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Ke Kulana He Mahu: Remembering a Sense of Place Screening and Discussion with Director Connie Florez Tuesday, April 5 · 6:00pm - 9:00pm Kimmel Shorin 802 The documentary “Kulana He Mahu: Remembering a Sense of Place” directed by Connie Florez, examines how colonialism has profoundly shifted attitudes toward gender and sexuality for indigenous Hawai'ians, and has shaped the marginalization of transgendered communities in Hawai'i today. This special screening will be accompanied by a selection from Florez’s current documentary project “The Glades Project” and a discussion with the director in dialogue with members of the Pacific LGBT community in NYC including Kristabelle; and Elizabeth Conley, MPH Sexuality & Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. The program will be moderated by Gayatri Gopinath, the Director of the Gender & Sexuality Studies Program at the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU. To RSVP, Email apa.rsvp@nyu.edu, or Call 212-992-9653
Singapore Students Association Elections Wednesday, April 6 · 7:00pm - 10:00pm KC 912 There are 5 positions to be contested: President, Vice-president, Treasurer, Secretary and Webmaster. You must be in attendance to vote/run unless you have class or are currently studying abroad. You can both run for positions as well as vote if you are currently studying abroad. We will send an email to you with further instructions. Food will be provided.
Doors open 6:30 PM Food served 7:00 PM Tickets $6 with NYU ID and $8 for non-NYU guests
A multi-cultural celebration of Eid Ul Adha, attendees are encouraged to dress in their respective cultural outfits and eat delicious ethnic food, while enjoying breathtaking performances!
Co-sponsored by the Arab Students’ Union, Afghan Students’ Association, and Bengali Students’ Association. All proceeds will go to charity via UNICEF to help improve the lives of children in drought and conflict ridden areas of Somalia (www.unicef.org/somalia)
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Monday, November 28 8:00-9:00 AM & Wednesday, November 30 5:00-6:00 PM Kimmel 8th Floor
Asian American Christian Fellowship hosts Conversations with God
Want to play a part in God’s movement of love and renewal at NYU? Or just want to see what prayer is all about? Then join AACF for a time of listening and talking to God together. The topic of the week is “the life of a servant.”
AACF hosts Stern Believers Meeting. Are you a Christian in Stern, wondering how you can be a light to your fellow Stern classmates? Or are you a non-Stern student who has a burden for reaching out to the Stern community? AACF will be joining Redeemer Presbyterian Church’s “Faith and Work Financial Services Ministry” meeting, a great chance to learn what God is already doing in the business world and how you can be a part of it. Click here to RSVP.
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Wednesday, November 30 6:00-8:00 PM Kimmel 808
AACF hosts Large Group! Come be refreshed by worship and a message while enjoying fellowship with one another. This week’s topic is “The Cost of Compassion.” Christians are called to be loving and compassionate. What are the costs of loving others with passion, and how do we deal with them? AACF will be exploring those questions on Wednesday with their speaker.
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Due Wednesday, November 30 by 11:59 PM
Join the ITASA East Coast Conference Bidding Team!
Passionate about Taiwanese culture, big event planning, and e-board fun?
Every year, ITASA (the umbrella organization of all Taiwanese American student organizations in the U.S.) hosts a large conference on the coasts attended by more than 350 students across the nation. NYU TASS is hoping to host the East Coast Conference in Winter 2013, but they need help! Here is another opportunity to get involved in student activities and gain tangible experience in large-scale event planning and promotion. 9 positions are available and all applicants are welcome. Contact bid directors Angela (angelachen@nyu.edu) or Kevin (Kevin.Wu@stern.nyu.edu) for questions about the event, board or application. Click here for the application.
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Thursday, December 1
7:00 PM Kimmel E&L (4th Floor)
NYU Chinese Student Society and Lambda Phi Epsilon present Holiday Hoopla! Click here for the flyer for information! Take on their “Minute to Win It” games to win prizes like DVDs, T-shirts, and gift cards! There’s a chance to win a prize each round of the games. They’ll also have Chinese food and yummy desserts, as well as bubble tea for the first 50 guests!
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Thursday, December 1
6:00-8:00 PM Kimmel 904
Join NYU’s Vietnamese Student’s Association in celebrating the end of the semester, with banh mi and bubble tea!
