may01

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Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
Hidden Internment showings begin in California and DC
5/1 Deadline for Scholarship for Progressive Activists
5/1 Music, Improvisation, Meditation & Cultural Exchange @ SJSU
5/1 Student Panel on Asian American Historical Sites @ SJSU
5/1 Japanese Peruvian Oral History Project Meeting
5/1 2001 May Day: Screening of "Slaves of Free Trade" @ La Pena in Berkeley
5/1 The Culture of Survival: Lives of Chinese Migrant Workers thru the Prism of Private Letters @ UCB
5/1 farm worker support committee presents: hip hop 4 respect @ UCB
5/1-6/1 "Shaken and Stirred"- Exhibition by the South Asian Women's Creative Collective in NY
5/2 Chicano Experience Forum @ SJSU
5/2 Cafe Poetry hosted by Youth Speaks in Berkeley
5/2 "Voice Up": Campaign for Safer Subway Stations in NY
5/2 Black Panther Political Strategy in Context in Berkeley
5/2 AAA Dance Team Performance on Sproul, UCB
5/2 Hardboiled's Sweatshop Fashion Show @ UCB (Lower Sproul)
5/3 Asian Pacific American Theme Housing Banquet @ UCB
5/3 2nd Annual Stanford Asian American Awards Dinner @ Stanford
5/3 API Wellness Center 2001 Gala in SF
5/3 Bill Reeves of Pixar: "Pixar Filmmaking- To Infinity and Beyond" @ UCB
5/3 Ride the Age Wave... and Make a Difference with "Surfing for Life" Presentation @ SJSU
5/3 Reading-"Yellow Journalist: Dispatches fr. Asian American" w/ William Wong in SF
5/3-19 An Annual Rite of Spring: Works by 14 Choreographers in NY
5/4 "The Debut" opens at AMC Mercado, Santa Clara
5/4 1st Korean Cultural Nite @ SJSU
5/4 "5/15/45 The Last Dance" @ UCD
5/4 Jeffrey Lei Comedy Set @ Stanford
5/4 Deadline for Vietnamese American Professional Alliance Scholarship Program
5/4 All-Oakland Talent Show (Beneift Community Activism) in Berkeley
5/4 Anno Domini//the second coming of art&design: jessie vala in SJ
5/4-5 "Minor Transnationalism" Cofnerence @ UCLA
5/4-6 "Soul Dust- Travel in the Storm" @ McClymonds HS, Oakland
5/4-17 The Masterworks of Director Hsiao-Hsien (Screenning) in NY
5/5 Pacific Asian Council's "RISE"- APIA Conference @ UCSD
5/5 Indie Bands @ Portlite in Oakland
5/5 Mickey Mouse Monopoly: Disney, Childhood, and Coporate Power in MA
5/5 PapaRoach, the Commons, & the Librarians @ Greek Theatre, UCB
5/6 24th Annual Nikkei Matsuri Festival in Japantown, SJ
5/6 Cinco de Mayo Parade & Festival in SJ
5/6 4th Annual Conference of Harvard China Review
5/6 22nd Annual Asian Pacific American Heritage Festival (by CAPA) in NY
5/8 Asian American Public Policy Institute's Spyplanes and the Scapegoating of Asian America @ Stanford
5/8 Sister-to-Sister Youth Empowerment Conference
5/8 Music, Improvisation, Meditation & Cultural Exchange @ SJSU
5/8 Asian Youth Services Committee Meeting in Oakland
5/9 Indie Bands (Enda, Xiu Xiu, Curtains, Total Shutdown, etc) @ Locus Arts, SF
5/9 Poetry for the People @ La Pena Center in Berkeley
5/9 p/filipina/o (american)/pinay/pinoy literature @ SFSU
5/9 A Tapestry of the Asian American & Pacific Islander Experience (feat. A Slice of Rice) in DC
