DANCE 2005 International DUMBO Dance Festival White Wave Dance and The Korean Culture Service Wednesday, October 19th - Sunday, October 23rd, various times John Ryan Theater White Wave 25 Jay Street Brooklyn, New York $25 White Wave Dance Immediately following the fifth annual d.u.m.b.o. dance festival, White Wave will launch the first annual International DUMBO Dance Festival, October 19th - 23rd. The goal of this festival is to showcase the works of emerging contemporary dance choreographers of a single ethnic or cultural heritage. The International DUMBO Dance Festival presents the work of choreographers and dancers from around the globe. The goal of this festival is to showcase the works of emerging contemporary dance choreographers of a single ethnic or cultural heritage. This year's inaugural festival will focus on Korean dance makers who are active not only in Korea, but worldwide. Curated by Young Soon Kim, Artistic Director of White Wave, in association with The Korea Society, the inaugural festival will focus on Korean dance makers who are active not only in Korea, but worldwide. It will feature the work of 7 choreographers and 22 dancers performing two different programs. Among the promising young Korean choreographers who will give their New York premiere are Kyung-Eun Lee, Tae Sang Lee, Young Ho Nam, and Young Doo Chang.

CONFERENCE Break the Silence: Assessment and Prevention of Suicide Among Asian Americans New York Coalition for Asian American Mental Health (NYCAAMH) & The National Asian American Pacific Islander Mental Health Association (NAAPIMHA) Friday, October 21st and Saturday, October 22nd Farkas Hall Auditorium New York University School of Medicine 550 First Avenue New York City www.asianmentalhealth.org Depression is one of the most pervasive mental health problems that affects the health and well being of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. It alone accounts for some of the greatest loss in productivity in the workforce (Greenberg, 1993) and left untreated can lead to disastrous outcomes such as suicide. The New York Coalition for Asian American Mental Health (NYCAAMH) is a not-for-profit 501(C)(3) organization founded in 1989 by a group of concerned individuals including health and mental health professionals. Its mission is to improve the quality of mental health services available to Asian Americans in the New York City metropolitan area. The National Asian American Pacific Islander Mental Health Association (NAAPIMHA) is a national organization formed as a result of a national summit sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, SAMHSA, Center for Mental Health Services which brought together experts in the area of AAPI mental health. NAAPIMHA serves as a forum for effective collaboration and networking between stakeholders of community based organizations, consumers, family members, service providers, program developers, researchers, evaluators and policy makers representing the various ethnic and regional differences.

SCREENINGS & DISCUSSIONS Korea Now: Human Rights, Reunification and Diaspora NYU Asian/ Pacific/American Studies Institute, NYU East Asian Studies Department, LiNK (Liberty in North Korea), NYU Korean Students Association, Nodutdol for Korean Community Development and Third World Newsreel Friday, October 21st, 6:30pm Saturday, October 22nd, 10:00am - 7:00pm The Silver Center Room 703 New York University 100 Washington Square East New York City Free MediaRights.org | nddreply@hotmail.com Part of the NYU A/P/A's public program series, "Misunderstanding...Asia / Pacific", "Korea Now: Human Rights, Reunification and Diaspora" is a series of films and speakers on the Korean Diaspora, human rights and reunification on the Korean peninsula. This unique and free event will feature new and rarely seen films on North Korea and the Korean Diaspora, as well as scholars and various experts representing a broad range of opinion on the human rights situation. Friday, October 21st 6:30pm GO Speaker: Professor Seung Hye Suh, Scripps College "Korean Diaspora: Descendents of Division" A feature dramatic film that is both a passionate love story and an examination of the meaning of Korea's division for Koreans in Japan, where one sector supports and is supported by the North, while the other supports and is supported by the South. The film also looks at issues of race and identity in Japanese society. (2002) Speaker: Prof Seung Hye Suh on "Korean Diaspora: Descendants of Division" Saturday, October 22nd Films: 10:00am Repatriation The Sundance winning documentary that is heart rending, questioning and very human, as the filmmaker follows - and befriends North Koreans who were held for over 30 year! s as political prisoners in the south, then released to live in the ghettos of Seoul - and then finally returned home to North Korea. 2:00pm Children of the Secret State (2000, Hardcash Productions) A documentary on street children in North Korea trying to survive during the famine. 3:00pm State of Mind (2004, Bonner and Gordon) This new documentary presents the closest look at life in North Korea now ever captured on film. Two young girls are followed throughout a year as they prepare for the "Mass Games", the North Korean acrobatic spectacle that involves a cast of thousands and is both an intense sacrifice and national honor. 5:00pm Panel Korea Now: Diaspora, Human Rights and Reunification Speakers representing a range of viewpoints on the issue of human rights in Korea in the context of reunification and the current and potential role of Koreans outside the peninsula. Featuring speakers from: Food First, Friends Committee on National Legislation, East Asian Policy Education Project, US Committee for Human Rights in North Korea as well as scholars and writers.

