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Opening Night Benefit Honoring Woman Warrior Awards Recipients Film Row Cinema, 1104 S. Wabash Ave. |
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Join
us for an evening of fun, entertainment and great food as well as
a fabulous auction to kick off the 3rd bi-annual Woman Warrior Festival
and to honor the 2005 Woman Warrior Award recipients: |
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April 28 ]
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Films
by Christine Choy & Conversation with the Director
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p.m. Who Killed Vincent Chin? (1988, 87 min) This Academy Award-nominated documentary examines the 1982 murder of Vincent Chin, a 27 year old Chinese American, the subsequent legal case, and the first criminal civil rights prosecution involving Anti-Asian American discrimination. Sparrow Village (2003, 27 min) Young Chinese Miao girls tell their stories of hardship-most girls must contend with poverty, separation from their families while they attend a school that is a three-hour walk away, and the privileging of their brothers' education over their own as they strive to achieve their dreams. This beautifully shot film profiles how the dreams of younger generations of poor rural villages in the developing world are often at odds with the lives of their parents. 8:15 p.m. De-construction of a Korean House Wife (2004, 36min) Choy follows the process of her Korean friend, who has been a housewife for 40 years, carefully stepping out into society with the publishing of her book. The director indirectly presents the Korean society through this work by illumining the traditional Korean family structure and relations.Following the 8:15 screening Christine Choy will join the audience for a discussion of her work. Christine Choy's films have been shown around the world, including the Hong Kong International Film Festival, Sundance, Cannes, the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, Athens International Film Festival, and the San Francisco International Film Festival. She is a recipient of numerous fellowships including John Simon Guggenheim, Rockefeller and Asian Cultural Council and serves on the Project Vetting committee of the Film Development Fund, Hong Kong and the International Board of Trustee of the Asia Society. She is the graduate chair of the Film and Television Department at New York University. |
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April 30]
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Number
1: The Helen Fong Dare Story Premiere
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This personal documentary explores the life of Chinese immigrants in the Midwest, as seen through the eyes of Helen Fong Dare - an intrepid and unconventional pioneer who defied gender and cultural discrimination years before the rise of feminism and affirmative action in America. Nancy Tom, producer/director and daughter of Helen Fong Dare will lead a discussion about the making of the documentary and her journey of self-discovery.(Admission to this event is free) |
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May 2]
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Free
Trade: Designing Dignity
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Hear the stories of empowerment and see the work of women artisans from around the globe at this multimedia presentation accompanied by the world music of Funkadesi. Learn about how fair trade organizations like Ten Thousand Villages, MayaWorks, MarketPlace and African Creations, contribute to the lifestyle and dignity of women in India, Guatamala, Ghana, and beyond by creating opportunities to work. A fair trade market place with woman-made handicrafts and wearable art will be open a half-hour before and after the program. This program is part of the MVP Series: Multicultural Voices and Perspectives co-presented by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, the American Indian Center, the Arab American Action Network and the Center for Asian Arts and Media. (Admission to this event is free) |
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May 3]
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Kitchen
Goddesses: Women in the Culinary Arts
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Rohini Dey, Ph.D. (founder and owner) and Maneet Chauhan (executive chef) of Vermilion, a river north hot spot known for its inventive Indian and Latin American fusion cuisine, discuss their experience as minority women in a male dominated field and share their signature creations with the audience. Rohini Dey, a former management consultant, is a staunch supporter of women in business as evidenced by her management of an all-female team at Vermilion. Maneet Chauhan, a native of Indian in her late 20s, is no stranger to taking the best of two cultures and melding them together. Chauhan came to the United States in 1998 to attend the the Culinary Institute of America where she graduated with honors and successfully launched a fine dining Indian restaurant in New Jersey. Vermilion was named "One of the Top 20 Restaurants in Chicago" by Chicago magazine, "Top New Restaurants" by Wine Enthusiast and "Best Chicago Trendsetter" by Bon Appetit & USA Today. |
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May 4]
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Listen:
The Good (Silent) Asian Girl Talks Back to U.S. Patriarchy
