2007
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The Art of Chinese Shadow Puppets
February 15 - March 30, 2007
In celebration of the Chinese New Year, the Center for Asian Arts and Media at Columbia College Chicago in conjunction with the Consulate General of the Peoples Republic of China in Chicago presents The Art of Chinese Shadow Puppets. Chinese Shadow Play (pi ying xi) incorporates the life, customs and beliefs of the everyday person as an important art and entertainment that blends the traditions of painting, sculpture, music, singing and storytelling. This exhibit features approximately fifty works of selected characters, scenes and props used in shadow plays. Puppets are made by tanning and flattening the skin of a donkey or sheep in addition to carving, coloring, ironing and bounding to construct various figures and stage properties, which are controlled and played on screen by artists through lights. As a flat carving art, its esthetic is very similar to paper-cutting, but the modeling of figures, stage property, horses, carts and buildings also resembles that of Chinese opera.
February 15 - March 30, 2007
In celebration of the Chinese New Year, the Center for Asian Arts and Media at Columbia College Chicago in conjunction with the Consulate General of the Peoples Republic of China in Chicago presents The Art of Chinese Shadow Puppets. Chinese Shadow Play (pi ying xi) incorporates the life, customs and beliefs of the everyday person as an important art and entertainment that blends the traditions of painting, sculpture, music, singing and storytelling. This exhibit features approximately fifty works of selected characters, scenes and props used in shadow plays. Puppets are made by tanning and flattening the skin of a donkey or sheep in addition to carving, coloring, ironing and bounding to construct various figures and stage properties, which are controlled and played on screen by artists through lights. As a flat carving art, its esthetic is very similar to paper-cutting, but the modeling of figures, stage property, horses, carts and buildings also resembles that of Chinese opera.
Conversation with David Henry Hwang
March 1, 2007, 12:30 pm
1104 S. Wabash Ave., 8th Floor
Join The Center for Asian Arts and Media for a lunchtime conversation with Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly). Mr. Hwang will talk about his life and career as a playwright, composer and lyricist and discuss issues of diversity in the creative arts.
This program is sponsored by The Center for Asian Arts and Media, The Office of Multicultural Affairs, Asian Student Organization and is made possible by the generous support of The Silk Road Theatre Project. David Henry Hwang's Golden Child will be presented at Silk Road Theatre Project at The Historic Chicago Temple Building, 77 W. Washington Street, Pierce Hall, in Chicago. Previews run March 1 - 8, 2007.
Traveling Film: South Asia
March 23, 25, Chicago Filmmakers
March 29, April 5, Columbia College Chicago Film Row Cinema
April 13, University of Chicago
March 1, 2007, 12:30 pm
1104 S. Wabash Ave., 8th Floor
Join The Center for Asian Arts and Media for a lunchtime conversation with Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly). Mr. Hwang will talk about his life and career as a playwright, composer and lyricist and discuss issues of diversity in the creative arts.
This program is sponsored by The Center for Asian Arts and Media, The Office of Multicultural Affairs, Asian Student Organization and is made possible by the generous support of The Silk Road Theatre Project. David Henry Hwang's Golden Child will be presented at Silk Road Theatre Project at The Historic Chicago Temple Building, 77 W. Washington Street, Pierce Hall, in Chicago. Previews run March 1 - 8, 2007.
Traveling Film: South Asia
March 23, 25, Chicago Filmmakers
March 29, April 5, Columbia College Chicago Film Row Cinema
April 13, University of Chicago
A collaboration between the Center for Asian Arts and Media at Columbia College, the University of Chicago South Asia Language and Area Center, Third-I Chicago and Chicago Filmmakers, this festival features the award-winning films and special features from the Film South Asia, an annual festival showcasing the best of the Subcontinent’s non-fiction films. Highlights include City of Photos (India), a film that explores the little known ethos of old neighborhood photo studios in a variety of Indian cities; The Legend of Fat Mama (West Bengal/India), a bittersweet story of the Chinese community in Calcutta intertwined with the nostalgic journey in search of a woman who once made the most delicious noodles in the city’s Chinatown district; and Lanka: The Other Side of War and Peace (Sri Lanka), a travelogue along the A9 highway that links north and south Sri Lanka revealing the history of last three decades of violence in Sri Lanka
Spring
The Center for Asian Arts & Media at Columbia College Chicago in collaboration with Asian American Journalists Association Chicago Chapter presents:
"After Virginia Tech: many questions, few answers"
A panel discussion in the aftermath of America's worst campus shooting tragedy
Monday, May 7th
5:30 – 7:30 pm
Please join us – and bring guests – for this very important discussion of topics including:
* Owning the crime – responses from the Korean community; how such tragedies are perceived by a perpetrator's own ethnic group
* Why are we apologizing? – mainstream reactions toward Asians
* Mass Media's emphasis on race and ethnicity in reporting – is it appropriate?
* Columbia College Chicago – one institution's response to the campus shootings and implications for other schools and colleges
* Do Asian and Asian American students feel isolated from the culture around them?
* What happens now? Where do we go from here?
