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IU ASIAN CULTURE CENTER FALL 2008 EVENTS

August     September     October     November     December

Welcome new and returning students! We hope to see you in one of these exciting events and most especially at the ACC 10th Anniversary banquet, program, and dance on October 3, 2008 at 7 p.m. till midnight, Alumni Hall, IMU. To reserve your dinner tickets, please visit www.indiana.edu/~acc/anniversary.

Some of the dates and times may have changed due to unforeseen circumstances. We encourage you to please contact the ACC at 856-5361 or acc@indiana.edu for an updated program schedule. All events are free unless otherwise indicated.

Weekly and Bi-Weekly Events:

Who are Asian Pacific Americans? (Talk Series)
Co-sponsored by: Asian American Association
Dates: Fridays on October 17 and November 7, 2008
Time: 12 to 1 p.m.
Venue: Asian Culture Center, 807 E. 10th Street
Description: A bi-monthly roundtable lunch discussion that allows students and community members to talk about specific topics such as: APA identity, misconceptions, model minority myth, APA and media representation, bi-racial culture, and others.
Light lunch provided to participants.

Asian Language Learning Program

(Will begin the week of September 8, 2008)

Need tutoring in an Asian language? Need to learn basic survival phrases in an Asian language? Or to brush-up on your speaking skills? The ACC can help! We currently have tutorials for Filipino, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Mandarin, Thai, and Vietnamese. All tutorials last one hour, and are held at the Asian Culture Center. For free registration, please contact Haesook Park at acc@indiana.edu.

Weekly Asian Games featuring GO
Every Friday beginning September Sept. 12, 2008
Time: 4 - 7 p.m.
Venue: Asian Culture Center, 807 E. 10th Street
Description: Go (WeiQi in Chinese, Baduk in Korean) is probably the oldest game still played in its original form. The rules are very simple, but the strategy is more complicated than chess (computers STILL can't beat humans!). Come to play, learn, or teach this wonderful game. There will be an annual GO COMPETITION in April.

Let's Play Mah-Jong
Date: Every Friday for Beginners and Advanced players
Time: 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Venue: Asian Culture Center, 807 E. 10th Street
Description: Mah-Jong is a game of skill coupled with wit and fortune. It originated in China and dates so far back into ancient times (about two thousand years ago). Please contact acc@indiana.edu or call 856-5361 for free registration.

RICER (Responding to Incidents of Casual and Everyday Racism) Support Meeting.
By appointment only. Please contact mcullath@indiana.edu.
Time: 12 to 1 p.m.
Venue: Asian Culture Center, 807 E. 10th Street
Description: Need a place to go to talk about feeling discriminated on campus or in the community? Don't know what to do when someone makes a racial comment about you or your friends? Check Out....R.I.C.E.R. A service provided that allows students to share personal experiences of racism, discuss ways of identifying, coping with, and confronting casual and everyday racism in a confidential atmosphere. Empower yourself to initiate dialogue on race and civility. For appointment and more information, please contact mcullath@indiana.edu.

August - September, 2008

Culturefest
Date: Thursday, August 28, 2008
Time: 5 - 8 p.m.
Venue: IU Auditorium for the Keynote Speaker and Showalter Fountain for Outdoor Concert and Food Fair
Description: Culturefest celebrates the history of Indiana University and the cultural diversity on campus. As one of the organizers of Culturefest, we invite you to take part in the entertaining and enlightening activities we have planned for you. Through video and lecture presentation, music, dance, food, art, and other activities, the organizers' goal is that you will have an exciting and enriching afternoon. Welcome to IU and see you at the ACC booth!

ACC Open House (in cooperation with the Office of Orientation Programs)
Date: Friday, August 29, 2008
Time: 12 - 2 p.m.
Venue: ACC, 807 E. 10th Street
Description: Interested in Asian and Asian-American issues, cultures, and the 24 Asian student organizations at Indiana University? Come see us at the Asian Culture Center (ACC). We'd love to meet you and show you how we can make your stay at IU an enjoyable and memorable learning experience. You don't have to be Asian to be a part of ACC. Everyone is welcome! Come and meet the staff members over light lunch. Check our website at www.indiana.edu/~acc.

