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Sept. 6-8: 3rd Annual RightsFest - a Traveling Civil Rights Festival comes to Tribeca Cinemas, September 6-8, 2012
Opening
night:
Thursday,
September
6
The
90th
Minute (24
min)
compels
viewers
to
think
about
the
way
we
value
women’s
sports.
More
than
a
decade
after
the
1999
Women’s
World
Cup,
when
players
like
Mia
Hamm
and
Brandi
Chastain
inspired
girls
across
the
country
to
take
up
soccer,
the
Women’s
Professional
Soccer
league
still
cannot
survive.
In
May,
just
months
after
The
90th
Minute’s
release,
the
WPS
folded
completely.
*
Director
Jun
Stinson
will
join
a
Q&A
discussion
following
the
screening.
Jesse
Owens (56
min),
a
2012
American
Experience
film
produced
by
Firelight
Media
(Freedom
Riders,
The
Murder
of
Emmett
Till),
delves
beyond
the
sprinter’s
stunning
performance
at
the
1936
Olympics
in
Nazi
Germany
to
tell
the
story
of
the
son
of
a
sharecropper
who
becomes
a
world
champion,
only
to
be
confronted
by
the
harsh
realities
of
celebrity.
*
Director
Laurens
Grant
will
join
a
Q&A
discussion
following
the
screening.
Centerpiece
presentations:
Friday,
September
7
Transcending:
the
Wat
Misaka
Story (50
min)
chronicles
the
journey
of
the
first
minority
basketball
player
in
the
NBA.
Amidst
a
hostile
racial
climate
that
incarcerated
120,000
innocent
Japanese
Americans
during
World
War
II,
Misaka
prevails
as
a
top
college
basketball
player
who
is
ultimately
drafted
by
the
New
York
Knicks
in
1947.
*
Co-directors
Christine
Toy
Johnson
and
Bruce
Alan
Johnson
will
join
a
Q&A
discussion
following
the
screening.
Far East Movement and IM5 entertain at Perez Hilton's "One Night in Los Angeles" to benefit VH1 SAVE THE MUSIC
Los Angeles
FAR
EAST
MOVEMENT
entertained
the
crowds
at
celebrity
blogger
Perez
Hilton's
"One
Night
in
Los
Angeles"
event
to
benefit
the
VH1
SAVE
THE
MUSIC
FOUNDATION.
The American hip hop quartet is the first Asian-American group to earn a #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States. FAR EAST MOVEMENT's music "Round Round" is featured in the Hollywood movie The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. FM performers are Kev Nish (Kevin Nishimura), Prohgress (James Roh), J-Splif (Jae Choung), and DJ Virman (Virman Coquia).
Funds raised from the Perez Hilton's "One Night in Los Angeles" September 6 event will be donated to VH1's Save the Music Foundation. Perez Hilton's event in March this year, "One Night in Austin" during South-by-Southwest's music festival and conference also raised funds for VH1's Save the Music Foundation. VH1's Paul Cothan, VP and Executive Director of VH1 Save the Music Foundation, said "With Perez' help, we will be able to generate a great deal of awareness for our cause." Cothan said since its inception in 1997, the VH1 Save The Music Foundation has provided more than $48 million in new musical instruments to 1,800 public schools in more than 100 cities around the country, impacting the lives of over 1.8 million children.
Among other groups headlining the benefit were IM5, Melanie Amaro, Rita Ora, Walk The Moon, Iggy Azalea, The Saturdays, The Wanted, and Doors Close.
September 27 - 16th Annual Chinese American Museum Historymakers Gala
Los Angeles
The Chinese American Museum's 6th anual 2012 Historymakers Awards Banquet takes place this year September 27 at The Westin Bonaventure.
Prominently recognized as one of the premiere Chinese American events in Southern California, the event honors the achievements of extraordinary individuals who have made a significant impact or lasting contributions towards the advancement of the Chinese American community and beyond in the fields of art, literature, journalism, medicine, film, science, business, government, law, athletics, and community service.