5/9 Bobby Pins Up Your Nose: Asian American Women Speak Out about Body Image in Boston
5/10 Teach Them All to Fish: Using Mediated Learning @ La Pena in Berkeley
5/10 Oliver de la Paz reading in NYC
5/10-12 Leadership Academy for Asian Pacific American Elected Officials in DC
5/10 "Eating Welfare" Screening in Dwinelle Hall, UCB
5/11 "Eating Welfare" Screening @ Asian Pacific Cultural Center, Oakland
5/11 7th Anniversary Vietnam Human Rights Day
5/11 Interwoven: A Common Thread, 9th Annual Fashion Show @ Stanford
5/11 So-Cal Multi-VSA Dance: Atomic Glow
5/11 Video Showing of "Hearts&Minds" & Discussion on Bob Kerrey & US Crimes in Vietnam in NYC
5/11-12 Vietnam: Beyond the Frontiers, forum
5/11-12 The Struggle for Social Justice: A Symposium on Recognition, Reparations & Redress,@ UCLA
5/11-12 Eclipse: Towards a Decolonizing Cinema @ UCSC
5/12 Hike-a-thon for the children in Central VietNam in Fremont
5/12 Asian Festival @ Berkeley High
5/12 "They Will Not Kill Mumia Abu-Jamal" Rally in SF
5/12 Hip Hop for Consciousness Benefit Concert in LA
5/12 SFSU 29th Annual Pilipino Cultural Nite in SF
5/12 Human Race 2001 in SJ
5/12 Desis Organizing 2001: A Conference to Build Unity in the South Asian Community @ NYU
5/12 Community Prayer VIgil: Community Call for Peace in the Philippines in SF
5/12 Viet-AID kick-off Celebration of the Capital Campaign for the 1st full service National Vietnamese American Community Center in Boston, MA
5/15 Music, Improvisation, Meditation & Cultural Exchange @ SJSU
5/16 "Youth of Fire! Raise the Flame for Environmental Justice, Celebrate the Power of Youth" in SF
5/16 Reverse the Ban on Affirmative Action in UC System NOW! Bay Area-Wide Mobilization @ UCSF
5/17 Opening of "The Green Dragon" @ VCONLINE Film Fest in LA
5/17 Art and Activism @ Locus Arts, SF
5/17 Resistance & Struggle, Our Sisters (Speakers, Spokenword & Vocals) to benefit the Purple Rose Campaign @ Last Day Saloon, SF
5/17-18 Congressional Summit on Southeast Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Education in DC
5/17-20 LA Premiere of Gila River @ Japan American Theatre
5/17-20 21st Annual National Conference of the National Association for the Education & Advancement of Cambodian, Laotian, & Vietnamese Americans in Washington DC (NAFEA) + Youth Summit
5/17-24 Visual Communications Los Angeles Asian Film & Video Festival
5/17-6/10 Clouds, The Ocean and Everything in Between (show)@New Langton Arts, SF
5/18 KAPS's 6th Annual Leadership Awards Gala: "Celebrating Community" in Seattle
5/18 Soko Arts Festival in SF
5/18 Sister Says. Poetry, music, art, DJs, and speakers @ La Pena in Berkeley
5/18-19 Purple Moon Dance Project's "Horizon" @ Luna Sea, SF
5/19 Malcolm X Jazz Arts Festival in Oakland
5/19 The Flip Side screenning in LA
5/19 Filipinos for Affirmative Action's Annual Event & Fundraising Cook-Off in Oakland
5/19 "Collective Soul: Carnival" in Berkeley
5/19 The Power of Asian American Women in Seattle
5/19 The Asian American Arts & Heritage Festival @ Locus, SF with 2Tongues!
