2008
Everyday Runway:
Asian American Street Fashion Exhibit and Fashion Show
March 10 - April 25, 2008
C33 Gallery
33 East Congress Parkway 1F
Nowadays, the cutting edge of fashion often emerges from "the street." Although Europe is still looked upon as the fashion center of the world, fashion designers and even pop stars are drawn to Japanese street fashion for its fast-forward, bold, and creative mix of East and West.
Join us as we take a photographic journey through the streets of Asia and America and meet the people who have embraced, remixed, and continued to influence the global fashion today. Through photographs, garments, accessories, and the illustrated personal stories, this exhibit aims to provide a glimpse of the fast-changing look of street fashion while reflecting on the formation of Asian urban aesthetic and youth identity and its influence of American pop culture.
There will be an opening reception on March 13th at the gallery, starting from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM.
Master Spotlight:
Tony Award Winning Playwright David Henry Hwang
April 16, 2008
Hokin Lecture Hall
RM 109, 623 South Wabash Avenue
5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Join us for a night of music and conversation with David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly), featuring reading from the Flower Drum Song Revival by the Tony Award winning playwright. Through the story, David Henry Hwang will talk about his life and career as a playwright, composer and lyricist and discuss issues of diversity in the creative arts as we open the floor up to questions.
I for India Screening
May 8, 2008
Film Row
8th Floor, 1104 South Wabash Avenue
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Like so many families, lacing up the ancient projector and replaying old favorite Super 8 home movies was something we used to do with routine nostalgia.
The Center of Asian Arts and Media, in collaboration with Chicago Opera Theater and South Asia Language and Area Center, presents "I for India" - a documentary about a father and his most intimate thoughts and observations of his family's lives in England, all in Super 8 movie reels. At the same time as he was recording Super 8 films of birthday parties, new houses and their successful lives abroad, the audio tapes were telling a more complex story. The familiar home movies took on a whole new meaning.
The taped thoughts and observations provided a unique chronicle of the eccentricities of his new English hosts. Back in India, his relatives in turn, respond with their own 'cine-letters' telling tales of weddings, festivals and village life.
Summer Study Tour: Tokyo, Japan
July 21, 2008 ~ August 1, 2008
Love Harajuku street fashion? Big fan of manga, anime and Japanese
pop culture? Interested in Japanese art, design, new media and its
history? Join us for a study tour to Tokyo, the cultural capital of Asia
where refined traditions, Zen philosophy and tranquil aesthetic coexist
with the exaggerated cuteness of animate subculture and imported
global influences. Find out more here.
Informational meeting dates:
April 18 12:30 pm, 218 S. Wabash, 7th Floor RM 716
April 21 12:30 pm, 218 S. Wabash, 7th Floor RM 716
Playwright, Sundance Film Director - Philip Kan Gotanda
September 17, 12:30 PM
Ferguson Auditorium
600 South Michigan Avenue, 1st floor
How do I get started as a playwright? How do I get my work in the
Sundance Institute? How do I make the leap into the world of theater
and film?
Bring your questions!
Hailed as one of the most important American playwrights of the century, Gotanda will talk about his career, his plays, and how to make it as a writer for stage and screen
His plays include The Wash, made into a feature length film; and the off-Broadway hit Yankee Dawg You Die.
Co-sponsored by the Center for Asian Arts & Media and the English Department; Made Possible by Silk Road Theater Project
Asian American Street Fashion Exhibit and Fashion Show
March 10 - April 25, 2008
C33 Gallery
33 East Congress Parkway 1F
Nowadays, the cutting edge of fashion often emerges from "the street." Although Europe is still looked upon as the fashion center of the world, fashion designers and even pop stars are drawn to Japanese street fashion for its fast-forward, bold, and creative mix of East and West.
Join us as we take a photographic journey through the streets of Asia and America and meet the people who have embraced, remixed, and continued to influence the global fashion today. Through photographs, garments, accessories, and the illustrated personal stories, this exhibit aims to provide a glimpse of the fast-changing look of street fashion while reflecting on the formation of Asian urban aesthetic and youth identity and its influence of American pop culture.
There will be an opening reception on March 13th at the gallery, starting from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM.
Master Spotlight:
Tony Award Winning Playwright David Henry Hwang
April 16, 2008
Hokin Lecture Hall
RM 109, 623 South Wabash Avenue
5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Join us for a night of music and conversation with David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly), featuring reading from the Flower Drum Song Revival by the Tony Award winning playwright. Through the story, David Henry Hwang will talk about his life and career as a playwright, composer and lyricist and discuss issues of diversity in the creative arts as we open the floor up to questions.
I for India Screening
May 8, 2008
Film Row
8th Floor, 1104 South Wabash Avenue
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Like so many families, lacing up the ancient projector and replaying old favorite Super 8 home movies was something we used to do with routine nostalgia.
The Center of Asian Arts and Media, in collaboration with Chicago Opera Theater and South Asia Language and Area Center, presents "I for India" - a documentary about a father and his most intimate thoughts and observations of his family's lives in England, all in Super 8 movie reels. At the same time as he was recording Super 8 films of birthday parties, new houses and their successful lives abroad, the audio tapes were telling a more complex story. The familiar home movies took on a whole new meaning.
The taped thoughts and observations provided a unique chronicle of the eccentricities of his new English hosts. Back in India, his relatives in turn, respond with their own 'cine-letters' telling tales of weddings, festivals and village life.
Summer Study Tour: Tokyo, Japan
July 21, 2008 ~ August 1, 2008
Love Harajuku street fashion? Big fan of manga, anime and Japanese
pop culture? Interested in Japanese art, design, new media and its
history? Join us for a study tour to Tokyo, the cultural capital of Asia
where refined traditions, Zen philosophy and tranquil aesthetic coexist
with the exaggerated cuteness of animate subculture and imported
global influences. Find out more here.
Informational meeting dates:
April 18 12:30 pm, 218 S. Wabash, 7th Floor RM 716
April 21 12:30 pm, 218 S. Wabash, 7th Floor RM 716
Playwright, Sundance Film Director - Philip Kan Gotanda
September 17, 12:30 PM
Ferguson Auditorium
600 South Michigan Avenue, 1st floor
Bring your questions!
Hailed as one of the most important American playwrights of the century, Gotanda will talk about his career, his plays, and how to make it as a writer for stage and screen
His plays include The Wash, made into a feature length film; and the off-Broadway hit Yankee Dawg You Die.
Co-sponsored by the Center for Asian Arts & Media and the English Department; Made Possible by Silk Road Theater Project