Iron Horse Road: A Tale from Gold Mountain
Friday, September 22, 2023In the Camps: A Refugee Musical (9/23--9/30)
Friday, September 22, 2023
Introducing IN THE CAMPS: A REFUGEE MUSICAL by Saymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay! The project is currently in its second phase, where we’ll host four intimate community performances at Indigenous Roots Cultural Arts Center.
NOTE: Only 60 seats are available per show. Late seating WILL NOT be permitted - please come on time!
The story
Using songs and humor, IN THE CAMPS will take place in a refugee camp and tell the story of Laotians who’ve escaped communist Laos. While in the camps, refugees built makeshift past lives to remind them of who they were before the disruption of war. An older woman turns a storage hut into a beauty parlor. She offers hair washing, scalp massages, and haircuts to remind herself that there is still beauty in the world. A former monk erects a martial arts gym behind one of the food distribution tents. He trains young Laotians on how to regain their strength, confidence, and power. An ex-communist soldier tries to blend in. He fears violent retaliation from victims and their families if he is found out. He is also hopeful that in a camp full of Buddhists, he will be forgiven. A young newly-wed must decide on the length that she will go and the boundaries she will cross to reunite with her husband who is missing.
Book and Lyrics by Saymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay
Music and Lyrics by Ketsana Vilaylack
Directed by Ova Saopeng
C. “Meaks” Meaker as dramaturg
Featuring Soudavone Khamvongsa, Lidet Viravong, Chufue Yang, Tri Vo, and Phouthavone 'Kat' Chanthalone
Showtimes
- 9/23 - 6pm show followed by talkback and reception
- 9/24 - 1 - 3pm pop-up market followed by 3pm show
- 9/29 - 7pm show start
- 9/30 - 6pm show start
The Yuto Horigome Nike SB NBD In Tokyo
Friday, September 22, 2023Random K-Pops: ENHYPEN JAY & Yuuri, Jeon Somi, (G)I-DLE, And An Awesome Ditto Dance Cover By GROOBEU
Friday, September 22, 2023
Craig Day Milne Charged With Felony Hate Crime At Wing Luke Museum
Friday, September 22, 2023You just have to at least like the fact that Milne is getting charged with a hate crime because that doesn't always happen.
The King County Prosecutor's Office announced Monday they rush-filed charges of a hate crime and first-degree malicious mischief against 76-year-old Craig Milne. Prosecutors have asked for Milne to be held on $30,000 bail. Meanwhile, the Wing Luke Museum remains open as staff and volunteers continue to heal from Thursday night's violent attack.Police say Milne yelled racist statements and took a sledgehammer to shatter nine windows of the historic museum in Seattle's Chinatown-International District.
Executive Director Joël Barraquiel Tan says there has been an incredible outpouring of love and support from the community.
He says staff, volunteers and leadership have constantly been checking in on each other since the attack and are committed to educating the public about Asian American and Pacific Islander history in Puget Sound.
"Over 100 years of anti-Chinese policies and vigilantism that isn't that long ago, that isn't too many generations ago, and I think this recent hate crime and vandalism is just connected to that," said Tan.
Read more at: https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/wing-luke-museum-staff-focus-on-healing-and-rebuilding-after-alleged-hate-crime
Video and Community Response
And if you're curioius to see the video of the 76 year-old White Man doing the crime....https://original.newsbreak.com/@choeshow-1601553/3161917916680
Asian Art Museum + Murakami: Monsterized
Friday, September 22, 2023RELEASE:
The larger-than-life paintings and sculptures in Murakami: Monsterized use monsters as a central motif to address the complicated nature of the world around us. The artist’s recent works suggest that our rapidly changing and increasingly digital landscape is populated by monsters — whether harmful or helpful — many of which humans have created and perhaps even become. Blurring the line between frightening and fun, these monsters embody the forces and behaviors that threaten and haunt us, as well as those that offer us diversion and escape from chaos. Several new works created for this exhibition find Murakami responding to a social environment marked by a global pandemic and a shift toward virtual interaction. Paintings of distorted figures reflect the swelling egos of individuals promoting themselves relentlessly on social media, while works recording the artist’s creation of NFTs, including avatars, look with optimism toward a digitally liberated future.
