FILM RELEASE Time (Shi gan) Now thru Thursday, July 26th Cinema Village 22 East 12th Street between University Place & 5th Avenue New York City www.cinemavillage.com Time (Shi gan) (2006) South Korea, Korean with English subtitles, color, 97 min Directed by Kim Ki-duk Starring Seong Hyeon-a, Ha Jung-woo, Park Ji-Yeon Prolific author, controversial Korean filmmaker, and inventive artist Kim Ki-duk (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring) returns to the screen with a story of undying love and plastic surgery. Pretty but unstable She-hee (Park Ji-yun) has been with her boyfriend, Ji-woo (Ha Jung-woo) for over two years but their relationship seems to be losing steam. When Ji-woo starts thinking of other women She-hee can't take it and retreats to a plastic-surgery clinic. Ji-woo is left lonely and clueless as to her whereabouts. It is not until months later, after the scars have healed, that She-hee returns. This time as See-hee, a new waitress at a coffeehouse that Ji-woo frequents. She fails to seduce him, mostly because he still longs for his missing girlfriend, leaving See-hee jealous of her old self and unsure how to win his love back. "Simply put, Time is about the eternal war between infatuation and familiarity, and our irreconcilable need to find both in the same person." --Mike D'Angelo, Village Voice

FESTIVAL The 4th UN Korean Food Festival Korean Cultural Service New York Now thru Friday, July 27th, 11:30am - 2:30pm The United Nations Delegates' Dining Room 1st Avenue and 46th Street New York City Luncheon Buffet: $25 (plus tax & tip) www.koreanculture.org The 4th Korean Food Festival offers the opportunity for New Yorkers to taste the Korean Palace Cuisines, which have been inherited from generation to generation with devotion. Hot and cold, fermented and fresh, you can explore the harmony of Korean food. Reservation required: (212) 963-7625 / 7626.

FESTIVAL 30th Annual Asian American International Film Festival (AAIFF) Asian Cinevision (ACV) Thursday, July 19th - Saturday, July 28th Asia Society 725 Park Avenue at 70th Street New York City $8 ACV & Asia Society members, seniors, students, $10 general www.asiancinevision.org | www.aaiff.org/2007 Come savor the best of Asian and Asian American cinemas at the Asian American International Film Festival (AAIFF) as we celebrate our BIG 3-0! ACV has put together an amazing line-up of programs: 25 new exciting features; more than 90 short films and music videos; retrospective on legendary HK New Wave director Patrick Tam; Screenplay Competition; Comics Writers panel; 70s theme party; and much much more! South Korean features include blockbuster King And The Clown on Wednesday, July 25th, and Driving With My Wife's Lover on Saturday, July 21st. Opening Night Presentation Finishing the Game (2007) www.myspace.com/finishingthegame USA, English, color, 88 min Directed by Justin Lin Starring McCaleb Burnett, Roger Fan, Sung Kang, Meredith Scott Lynn, and Dustin Nguyen Bruce Lee's shocking, untimely death before he could complete his passion project, Game of Death, threatened to sink the production. Undaunted, Hollywood executives immediately began a frantic search for a replacement to slide into the yellow jumpsuit. Finishing the Game is the story of how it all happened. Or rather, how Justin Lin and his writing partner Josh Diamond imagined it happened. Followed by Q+A. Made in Korea: A One Way Ticket Seoul-Amsterdam (2006) The Netherlands, English, Dutch, Korean with English subtitles, color, 73 min Directed by In-Soo Radstake Documentary On March 27, 1980, a passenger flight from Seoul, South Korea, touched down in Holland. In-Soo, three months old, along with other Korean infants and children, began their lives as adoptees and Dutch citizens. As In-Soo contacts and interviews others who were on that flight in 1980, what started off as a casual interest grows into a full-blown emotional journey. Undoing (2006) www.undoingmovie.com USA, English, color, 82 min Directed by Chris Chan Lee Starring Kelly Hu, Sung Kang, Leonardo Nam, Russell Wong After his friend Joon (Leonardo Nam, The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift) is murdered during a botched drug deal, the small time 'hood Sam King (Sung Kang, Finishing The Game) returns to Los Angeles' Koreatown to settle the score. Followed by Q+A. Tie a Yellow Ribbon (2007) www.jedfilms.net/yellowribbon USA, English, color, 87 min Directed by Joy Dietrich Starring Kim Jiang, Jane Kim, Patrick Heusinger, Ian Wen, Theresa Ngo and Gregory Waller A painful look at the emotional toll of cultural and familial displacement, Tie a Yellow Ribbon challenges the one-dimensional exotic Asian female myths prevalent in the media today and explores the complex inner lives of Asian American women. Followed by Q+A. Closing Night Presentation Never Forever (2007) USA, English, Korean with English subtitles, color, 105 min Directed by Gina Kim Starring Vera Farmiga, Jung-woo Ha, and David McInnis Coming off its critically-acclaimed world premiere at Sundance this year, Kim uses melodrama as a starting board and reworks the genre's formal qualities and tropes to create an exquisite film about female desire and self-empowerment. Anchored by Vera Farmiga's (The Departed) fearless and powerful performance, the film is an unflinchingly honest look at interracial relationships and sexuality. Followed by Q+A.

