -- Matea Gold, Los Angeles Times

CONCERT One World Strikes Back! Music from Hollywood Films Sunday, March 11th, 4:00pm The Town Hall 123 West 43rd Street between 6th Avenue & Broadway New York City $40 - $37.50 www.the-townhall-nyc.org Conductor Sung Jin Hong returns to lead One World in a vibrant program of great collaborations in iconic American film. John Williams' Star Wars score includes the soaring main title - the powerful "Imperial March" - as well as other favorites evoking the spirit of this most loved of American movie trilogies where the inspiring music carries the story. The collaboration between such legends as Hitchcock and Herrmann produced the lush Vertigo and suspenseful North By Northwest. Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific marks one of the pinnacle achievements in music theatre, and a number of its songs, such as Bali Ha'i, Younger than Springtime, and Some Enchanted Evening, have become worldwide favorites. The unforgettable music of Stravinsky "The Firebird from Disney" Fantasia illustrates a favorite Russian folk tale of a Prince who captures and frees the magical Firebird that in return aids the Prince in an act of extreme heroism against an evil sorcerer.

FESTIVAL Asian American Cultural Festival Of Long Island Sunday, March 11th, 1:00 - 9:00 pm Student Activities Center Charles B. Wang Center Stony Brook University Stony Brook, New York www.stonybrook.edu/sb/wang | Flyer Stony Brook University's Charles B. Wang Center strongly encourages you to attend, engage, participate! The Asian American Cultural Festival Of Long Island: Building Bridges & Promoting Awareness & Appreciation for Cultural Diversity on Long Island, will promote a greater understanding of Asia and Asian America. The Festival will have multi-cultural booths with crafts, live music, literature, costumes, small group performances/lectures, a tea ceremony and cultural displays by the tzu chi foundation, and children's live interactive show. 1:00 - 5:00pm Free Admission. All are welcome. Multi-Cultural Booths with Crafts, Live Music, Literature, Costumes Small Group Performances/Lectures Tea Ceremony and Cultural Displays by the Tzu Chi Foundation Children's Live Interactive Show 5:00 - 9:00pm Reserved Tickets: $20 Presentation of Awards Classical Performances by Asian Artists Delicious Asian Fusion Buffet Dinner Spectacular Raffle Drawing

EXHIBITION Shaping Space: The Dance of the Silhouette Now through March 22nd Monday - Thursday, 11:00am - 2:00pm and by appointment Closing Reception: Thursday, March 15th, 6:00 - 8:00 pm Susan Eley Fine Art 46 West 90th Street #1 between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue New York City www.susaneleyfineart.com With paintings by Silvina Mamani and Daehyuk Sim and silver gelatin photographs by Heather Boose Weiss, Shaping Space: The Dance of the Silhouette examines the various ways in which artists treat the figure. The exhibition features Mamani's loose, sculptural forms, Sim's refined silhouettes and Boose Weiss's mysteriously romantic self-portraits. Despite very different techniques and styles, the artists share a reverence for the human form and an interest in how people behave and move in particular landscapes. In his small oil paintings, South Korean artist Daehyuk Sim renders skin tone, musculature and female curves with near scientific precision. Through his masterful use of the oil medium, he imbues his jewel-like scenes of stillness and quiet with a painterly, diaphanous quality. Sim finds beauty in the ordinary forms of his family and friends. For him, there is no more perfect machine than the human figure.

EXHIBITION Jongwang Lee: Sculptural Paintings Rendered in Resin and Oil March 8th - April 6th, 2007 Monday - Friday Noon - 5:00pm, and by appointment Opening Reception Tuesday, March 13th, 6:00 - 8:00pm Prince George Gallery 15 East 27th Street New York City www.susaneleyfineart.com | 917) 952 - 7641 Well known South Korean artist Jongwang Lee who has exhibited his unique work in various museum exhibitions and seven solo shows will be debuting his first solo exhibition in the US. A long-time Tokyo resident, Lee has been featured in numerous solo and group shows in Japan and the U.S. The exhibition is in the Prince George Gallery, located in the recently restored landmarked Prince George Hotel / Ballroom.

