New York Lunar New Year Flower Festival: Year of The Tiger

Dates: Friday, February 12, 2010 from 10:00am – 10:00pm AND Saturday, February 13, 2010 from 10:00am – 7:00pm
Location: Sara D. Roosevelt Park in Chinatown, New York City.

To celebrate the Lunar New Year, the Arts Centre will be joining Asian Americans For Equality at the New York Lunar New Year Flower Festival which will be held for 2 days at the at Sara D. Roosevelt Park at Chinatown, New York on Friday to Saturday, February 12 – 13, 2010.

AAAC’s booth will be presenting artists include: Rose Sigal-Ibsen, calligrapher, Kavita Vyas - an Indian Mehandi hand painting artist, Karen K. Ahn, Korean Macreme, Shao Hua Yu, Grass Animal Figurine Master Artist, Ming Liang Lu, Mater Papercutter. Truong Duong, Fortune Teller, and Jampa Youden, a Tibetan Folk Singer will be performing a selection of folk songs on stage.

Audiences will have the opportunity to interact with skilled folk artists who demonstrate their crafts and will have the opportunity to ask questions, make requests and the chance to learn and delight in the magic of a traditional craft and to enjoy traditional folk singing. This is an ideal event for families. The music, art and performances will delight both old and young alike. Festival admission is FREE!

Re/Siting Asian American Studies: Connecting Critical Approaches In The Field

DATE: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2010
TIME: 9AM - 6PM
LOCATION: RUTGERS STATE UNI. OF NEW JERSEY, Alexander Library, Teleconference Lecture Hall, 169 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ
ADMISSION: FREE

Asian American Studies emerged out of the radical changes taking place in US universities in the 1960s amid the Civil Rights movements. Since then, the field has continued to explore the racialization and history of Asian-descent peoples, both within the United States and beyond by examining the various ways disparate groups have entered the coalitional term within and without national, racial, gender, sexual, and cultural borders. For the first time, this conference brings leaders in Asian American Studies in conversation with Rutgers faculty to highlight three current developments in the field: Connective and Comparative Race Histories, Visual and Performative Cultures, and Trans-regionalism. These three developments mark the cutting-edge approaches of this forty-year old field. Along with the three panels, the final roundtable invites two senior founding directors of institutes at NYU and Brown University to discuss with faculty from Rutgers-New Brunswick and Rutgers-Newark the research imperatives for Asian American Studies unique to our region. In recent years, the endeavors of the undergraduate-led Asian American Leadership Cabinet and the Asian American Cultural Center have dovetailed with the work of the Collective for Asian American Scholarship, made up of faculty and graduate students across disciplines-- American Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, English, History, Music, and Women’s and Gender Studies-- in growing a unique transnational and connective Asian American Studies at Rutgers. With this conference we forge these linkages with interventions from key senior scholars from across the United States.

For more information, please visit the website.

Catch Asian American Arts Centre's At-Home Event

Starting today, the last day of 2009 Visit aaac.pingg.com/eoy and click show more in the DETAILS section to view our End of Year message Artists re-invent themselves affecting us all. We can be mindful of Asia, its past, & the Asian American heritage. We can help chart a wiser future. It's OK to be Asian. In a “postracial era” it's OK to be not. For both it's just OK. The next generation needs AAAC. You can help.

Thursday, December 31st, 2009 @ 12pm to Sunday, January 31st, 2010 @ 12pm

In the comfort of your own home

Visit ARTASIAMERICA.ORG on Dec. 31 & show you care. This spike in viewership will demonstrate the power of you, our audience.

China on the Way to Modernization (From the Republic to the Present)

LECTURE By Dr. Fang Lili and Zhu Legeng

‘A Case Study on Inheritance and Development of Jingdezhen Ceramic Craftsmanship.’
走向现代化的中国 - 以景德镇的陶瓷手工艺传承为例

DATE: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2009, 7PM
LOCATION: UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT AT HOUSTON STREET CENTER, 273 BOWERY
ENTRY: FREE

The talk will explain Dr. Fang's understanding of how tradition and cultural heritage have presented new sources of economic growth. Jindezhen is the case study because its traditional ceramic craftsmanship and the culture system based on it were attacked and essentially overthrown by a modern, industrial system. The craft persisted and was well preserved in the new culture. MORE...

Dialogues in the Visual Arts Series: Out of the Archive: Progress and Community

ARTIST PANEL TALK

DATE: Wednesday, December 9, 7pm
LOCATION: BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center
ENTRY: $5. refreshment will be serve and reception follows.

MODERATOR: Robert Lee - Executive Director Asian American Art Centre with Artists Natalie Pham, Eun Young Choi & Triple Edwards.
CURATOR: Susan Fleminger



A panel conversation about the Asian American Art Centre (AAAC)’s important web site artasiamerica.org, reflecting 60 years and several generations artistic production by Asian American artists and the organization’s current community development efforts. MORE...

CEG with Americans for the Arts invite to ARTS FOR ALL

Farewell to 26 Bowery Party Photo Album

Thank you so much to everyone who made it to AAAC's Farewell To 26 Bowery Party.
We have posted up the party pictures on Flickr for viewing and tagging. Please tag yourself if you are in the pictures. Enjoy the great memories.