Senior Curator of Japanese Art Laura W. Allen locates Murakami’s imagery in a lineage of Japanese supernatural creatures including the kaiju (giant monsters) of postwar manga, television, and film — such as Godzilla, who makes a memorable appearance in this exhibition — and extending back to the “menacing and adorable” yōkai (supernatural entities) of Edo-period scrolls. “The visual DNA of Murakami’s characters has origins in centuries-old styles in Japanese art,” says Allen, “such as depicting Buddhist arhats and Daoist immortals as wizened beings with strange features, bulging eyes, and bared teeth.” To these venerated historical sources, Murakami adds the “technicolor palette, goofy expressions, and eclectic mixture of motifs” that have become his trademark — boldly remixing tradition to reflect the complexity of the present day.
TONIGHT: Screening of ARTBOUND “Chinatown Punk Wars” With Live Performance by The Linda Lindas
Friday, September 22, 2023Passing on some information about a show in DTLA tonight.
What: In collaboration with LAist, the non-profit, member-supported source for stories authentic to LA, and Grand Performances, the non-profit organization that provides free access to the global performing arts, PBS SoCal and KCET, Southern California’s flagship PBS stations, are hosting an in-person preview screening event, panel discussion and concert for the launch of the new season of ARTBOUND, the PBS SoCal/KCET produced arts and culture series. The Fri., Sept. 22 event in the Grand Performances space will allow the audience to screen ARTBOUND’s premiere episode“Chinatown Punk Wars” in advance of its broadcast and digital premiere. The film is a look at how two Chinese restaurants became the unlikely epicenter of L.A.’s burgeoning punk rock scene in the late 1970s. More info. About the episode in the attached press release.
The general event is FREE and open to the public. Opening remarks will begin at about 7 p.m. from Grand Performance’s Chief Executive Officer Rafael González with an introduction of the film by KCET/PBS SoCal’s Chief Operating Officer Jamie Annunzio Myers. The premiere screening will be followed by a panel discussion with LA-based popular punk rock band The Linda Lindas,musician/author/punk rock trailblazer Alice Bag (The Bags) and UCLA’s Jessica Schwartz, moderated by LAist Studios’ Antonia Cereijido. An audience participation activity will be facilitated by Chicxs Rockerxs South East Los Angeles.
The evening will conclude with a LIVE performance by The Linda Lindas.
Bella Poarch & Lauv - Crush
Friday, September 22, 2023
Labels: APA Music, Bella Poarch
Esther Choi, Heat Eaters, Rek Lee, And Year of the Ox
Wednesday, September 20, 2023The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Wednesday, September 20, 2023Reuters recently did an article on the Priscialla Chan and Mark Zukerberg philanthropy initiative to help manage and cure all disease by the end of the century. A tall order, but if you have means, and they do, why not try?
From the article:
"Bringing the power of generative AI to biology at scale will allow researchers to incorporate these technological advances into their work, which will accelerate efforts to cure, prevent, or manage all disease," Chan said.
The system will be trained on datasets from software tool CZ Cell x Gene, as well as resources from Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network and Chan Zuckerberg Institute for Advanced Biological Imaging, and publicly available data.
Straight Up: iphone 15 Pro and Pro Max Photo And Video Review By Chris Niccolls and Jordan Drake
Tuesday, September 19, 2023
Senator Mazie Hirono x The DREAM ACT x LGBTQ+ Books Are Okay MFs
Tuesday, September 19, 2023On Books and the LGBTQ+ CommunityDreamers are our friends and neighbors - they're part of our communities and they deserve the peace of mind that comes with permanent status.
— Senator Mazie Hirono (@maziehirono) September 16, 2023
While right-wing judges play games with their future, I'm fighting to pass the DREAM Act and ensure Dreamers can live here with dignity.
Book challenges nearly doubled from 2021 to 2022, with the majority of books being challenged and banned written by or about members of the LGBTQ+ community, people of color, and other marginalized groups.