FORUM Photographic Memories: Snapshots of a Bygone Era The Korea Society Tuesday, March 13th 6:00 - 6:30pm Registration and Reception 6:30 - 8:00pm Presentation and Q&A The Korea Society 950 Third Avenue, 8th Floor corner of Third Avenue and 57th Street New York City www.koreasociety.org Decades of stunning economic growth have left Korea a landscape of office towers, freeways and flat screens. But not too long ago, it looked very different. Korean War veteran Joe Savitzky will share his slides of Seoul and its environs, taken in 1953 and 1954. Together with his vivid memories, Savitzky's images capture Korea as it was-a startling and evocative mix of unspoiled natural beauty and war ravaged urban squalor. His images of Korean youth are particularly prescient of the resilient generations that rebuilt South Korea. A native of New York, Joe Savitzky is a veteran of the Korean War. His career in urban planning brought him to Israel in 1960. Currently a resident of Tel Aviv,Savitzky and his wife, Dvorah, enjoy their retirement and make frequent trips to the United States to visit their two daughters.

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY yKAN Soup Kitchen young Korean American Network (yKAN) Saturday, March 17th www.ykan.org | community@ykan.org Happy St. Patrick's Day! Start off the day of festivities on March 17th at Father's Heart Ministries soup kitchen. yKAN will be volunteering at Father's Heart to help prepare warm meals for those in need. The Father's Heart Ministries is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization located in the East Village in Manhattan—where countless individuals struggle to make ends meet in the face of an increasingly expensive and gentrified environment. The Father's Heart Ministries is dedicated to restoring dignity and an improved quality of life to the many immigrant, homeless, and low-income individuals in our community. In addition to several programs for its community, the Father's Heart Ministries run a food pantry and soup kitchen where hundreds of children and adults are fed hot meals on a weekly basis, in its efforts to support those in need and to reduce hunger.

FORUM Koreans in Japan: Ethnicity, Citizenship and Education Korean Diaspora Series The Korea Society Wednesday, March 21st 6:00 - 6:30pm Registration and Reception 6:30 - 8:00pm Presentation and Q&A The Korea Society 950 Third Avenue, 8th Floor corner of Third Avenue and 57th Street New York City www.koreasociety.org Japan represents a prime example of a society undergoing a dramatic transformation due to demographic changes and globalization. For the past few decades, an extremely low birth rate has resulted in a rapidly decreasing labor force. To secure the future of the economy, the government has allowed the influx of a large number of foreign workers. As these newer populations begin to find a permanent place in Japanese society, issues of nationality, citizenship and suffrage are receiving greater attention. These are the very issues that have been raised for years by Japan's largest minority, the zainichi-ethnic Koreans residing permanently in Japan. As these newer immigrant groups struggle to attain health care, education, and political participation, the struggle of the zainichi has come into clearer focus. At the forum, Soo im Lee will speak about the history of the zainichi-Korean community, as examined in Japan's Diversity Dilemmas: Ethnicity, Citizenship, and Education, which she edited with Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu and Harumi Befu. Ms. Lee will explore the decades-long experience of Koreans in Japan: the early migration during the colonial period; the loss of Japanese nationality at the end of World War II; and the current efforts to promote naturalization and the recovery of ethnic names. She will also look at how the forces of globalization undercut the notion of homogeneity and give raise to new notions of diversity and multiculturalism. Soo im Lee is a professor in the Department of Business Administration at Ryukoku University in Kyoto, Japan. In 2003 and 2004, she was a visiting fellow at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University and a visiting researcher at the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University. Recent publications include: Koreans: a Mistreated Minority in Japan: Hopes and challenges for the country's true internationalization, and Exploring Japaneseness: On Japanese Enactments of Culture and Consciousness.