SEPTEMBER 2008

ACC Welcome Reception featuring Information Tables from Asian Student Groups

Date: Friday, September 5th
Time: 5 - 7 p.m.
Venue: Asian Culture Center, 807 E. 10th Street
Your undergraduate and/or graduate experience is going to be one of the most exciting chapters of your life. As you plan your first days at Indiana University Bloomington campus, please include this event in your schedule. We promise you will have a great time meeting new friends and student leaders of Asian and Asian American student groups, tasting Asian dinner fare, participating in games, and winning door prizes. Everyone is welcome and be sure to bring a friend! For information, please call us at (812) 856-5361 or email acc@indiana.edu

ACC Annual Asian Student Leadership Retreat
Date: Saturday, September 6, 2008
Time: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Venue: CDLC at Read
Description:
The ACC launched the annual leadership conference in 1999 to support coalition building and unity among students who share mutual interests and a common heritage. Through indoor activities and discussions, we hope to identify how the ACC and Indiana University can develop Asian and Asian American men and women who will continue to contribute effectively as citizens and leaders.

Presidents' Monthly Dinner/Meeting
Date: Thursday, September 11, 2008
Time: 7 - 8:30 p.m.
Venue: Asian Culture Center, 807 E. 10th Street
Description: Sponsored by the Asian Student Union and the Asian Culture Center, this monthly dinner meeting of all Asian student leaders is an opportunity for student leaders to network, get support, and learn from each other's activities. If you would like to observe the meeting or if you have an important announcement or agenda to be included, please email acc@indiana.edu

Red Heroine, A Silent Film Showing Accompanied by a Live Music Performance

Date: Monday, September 15, 2008
Time: 7 p.m.
Venue: Whittenberger Auditorium, Indiana Memorial Union

Sponsored by IU Asian Culture Center, Union Board, and Department of Communication and Culture
The Devil Music Ensemble is offering a live music performance with an amazing and virtually unknown classic silent Chinese Kung Fu film called Red Heroine (directed by Wen Yimin 1929). The performance consists of a projection of this amazing film accompanied by a new original soundtrack performed live by the DME. This film is the only feature length Chinese martial arts film from the silent era that still exists in its entirety! The score created by the DME will be the only modern score to be written specifically for this film! This performance gives students the opportunity to see an extremely rare film from the silent era given new life with a brand new score by the DME. The event highlights issues of cultural difference in relation to gender, cultural traditions of music, the roots of martial arts cinema, and the traditional/updated combination of live music with silent film.

About the film
RED HEROINE (Hong Xia)
starring Fan Xuepeng and directed by Wen Yimin 1929
Episode six of RED KNIGHT-ERRANT a.k.a. RED HEROINE, the only surviving episode of the 13-part serial, is also one of the few complete and earliest extant silent martial arts films. This a prime example of the Wuxia pain (errant knight swordplay genre) often based on published novels or serials. A band of outlaws raids a village and kidnaps a maiden, causing the death of the young woman's grandmother. The captive maiden is rescued by a mysterious Daoist hermit and reemerges three years later as a full-fledged warrior, flying to the sky to revenge her grandmother's death. While generously sprinkled with anachronisms and prurient incongruities (imagine a bandit's harem of beauties in bikinis!), the film remains a robust telling of a young woman's transformation from abject victim to resolute warrior.

Moon Festival
Date: Saturday, September 27, 2008
Time: 5:00PM - 8:00PM
Venue: Dunn Meadow (7th and Dunn)
Come join Asian Student Union's member organizations celebrate Moon Festival.
Sample free food and performances to learn how many different countries celebrate this holiday. Co-hosted by Chinese Student and Scholar Association, Hong Kong Student Association, Japanese Student Association, Korean Student Association, Malaysian Student Association, Singapore Student Association, Taiwanese Student Association & Vietnamese Student Association

October - November, 2008

ACC 10th Anniversary Celebration
Date: October 3, 2008
Time:Banquet and Program at 7 p.m., Dance at 9 pm till midnight
Venue: Alumni Hall, Indiana Memorial Union
We would like to honor the many faculty, staff, community members, and students who helped make this Center a treasured resource for everyone. Your contribution in the form of purchasing banquet tickets would make a crucial difference! You may reserve your dinner tickets ($20.00 for students before Sept. 5 and $25 after Sept. 5) online at http://www.indiana.edu/~acc/anniversary. Additional information about the celebration can also be found on this website. We look forward to celebrating with you!

