[AMA-e-News] Asian Media Access, E-Newsletter, 3/26

[Johnny Chio]

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).

Asian Media Access (AMA) Events or Sponsored Event:

1. Highlights from AMA Lunar New Year Gala
2. AMA Receives Best Practice Awards from Governorıs Council

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Local Community Events:

3. MN East Asia Brown Bag Speaker
4. Presentation Series - "The Hmong Refugee Experience"
5. Twin Cities Fourth Arab Film Festival
6. The next Asian Literatures, Cultures and Media Workshop Meeting
7. Mu Performing Arts Presents 365 Days/365 Plays and Asian American Artist
Forum
8. Promoting and Defending the Human Right to Housing in Minnesota
9. Photography Exhibition/Lecture on Japanese Internment Camp at Mankato
State University
10. NAAAP-MN Upcoming Events

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National & International Community Events:

11. Museum of Chinese in the Americas ­ Call for Photos & Stories

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1. Highlights from AMA Lunar New Year Gala

We have photo highlights and highlights from Best Asian Television
Commercial Awards from our Second Annual Lunar New Year Gala. See them at
http://www.amamedia.org/CapitalCampaign/galahighlites.html
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2. AMA Receives Best Practice Awards from Governorıs Council

The Governorıs Council on Faith and Community Service Initiatives hosted a
reception on February 28, 2007 to present their 2006 Best Practices Award to
³What About Us?² along with six other Minnesota organizations.

Read the article from Asian American Press at
http://aapress.com/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1174611171
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3. MN East Asia Brown Bag Speaker

"Wal-Mao: The Discipline of Corporate Culture and Studying Success at
Wal-Mart, China."

By David Davies (Hamline University)

Date & Time: Thursday, March 29, noon
Location: 125 Nolte Hall, Church Street, University of Minnesota, Twin
Cities Campus
Parking: 4th Street Ramp, 1625 4th Street SE

The talk examines the localization of Wal-Mart's corporate culture at its
stores in China.   Specifically the ways it is in dialogue with both Chinese
discourses of "culture" and Maoist and post-Mao organizational culture.

David Davies is Assistant Professor in the Anthropology Department and the
Director of the East Asian Studies program at Hamline University.  His
recent publications include: "Visible Zhiqing: The Visual Culture of
Nostalgia Among China's Zhiqing Generation" in Re- envisioning the Chinese
Revolution.

Guobin Yang and Ching Kwan Lee, eds. Woodrow Wilson Center Press and
Stanford University Press, forthcoming and "Old Zhiqing Photos: Nostalgia
and the "Spirit" of the Cultural Revolution" in The China Review.
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4. Presentation Series - "The Hmong Refugee Experience"

The first of the Hmong Public Presentation Series about The Hmong Refugee
experience!  Please join them as colleagues and community members, please
invite your family and friends, and please forward this information to other
interested parties.

Date & Time: Thursday, March 29th, 2007, 6 pm ­ 8 pm
Location: Concordia University, St. Paul, Buetow Auditorium
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5. Twin Cities Fourth Arab Film Festival

The Twin Cities Fourth Arab Film Festival is March 29 - April 1 at the
Heights Theater in
Columbia Heights.  The festival begins with a 6 p.m. opening reception on
Thursday March 29 followed by the showing of Heavenıs Doors, which will be
introduced by guest director Ali Selim (director of Sweet Land).

Throughout the festival, guest directors Saeed Taji Farouky, Annie Sundberg
and Nida Sinnokrot are expected to be present for post-screening discussion
on their films.

Read on... -
http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=4g44y6bab.0.x8cz86bab.uk5cynbab.20894&ts=S0234&p=htt
p://www.onenationnews.com/fullstory.asp?newsid=3148
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6. The next Asian Literatures, Cultures and Media Workshop Meeting

The next Asian Literatures, Cultures and Media Workshop Meeting is next
Friday.  Don't miss it!

What: "Revealing Itself As a Land of Gold?" The Politics of Tourism
Development & Nature Conservation in Western Sichuan
Who: Elizabeth Johnson, Geography Ph.D. student
Where: Folwell 312
When: Friday, March 30, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Refreshments provided.

