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Model Arts Program Network History

The Model Arts Program Network (M.A.P. Network) provides a school district
self-study, self-assessment and planning process for establishing quality,
standards-based arts education programs for all students. The 22
participating school districts are funded through the California Department
of Education ARTS WORK Grant program. The network activities are the result
of collaboration between the school districts, the California Department of
Education, the California Alliance for Arts Education, the California Arts
Council, and The California Arts Project.

The network partners developed arts program self-study resources and then
used them locally to help guide arts education program implementation. The
resulting self-assessment toolkit represents a journey; it is not intended to
prescribe a path. In developing and sustaining dynamic school-based arts
education programs, a self-assessment and planning process helps reveal
success, identify needs, and create further questions. The participating
districts are finding that the self-assessment process results in meeting the
goal of enabling the young people in California public schools to learn in
and through the arts leading to fulfilling and productive, creative and
expressive lives.

Each district in the network made a commitment to develop standards-based
arts education programs in dance, music, theatre, and visual arts. This
includes comprehensive curriculum and instruction in the arts, a long-range
arts program implementation plan, and collaborative agreements with, for
example, outside consultants, arts education providers, arts organizations,
arts and arts related business and industry, artists, parents and volunteers.

Why is the work of the M.A.P Network important? It makes explicit a broad
vision of education in the arts. It brings understanding to the local school
communities regarding the delivery of arts programs and the improvement of
student learning in the arts. The network activities build on the CDE’s
Visual and Performing Arts Framework for California Public Schools,
Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve (1996) and will help all school districts
move toward providing standards-based arts program in alignment with the
State Board of Education adopted Content Standards in the Visual and
Performing Arts (2001). The primary goal of this project is to provide
outstanding arts education programs for all California students at each grade
level by connecting school districts to their entire community of thinkers,
learners, and arts providers and to arts education communities throughout the
state.

Contact: Beth Mott, M.A.P. Program Coordinator
California Alliance for Arts Education
P.O. Box 583
San Luis Obispo, CA 93406
Phone: 805-543-7072
Fax: 805-543-7072
Beth@...

Sunday, May 6, 2:30 PM -- Dutton's Brentwood Bookstore

Adrienne Eisen will read from her novel, "Making Scenes," with a
reception to follow.

ArtByte magazine called Eisen's writing "erotic and at times hilarious."
Adrienne Eisen's hypertext () is well known as
the recipient of numerous awards including the New Media Invision Award.
She has presented at conferences sponsored by organizations such as PEN
West, Dartmouth College, and Brown University. Her new novel lies at the
intersection of print and electronic media.

Address:

Dutton's Brentwood Bookstore
11975 San Vicente Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90049
(310) 476-6263

Contact:

adrienne@...

Hi all

Here is the official listing for job opportunity to work with me at the Getty as part of the Performing Arts Division (yes, we are growing!). Lots of interesting opportunities, a chance to work with a diverse body of performing artists, and a good benefits package included.

Sr Project Management Assistant, Education Department, The J. Paul
Getty Museum

Senior Project Management Assistant opening in the Performing Arts Division (of the Education Dept.) at the J. Paul Getty Museum: The ideal candidate will be energetic, well-organized, conscientious and diplomatic, and will havr experience coordinating cultural event projects for a minimum of four years. A background organizing events for a small or medium-sized theater, music and/or dance company is preferred. Working hours will be full-time, but will vary depending upon event schedules, and will include weekend and evening hours when necessary. This is a behind-the-scenes position that will assist in the coordination of approximately 50 events per year, and will handle all aspects of certain events with only general supervision. This individual will also handle the administrative aspects of event planning and implementation for the Performing Arts Division. Bachelor's degree required. Salary is commensurate with experience. NOTE: resumes will not be accepted after 5/10/01.

Please mail your résumé and cover letter to:
The J. Paul Getty Trust
Human Resources
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 400
Los Angeles, CA 90049-1681
Jobline: (310) 440-6556

Please feel free to pass this job listing around.

Laurel Kishi
Performing Arts Manager
J. Paul Getty Museum

Hello -

First off, my apologies if you get this twice. I tried to avoid it, but it may happen.

I'm forwarding this "SOS on high stakes testing" from Joan Almon of the Alliance for Childhood because of its importance. If you've ever wished you could *do* something about this situation without having to start a movement of your own, the Alliance has gathered the relevant information to make it easier for the rest of us. Joan says it all in her letter. Please join us in finding the brake pedal on too much and inappropriate hi stakes standardized testing. A hundred thanks. Joan Jaeckel, The Whole Child Catalog Project, www.whole.org

Aloha, please pass this on! Please catch this performance for the LAST time
this season in Los Angeles!


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Leilani Chan performs "E Nana I ke Kumu, Look to the Source" this Wednesday
at UCLA! Presented by the Asian Pacific Coaliation at UCLA.

