Upcoming Events
Saturday, April 192PM Party Space
Student Intergroup Mixer
(Jeopardy Style)
Dinner will be provided and the winning team will receive a special prize.
Put your thinking caps on and get ready to join APAAM for an Intergroup mixer - Jeopardy style! Test your knowledge and learn about Asian Pacific American Awareness Month and other club organizations.
Sunday, April 193P Low Plaza, Rain Date April 26
Hangama
Organization of Pakistani Students presents a mock Pakistani wedding
Each year OPS hosts their largest event of the year -- Hangama, a Mock Pakistani Wedding! Come watch as the "groom" from NYU arrives on a white horse to "wed" his Columbia "bride." The event features traditional Pakistani wedding decorations, clothes, mouth-watering food, and performances by the amazing South Asian dance groups on campus!
Come enjoy a beautiful day on Low Steps while listening to Pakistani/Bollywood music,
enjoying South Asian food, and participating in the rituals of a Pakistani
wedding!
Sunday, April 1912-6PM at Brittany Hall Dance Room, 55 E10th Street (nr Broadway)
Kollaboration-New York
http://www.kollaboration.org
WHAT IS KOLLABORATION?
Kollaboration is an annual performance and movement created by a small group of professional young Asian Pacific Islander Americans/Canadians, volunteering their time and skills to celebrate the vast talents of their community and hopefully bring them into the mainstream.
CALLING ALL...
Singers. Dancers. Instrumentalists. Spoken word artists. Comedians...
Kollaboration New York wants you.
Reserve your audition spot!
Email us: kym@kollaboration.org
By: Friday, April 17
Audition Day! (By appointment)
Date: Sunday, April 19
Time: 12P-6P
At: Brittany Hall Dance Room
55 East 10th Street (nr. Broadway)
Monday, April 208P Lerner 502
Organizing Asian Communities
Co-sponsored with CAAAV
Discussion on issues of gentrification in New York City, and current CAAAV campaigns against evictions and landlord harassment.
Friday, April 241-4PM, Kent 403
Oscar Lee Symposium
Second Annual Oscar Lee Symposium of Undergraduate East Asian Studies and the launch of the second volume of the Columbia East Asia Review
The Oscar Lee Symposium is a half-day conference featuring original undergraduate research on East and Southeast Asia, which seeks to educate the greater Columbia community about historical and contemporary topics related to East and Southeast Asia and provides a forum for undergraduate students to present their research and receive constructive criticism.
Wednesday, March 257-9PM Lerner C555
Opening Ceremony
Featuring Keynote by Miriam Yeung (
NAPAWF)
Executive Director of the National
Asian Pacific American Women's Forum
Performance by Kate Rigg (
katerigg.com)
Comedian with a "poetry slam hip-hop edge"
Dinner will be served
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Asian Pacific American Awareness Month is an annual celebration at Columbia University dedicated to promoting awareness of APA issues and history.
MIRIAM YEUNG
(
NAPAWF)
Miriam W. Yeung, MPA, is the Executive Director of the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum (NAPAWF). Prior to this position, Miriam had a ten year career at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center in New York City where she was most recently the Director of Public Policy Government Relations where she was responsible for the advocacy, community education, and government relations work of the Center including Promote the Vote, one of the country's oldest and largest LGBT voter education and mobilization projects, and Causes in Common, a national project which seeks to build working alliances between the reproductive rights and LGBT liberation movements.
Prior to that position, Miriam provided direct services in the Center's Youth Enrichment Services Program for seven years and was the driving force behind its Safe Schools Campaign which seeks to erase hate and homophobia from schools through the empowerment, training, and support of youth leaders. Miriam has also co-produced a documentary about the queer youth community of NYC entitled "I Look Up to the Sky Now."
Born in Hong Kong and raised in projects of Brooklyn, Miriam is a proud queer, Asian American, immigrant, woman, activist who is committed to social justice movement building. Miriam received her Masters in Public Administration at Baruch College, and her BA in psychology/pre-med at NYU.
