[AMA-e-News] Asian Media Access, E-Newsletter, 9/6
Johnny Chio
johnnychio@amamedia.org
Wed, 06 Sep 2006 10:09:37 -0500
Hi Everyone:
In this edition of AMA e-newsletter:
Local Community Events:
1. Celebrate MN Recovery Month With Events Throughout September
2. Public Forum: How the Arts Impact the Economy
3. Check out a Museum at your Favorite Library
4. Photography Exhibit: Art of Change
5. Poetry Reading
6. Art Exhibition
7. Governor Tim Pawlenty's Minnesota Veterans Summit
8. Amy Tan Opens 10th Season of Pen Pals
9. Tai Chi Class at Homewood Studio
10. Workshop: Preventing Sexual Harm of Youth
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National Community Events:
11. Announcing Office for Victims of Crime's Fall/Winter 2006 Training
Program
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1. Celebrate MN Recovery Month With Events Throughout September
Event 1: Kickoff Spirituality Breakfast
Date & Time: Thursday, September 7th, 7:30 am
Location: Augsburg College - Minneapolis Room
For more information or to make reservations call 612-378-8856 or visit its
website at www.recoveryworksmn.org.
Event 2: Special Comedy Performance
Date & Time: Thursday, September 14th, 7 pm
Location: Brave New Workshop, 2605 Hennepin Ave. S, Minneapolis
For more information or to make reservations call 612-378-8856 or visit its
website at www.recoveryworksmn.org.
Event 3: Beyond Silence
Please join Asian Media Access, Center for Hmong Studies, Council of Asian
Pacific Islanders, and Lao Cultural Center to support Asian American &
Pacific Islander (AAPI) Recovery Month Forum. FREE and open to public,
lunch provided.
Date: Saturday, September 23, 9am - 3pm
Location: Lao Cultural Center Building, 2648 W. Broadway Ave., Minneapolis,
MN 55411
9 a.m. - 10. a.m. Walk for Recovery
10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Speakers, Panels and Health Fair Exhibits
For information, call David Zander, 651-296-0538, and Ange Hwang, Asian
Media Access 612-376-7715.
Event 4: Minnesota Twins Game
Date & Time: Wednesday, September 27th
Location: HHH Metrodome
5:00 pm Picnic Dinner
For more information or to make reservations call 612-378-8856 or visit its
website at www.recoveryworksmn.org.
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2. Public Forum: How the Arts Impact the Economy
How the arts impact the economy - Ann Markusen to present at Minneapolis
Arts Commission's Public Forum
WHAT: The Minneapolis Arts Commission is hosting a public meeting with
special guest, Professor Ann Markusen, who will speak about her research on
the cultural and economic impact of the arts on the Twin Cities' creative
economy. A question-and-answer period will follow her presentation.
WHEN: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 7, 2006
WHERE: Guthrie Theater, Grieves Rehearsal Room, 818 S. 2nd St., Minneapolis
MORE: The Minneapolis Arts Commission will host a public meeting featuring
Professor Ann Markusen, an economist at the University of Minnesota's Hubert
H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. Markusen, who has been an
articulate advocate for the arts through her research, will speak about how
artists and small-scale arts nonprofits impact the cultural and wider
economic life of the Twin Cities.
Markusen's most recent study, "Artists' Centers: Evolution and Impact on
Artists, Neighborhoods, and Economies," co-authored by Amanda Johnson and
released by the Humphrey Institute last February, shows that Minnesota's
strong creative economy owes much of its success to the unusual number and
quality of dedicated gathering spaces for artists.
Minnesota is home to dozens of artists' centers that provide workspace,
equipment, and networking opportunities for amateur and professional
writers, musicians, and visual and performing artists. The study documents
how these centers have evolved over time and contribute to the culture,
safety and economic vitality of their host communities. The study also
details their fiscal challenges and makes a case to policymakers and
business leaders to recognize the strong contribution that artists' centers
make to local and regional economies. In previous research, Markusen has
documented the economic impact artists have on the local economy.
The night of the public meeting, all three of the Guthrie's theaters will be
in performance; meeting attendees are invited to come early to enjoy
refreshments at one of the lobby bars. For directions and parking
information, go to www.guthrietheater.org or call 612-377-2224. or contact
Matt Laible, Communications Department, 612-673-2786, Ben Heywood,
Minneapolis Arts Commission Chair, 612-623-9176.