Exploding popular images of Hawai'i as a carefree coconut playground, "E
Nana I ke Kumu" exposes the struggles of identity, displacement, and
survival through the haku (weaving) of monologue, storytelling, poetry, and
dance.

WHAT: "E Nana, I ke Kumu, Look to the Source" written and performed by
Leilani Chan.

WHERE: Northwest Campus Auditorium at UCLA, by the dorms.

WHEN: THIS WENESDAY! May 2, 2001

TIME: 7pm

ADMISSION: FREE!

Parking is $6, available at parking kiosks throughout the campus.


Check out our new website and read all about the show!



Mahalo! See you there!


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TeAda Productions
1653 18th Street #2
Santa Monica, CA 90404
phone:310/998-8765
fax: 310/453-4347

teada@...

Self-Help Graphics presents
The 2001 Spring Craft Sale!

Saturday, May 12th
@ 12:00 noon - 5:00pm

Support your local artist! This is your opportunity to get mom (or anyone
else on your list) that one of a kind gift. Artists will be on hand selling
their hand-made cards, nichos, ceramics, frames, papel picado, boxes, iron,
hats, paper mache, jewelry, candles, t-shirts, y mas directly to the public.
Meet friendly artists while you shop for unique items!
Artists include: Michael Amescua, Margaret Alarcon (Quica), Margaret Beltran,
Delia Chavez, Mita Cuaron, Daisy Echeverri, Sergio Flores, Olga Ponce
Furginson, Diana Galicia, Emilia Garcia, Renay Garcia, Fano Gutierrez,
Dolores Haro, Judy Hernandez, Alicia Martinez, Christian Martinez, Lara
Medina, Irma Montelongo, Enrique Morales, Albert Oropeza, Javier Orozco,
Kathy Peckich, Antonio Rael, Paula Ramirez, Araceli Silva, David Synder,
Miguel Vasquez, Andrea Ysis, and more... Don't miss it!

Self-Help Graphics
3802 Cesar Chavez Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90063

323-881-6444

www.selfhelpgraphics.com

SEASON FINALE!
<A href=">Debut Orchestra</A>
Saturday, May 12th at 8:00 p.m.
Wilshire Ebell Theatre
4401 West 8th Street, Los Angeles
(Corner of Lucerne and Wilshire, east of La Brea)

Please forward this information to your friends in the Los Angeles area!

The YMF Debut Orchestra’s 46th season will close with a bang with a concert
on Saturday, May 12th at 8pm. The concert includes the world premiere of
Maria Newman’s Emma McChesney: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra. The youngest
daughter of nine-time Academy Award-winning composer Alfred Newman, Ms.
Newman is a critically acclaimed composer who has received commissions from
around the country and is composer-in-residence for several music
organizations. She wrote her newest concerto for renowned pianist, Delores
Stevens, who will perform this world premiere.

A post concert reception will honor three women with the “Debut Award” for
their many years of service to YMF and their invaluable contributions to the
Los Angeles music community. VIRGINIA LEROY, a founding member of YMF, has
volunteered as YMF’s Scholarship Program Director for 46 years and has served
in many capacities at YMF, including as a member of the Board of Directors,
Music Advisory Board, and Women’s Council. DELORES STEVENS and MARIA NEWMAN w
ill be recognized for their historic collaboration together in the Debut
Orchestra's world premiere performance of Maria's piano concerto. Both are
members of YMF’s Music Advisory Board, and Delores has served for thirteen
years as YMF’s Chamber Music Series Director.

7:00pm pre-concert lecture (free)
Wilson Hermanto, Maria Newman, Delores Stevens

8:00pm concert ($10, $20) at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre
Debut Orchestra
Wilson Hermanto, Music Director and Conductor
Maria Newman, composer; Delores Stevens, piano
Dvorák's Carnival Overture, Newman's Emma McChesney: Concerto for Piano

and Orchestra, Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique

10:00pm reception ($50)
Hors d’oeuvres, desserts, and wine
Mary Pickford short film, "Willful Peggy," with a live score composed by
Maria Newman

Concert program tributes/ads: $100 full page, $50 half page,
$25 quarter page, $10 name listing

Call 310 859 7668 to purchase tickets or to place a program book message.


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season brochure, please write to: YMF ? 195 South Beverly Drive, Suite 414
? Beverly Hills, CA 90212 ? www.ymf.org

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'Brett Perkins Presents'

'The Listening Room Concert Series'
=Now In Our Fourth Season=
Fremont Centre Theatre
1000 Fremont Ave., South Pasadena, CA

Acoustic Evenings Of Local,National,International Performing Songwriters

****MONDAY, MAY 7TH****

THE VELVET JANES
(Australia)
"Australian duo The Velvet Janes, are a fine example of everything I admire ...beautiful voices, both amusing and touching songs -
Revolver Magazine, Sydney, Australia


SUPERMAN LOSES THE GIRL
(Los Angeles)