KATE RIGG
(
katerigg.com)
Originally from Canada and Australia, but a New Yorker at heart, Kate Rigg's comedy career began the second she graduated with a degree in acting from New York's prestigious Juilliard school. A notorious culture and subculture vulture, the allure of the club scene in New York drew her to Caroline's Comedy Club where she quickly caught the attention of the New Talent Booker who slotted her for a series of appearances and features showcasing her particular brand of character based comedy, edgy socio-political commentary, asian american slanted jokes, and in your face dirty girl talk.
Her career includes four major elements: comedy, music, acting and writing/producing original work. Thematically these elements are linked by a hunger for new ideas, iconoclastic imagery, challenging ideas about cultural stereotyping and a quest for expanding form and content to open up discussions about pop culture, race, comedy, media images of A/Pis and women, tolerance and linking diverse communities through art.
She has brought this funky urban asian sensibility to performances at The Kennedy Center, The Smithsonian Institute, Chicago's Museum of Modern Art, NYC's Public Theater and countless engagements internationally.
Non-Columbia ID holders can RSVP here:
https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pe/7133545
Friday, March 277:15PM Roone Arledge Auditorium
Tamasha
Club Zamana presents a South Asian cultural showcase
Tamasha Club Zamana is having its annual cultural showcase called TAMASHA: Recession Edition on March 27th in Roone Arledge at 8PM. The show will have dance and musical performances as well as a special guest act.
Friday, March 278:30PM Lerner Party Space
RAWcus
Raw Elementz presents a breakdance competition and showcase
Raw Elementz would like to invite you to attend our first-ever RAWcus Breakdance Competition and Showcase. Our event seeks to bring hip-hop fusion dance culture to Columbia two-fold: through a breakdance competition that will invite local NYC performers to the campus, as well as an overall showcase of different styles of fusion dance here at Columbia.
WHERE: Party/Performance Space in Lerner Hall
WHEN: Friday, March 27th 2009
TIME: Doors Open at 8:30PM
COST: $5 With CUID
(Non-Columbia Individuals allowed through special invite only) tickets will be available at the TIC
Hosted by The Castillo Twins
DJ Luke Budiarjo on the 1's and 2's
Performances by:
RAW ELEMENTZ
Sabor
Raw Elementz Alumni
Orisha
AND MORE TO COME
Including talent from 8 of New York's Top Breakdance Crews:
Wash Heights Supreme Beings
Zulu Kings
Dynamic Rockers 5
Crew Dynasty
Repstyles
Full FX
and SuperCr3w
Sponsored by: CUArts, KSA, SEAL, CSC Funding is made possible through a generous gift from The Gatsby Charitable Foundation
Thursday, April 26:30PM-10PM Altschul 202
Vincent Who?
Organized by Asian American Alliance (AAA) and Asian Pacific American Awareness Month (APAAM) of Columbia.
In 1982, Vincent Chin was brutally murdered in Detroit at the height of anti-Japanese sentiment. In a travesty of justice, the judge ruled it a case of manslaughter and the two killers, both autoworkers, never served a day in jail. More than twenty-five years later, that case remains a touchstone in the struggle for civil rights and the advancement of the Asian American community.
In this documentary
VINCENT WHO? (a follow up to the Academy Award winning documentary
WHO KILLED VINCENT CHIN?), we take a quick look back at the case, but more importantly we examine the effects the case had on the leading community activists of today and the future leaders of tomorrow.
Come join us for dinner and a screening of VINCENT WHO?, followed by a Q&A session with the producer. Organized by Asian American Alliance (AAA) and Asian Pacific American Awareness Month (APAAM).
For more information on the film, visit
http://www.vincentchin.net/.
Friday, April 36:00PM, Altschul 202
Asian American Queer Cinema Festival
Presented in part by Proud Colors, E.A.A.H, Q, CQA, and Gayava
Screening of Saving Face, Ethan Mao, Happy Together, The Aggressives, and The Wedding Banquet.
Friday, April 310PM, Lerner Party Space
Columbia Queer Alliance: "First Friday"
Come celebrate APAAM with CQA and First Friday!
The First Friday Dance aims to fight homophobia and build community, using creativity and passion to raise public awareness of LGBT issues not only on campus, but throughout the country as well.
APAAM is proud to co-sponsor this dance as a means of acknowledging the shared experiences of our communities in addition to highlighting the intersectionality of identities as embodied by our queer Asian American brothers, sisters and genderqueer fighters!