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Due December 2 by 8:00 PM
Apply to help the Chinese Mei Society with its annual spring YUAN show! In accordance with Asian Heritage Month at NYU, CMS hosts a large-scale cultural production celebrating Chinese culture through musical, visual, and performing arts. CMS is currently accepting applications for the following positions:
-Tech Director -Logistics Director -Finance Director -Catering Director -Marketing Director -Public Relations Director -Performance Director -Fashion Director
Visit here to learn more about each position and to apply! Email cms.nyu@gmail.com for any questions, and click here for their Facebook page to check out more information about CMS and photos from last year’s production.
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Happening Throughout
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Support Thailand’s flood victims by purchasing a T-Shirt and wristband! All proceeds will be donated to the “One Heart” Campaign in December. Organized by the Royal Thai Air Force and The Mall, the goal of the campaign is to provide humanitarian relief by distributing supplies to those devastated by the flood. Donations can be made directly by clicking here. Click to watch a video here.
Come for food, games, and a slide show! AATA is also looking to recruit a new treasurer, for next semester. Email them at nyu.aata@gmail.com for an application!
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Wednesday (TODAY), 12/7 7 PM Kimmel 905-907
Come out to Asian Cultural Union’s FINAL EVENT of the semester, and participate in their Gingerbread House Competition put together by ACU Freshmen Representatives! A theme will be announced at the beginning of the event, and winners will get a large treat to share within each group, and everyone will get to eat the gingerbread houses after, with hot chocolate!
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Ongoing
The A/P/A Institute at NYU is offering an excellent opportunity to discuss current APA issues. APA BRIDGE (Asian Pacific Americans Building Relationship to Inspire Diversity, Growth, and Empowerment) is seeking a diverse group of student leaders from various backgrounds that include race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, ability, spirituality, academic study, and socioeconomic level. Applicants with a range of experiences are encouraged to apply. The program is only open to freshmen, sophomores, and juniors. APA heritage is not required, but an interest in issues affecting APA communities is key. Be as honest as you can with your answers but keep your responses within 250 words per question. Interviews may also be requested. Click here for the APA BRIDGE application!
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Thursday, 12/8 12-6 PM Near Bobst Library / Stern, 70 Washington Square South
Want to find a way to give back this holiday season? NYU’s Korean Students’ Association is hosting a toy drive for Toys for Tots, providing toys for underprivileged children. Come donate your toys, used and new!
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December 8-10, 2011 Great Room, 19 University Place
Hosted by the Conference Department of English at NYU, Commodities and Migration: Things Out of Place. Click here for details!
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Friday, 12/9 5-6 PM Cosi’s on 8th Street
If you speak Khmer, would like to learn Khmer, or just want to hang out with APASA, then come join them for a Khmer Language Group!
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Friday, 12/9 6:30-8:30 PM Kimmel 804-805
Come join TASS for their Fall Finale Event! Take a break from studying and catch up with friends over dinner and bubble tea. They will be having a karaoke competition as well as introducing their Night Market and ITASA E-Boards.
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Friday, 12/9 9-11 PM Kimmel 908
CEAMS will be having their last meeting of the semester! Watch 13 Assassins with them, and participate in some trivia games with great prizes, grand and mini. Food will be provided.
Here’s a snapshot of what’s going on around campus this week! To get your event added in the future, please email nyu.generasian@gmail.com. Titles of each event are linked to the Facebook event page.
JI Presents: Dinner and a Movie Thursday, October 21, 6pm-8pm @ Kimmel 912 We are going to watch Ju-on aka the Original version of the Grudge. Come and join us we’ll be serving free food.
HKSA: Sweet Revenge Thursday, October 21, 7pm @ Kimmel 900 series Compete with each other to trick the other team to eat some desserts that are not so sweet… Try to bluff your way and get the opposing team to eat what they think is a regular dessert. If you get tricked, don’t worry, you will have the chance to get your revenge!
Here’s a snapshot of what’s going on around campus this week! To get your event added in the future, please email nyu.generasian@gmail.com. Titles of each event are linked to the Facebook event page.
