Asian Women Donors Grant $82.000 to NYC Artists and Non-profits committed to activism thru the arts.
New York City, NY A music video that raises awareness about sex-trafficking, a documentary about mental illness and suicide in the Asian American community, and a multi-media summer workshop for low-income immigrant girls who live with the legacy of war are among the nine New York City-based non-profit arts projects that received $82,000 in grants from the Asian Women Giving Circle (AWGC) this year.
The grants, which represent a $12,000 increase from AWGC's giving from the year before, come at a time when state and local government funding for the arts is down. In 2009, state legislative arts appropriations decreased nationwide for the first time in four yearsdown 3.3 percent to $343.1 million. Local arts funding also fell by 3 percent, according to research by Americans for the Arts and Giving USA Foundation.
"Arts funding, especially for small organizations with bold ideas, has been a major casualty of the recession," said Hali Lee, founder of the Asian American Women Giving Circle. "We're proud to be doing our part to bridge the gap -- and hope our efforts will inspire others to support artists and nonprofits that are using the arts to make a social difference."
The nine grantees were chosen for their excellence in using the tools of culture, the arts and education to raise awareness and catalyze action around critical issues that impact Asian American communities. The...
Harold and Kumar are trying to get to White Castle. AsianConnections is celebrating their adventure and giving away some dope gear inspired by the movie! Enter Now!
AsianConnections.com and FiringSquad.com proudly present "Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle" Dope Gear Giveaway .
HAROLD & KUMAR GO TO WHITE CASTLE stars JOHN CHO, KAL PENN, and is directed by Danny Leiner and distributed by New Line Cinema.
To enter, CLICK HERE and enter your name and email address for a chance to win one of eleven prizes including: official CD's featuring music from Harold and Kumar, autographed mini posters, autographed "Got Munchies" CD-ROMs, or the Grand Prize: an official Harold and Kumar T-shirt, Trucker Cap, and a cup of goodies all inspired by the movie! Good Luck!!
"HAROLD & KUMAR GO TO WHITE CASTLE" is rated R (MPAA).
"HAROLD & KUMAR GO TO WHITE CASTLE" on July 30th !!!
Harold Lee (John Cho) is stuck in a low-level investment banking job, overworked and definitely under-appreciated by his colleagues, who arent shy about handing off their own work for him to finish over the weekend. To make matters worse, he cant find the courage to talk to his pretty neighbor (Paula Garces) from down the hall at home.
While Harold toils away, his best friend, Kumar Patel (Kal Penn), is doing everything he can to avoid the real world, valiantly upholding his carefree partying ways while making half-hearted attempts to gain admittance to medical school and...
Astronaut Leroy Chiao's Space Blog-postcard of Bolivia
This is an interesting shot of a glacier flowing into a lake partially brightened by sunglint. It was fairly cloudy on that orbit over South America, but I caught this through the clouds. Using sunglint is a very effective technique for illuminating sub-surface features in water. But, it also can be used to create a dramatic effect which is aesthetically pleasing. Note the visible rivers in this photo, especially the one on the right side of the lake. Under normal lighting, these would have been very difficult to see.
Click here for AsianConnections' exclusive interview with Leroy while in training at Star City, Russia.
Information on the crew's activities aboard ISS, future launch dates, as well as Station sighting opportunities from anywhere on the Earth, is available on the Internet at:
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/
U.S. Astronaut Leroy Chiao's blog and all NASA updates at AsianConnections.com are monitored by AC Editor Lia Chang
“The early Sixties have been good to me lately,” said Darren Pettie, whose diverse roles circa 1960′s include his turn as Lucky Strike scion Lee Garner, Jr. in several episodes of the critically acclaimed and award winning AMC TV series “Mad Men”; as James in Atlantic’s Off-Broadway production of Harold Pinter’s The Collection penned in 1961; and as Christopher Flanders in the Roundabout Theatre Company’s current production of Tennessee Williams’ The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore, with Olympia Dukakis, set in 1962.
Erik Haagensen of Backstage.com describes Christopher Flanders as a “former poet, aging pretty boy, and professional houseguest,” and notes, “as Chris, Darren Pettie is properly fraying at the edges, an intriguing mix of calculation, sympathy, arrogance, and sexual magnetism.”
Williams’ haunting drama takes place in Flora Goforth’s picturesque Italian mountaintop home, where the wealthy American widow, in denial over her impending demise, has sequestered herself from the world in order to write her memoirs. Pettie’s character is a handsome and mysterious young poet who arrives without warning to keep Flora company in her final hours. It is a dreamlike play that blossoms into a fascinating meditation on life and death.
This production of Williams’The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore is actually a compilation of different drafts woven together by director Michael...
Cinematographer Larry Fong chatted with Suzanne Joe Kai just as SUPER 8 was making its opening weekend debut in theaters nationwide claiming the #1 spot at the box office. SUPER 8 is directed by J.J. Abrams and produced by Steven Speilberg.
Larry Fong began his career shooting hundreds of commercials and award-winning music videos. Beginning in junior high school, he taught himself still photography, cel and stop motion animation, and filmmaking using a Super 8 camera. He graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in Linguistics, and specilized in film and photography at the Art Center of Design in Pasadena.
His music videos for R.E.M., Van Halen, and Goo Goo Dolls earned him three MTV Video Music Awards for Video of the Year. He went on to film two independent films and TV projects, including the pilot for the LOST television series, which earned him an ASC award nomination.
In 2007, his first major studio film "300" was released, directed by fellow Art Center of Design classmate Zack Snyder. in 2009, he was the Director of Photography for "Watchmen" and in 2011 for "Sucker Punch" also directed by Zack Snyder, and "SUPER 8" directed by childhood friend J.J. Abrams, and producer Steven Spielberg.
The photograph in this article of Larry Fong on the set of SUPER 8 holding a special light surrounded by smoke machines is by photographer Francois Duhamel.
SUZANNE: Congratulations on your latest film SUPER 8. What was it like to work with your childhood friend again, J.J. Abrams,...