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May 13th 2004: Issue 09
If you missed the past forum on Presidential election and the concerns of the Korean American community, be sure to attend this Thursday's. Also, last month's Kor-ting speed dating event was pretty successful. Ahnline, a Korean dating service, will hosting one as well. This one, however, will look to be more organized--they will have separate areas for people who are there to mingle and those who are there to speed date.
The first of the year's 3 biggest Asian film festivals is coming in June—Subway Cinema's Asian Film Festival, which focuses on mainly feature films released in theaters abroad rather than indie flicks. One film featured at the festival that I've been waiting to see is Jet Li's Hero.
And if you haven't heard already, May is Asian Pacific American month. There are always a lot of interesting things happening this month to celebrate. Some background history on Asian Pacific American Month: President Jimmy Carter signed a joint resolution declaring May 4th - 10th, 1979, as the first Asian Pacific American Heritage Week. In 1990, President George H. W. Bush expanded the celebration to the entire month. Public Law 102-450, approved on October 23, 1992, designated May of each year as National Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. May was chosen for the observance to commemorate the arrival of the first Japanese immigrants to the United States in May 1843. "Asian Pacific American" is a political appellation that encompasses many ethnic groups with diverse backgrounds, histories, languages, and cultures. The term attempts to give expression to cultural, linguistic, and ethnic diversity while recognizing common historical experiences in American history. Asian Pacific American Heritage Month celebrates the collective accomplishments of these communities.
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CAREER EXPO
3rd Annual Asian Diversity Career Expo
Presenting Sponsor: New York Times
Event Highlights:
Speak with recruiters from prestigious companies, attend an onsite interview, FIND A JOB!
Corporate cultural training session by Cross Cultural Connections
Get FREE resume critiquing and attend FREE workshops on "Targeting the Job You Want"
Leadership Development in Today's Competitive Corporate Climates and "Turning Your Interviews Into Offers/Acing Your Meetings" by the Five O'Clock Club
Attend FREE seminars on "Jobs in Asia" and "Asian Americans in the Workplace" hosted by the Asian Pacific Islander American Corporate Leadership Network (ACLN)
Utilize Dell's Free Cybercafe!
Exhibitors:
Aetna / Against All Odds USA, Inc. / American Express / Arlington County Government / AT&T / Bear Stearns / Brady Corporation / Choice Hotels International / Colgate Palmolive / Daimler Chrysler / Dell / EPA / FBI / FDIC / Fisher Price Brands / Franklin Electric, Inc. / GE Advanced Materials / Girl Scouts of the U.S.A / Hershey Food Corporation / HSBC Bank / Independence Community Bank / Lehman Brothers and more
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FORUM
2004 Presidential Election & the Korean American Concerns
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Korean American Association of Greater New York and NAKA-NY
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Thursday, May 13th, 7:00 pm
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Korean American Association of Greater New York
149 West 24th Street, 6th Floor
New York City
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Nakagny@aol.com | 212) 679-3482
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This forum will focus on the 2004 Presidential election and the concerns of the Korean American community. It will discuss our priority concerns and issues in this year's election, and compare the positions of the major Presidential candidates and how they are relevant to our concerns. Refreshments will be provided. Sponsored by Korean American Association of Greater New York and supported by NAKA-NY.
Panelists:
Veronica Jung, Esq - KALCA
Dongchan Kim - General Secretary - KoreanAmerican Voters Council
Jean Kim, Immigration Coordinator - New York Central Labor Council
Yusung Moon, Executive Director - Young Korean American Service & Education Center
Steve Park, Vice President - KAAGNY
Moderator:
John H. Kim, Esq - NAKA-NY
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PRESS CONFERENCE
APAVA Press Conference to Gain Political Power
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Asian Pacific American Voters Alliance
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Thursday, May 13th, 11:30am rain or shine
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Steps of City Hall
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www.apava.org
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Veronica S. Jung, 646) 338-2894
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In celebration of Asian Heritage Month, a historic non-partisan alliance of Asian Pacific American groups launch and kick-off citywide voter mobilization campaign. City Council Member John C. Liu will join prominent Asian American
groups and leaders in support of this non-partisan citywide voter mobilization campaign, to guarantee that Asian Pacific Americans gain political voice and power, so that our communities receive due representation in government and just allocation of public services and to raise awareness of Asian Pacific American voters as a significant
political group.