— Senator Mazie Hirono (@maziehirono) September 12, 2023
Right-wing efforts to erase diversity in our communities are on the rise. pic.twitter.com/Lxekhs4RpD
Random Purchases: Shortcomings
Tuesday, September 19, 2023
I know that for some people Amazon Prime is the Devil, but for me at least, I'm willing to take the long hot trip so I can get things like Randall Park's directorial debut of Adrian Tomine's Shortcomings with Justin H. Min, Sherry Cola, Ally Maki, Debby Ryan, Tavi Gevinson, Sonoya Mizuno, Jacob Batalon, Timothy Simons.
At the same time, the artwork is pretty nice too on the Sony site.
From Senator Joe Nguyen With Love For The Earth (And Less Traffic, Which Everyone Can Get Behind)
Tuesday, September 19, 2023I traveled through Denmark this week and noticed they didn’t have mega highways or much traffic yet they can still move people and goods just fine through public transit and multi-modal.
— Senator Joe Nguyen (@meetjoenguyen) September 16, 2023
And they don’t have the same level of traffic fatalities like we do here. pic.twitter.com/Myl4O81neF
Skateboarding, Power and Change
Tuesday, September 19, 2023
When White Guys Travel To Asia, AKA Jason-Travel Is Just Creepy AF, AKA White Travel Vloggers Should Talk About This More
Saturday, September 16, 2023
3X: Olivia Rodrigo Answers Questions (Can She Parallel Park?), VMAs, And Get Him Back!
Thursday, September 14, 2023Shorts And Covers: Paparazzi - Lady Gaga | Deepa Jacob and Megha Shankar
Wednesday, September 13, 2023Tim Atlas, Attractive, and That's Just Smooth And Groovy
Wednesday, September 13, 2023
Bookish: The Comeback, The Fraud Squad, A Thousand Miles to Graceland, Tastes Like Shakkar A Novel (If Shakespeare Were an Auntie Book 2), Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
Wednesday, September 13, 2023Bobbi Kaur is determined to plan a celebration to remember for her best friend’s wedding. But she has two problems that are getting in her way:
1. The egotistical, and irritatingly sexy, chef Benjamin “Bunty” Padda is supposed to help her with the menu since he’s the groom’s best friend, and
2. Someone is trying to sabotage the wedding.
With aspirations of taking over her family’s event planning business, Bobbi knows that one misstep in managing the Kareena Mann and Prem Verma (#Vermann) party, along with the other weddings on her plate, will only give her uncle another reason not to promote her. That means Kareena’s big day and Bobbi's future career are on the line.
Bunty will do anything for his best friend, even though he has his hands full in finding a new location for his next restaurant while also playing mediator between his brother and father, the celebrated Naan King. When Prem asks Bunty to help with the wedding menu, he agrees, especially since it puts him in close proximity to the delicious Bobbi Kaur. When a mystery shaadi saboteur starts leaving threatening notes, and cancelling cake orders, Bunty and Bobbi have no choice but to call a truce and face the volatile attraction they have for each other.
Through masquerade fundraisers and a joint bachelor-bachelorette trip to Vegas, this chef and wedding planner explore their growing connection all while trying to plan a wedding at Messina Vineyards in a time crunch. But once the shaadi saboteur is caught and the wedding is over, will their love story have a happily ever after?
With the return of the meddling aunties (who are scary good at finding information) and a lot of hilarity and hijinks, Bobbi and Bunty’s romance is an event you don’t want to miss.
The Comeback
Ariadne Hui thrives on routine. So what if everything in her life is planned down to the minute: that's the way she likes it. If she's going to make partner in Toronto's most prestigious law firm, she needs to stay focused at all times.
But when she comes home after yet another soul-sucking day to find an unfamiliar, gorgeous man camped out in her living room, focus is the last thing on her mind. Especially when her roommate explains this is Choi Jihoon, her cousin freshly arrived from Seoul to mend a broken heart. He just needs a few weeks to rest and heal; Ari will barely even know he's there. (Yeah, right.)
Jihoon is kindness and chaos personified, and it isn't long before she's falling, hard. But when one wrong step leads to a shocking truth, Ari finds herself thrust onto the world stage: not as the competent, steely lawyer she's fought so hard to become, but as the mystery woman on the arm of a man the entire world claims to know. Now with her heart, her future, and her sense of self on the line, Ari will have to cut through all the pretty lies to find the truth of her relationship…and discover the Ariadne Hui she's finally ready to be.