LAUREN ADAMS
(Los Angeles)
"A compelling dose of contemporary folk that is upbeat and poppy"
Get Fancy Magazine,Fall 2000


GREG KLYMA
(Buffalo, NY)
"a hippie-esque, well-versed, well-mannered, rather adept and inspired songwriting guitar player." EPS MAgazine


DAVID PIPER
(Sierra Madre)


JOHN MARINI
(Alhambra)
"songs that have a hook that leaves you singing long after the record is over." - Musicforce.com


Musical host BRETT PERKINS
(South Pasadena/Copenhagen)
"A true troubadour" Bliss/Pasadena Weekly


Showtime: 7:30pm-10:00pm Tickets $10.at the door, all ages, and $8. if paidin advance, with reservations recommended, by calling the theatre at 626 441-5977. Visa/Master Card/and other major cards are accepted.
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MISSION

The concept behind the Listening Room Concert Series is to provide both
listener and performer with an intimate, receptive environment where the
intricacies of song and performance can be best experienced.

STRUCTURE

The evening falls into two segments, with each artists performing a 3-song set. The musical host also performs. Refreshments are available during the intermission.

DIRECTIONS

The Fremont Centre Theatre is located at 1000 Fremont Blvd., So. Pasadena, one block south of Mission, two blocks west of Fair Oaks.
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From the 10 freeway, take the 110 North. From the West Valley, take the 101 East take the 134 East into Pasadena. and from East of Pasadena take the 210 West. From all directions, exit Orange Grove Blvd., South to Mission Blvd., East (Left) to Fremont Ave. South (Right). Theatre is on the left, one block down, on the southeast corner of El Centro and Fremont Ave. Ample free parking is available. Shows run from 7:30-10:00pm.

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UPCOMING SHOWS
5/1 BRETT PERKINS/Strings, Emeryville, CA w/ Annie Gallup, Lui Collins.

5/3 BRETT PERKINS/Voodoo Lounge, San Francisco, CA w/ Annie Gallup

5/5 BRETT PERKINS/Kulaks' Woodshed, on 'Bright Blue Gorillas' World Cafe', NoHllywd,CA ()

5/26 Brett PERKINS/Acoustic Copenhagen, Copenhagen, DK
5/27 BRETT PERKINS/Acoustic Fredericia, Fredericia, DK

6/4 FREMONT CENTRE THEATRE w/ Caoline Aiken (Atlanta), Dani (San Diego), Judy Toy (L.A.), Cindy Kalmenson (Nashville), Kimberlee White, others tba. Musical Host Brett Perkins.

6/9 BRETT PERKINS/Kerrville Folk Festival,Ballad Tree Host,Kerrville,TX

6/14 BRETT PERKINS Hallenbechs NSAI Songwriter Roundup,No Hollywood, CA

7/9 FREMONT CENTRE THEATRE w/ Byron Wall, Jeff Gold, Puppets Of Castro, Border Radio, other tba. Musical host Brett Perkins.
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These evenings are sponsored in part by Busters Coffee, The Bookhouse,
Magazines Etc., Enas Cassettes, Performing Songwriter Magazine
(), Pedrini Music
(), Pro Printing, NMPA (),
North American Folk Alliance (), Songlink
(), TAXI (), Trader Joes South
Pasadena, and are a "Works of Heart" presentation of Brett Perkins Presents.
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Artists wishing to be considered for Listening Room Series can send a
cassette or CD to:

BPP 1441 Huntington Dr., PMB 1950, South Pasadena, CA 91030

Performers are selected based on the developmental level of their writing, as well as overall artistic presence. Follow up by email is recommended.
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For those of you who want to hear Delaine Eastin's address at the annual
State Department of Education Arts Conference, held this year at the Pasadena
Hilton, here is your chance....

The dinner will begin at 7 pm, Thursday evening, May 17, and will feature a
welcome by Mayor Bill Bogaard, an address by Delaine Eastin, California
Superintendent of Public Instruction, and some remarks by Barry Hessenius,
Director of the California Arts Council. Four hundred teachers,
administrators, artists, parents and arts organization representatives will
participate in the conference, but the dinner can accomodate more. Delaine
is an effective spokesperson for arts education and has done much to return
the arts to the classrooms of California. Please join us!

To reserve a place, send $75 by check to CAAE (California Alliance for Arts
Education) and mail to:
Beth Mott
P. O. Box 583
San Luis Obispo, CA 93406

Reply to this e-mail if you want a pdf file of the application -- thank you!


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The California Department of Education, the California Alliance for Arts
Education, the California Arts Council and The California Arts Project are
partners in presenting the ARTS WORK CONFERENCE in Pasadena, May 17 – 19th.
More than 400 teachers, administrators, artists, parents and community arts
activists will meet to exchange best practices, curriculum resources and
partnership strategies.


