Thursday April 2nd to Sunday April 5th and Thursday April 9th to Sunday April 12th -- CA
Vietnamese International Film Festival 2009
This eight-day event will showcase Vietnamese and Vietnamese diasporic filmmakers, with feature films like Tammy Nguyen Lee's Operation Babylift: The Lost Children of Vietnam, Le-Van Kiet's Sad Fish, and a variety of shorts programs. ViFF will also host panel discussions on film and gender, and they're still looking for festival volunteers. Screenings will be held mainly at UC Irvine, with some at UC Los Angeles and Westminster,
Southern California. Check the website for full festival schedule and tickets.
Stephanie Syjuco Exhibits -- Seattle & San Jose
Bay Area FilAm artist Stephanie Syjuco will be presenting two exhibits this week in Seattle and San Jose:
The Village (Small Encampments) solo exhibition is constructed of small cut-out dioramas taken from tourists' pictures of the Philippines, and later photographed in the artist's living space as a personal travelogue. Exhibit runs April 2 -- May 2.
Thursday April 2nd, Opening reception
5 to 7 pm
James Harris Gallery
312 2nd Ave South, Seattle
It's Not Us, It's You is a group exhibition exploring the inevitability of rejection in our lives, and includes paintings, sculpture, video, and multi-media work. Exhibit runs April 3 -- June 20.
Friday April 3rd, Opening reception
6 to 8 pm
The San Jose Institute for Contemporary Art
560 South First Street, San Jose
Friday April 3rd to Sunday April 5th -- San Diego
Lao New Year Celebration and Exhibit
This year's Lao New Year Celebration will feature Legacies of War's National Traveling Exhibition and TeAda Production's Refugee Nation , a moving performance of oral histories of Laotian refugees and their descendants. The Friday opening night event will be followed by a screening of Oscar Nominated documentary Nerakhoon -- The Betrayal. San Diego is home to the largest number of Laotian American refugees who came to the US in the '70s and '80s.
Opening night event and The Betrayal: 4/3 from 6 to 9:30 pm
Legacies of War Exhibit: 4/4 and 4/5 from 10 am to 6 pm
Refugee Nation Performance: 4/4 at 2 pm and 7 pm; 4/5 at 2 pm
Joe & Vi Jacobs Center, Celebration Hall
404 Euclid Ave, San Diego
FREE
Friday April 3rd to Thursday April 16th -- Chicago
14th Annual Asian American Showcase
The 2009 Asian American Showcase highlights film, music, and visual art in a variety of formats and genres. Features inclued Harry Kim's Dirty Hands: The Art and Crimes of David Choe and Sarba Das' Karma Calling. For complete schedule visit the Foundation for Asian American Independent Media website. Ticket info here.
Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N. State (b/w Lake and Randolph), Chicago
$ 9 general / $7 students
Friday April 3rd and Saturday April 4th -- Philadelphia
Asian Arts Initiative Grand Opening Celebration
Join Asian Arts Initiative in celebrating their new location, with an opening reception and Chinatown In/flux: Future Landscapes exhibit on Friday evening, and open house and performance showcase on Saturday. Artists include Taiyo Na, Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai, Sham-e-ali al Jamil, Asians Misbehavin’, Pallabi Chakravorty and the Courtyard
Dancers, Las Gallas, Mytili Jagannathan, Juliette Lee, Hanalei Ramos,
Alex Shaw, Yellow Rage, YaliniDream, special guest
musicians, and hosted by Edward Garcia. All events are free, but make reservations or buy premium tickets here.
Saturday April 4th -- Seattle
Khmer New Year Festival
Welcome Cambodian New Year with a good ol' street festival -- complete with food, music, dancing, games and performances.
10:30 am to 5 pm
SW 98th Street -- White Center, Seattle
FREE
Saturday April 4th and Tuesday April 7th -- Bay Area
Thaddeus Rutkowski Readings
Kaya Press (literature from the Asian diaspora) author Thaddeus Rutkowski will be reading from his two novels, Roughhouse and Tetched, both finalists for an Asian American Literary Award. Read Hyphen's interview with Thaddeus here.
April 4th
7 pm
Eastwind Books
2066 University Ave, Berkeley
April 7th
1:30 pm
Center for Literary Arts
1 Washington Square, San Jose State University
FREE
Saturday April 4th -- NYC
College Poetry Slam with Vinh Hua
Like performance poetry? Slam contests? Heckling? Come downtown for a slam for college students, with local poet Vinh Hua aka Vinh the Kid (video above) competing. If you're bold you can enter yourself to win cash, prizes, and points for your school towards qualifying for the NYC College Slam Championship.
6 to 9 pm (sign-up for competition at 5:45 pm)
Bowey Poetry Club
308 Bowery (and Bleecker), New York
$ 5
Through April 4th -- Minneapolis
Baseball Saved Us Performance
This is your last weekend to check Katie Hae Ryun Leo's stage adaptation of Ken Mochizuki and Dom Lee's children's book Baseball Saved Us. The show portrays how Japanese American families coped with their internment through the use of baseball.
4/1 & 4/2: 10 am
4/3: 10 am and 7 pm
4/4: 1 pm
Mixed Blood Theater
1501 South 4th Street, Minneapolis
For tickets, call 
612-338-6131
or visit website here
If you're an emerging artist looking to get exposure through exhibitions, this two-day workshop with Kevin Chen will offer practical tips and suggestions on how to best present your work through a portfolio, artist statement, resume, and other strategies. Kevin Chen has been involved in the Bay Area arts community for over 12 years as an arts administrator, curator, and visual artist.
7 to 9 pm
Tuesdays, April 14th & 21st
Intersection for the Arts
446 Valencia Street, San Francisco
$ 100/ $ 90 Intersection members
Register here
Call for Entries -- 10th Annual San Diego Asian Film Festival
Early deadline approaching for the SDAFF, which will take place October 15 -- 29, 2009. Entries are accepted for the following categories: Animation, Short Documentary, Feature Documentary, Narrative Short, and Narrative Feature, with a cash prize for the Jury Winner.
Early deadline is April 30, 2009 ($25 fee)
Late deadline is June 19, 2009 ($40 fee)
Guidelines, entry form and more info here, or email info(at)sdaff(dot)org.
Call for Sumbissions- Kriti (Creation) Arts and Literature Festival
June 11 to 14th -- Chicago
DesiLit is now accepting submissions to its upcoming festival in the following areas: literature, film, music, and dance. If your work is selected, you'll be invited to sit on panels and/or give a reading/screening/performance etc. Guests of Honor for this year's Kriti festival are Amitava Kumar and Bapsi Sidhwa. Submission guidelines here. Deadline is May 1, 2009.
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