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3. Check out a Museum at your Favorite Library
Beginning Sept. 7, you can check out free one-day passes to 17 museums and
cultural centers just by stopping by any of Hennepin County's 26 libraries
(as well as more than 100 libraries metro-wide). Each pass admits four and
is valid up to seven days. Limited quantities, suggested two passes per
month per library card. The program is made possible with the support and
cooperation from all participating organizations, Macy's Gives, and
Metropolitan Library Service Agency (MELSA).
Participating Museums include American Swedish Institute, The Bakken, Bell
Museum of Natural History, Como Park Zoo and Conservatory, Gibbs Museum of
Pioneer and Dakotah Life, Metro Historic Sites, Mill City Museum,
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota History Center, Minnesota Landscape
Arboretum, Minnesota Museum of American Art, Minnesota Zoo, Murphy's
Landing, Science Museum of Minnesota, The Museum of Russian Art, Walker Art
Center and Weisman Art Museum.
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4. Photography Exhibit: Art of Change
Art of Change!
Dates & Time: September 9-30, 2006, 7 pm - 11:00 pm
Location: The Stevens Square Center for the Arts, 1905 Third Avenue South,
Minneapolis
The Stevens Square Center for the Arts (SSCA) and OverExposure are proud to
announce the photography exhibit, on display in the SSCA gallery, entitled
Art of Change. Art of Change highlights the work of local photography
artists interested in examining relevant social issues, suggesting positive
change, and promoting community. Specifically, Art of Change will feature
pieces from four collections, which focus on the issues of the working poor,
civic engagement, contributions of the local immigrant and refugee
communities, and small businesses. An opening reception for Art of Change
will take place on September 9 at the SSCA gallery. The event is free, with
refreshments. A community forum, entitled "How Art Projects Build Community"
will be held in conjunction with the Art of Change exhibition. Panelists in
the forum will include Neal Cuthbert (Arts Program Director McKnight
Foundation), Mary Altman (Public Arts Administrator -City of Minneapolis),
Peter Haakon Thompson (artist, founder, Ice Shanty Projects and the "A"
Project), Kathleen Kvern, Project Director, mnartists.org. For more
information please call, 612-879-0200 or visit http://www.stevensarts.org.
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5. Poetry Reading
Hmong writers Ka Vang and Shoua Lee will present a high-energy, no-holds
barred poetry reading at Patrick's Cabaret in Minneapolis. Entitled Mind
Myth, & Motion, this one-night only reading explores how our identity is
constructed by ourselves and by others, and how old legends perpetuate some
traditions, but can also empower women of all backgrounds and create social
change. This is free to the public and features new and classic poems they
have written. The provocative reading will be hosted by Sherry Quan Lee, the
author of the popular underground favorite, "Chinese Blackbird." Audience
members can talk with the authors afterwards.
Ka Vang is an award-winning diversity consultant and writer, who has worked
with Planned Parenthood of MN/SD, Ramsey County and many other non-profits
and public organizations. A columnist for the Minnesota Women's Press, her
writing has appeared in the Paj Ntaub Voice, Bamboo Among The Oaks, and the
Asian American anthology Charlie Chan Is Dead 2, edited by Jessica Hagedorn.
Shoua Lee is a Hmong writer and community activist based in Minnesota. Lee
regularly performs across the Twin Cities, and has been a member of the
Unbound! Asian Women Write writers collective as well as a volunteer for the
Hmong American Institute for Learning. She has spoken at several colleges,
as well as events at the Loft Literary Center, Intermedia Arts, the Babylon
Gallery and Sursumcorda. A dynamic reader, her compelling work has appeared
in the Paj Ntaub Voice Hmong Literary Journal.
This incredible reading is free.
Date & Time: September 14, 2006, 7 pm
Location: Patrick's Cabaret, 3010 Minnehaha Ave S, Minneapolis
For more information, call 612-874-2815.
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6. Art Exhibition
What: New Exhibition: Eloquent Silences: Kyoung Ae Cho, Textiles and Wood
Sculpture
When: September 19, 2006 - November 12, 2006
Where: Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota Duluth
Events: Artist's Lecture: September 19, 6 p.m., Opening Reception, September
19, 7 - 8 p.m.
Contacts: Sandi Peterson, 218-726-7823, sgpeters@d.umn.edu, Peter Spooner,
Curator, 218-726-7056, pspooner@d.umn.edu
The Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota Duluth, will present a solo
exhibition of 36 fiber, wood and mixed-media sculptures by Korean-born
artist Kyoung Ae Cho. The artist will give a public presentation about her
work at the museum on Tuesday, September 19, at 6:00 pm. The lecture is free
and open to the public.