Sunday, April 58:30A Lerner 5th Floor (C555)
CASPY
Chinese Adopted Siblings Program for Youth
CASPY - Chinese Adopted Siblings Programs for Youth - is a one-day event
where Big Sib volunteers from Columbia mentor Chinese children that have
been adopted into non-Chinese families. This program is a great way to get
involved with community service while having lots of fun with kids. The day
will include plenty of activities such as arts and crafts, Night Market,
Chinese Yo-yo lessons, a Talent Show, Chinese Calligraphy workshop, and
much more.
Sunday, April 58PM Roone Arledge
KSA: Project 4
Join KSA for its largest event of the year, the KSA Culture Show! As always, the show will include performances from your favorite acts including Gayo, Spoken Word, Asadal, Ho-heup as well as a fashion show showcasing the newest designs from Korean American designers and traditional hanbok!
We will also have a special guest performance by J LIM, a rising R&B star from JYP Entertainment!
Watch her here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voifYZ5Cqbg
Tickets come with awesome raffle prizes such as Apple iPod shuffles & NJ Nets tickets throughout the night!
FREE KOREAN FOOD
General Tickets: $15
VIP Tickets (pre-selected priority seating): $20
Note:
Please buy general tickets at CUArts ticket center.
Get your VIP tickets on Lerner ramps every day from 12-6:30pm!
To purchase the tickets online:
https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/performance.html?method=showPerformance&reset=user&perfId=7134505&code
For more information:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ksa/cs/
** keep your VIP ticket stubs for FREE ADMISSION to the AFTER PARTY **
Monday, April 67PM Satow Room in Lerner
"Excuse My Gangsta Ways"
Feeding Food for Thought Screening and Dinner Discussion presented in part by Asian American Alliance and Chinese Students Club
Join APAAM for a screening and dinner discussion of Corinne Manabat's "Excuse My Gangsta Ways", a film documenting the transition from gang life to "normal" life for a Chinese American woman. After the screening, come discuss issues affecting the perception of Asian American women and how Asian Americans are portrayed in the media. Free food will be provided!
Wednesday, April 88-10PM, East Ramp Lounge
Who is Asian American?
Cosponsored with ROOTed and AAA PC
Who's included in "Asian American"? Come learn about the history and politics behind the term and talk about your experiences with it today.
Friday, April 104P Low Steps, Raindate: April 17, 4:00 to 8:00pm, Low Plaza
Matsuri
Columbia Japanese Society presents an annual spring Japanese festival
Saturday, April 114-6PM Lerner C555
Inspire & Empower: Youth Mentoring
With the Chinese Planning Council (CPC)
Do you give great peer advice? Want to help out high school students with college, life, and career related issues? Join APAAM for a day as we build meaningful mentor relationships with high school students from underserved Chinese American communities in Brooklyn. We'll have fun activities planned to ensure bonding and a great time. No mentoring experience necessary!
If interested, please RSVP by emailing dwz2101@columbia.edu.
Saturday, April 117P Lerner Party Space
K-Square
Sounds of China presents a karaoke klash
*Karaoke Klash* is an annual American-Idol elimination style Karaoke
competition hosted by *Sounds of China*. Every year, we attract dozens of
performers ranging from solos to groups representing a diverse variety of
cultures and languages. Audience from both undergraduate and graduate
schools make their way down to Party Space each year to cheer for their
fellow friends while enjoying a traditional Chinese buffet.
Karaoke Klash or
K-Square is monitored by professional judges that are from the entertainment
industry and the winners of the competition are awarded with amazing prizes
such as free concert tickets and Apple products. This year, it is going to
bigger and better!
Sunday, April 122-4PM Broadway
Bhangra Fun Workshop
Come unwind, get some exercise, and learn a fun, high-energy Indian dance from NYC BhangraClub!
**********Beginners welcome!!
DANCE WORKSHOP I OF II
WHAT: Bhangra Dance Workshop
(Dance Workshop Series I of II)
WHEN: Sunday, April 12, 2009
TIME: 2-4PM
WHERE: Broadway Room, Lerner
Presented by APAAM, cuBHANGRA
NYC BhangraClub
NYC BhangraClub is a dance organization established to promote and perform the Bhangra in New York City. Founded in 2007, the Club today is one of the best-known dance organizations in New York, with a member list drawn from all ages, races, nationalities and professions.