Presidents' Monthly Dinner/Meeting #2
Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008
Time: 7 - 8:30 p.m.
Venue: Asian Culture Center, 807 E. 10th Street
Description: Sponsored by the Asian Student Union and the Asian Culture Center, this monthly dinner meeting of all Asian student leaders is an opportunity for student leaders to network, get support, and learn from each other's activities. If you would like to observe the meeting or if you have an important announcement or agenda to be included, please email acc@indiana.edu

Electric Kulintang Concert
Date: Friday, October 10, 2008
Time: 8 p.m.
Venue: IMU Gallery
Sponsored by the Asian Culture Center, LaCasa Latino Cultural Center, Latino Studies, and the Percussion Department of IU School of Music
Description: ELECTRIC KULINTANG featuring Roberto Rodriguez - laptop electronics, cajon la peru, drums and Susie Ibarra on acoustic and electric kulintang, voice, drums. More info on www.electrickulintang.com
Eight small round gongs lie horizontally in a rectangular box and shimmer to the touch of soft wooden sticks. The sound is intricate, playful, liquid, the tuning flexible and untethered to a specific scale. Now hand drums weave in, offering a loose countervailing beat. A laptop beams loops and samples from field recordings: traditional music groups, children at play, street noise, a call to prayer taped off a hazy transistor radio.

This is the soundscape of Electric Kulintang, the venture of wife-and-husband team Susie Ibarra and Roberto Rodriguez that conjugates her Filipino and his Cuban cultural heritage with the experimentalism of the New York improvised music scene they inhabit. Deeply rooted yet entirely new, it is one of those refreshing projects that ushers the listener into a total sonic experience just past the edge of the familiar, in the process subjecting the superannuated concept of ''world music'' to some much-needed creative destruction. - Siddhartha Mitter, Boston Globe

Talking Politics Beyond Black and White: Infusing a Larger Vision
Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Time: 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Venue: Helene G. Simon Hillel Center (730 E 3rd St)
Description:
In this program, participants will have an opportunity to explore the political thoughts and perspectives of others who may differ in culture, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, gender, national status, etc. Join us for a great discussion and to sample dishes from across the world. Sponsors: Asian Culture Center, American Indian Student Association, First Nations Educational and Cultural Center, Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Student Support Services, Helene G. Simon Hillel Center, La Casa, Leo R. Dowling International Center, Neal-Marshal Black Cultural Center, Office of Women's Affairs, Office of Multicultural Initiatives and Episcopal Campus Ministry.
For more information contact: hillel@indiana.edu or 336-3824.

IU Asian American Studies Program Speaker Series presents: The Grace Lee Project, Screening and Conversation with Filmmaker Grace Lee
Co-sponsored by Asian Culture Center's Over a Cup of Tea
Date: Thursday, October 16, 2008
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Venue: Grand Hall, Neal Marshall Black Culture Center
Description: Join us for a screening and conversation with filmmaker, Grace Lee about her documentary, the Grace Lee Project: http://gracelee.net/index.php?p=about
"When Korean American filmmaker Grace Lee was growing up in Missouri, she was the only Grace Lee she knew. Once she left the Midwest however, everyone she met seemed to know "another Grace Lee." But why did they assume that all Grace Lees were reserved, dutiful, piano-playing overachievers? The filmmaker plunges into a highly unscientific investigation into all those Grace Lees who break the mold -- from a fiery social activist to a rebel who tried to burn down her high school. With wit and charm, The Grace Lee Project puts a hilarious spin on the eternal question, "What's in a name?"

Who are Asian Pacific Americans? (Talk Series #1)
Topic: "Debunking the Model Minority Myth"
Date: Friday, October 17, 2008
Co-sponsored by: Asian American Association
Time: 12 to 1 p.m.
Venue: Asian Culture Center, 807 E. 10th Street
A bi-monthly roundtable lunch discussion that allows students and community members to talk about specific topics such as: APA identity, misconceptions, model minority myth, APA and media representation, bi-racial culture, and others. Light lunch provided to participants.

Mathers Museum and ACC's Asian Cultures Around Campus presents Diwali Celebration
Date: Thursday, October 23, 2008
Time: 5 to 6 p.m. at the Mathers Museum, 416 N. Indiana Avenue    6 to 8 p.m. at the IU Asian Culture Center, 807 E. 10th Street
Description:Diwali, also known as the "Festival of Lights," is one of the most popular Indian festivals. Symbolizing the victory of good over evil, lamps are lit as a sign of celebration and hope for humankind. It's also a time for family and friends, so come celebrate this joyous occasion with stories, crafts, and hands-on activities. Presented in partnership with Asian Cultures Around Campus. Free and open to the public.