READING AND DISCUSSION Sewing Women: Immigrants And The New York City Garment Industry - With Margaret Chin NYU Asian / Pacific / American Studies and The Museum of Chinese in the Americas Wednesday, October 26th, 6:30 - 8:00pm Museum of Chinese in the Americas 70 Mulberry Street, 2nd Floor corner of Bayard Street New York City $5 suggested admission, free for MoCA members and students with I.D. www.apa.nyu.edu Margaret Chin, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Hunter College, discusses her research and reads selections from Sewing Women, a detailed and complex portrait of the work lives of Chinese and Latino garment workers who reinvigorated New York City's garment industry in the 1990s. Chin explores the working conditions and hiring practices of Korean and Chinese-owned factories and how immigration status, family circumstances, ethnic relations, and gender affect the garment industry workplace. Chin's work also provides an overview of the history of the garment industry, examines immigration strategies, and concludes with a discussion of changes in the industry in the aftermath of 9/11. A Q&A and signing will follow the program. Sewing Women: Immigrants and the New York City Garment Industry will be available for purchase.

SCREENING AND DISCUSSION Korean Culture Service Presents Original Film Night: Three Directors Korean Culture Service New York Thursday, October 27th, 6:30pm Korean Cultural Service New York 460 Park Avenue, 6th Floor New York City Free www.koreanculture.org Directed by Minhyoung Kim, Juneyup Yi, Won-young Park Running time: approximately 100 min Three featured up-and-coming Korean directors will be showcasing their documentary pieces. Minhyoung Kim's After the Chain is Broken - 60 Years Later is a documentary film based on the memoirs of a Korean Journalist Giyoung Oh during the Japanese-ruled-Korea. Oh left his family behind as he headed to North Korea shortly before the Korean War--the director of the film is Oh's granddaughter, exploring the destiny of her grandfather's life since the creation of After the Chain is Broken. Self-Portrait, directed by Juneyup Yi, documents the directors own experience of being swallowed by the American society as a foreigner--his "Korean" identity replaced with the labels of being either "Chinese" or "Japanese". Juneyup Yi will also feature two other short films titled, Two Weeks Ago I Got a Tattoo, and I am Driving in My Car I am Walking Up the Hill. Park Won-young will be featuring his This is My Spot, which premiered at The 6th Big Bear Lake International Film Festival. Won-young Park's documentary is on the life of a subway musician--in our own New York City. There will be Q&A session after the movie.