We educate communities about Indian Culture with our free Bhangra performances in schools, government & business organization, festivals etc. We have performed regularly at various public and private cultural events, including United Nations, City of New York, Indian Consulate, HSBC, and several media events.
Our passion, and primary mission, though, still remains getting more people to learn the Bhangra. To this end, we offer Bhangra classes every week at a few different locations in midtown-Manhattan. And, whether you’re looking to learn a dance that is amazing fun, get some terrific exercise, or just meet new people, we assure you of a great time!
http://nycbhangraclub.com/
Keep your eyes peeled for...
DANCE WORKSHOP II of II
WHAT: Hip-Hop Workshop with S.i.C.
WHEN: Sunday, April 26, 2009
TIME: 2-4PM
WHERE: Broadway Room, Lerner
Monday, April 137-9P Satow Room
Sexual & Domestic Violence Panel
How do the roles of violence in Asian communities differ? What can we do to help?
Panelists from the New York Asian Women's Center (NYAWC) and Sakhi will talk about their experiences as social workers working on sexual and domestic violence issues and answer any questions that you may have for them.
Panelists profiles:
Fronthy Nguyen, NYAWC
As the Outreach Coordinator at the New York Asian Women's Center (NYAWC), Fronthy is responsible for managing and conducting outreach activities for NYAWC. The outreach activities include conducting workshops at social service agencies to inform them about domestic violence in the Asian communities, presentations during roll-call at police precincts to educate police officers about the prevalence of domestic violence in Asian communities and attending community forums and events to better inform the public about domestic violence issues. Fronthy received her Master's Degree in Non-Profit Management at The New School. Prior to graduate school, she worked in the area of youth development and is a former AmeriCorps*VISTA volunteer.
Mohammad Levesque-Alam, Sakhi
His role is to spearhead Sakhi's efforts to educate, raise awareness, and create dialogue to help end domestic violence. Mohammad is responsible for media advocacy, production of Sakhi's media, community engagement and strategic relationship-building. Mohammad has a background as a reporter in the Queens weekly press and, prior to that, worked at a suburban Massachusetts daily newspaper. While pursuing his undergraduate degree at Northeastern University in Boston, he co-founded and co-edited an online political journal for progressive youth. Mohammad holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism and minors in Political Science and History. He has conversational fluency in Urdu.
Hope to see you there!
Monday, April 137:30PM Roone Arledge Cinema
Movie Screening of "The Crossing"
KSA, KLSA, and NKA will be hosting a movie screening with
Liberty in North Korea, a national organization promoting human rights in North Korea.
"The Crossing," directed by Tae-kyun Kim, is the first film to
accurately depict the trials and hardships faced every day by the North
Korean people. It depicts the plight of a father desperately trying to save his family from poverty and absence of freedom in North Korea. After the movie, there will be time for a Q&A session with representatives from LiNK.
Refreshments will be served.
To find out more about the film and see a trailer, please go to
http://www.linkglobal.org/take-action/tours/crossing_about.html.
Wednesday, April 158PM Ramp Lounge West
"Dare to Struggle!"
An intergenerational dialogue commemorating the 40th anniversary of Asian American Studies
2008-2009 marks the 40th anniversary of Asian American Studies as a discipline, formed in the San Francisco Bay Area out of student protest.
This event will be an intergenerational dialogue between Asian American activists and organizers who have advocated, petitioned, and fought for ethnic studies programs in many different ways. Participants will hopefully include both supporters of the 1968-1969 San Francisco State University strike, as well as Columbia alumni who held establish Asian American Studies here in 1996.
Thursday, April 169PM Barnard Hall
Take Back the Night
Rally to end sexual and domestic violence
Friday, April 17Lerner Party Space, 6PM
Taiwan Festival Day
Taiwanese American Students Association presents a traditional night market experience
Come to Taiwan Festival Day to experience all the festivals celebrated in
Taiwan throughout the year in just one night! Set-up like a Taiwanese
night market, the festival will offer a great selection of Taiwanese food
and drinks, various night market games and a variety of prizes.