Steeped in the traditions of fiber art, quilting and needlework, Cho's
sculptures and wall installations are derived from observing the forms and
growth patterns of trees, leaves and other natural entities. "My works are
the result of conversations between myself and nature," says the artist, who
gathers and transforms natural materials like wood, leaves and pine needles
to create meditative and subtle works of art. "I always think of nature as
having a personality, with its own language, whether it is expressed by
shape, pattern, color, texture, form, scale, smell, sound or temperature and
its changes," she says. "My works have been made while searching for and
exploring a common language that I could share with nature." Cho's work
eloquently emphasizes nature's production of forms and patterns, as she
gathers, stitches and carefully places small elements like twigs, leaves,
pine needles and seeds in serial patterns. "I believe that in order to
understand the whole," the artist says, "it is essential to understand the
smaller elements that make up the whole."
A highly regarded fiber artist and sculptor whose works have been exhibited
worldwide, Kyoung Ae Cho was born in Onyang, South Korea in 1963. She
received a Bachelors of Fine Art degree from Duksung Women's University,
Seoul, South Korea in 1986 and a Masters of Fine Arts degree from Cranbrook
Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA in 1991. She has taught at
Kansas City Art Institute, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Penland School of
Crafts, Haystack Mountain School of Craft and lectured internationally at
the Maryland Institute College of Art, Tyler School of Art, the Detroit
College of Art and Design, Seoul National University, Chungang University
and Duksung Women's University in South Korea.
Cho lives in Milwaukee, where she is associate professor in the Peck School
of the Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the recipient
of 2004 UW-Milwaukee Foundation Graduate School Research Award, a 1997
Lillian Elliott Award and a 1995 Pollock-Krasner
Foundation Grant. She received the Award of Excellence from Quilt National
1997 for her work Aged; covered by wisdom, which is included in the Tweed
Museum exhibition.
Eloquent Silences: Kyoung Ae Cho, Textiles and Wood Sculpture is funded in
part by the Minnesota State Arts Board from an appropriation by the
Minnesota State Legislature. The artist's lecture and residency is presented
in conjunction with the UMD Art & Design Lecture Series, which is supported
by the UMD School of Fine Arts John and Mary Gonska Cultural Fund, the
Arrowhead Regional Arts Council and the Duluth Best Western Edgewater Motel.
Museum hours: Tuesday 9am-8pm; Wednesday-Friday 9am - 4:30pm; Saturday &
Sunday 1-5pm. Closed Mondays and University Holidays.
The Tweed Museum of Art is one of six units in the School of Fine Arts, UMD.
The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and employer.
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7. Governor Tim Pawlenty's Minnesota Veterans Summit
Governor Tim Pawlenty's Minnesota Veterans Summit Addressing the Needs of
Returning Combat Veterans!
Date: September 21, 2006
Time: 7.30 a.m. - 4.30 p.m. (Summit), 4.30 - 7.30 p.m. (Veterans Fair)
Location: Minneapolis Convention Center
Please get the word out to the Hmong veterans so that we bring the concerns
and issues of the Hmong soldiers to this summit. This is an important
opportunity for the Hmong, Lao and Vietnamese to participate in discussions
and make policy makers aware of the needs of the minority veterans. It's a
one day summit to those who shape state policy and provide services to
veterans and their families.
There will be over 30 exhibitors. It will be a worthwhile goal to see that
the Hmong Veterans organizations are represented there. To register visit
its website at www.mdva.state.mn.us/vetssummit. To RSVP contact David
Zander, Research Analyst, Council on Asian-Pacific Minnesotans at Tel
651-296-0538 / Fax 651-297-8735 or email david.zander@state.mn.us.
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8. Amy Tan Opens 10th Season of Pen Pals
Amy Tan Opens 10th Season of Pen Pals!
Dates & Time: Thursday, Sep. 28, 2006, 7:30 p.m.; Friday, Sep. 29, 2006, 12
Noon
Location: Hopkins Center for the Arts, 1111 Mainstreet, Hopkins
Tan is one of the most highly acclaimed writers of our time. Her first
novel, "The Joy Luck Club," is an international bestseller (translated into
25 languages) that received the National Book Critics Circle Award and was
made into a major motion picture. Other works include "The Bonesetter's
Daughter," "The Kitchen God's Wife," "Saving Fish from Drowning" and two
children's books. For information on the entire season line up and ticket
information, go online at www.uptowntix.com or call 651-209-6799.