IU Alumni Homecoming Parade
Date: Friday, October 24, 2008
Time: Line up begins at 4 p.m. and Parade starts at 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Parade Route: From Rose Avenue to Third St. and will conclude at Sample Gates, Indiana Avenue.
Come out and join the parade along with members of the IU Asian Alumni, Asian Culture Center, and Asian Student Groups. We will be distributing Asian candies and fortune cookies.

Massage Break and Mood Check
Co-sponsored by the IU Counseling and Psychological Services
Date: Thursday, October 30, 2008
Time: 6 - 8 p.m.
Venue: Asian Culture Center, 807 E. 10th Street
Description: What mood are you in? Do you sometimes feel depressed? Come take a quiz (with true-false questions) and find out! IU Counseling and Psychological Services and the IU Asian Culture Center are offering a Mood Check and Massage Break events. Take a break from classes and midterms, and come to Mood Check for your free massage, snacks, and assess and learn more about your mood! Because we know that classes, midterms, papers, and a lack of sleep can make any college student moody or depressed. So come join us for some rest and relaxation! It's free and open to all IU students.

NOVEMBER 2008

Who are Asian Pacific Americans? (Talk Series #2)
Topic: "Match Made in Heaven or in ?" A Closer look at Arranged Marriages
Date: Friday, November 7, 2008
Co-sponsored by: Asian American Association
Time: 12 to 1 p.m.
Venue: Asian Culture Center, 807 E. 10th Street
A bi-monthly roundtable lunch discussion that allows students and community members to talk about specific topics such as: APA identity, misconceptions, model minority myth, APA and media representation, bi-racial culture, and others. Light lunch provided to participants.

IU Asian American Studies Program Speaker Series presents:
The 'Yellow Peril' in the Americas: A Transnational History of Migration and Race, 1850-1945 by Professor Erika Lee, (Associate Professor of History, University of Minnesota)
Date:   November 13, 2008
Time:   4 to 5 p.m.
Venue: COFFEE HOUSE, Collins Living Learning Center
Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, a transnational conversation about race, migration, and national security circulated throughout the Americas and across the Pacific. At the center of these debates were Asian immigrants and the alleged threat they posed to communities and nations in North and South America. Professor Erika Lee delves into this little-known history to ask the following questions: How do ideas about race and ethnicity flow across national borders? How do national debates over immigration and security turn into global affairs? Drawing from research conducted throughouth the Americas, Lee suggests that these questions remain central to contemporary debates about globalization, race, and migration.

This event is sponsored by IU Asian American Studies Program in cooperation with IU Departments of History, Sociology, English, IU Asian Culture Center, The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Collins Living Learning Center, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the School of Journalism. For more info, please email aasp@indiana.edu.

Presidents' Monthly Dinner/Meeting #3
Date: Thursday, November 13, 2008
Time: 7 - 8:30 p.m.
Venue: Asian Culture Center, 807 E. 10th Street
Description: Sponsored by the Asian Student Union and the Asian Culture Center, this monthly dinner meeting of all Asian student leaders is an opportunity for student leaders to network, get support, and learn from each other's activities. If you would like to observe the meeting or if you have an important announcement or agenda to be included, please email acc@indiana.edu

Mathers Museum's Family Craft Day and ACC's Cultures Around Campus presents "Holiday Gifts from Asia"
Date: Saturday, November 15
Time: 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
Venue: Mathers Museum
Create holiday gifts for your family and friends this season. Explore your creativity and imagination while making ornaments, handmade greeting cards, jewelry, decorative boxes, and a variety of beautiful things. Presented in partnership with Asian Cultures Around Campus. Free and open to the public.

DECEMBER 2008

THANKSGIVING Break - November 27-28, 2008

Fall Gathering of the Asian Pacific American Community (Open House)

Please join us for a Fall Gathering of the Asian Pacific American Community at Indiana University. We wish to celebrate the Asian American Studies undergraduate minor receiving its first round of approval from the College, the contributions of the Asian Culture Center volunteers, and other accomplishments of the APA community. We look forward to an evening of conversation and conviviality over Thai and Indian treats. Family and friends are welcome. Please RSVP to apafsc@indiana.edu so that we can plan accordingly. This event is supported by the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Multicultural Affairs.
Date: Friday, December 5, 2008
Time: 5-7pm
Venue: ACC, 807 E. 10th Street