ROCK PERFORMANCE Verge Music Tour Friday, October 28th and Tuesday, November 15th Doors Open 7:30pm. Show Starts at 8:00pm The Cutting Room 19 West 24th Street between Broadway and 6th Avenue New York City www.vergemusictour.com The Ken Oak Band with opener Big Phony Friday, October 28th Doors Open 7:30pm. Show Starts at 8:00pm Tickets: $10 advance purchase (Buy), $12 at the door Complementary After Party at 10:30pm. Join the Ken Oak Band (Ken, Chris and Ed) and Big Phony (Bobby Choy) at GSTAAD for drinks. The Ken Oak Band The KOB's music is a unique blend of pop, rock, folk and classical, featuring Ken's mellow baritone voice, poetic lyrics, catchy guitar riffs, and soulful cello lines. "Symposium", the debut album by the KOB is available now! "Ken Oak is a unique artist in that he combines vintage songwriting acumen with modern pop sensibilities. His prowess for blending sounds both electronic and acoustic with expertly crafted lyrics demonstrate a level of artistic development rarely seen in today's more typical singer / songwriter. Ken Oak is forging his own mold and is a talent of which to be aware, consider yourself warned." -- Stephen Marsh, Threshold Sound+Vision (former chief mastering engineer, Sony Music Studios) Big Phony Big Phony recently released his first album "Fiction & Other Realities", co-produced by himself and longtime friend Koo Chung. His music has been influenced by singer-songwriters such as Elliott Smith, Aimee Mann, Nick Drake, and bands like The Beatles, Radiohead, and Milli Vanilli. Susie Suh with opener Jinny Kim feating Koo Chung Tuesday, November 15th Doors Open 7:30pm. Show Starts at 8:00pm Tickets: $12 advance purchase (Buy), $15 at the door Susie Suh On Susie Suh's self-titled debut from Sony/Epic Records, the 25-year-old singer-songwriter takes listeners on an emotional journey. Forging her own path, Susie brings her introspective songs to life by boiling each of them down to their essence. Produced by Glen Ballard (Alanis Morissette), this young singer-songwriter brings her smoky voice and gift for melody to the forefront, bringing the 10 deeply personal tracks to life. Blender magazine raves, "Singing with gravity, athletic power and uncut intimacy, Suh is amazing for the first half of her album, and better throughout the second." Suh's first single, "Shell," can currently be heard during the closing credits of the Warner Bros. romantic comedy Must Love Dogs staring John Cusack and Diane Lane. Jinny Kim Her lyrics are thought-provoking and honest. Her songs are impressively versatile in sound - from the subdued and wistful "Everything" to the charged and edgy "Forgive". Her music has been compared to the likes of Plumb, Jill Phillips, Paula Cole and Fiona Apple.

READING AND DISCUSSION The Asian Mystique: Dragon Ladies, Geisha Girls, And Our Fantasies Of The Exotic Orient - With Sheridan Prasso NYU Asian / Pacific / American Studies Wednesday, November 2nd, 6:00 - 8:00pm NYU Kimball Hall Lounge 246 Greene Street between Waverly Place and Washington Place New York City Free www.apa.nyu.edu As part of A/P/A Studies' "Misunderstanding...Asia/Pacific" series, the Institute is pleased to host an author's program with Sheridan Prasso, celebrating her new book, The Asian Mystique. Prasso's book traces the origins of Western stereotypes in history and in Hollywood and examines the phenomenon of "yellow fever" and goes on a reality tour of Asia's go-go bars, middle-class homes, college campuses, business districts, and corridors of power, providing intimate profiles of women's lives and vivid portraits of the human side of an Asia we usually mythologize too well to really understand. Sheridan Prasso is a writer, editor, and Asia specialist with more than 15 years of experience covering the region. She writes about global issues and international affairs, particularly from cultural, economic, and business perspectives. Her articles have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, The New York Times, Fortune, BusinessWeek, TIME, The Far Eastern Economic Review, The International Herald Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, and The World Policy Journal, among other publications. She is the recipient of a Human Rights Press Award for coverage of Cambodian land mine victims, and shared in six awards for team coverage of the Asian financial crisis and its aftermath. RSVP by October 26th.

DISCUSSION Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling: Career Strategies for Asians Korean American Community Foundation and The Asia Society Monday, November 7th Registration : 6:30 - 7:00pm Program and Reception / Book Signing: 7:00 - 8:30pm Asia Society and Museum 725 Park Avenue New York City www.asiasociety.org | www.kacfny.org jonesc@asiasoc.org The Asia Society and the Korean American Community Foundation invite you to an evening with diversity strategist Jane Hyun. Ms. Hyun will share her insights on the personal and organizational barriers to success for Asians in corporate America, and discuss how to Asian professionals can develop new skills and leverage existing ones so that they can penetrate the barriers and access better career opportunities. Filled with personal anecdotes, interviews, and case studies, her new book provides strategies for those who want to succeed at work while offering helpful advice for companies who want to realize the full potential of their employees in an increasingly multicultural workplace. A reception and book signing will follow the program. Please register by noon on Friday, November 4th. Jane Hyun, Principal of Crossroads Associates, is a leading executive coach and diversity strategist to Fortune 500 companies, schools, and nonprofit organizations. Previously, she was a VP of Human Resources at JP Morgan, and Director of Recruiting at Deloitte & Touche and Resources Connection. She has been an advisor to Monster.com's Diversity and Inclusion channel and is a senior coach with the Five O'Clock Club. She has appeared on CNN, CNBC, Fortune, Newsweek, and other national media. She serves on the Advisory Board for the Johnnetta B. Cole Diversity & Inclusion Institute. A former adjunct professor of Career Planning at City University of NY, she lives in New York City.

