PERFORMANCE Durango Now thru December 10, 2006 Tuesday, 7:00pm Wednesday - Friday 8:00pm Saturday 2:00pm, 8:00pm Sunday 2:00pm, 7:00pm Post-Show Discussion: Tuesday December 5th The Public Theater 425 Lafayette Street at Astor Place New York City www.publictheater.org Single father Boo-Seng decides it's time for a family road trip to Durango, Colorado. As he and his two teenage sons get closer to their destination, secrets are revealed that intensify the sons' struggle with growing up in the shadow of their father, who left Korea to pursue the American Dream. From the award-winning playwright who brought you BFE, Durango is new American drama at its best. A co-production with the Long Wharf Theatre. Written by Julia Cho and directed by Chay Yew featuring Ross Bickell, James Saito, Jon Norman Schneider, Jay Sullivan, and James Yaegashi. Discount tickets start at $30. To order, call 212) 967 - 7555 and mention discount code DUAA01

EXHIBITION One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now The Asia Society Now thru December 10th Asia Society Museum 725 Park Avenue at 70th Street New York City www.asiasociety.org Asia Society presents its first major group show devoted to contemporary Asian American art in more than twelve years. Named after a Blondie's hit song, this uniquely conveived exhibition of works by 17 Asian American artists-most of them born during the explosion of pop culture in the 1970s-will draw attention to the most critical and prevalent themes current among today's young Asian American artists. Asia Society's groundbreaking 1994 exhibition, Asia/America: Identities in Contemporary Asian American Art, showed the works of artists actively wrestling with their immigrant experience and the sensation of otherness. The current exhibition presents artists for whom other sensibilities and artistic questions have greater importance. One Way or Another includes works in a wide variety of media, including painting, sculpture, installations, and video. A fully-illustrated book, One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now, will be available at AsiaStore.

EXHIBITION Julia Cowing: 2 Generations, 1 American Now thru January 12th Monday - Friday, 10:00am - 7:00pm Saturday, 10:30am - 4:30pm Vantage Point Gallery International Center for Photography 940 Garrison Ave at Manida Street Bronx, New York 10474 www.thepoint.org Artist statement: "2 Generations, 1 American is an expression of the tension and chasm in a mother-daughter relationship, compounded with the problems of an immigrant relating to a native. Portraits of a Chinese mother and her American daughter reflect my relationship with my mother as I denounce, embrace, and resist her as the source of my ethnic stigma. I was once ashamed of my mother and her Chinese ways. They made me conscious of my own foreign-ness to others. For years, I was convinced I was ugly simply because I wasn't white. I grew up believing this because the message all around me – in media, ads, Hollywood, on TV and radio – kept reinforcing it. Cultural, linguistic, and semantic differences between my mother and me interfered with our communication. We could understand each other's words, but not our meaning. If a girl's role model was first and foremost her mother, I was at a horrible position of distancing myself from my mother and being prejudiced against myself. This series is for those who often struggle to balance themselves between two different cultures. The series hopes to explain a way of life that is filled with mixed messages and double meaning." -- Julia Cowing

EXHIBITION Four Sculptors Korean Culture Service New York Wednesday, November 29th - Friday, December 29th Opening Reception: Wednesday, November 29th, 6:00 - 8:00pm Gallery Korea Korean Cultural Service New York 460 Park Avenue at 57th Street, 6th Floor New York City www.koreanculture.org Korean Cultural Service NY is pleased to present Four Sculptors: Yong Jin Han, Chungyoon Kim, Choong Sup Lim, and John Pai, four Korean master sculptors from the New York area, who will exhibit their creations abstracted from stone, wood, metal as well as non traditional mediums. Each of the four sculptors have deep rooted inspirations from Korean culture and heritage, however, the focus of each artists varies: Han, Kim, and Pai, uses the process of carving and welding, and shows the formal relationship of the parts of works, or spatial relationship between the inner or outer parts of the sculpture; whereas Lim encompasses conceptually conflicting elements in the frame of work.

SCREENING AND DISCUSSION Original Film Night: Fish in the Sea Is Not Thirsty (15 mins., 2002)/ Request (12 mins., 2002) Korean Culture Service New York Thursday, November 30, 6:30pm Korean Cultural Service 460 Park Avenue at 57th Street New York City www.koreanculture.org Original Film Night Fish in the Sea Is Not Thirsty (15 mins., 2002) Director: Jinoh Park Fish in the Sea Is Not Thirsty is a short film about a Korean man (Jinoh Park) and a French lady (Geneva Carr) who becomes lost on their way to a party. The director uses the concept of togetherness while being separate in the characters search for the right direction. This film was invited to the The Directors Fortnight at Cannes Film Festival in 2002. Request (12 mins., 2002) Director: Soopum Sohn In Request, Paul (T.J. Sullivan) has a tragic experience of losing his mother as a young child, which sets the foundation for the film. This film was invited to the "Cinefoundation" at Cannes Film Festival in 2002. Other Films directed by director Park and Sohn will be screeing. Directors will join the discussion led by guest speaker Ms. Hyun-Ock Im after the movie.