Karaoke with HKSA Thursday, October 28, 9pm-1am @ K-One KTV Come down after HKSA’s hair-raising event earlier in the evening. (curious about what that is? Stay posted for updates). For just $20, sing your hearts out with K-ONE’s huge selection of songs.
AI’s Annual Halloween Event Saturday, October 30, 1pm-4pm @ Kimmel 905 It’s almost time for our annual Halloween event for the kids of PS 124! We invite you to join us and provide the kids with a spooky fun party!
AATA’s Spooktacular Bake Sale Wednesday, October 27, 12pm-5pm @ Kimmel’s front lobby Please come out and join us for this great Halloween-themed fundraising event! If anyone out there feels like playing mad scientists and adding some ghoulish goodies feel free! Please email us if you are interested in contributing: asianamerican.theatre.club@nyu.edu
CMS Game Night Thursday, October 28, 6pm, @ Kimmel TBA A night of fun and games! There will be mahjong, blackjack, poker, Big 2, Apples to Apples, Wii Sports, Rabbids, Super Smash Brothers, prizes, and snacks!
TEA'LiCIOUS TASS-First General Meeting Tuesday, February 22 · 6:00pm - 8:00pm Kimmel Shorin 802 Come out and join TASS on Tuesday night for a cup of yummy tealicious bubble tea! Also learn about the exciting upcoming events that TASS has to offer and last but not least to hang out with the cool eboard
The Beautiful Generation: Asian Americans and the Cultural Economy of Fashion Wednesday, February 23, 2011· 6pm-8pm NYU OPEN HOUSE 528 La Guardia Place (Between West 3rd Street and Bleecker Street) Since the 1990’s, young Asian Americans including Doo-Ri Chung, Derek Lam, Thakoon Panichgul, Alexander Wang, and Jason Wu have emerged as leading fashion designers. They have won prestigious awards, been chosen to head major clothing labels, and had their designs featured in Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and other fashion magazines. At the same time that these designers were rising to prominence, the fashion world was embracing “Asian chic.” During the 1990’s, “Asian” shapes, fabrics, iconography, and colors filled couture runways and mass-market clothing racks.
In The Beautiful Generation (Fall 2010, Duke University Press), author Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu explores the role of Asian American designers in New York’s fashion industry, paying particular attention to how they relate to the garment workers who produce their goods and to Asianness as a fashionable commodity. The Beautiful Generation links the rise of Asian American designers to historical patterns of immigration, racial formation, and globalized labor, and to familial and family-like connections between designers and sewers.
ACU Movie Night!!! Wednesday, February 23 · 7:00pm - 8:30pm Kimmel 406 This year, we are expecting to show the 2005 Humanitas Prize-winning “The Motel” by film director (and NYU alumnus!) Michael Kang. The film explores the difficulties of adolescence as experienced by thirteen-year old Earnest Chin, a boy working at his parents’ motel, which hosts a variety of “shady characters.” See the trailer. Food will also be served, so don’t miss it!
Japan International Movie Night Friday, February 25 · 6:00pm - 8:30pm Kimmel 803 We will be screening a Japanese film with English subtitles. This event is open to everyone. We will choose the film by popular vote ^-^ Go to the online survey. Come for a relaxing night to enjoy food and Japanese visual media :)
全城热恋－City in Love Valentine’s Day Theme Party Friday, February 25 · 7:00pm - 10:30pm Kimmel 4th Floor E&L Auditorium Speed dating and dancing are exciting regulars you can always expect! We’ll offer gelivable music and drinks for the event. Renowned DJ Tim Martell spinning top 50 all night long with a cash bar for some added fire power. You’ll have game time with your date of the night. You don’t know how “high” you can get unless you come find out. $5 for NYU and other student ID, $20 for Non-Student.
NYU Expo Student Design Competition Happening now This year, our theme is “A Turn in the Air” and we’re challenging you to design an original, dance-inspired garment using recycled clothing and materials. Enter NYU EXPO’s 2011 Student Design Competition for a chance to win:
A $200 Cash prize and other gifts from our sponsors
Your designed featured in our runway presentation on April 29, 2011 among other established designers
The opportunity to be seen by a panel of industry professionals
Extensive press coverage of your work*
Entering the contest is really simple! Just email fashion.exponyu@gmail.com with a preliminary sketch of your design idea by MARCH 20TH, 2011. Final pieces are due MONDAY, APRIL 11th.
