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November 2nd 2004: Issue 20
Time to Vote! Still haven't registered? Shame on you! Another missed opportunity for representation for all of us. For all of us who have, and still aren't sure who to pick and have already seen the Jib Jab cartoons already, take this poll sponsored by Time to see which candidate you agree more with on the issues, or check out this comparison chart (information provited by NAKASEC and NAKA). Polls are open from 6:00am - 9:00pm in New York. For your poll site, visit the Board of Elections. And apparently, while people's minds are on the election, there is rumors of mandatory draft for both men and women (ages 18-26) starting June 15, 2005, with pending companion bills S89 and HR 163 (type "HR 163" and click search) in the House and Senate.
Jin tha MC, the first Asian-American rapper to be signed to a major hip-hop label (Ruff Ryders) has recently released his debut album. Listen NPR Reporter Derek John's interview on hip-hop artist Jin, Jin's new CD, "The Rest is History", challenges negative images of people of Asian heritage in American culture. And while we are on that topic, there's an interesting anecdotal article on Asian Males in the Media.
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MIXER
Asia Circle Cocktail Evening
Join the Asia Circle, the Society's young professionals group, for networking and cocktails at Asia Society's LeoBar. These informal gatherings offer opportunities to reunite with old friends, network with members and their guests, tour the Society's current exhibitions, and find out about upcoming Asia Circle events. Tours of Asia Society’s exhibitions at 6:30 pm, 7:15 pm and 8:15 pm. The Asia Circle is the young patrons group of the Asia Society, which facilitates social and professional networks among those with strong interests in U.S.-Asian issues. The Circle consists of members spanning the ages of 21-40 from diverse fields such as business, law, the arts, academia, government, finance, and non-governmental organizations. A membership at this level includes all Individual Membership benefits as well as invitations to events organized exclusively for the Asia Circle.
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CONFERENCE
National Asian American Student Conference (NAASCon)
Asian Pacific American students from across the country will convene for the first-ever National Asian American Student
Conference (NAASCon) on November 5th - 7th, 2004, at the University of Southern California in downtown Los Angeles. This highly anticipated event is the first-step in the creation of a nationwide Asian Pacific American student network that can be mobilized to effect positive change at the local, state, regional, and national levels and within all of our diverse communities.Building upon the theme: "The Past, Present, and Future of the Asian Pacific American Community," students will learn the historical roots of Asian Pacific American student activism, educate one another on current issues and campaigns and gain
valuable practical skills to advance a progressive movement on their campuses and nationwide.
Asian Pacific American students will address timely and relevant issues including community empowerment, public policy, expanding educational opportunities, leading campaigns on and off-campus, coalition building, ethnic barriers and racism in the media, and new strategies for activism. Seminal Asian Pacific American activists including civil rights lawyer Angela E. Oh, Asian American Studies professor Glenn Omatsu, South Asian American Voting Youth founder Taz Ahmed, and education activist Warren Furutani will also share their experiences with the Asian Pacific American student community over the three-day session. The conference will also provide an opportunity for students to learn from each other's efforts leading up to the presidential election.
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FILM FESTIVAL
The Newest Tiger: 60 Years of South Korean Cinema
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November 12th - December 7th
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Lincoln Center
Walter Reade Theater
165 West 65th Street
Between Broadway and Amsterdam Ave. on the plaza level of Lincoln Center
New York City
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$10, $7 Students, $6 Film Society of Lincoln Center members, $5 Seniors
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Filmlinc | 212) 875-5600
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The Film Society of Lincoln Center presents The Newest Tiger: 60 Years of South Korean Cinema, 40 landmark films tracing the 60 year history of Korean cinema. Korean cinema has grown and matured alongside its country's turbulent history. 35 years of Japanese colonization (1910-1945), followed by the Korean civil war in 1950, and compounded by General Park's iron-fisted regime requiring self-censorship (1961-1979), helped create a bleak environment for filmmaking. However, with the wave of anti-government protests in 1979, a new generation of filmmakers began to emerge in the 1980s. Soon, South Korean cinema became a fixture at international film festivals, winning prizes and international audiences for the first time. Veterans such as Im Kwon-Taek and Lee Doo-Yung continued to create first-rate work, while new names such as Hong Sang-soo and Kim Ki-duk broke new thematic and stylistic grounds. With recent major festival awards at Cannes and Venice, the cinema of South Korea has become one of the most respected and exciting national cinemas in the world.