The ARTS WORK CONFERENCE this year will feature year-two results from the
Model Arts Program, a network of twenty-two diverse school districts
throughout California. Using a specially developed TOOLKIT, each district
will present a self-study of its arts programs, placing them on a continuum
of program implementation. Soon all California schools will share in the
research and contribute to the proven methods of comprehensive, sequential,
standards-based arts education through a groundbreaking website:
www.teachingarts.org.

The ARTS WORK CONFERENCE will also bring together the members of the
California Arts Assessment Network who have pioneered student assessment in
the arts, along with appropriate professional development for K-12 educators
on assessment techniques. Special workshops will be presented on the new
California Content Standards in the Visual and Performing Arts, adopted by
the State Board of Education January 10, 2001.

For anyone concerned about improving education in California, for anyone
eager to maintain California’s competitive edge in business and industry, for
anyone interested in the role of the arts to invigorate community life, the
ARTSWORK CONFERENCE offers a unique opportunity to learn about the excellent
work now in progress. I would be pleased to answer questions about the
Conference or you may contact Beth Mott, Project Coordinator, for further
information: 805-543-7072. I hope to see you there!



Joan Palmer, Arts Commissioner, City of Pasadena
626-795-0718; joanplmr@...


California Department of Education – California State Agency for education
California Alliance for Arts Education – Statewide non-profit organization
promoting
comprehensive arts education K – post secondary
Affiliate of the KENNEDY CENTER ALLIANCE FOR ARTS EDUCATION NETWORK
California Arts Council – California State Agency for the arts
The California Arts Project – California State University based agency for
teacher development in the arts


ARTSWORK


A Call for Arts Education for all California Students
THE REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT’S TASK FORCE ON THE VISUAL AND PERFORMING
ARTS, 1997



After a series of four meetings, May to September 1997, the State
Superintendent’s task force of 60 artists, business and industry
representatives, arts providers, researchers, scholars, parents and educators
prepared the following Call To Action.



The Vision:

The Superintendent’s Task Force on the Visual and Performing Arts envisions
fully funded arts education programs that reach all of California’s students.
Schools with strong arts education programs are better schools. Arts
education must not be limited to students who are especially talented. All
students can learn and benefit from arts education. All teachers and
administrators, not just those who specialize in the arts, must support and
be involved in arts education and must have opportunities to participate in
well-designed preservice and in-service arts education programs. Time,
staff, facilities, materials, and equipment must be provided to support arts
education programs.



The Goal:

All students in California public schools will have high-quality arts
education program from prekindergarten through grade twelve. All students
will:

? Develop and demonstrate literacy in and through dance, music, theatre and
the visual arts.
? Participate in arts-related school-to-career experiences.
? Have access to the arts through a variety of educational experiences and
technologies both in and out of school.


Recommendations

To achieve this goal, the Task Force makes the following recommendations:

Recommendation 1 – Literacy in and Through the Arts
Incorporate dance, music, theater and the visual arts into the core
curriculum for all students and ensure that arts programs are taught by
trained and qualified arts educators and are supported by classroom teachers
and artists.

Recommendation 2 – Standards and Assessment
Provide statewide content and performance standards in the visual and
performing arts that specify the competencies students should demonstrate in
each of the arts as they progress from prekindergarten through grade twelve.

Recommendation 3 – Preparation for Careers
Provide career awareness, career exploration, and career orientation and
preparation experiences in the visual and performing arts for all students.

Recommendation 4 – Access for All Students
Provide every student with an arts education program that includes access to
the arts through technology and access to the arts in the community.

Recommendation 5 – Support for Arts Programs
Develop an action plan that provides support for the implementation of
comprehensive and sequential visual and performing arts programs in every
school for all students.

The ARTSWORK Building Standards-Based Programs conference is for
administrators, teachers,
arts specialists, teaching artists, parents and community people who are
ready to evaluate their current
programs and needs, celebrate their successes, and develop short and long
range action plans for program
implementation, improvement, and expansion.

The major g oa l s of the conference a re to:
? demonstrate how comprehensive arts education programs can and do work in
individual districts
throughout the state, regardless of size, location or expertise;
? provide information on how to move toward standards-based instruction in
the visual and performing arts;
? present tools for moving through an arts program self-study process and on
to an action plan for
implementing, improving or expanding your visual and performing arts program.
Who is this conference for?

To attend: send a check for $299 (late registration fee) made out to CAAE
(California Alliance for Arts Education -- the conference provider) and mail
to:
Beth Mott
P. O. Box 583
San Luis Obispo, CA 93406

Questions?: Reply to this e-mail, please.

The California Arts Council and the California Assembly of Local Arts
Agencies are working together to prepare a guide of all open studio events
happening in the state of California for the months of May - December 2001
to help celebrate the Year of the Arts. If you have an open studio event
you would like to include, please do the following:

Send the date, time, location, types of works and a contact phone number
and/or website to:
Kristen Saroyan, Community Relations/Membership Services
kristen@... <mailto:kristen@...>
(415) 441-5900 x.14

Don't miss the Lily Cai Chinese Dance Co at Cal State
Northridge on Sat April 28 at 8pm.
"a uniquely American melting pot of traditional
Chinese stage pictures, international pop and the
cutting edge of post-modern dance," says the San
Francisco Chronicle.
Call 818-677-2488 for reservations, tickets and
directions.

