FRIENDS OF PORTLAND CHINATOWN PROUDLY PRESENTS

“MUSIC UNDER THE AUTUMN MOON”—

A HISTORICAL MUSIC EVENT IN CHINATOWN

ON SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25

Portland, Ore., September 10, 2010 ­– “Music Under the Autumn Moon”—a celebration for the 68^th anniversary of Portland’s Cantonese opera club, Yat Sing Music Club—will take place on Saturday, September 25, 8-10:30pm, on Davis Festival Street, NW Davis between 3^rd and 4^th Avenues in Chinatown.

Friends of Portland Chinatown is proud to present an outdoor multicultural concert on Davis Festival Street featuring performances by Yat Sing Music Club, Portland Cello Project, Third Angle New Music Ensemble, Classical Revolution PDX, Last Regiment of Syncopated Drummers, Matt Sheehy, and en Taiko.

Yat Sing Music Club is a private music club that is normally not open to the public.  “Music Under the Autumn Moon” presents a rare opportunity for Portlanders to see a live Cantonese opera performed by Yat Sing .  It also provides unique cultural exchange opportunities between Yat Sing and artists from outside of the Chinese community performing at the event.

A pre-concert community potluck will take place at the Main Hall of the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (317 NW Davis) from 6-8pm.  Boxed dinners will be provided by restaurants in Chinatown (suggested donation: $7 per box).  During the potluck hours, there will also be photo-taking opportunities with CCBA’s 100-foot-long Dragon on CCBA’s stage.  Chinese imperial costumes provided by Portland Chinese Times (suggested donation: $10 per photo).

“Music Under the Autumn Moon” will take place around the Mid-Autumn Moon holiday, which is the second largest holiday for the Chinese.   In the spirit of sharing food, music, and mooncakes, this community event celebrates both the Mid-Autumn Moon holiday and Yat Sing Music Club’s 68th anniversary.

About Yat Sing Music Club

Founded in 1942 in Portland Chinatown, Yat Sing has been performing at social events in the Chinese community, and they have been practicing weekly in a basement in Chinatown since 1942!  The members of Yat Sing include Chinese Americans who are founding members of the club and newly arrived immigrants from China, Hong Kong, and Vietnam.

About Friends of Portland Chinatown (www.pdxchinatown.org)

After over a year of monthly brainstorming sessions on what it takes to revitalize Chinatown, in March 2010, Friends of Portland Chinatown was formally organized.  FPC is a group of Asian Americans who share a similar vision and passion for revitalizing Portland Chinatown, with the mission of bringing pedestrian traffic and historical awareness to Chinatown through planning cultural events.

This event is sponsored by Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association and funded by Regional Arts & Culture Council.

Contact:

Ivy Lin

ivy@pdxchinatown.org

Here are the details:

Ed Lin
Sunday May 2, 5:00 pm
Murder by the Book
3210 SE Hawthorne Blvd 
Portland, Ore.

(503) 232-9995
http://www.mbtb.com/

For a complete list of Ed Lin’s events, visit his website here:

http://www.edlinforpresident.com/calendar/

If you’re in Portland on May 3rd and you love writing, you will want to attend the Ed Lin Writer’s Workshop, presented by the Asian American Journalists Association–Portland and Thymos, co-sponsored by Friends of Portland Chinatown. It is a writing workshop, and Ed will be working to help attendees find their writing muse. It takes place at the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association on May 3rd, 6pm, at 317 NW Davis in the heart of Portland Chinatown. It’s FREE, and there will be food. Much thanks to everyone who is putting this together.

Ed Lin is a New York-based novelist who wrote Waylaid, This is a Bust, and the recently published Snakes Can’t Run. His novel Waylaid became the award winning movie “The Motel” by Michael Kang and starring Sung Kang.

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Check it out at the following URL:

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A quick note:

The deadline for submitting work to the Thymos Anthology of Asian American Writing is June 1, 2010.

And as a reminder, the guidelines for submitting work to the anthology are as follows:

Submissions can be sent either by e-mail or postal mail.

E-mail: Thymosbook@gmail.com

Postal mail:

Thymos

P.O. Box 1912

Beaverton, OR 97075

Submission Guidelines:

1. Writer should identify as an Asian American and be affiliated with Oregon in some way either directly or indirectly. Participation in activism, civic/volunteer work, or general membership in the Asian American community is preferred but not required.

2. Submissions can involve written work of any type including personal essays, analytical articles, fiction, or poetry. Submissions can be also visual in nature such as photographs, drawings, etc. All photos should be in black and white.

3. Written submissions should be no longer than 20 pages typed, 12-point font, and double spaced.

Questions: Contact Larry Yu or Valerie Katagiri at ThymosBook@gmail.com

In October, we will have a women’s pageant, followed the very next day by a film protest against women’s pageants. On the pro-side is the idea that women, particularly Asian American women, could use a vehicle for publicity and community. Many former pageant winners, including the first Miss Asian America Mona Lee Locke, have gone on to have amazing careers. The pro-side of pageants encourages Asian Americans to take control of their images.

On the anti-side, critics charge that pageants are a relic of the past and that they put too much focus on a woman’s looks. According to detractors, we need to move beyond pageantry, and we need to take steps that move us away from the image of what pageants used to be.  The anti-side of pageants strongly advocates in favor of tossing off the baggage created by earlier waves of pageantry.

We encourage people to check out both events.  Here is the info:

Saturday, 10/10/09, 12 noon: Miss Asian Oregon at Marco Polo Global in Salem. Click here for tickets and info. Come to see how Miss Asian Oregon is “Redefining Beauty in Asian America.”  This is THE inaugural event, so buy your tickets now.  Remember, you can’t say you were there if you weren’t. 

Sunday, 10/11/09, 2 pm: Screening of Curtis Choy’s Making Up (3min) and Year of The Ox: The 1973 Chinatown Livestock Show (17min) at the Asian Family Center, 4424 NE Glisan. A discussion about pageants will follow.  Hear both sides of the issue, along with a debriefing of the Miss Asian Oregon pageant.  This is your opportunity to watch, absorb, and make your voice heard! 

Please e-mail us with any questions!

Time: 6 pm

Date: 9/22/09

Location:
0715 The Old Spaghetti Factory
S.W. Bancroft St.
Portland, OR 97239

Please RSVP with Byron at 503.439.9191.

IT’S BACK!

The Thymos Anthology group will be having its second writing workshop on Sunday, Sept. 13 at 2 PM. It will be held at the Woodstock library in Portland. So save this date in your schedule if you’re interested in participating.

This second workshop will be similar to the first one held with Lawson Inada in that it’s designed to help people develop their submission ideas for the upcoming Thymos Asian American Anthology.

This workshop will be run by Profs. Patti Sakurai and Patti Duncan of Oregon State University. Bring your ideas, written drafts, or other work for this unique opportunity!

RSVPing for this event is preferred though not required. Contact ThymosBook AT gmail.com or Lhy AT inbox.com to RSVP.

DATE: Sunday, Sept. 13. 2 PM.

PLACE: Woodstock Library

6008 S.E. 49th Avenue

Portland, OR 97206

http://www.multcolib.org/agcy/wod.html