Join us for this series and discover for yourself the richness of this "newest tiger" of Asian cinema. Organized by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Korean Film Council with the support of the Korean Film Archive. Marketing support provided by Media Bank. Media sponsors The Korea Times and FM Seoul. There will also be a panel on Korean Cinema: Roots, Development and New Directions, co-sponsored by Columbia University. Two different panel discussions with critics and scholars exploring the world of Korean cinema. Please check.
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CONFERENCE
2nd Annual Asian American Music Conference
The 2nd annual Asian American Music Conference (AAMC) is returning to the Bay Area and promises to be an insightful and informative look at the Asian American presence in music today. The annual conference will discuss the role of Asian Americans in music today. Industry insiders and young hopefuls will come together to trade insight and advice. The AAMC, which is produced by Prime Image Media Group, began as a way to create solidarity among Asians in the industry and provide a forum in which to exchange information and guidance.
Panels and workshops will focus on the ins and outs of making it in the industry, and speakers will discuss their experiences of being Asian American in the business. Special mentoring sessions are also available where attendees can sign up for one-on-one discussions with an industry professional. The conference will close with a networking mixer and music showcase,
which will feature up-and-coming artists from all over the country.
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THEATER
ArchipelaGo
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Novemeber 18th - 21st, December 1st - 5th
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La Mama First Floor Theatre
74-A East 4th Street
Between Bowery and 2nd Avenue
New York City
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$15
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www.slantperformancegroup.com | 212) 475-7710
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Slant Performance Group presents the World Premiere of ArchipelaGo. It's an island hoping theatrical romp about histories with exotic birds abound. Hear the latest campfire song, go on a hallucinatory ride through Angel Island and see a monkey band jam live. Witness puppetry like you've never seen it before. In 1995, SLANT premiered Big Dicks Asian Men to critical acclaim at New York City’s landmark experimental theater, La MaMa E.T.C. Since then, they have created nine original theatrical productions of high energy performance art. All of SLANT's shows involve live original music written by the three members, Wayland Quintero, Richard Ebihara, and Perry Yung. The shows are a confluence of puppetry, guitars, drums, voice, and bamboo flutes.
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PERFORMANCE
Concert of Excellence
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2nd Generation
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November 22nd, 7:30pm
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Jazz at Lincoln Center
Frederick P. Rose Hall
Broadway at 60th Street
New York City
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www.2g.org
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Join us for this special evening to benefit Asian Americans in the arts. Meet our 2004 Remy Martin X.O Excellence Honorees! Join us for a special evening, as we honor the artistic achievements and career excellence of this year's award recipients. This year, we celebrate: Hollywood leading lady Kelly Hu (The Scorpion King, X-Men 2) Academy Award-nominated Pat Morita (The Karate Kid, Happy Days), Martial arts film star Donnie Yen (Hero, Shanghai Knights). (Appearances subject to change.)
This one-night-only benefit performance will feature special guests, including Ralph Macchio, host Beau Sia, Broadway stars, and performances from "Mamma Mia!", "Jekyll & Hyde", "Making Tracks" and "The Wedding Banquet: The Musical". The 2G Kids ensemble, sponsored by Chase Home Finance, will sing a special tribute to food, glorious Asian food.