CONCERT: CLASSICAL Young Song & Jason Vieaux Duo Concert Korean Cultural Service New York Thursday, July 19th, 7:00pm Korean Cultural Service New York 460 Park Avenue between 57th and 58th Street New York City FREE www.koreanculture.org Distinguished Cellist (Young Song) and one of the most in-demand American guitarists (Jason Vieaux) present a wonderful duo concert together. Mr. Song has performed to critical acclaim as a soloist and chamber musician throughout Korea as well as cities in many countries. He has collaborated with distinguished musicians including Kyung-Hwa Chung, Arto Noras, Christian Zacharias, Frans Helmerson, Chee-Yun Kim and Jason Vieaux. Moreover, he has played at festivals and major concert venues throughout the world, receiving the Korean Presidential Award and serving as the Cultural Ambassador to Korea in 2001-2002. Jason Vieaux, who performs with Mr. Song, is the youngest First Prize winner in the history of the prestigious GFA International Guitar Competition, a Naumburg International Guitar Competition prizewinner, and a recipient of The Cleveland Institute of Music's Alumni Achievement Award. Mr. Vieaux¡¯ Sevilla: The Music of Isaac Albeniz was rated one of the Top Ten Classical CDs of 2003 by The Philadelphia Inquirer and Cleveland¡¯s Plain Dealer. Mr. Vieaux's recordings and live performances are broadcast nationally on the radio and worldwide via the Internet, and he is featured regularly on NPR programs: "Performance Today", "All Things Considered" and "Morning Edition". The program includes the Brazilian influenced works of Antonia Carlos Jobim, Sergio Assad, Jaime Zenamon, Radames Gnattali, and more.

DISCUSSION Artists' Talk: Mixed Skin Asian American Arts Centre (AAAC) June 19th, 7:00 - 9:00pm Exhibition: June 1st - July 13th Asian American Arts Centre 26 Bowery, 3rd Floor New York City FREE www.artspiral.org Artists' Talk and panel discussion with featured artists, Kip Fulbeck, Dorothy Imagire, and Toni Thomas, on the topic of the definition of mixed race.

PARTY Chinatown Film Project Kickoff Party Museum of Chinese in Americas (MoCA) Saturday, July 21st, 10:00pm Jade Terrace (top floor of China Club) 268 West 46th Street at 8th Avenue New York City See invite | www.moca-nyc.org The Museum of Chinese in Americas (MoCA), with New York's premiere event promoters, Elements Nightlife, invite you to celebrate the launch of the MoCA's exciting Chinatown Film Project. Join our hosts, star actors Sung Kang, of the upcoming Undoing and previously of Too Fast Too Furious and Roger Fan, of the upcoming Finishing the Game and previously of Annapolis as we kick off this exciting initiative. Proceeds from the event will benefit MoCA/Chinatown Film Project. Come celebrate on July 21st at Jade Terrace with our hosts and special guests Chris Chan Lee, director of Undoing and Phil Yu of the influential AngryAsianMan.com. Questions? Please call 212.619.4785 x 106. About The Chinatown Film Project: In a three-part film and interactive media program, the Chinatown Film Project celebrates the diverse roles Chinatown plays in urban realities and imaginations. The project, featuring 20 filmmakers creating original short films highlighting Chinatowns all over the globe, will empower filmmakers to uncover, rediscover, and create new ways of seeing their native Chinatowns through narrative, documentary, and experimental formats.

DANCE 30th Anniversary Performance of Ssoot White Wave / Young Soon Kim Dance Company Wednesday, July 25th - Friday, July 28th, 7:30pm, Saturday, 2:00pm and 7:30pm Opening Night Gala: Wednesday, July 25th, 6:00 - 7:15pm Dance Theater Workshop 219 West 19th Street between 7th & 8th Avenues New York City $50 Opening Night Gala, $20 General, $12 Members ww.asianartworks.net | www.whitewavedance.com White Wave celebrates Ms. Young Soon Kim's 30th Anniversary of dance in NY with the world premiere of Ssoot. The evening's performance is choreographed by Kim, and features an original score by renowned Korean composers Ki Young Kim and Dae Soo Hahn. Ssoot takes its name from a Korean word, which literally translates as charcoal in English but is also used colloquially to mean "fresh energy." This three-part 90-minute piece opens with a delirious, highly exposed portrayal of visually provocative and personally intimate movement. Ssoot seeks to reveal the emotional landscape and inner lives of its characters in their most raw and vulnerable form. Asian Artworks Inc. is delighted to partner with White Wave in support of The Company, modern dance, and the visual arts. White Wave Young Soon Kim Dance Company and Asian Artworks, Inc. are also proud to present a Ssoot benefit silent auction on July 25 at Dancer Theater Workshop. The auction joins in the celebration of Young Soon Kim's 30th Anniversary Season, supports Ssoot, and the great artworks of forty artists will be auctioned off during the Ssoot premiere. Gala Reception / Silence Auction: Black-tie optional, champagne reception with fundraising on-site auction in the Dance Theater Workshop lobby, continues during intermission, and concludes just after the performance. The auction will continue online until the last performance of Ssoot at DTW on July 28th.

