[AMA-e-News] Asian Media Access, E-Newsletter, 10/02

[Johnny Chio]

Greetings from Asian Media Access:

For information on community events, please also visit Asian Media Access¹
(AMA) Website at www.amamedia.org and click the link ³Community Events
Calendar² (http://www2.amamedia.org/calendar/month.php).


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Asian Media Access Events or Sponsored Events:

1. A Celebration Banquet with Asian Media Access and Our Youth

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Local Community Events:

2. Art Saves Us - Classes Start in October 2007
3. Celebrate Freedom to Breathe
4. Senior Legal Fair ­ A New Initiative for Low Income Seniors
5. Forum for Students of Color Interested in College Scholarships
6. Lecture at U of M by Professor Mark Nornes, U of Michigan, Ann Harbor ­
"Owning Hiroshima"

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1. A Celebration Banquet with Asian Media Access and Our Youth

Join us for a spectacular evening in celebrating and honoring the
achievements of our youth in community services; learn what our youth have
been doing for the community through media arts; learn about Asian Media
Access programs; dinner, youth testimonies, video presentations and much
more!

Date & Time: Thursday, October 18, 2007, 6 pm - 8 pm (registration starts at
5 pm)
Location: Jackson Room, St. Paul Travelers, 385 Washington Street, downtown
St. Paul
Dress Code: Semi-Formal
RSVP at amamedia@amamedia.org

For more information, please contact Asian Media Access at 612-376-7715, or
email amamedia@amamedia.org.
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2. Art Saves Us - Classes Start in October 2007

The Center for Hmong Arts and Talent CHAT
Art Saves Us - Classes Start in October 2007

- Mondays 4 pm ­ 6 pm Creative Writing For Life Ages 13-19
Writing your life and imaginations onto paper with poetry, fiction, memoir,
prose, spoken word performance and more writing styles.

- Tuesdays 4 pm ­ 6 pm Music Production Ages 13-19
Learn how to produce your own music - write your own songs, make your own
beats, and record a track using studio programs and equipment.

- Wednesdays & Fridays 4 pm ­ 6 pm Intermediate Creative Drama Ages 13-19
Performance Arts and Theatre Acting for intermediate level students.
Audition is required. Call for more details.

- Thursdays 4 pm ­ 6 pm Breakdancing for Kids Ages 7-12
Uprocking, Footwork, Powermoves, Freezes and more dances for B-boys and
B-girls ages 7-12.

Please contact Tou SaiKo Lee to sign up for class: tousaiko@aboutchat.org or
call 651-644-6969
995 University Ave. St. Paul, MN 55130
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3. Celebrate Freedom to Breathe

Celebrate Freedom to Breathe!
Tuag nrog peb ua kev zoo siab!

Date & Time: October 5, 6 pm - 8 pm
Location: Queen Asia Restaurant, Vinai Building, 1394 Jackson St., St. Paul,
MN 55117

Come out to celebrate Minnesota going smoke-free starting October 1st, 2007.
There will be a short program to thank special guests.  Appetizers will be
provided.

Sponsored by: Association for Nonsmokers- MN and Smoke-Free Ramsey

Contact Amee Xiong or Choua Lee at 651-646-3005 and ax@ansrmn.org or
cualis.ansr@gmail.com.  RSVP appreciated but not required.
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4. Senior Legal Fair ­ A New Initiative for Low Income Seniors

Art Saves Us - Classes Start in October 2007

Date & Time: Wednesday, Oct. 17, 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Location: Saint Paul River Centre.  Admission is free.

The Senior Legal Fair will kick-off a new, innovative, initiative launched
by Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services (SMRLS) to serve economically
disadvantaged seniors.  The event provides a setting in which volunteer
attorneys offer free community legal education for low-income seniors living
in Dakota, Ramsey, Washington, Scott or Carver County.

Presentations on topics of interest to seniors will include health care
directives, wills, grandparent rights, identity theft, fraud and scams, and
tenant rights/public housing.  Participants may select from five morning
breakout sessions.  After lunch there will be one-on-one advice clinics
where seniors will meet with a volunteer attorney for approximately 15
minutes, including clinics on predatory lending.

The Senior Legal Fair also features free 3M gift bags, Cub Food prize
drawings, free blood pressure checks, and free flu shots, among other
benefits.  Transportation will be available from various pick-up points in
Dakota, Ramsey, Washington, Carver and Scott counties.

