[AMA-e-News] Asian Media Access, E-Newsletter
Johnny Chio
johnnychio@amamedia.org
Mon, 02 Apr 2007 14:45:35 -0500
Greetings from Asian Media Access:
For information on community events, please also visit Asian Media Accessı
(AMA) Website at www.amamedia.org and click the link ³Community Events
Calendar² (http://www2.amamedia.org/calendar/month.php).
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Local Community Events:
1. Margaret Cho to Perform as Keynote Artist During Eliminate Hate Week
2. A Survival Seminar on Bullying for Youth-Service Professionals
3. Short course: Korean War: Past and Present
4. Mu Performing Arts presents New Eyes Festival
5. Imaginings and Intersections: Envisioning an Ideal Arts Landscape for
Communities of Color
6. Investing in North Minneapolis Youth
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1. Margaret Cho to Perform as Keynote Artist During Eliminate Hate Week
Mankato - Comedian, designer and actor Margaret Cho will be the keynote
performer for Minnesota State Mankato's Eliminate Hate Week.
Date & Time: Wednesday, April 4, 2007, 8 pm
Location: Taylor Center
Cho's performance is sponsored by IMPACT and the LGBT Center with assistance
from the Office of Institutional Diversity. For mature audiences only, the
event is open to students, faculty, staff and the public.
Cho is best known for her stage performances, recordings and concert movies.
Her shows include comedy with strong political and cultural commentary. She
performs with a distinctive, empowering personal voice, speaking to a
diverse audience that includes gays and lesbians, Asians, women, people of
color and others.
Recently she was honored with the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern
California's First Amendment Award, and with the National Organization for
Women's Intrepid Award. She also has been recognized by GLAAD, Lambda
Legal, the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force and the Asian
American Legal Defense and Education Fund for promoting equal rights for
all.
More information about Cho is available at
http://www.boredboard.org/margaret-cho.html
Student tickets are $5 (one ticket per valid Mavcard), and general admission
is $10. Tickets may be purchased in Centennial Student Union Room 173
(Student Leadership Development) Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4
p.m., or with a credit card at 507-389-6076. General admission tickets also
are available at the Coffee Hag, 329 Riverfront Drive; the St. Peter Food
Co-op, 119 West Broadway; and TJ Finnegan's Pub, 520 S. Front Street.
For MSU events: individuals with a disability, who need reasonable
accommodation to participate in this event, are asked to contact the Office
of Disability Services at 507-389-2825 (V/TTD), 800-627-3529 or 711
(MRS/TTD) at least five days prior to the event.
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2. A Survival Seminar on Bullying for Youth-Service Professionals
It's NOT Just Joking Around!
A Survival Seminar on Bullying for Youth-Service Professionals with Jodee
Blanco
Author of Please Stop Laughing at Me and the creator and executive producer
of the It's NOT Just Joking Around! bullying education program
Date: April 10, 2007
Time: 7:30 a.m. - Check-in will begin; 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.- Speaker
Location: Earle Brown Heritage Center, 6155 Earle Brown Drive, Brooklyn
Center, MN 55430
REGISTER NOW:
Online: www.mnyipa.org
Phone (request brochure or w/ credit card): 888-945-9472
Sponsored by: Minnesota Youth Intervention Programs Association (YIPA)
CONFERENCE GOAL
To provide human service professionals, social workers, parents, educators,
administrators, corrections and law enforcement with a comprehensive
bully-prevention plan and concrete tools on how to effectively help bullies,
the victims and bystanders. Participants will leave with the skills needed
to develop action plans to improve their services to youth and their
families by applying the principles and exercises in this conference.
CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES
Participants will:
- Examine profile and warning signs of a peer abused child
- Identify two types of bullying and the damage they cause
- Learn how to effectively talk to and interact with a peer-abused student
- Learn how to successfully intervene in a bullying situation
- Learn how to create a team to develop a systematic approach
- Receive recommendations for anti-bulling programs and curriculum
enhancement initiatives
- Learn how to harness the power of cool, popular kids
IDEAL FOR
This conference is geared toward youth service professionals -
educators/administrators, social workers, youth workers, health care and
mental health professionals, law enforcement/corrections/probation & all who
work with youth.
CEU's
MN Board of Social Work - 7.0 hours approved
MN Board of Psychology - 7.5 hours approved
MN Child Protection - 7.0 hours approved
MN POST - 7.0 hours approved
MN Board of Marriage and Family - 7.5 hours approved
ND Board of Social Work - 6.0 hours approved
ND POST - Applied for 7.0 hours
ND Board of Psychology - Applied for 7.0 hours
If you have any questions, please call 888-945-YIPA.