This year’s Historymakers Awardees include:
Excellence in Corporate Leadership – Tom McKernan and the Automobile Club of Southern California;
Excellence in Medicine and Community Service – Dr. Carl K. Moy, an OB/GYN who practices in Chinatown and Monterey Park;
Excellence
in
Government
-
Honorable
Carol
Liu,
California
State
Senator,
21st
District,
serving
Burbank,
Glendale,
Pasadena,
San
Gabriel,
Temple
City,
La
Cañada
Flintridge,
East
Pasadena
and
East
San
Gabriel;
Lifetime Achievement Award – Dr. Dan S. Louie, Jr., Chinese American Citizens Alliance;
The Judge Ronald S.W. Lew Visionary Award – Latham & Watkins, LLP.
Oct. 12-Nov. 18: Epic Theatre Ensemble Presents New York Premiere of Jeanne Sakata’s Hold These Truths Starring Joel de la Fuente at the Theatre at the 14th Street Y
he Epic Theatre Ensemble is presenting the New York premiere of Jeanne Sakata’s solo play Hold These Truths (formerly known as Dawn’s Light: The Journey of Gordon Hirabayashi), directed by Lisa Rothe and starring Joel de la Fuente, at the Theatre at the 14th Street Y, 344 E. 14th St. (between 1st and 2nd Ave) in New York, October 12 – November 18, 2012. Click here to purchase tickets.
Inspired
by
a
true
story, Hold
These
Truths takes
place
in
Seattle
during
World
War
II,
where
University
of
Washington
student
Gordon
Hirabayashi
is
agonizing
over
U.S.
government
orders
to
forcibly
remove
and
mass
incarcerate
all
people
of
Japanese
ancestry
on
the
West
Coast.
As
he
fights
to
reconcile
his
country’s
betrayal
with
his
passionate
belief
in
the
U.S.
Constitution,
Gordon
journeys
toward
a
greater
understanding
of
America’s
triumphs
—
and
a
confrontation
with
its
failures.
Performance
Schedule:
Friday,
October
12
@
8pm
Saturday,
October
13
@7pm
Sunday,
October
14
@
3
&
7
Friday,
October
19
@
8pm
Saturday,
October
20
@
7pm
Sunday,
October
21
@
6pm
Monday,
October
22
@7pm
Saturday,
October
27
@
7pm
Sunday,
October
28
@
3pm
&
7pm
Monday,
October
29
@
7pm
Saturday,
November
3
@
7pm
Sunday,
November
4
@
3pm
&
7pm
Saturday,
November
10
@
7pm
Sunday,
November
11
@
3pm
&
7pm
Monday,
November
12
@
7pm
Mu Performing Arts' 21st Season features Taiko Concert, Lauren Yee’s The Tiger Among Us, and Rick Shiomi’s Award-Winning comedy Yellow Fever
Mu Performing Arts has announced the lineup for its 21st season of theater and taiko from the heart of the Asian American experience. This season marks founding Artistic Director Rick Shiomi’s final year at the helm of the company. Events celebrating Shiomi’s work in taiko and theater will coincide with the opening weekend of each production throughout the 2012-2013 season. These events will include special guests and retrospectives focusing on Shiomi’s development as an artist and administrator starting in the early days of the Asian American theater movement.
Rick Shiomi was already an accomplished playwright, taiko drummer, and community organizer when he co-founded Theater Mu in 1992, which premiered its first New Eyes Festival of staged readings at Intermedia Arts in downtown Minneapolis. Since that time, Mu Performing Arts has grown to become one of the largest Asian American performing companies in the nation, garnering critical acclaim and a burgeoning audience base along the way. Mu’s company model is unique in North America in that it encompasses both a taiko drumming ensemble (Mu Daiko) and a professional theater company (Theater Mu).
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