The program move from ancient to modern choreography
and will feature: DYNASTY SUITE Cai's
interpretation of four classical Chinese dances from
dynasties in 770 BC to the present. Beginning with
"Basket Girls - Dance from Zhou" (770-221 BC, with
traditional Chinese music), dancers in elegant blue
dresses carry long poles with dangling baskets and
make beautiful patterns across the stage. Courtly
dancers throw breathtakingly high arches with their
red silk ribbons in the "Dance from Tang" (618-907 BC)
depicting timeless graceful goddesses. In the "Dance
from Qing" (1644-1911 AD), a row of dancers in richly
embroidered Chinese attire and headdresses walk on
high platform sandals with royal grace and charm.
"Straw Hat Girl" features a mysterious sensual soloist
in a modern Dai dance style.

BEGIN FROM HERE features dancers in red silk suits
standing on high block platforms performing geometric
shapes with long electrifying silk ribbons.
CANDELAS a mesmerizing dance with lit candles set to
the music of Gustav Mahler.

Directions: CAL STATE NORTHRIDGE is located in the
San Fernando Valley at 18111 Nordhoff St. west of the
405 freeway and south of the 118 freeway. The campus
is bounded by Zelzah on the east, Nordhoff on the
south, Reseda on the west and Devonshire on the north.
Parking is in lot C, located at Zelzah and Plummer
streets and is FREE on weekends. Call 818-677-2488
for reservations, tickets and directions.



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TeAda Productions Seeks People of Color to Participate in "Native
Immigrant." A world premiere performance at the Japan America Theatre on
June 23, 2001.

Looking for dancers, actors, singers, musicians and other performers willing
to work in an organic play development process to create ?Native Immigrant.?
Familiarity with Boal technique, guerilla theater, and other
improvisational practices are a plus. This community based project will be
developed during the first month of rehearsals utilizing input gathered from
the community and the multi-racial cast.

AUDITIONS for "Native Immigrant"
1:00pm on April 29, 2001
JACCC, 244 S. San Pedro St.,
between 2nd and 3rd Streets in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles.

Playwright/Director: Leilani Chan
Assistant Director: Ova Saopeng
Choreographer: Malia Oliver
Performance Date: June 23, 2001
Performance Venue:Japan American Theater

For more information contact:
TeAda Productions at 310/998-8765 or visit our web site
.

Not willing to perform but want to be part of the process? Come visit our
interactive website at and click on the "Native
Immigrant" image! Tell us about your ancestors!


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TeAda Productions
1653 18th Street #2
Santa Monica, CA 90404
phone:310/998-8765
fax: 310/453-4347

teada@...

save the dates, we have a great and exciting line up of films
this year!
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Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 16:04:47 EDT
From: APAFirstWeekend@...
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Subject: [VC] VC Film FestLA Asian Film Festival May 17 - 24

VC Film Fest - the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film & Video Festival Turns
Sweet 16
LA Premieres and World Premieres of Over 80 Films and Video Works and the
25th Anniversary of a Landmark Film Will Celebrate Over 30 years of Asian
American Media

Los Angeles, CA April 25, 2001 Mark your calendars for VC FilmFest 2001:
The Visual Communications Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film & Video Festival,
set for May 17-24, 2001. Now in its 16th year, the Festival will unreel over
90 films and videos will at the Directors Guild of America, The Village at Ed
Gould Plaza, and the Japan America Theatre.

"This year's VC FilmFest is representative of the coming of age for many
of our under represented Asian American communities" said Festival
Co-Director David Magdael. "A majority of our festival films reflect the
changing face of Asian America, as well as a growing cosmopolitan profile
of Asian communities including the Philippines, Vietnam, India, Malaysia,
Thailand, Singapore, and the gay Asian communities. This year’s featured
Asian American directors have served up a variety of works that pull no
punches in being distinctly American while keeping true to their Asian
roots."

Bookending the Festival will be the Los Angeles Opening Night Premiere
of "Green Dragon" by Timothy Linh Bui (co-producer and co-screenwriter of the
multi-award-winning "Three Seasons") on Thursday, May 17 at the Directors
Guild of America; and a special rare showing of John Korty's 1976 telefilm
"Farewell to Manzanar" on Thursday, May 24 at the Japan America Theatre.
Starring Forest Whitaker, Patrick Swayze, Don Duong, and Hiep Thi Le, "Green
Dragon" (an official selection of the 2001 Sundance Film Festival) is a
moving, multi-part story that tells the tale of the first wave of Vietnamese
refugees who were housed in camps across the southwestern deserts of the
United States in 1975. And "Farewell to Manzanar," based on the book by
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James Houston, is perhaps the first
feature-length film to tell the story of the WWII internment of Japanese
Americans from a unique firsthand perspective.