Vigil for Japan Tuesday, March 22 · 7:00pm - 7:30pm Gould Plaza (Rain Location: Kimmel Center Staircase, 60 Washington Sq. South) NYU Students and Community, please join us for a vigil to reflect on the recent tragedies in Japan. With support from The Center for Student Activities, Leadership and Service, The Islamic Center, The Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life, The Protestant Campus Ministry, The Catholic Center, The Center for Spiritual Life, Hillel at NYU, Koach at NYU, Shalhevet at NYU, Kesher at NYU, Liberal Studies Student Council of NYU, IJC, Japan International at NYU, International Business Association, Tisch Entertainment Business Association, Astronomy Club, Bella Quisqueya, Ani V'Ata, United Muslims Association, Shuruq, Muslim Graduate Students Group, The Jewish Disaster Response Corps, and Chabad at NYU. **For those who would like to be a part of the planning committee for the Vigil, there will be a planning meeting at 4 PM in Kimmel, Room 806 (the lounge area).**
Japan International: Fundraiser Help Japan Wednesday, March 23 · 5:30pm - 8:30pm Kimmel 7th Floor Japan International is planning a series of fundraiser events to aid the disaster relief efforts in Japan currently. We will be conducting a thousand crane folding event, video and news feed showings, host speakers who have been impacted by the situation in Japan, and exhibit a public interactive collage display where anyone can write a message or post a picture in support of the Japanese people who are suffering overseas right now.
ACU Mysteary Event Wednesday, March 23 · 7:00pm - 8:30pm Kimmel 406 As a post-spring break kick-off event, ACU will be hosting its Mysteary Event this Wednesday at 7pm in Kimmel 406! ACE will also be scouting for volunteers and giving a special presentation! Last year, we held a blind food-tasting competition, what will this year’s event be? Come find out!
With the coming week, your Bengali Student Association e-board has been working on a super cool event to help people globally. Take a moment and visit this website: http://www.brac.net/node/864. This event is service orientated, so if your a good person and want to help poor women in Bangladesh, come support us!! We will have tons of yummy yummy food, so bring a hungry tummy!
PLAYLIST: NYC’s Only All Music Comedy Show with Jess, Ben & Jen Thursday, March 24· 9:30pm The Pit Theater - 123 e. 24th St NYC’s only all-music comedy showcase features the city’s top singing and strumming performers. Each month, the powerhouse trio of music comedians Jessica Delfino, Ben Lerman and Jen Kwok (of Date an Asian fame) bring you brand new songs based on a theme, special guests, surprises and an improvised jam session featuring all of the evening’s outstanding guests. This month’s theme is: Fooled.
Free Hugs for Japan at Washington Square Sunday, March 27 · 12:00pm - 8:00pm Washington Square Park Last Friday, Brandon, Veronica, Jeanne, and I started out with an idea of giving out free hugs. For every hug we received we would donate $0.10 and we also laid out a donation box if people wanted to make additional donations. The response and support were overwhelming. So we’re doing it again. Except this time, it’s not just free hugs. Anyone who wants to help can showcase their talent at Washington Square….Musicians, dancers, etc. It’s time to pool our talents together for individuals that are in need. If you don’t wish to perform, you can be a hugger.
Asian Americans and Racial Diversity in the Ivory Tower Tuesday, March 29 · 1:00pm - 3:00pm The Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College 47-49 East 65th Street (b/w Park and Madison Avenues) New York, NY U.S. Colleges and Universities have experienced rapid growth in Asian American student enrollment over the last four decades, paralleling growth in the general Asian American population following immigration reform in 1965. In the 1980s and 90s, increased Asian American enrollment at elite institutions was hailed within a discourse of celebrating diversity. At the same time, the increase in Asian American college students also drew fears of an “Asian Invasion.” Speakers at this event will consider the cultural, demographic and policy implications of increasing Asian American enrollment in higher education. RSVP HERE: http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07e3ikjhxbgkzimnjb/start
NYU Lambda Phi Epsilon’s Bone Marrow Drive Tuesday, March 29 · 3:00pm - 7:00pm Kimmel The Cammy Lee Leukemia Foundation Inc. (CLLF) is a non profit health service organization dedicated to raising awareness and concerns to the Asian and Pacific Islander and minority communities about the thousands of patients that suffer from fatal blood diseases such as leukemia, aplastic anemia, and non-hodgkin’s lymphoma. Many of them will unfortunately need a marrow or stem cell transplant for a life–saving cure.