For more information: Kathie Battle Sayles, Esquire Campaign for Legal Aid,
Senior Law Volunteer Program, 651-222-5863, kathie.battlesayles@smrls.org or
www.smrls.org
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5. Forum for Students of Color Interested in College Scholarships

Gates Millennium Scholars and Page Education Foundation at October 23 Forum
for Students of Color Interested in College Scholarships!

One-stop shopping for two important scholarships exclusively for students of
color.  The Minnesota Minority Education Partnership (MMEP) will hold an
event to encourage Minnesota's students of color to apply for the Gates
Millennium scholarships and Page Education Foundation scholarships.

Date & Time: Tuesday, October 23, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Location: St. Paul College, in the Commons Area, 235 Marshall Avenue, in St.
Paul.

Students of color, their families, high school guidance counselors, college
access advisors or any other professionals who advise students on college
preparation or entry are encouraged to attend this event, as are community
members who are interested.  Representatives from both organizations will be
on hand to will present information on the application process and
acceptance criteria, and to provide tips to make the application process
easier.  It should be noted that the bulk of these scholarships are awarded
to high school students who are interested in attending college, not to
students who are already in college.  Both the Gates Millennium Scholarships
and the Page Scholarships are awarded only to students of color.  They have
different acceptance criteria, different requirements for disbursement, and
differing award levels - and together provide an important array of options
for students of color and their families that are concerned about financing
a college education.

This event is a part of MMEP's new initiative to develop a state-wide
network of college access programs, called the Minnesota College Access
Network (MCAN).  For more information on the criteria for Gates Millennial
scholars, go to www.gmsp.org.  For more information on the Page Education
Foundation, go to www.page-ed.org.  Questions about this event should be
directed to Mona Harris at atmharris@mmep.net.   Light refreshments will be
served and RSVP's are not necessary.
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6. Lecture at U of M by Professor Mark Nornes, U of Michigan, Ann Harbor ­
"Owning Hiroshima"

Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies Consortium for the Study of the
Asia's History Department, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum presents
Professor Mark Nornes, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor - "Owning
Hiroshima"

Date & Time: Thursday evening, November 8, 2007, 7:30 pm
Location: Weisman Museum of Art, University of Minnesota
(Paid Parking available in Weisman Lot or on River Road (meters)
Reception after talk

In the wake of atomic warfare, crews of filmmakers were dispatched to the
ruins of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. American troops stumbled on the Nagasaki
crew, promptly seizing their footage and stopping the production. The
project was restarted under the aegis of the Strategic Bombing Survey, the
end product of which was The Effects of the Atomic Bomb in Hiroshima and
Nagasaki.  This film is the only moving image record of the atomic bombings,
and thus has been deposited in the imaginations of nearly every person on
the planet.  However, it came close to oblivion on more than one occasion.
Before the film was even completed, it was subject to a series of power
struggles and suppressions.  The film was simply missing for several
decades.  Although a print was discovered and is preserved at several
archives, it is rarely screened and has yet to be released on video. The
struggles over the film continue struggles over meaning, responsibility and
ownership.  Parts of the film will be shown to illustrate the lecture.
However, it will not be shown in entirety.

Markus Nornes is an associate professor in both the Department of Screen
Arts and Cultures and the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures.  He is
the author of "Forest of Pressure: Ogawa Shinsuke and Postwar Japanese
Documentary Film" (Minnesota UP) and "Japanese Documentary Film: From the
Meiji Era to Hiroshima" (Minnesota UP) as well as many articles in edited
volumes and journals such as Cinema Journal and Film Quarterly.  He
co-edited "Japan-American Film Wars" (Routledge), "In Praise of Film
Studies"  (Kinema Club), and many film festival retrospective catalogs.  He
is on the editorial boards of Documentary Box (Japan), International Studies
in Documentary, and Mechadamia and has been co-owner of the internet
newsgroup KineJapan since its inception.  For the University of Michigan
Center for Japanese Studies Publications Program he edits a digital reprint
series on Japanese cinema
(http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/cjs/publications/cjsfaculty/filmseries.html).
Professor Nornes has also been a coordinator for the Yamagata International
Documentary Film Festival since 1990, where he programmed major
retrospectives such as Japan-America Film Wars, In Our Own Eyes - Indigenous
People's Film and Video Festival, and Den'ei Nana Henge: Seven
Transfigurations in Electric Shadows.  He is currently working on "Traffic:
The Translator's Cinema," is forthcoming from the University of Minnesota
Press.
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