Saturday, April 189A-9P, NYU Kimmel Center
NYCAASC
New York City Asian American Student Conference
An annual event, the New York City Asian American Student Conference (NYCAASC) is a collaborative effort between Asian American students from Columbia, NYU, Hunter College, and Fordham. The one-day conference draws together Asian American college and high school students from the city and beyond, to participate in workshops on Asian American identity and issues, to foster dialogue between students from different schools and backgrounds, and to network between schools and organizations for the purpose of creating a cohesive and unified Asian American student population. The conference will also have fun, participatory events, such as a showcase of local musical artists at the end of the night.This will be NYCAASC's third annual conference. The theme this year is ACT: Activate, Challenge, Transform.
Saturday, April 192PM Party Space
Student Intergroup Mixer
(Jeopardy Style)
Dinner will be provided and the winning team will receive a special prize.
Put your thinking caps on and get ready to join APAAM for an Intergroup mixer - Jeopardy style! Test your knowledge and learn about Asian Pacific American Awareness Month and other club organizations.
Sunday, April 193P Low Plaza, Rain Date April 26
Hangama
Organization of Pakistani Students presents a mock Pakistani wedding
Each year OPS hosts their largest event of the year -- Hangama, a Mock Pakistani Wedding! Come watch as the "groom" from NYU arrives on a white horse to "wed" his Columbia "bride." The event features traditional Pakistani wedding decorations, clothes, mouth-watering food, and performances by the amazing South Asian dance groups on campus!
Come enjoy a beautiful day on Low Steps while listening to Pakistani/Bollywood music,
enjoying South Asian food, and participating in the rituals of a Pakistani
wedding!
Sunday, April 1912-6PM at Brittany Hall Dance Room, 55 E10th Street (nr Broadway)
Kollaboration-New York
http://www.kollaboration.org
WHAT IS KOLLABORATION?
Kollaboration is an annual performance and movement created by a small group of professional young Asian Pacific Islander Americans/Canadians, volunteering their time and skills to celebrate the vast talents of their community and hopefully bring them into the mainstream.
CALLING ALL...
Singers. Dancers. Instrumentalists. Spoken word artists. Comedians...
Kollaboration New York wants you.
Reserve your audition spot!
Email us: kym@kollaboration.org
By: Friday, April 17
Audition Day! (By appointment)
Date: Sunday, April 19
Time: 12P-6P
At: Brittany Hall Dance Room
55 East 10th Street (nr. Broadway)
Monday, April 208P Lerner 502
Organizing Asian Communities
Co-sponsored with CAAAV
Discussion on issues of gentrification in New York City, and current CAAAV campaigns against evictions and landlord harassment.
Friday, April 241-4PM, Kent 403
Oscar Lee Symposium
Second Annual Oscar Lee Symposium of Undergraduate East Asian Studies and the launch of the second volume of the Columbia East Asia Review
The Oscar Lee Symposium is a half-day conference featuring original undergraduate research on East and Southeast Asia, which seeks to educate the greater Columbia community about historical and contemporary topics related to East and Southeast Asia and provides a forum for undergraduate students to present their research and receive constructive criticism.
Saturday, April 25All day, Location TBA
Malama Hawaii's Lu'au
A walking tour with the Museum of Chinese in the Americas
Columbia University Malama Hawaii’s annual lu’au features delicious Hawaiian food, live Polynesian music and dance by student performers and others in the New York community, information about the history, language, and culture of Hawaii, as well as a fun time with the Columbia and New York ‘ohana! Food and admission are free for Columbia Students with valid ID.
Sunday, April 262-4P Lerner 477
Hip-Hop Dance Workshop
S.i.C. Dance Crew
Part II of the Dance Workshop Series
Friday, April 298-10PM Lerner C555
Asian American Youths & Pre-Med
Have a discussion with medical students from Columbia to learn more about the medical school application process and experience from an Asian American perspective. Get in contact with a mentor for advice in the future.
Organized by APAMSA (Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association) of Columbia.
Thursday, April 308PM Lerner 569
Fall of Saigon Remembrance
Presented by the Vietnamese Students Association
Friday, May 17PM Barnard Quad (Rain Location: Lewis Parlor)
Closing Ceremony
Featuring El Gambina, Danny Katz, Kevin Nadal, John-Flor Sisante
Photo contest winners announced.
