Friday, February 12, 2010
Monday, February 8, 2010
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!
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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.
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