THE APPA Newsletter

November 16, 2004

See This Weekend

MISSION STATEMENT:

Promote full utilization of the capabilities of the Enterprise's employees and champion the betterment of the company and community. Promote interest in Asian Pacific issues and culture and act as a bridge to all groups within our community.

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ed. by Douglas Ikemi

(dkikemi@pacbell.net)

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The internet site is at:

www.apa-pro.org

Our own domain name, apa-pro.org, stands for Asian Pacific American Professionals. www.apa-pro.org/ gives you a menu of AP organization websites.

Back issues of the newsletter for all of 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003 are available on the website if you want to look up some past event.

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APPA Board Meeting Schedule for 2004:

Wednesday evening meetings open to the public will be at the Hilton Garden Inn, 2100 Mariposa Ave.(corner of Nash) at 6PM.

December 15

Detailed, updated calendar is available on the internet at www.apa-pro.org in Acrobat and Excel formats [I'll update it someday when I have some more time] Please send in information on cultural events and news items. Thanks to those who have.

Long range calendar items:

Chinatown Farmers Market Every Thursday, 3:00pm to 7:00pm Chinatown Business Improvement District http://www.ChinatownLA.com/ For Information (213)_ 680-0243

Sept 12- Jan 2, 2005 George Nakashima: Nature, Form & Spirit at the JANM. This exhibition will feature a range of George Nakashima’s designs from the immediate post-World War II period until his death in 1990. Photographs, ephemera, and other archival materials pertaining to Nakashima will also be on display. Most of the objects come from the collection of the Nakashima family and will be supplemented with local loans. A video piece by John Terry Nakashima, a media producer and nephew of George, will be on view in the Terasaki Orientation Theater. George Nakashima: Nature, Form & Spirit is based on an exhibition organized by the Mingei International Museum in San Diego with Mira Nakashima, curatorial consultant. http://www.janm.org/exhibits/nakashima/

Oct 2 – Jan 2, 2005 Exhibition - Rinko Kawauchi: AILA

At the UCR/California Museum of Photography. UCR/California Museum of Photography is pleased to present AILA, the first major solo debut for Rinko Kawauchi, a young photographer based out of Tokyo, Japan. UCR/California Museum of Photography, 3824 Main Street, Downtown Riverside, CA 92501. $1 for the general public and free to members, students and seniors. Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 12 PM to 5 PM. For more information please contact Linda Theung, 951-827-5017

Email: linda.theung@email.ucr.edu

Website: www.cmp.ucr.edu/pr

“Chanoma Film Festival 2004” presents nine various Japanese heart-warming films from Kurosawa’s masterpiece to modern animation. The festival will be held at Laemmle’s Fairfax Cinema in West Hollywood, Laemmle’s One Colorado Cinema in Pasadena, and Laguna Hills Mall Cinemas in Orange County. These films were depicted from the family’s view point and give us a chance to re-think what a family is to us. Audiences can enjoy the films regardless of their age. Our goal was to deliver a further cultural exchange and mutual understanding of the Japanese culture to the American and Japanese audience living in Los Angeles. Chanoma Film Festival 2004” will present Japanese films from September through December one week per month at West Hollywood. In addition, Japanese films will be presented in Pasadena and Orange County for one week in October.

http://www.chanoma.org

Laemmle's Fairfax Cinemas, Los Angeles

7907 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90048 Tel: 323-655-4010

Website: http://www.laemmle.com/theatres/fairfax/fairfax.html

Japanese Animations December 10 - December 16, 2004

Catnapped! 1:00pm / 4:30pm / 8:00 pm

The Day the Earth Moved 2:45 pm / 6:15pm / 9:45pm

Laemmle's One Colorado Cinemas, Pasadena

42 Miller Alley, Pasadena, CA 91103 Tel: 626-744-1224

Website: http://www.laemmle.com/theatres/onecolorado/onecolorado.html

Nov 27, 28 Japan Expo at the LA Convention Center, http://www.japanexpo.org/

Nov 28 Japanese Folk Song [Minyo]School “LA Chikurei Kai” to celebrate its 25^th Anniversary at the Aratani Theatre, 1PM. For tickets call 310-618-6845, 213-680-3700, $25, 244 S. San Pedro St., Downtown LA, 90012.