F4NK: Adrian Hong Colloquium Tuesday, March 29 · 8:00pm - 10:00pm Kimmel 905 On Tuesday, March 29, at 8pm in Kimmel 905, Freedoms 4 North Korea has the honor of hosting Adrian Hong to speak on behalf of his involvement in the field of human rights. Currently, Adrian Hong serves as Director of the Pegasus Project, an initiative that uses cutting-edge technology to penetrate closed societies and empower people in those nations to communicate amongst themselves, and with the outside world. He was also selected as one of the twenty 2010 TED Senior Fellows from across the globe. Adrian was the co-founder and former Executive Director of Liberty in North Korea (LiNK), an international NGO devoted to human rights in North Korea, and the protection of North Korean refugees all over the world. In 2008, he was a Visiting Lecturer for Ewha University in Korea teaching “America, Human Rights and Foreign Policy”. He is currently a Visiting Associate Professional Specialist for Princeton University.
CMS Movie Night Thursday, March 31 · 5:00pm - 8:00pm Kimmel 405 Come join CMS for a laid-back movie night this Thursday! Enjoy food and yummy Asian snacks (Panda crackers, anyone?) while we watch the 2011 hit “我知女人心 (What Women Want)”. You can also learn about our annual benefit fashion/talent show Yuan: the exciting performances we have lined up, the awesome raffle prizes & goodie bags, and how YOU can get in for free! (by volunteering of course)
Seconds to Fame Thursday, March 31 · 7:30pm - 10:30pm Kimmel 914 It’s that time of the year again guys! HKSA’s annual SECONDS TO FAME event is here. Tons of talent; singers, dancers, stand-up comedy, etc. will stand on stage to impress our panel of judges. Judges will have a bell in front of them to eliminate contestants – prizes increase with every 15 seconds you stay on stage! Come out this Thursday, March 31 to watch some amazing talent and as always, enjoy some free food. To sign up as a contestant, please e-mail hksa.nyu@gmail.com with your name, college and performance.
Asian Heritage Month’s Opening Ceremony RISE with Wong Fu Productions Friday, April 1 · 6:00pm - 9:00pm Kimmel E&L Auditorium The night will feature Wong Fu Productions - Wesley Chan, Ted Fu & Philip Wang. Wong Fu Productions is a growing independent production company with thousands of hits to their website from all over the world each day. With a fanbase of millions across the globe, they work fulltime creating online content, designing for their tshirt brand, and producing with other companies and artists. As emerging artists and filmmakers, they hope to continue to improve their craft, grow as a company, and reach people with their work.*UPDATE: TICKETS ARE NOW ON SALE!* -Ticket Central (566 LaGuardia Place) from Saturday, 3/26 until Friday, 4/1 at 5:30pm- limit 2 tickets per NYU ID -Satellite box office (Kimmel 206) from 5:30pm to 7pm on the day of the event (Friday 4/1)
NORTH KOREA AND SCIENCE FICTION – talk by Seo-Young Chu, followed by screening of PULGASARI (dir. Shin Sang-ok, 1985)
Monday, February 28 · 6:30 pm 20 Cooper Square, Room 471 Since the division of Korea following World War II, the reality of North Korea has evaded direct representation. Photographs and firsthand accounts of this enigmatic country are relatively scarce. At the same time, the idea of North Korea has served as a prolific aesthetic resource – a wealth of images, metaphors, symbols – for a number of science-fiction writers and thinkers. David Mitchell, for example, draws from North Korea’s ominous mystique to generate powerful dystopian effects in his 2004 novel ‘Cloud Atlas’, parts of which are set in a futuristic Korea where the basic rights of humanoid artifacts are continually violated. Similarly, the 2002 James Bond film ‘Die Another Day’ borrows from North Korea’s nuclear aura to charge its North Korean villains with radioactive otherness and inhumanity.