CASTING CALL Asian Actors Needed for NYU Graduate Film November 16th to the 21st bc454@nyu.edu NYU Graduate film student seeks as Asian actor and actress for his second year 10-minute film. Sightseeing is about Jin who is excited to be going to college and one day finds out that his mother is slowly going blind. He is torn between going away and staying home to take care of his mother. They decide to go on a vacation and try to figure out what they should do. Casting: Jin - A Korean actor who can pass as a 17-year-old boy. Naive and innocent. Must understand Korean and speaks English fluently. Sung - A Korean actress in her mid 40¡¯s. Single mother, strong willed, but vulnerable. Must speaks Korean fluently Please email headshots to bc454@nyu.edu or mail to: Brian Chang, 721 Broadway, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10003. Shooting will take place in Rochester, NY from November 16th to the 21st. Travel, meals, lodging, film credit, and a copy of the film will be provided. Non-actors are encouraged to apply.

CASTING CALL Intervention interventionthemovie@gmail.com Intervention marks the breaking point of Jason Park's anguish over the difficult burden of his familial obligations - exhausted from the years of giving himself to make a life for them - and his desire to cut out a small part of his world for his own indulgence. Jason Park 30 - 40 yrs. old, East Asian-American. Ordinary, unassuming-looking, successful attorney, guilt-ridden about his philandering ways, vulnerable to delusions Jason's Male Alter-Ego 30 - 35 yrs. old, East Asian-American. Handsome, aggressive, shameless, amoral We will provide all travel, meals, and lodging (as necessary). Film credit and a DVD copy of the film will be provided. The project is a low budget film, so no pay will be provided. The film is an opportunity to gain experience, work with a fun, professional production staff and crew, and the possibility to work on other projects in the pipeline. Only serious submissions need apply. Non-actors are most welcome.

INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY Asian CineVision Call for Interns Asian CineVision (ACV) www.asiancinevision.org | info@asiancinevision.org Asian CineVision (ACV) is seeking interns. Gain insight into non-profit arts management, film programming, distribution, marketing and outreach. Learn how to work effectively with Asian American organizations, distributors, theaters, major media companies and beyond! Perks: Attend premieres, free and advance screenings of hottest Asian/Asian American films; meet directors, producers, filmmakers; attend industry functions and events; watch great independent films; support the Asian American community. National Festival Tour Intern Responsibilities include but are not limited to: Assist with planning and executing the successful run of the 05/06 National Festival Tour Research potential clients for the 05/06 National Festival Tour Organize/provide press materials for clients for better marketing/outreach Dub screeners, prepare and National Tour DVD compilations Update Tour clients into ACV database Obtain feedback from clients on success of Tour Administrative support Program Intern Responsibilities include but are not limited to: Assist with the success/visibility of ACV and all its programs: Asian Cinevisions film series; membership; monthly networking salon; National Festival Tour; advance film screenings; ACV distributed books; and other ACV-produced programs Check ACV's general email to answer questions, queries, assist with membership maintenance and development Assist with sending out packets, resource information, tapes, screeners, books, etc Assist with updating database Update ACV website with monthly events Administrative support

LANGUAGE CLASSES Nodutdol Korean Language Classes Nodutdol for Korean Community Development Starting November 1st Tuition: $200 per 8 - week session ($160 for low income) nodutdolkoreanclass@yahoogroups.com | 718) 335 - 0419 Nodutdol for Korean Community Development is offering two Korean language classes: Beginner II and intermediate. This class will be customized to the needs of students enrolled. Classes are held in midtown Manhattan. Each class will be small (a maximum of 10 students) and focus on developing conversational Korean language skills in an informal atmosphere. If you are interested in participating in Nodutdol's Korean language classes or know of someone who might be interested, please spread the word and contact us. Registration is required by October 20th, 2005. Beginner II For beginners (Korean alphabet required) To build vocabulary, grammar, structures for basic readings and communication Tuesdays 6:30 - 8:30 (8 weeks) Intermediate Approximately 4 - 6 months of Korean lesson or someone who havetaken an intermediate class before Thursdays 6:30 - 8:30 (8 weeks)