Opening Remarks by:
Mark Kelly, Vice President for Student Affairs, Columbia College Chicago
Moderator:
Nesita Kwan, Reporter for Chicago's NBC5
Panelists:
Kwang Dong Jo, Chicago Radio Korea/veteran Korean American journalist
Romona Kywe, Columbia College Student and co-founder of Asian Student Organization
Dr. Samuel Park, Columbia College Chicago Professor of English
Avani Patel, Asian American Journalists Association/Chicago Tribune
E. A. Torriero, Reporter, Chicago Tribune
Laura S. Washington, De Paul University Professor of Journalism/award-winning columnist on issues of race
Summer
Manifest/About the Canopy Student Exhibit
Dragon Boat Race
Fall/Winter
Center for Asian Arts and Media 10th Anniversary Benefit
September 28, 2007
Center for Book & Paper Arts Gallery
1104 S. Wabash Ave. 2F
Cocktail party featuring wine, Asian cuisine, beautiful art display, exciting performances and a silent auction of great gifts and one-of-a-kind items. Proceeds to benefit The Nancy Tom Endowment Fund at the Center for Asian Arts and Media. The fund will bring high-profile, accomplished visiting artists to campus to meet and counsel students on the arts, their career paths, and the Asian impact on world culture. Our first visiting faculty will be David Henry Hwang in April 2008.
The Woman Warrior Festival 2007/ The Big Read
October 1-31, 2007
The Big Read Literacy Project
October 1-31, 2007
City and state wide community reading series.
Dates and location varies
Asian Women on Screen: The Joy Luck Club and beyond Exhibit
October 1-31, 2007
Opening Reception: October 4, 2007, 5-7 pm
Columbia College Library 3rd Floor
624 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60605
Number One: The Helen Fong Dare Story Screening and Discussion
Oct 18, 2007, 1 pm
Mather Cafes of Mather Life Ways Institute on Aging
7134 West Higgins, Chicago, IL
Sweetest Day Celebration: Mother-Daughter Family History Workshop/Reception
Sat, Oct 20, 2007, 11 am – 1 pm
Columbia College Library
Co-hosted by the Chinatown Chamber of Commerce and the Center on Halsted
“Finding Iris Chang”: Reading and Discussion with Paula Kamen
Tue. Oct 23 or 29, 5:30 pm
Conaway Center, Columbia College Chicago
1104 S. Wabash, 1st Floor
Woman Warrior Awards Reception/Akira Fashion Show
October 24, 2007, 6 – 9 pm
Conaway Center and Film Row Cinema, Columbia College Chicago
1104 S. Wabash, 1st Floor and 8th Floor
Woman Warrior Festival: Woman Filmmakers Showcase
October 25, 2007, 6 pm
Film Row Cinema, Columbia College Chicago
1104 S. Wabash, 8th Fl
Screening and Conversation with The Joy Luck Club Film Producer Janet Yang
Friday, Oct 26, 2007, 6 pm
Film Row Cinema, Columbia College Chicago
1104 S. Wabash Ave., 8th Floor, Chicago, IL 60605
Mother-Daughter Discussion Group/Workshop: Same Sex Parents
Sunday, Oct 28, 2pm
Center on Halsted (GLBT Community Center)
3656 North Halsted Street, Chicago, IL 60613
In the Spirit of Joy Luck Club: Woman Warrior Networking and Mentorship Reception
Oct 30, 2007, 6 pm
Center on Halsted, 3656 N Halsted St.
September 28, 2007
Center for Book & Paper Arts Gallery
1104 S. Wabash Ave. 2F
Cocktail party featuring wine, Asian cuisine, beautiful art display, exciting performances and a silent auction of great gifts and one-of-a-kind items. Proceeds to benefit The Nancy Tom Endowment Fund at the Center for Asian Arts and Media. The fund will bring high-profile, accomplished visiting artists to campus to meet and counsel students on the arts, their career paths, and the Asian impact on world culture. Our first visiting faculty will be David Henry Hwang in April 2008.
The Woman Warrior Festival 2007/ The Big Read
October 1-31, 2007
The Big Read Literacy Project
October 1-31, 2007
City and state wide community reading series.
Dates and location varies
Asian Women on Screen: The Joy Luck Club and beyond Exhibit
October 1-31, 2007
Opening Reception: October 4, 2007, 5-7 pm
Columbia College Library 3rd Floor
624 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60605
Number One: The Helen Fong Dare Story Screening and Discussion
Oct 18, 2007, 1 pm
Mather Cafes of Mather Life Ways Institute on Aging
7134 West Higgins, Chicago, IL
Sweetest Day Celebration: Mother-Daughter Family History Workshop/Reception
Sat, Oct 20, 2007, 11 am – 1 pm
Columbia College Library
Co-hosted by the Chinatown Chamber of Commerce and the Center on Halsted
“Finding Iris Chang”: Reading and Discussion with Paula Kamen
Tue. Oct 23 or 29, 5:30 pm
Conaway Center, Columbia College Chicago
1104 S. Wabash, 1st Floor
Woman Warrior Awards Reception/Akira Fashion Show
October 24, 2007, 6 – 9 pm
Conaway Center and Film Row Cinema, Columbia College Chicago
1104 S. Wabash, 1st Floor and 8th Floor
Woman Warrior Festival: Woman Filmmakers Showcase
October 25, 2007, 6 pm
Film Row Cinema, Columbia College Chicago
1104 S. Wabash, 8th Fl
Screening and Conversation with The Joy Luck Club Film Producer Janet Yang
Friday, Oct 26, 2007, 6 pm
Film Row Cinema, Columbia College Chicago
1104 S. Wabash Ave., 8th Floor, Chicago, IL 60605
Mother-Daughter Discussion Group/Workshop: Same Sex Parents
Sunday, Oct 28, 2pm
Center on Halsted (GLBT Community Center)
3656 North Halsted Street, Chicago, IL 60613
In the Spirit of Joy Luck Club: Woman Warrior Networking and Mentorship Reception
Oct 30, 2007, 6 pm
Center on Halsted, 3656 N Halsted St.