Is the ‘poverty’ of factual representations of North Korea paradoxically what makes the idea of North Korea so ‘rich’ as a source of representational material? How do images of North Korea in South Korean science fiction differ from (or resemble) images of North Korea in Korean American science fiction? Can the Western imagination of North Korea be understood as a form of Orientalism? Finally, is it possible to place Anglophone accounts of a science-fictional North Korea in meaningful dialogue with North Korean works of science fiction such as the 1985 monster film ‘Pulgasari’?
Game Night with Bengali Students Association Tuesday, March 1 · 5:00pm - 7:00pm Kimmel 910 We challenge you to come and show your face for an awesome evening of Game Night organized by your very own BSA E-board! We have lots of games! If you would like to play something very strongly and would like us to include it, please send Tasfia an email at tt741@nyu.edu, and we can have that arranged. We also have food to feed your competitive appetite! Its a fierce time. Be there.
Family Dinner with CSS Wednesday, March 2 · 7:00pm - 8:30pm Kimmel 406 Getting ready for another semester of schoolwork? Well let go of some stress with us at CSS’s family dinner on Wednesday, March 2nd! This dinner is going to be formal (or semi-formal) with music, games, and lots of Chinese food! Get a chance to meet our awesome e-board members & participate in super fun games! If you are interested or still interested in attending this event please shoot us an email at nyucss@gmail.com with a reply such as “attending” or “omg i’m so excited.” (Haha jk.)
F4NK: ADRIAN HONG: LiNK Co-Founder Guest Speaker Session Thursday, March 3 · 6:30pm - 7:30pm Kimmel 905 This THURSDAY, March 3, in Kimmel 905 at 6:30pm, F4NK will be hosting, with great honor, guest speaker ADRIAN HONG to speak about his experiences working as a founder of LiNK and his newest organizational involvements with the Pegasus Project.(Adrian’s TED Fellows Bio: http://www.ted.com/fellows/view/id/22)
Speaking Freely offers sessions in Arabic, Cantonese, Czech, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. It’s all free–and easy. Meet new people and have fun. It’s the perfect way to try out a language and culture before you study or visit.
On February 10, 1961, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered a speech on the campus of New York University that advocated for civil rights and championed nonviolent protest for social change. For the sixth-consecutive year, the University will commemorate Dr. King’s visit and his legacy by hosting a weeklong schedule of special events and programs. This year’s theme is intended to remind us of the spirit of Dr. King’s message to come to together, work toward positive goals and change our world for the better.
All week - check event for details. KCN 2011!!!! Are You Ready?! We are looking for ANY TALENTS from high to low!!! We want to show it off so come out and AUDITION! Dance crews-please bring IPOD with music. Models-Females bring High Heels. Designers, Photographers, Videographers-Please bring samples for judges to keep. If you think you need it to show us your talent, bring it!
Monday, February 7 6:30pm 20 Cooper Square HERLOCK HOLMES: THE BLIND BANKER is a contemporary retorque of some of those late-Victorian tropes. Borrowing elements from Conan Doyle’s ‘The Dancing Men’ and ‘The Sign of Four’, it’s an atmospheric tale of cyphers, people smuggling, Chinese acrobats, precious teapots, chopsocky, lucky cats and a diabolical group called The Black Lotus all set in post-Banksy, Erotic Gherkin-skylined London. There are murder galore, a bewitching and ill-fated researcher called Soo Lin Yao (Gemma Chan), and – oodles of deliciously patronizing put-downs of dunderheaded humanity by Holmes himself. THE BLIND BANKER will be presented by Jack (John Kuo Wei) Tchen.
Tuesday, February 8 6:30 PM 20 Cooper Square Multi-media presentation and panel discussion on giant monster movies. Politics is an essential element in giant monster movies, whether subtle or blatant, propagandistic or ambivalent, notably present or conspicuously absent. In this panel, presenters will raise political issues evoked by plot, character, imagery and archetype in daikaiju eiga, with an emphasis on Godzilla movies of the past and the near future.
Tuesday, February 8 6:30pm - 7:30pm Kimmel 901 Asian American Women’s Alliance (AAWA) is having the first general meeting of the semester Tuesday, February 8th at 6:30 to 7:30PM in Kimmel RM 901. We will be having food from Cafetasia and playing games of Apples to Apples. Come by and hang out. Take a break from school! And remember you don’t have to be Asian-American or a woman to stop by and join us!