Other works by Asian American makers include:

o The Los Angeles premiere of Anurag Mehta's Slamdance Film Festival
favorite, "American Chai," a coming-of-age comedy of a young college student
torn between traditional Indian values and the pursuit of his rock ’n roll
dreams (Fri., 5/18, DGA).

o Rod Pulido's much-anticipated "The Flip Side" will also make its Los
Angeles premiere on Saturday, May 19 at the DGA. The first feature effort by
a Filipino American filmmaker invited to the Sundance Flim Festival, "The
Flip Side" tells the story of a young college student dealing with his new
found Filipinoness and trying to get his own family to recognize their own
selves.

o The highly acclaimed underground animation hit, "Wave Twisters," from DJ
Q-Bert (Sat., May 19, DGA), "Roads and Bridges," the electrifying first
feature by Robert Altman protege Abraham Lim (Sun., May 20, DGA), the L.A.
premiere of Amy Chen's "The Chinatown Files" (Sun., May 20, DGA), and the
World Premiere of "Daughters of the Cloth" by Seung-Hyun Yoo.

International works include the Los Angeles premieres of Yongyooth
Thongkongtoon's highly acclaimed "The Iron Ladies," Kaze Shindo's
"Love/Juice," Djinn's "Return to Pontianak," "Spinning Gasing" by Teck
Tan, and "The Wrestlers" by Buddhadeb Gasgupta. Other international
highlights include "Anino" by Raymond Red, the first Filipino film to win
a coveted Palm d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

Short films and videos, traditionally the backbone of VC FilmFest, will
be represented by the likes of returning artists Francisco Aliwalas, Leo
Chiang, Kip Fulbeck, Richard Fung, Jane Kim, Richard Kim, Ellie Lee, Young-mi
Lee, Thomas Moon, Stann Nakazono, Fatimah Tobing Rony, Angel Velasco Shaw,
and many others. They will be joined by first-time Festival artists Rima
Anosa, Tammy Apana, Cynthia Ignacio, Juli Kang, Anne Misawa, Sara Takahashi,
Noriko Takabishi, Lito Torres, and others.

In addition to a full slate of seminars and panel discussions, the
Festival will once again present the annual Golden Reel Award, and will
additionally present the Asian Avenue.com Award to one of three distinctive
productions by Asian American filmmakers. And finally, in association with
the Japanese American National Museum, the Festival will present the premiere
of the three-part educational series, "Once Upon a Camp" on Saturday, May 19
at JANM.

"This year's festival will offer new voices from our own community,"
states Abraham Ferrer, festival co-director. "It's going to be a very
exciting showcase because the talent pool of Asian American filmmakers is
turning out some great works. We are no longer hiding or crouching. We are
representing!"

Visual Communications programs are funded in part through grants from
the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, National Endowment for
the Arts, California Arts Council, Los Angeles County Arts Commission, Arthur
M. Blank Family Foundation, Eisner Foundation, Entertainment Industry
Foundation, Getty Grant Program, Weingart Foundation, and corporate and
individual donations.

The Festival is additionally sponsored by (as of April 25, 2001):
Platinum Sponsors: Directors Guild of America, KSCI-TV-Channel 18; Gold
Sponsors: AsianAvenue.com, Screenplay Systems; Silver Sponsors: Japan
America Theatre, Los Angeles Times, Samy's Camera; Bronze Sponsors: Fox,
Hitachi, LTD. Screen Actors Guild; Sony Pictures Entertainment; Travel
Sponsor: Cathay Pacific Airways; Spirit of the Festival: Chivas Regal;
Program Support: Japan Foundation.

VC FilmFest 2001 takes place May 17-24, 2001. See more films and
save money by purchasing a special VC Festival pass online at $25 for 5
programs and $50 for 10 programs. For online program and ticket info and
purchase, visit the Festival's website at: www.vconline.org; for phone
orders w/credit card, call the Japan America Theatre Box Office at: (213)
680-3700 ### . .
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Subj: At the Luckman: Yusef Lateef and Randy Weston
Date: 4/25/01 10:03:18 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: AField@... (Field, Adele)

LUCKMAN EVENT NOTIFICATION


A Rare Performance at the Luckman
YUSEF LATEEF AND RANDY WESTON IN CONCERT
WITH ADAM RUDOLPH AND ETERNAL WIND

Los Angeles - In a rare West Coast concert appearance, Yusef Lateef and
Randy Weston will perform at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex, Cal State L.A.,
on Saturday, April 28, at 8:00 p.m. Joining Yusef Lateef will be
composer/percussionist Adam Rudolph and Eternal Wind (Federico Ramos, Ralph
Jones and Charles Moore).

