Friday December 23rd -- NYC

Prince of the Himalayas Screening

The Rubin Museum of Art [1] is offering the
first US screening of Sherwood Hu's "exhilarating high-altitude
Hamlet" Prince of the Himalayas, presented in association with Asian
CineVision [2]. Check out the trailer and showtimes here [3]. Showing through January 14, 2012.

Rubin Museum of Art

150 W 17th St, New York

$12; tickets here [3]

Saturday December 24th -- Los Angeles

Little Tokyo Walking Tour

Relive history at the Japanese American National Museum [4] (JANM) and learn about
present-day Little Tokyo with National Museum docents. Comfortable walking
shoes and clothes recommended. Weather permitting.

10:15 am to 12:15 pm

JANM

369 East 1st St, Los Angeles

$9 Members; $14 non-members, includes Museum admission.

Thursday December 29th -- NYC

Queens Noir Reading 

                                       Tejas Desai

Join three writers
from the anthology Queens Noir [5] as they discuss their craft and relationship to New York's
largest and most diverse borough by taking participants on a tour of some of Queen's most
iconic neighborhoods. Shailly Agnihotri introduces a Jackson
Heights matrimonial agency, Ken Wishnia [6] peers behind a bodega
in Corona, and Denis Hamill [7] discusses the Bayside riverfront. Tejas Desai, a Librarian at the Bayside Community Library, will lead
the conversation. Copies of Queens Noir will be available for checkout. Includes refreshments.

6 pm

Bayside
Community Library
in Queens [8], Meeting Room

214-20 Northern Boulevard, Bayside, NY

                                       Opportunities

Shui Kuen and Allen Chin Scholarships Acceptng Applications



Two $1,000 scholarships for restaurant workers and children of restaurant
workers are available from the Shui Kuen and Allen Chin Scholarship, a program
of the Asian Pacific Fund [9]. Go here [10] for more info on eligbility and application. Application Deadline: March 15, 2012.