VINCENT
WHO?
Documentary
Screening
Please join us for a screening of Vincent Who?, followed by a discussion with Curtis Chin, one of the founders of Asian Pacific Americans for Progress and producer of the documentary for a Q and A after the film. Light refreshments will be served.
VINCENT
WHO? (40 minutes) - In 1982,
Vincent Chin was murdered in
Detroit by two white autoworkers
at the height of anti-Japanese
sentiments. For the first time,
Asian Americans around the country
galvanized to form a real community
and movement. This documentary,
inspired by a series of town
halls organized by Asian Pacific
Americans for Progress on the
25th anniversary of the case,
features interviews with the
key players at the time, as
well as a whole new generation
of activists. "Vincent Who?" asks how far Asian Americans have come since then and how far we have yet to go.
Featured
interviews include: Helen Zia
(lead activist during the Chin
trial), Renee Tajima Pena (director, "Who Killed Vincent Chin?"), Stewart Kwoh (Executive Director, Asian Pacific American Legal Center), Lisa Ling (journalist), Sumi Pendakur (Univ. of Southern California), Dale Minami (civic rights attorney), Frank Wu (former Dean, Wayne State Law School), Doua Thor (Executive Director, Southeast Asian Resource Action Center) and a group of five diverse young APA activists whose lives were impacted by Vincent Chin.
@ The Workshop
16 West 32nd Street, 10th Floor
(btwn Broadway & 5th Avenue)
$5 suggested donation; open to the public
Donations will support the New York Chapter of Asian Pacific Americans for Progress.
Mouth
to Mouth Open Mic: Hosted by
Ed Lin & Jen
Kwok
The moon may be waning, but our lunacy is just beginning. Swing by the Workshop on Friday, February 12 to read your poems of heartbreak and new beginnings. You may even be reading between some of your favorite writers! Check back later, or better yet, show up, to find out who our special guests will be this year.
Jen
Kwok is a writer and performer
whose comedic exploits have
been featured on CNN, PBS,
MTV,The New York Times and
Rolling Stone Magazine. Jen'sdistinct
act - a sparkling combination
of ukulele, witand sass! -
has made her a favorite on
the NYC performance scene.
Jen was also a finalist in
NBC Stand-Up for Diversity,
and has an upcoming role in
the film, Eat, Pray, Love.
Ed
Lin is the author of Waylaid
(2002) and This Is a Bust
(2007), both published by
Kaya Press. Snakes Can't Run
(2010), the sequel to This
Is a Bust, is published by
Minotaur Books. Lin, who is
of Taiwanese and Chinese descent,
holds degrees in mining engineering
and journalism from Columbia
University. He lives in New
York with his wife, actress
Cindy
Cheung.
@
The Workshop
16
West 32nd Street, 10th Floor
(btwn
Broadway & 5th
Avenue)
$5
suggested donation; open to
the public
Sign up for a 5-minute at the event starting at 8:30pm
Book
Party for Jason Koo’s
Man on Extremely Small Island
Help
us celebrate Jason Koo’s debut collection of poems, Man on Extremely Small Island, which Denise Duhamel calls "an absurdly funny meditation on loneliness, desire and the silences between us." Winner of the 2008 De Novo Poetry Prize, Koo's highly engaging collection includes thoughts on practically everything, from baseball to sandwiches to hippos to love. Koo will read briefly from his work and answer questions afterward and sign books. Food and drinks will be provided. Come listen to the work of a poet whose vision Bob Hicok calls "expansive and humane."
Jason Koo was born in New York City and grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned his BA in English from Yale, his MFA in creative writing from the University of Houston and his PhD in English and creative writing from the University of Missouri-Columbia. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Vermont Studio Center, he has published his poetry and prose in numerous journals, including The Yale Review, North American Review and The Missouri Review. He teaches at NYU and Lehman College and serves as Poetry Editor of Low Rent. He lives in Brooklyn.
@
The Workshop
16
West 32nd Street, 10th Floor
(btwn
Broadway & 5th
Avenue)
$5
suggested donation; open to
the public
Jerome Foundation Travel Grants
The
Jerome Foundation's Travel
and Study Grant Program
awards grants to emerging
artists based in New York
or Minnesota and who create
new work (choreographers,
film and video directors,
poets, spoken word artists,
fiction and creative nonfiction
writers). The program
supports such activities
as research leading to
the creation of new work,
the development of collaborations,
participation in specific
training programs, time
for reflection and individualized
study, investigating artistic
work outside of Minnesota
or New York City, and
dialogue on aesthetic
issues. Application deadline
is March 9, 2010.
February
24, 2010 6:00 p.m. - 7:30
p.m.
Theater,
The Kitchen
512 West
19th Street New York City
www.thekitchen.org
212.255.5793
February
27, 2010
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Poets
House
10 River Terrace
New York City
www.poetshouse.org
212.431.7920
Please visit the Jerome
Foundation website for further details.
SPOILERS!
Here's a sneak peek of what else is coming your way this season.
Speed
Dating with Kavita Ramdhya,
author of Bollywood Weddings.
A
New Day: Iranian and Afghan
American Writers
Nami
Mun reads from Miles from Nowhere.
Thurs, Mar. 25.
Book
party - Ken Chen's Juvenilia
with Louise Gluck..
The Asian American Avant-Garde: John Yau and Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge,
co-sponsored by The CreativeWriting Program at NYU.
Ed
Lin reads from Snakes
Can’t
Run,
Meena
Alexander's Poetics of
Dislocation and Reetika
Vazirani's Radha Says,
published by Drunken Boat.