BENEFIT The International Asian Art Fair Young Patrons Dinner and Gala Preview Reception The Asia Society Thursday, March 22nd Collectors and Young Patrons Dinner 8:45 pm Guastavino's 409 East 59th Street New York City Gala Preview Reception 6:00 - 9:00 pm The Seventh Regiment Armory Park Avenue at 67th Street New York City www.asiasociety.org In its twelfth year, the International Asian Art Fair to be held on Thursday, March 22nd, is a highlight of the New York spring social season. The evening attracts a stellar mix of society personalities and serious art collectors, and features masterpieces of Asian art from around the globe and across the centuries. This year's festivities include the Preview Reception at the 7th Regiment Armory, followed by a Private Dinner for over 400 Collectors and Young Patrons at Guastavino's. Asia Society is the beneficiary of this special Opening Night Benefit Preview which is also the very first chance to view and perhaps purchase these exquisite offerings. The Asia Society is an international organization dedicated to strengthening relationships and deepening understanding among the peoples of Asia and the United States. One of the key initiatives is the Asian 21 Program which identifies and develops an active network of Asia's most dynamic and emerging young leaders from all sectors, engaging them to develop imaginative ways to address Asia's most pressing issues and to explore innovative approaches to solving global challenges. The funds raised on March 22nd will support these initiatives as well as many others throughout the year.

BANQUET 18th Annual Leadership Award and Installation Banquet New York Korean-American Junior Chamber of Commerce (KAJC) Saturday, March 24th 6:30 pm Cocktail Reception 7:30 pm Dinner and Program Sheraton La Guardia East Hotel 135-20 39th Avenue Flushing, New York, 11354 $100 guests, $60 members www.kajc.org | michaelpak@kajc.org On Saturday March 24th, the New York Korean-American Junior Chamber of Commerce will be inaugurating their 18th president and the newly elected officers. They will also be honoring Mr. Ha Yong Hwa of the Korean American Youth Foundation and will present him with this year's Leadership Award. The Leadership Award is the highest award a non-member can receive from our organization. The award recognizes one distinguished individual that has shown exceptional leadership qualities, an outstanding record of personal achievement and dedicated service to our community. Attire: Dust off that tuxedo and bring out that beautiful gown!

WINE TASTING Kimchi Meets Wine: Pairing Wine with Korean Cuisine Asian Women in Business (AWIB) Monday, April 30th, 6:00 - 9:00pm Korea Palace 127 East 54th Street between Lexington and Park Aves New York City AWIB Members $60, Non-members $90 www.awib.org As part of our ongoing Asian Food & Wine series, experience Korean cuisine with the perfect wines, carefully selected by food and wine guru David Rosengarten. At this sit down dinner, taste multiple courses of traditional Korean food, notice their unique flavors, and discover how they can be enhanced with complementary wines. Spend an unforgettable evening learning how to enjoy wine with strong and spicy Korean dishes while meeting interesting people. You can't beat that. This is sure to be a sold out event, avoid disappointment by registering.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS The Korea Exposure & Education Program www.keep.org The Korea Exposure & Education Program is now accepting applications for their 2007 summer program to Korea. KEEP is a program run jointly by progressive organizations & individuals in Los Angeles, New York & south Korea. Every August since 1995, Korea Education Exposure Program has sent a small group Korean Americans interested in social justice issues on a unique exposure program to social movements in South Korea, in hopes of strengthening the global movement for social justice. As part of the larger movement for social and economic justice, our goal is to broaden our understanding of and participation in the liberation struggles and unification of the Korean people. We hope to serve as a catalyst for a new generation of progressive activism and community leadership. Past programs have included working on a farm in cholla provinces and meeting with the local peasant associations, visiting with survivors of the 'comfort stations' in World War II, meeting with labor unions including the migrant workers' organizations and participating in various rallies and demonstrations. In 2007, the election year, there will be many issues being engaged in the social justice movements.