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY Caring and Sharing "Feed The Homeless Project" Korean American Jaycees Saturday, December 2nd, 3:00 – 8:30pm PERC Shelter 108 36th Street Union City, NJ 07087 www.kajc.org | cas@kajc.org Please join the KAJC's on Saturday, December 2nd, for their annual signature "Feed the Homeless" project at the Palisades Emergency Residence Corporation (PERC Shelter). This year's event has been aptly titled "Caring and Sharing" and the goal of this event is to provide a hot cooked Korean meal prepared, served and also shared by the Jaycees with the disadvantaged people served by the Palisades Emergency Residence Corporation (PERC). PERC was founded on the principle that "with help there is hope." For a quarter century, they have empowered thousands of men, women and children living in poverty by providing education, shelter, food, employment, and access to mainstream services. The KAJC is proud to work with PERC to accomplish their goals in serving the residents of their community. They will try to provide transportation to all volunteers so please RSVP with your attendance at cas@kajc.org Most other organizations donate money or supplies for a meal to organizations that serve the needy at this time of year. The KAJC takes this further by cooking, serving and sharing the meal with them. It is uplifting, enlightening and also inspirational for our members when they participate in this project. By also sharing a meal and by having a casual conversation, we break down those invisible barriers about "us" and "them" and help to motivate these friends to stand up again. The message that we encourage is that we are not there to give a hand-out but are trying to give them hand-up. It is also truly moving when we see the faces of these friends light up and then recognize that these faces are surprisingly very familiar. Please join them as we continue the tradition of this project while assisting PERC shelter on their mission.

RECEPTION The 9th Annual Asian American Literary Awards Asian American Writers' Workshop Monday, December 4th, 7:00pm The Asia Society 725 Park Avenue at 70th Street New York City $12 general, $10 members, students free www.aaww.org/aaww_events.html Since 1998, the Workshop has been recognizing excellence in Asian American literature through our annual awards ceremony. Join us in making this year's event the best yet. Here's to throwing prose, cocktails, and well-deserved kudos into the shaker and seeing what comes out, awarding the best in Asian American fiction, poetry, and nonfiction of 2005. And since Workshop members serve as the fuel to our literary fire, we are pleased to recognize their voices in our Members' Choice Award. Ceremony and awards presentation with authors, followed by booksigning and reception.

DISCUSSION A Year in North Korea: Impressions of the DPRK The Korea Society Tuesday, December 5th 6:00 - 6:30pm: Registration and Reception 6:30 - 7:30pm: Presentation and Q&A The Korea Society 950 Third Avenue, Eighth Floor, at 57th Street New York City $15, $10 for members www.koreasociety.org No country on earth guards its privacy as closely as the DPRK. Precious few outsiders know what actually takes place north of the DMZ. Many have seized on this absence of information to portray the DPRK as an international menace. With the North's recent nuclear test upping the geopolitical ante, accurate information on the country is more important than ever. And there are people who can provide it. A diplomatic and expatriate community does exist in Pyongyang, populated by a select group of foreigners with unparalleled access to local officials. These individuals possess a deeply personal insight into current events in North Korea, and a unique perspective on the land and its people. Swedish Ambassador to the DPRK Mats Foyer will share his impressions from a year of working as a foreign diplomat in the DPRK, as well as an overview of the European Union's and Sweden's policies on the DPRK. Ambassador Foyer's analysis of the political, economic, social and human rights situation in the DPRK reflects the most current and reliable firsthand information. He will also discuss and interpret the North Korean government's decision to stop receiving humanitarian assistance, and the continued, if reduced, presence of humanitarian NGOs in the country.

PERFORMANCE KNUA Dance Company Debut Tuesday, December 5th, 7:00pm Tribeca Performing Arts Center Borough of Manhattan Community College 199 Chambers Street New York City $25, $15 for students and seniors www.knua.ac.kr | www.tribecapac.com South Korea's KNUA (Korean National University of the Arts) Dance Company will make its New York City debut at Tribeca Performing Arts Center / BMCC on Tuesday, December 5th. Considered to be among the most talented young dancers in Korea, KNUA will present a program of classical and modern work.

INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY JYP Entertainment Internship Amy Lee: amylee@jype.com | Jay Kim: jaykimmusic@gmail.com JYP Entertainment is looking for highly motivated, detail oriented, quick learners who are eager and willing to learn about the music industry. Students must be able to communicate effectively and have a sense of professionalism and personal responsibility. Interns will be responsible for assisting directors with administrative functions on a daily basis. Additional projects will be assigned related to the respective interests of the interns. Daily stipend will be paid. With 10 years of experience in contents planning & production, artist management, internet & mobile foreign business, and new talent discovery, JYP Entertainment is a professional entertainment company that is reaching for globalization and expansion within the entertainment industry. JYP Entertainment hopes to create a new paradigm in the production and sales of domestic and foreign contents with the assistance of of exciting business partners such as SK telecom, NC Soft, and Samsung Electronics.