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9. Workshop: Preventing Sexual Harm of Youth
"Preventing Sexual Harm of Youth" with Jeanne Martin (Olmsted County Victim
Services) and Grit Youngquist (MN Dept of Health Prevention Specialist)
Date & Time: Thursday, October 19, 2006, 9:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Workshop Description: Healthy sexual development of youth is a challenge
within a sexually toxic society. Popular media, music, advertising and web
sites convey an abundance of unhealthy messages of sexuality. Many of these
messages overtly or covertly promote sexual violence. As regular consumers
of media, youth are also most vulnerable to these messages. Young people
face serious risks from individuals seeking to abuse or exploit teens.
Prevention of sexual harm has historically focused on educating potential
victims to avoid risks. The time is now to incorporate additional,
effective, proven methods of prevention that engage adults in creating
safer, healthier environments for youth.
This workshop will examine the current attitudes and sexual behaviors of
young people and our society; and give participants practical tools to
counter negative sexual messages and promote healthy sexuality. Participants
will be introduced to the "Spectrum of Prevention" and learn how
organizations, families and individuals can take steps to transform the
conditions that lead to the perpetration of sexual violence.
Check out www.mnyipa.org for more information on this workshop, as well as
the seven other specific-topic workshops in the 2006 Workshop Collection!
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10. Tai Chi Class at Homewood Studio
Date & Time: Saturdays, 8:30 am to 10:30 am
The class runs in three-month cycles, but new members and interested drop-in
are welcome at any time. Tai Chi instruction for practitioners at any level
from just curious to master. The group seeks to discover ways of bringing
the elements of Tai Chi training into our daily lives.
Questions, please call Beverly Roberts at 612 588-3723 or e-mail her at
beverly@homewoodstudios.com.
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11. Announcing Office for Victims of Crime's Fall/Winter 2006 Training
Program
Registration is underway for the Office for Victims of Crime's (OVC's)
Fall/Winter 2006 Training Calendar for Victim Service Providers. Class sizes
are limited to ensure an interactive learning environment, and spaces are
filling up fast. Don't miss this excellent opportunity to build your
practical technical skills and knowledge of victim service issues.
Register now. Here's how‹
You may download the OVC Training Calendar Registration Form or register and
pay online at http://www.ovcttac.org/calendar/training.cfm.
Select one or more training courses from the Fall/Winter 2006 Training
Calendar.
- Providing Culturally Competent Services to Victims of Crime. Everything
you need to know to more effectively serve victims of crime from diverse
populations.
September 1214, 2006
Chicago, Illinois
- Sexual Assault Advocate/Counselor Training. OVC's premier training for
SARTs. This interactive training session provides participants with
practical skills to assist sexual assault victims.
September 2728, 2006
Lincoln, Nebraska
- Mental Health Response to Mass Violence and Terrorism. Based on exciting,
new, mental health research published by the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration in
conjunction with OVC.
October 35, 2006
Phoenix, Arizona
- Professional Development Institute. Designed for program managers and
supervisors who want to enhance how they manage their services, resources,
and staff.
October 1012, 2006
Albany, New York
- The Ultimate Trainer. Learn the basics of training development and
delivery. At the end of the session, participants will be able to plan,
develop, implement, and evaluate quality training programs. One past
participant said: łEvery trainer in [the victim services field] should take
this training!˛
October 2426, 2006
St. Louis, Missouri
- Program Evaluation. Managers of victim service agencies will learn how to
use program evaluation as a tool to determine whether their programs are
achieving the stated goals and objectives.
November 78, 2006
Nashville, Tennessee
- NEW! ‹ Identity Theft: Victims' Needs for Recovery of Their Good Name and
Their Good Credit. Learn how to support victim self-advocacy, and how and
when to intervene in the victim's recovery process.
December 56, 2006
Austin, Texas
OVC Professional Development Scholarships Are Available. Scholarships
provide up to $1,000 for individuals and up to $5,000 for multidisciplinary
teams of victim service professionals seeking continuing education
opportunities. To determine whether you or your team are eligible for a
scholarship, visit the OVC Training Calendar at
http://www.ovcttac.org/calendar/training.cfm.
For additional Training Calendar information or registration instructions,
please call OVC TTAC at 1866OVCTTAC (18666828822); TTY:
18666828880.
Putting Victims First - OVC shares your mission and has a wide range of
resources to help you accomplish it. Visit the National Criminal Justice
Reference Service online at http://www.ncjrs.gov to register for services or
find out more.
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