Nov 28 to appear at Hollywood Christmas Parade

Dec 11 Yamabiko Kai Theatrical Co. 1 & 7Pm, presents “Tales of the Echo” musical based on Japanese Folk Tales. Aratani/Japan America Theatre in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles. Tickets $22, $19 JACCC Members, $25 orchestra, $22 balcony.

Dec 18 Mochitsuki, 7AM at the JACCC plaza, 213-628-2725

Jan 30 Kodo Taiko Ensemble will perform at the Aratani Theatre, 244 S. San Pedro St., Downtown LA, 90012, $100, 47, 50, 213-680-3700

The Van Nuys Japanese Garden needs volunteers on Sundays in work in the Shoin Tea House, 11AM-3PM, 1 or 2 Sundays each month. Volunteers needed to either prepare tea or serve. Gift shop volunteers also needed, Mon-Thu and Sunday, mornings or afternoons, 2-3 hour shifts. Contact: The Japanese Garden, Attn: Betty Ethridge, 6100 Woodley Ave., Van Nuys, CA 91406.

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This Weekend (and earlier)

Nov 18 Performance - Buddhist Dance and Music II. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents "Buddhist Dance and Music." Organized by Ms. Hur Young-il, president of the World Ethnic Dance Institute, this performance will feature important dancers and musicians from the Korean National University of the Arts, Seoul, Korea. Highlights of the dance section will include the Monk's Dance, a secular tradition influenced by Buddhist folk dance, featuring a beautiful hooded costume with long sleeves; the Butterfly Dance, which takes place in a lotus pond, a narrative dance that has been designated Important Cultural Property No. 40. The Instrumental section of the show will feature varied examples of classical music performed by masters from the School of Traditional Performing Arts. 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM. Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Leo S. Bing Theater, Los Angeles, CA 90036. Free and open to the public, but tickets are required. For more information please contact Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Tel: (323) 857-6010

Nov 19 Lecture - The Pacific Asia Museum presents, "Japanese and Chinese Gardens: One Concept, Two Interpretations," a lecture and slide show with Steve Beimel. Through a beautiful and dynamic slide show and lecture on Japanese and Chinese gardens, Steve Beimel, renowned expert on Japanese gardens, culture, arts and travel, will show that although the gardens of the two countries appear quite different, they are in fact based on the same design concepts and techniques. By comparing various garden elements, attendees will learn to clearly recognize the aesthetics of the two countries as they are applied in the creation of unique and wonderful garden environments. 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Pacific Asia Museum, 46 N. Los Robles Ave., Pasadena , CA 91101. Cost: Free with museum admission: $7 adults, $5 students and seniors, free for museum members and children under 12

Nov 19 Royal Thai Ballet – KHON At the East County Performing Arts Center in El Cajon. The dance troupe will perform one of two major forms of Thai classical drama called "Khon," as well as a variety of dances from throughout Thailand. A special V.I.P. "Taste of Thai" reception, featuring a dozen or more Thai dishes and hosted by cookbook author and restaurateur Su-Mei Yu, restaurateur and community leader Tom Fat and ASIA, will be held at 6 p.m., prior to the performance at 7:30 p.m.

For more information and photos, contact Len Novarro at 619-521-8008.East County Performing Arts Center, 210 E. Main St., El Cajon, CA

Tickets for the performance are $20 for general admission and $15 for students and seniors. The cost for reception and preferred seating is $45 (Call 619-521-8008). General admission tickets may be purchased through the theater box office at 619-440-2277 between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. daily or by calling Asia Media at 619-521-8008.

Nov 19 Restored 1935 Film about Bali: LEGONG (Dance of the Virgins) Historic film directed by Henry de la Falaise and Gaston Glass has been restored by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. LEGONG is a mixture of documentary and fiction similar to the films of Robert Flaherty and especially to TABU (Flaherty’s collaboration with F.W. Murnau, shot in Tahiti). More of an ethnographic travelogue and less of a romantic idyll than TABU, LEGONG (DANCE OF THE VIRGINS) also tells a sad, simple tale of love denied in Bali, Indonesia. Producer: H. de la Falaise. Titles: Hampton del Ruth. Cinematographer: William H. Greene. Editor: Edward Schroeder. With: Goesti Poetoe Aloes, Goesti Bagus Mara, Njoman Saplak, Njoman Njong Njong. 35mm, 54 min.. 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM, James Bridges Theater, Melnitz Hall, UCLA Campus, Los Angeles, CA 90095. Free and open to the public. Films screen at the James Bridges Theater in Melnitz Hall, located on the northeast corner of the UCLA Westwood campus, near the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Hilgard Avenue. The theater opens one hour before showtime. Parking is available adjacent to the James Bridges Theater in Lot 3 for $7; there is free parking on Loring Ave. after 6:00 p.m. on weekdays. Tel: 310.206.FILM. www.cinema.ucla.edu