The Fraud Squad
Now Samantha finds herself working at a drab PR firm. Living vicariously through her wealthy coworker and friend, Anya Chen, is the closest she’ll get to her ideal life. Until she meets Timothy Kingston: the disillusioned son of one of Singapore’s elite families—and Samantha’s one chance at infiltrating the high-society world to which she desperately wants to belong.
To Samantha’s surprise, Timothy and Anya both agree to help her make a name for herself on Singapore’s socialite scene. But the borrowed designer clothes and plus-ones to every glamorous event can only get her so far. The rest is on Samantha, and she’s determined to impress the editor in chief of Singapore’s poshest magazine. But the deeper Samantha wades into this fraud, the more she fears being exposed—especially with a mysterious gossip columnist on the prowl for dirt—forcing her to reconcile her pretense with who she really is before she loses it all.
A Thousand Miles to Graceland
Now the two are hightailing it from El Paso to Memphis, leaving a trail of sequins, false eyelashes, and difficult memories in their wake. Between spontaneous roadside stops to psychics, wig mishaps, and familiar passive-aggressive zingers, Grace is starting to better understand her Elvis-obsessed mama and their own fragile connection. She may even have another shot at love. Apparently the King really does work in mysterious ways. But after all these years, will it ever be possible for Grace and her mom to heal the hurts of the past?
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
Then one morning, Vera trudges downstairs to find a curious thing—a dead man in the middle of her tea shop. In his outstretched hand, a flash drive. Vera doesn’t know what comes over her, but after calling the cops like any good citizen would, she sort of . . . swipes the flash drive from the body and tucks it safely into the pocket of her apron. Why? Because Vera is sure she would do a better job than the police possibly could, because nobody sniffs out a wrongdoing quite like a suspicious Chinese mother with time on her hands. Vera knows the killer will be back for the flash drive; all she has to do is watch the increasing number of customers at her shop and figure out which one among them is the killer.
What Vera does not expect is to form friendships with her customers and start to care for each and every one of them. As a protective mother hen, will she end up having to give one of her newfound chicks to the police?
Submit To CAAMFest 2024!
Wednesday, September 13, 2023
Get your submission on to CAAMFEST 2024 at https://filmfreeway.com/caamfest
The Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) is now accepting film and media submissions for the 42nd anniversary of CAAMFest! The festival is currently scheduled for May 9 - 19, 2024. Please check back as dates may change.
CAAMFest (presented by the Center for Asian American Media) is one of the nation’s largest and enduring showcases for Asian and Asian American talent in film, food, music, and ideas. Since 1982, the annual festival has been an important launching point for Asian American independent filmmakers.
CAAMFest 2024 will be an in-person festival experience in the San Francisco Bay Area that includes a dynamic curation of film screenings, live performances, and culinary experiences that dive deep into illuminating the nuances of our vast and diverse diaspora.
“Our stories have the power to catalyze the public imagination, build socio-cultural movements, and influence political decisions in a way that shapes and defines our future and the world we want to live in,” says Thúy Trần, CAAMFest Festival & Exhibitions Director returning for their 3rd year at the helm.
In addition to film submissions, CAAMFest will be accepting proposals for digital and interactive media projects that can include virtual and augmented reality, multimedia performances, immersive art, and site-specific installations. We encourage filmmakers AND artists to apply. Please read below for our eligibility requirements.
With the ongoing pandemic, we will continue to monitor state and local public health guidance as we plan for 2024. Check back for more updates or follow our social media on Facebook, Twitter/X, or Instagram.
Filmmakers and artists can submit online using FilmFreeway. For questions or more information about the Call for Entries, please contact the Festival team at festival@caamedia.org.
BTW--You Did See Young Mazino In SZA's Snooze Video Right?
Tuesday, September 12, 2023
First--let's all hail SZA because SOS is just one of the most stunning albums out there, and hands down has some of the best lyrics of all time for songs like Nobody Gets Me:
You were balls deep, now we beefin', had me butt-naked at the MGM
So wasted screamin', "Fuck that, " love me now, but I'm anythin'
Hurry now, baby, stick it in 'fore the memories get to kickin' in
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