Highlights“Systematic Landscapes” by Maya Lin closes soon. Through Sept. 3, this exciting show consists of three installations and related sculptures and drawings. The prize-winning architect/artist of Vietnam Memorial fame will make a special appearance at the UW where she will be interviewed by the Henry Art Gallery Director Richard Andrews on Aug. 22 at 7 [...]
BY YOSHIKO UEDA Examiner Contributor Seattle’s annual music and arts festival Bumbershoot will be shortened to three days from the usual four, but with its extraordinary lineup, it will still leave Labor Day weekend as the last hurrah for the summer. This year’s event includes a mix of musicians, literary authors, comedians, etc., with an [...]
BY SOPHIA PUREKAL Special to the Examiner Tasveer, a local grassroots film organization, is proud and excited to be preparing – for the third year in a row – its Independent South Asian Film Festival (ISAFF) which will take place from Sept. 27 to Oct. 1. This year’s festival has a special theme: “South Asia [...]
BY CLAIRE EMIKO FANT Examiner Contributor In the late 1990s, while searching the Internet for art depicting life in the U.S. internment camps that held Japanese and Japanese Americans during World War II, artist and University of Kansas Professor Roger Shimomura came upon such a drawing for sale on eBay. He learned that the artist [...]
BY SUSAN KUNIMATSU Examiner Contributor A slight man of modest demeanor, Akio Takamori casts a long shadow in the field of ceramics. A native of Japan and longtime Seattle resident, he is an internationally-acclaimed artist in his creative prime. This summer, two Northwest museums offer complementary views of his work. “Between Clouds of Memory: The [...]
BY ANNA MARIA HONG Examiner Contributor Byron Kim likes rectangles. Like a poetry collection that contains only sonnets, his exhibition at the Henry Art Gallery, “Threshold: Byron Kim 1990–2004,” takes a good concept and runs with it, elaborating ideas within a set structure. The formal rigor of Kim’s chosen vessel, the monochrome painting, liberates him [...]
To make the most out of the Diversity Career Fair on Aug. 18 – 19, here are some tips on what you can do before, during and after the fair. BEFORE THE CAREER FAIR Read the list of participating companies for workshops and presentations (www.naaapconvention.org). Choose which ones you want to focus most of your [...]
Spotlight on Gazelle Samizay BY NINA KIM and NEGIN ALMASSI Asian Community Leadership Foundation Is art relevant in a country with a power vacuum outside of its capital — a country that the international community seems to have forgotten about since being eclipsed by the war in Iraq? In spite of, or perhaps because of, [...]
BY NHIEN NGUYEN Examiner Editor There are many nonprofit organizations that offer the very helpful and needed classes of ESL – English as a Second Language, but a precious few offer that plus VSL. VSL? Yes, VSL – Vietnamese as a Second Language. In its second quarter of offering VSL classes, Helping Link is providing [...]
BY LISA CHIN, Ph.D. NAPAWF The conversation on women’s reproductive rights often goes no further than access to birth control and abortion. Rarely do we think of birth under the banner of reproductive freedom. Women’s choices in the birth setting are not given the same rigorous attention as choices that prevent conception. The women’s movement [...]
Hundreds of Filipino American historians convene in Hawaii The Filipino American National Historical Society’s (FANHS) 12th Annual Conference was held in Honolulu from June 28 through July 1 as part of Hawaii’s Centennial Celebration of Filipinos coming to Hawaii, according to a press release. “We knew there would be interest in the Conference just because [...]
BY SATOMI UMEHARA Examiner Contributor Sheila TrangChiu had many concerns in high school: problems with friends, grades, college applications, financial issues. Luckily TrangChiu had someone she could always turn to for help and advice. Her mentor, Marisa Wang, sent a daily e-mail, called her by phone, wrote reference letters for scholarship applications, and was always [...]
BY SHARON MAEDA Our democracy is more fragile today than perhaps any other time in U.S. history. Education, health care and human services, liveable wages, immigrant and gay rights are just a few arenas being eroded by failed federal policies and lack of long-term vision for the country and the planet. In the face of [...]
BY KEN MOCHIZUKI Examiner Staff The “subject” line of the Aug. 1 e-mail read, “SAVE LITTLE SAIGON Project Update: They are finally listening to the Vietnamese community!” The “they” in the Vietnamese American Economic Development Association (VAEDA) announcement are the City of Seattle and Dearborn Street Developers. The developers intend to build a 620,000 square-foot, [...]
BY NHIEN NGUYEN Examiner Editor Stepping out of the Model Minority Myth and into leadership positions in both personal and professional life can be a challenge for many Asian Americans. That’s why members of NAAAP (National Association of Asian American Professionals) Seattle have spent the last 18 months developing a conference around the theme of [...]