Since the 1950s, research scholar and composer/performer Dr. Yusef Lateef
has been a pioneer in the multicultural expression of "autophysiopsychic"
music - "coming from the physical, spiritual and mental self." He has
recorded over 60 records that creatively, succinctly, and clearly provide a
path for the new generation of "World" composers and musicians. He has
contributed to the legendary groups of Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus and
Cannonball Adderly, and led his own ensembles in tours worldwide. Currently
a Five College Professor at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Dr.
Lateef was a Senior Research Fellow at Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria,
Nigeria from 1981 to 1985. "Since my return from Nigeria," he has written,
"I've been experiencing an ongoing dialectic reality in my approach to
melody, rhythm, harmony, form, and aesthetics."

Dr. Lateef has composed for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Augusta,
Georgia Symphony Orchestra and the Symphony of the New World. His
composition, The African-American Epic Suite, was recorded and performed by
the K?ln (Cologne) Radio Orchestra and received its U.S. première by the
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in 1998. Numerous publications to his credit in
both music and literature include "Repository of Musical Scales and
Patterns," and the novella Night in the Garden of Love (Vantage Press). In
concert with Eternal Wind, Dr. Lateef performs on the soprano and tenor
saxophones, shenai, Germanic C and alto flutes, piano, oboe, bamboo flute
and Chinese globular flute.

Eternal Wind co-founder Adam Rudolph is a master percussionist and composer
who has been in the vanguard of the development of cross-cultural
improvisational music for over 20 years. Combining music-making ideas from
around the globe, his compositions weave what he terms "an audio syncretic
musical fabric." Rudolph has performed in concerts throughout the U.S.,
Europe and Brazil with Don Cherry, Jon Hassel and Hassan Hakmoun, among
others. His repertoire of world rhythms come from the Balinese, Cuban,
Ghanaian, Haitian, Hindustani and Moroccan traditions, layered on top of his
strong foundation in American improvisational jazz drumming. While living in
Ghana in 1977, Rudolph met the Gambian griot Foday Musa Suso, with whom he
formed the Mandingo Griot Society in Chicago - the first band to blend
traditional African music with R&B and jazz. Although voted "Percussionist
Deserving Wider Recognition" in a Down Beat International Critics Poll,
Rudolph has "never been interested in trying to showcase technique on the
drum" - his performances are "always in the service of greater spiritual and
emotional expression."

To honor Yusef Lateef's sixty years of performing, Beyond the Sky -
featuring ten compositions by Rudolph and Lateef, three of which were
co-composed - premièred at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall in February,
2000. In celebration of Dr. Lateef's 80th birthday, the CD was recorded the
following day, and later released through YAL and Meta Records.

For five decades, pianist/composer Randy Weston has used the 20th century
African Diaspora artform of jazz to manifest a musical free zone that exalts
the spirits, rhythms, hopes, dreams, dignity and beauty of the people who
are "darker than blue." The first musician to connect the dots drawn by
Dizzy Gillespie and Chano Pozo's Afro-Cuban fusions with the ancestral power
points of the Motherland, Weston has transcended time, space, language, and
culture barriers with music that touches the universal human soul.

Randy Weston was born in 1926 in Brooklyn into a musical household. Although
he first picked up the drums, he switched to piano around age fifteen, and
turned professional in 1949. After early apprenticeships with Art Blakey,
Kenny Dorham and Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, Weston emerged with a mature
sound influenced by Duke, Monk and Nat "King" Cole. In 1955, Down Beat's
annual poll cited him as "Best New Talent" on piano. He hooked up with
Gillespie big band trombonist/arranger Melba Liston in 1958, who became a
crucial element in every major statement from him since. In 1967, an
18-country African tour under the auspices of the State Department led to a
six-year sojourn in Tangier, Morocco. There he ran a club and began three
decades of interaction with the Gnawan musical healers. King Hassan II of
Morocco honored his contributions in a 1998 ceremony.

According to Luckman Fine Arts Complex Director of Music Programming and
Research, flutist James Newton, "Each of these composers, steeped and raised
in the African American improvisational tradition, have expanded their music
into new horizons, with the culture of Africa at the core of that expansion.
The Luckman is honored to present two Grand Masters who have had a major
influence on the shaping of creative composition and improvisation. The
opportunity to hear artists of this caliber on the same night is something
that normally happens only in Japan and Europe."


WHO: Yusef Lateef with Adam Rudolph and Eternal Wind; and Randy Weston

WHEN: Saturday, April 28 at 8:00 p.m.