Ticket prices: $100 & $250 VIP. $250 VIP ticket includes exclusive pre-concert cocktail reception and access to the celebrity-packed post-party. All tickets above $50 are tax-deductible less $50. Proceeds from the Concert of Excellence to benefit Second Generation, a nonprofit 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization.
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BOOK LAUNCH / READING
Southerners / Northerners / Panmunjom and Other Stories by Ho-chul Lee
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Korean Culture Service
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Tuesday, November 30th, 6:00pm
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Korean Culture Service
460 Park Avenue at 57th Street, 6th Floor
New York City
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www.koreanculture.org
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Shortly after the outbreak of the Korean War, when he was eighteen, Lee Ho-Chul was drafted into the North Korean army. Southerners, Northerners (Namnyok saram ,Pungnyok saram) is a fictionalized account of his inglorious yet dramatic experiences as a raw recruit and, soon afterward, as a prisoner of war. Beginning with some fascinating vignettes of North Korean high school life and ending with a narrow escape from death, the story offers a unique perspective on the early phases of the war and its everyday realities, from the tragic to the farcical.
But Southerners, Northerners is far more than a war memoir. The author's encounters with men from South Korea, first as volunteers in the North Korean army and later as military police and guards, provoke a searching examination of the difference in ethos that had already emerged between the two Koreas. Moreover, the events of the story constantly spark flashbacks and foreshadowings that stretch from the author's childhood in what was then a Japanese colony to his later years as a dissident in South Korea. This gives the novel a rich texture of association in which the wartime story becomes a focal point for a broad vision of North and South Korea through half a century of history. Ultimately, one man's experience becomes a prism through which are refracted the international forces that have made the Korean peninsula today almost the last outpost of the Cold War.
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EXHIBITION
Hidden Jewels: Korean Art from the Mary Griggs Burke Collection
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Now Thru January 9th, 2005
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Arts of Korea Gallery, 2nd Floor
1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street
New York City
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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This exhibition in the Arts of Korea gallery presents thirty-six Korean paintings, ceramics, lacquerware, and sculpture dating primarily to the Choson dynasty (1392–1910) from the Collection of Mary Griggs Burke. Renowned for her collection of Japanese art, Mary Burke has also assembled a small but splendid selection of Korean art. Many of these pieces make their public debut in this exhibition. The show includes two rare and important masterpieces: an ink painting of bamboo by the literati artist Yi Chong (1541–1622) and a sublime painting of a Buddha triad (1565), once part of a large set of which only a handful remain today. Also highlighted are an elegant Seated Bodhisattva from the mid-Choson period and nineteenth-century blue-and-white porcelains, whose vibrant painted images capture the modern spirit of late Choson art. Simultaneously on view in the Arts of Japan galleries are eighteen Japanese works recently acquired by the Burke Collection—including sculpture, paintings, screens, lacquerware, and ceramics dating from the thirteenth to the nineteenth century—as well as twenty-five contemporary Japanese ceramics.
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YOUTH LEADERSHIP PROGRAM
Project Bridge 2004–05
The Korea Society and the Pacific Century Institute are pleased to announce Project Bridge 2004–05. The Project Bridge program seeks to build relationships and promote mutual understanding among Americans of diverse ethnic backgrounds. The program was established in 1993 as a response to the April 29 Incident (Saigu) in Los Angeles. Project Bridge is an annual youth leadership program focused on a group study tour to Korea. The program works with junior and senior high school students from New York and Los Angeles along with teachers from both locations who serve as group leaders. The students and group leaders are required to play an active role in a series of workshops and other activities that are scheduled on a regular basis throughout the school year.
The overall objective of the program is to enhance the participant's potential to respond in creative ways to the challenges and opportunities afforded by the cultural and ethnic diversity of contemporary American society. By virtue of providing an "immersion experience" in a society that historically has been defined more by the affirmation of social and cultural homogeneity than diversity, the study tour to Korea instills in the participants their responsibilities as citizens of a society in which respect for cultural and ethnic diversity is the ideal norm.
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