About Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
Here’s Jay Jao’s photos of our hapihour.org afterparty for Michael Kang’s West 32nd movie on March 16 at Yoshi’s San Francisco. The movie was the centerpiece presentation of the 2008 San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. The party was co-hosted by MANJA, APA|FIVE and Empty Kingdom.
A symposium entitled “The Legacy of Japanese Women: Past, Present and Future” will be held on Saturday, March 22, 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., at the Hotel Kabuki Imperial Ballroom, 1625 Post St. in San Francisco’s Japantown. Admission is free.
The primary goal of the symposium will be to encourage understanding, dialogue and person-to person communication between Japanese and Japanese American women scholars regarding Japanese and Japanese American history. A second goal of the symposium will be to engage a younger generation of audience as a means to ensure a continuing appreciation of and pursuit of positive and constructive U.S.-Japan relations.
This symposium, co-sponsored by the Consulate of Japan and the National Japanese American Historical Society (NJAHS), is a continuation of the 2006 series on “Japanese American Identities.” This event focuses on the role of Nikkei women in the immigration experience.
Forwarded to me from Choppy Oshiro: Manilatown Heritage Foundation is now seeking proposals for its next exhibition at the International Hotel Manilatown Center on the theme of Globalization. The exhibition will focus on “Western Ideas/ Colonial Mentality” as it relates to the Filipino experience. You do not have to be Filipino to submit artwork, but the work should reflect the Filipino or Asian experience regarding that subject matter. Download this Word doc for more information.
Union Bank of California today presented the San Francisco Japantown Foundation with a $10,000 donation to support the organization’s mission. George Tanaka, Union Bank of California vice president and diverse market’s administration manager, presented the check to the Foundation on behalf of the bank.
Read more at sfjapantownfoundation.org
The Asian Business League will hold a leaderhip program on Tuesday, March 25, from 6-8 p.m. at the PG&E Building on 245 Market St.in San Francisco.
Program speaker Dr. Prasad Kaipa will discuss how to better access the “genius within us.” In his 18 years of working with over 15,000 executives, Dr. Kaipa found that there are four essential questions that provoke deeper inquiry into who we are and shift what we do.
ABL members are free with advance registration. Non-members are $10 with advance registration and $15 at the door. Join ABL-SF as a member for only $40 and attend the seminar for free.
Click here to register for the event. Visit www.ablsf.org or email ablsf@aol.com for more information.
My friend Don Chareunsy, the editor-in-chief of a new Asian American magazine called The Big A, invited me to the publication’s Bay Area mixer last night at MR.
The Big A will be a national Asian American monthly glossy with supplemental online content targeting the 18-34 demographic and covering topics ranging from business to lifestyle.
I’m doing a 24-hour raffle to raise money for the Center for Asian American Media and hapihour.org.
Virtual raffle tickets are $2 each and can be purchased in multiple quantities. The winner, selected at random, will receive:
The proceeds will be split 50-50 between CAAM and hapihour.org.
Virtual raffle tickets must be purchased by 5 p.m. PDT on Thursday, March 13. Winner will be notified via mail that evening.
An update to a previous post:
The San Jose Mercury News published an article about Zhang Jiahuan, also known as “Sunny,” on Sunday, March 9. On May 10, 8 p.m., the Star Valley’s Children Choir will hold a concert in honor of “Sunny” at the First United Methodist Church, 625 Hamilton Avenue in Palo Alto. For tickets, there is a suggested donation of $15. All proceeds will go to the foundation Sunny started to raise money to educate the public about spinal muscular atrophy. For ticket information, call (650) 922-1196. This will be Sunny’s last concert in the United States before returning to China.