ASIAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER FORUM with guest speaker, Curtis Chin

Documentary maker, Curtis Chin, will be the keynote speaker.  Mr. Chin produced the documentary, "Vincent Who?", about a young man named Vincent Chin, 27, who was murdered in Detroit in 1982. He had been celebrating during his bachelor party with friends at a local bar when they got into an altercation with two white men. “It’s because of you we’re out of work,” they were said to have shouted, blaming them for the success of Japan’s auto industry. The men tracked Vincent down after he left the bar and bludgeoned him with a baseball bat.The men pleaded to manslaughter (down from second-degree murder) and were sentenced to three years of probation and fined $3,000. “Remember Vincent Chin” became a rallying cry for Asian-Americans of every background who protested in cities across the country for the first time.

Students will have the opportunity to break into group discussions after the keynote address.

Film Screening: Among B-Boys

APIA and the Cadena Transfer Center Present the Film Screening of:

AMONG B-BOYS
Q & A with Director, Chris Woon following the film

Date: Thursday, April 25th, 2013
Time: 2:00-4:00 pm
Location: Cadena Transfer Center

Free for students, faculty, staff, and community members

Among B-Boys is a documentary feature exploring the intersection between urban b-boying breakdancing and the traditional roots of Hmong culture. But instead of the usual generational conflict, Among B-Boys unveils a story of the modern and the traditional actually affirming each other, visually weaving between the older generation's memory of ethnicity and war and the younger generation's toprocks, footwork, freezes and power-moves. The movement began in the 1990s with the first wave of Hmong youth in the California Central Valley coming of age as Hmong Americans. Director Christopher Woon's short film documented a new movement of Hmong youth getting immersed in not only breaking/B-Boying, but also Hip Hop culture. It has since become an hour long feature documentary focusing on two main story lines, that of B-Boy Sukie and the Velocity/Soul Rivals and twin brothers, Bboys Mpact and Villn of Underground Flow. The documentary takes us geographically from Merced, Fresno and Sacramento in the California Central Valley, to Long Beach, California to as far as Tulsa, Oklahoma. 

APIA would like to thank the Fullerton Foundation for its generous funding of this event.