Nov 20 Performance - Music and Japanese American Identity: Big Beats. Outdoor lecture & Taiko drumming at the Riverside Public Library. Live demonstrations of taiko drumming will punctuate this afternoon event. Taiko is a contemporary form of Japanese drumming that has new meanings in Japanese American contexts. The presentation is drawn from Wong’s recently published book, Speak it Louder: Asian Americans Making Music (Routledge 2004). Deborah Wong is Professor in the Department of Music at University of California, Riverside. Demonstrations of taiko drumming will be performed by Tom Kurai and Satori Daiko, the performing group for the Taiko Center of Los Angeles. Reverend Shuichi "Tom" Kurai, son of a Buddhist priest, is a Zen Buddhist minister in Japan and was raised in Los Angeles. He has performed the taiko in the United States and abroad for over 25 years. Kurai founded the Taiko Center of Los Angeles in 1997. The professional performance group, Satori Daiko, was established in 2001 and continues to perform in the U.S. and in Japan. Satori Daiko released a CD, "Kyokusen" (Flowing Path) in 2003.

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM. Riverside Public Library, 3581 Mission Inn Avenue at Orange Street, Riverside, CA. Cost: Free. Tel: (951) 826-5369

Nov 21 Performance – Morning Concert: Kala Ramnath and Abhijit Banerjee At the Herrick Chapel, Occidental College. The Music Circle presents a morning concert with Kala Ramnath and Abhijit Banerjee. Kala Ramnath belongs to a dynasty of violinists founded by A. Narayana Iyer, a true visionary of Indian music. Her genius manifested in childhood when she began playing the violin at the age of three. The Western violin in the hands of an Indian musician of such stature as Kala can become ethereal, a passport to listening revelation. The violin is thought to have arrived in the subcontinent with Europe's colonizing powers and found a niche for itself in the South within devotional music and in the North because of its sublime vocal mimicry. Kala Ramnath has revolutionized the technique of playing the violin by taking the instrument so close to vocal music that today her violin is called ‘The Singing Violin’. Standing today amongst the most outstanding instrumental musicians in the North Indian classical genre, some of her recordings take listening pleasure to unfeasible levels. Abhijit Banerjee is a regular tabla performer at all the major music conferences in India and abroad, both as a soloist and accompanist for major artists in the North Indian as well as South Indian style. As a young child, he won many music competitions of national repute. Besides tabla, he has received training in vocal music and in violin. In his versatility, he has also associated with the Jazz world, accompanying Jazz musicians and groups in New York. He is a composer and recording artist, and has conducted seminars on Indian classical music extensively at universities in the western world..11:00 AM - 1:00 PM, Herrick Chapel, Occidental College, Alumni Avenue & Campus Road, Los Angeles, CA 90041. Cost: $25 General, $15 Members, $5 Student

Tickets will be available at the door beginning at 10:30 am. Tel: 626-449-6987

MusicCircle@aol.com, www.MusicCircle.org

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Last Weekend(s)

LA Times: (The Times are requiring registration again, but you might as well sign up for the free on-line access to their articles. This week they may even be accessible without registration. Calendar articles are usually only accessible with a paid subscription.)

Nov 17 Clothing company settles out of court

Filipino-American man who wasn't rehired at Galleria Abercrombie & Fitch was a plaintiff.

By Jackson Bell, News-Press and Leader

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/glendale/news/la-gnp-lawsuit17nov17,1,6881627.story

Nov 17 CALIFORNIA

Judge Accepts Abercrombie Plan to Settle Hiring Lawsuits

By Julie Tamaki, Times Staff Writer

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-fitch17nov17,1,7283631.story

Nov 15 Police department's greater shades of culture

Newly hired Korean- American Police cadet overcame ethnic expectations to pursue her dream.

By Jackson Bell, News-Press and Leader

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/glendale/news/la-gnp-cadet15nov15,1,6588356.story