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Fay Yokomizo Akindes presents narratives of three Asian American women who rescripted their lives from the "good girl" (who rarely speaks) to the political activist who talks back to U.S. patriarchy. The three women include: Yuri Kochiyama, a contemporary of Malcolm X who "awakened" to political activism in her early 40s and is still active today in her 80s; Alberta Lee, daughter of the Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee who was imprisoned in solitary confinement for 9 months then released; and Eiko Kosasa, a sansei (third generation Japanese American) woman in Hawaii who criticized her sansei brothers for replicating and benefiting from the dominant power structure rather than supporting the Native Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement. Fay Yokomizo Akindes is associate professor of communication and director of the Center for Ethnic Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. Her research problematizes communication, culture and identity in Hawai'i, the U.S. and West Africa, and has appeared in Diegesis, Discourse, Qualitative Inquiry, several book chapters, and (forthcoming) in Cultural Studies Critical Methodologies. (Admission to this event is free) |
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Drag
King: Performing Asian Masculinity by Johnny Mozzarella
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Maryanne Cassera (aka Johnny Mozzarella) is a drag king performer from Portland, Oregon with a bachelors degree in women's studies and communications. Through her performance as a drag king, Maryanne deconstructs misconceptions of Asian masculinity and how this differs from the mainstream media. (Admission to this event is free) |
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Holey
Rollers' performance night
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Follow Johnny Mozzarella to the Hot House where "the double Johnnys" will emcee a night of drag, burlesque and queer cheer. This event, brought to you by the Holey Rollers and co-sponsored by the Columbia College, includes a dialogue about the ways our stories of gender are being, and could be, re-told. This fusion of Columbia's students and employees with Chicago's queer communities is free for participants of Woman Warrior Festival or with a Columbia College ID. |
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Beauty
and the Beat: Women Drummers
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Featuring Taiko drummer Patti Adachi and Korean woman percussion group OO-RI SO-RI (Our Voice). A taiko drummer since 1987, Patti Adachi helped start the Buddhist Temple of Chicago taiko group and has since played with Wakayagi Shiyukai and her own group, Maiko Japanese Drum Group as well as Universal Mystic, a multicultural percussion group (conga, taiko and djembe) that fuses Latin, African and Japanese rhythms. She has studied taiko in Japan through a City of Chicago Artists International Grant and with Kodo's Yoshikazu Fujimoto and Leonard Eto. OO-RI SO-RI is a Korean women's percussion group that creates No-Ri, a gathering, for all people to dance, sing, and play. The group plays four of the traditional Korean percussion instruments involved in Poong-Mool No-Ri. Each of the four instruments represents different aspects of the universe and sounds of nature: the Kweng-gwa-ri (smaller gong) - stars and thunder; Jing (gong) - sun and wind; Book (drum) - moon and cloud; and Jang-go (hour glass shaped drum) - rain and man and woman. |
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Calling
Aphrodite Stage Reading & Conversation with playwright
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In Calling Aphrodite, the exquisite and distinctive Keiko Kimura's life is critically altered when war arrives in Japan. At ground zero in Hiroshima when the atomic bomb falls, she is horribly disfigured. An American philanthropist engages a New York surgeon to take on the case of Keiko and other women scarred in the bombing - "the Hiroshima Maidens" of legend. As Keiko's crisis crosses borders, her life becomes a quest for enlightenment that can restore her faith in humanity's integrity and grace. Post-show discussion with the playwright. Velina Hasu Houston, Ph.D., is an award-winning multi-genre author who writes plays, film and television, cultural criticism, poetry, and prose. She has been recognized as a Japan Foundation Fellow, a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow, a Sidney F. Brody Fellow, and a James Zumberge Fellow. Her play, Calling Aphrodite, was awarded a 2003 Silver Medal from the Pinter Review Prize for Drama. Silk Road Theatre Project was created to showcase playwrights of Asian, Middle Eastern, and Mediterranean backgrounds, whose works address themes relevant to the peoples of the Silk Road and their Diaspora communities.Written by Velina Hasu Houston. Directed by Patrizia Acerra. Presented in collaboration with the Silk Road Theatre Project |
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| This project is supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts with additional support from the Harris Trust and Savings Bank, the Mayer and Morris Kaplan Family Foundation and the Illinois Arts Coucil, a state agency. Program sponsors of the 2005 festival are the Silk Road Theatre Project, the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, the Heartland Cafe, Studio Snaidero Chicago, and the Liberal Education Department, the Film/Video Department and the Office of GLBT Student Concerns of Columbia College Chicago. | |||
Tickets:
$65 Opening/Award reception
$25
Festival Pass
$15 Student Pass
$10 Single Program
Reservation:
reservation form
by phone
312.344.7870
by fax
312.344.8010
in person
Center for Asian Arts & Media
29 E. Congress, 1F
Columbia College Chicago