For a copy of the paper, email jmcgrath@umn.edu.  It is long, so readers are
encouraged to focus on the latter part, pages 34-62.
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7. Mu Performing Arts Presents 365 Days/365 Plays and Asian American Artist
Forum

Title: 365 Day/365 Plays and Asian American Artist Forum
Date: Saturday, March 31
Time: reading at 2:00 pm, followed by forum
Location: Mu Performing Arts Studio, 2700 Winter St NE, Minneapolis (for
directions, go to www.muperformingarts.org)
Admission: free and open to the public
Website: www.muperformingarts.org
Email: info@muperformingarts.org

As part of the 365 Festival in the Twin Cities this year, Mu Performing Arts
will present a reading of week 20 from Suzan-Lori Parksı 365 Days/365 Plays
on Saturday, March 31st at 2:00 pm at the Mu Studio Space, 2700 NE Winter
St, Minneapolis. Admission is free and open to the public.

Led by Producing Artistic Associate Randy Reyes, the public reading feature
Mu artists Eric Sharp.  Eric Sumangil, Sun Mee Chomet and Mayano Ochi, to be
followed by an Asian American Theater Artist forum, focusing on individual
artists and companies within the Twin Cities.
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8. Promoting and Defending the Human Right to Housing in Minnesota

PROMOTING AND DEFENDING THE HUMAN RIGHT TO HOUSING IN MINNESOTA

Sponsored by St. Stephen's Human Services, MCN would also like to inform you
of a unique opportunity to hear from national speakers on human rights and
housing.  The goal of this conference is to unite a diverse movement of
people advocating for housing as a human right in
Minnesota.

Date & Time: Tuesday, April 10, 2007, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Location: St. Stephen's Human Services, 2211 Clinton Ave South, Minneapolis,
MN 55404

This one-day workshop, sponsored by the Otto Bremer Foundation, will feature
national speakers and presentations from: Centre on Housing Rights and
Evictions (Duluth, MN) National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty
(Washington, D.C.) Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign
(Philadelphia, PA) Coalition to Protect Public Housing (Chicago, IL) and
many local presenters too!

For more information or to register, contact Joshua Lang at
jlang@ststephensmpls.org
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9. Photography Exhibition/Lecture on Japanese Internment Camp at Mankato
State University 

A student's unusual angle on a class assignment led Minnesota State
University, Mankato Art Education faculty member Gina Wenger to create a
unique photographic documentary of Manzanar, a Japanese-American internment
camp.

Next month Wenger's photographs of Manzanar will be displayed in the
Centennial Student Union gallery from Friday, April 6, through Saturday,
April 14, with an opening reception for the exhibit at 4 p.m. April 6. And
on Tuesday, April 10, she will show and discuss her Manzanar photographs and
research during the Minnesota State Mankato 2007 Douglas R. Moore Faculty
Research Lecture.

Read more at https://www.mnsu.edu/media/newsletter/#two
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10. NAAAP-MN Upcoming Events

April 19, 6 ­ 8 PM, Mingler Event
Williams Pub & Peanut Bar, 2911 Hennepin Ave S,Minneapolis, MN

April 28, 6:30 ­ 8:30 PM, Seminar ­ Building Your Financial Goals
Join personal financial advisors Daniel Hockert and Jason Bauerly at the
AZIA Restaurant in Minneapolis.

http://www.naaap-mn.org
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11. Museum of Chinese in the Americas ­ Call for Photos & Stories

Call for Photos & Stories

The Museum of Chinese in the Americas is collecting images and stories for
their new core exhibition honoring the adventurous and creative spirit of
Chinese in America.  The exhibit will open in January 2008 in their new
facilities designed by architect Maya Lin, and they want YOU and many others
who share Chinese ancestry to be a part of it!

IS THERE A PHOTO that captures your strongest memory of you and/or your
family arriving in the United States?

IS THERE A STORY/ MEMORY that speaks of that moment, when you knew and felt
for the first time, that America was your new home?

Was it the sweet taste of your first hot dog?  The feeling of snowflakes
touching your skin for the first time?  Perhaps it was the sight of a new
city skyline?  Or maybe your fatherıs description of drinking powdered milk
as the way he experienced America for the first time?

AND IF YOUıVE spent YOUR ENTIRE LIFE in the United States, what photos,
objects, and stories have been passed down over the years to become symbolic
of your familyıs immigration to America?

They particularly encourage you to submit your photos and stories if you
and/or your family arrived in the U.S. after 1965.

I. Deadline: April 23, 2007
II. PLEASE FILL OUT & ATTACH THE DONATION FORM with your submission.
III. PHOTOS may be sent via email as TIF or JPEG files.  High resolution
images (300 dpi) are preferred.  They are especially interested in photos
that provide a sense of geographical context, time, and place.
IV. Email submissions should be sent to Cynthia Lee at clee@moca-nyc.org
with the subject heading ³CORE EXHIBIT²
 V. Mail submissions should be sent to: CORE EXHIBIT, Museum of Chinese in
the Americas, 70 Mulberry Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10013.
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