Attendance certificates will be available at the conclusion of the
conference.
ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Jodee Blanco, author of the New York Times best-selling memoir, Please Stop
Laughing at Me, and the creator and executive producer of the Itıs NOT Just
Joking Around! bullying education program understands how it is to be the
school outcast, and knows first-hand what itıs like to contemplate
³retaliation.² From 5th grade to the end of high school, she was shunned and
tormented by her peers, simply for being different. As an adult, she
decided to go public with her story, because she was frustrated with the
mediaıs perception of the true cause of the school tragedies in Columbine,
San Diego, AZ, and dozens of other locations across America.
Since the release of her book, Jodee has educated over a half million
students, parents, teachers and other professionals. While touring the
country, she has successfully intervened on sixteen student suicides,
averted a school bombing, and thwarted a knifing. Her next book, Please Stop
Laughing at Us... will be published by BenBella Books in September, 2007.
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3. Short course: Korean War: Past and Present
Korean War: Past and Present
Date & Time: April 19 - 20, 2007, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Joanne Rhim Lee and Richard Kagan
This two-day course will focus on past and present issues from the Korean
War: the Japanese colonization of Korea, the outbreak and major events of
the Korean War, foreign involvement, reunification efforts, and the current
nuclear standoff. In addition, they will look at the Still Present Pasts
exhibit at Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis (April 14 - June 15, 2007) and the
role art has played in the expression and healing of this war. Activities
include lectures from Hamline University professor Richard Kagan, curriculum
developed specifically for high school students, and an excursion to the
Still Present Pasts exhibit.
Teachers will earn 1 Continuing Education Credit and lunch is included in
the registration fee.
Please note that teacher stipends of $125 are available to help teachers
cover the cost of substitute teachers, travel, or teaching materials.
Registration Fee: $35 - includes lunch, excursion & transportation, teaching
materials
Teacher Stipends Available: $125
Registration Deadline: Friday, April 13, 2007
Register at http://igs.cla.umn.edu/outreach
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4. Mu Performing Arts presents New Eyes Festival
Mu Performing Arts presents New Eyes Festival featuring work from the Jerome
New Performance Program!
Date: April 19 - 22, 2007
Times: Thurs - Fri at 7 pm, Sat & Sun at 3 pm
Location: Mu Performing Arts Studio, 2700 Winter St NE, Minneapolis (for
directions, visit www.muperformingarts.org)
Sat at 8pm
Loft Literary Center At Minnesota Open Book, 1011 Washington Avenue South,
Minneapolis, MN 55415
Admission:
$8 (suggested donation); $35 for a festival pass (suggested donation)
$5 for Sat 8 pm performance- Loft Literary Center
For more information, visit itıs website at www.muperformingarts.org or
email at info@muperformingarts.org
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5. Imaginings and Intersections: Envisioning an Ideal Arts Landscape for
Communities of Color
Imaginings and Intersections: Envisioning an Ideal Arts Landscape for
Communities of Color
Hosted by The Metropolitan Regional Arts Council and The Minnesota State
Arts Board
Date & Time: April 21, 2007, 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Location: Center for Independent Artists, 4137 Bloomington Avenue South,
Minneapolis
This is an opportunity for artists from all communities of color and
cultures, including immigrants Artists working in all disciplines. Through
this convening, they seek to build strength as a network of artists and arts
groups in communities of color, especially as agents working for a new
vision of society; share ideas; dialogue around challenges and also around
new ideas and inspiration to further your work.
Schedule:
- 10:00 a.m.: Gather, connect with others; Select small groups
- 10:30 a.m. noon: Six Small Groups (choose one, limit of 15
participants/group)
- Noon - 1:00 p.m.: lunch and networking
- 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.: Six Small Groups (choose one, limit of 15
participants/group)
- 2:45 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.: Plenary; Reporting out and next steps
- 3:45 p.m.: Closing; Artist led.
- 4:00 p.m.: Adjourn
Register at www.mrac.org linking to "upcoming MRAC events" or by calling
Greg at 651-645-0402.
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6. Investing in North Minneapolis Youth
Everyone who cares about the future of youth in North Minneapolis is invited
to attend an important forum.
Date & Time: Thursday, April 26, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Location: Minneapolis Urban League, 2100 Plymouth Ave. North, Minneapolis
Youth and young adults are welcome. A light meal will be served. Forum
sponsors are NorthWay Community Trust and NorthPoint Health & Wellness
Center as members of the Northside Youth Development Collaborative. For
more information, contact Lance MarcusKnuckles, Outreach Program Manager,
NorthWay Community Trust at 612-521-4500.
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