5/19 Suenos Anonimos/ Anonymous Dreams, Bilingual Reading in SF
5/19 1st FASGI San Fernando Valley Filipino Health Fair
5/19 Phong Nguyen Ensemble (Vietnamese Traditional Music) @ Columbia University
5/19 MACLA's 3rd Annual Latino Art Auction in SJ
5/20 "Chinatown Files" Screening at the APA Film Festival in LA
5/20 May Youth Dialogue on Race in Seattle
5/20 APA Women's Fiction Reading @ KSW, SF
5/20 Filipino Film Festival @ City College of SF
5/20 Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Guest Speaker Minister Jon Kwong in DC
5/20 Womanifesto: Urban Griots- Open Mic for Women of Color in Boston
5/20 UCLA VSU- Cafe Am: Randomness @ UCLA
5/21 National Southeast Asian Youth Summit in Washington DC
5/21 Anti-Asian Sentiment: A Glaring Reality in the 21st Century (Panel) in SF
5/22 Spring Essence: The Poetry of Ho Xuan Huong @ SF Public Library
5/22 1st General Meeting for the Planning of APAture @ KSW, SomArts, SF
5/23 Small School Reform Forum @ La Pena Center in Berkeley
5/23 Jon Jang- Encore Performance @ Locus Arts, SF
5/23 API Circles Meeting
5/23 2nd Annual Asian & Pacific Islander Heritage Month Celebration in Garden Grove
5/23-24 Asian LAw Caucus's Worker Outreach in SF
5/24 Teach-in: The US Military's Toxic Trail in the Philippines, in NY
5/24 An Urgent Call to Action Against Eviction to Public Housing and TICS in SF
5/25 Deadline for Submissions to Hook't Hip Hop, Rap Series
5/25 Gentrification Workshops (Education & Hip Hop) in SF
5/25 Youth Make Movies: New Video Works from the East Bay Asian Youth Center & Asian and Pacific Islander Youth Promoting Advocacy and Leadership in Oakland
5/25-6/10 "Cold Tofu" (great comedy!) in LA
5/25-26 Vision in Light and Sound: Oakland Asian American Film & Video Showcase
5/25-27 Asian American Theatre Company presents: (a)eromestiza in SF
5/25-28 Vietnamese National Youth Leadership Development Camp (Len Duong 2001 Camp) in Texas
5/25-28 San Francisco Documentary Film Festival
5/26 Sanskriti (South Asian American group) presents: Issues in the AA Community @ Stanford
5/26-27 Asian Festival 2001 in Columbus, Ohio
5/26 Screening of Amy Chen's The Chinatown Files in Oakland
5/26 The Sound and the Fury: Recording Bay Area Activism w. Special Musical Performance in Oakland
5/26 Dragon Boat Race @ Lake Merritt, Oakland
5/26 UCI VSA Cultural Night in Irvine
5/26 CA Tomorrow & REAL's Youth Leadership Program: Celebrating Language and Cultural Equality @ Everette Middle School, SF
5/27 Whose Vision? Asian Settler Colonialism in Hawai'i Panel in Hawaii
5/27 HapaRoots Table in SF
5/27 Memorial Day Commemoration for Filipino WWII Veterans @ SF Main Library
5/28 API-X Games and Picnic @ Golden Gate Park, SF
5/28 Barkada of Santa Clara University presents "Airbag" @ SCU
5/29 Deadline for Prison Moratorium Project Application, NY
5/29 "The Angel Island Immigration Experience" 2gallery exhibition @ SF Main LIbrary
5/29 "Visual Insurgencies: Multicultural Feminism and Asian American Art Activism" w/ Dr. Laura Kuo, PHD @ UCLA
5/29 Derek Nguyen's Monster @ David Henry Hwang Theatre
5/30 Many Faces of Queer Asian Pacific American Activism @ SEARAC, DC
5/30 Reflector & the Clarendon Hills (bands) @ Locus 1640 Post, SF
5/30 2001 Legacy Dinner: Celebrating Vision and Inspiration (w/ Maya Lin) in NYC
5/30-6/10 Psycho Kareoke: The 18 Mighty Mountain Warriors in NYC
5/31 6th Annual Refugee Awareness Event in SF
5/31 fluteflute/cellobass + koto @ the Luggage Store Gallery, SF
5/31 Deadline for A Sister's Word: Young Women of Color on Feminism