E-news - Tuesday Night Town Hall, Awards, Advocacy

Monday, April 30, 2012

[a4 Event]

TOWN HALL THIS TUESDAY NIGHT

TUESDAY, MAY 1, 2012, 6:00PM-8:00PM

NARS Foundation

88 35th Street, in Sunset Park, Brooklyn

(between 2nd Ave and the Gowanus Expy)

Subways: D N R to 36th Street

Who has funding for your project? What does your next collaborator look like? Who has the same idea as you?

Come find out at this month's Town Hall! Featuring pitches, presentations by Ella J. Weiss, President of Brooklyn Arts Council and Elena Dubas, Program Associate at New York Foundation for the Arts, performances by musician Kaoru Watanabe and dancer Jessica Chen, and a special prize for the best dish at the potluck: a mug, tote bag, and a feature in the next e-news!

RSVP Here

[a4 News]

Congratulations, Rocky!

a4 is thrilled to announce that a4 Board Member Rocky Chin received the Volunteer in Service to Asian-American Communities Award (VISAC) from Chinatown Manpower Project.

VISAC offers individual acknowledgements to volunteerism in the Asian American human service community, as well as cash awards to their host organizations in recognition of their creative use of volunteers as an integral part of their work force.

Congratulations to Rocky on a well-deserved award!

[Community News]

33rd Annual Asian American Heritage Festival - May 12, 2012, DUMBO

photo: Charles Cheng

The 33rd Annual Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Festival takes place Saturday, May 12, 2012. As in years past, a4 is excited to be a part of this celebration!

This year, the festival will feature an "Arts Pavilion" where artists may showcase and sell their work. If you are interested to learn more, please contact Carson at carson@carsonworldwide.com.

We also welcome flyers from our community at our festival table. If you would like to have your flyers or postcards at our table, please send packets to the below address by Friday, May 4, 2012:

Asian American Arts Alliance, c/o Jinjin Sun, 20 Jay Street, Suite 740, Brooklyn, NY 11201.

If you would like to help staff the a4 table, please e-mail Jinjin at jsun@aaartsalliance.org. This is a great way to promote both a4 and your own work!

If you would like to register a booth for your own organization, click here.

[a4 Event]

Revisiting Vincent

Performance+Talkback+Reception

TUESDAY, MAY 22, 2012

6:30-9:30PM

New York Law School

185 West Broadway @ Leonard Street

1 Train to Franklin, A C E Trains to Canal St

For more details and tickets: http://www.aabany.org

June 2012 marks the 30th anniversary of the murder of Vincent Chin, a young Chinese-American man from Detroit who was bludgeoned to death with a baseball bat by two men. His killers never served a single day in jail. Asian Americans consider the Vincent Chin case and its aftermath as the genesis of the Asian American civil rights movement.

a4, the Asian American Bar Association of New York (AABANY), and the Museum of Chinese in America (MoCA) have joined forces to present "Revisiting Vincent," a Vincent Chin trial re-enactment with a cast of professional actors. Testimony from the actual trial transcripts will be woven in with footage from the Academy Award-nominated documentary "Who Killed Vincent Chin?" The Hon. Denny Chin and Dean Frank Wu, whose Vincent Chin trial re-enactment script inspired this production, will introduce the performance and participate in the talkback afterwards. The performance is directed by a4's own staff members and theater artists, Soriya Chum and Elena Chang.

[a4 News]

a4 Advocacy

May 7, 2012, is the third annual Asian Pacific American Annual Legislative Advocacy Day. Members of the Asian Pacific American community in New York State will go to Albany to share their culture, meet legislators, and talk about how they can better serve one another. Our Program Director, Nico Daswani, will represent a4 together with musician Samita Sinha, who will perform. If you are interested in joining in this advocacy effort in Albany, contact Andrea Wu at awu@cacf.org or 212-809-4675 x 105.

On May 9, 2012, a4 Executive Director Andrea Louie will be representing a4 as part of the 13% and Growing coalition to advocate for greater Asian Pacific American representation in the New York City budget. She and other community members will gather at City Hall to make their voices heard. Join us!

[Community News]

Birthday Card Campaign for Private Danny Chen

The Organization of Chinese in America - New York (OCA-NY) is holding a birthday card campaign to support the cause of Private Danny Chen, a 19-year-old Chinese American soldier whose life was cut short following weeks of constant mistreatment and discrimination by his superiors while stationed in Afghanistan.

Private Danny Chen would have turned 20 on May 26th, 2012. OCA-NY invites the community to create birthday cards for him, which will be collected and delivered to Members of the Senate and House Armed Services Committees in DC. They ask that the messages in the cards reflect their continued fight for justice in his case and reiterate their demand that the court-martial held for the eight individuals charged in connection with his death take place on U.S. soil. OCA-NY will be collecting cards until May 14, 2012.

For more information and to submit, click here

[Community News]

Asian Women Giving Circle Annual Celebration

On May 9, 2012, from 6-8pm, Asian Women Giving Circle will be holding its Annual Celebration of Activism Through the Arts. Taking place at the Museum of Chinese in America (215 Centre Street), the event will feature a silent auction, wine, dim sum, and works in progress by Asian Women Giving Circle 2011 grantees.

The event will also feature a short performance by Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai from her theatrical piece, Say You Heard My Echo, which was commissioned by a4 for our Locating the Sacred Festival and awarded one of Asian Women Giving Circle's 2011 grants.

For more information and tickets, click here

[Featured Events]
Alliance+ Member Events

Monday, April 30, 6:00pm-7:00pm

An Evening with David Henry Hwang

The Greene Space presents this evening with Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang and Oskar Eustis, artistic director of The Public Theater. Mr. Hwang and actors BD Wong, Brian d'Arcy James, Francis Jue and Jennifer Lim will read selections from the playwright's work.