Confirmed member organizations of APAVA include:
Afghan Communicators, American Changle First High School Alumni Association, Asian American Bar Association of New York, Asian American Legal Defense & Education Fund, Asian Jade Society--NYPD, Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance
AFL-CIO--NY Chapter, Asian & Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Bangladeshi American Friendship Association, Bangladeshi American Public Affairs Front, Burmese Women of New York, Cherry Street Tenant Organization, Community Action, Confucius Plaza, Council of Pakistani Organizations, Fujian Houya Association, Korean American League for Civic Action, Korean American Community Empowerment Council, Korean American Voters Council, Myanmar Youth Association, National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC 294), New Immigrant Community Empowerment, Organization of Chinese Americans ?Long Island and NY Chapters, Services and Education for Korean Americans, Sikh Cultural Society of NY, UNITE! Local 23-25, United Sikh Coalition, YKASEC- Empowering the Community
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EXHIBIT OPENING
Kyung Jeon's Exhibit, "Chan-nam Minor"
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May 13th - June 19th
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 15th, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
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The Propostion
559 West 22nd Street
New York City
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www.theproposition.com
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Korean artist Kyung Jeon will be showcasing her work "Chang-nan Minor" from May 13 - June 19th at gallery called The Proposition. Kyung Jeon's first solo exhibition of paintings and drawings on rice paper, titled Chang-nan Minor, offers an idiosyncratic glimpse into the delicate nature of identity, sexuality, and personal politics. Jeon's gracefully rendered works meld elements of her rich and storied heritage into a darkly humorous and endlessly inventive narrative, the content of which unfolds through a cast of mildly sadistic and largely female characters forever vacillating bewteen adult and child, woman and girl.
Korean for "mischief," chang-nan is used to refer to children when they are misbehaving, and with a cleverness and deftness that is characteristic of Jeon's poetic sensibility, she turns the roles of adult and child upside down, frequently depicting women doing things girls would do, and little girls often doing things only grown women would do. Such inversions/subversions form the core of Jeon's creative explorations and point to a fundamental notion of metaphoric conflict that runs throughout her work.
Having experienced the devastating effects the Korean War had on her family, Jeon is no stranger to internal turmoil, and that too is echoed in her work by subtle and pervasive feelings of sadness and entrapment. However, the melancholy that drifts through her work is balanced out by an undeniable humor and lightness, and where lesser artists would simply sink into the troublesome pitfalls of self-conscious sentimentality, Jeon boldly confronts
the complexities of her past by giving voice to an array of complex emotions and feelings ranging from humor to sadness, from vulnerability to anger, and from sexuality to sensuality; as if to say that it's the multiple paths and practices we follow that make us who we are.
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EXPO
Silver Expo 2004
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Korean Community Services of Metropolitan New York, Taiwan Center, CPC Nan Shan Senior Center, and Self-Help Community Services, Inc
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Saturday, May 15th, 8:30am - 3:30am
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Sheraton LaGuardia East Hotel, 2nd Fl
135-20 39th Avenue
Flushing, NY 11354 (4 blocks away from the Main St-Flushing subway station)
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www.kcsny.org | www.ykan.org | julie@ykan.org
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To commemorate Mothers Day, yKAN will be volunteering at the "Silver Expo 2004". With collaboration of the Korean and Chinese communities, this event is being co-organized by Korean Community Services of Metropolitan New York, Inc., Taiwan Center, CPC Nan Shan Senior Center, & Selfhelp Community Services, Inc. These organizations are social service centers dedicated to improving the lives of Community members in the NY Metropolitan area. For example, KCS is a non-for-profit organization that has been serving for the welfare of the New York Korean American Community since 1973. The organization focuses on educating the Korean American youth and providing social security services for the KA senior citizens. This will be the 3rd year that yKAN will be volunteering with KCS for seniors. yKAN will have a booth to provide translators (from English to Korean) at different service booths where we will interpret to seniors one on one.
This event will be providing resources and information from many different health, community services organizations that will foster healthy and productive lifestyles for people 50 years and older and their families. KCS is expecting over 2,000 older adults and their family members. y-Kan needs about 10 volunteers for Senior Expo 2004. Bilingual volunteers are welcome! Lunch will be provided by KCS - volunteer for a 3 hour shift or all day!
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FILM FESTIVAL
3rd Annual Subway Cinema New York Asian Film Festival 2004
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Subway Cinema
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June 18th - 27th
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Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue at Second Street
New York City
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www.nyaff.org
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Advanced tickets go on sale May 10, 2004! For the third year in a row, Subway Cinema presents its festival (one of only three in the US) devoted to new feature films from Asia. After watching 211 films, Subway Cinema feels they can safely say that this year's line-up includes the hands-down, no-holds-barred best new films from across the region. These are the movies that have been sweeping the awards ceremonies, racking up the box office loot and burning up the film festival circuit ceremonies (their 16 films "with more to come" have won a cumulative 38 awards). No one else will bring them to New York, so they've scraped together their cash and brought them here themselves.