WHERE: Luckman Fine Arts Complex, Cal State L.A., 5151 State University Dr.,
Los Angeles

TICKETS: $30/$25 general; discounts available for students, seniors and
groups; Luckman Box Office (323) 343-6600 or TicketMaster (213) 365-3500

PARKING: Convenient on-campus parking $5, directly across from the Luckman
Theatre

INFO: (323) 343-6600
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Sent by:
Adele Field, Director of Marketing
Luckman Fine Arts Complex
Cal State L.A.
5151 State University Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90032-8116
323-343-6616 / 323-343-6423 FAX

Rozalla's Poem About America Today

Rozalla remembers a day when washington was sunny
but now it is gloomy and not very funny
Gone are the days when the white house was an orgy
Now it's a sex-deprived dungeon Yet Bush is still Whorey
The Republinazis just care about stealing tax dollars
and pocketing the cash as the rightwing screams & hollers
their bigotry and hatred is their only identity
Yet intelligence is something they do not have in plenty
Rozalla would like to kick Bush out and bring Clinton back
Look at this madness- Ashcroft pretending to like blacks?!?!
And Bush thinks hes environment friendly as he feeds us arsenic...
while he stands on trial for lying about texas funeral industry larsony?
This political terrorrism must be brought to an end
Before salmonella in hamburgers becomes a fashion trend
Rozalla admits she, Bill and Hillary have sex,
Yet even Jeb & Katherine have publicly kissed
So what if Bill Clinton lied in court about getting a blow job...
Five Un-Supreme Judges lie in court every day as their victims sob!
Rozalla sees all of our civil rights being diminished
Oh when will these miserable four years fucking finish?
The seas are rising as Rozalla sits here writing this poem
And Bush is spewing carbon dioxide into the Ozone!
And his oil allies refuse to lower their prices
At his own reccomendation while he pushes environmental vices
Then the ugly duckling wannabe presidnet calls China
And refuses to appologize oh how mature of him- the whiner!
The idiot is going to provoke a worldwide nuclear attack
with his foolishness and hostility Oh Fuck The Bushes are back.

Reminder:

THE DURFEE FOUNDATION

ARTISTS' RESOURCE for COMPLETION
(ARC) grant

Second Quarter Postmark Deadline is this Tuesday, May 2, 2001

ARC grants provide rapid, short-term assistance to individual artists in
Los Angeles County who wish to
complete work for a specific, imminent opportunity that may
significantly benefit their career. Artists in
any discipline are eligible to apply for grants of up to $2,500 each.
Applicants must already have secured a
commitment from a recognized institution to present the proposed work.

for application and guidelines go to www.durfee.org

Recipients for the First Quarter 2001 are:

Cindy Bernard
$2,134
To facilitate the inclusion of rear-screen projection in the
performance, "projections+sound," to be presented at the Goldman-Tevis
Gallery in Chinatown (Los Angeles) on March 17, 2001.

Elizabeth Bryant
$1,520
For travel to Croatia in June 2001 to oversee the installation of the
artist's street banners as part of a Los Angeles/Croatia artistic
exchange.

Allan deSouza
$2,400
For the purchase of a view camera and related equipment to be used
during a residency at Art in General in New York, New York from May 3 to
June 30, 2001.

Maria Elena Fernandez
$2,175
To engage a dramaturg, director and lighting designer for a solo
performance of "Confessions of a Cha Cha Feminist" at Side Street
Projects in Los Angeles, California, on April 6 & 7, 2001.

Dan Froot
$2,150
To engage a director for the performance of "Shlammer" at the Los
Angeles Theater Center on June 22 & 23, 2001.

Leonardo Vilchis
$2,150
For digital editing of video related to the exhibition "Squatters" and
related performance activity at the Museum of Contemporary Art of
Serralves in Portugal from June 10 to 12, 2001.

Heritage Square Museum presents a Mother's Day Victorian Fashion Show May
12, where costumes from the last two centuries will be featured.
Refreshments, a souvenir and a tour of the museum will be included in the
ticket price.

Advanced reservations are recommended. Tickets are $12 in advance, $15 at
the door.

For more information, call (626) 796-2989 between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.

Heritage Square Museum is located at 3800 Homer Street, Los Angeles, near
the 110 Pasadena Freeway at Avenue 43.

WORLD PREMIERE AT THE LA FILM FEST

"Life and Debt"
a film by Stephanie Black
written by Jamaica Kincaid

Jamaica-land of sea, sand and sun. And a prime example of the complexities of
economic globalization on the world's developing countries. Using
conventional and non-conventional documentary techniques, this searing film
dissects the "mechanism of debt" that is destroying local agriculture and
industry in Third World countries while substituting sweat-shops and cheap
imports. With a voice-over narration written by Jamaica Kincaid, adapted
from her award-winning book "A Small Place," "Life and Debt" is an
unapologetic look at the "new world order," from the point of view of
Jamaican workers, farmers, government and policy officials who see the
reality of globalization from the ground up. With music by Mutabaruka, Ziggy
Marley and the Melody Makers, Sizzla, Bob Marley, Buju Banton, Yami Bolo,
among many
others.

WORLD PREMIERE AT:
Los Angeles Film Festival
April 26 5:00pm
at Laemmle Sunset 5 Theatre
8000 Sunset Blvd

FOR TICKETS and ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
www.lafilmfest.com 1-800-965-4827