Asian Pacific Festival Sept. 21 & 22nd

http://www.asianpacificfestival.com/

September 21 & 22nd 

10 am to 10 pm

Newport Dunes Waterfront Resort and Marina

If you're interested in Asian Pacific culture, check out this festival!

Hesed Kim -- 2013 APIA Scholarship Recipient

 

The Asian Pacific Islander Faculty & Staff Association awarded the 2013 scholarship to Hesed Kim in recognition for his community service, leadership, and academic performance. On campus, Hesed keeps active performing in most of the theatrical productions. He has demonstrated leadership abilities through his position as secretary of Alpha Gamma Sigma, the California Community College honor society. As an officer of the honor society, Hesed has organized a number of events and is responsible for intra-club communication. In the community,  Hesed volunteers at the Dongshin Presbyterian Church where he leads a weekly bible study session and mentors high school freshmen.  In addition, he volunteers at the First Evangelical Church of Fullerton where he serves as a teacher in the children’s dept. and helps with various church events. The Compton Initiative also benefits from Hesed’s community service; he helps paint and renovate dilapidated houses in the City of Compton.  In fall of this year, he worked as a tutor at a private academy. While volunteering and working, Hesed has maintained a high grade point average as a Theater Arts major.  He was a recipient of the SRO (Standing Room Only) summer theater conservatory scholarship and he is on the President’s Honor list. In the future, Hesed hopes to transfer to Julliard, Yale or UCLA to earn a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theater. He would like to achieve success in film and theater and break down barriers that Asian Americans have faced in this field.

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.

Book Discussion: Balancing Two Worlds

Date: Thursday, May 2, 2013
Time: 5:00-6:00 pm
Location: Library 820P

Dinner afterwards--restaurant to be announced

APIA members will meet to discuss the book:

Balancing Two Worlds: Asian American College Students Tell Their Life Stories edited by Andrew Garrod and Robert Kilkenny    

Balancing Two Worlds highlights themes surrounding the creation of Asian American identity. This book contains fourteen first-person narratives by Asian American college students, most of whom have graduated during the first five years of the twenty-first century. Their engaging accounts detail the students' very personal struggles with issues of assimilation, gender, religion, sexuality, family conflicts, educational stereotypes, and being labeled the "model minority." Some of the students relate stories drawn from their childhood and adolescent experiences, while others focus more on their college experiences at Dartmouth.  

Annie Liu is ordering copies of Balancing Two Worlds. If you're interested in getting a copy, please email Annie Liu. 

Please RSVP Annie Liu at aliu@fullcoll.edu for the book discussion and/or the dinner.

APIA hosts Author Nicky Sa-eun Schildkraut

Date: Wednesday, April 10th, 2013
Time: 11:30-1:30 
Location: Room 228, Building 200

As a Korean adoptee (KAD), Nicky Sa-eun Schildkraut grew up in New England, a circumstance that inevitably prompted an early fascination with the diaspora that followed the Korean civil war. She observes that, accordingly, “many of my poems repeat and return to the themes of inarticulable loss, separation, and reimagination of the family and kinship.” As the title of this debut collection suggests, Schildkraut locates these themes in a formal expression oriented between refrain as song and refrain as restraint–”a nuanced method of expressing the equivocal and uncertain” that produces a tense flexibility in the look and feel of her poems. Schildkraut’s provocative and intensely lyrical poems seek to both unsettle and complicate presumptions about what binds people together in times of longing and loss. They do not draw solely on personal experience, but also tell the larger tale of the Korean diaspora–particularly the experiences of its women–in stories of war brides, defectors, birth mothers and other adoptees.

A copy of Magnetic Refrain is on reserve in the library under LIBRARY Ishibashi. The loan period is two days. 

Eric Liu's One Man Show

Eric Liu: Citizen Who?

“Should everyone, even the native-born, have to earn citizenship rather than just be given it? Who are we, and what do we owe one another, and who gets to be American and who does not?”

 

Join APIA in attending writer Eric Liu’s one-man performance. Former Clinton White House speechwriter Eric Liu, author of The Gardens of Democracy and The Accidental Asian, takes us on the journeys of five Americans who took unexpected paths to understand the meaning of being a citizen.  Please visit the following link to reserve a spot: http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/event/?postId=40392

 

Wednesday, Nov. 28^th, 7:30 PM

The Actors’ Gang

9070 Venice Boulevard

Culver City

Contact Annie Liu if you have any questions, aliu@fullcoll.edu