Subway Cinema is a film programming collective, based in New York City, that is committed to increasing exposure and appreciation for popular Asian cinema, which has been traditionally overlooked by mainstream American critics and distributors. This is our third New York Asian Film Festival, and while we don't have $15 million in corporate sponsorship, we do have the best Asian movies in the world, for ten days only.
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SPEED DATING
Ahnline Speed Dating and Singles Mixer Event
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Ahnline.com
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Saturday, May 22nd, 6:30pm
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Fashion Forty Lounge
202 West 40th Street between 7th and 8th Avenues
New York City
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www.ahnline.com | info@ahnline.com
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Ahnline is a new site that emphasizes on the growing Asian American dating and networking scene. To kick off its launch Ahnline will be hosting a series of events for Korean American singles. The first official Ahnline Event will be a Speed Dating and Singles Mixer held at the sophisticated and intimate Fashion Forty Lounge.
Schedule of events
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6:30pm to 9:30pm
7:30pm to 8:00pm
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Ahnline Singles Mixer. Complimentary hors d'oeuvres will be served from from 6.30pm to 7.30pm.
Ahnline Speed Dating registration for participants.
Ahnline Speed Dating. Complimentary beverages will be served (Sangria and assorted sodas).
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Fashion Forty's private V.I.P. Lounge provides a warmly lit, romantic backdrop for the Speed Dating portion of the evening while its main level will be host to the Singles Mixer. Only our speed dating participants will be allowed access to the V.I.P. Lounge to ensure the utmost privacy as they embark on a variety of six minute dates. We have only 50 reserved spots open (25 male and 25 female, ages 25 to 35) so please sign up early. By signing up you will also be automatically welcome to partake of our Singles Mixer.
As a registered member of ahnline.com, you will receive reduced prices for this and all other upcoming Ahnline Events. Registration is free and only takes a minute so come join our rapid growing network of Asian American singles to begin your search for the perfect match!
Admission
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Speed Dating: Gentlemen
Speed Dating: Ladies
Speed Dating: Gentlemen
Speed Dating: Ladies
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$35 non Ahnline member, $25 nonmember
$30 non Ahnline member, $20 nonmember
$20 non Ahnline member, $15 nonmember
$15 non Ahnline member, $10 nonmember
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MUSIC FESTIVAL
First Annual Asian Rock Fest
The face of rock 'n' roll is changing. What started out as a random James Iha sighting or hearing secondhand about the last Cibo Matto concert has grown into something larger. On May 22, 2004 the integration of Asian musicians into rock 'n' roll will manifest itself in the form of the First Annual Asian Rock Fest. The most ambitious festival of its kind will cover 8 hours, bringing together 8 bands from all along the East Coast. The New York City venue Piano's will host the event, featuring both up-and-coming and firmly established acts. The line-up includes: Eyes Like Knives, Carol Bui, Kite Operations, Strangeway, The Infirm Glory Of The Positive Hour, Johnny Hi-Fi, Bastion and Serious Weapon.
In addition to originating the festival, AsianRockFest.com has positioned itself to be the most comprehensive online listing of Asian musicians across all major musical genres. Visit The Armies section of www.AsianRockFest.com to join in making the statement that Asian musicians are an undeniable musical force whose impact is seen and heard more every day.
Asian Rock Fest will present East Coast and West Coast festivals in 2005. Look for multi-day, multi-city showcases in 2006. As the festival grows, so will the prominence of the headlining acts, including major artists from Asia in 2007. Help us spread the word to make all these goals possible.
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CALL FOR ENTRIES
Vision in America (VIA) Award
International Channel Networks (ICN) established the Vision in America (VIA) Award to recognize immigrants who are local community and business leaders. The award's name, Vision in America, reflects the vision that immigrants have of fulfilling their "American Dream." The acronym "VIA" reflects the road they took to reach this country and ultimately their goals. You have the chance to nominate an outstanding leader in your local ethnic community!
The 2004 VIA Award is being presented to recipients in the following communities:
San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles/Orange County, Seattle, Washington D.C., New York, Chicago, Sacramento, San Diego,
Philadelphia, Boston, Detroit and Houston.
Honorees are recognized at a VIP reception in their home city attended by community leaders, elected officials and media. In addition, ICN donates $500 to a community organization on behalf of the VIA Award recipient. Candidates must be active in supporting others in their journey to become U.S. citizens, in helping other immigrants adjust to life here in America, or working to improve the lives of those in their community.
ICN will consider nominations that fit the following criteria:
First or second generation immigrant
Recognized as a leader in their community
Recognized as a leader in his or her field
Continues to help other immigrants realize their "American Dream"
Continues to celebrate and promote their culture and community
Continues to work for the betterment of their community
Must reside near or in one of the event cities
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