Wednesday, February 9 7:00pm - 8:30pm Kimmel 805 ACU will be hosting speed dating, serving desserts, and hosting an edible Valentine’s Day Card competition!!
Thursday, February 10 7:00pm - 10:00pm Kimmel 900 series Roses are red, violets are blue…and HKSA wants you, single guys! It’s that time of the year again, and back by popular demand is our Valentine’s Dating Game. Our Miss HKSA will each be chatting up three anonymous guys, and after three rounds of contestants, one lucky guy will walk away as her Valentine!
Friday, February 11 6:00pm - 9:00pm Kimmel 803 Come eat, drink, and play. Go all out for an evening of fun and games. Think a cross between traditional Japanese merriment and modern TV game show. FREE FOOD! AWESOME PRIZES!
SINGAPORE GAGA (dir. Tan Pin Pin, 2005), 55min Presented by Jini Kim Watson (NYU) Monday 7 March 2011, 6:30pm 20 Cooper Square, Room 471 [East 5th and Bowery] FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC SINGAPORE GAGA is a witty, politically astute and highly unusual audio-essay that moves through the soundworld of contemporary Singapore. Mullet-sporting ventriloquists, a wheelchair-bound street vendor bidding passers-by to purchase tissue, the voice of the Fujitech elevator announcement, toy pianist Margaret Leng Tan performing John Cage’s 4’33”, some of the last Cantonese speakers on mainstream media: Pin Pin’s film is a polyphonic spree, a transmitting device that broadcasts noises – discordant, yearning, playful, vulgar – very different from the dull euphonies of the neo-liberal state. SINGAPORE GAGA will be presented by Jini Kim Watson. An Assistant Professor of English at New York University, she writes on Asia-Pacific literature and cultural studies, spatial and architectural theory, and comparative modernities. She is the author of ‘The New Asian City: Three-dimensional Fictions of Space and Urban Form’ (2011) and her articles include ‘The Way Ahead: The Politics and Poetics of Singapore’s Developmental Landscape’ (2008).
Investment Banking in Asia: Demystified Tuesday, March 8 · 12:30pm - 2:00pm Kimmel 802 Interested in latching on an internship in Asia? Join us for a presentation on the differences between investment banking in the US and in Asia, on divisions such as IBD, Capital Markets, Sales & Trading and Quantitative Trading. Former interns and full - times will share their experiences at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, UBS, Deutsche Bank, Barclays Capital, Credit Suisse, Banks of America Merrill Lynch and BNP Paribas. Lunch will be provided.
MOCA Target Free Thursday Open Mic: A Call to Adventure Thursday, March 10 · 7:00pm - 8:30pm MOCA | 215 Centre Street, New York, NY 10013 Join MOCA as we host an OPEN MIC night featuring poet FAY CHIANG and hip hop artist/educator RABBI DARKSIDE. Verse, prose or song, come share your call to adventure at MOCA’s Open Mic Night. This program is free and open to the public, courtesy of TARGET. RSVP to education@mocanyc.org…All participants are welcome. There is a 5 minute time limit on all performances. In conjunction with Lee Mingwei’s The Travelers, a project inspired by MOCA’s mission to document the ongoing journeys we make as Americans.
DIWANG PINAY: The Story Behind the Woman Worker Sunday, March 13 · 2pm matinee and 7pm showing Hunter College-Lang Recital Hall at 695 Park Ave. Since February 2010, a group of Filipino women across generations, both age and migration, have gathered weekly to create an original staged play about migration, family and resilience. Diwang Pinay follows the story of Maria, a domestic worker in the NYC area who left the Philippines to support her family by migrating only to face challenges in a new city and figure out a way to survive. See the world through her eyes as a migrant and mother. The process of creating this original work has bestowed a multigenerational group of Filipinas, immigrant and American-born, a unique experience to write, produce and direct stories about the lives of Filipino domestic workers living and working in New York City. This production is a collaboration between Kabalikat Domestic Worker Support Network, a program of the Philippine Forum and Filipinas for Rights and Empowerment (FiRE)-Gabriela USA. Buy your tickets now!!!
