Highlights The WA State China Relations Council hosts a reception for John Pomfret, author of “Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China” at Preston Gates & Ellis at 925 Fourth Ave., Suite 2900 on Sept. 7 at 5 p.m. The book is a fascinating yet sobering account of Pomfret’s Chinese classmates [...]
BY NHIEN NGUYEN Examiner Editor Michael Kang’s debut feature film, “The Motel,” screens at the Northwest Film Forum (1515 12th Ave., www.nwfilmforum.org). “The Motel” deals with an adolescent boy, Ernest Chin, and his problems with growing up – specifically puberty. The International Examiner interviews Kang during production of his next film. IE: The young male [...]
BY MATRAYI JONEJA Examiner Contributor The first thing that you notice about “Dreaming Lhasa” is the beautiful backdrop of Dharamshala, the city which is a place of refuge to several thousands of politically shunned and uprooted Tibetans. Once the serene background lulls you down, this film brings Tibet and the life of Tibetans in stark [...]
BY SOPHIA PUREKAL Special to the Examiner The heavy warmth of a late summer day was just breaking into a cool evening on that September 1999 night when I entered a cavernous art-space in New York City, just in time for the introduction of the performance of D’Lo – a queer, Tamil Sri Lankan American [...]
BY JUDITH VAN PRAAG Examiner Contributor Mark your calendars for Bollywood is coming to town! Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre is the final stop on the National Tour of “Bombay Dreams.” Entranced by the allure of Bollywood movies and the music of celebrated Indian composer A.R. Rahman (“The Lord of the Rings: The Musical”) filmmaker Shekhar [...]
BY KEN MOCHIZUKI Examiner Staff Originally from Toledo, Ohio, Robert Asahina said his family ended up there since his father had to keep moving “farther and farther east” to find medical schools and employment at hospitals that would accept a Japanese American. In a phone interview from his office in New York, Asahina talked more [...]
BY TOM IM Inter*Im Neighborhood Planner Inter*Im is currently working with various community stakeholders on developing Maynard Avenue into a “Green Street.” As defined by the City of Seattle, a Green Street “is an urban landscaped setting that functions as a continuous linear open space for pedestrians.” Although the City designated Maynard Avenue, between Jackson [...]
Bon Om Tuk Asian Water Festival Dragon boats raced down the Thea Foss Waterway in Tacoma at the Third Annual Bon Om Tuk Asian Water Festival Dragon Boat Races, coordinated by The Cambodian American Support Network and hosted by The Tacoma Dragon Boat Association, on Saturday, Aug. 19. Now in its third year, the Bon [...]
BY KYO SUH More than 60 Koreans will cross the Pacific and descend on Seattle the week of Sept. 4. They are not the usual tourists or shoppers — rather they are farmers and workers who are compelled to come to Seattle to show their opposition to the proposed Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (KorUS-FTA), which [...]
Story by KEN MOCHIZUKI Examiner Staff Frank Chin “I’m a writer; writers tell stories” Frank Chin in town telling children’s folktales? That buzz traveled around Seattle’s Asian American community last month since Chin is better known as the fiery pioneer of Asian American literature and theater. As co-editor of “Aiiieeeee!: An Anthology of Asian-American Writers” [...]
Story by KEN MOCHIZUKI Examiner Staff Robert Asahina “All your assumptions about why I wrote this book are wrong.” Robert Asahina of New York interviewed 41 veterans across the country that belonged to the all-Japanese American 100th Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team of World War II. He also interviewed six veterans who belonged to the unit [...]