EXHIBITION Korean Funerary Figures: Companions for the Journey to the Other World The Korea Society Thursday, July 26th, - November 20th 10:00am - 5:00pm, Tuesday - Friday Opening Reception: Thursday, July 26th, 5:30pm Gallery Talk: 6:30pm The Korea Society Korea Society Gallery 950 Third Avenue, Eighth Floor, at 57th Street New York City www.koreasociety.org Death is an aspect of the human condition that touches every culture in every age, and almost all cultures envelop death in a rich artistry as a way of managing the trauma it causes. In nineteenth and early twentieth century Korea, artisans carved joyful wooden figurines depicting acrobats, clowns and mystical animals-which are called kkoktu-to place on the funeral biers of the departed. A collection of 72 kkoktu will be brought to the U.S., for the first time ever, for an exhibition in The Korea Society Gallery. Organized jointly with the Seoul-based Ockrang Cultural Foundation, Korean Funerary Figures: Companions for the Journey to the Other World will run at The Korea Society Gallery from July 26 to November 20, 2007. The kkoktu are archaeological treasures in their own right. Their costumes and poses reflect the realities of rural Korean village life during a period that left few written records. More importantly, the kkoktu open a window on a timeless, characteristically Korean attitude towards death. Though the gaiety depicted in many of the figurines may seem incompatible with mourning, what they are intended to express is a deep desire that the deceased loved one will enter the next world surrounded by joy. The figurines also embody a sophisticated appreciation of the fleeting nature of all experience. The show's opening reception will be held on July 26 at 5:30 PM at The Korea Society Gallery. To provide a cultural context for the exhibition, immediately following the reception, Dr. Laurel Kendall of the American Museum of Natural History will give a Gallery Talk on the shamanic rituals for the dead beginning at 6:30 PM. Besides the two Gallery Talk Programs to attend, a 266-page full color catalog of the exhibition will be available for purchase. catalog "Journey to the Grave, Dance to Paradise: Shamanic Rituals for the Dead" with Laurel Kendall of the American Museum of Natural History.

FESTIVAL New Sounds in Chinatown: Soundfest Asian American Arts Alliance (AAAA) Saturday, August 11th, 2:00 - 6:00pm Columbus Park Mulberry and Bayard Street New York City FREE www.aaartsalliance.org | www.myspace.com/soundfest_nyc In this inaugural year, Soundfest, AAAA's first outdoor music showcase in Chinatown featuring a talent-packed roster of local Asian American performers, will be hosted by spoken word artist Kelly Tsai and feature performances by Abstract Vision, Bora Yoon, Chinese Music Ensemble, Falu, Happyfunsmile, Indo Pak Coalition, The Jack Lords, Koba & DJ Boo, Slanty Eyed Mama and Stone Forest Ensemble. This marks the first music fest in Chinatown since the events of 9/11 and it is one of the many symbols of rebirth and rejuvenation in that community since the rebuilding of Lower Manhattan. Chinatown's Columbus Park has undergone a multi-million dollar renovation and become a lively hub for various arts and cultural activities. Soundfest aims to put both Chinatown and these Asian American musicians on the cultural map for audiences from all parts of this city. The genre of music spans the widest range imaginable, reflecting the diversity of the Asian American community itself--from hip hop to bollywod to jazz to alternative to traditional, and will touch on everything from politics to identity.

CLASSES Korean Traditional Drumming Class Korean Cultural Service New York 1st session: Monday, July 23rd - Friday, July 27th 2nd session: Monday, July 30th - Friday, August 3rd Beginner level class: 10:00am - noon Intermediate level class: 2:00 - 4:00pm Korean Cultural Service New York 460 Park Avenue between 57th and 58th Street New York City www.koreanculture.org Two 1-week intensive classes of Korean traditional drumming will be provided to teach the basics of Jang gu (Hourglass-Shaped Drum) and Samulnori (Percussion Quartet including Jang gu, Kkweng-gwa-ri, Jing, and Buk).