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星期二, 5月 13, 2014

WGBH's Annual AAPI Heritage Month Celebration 5/22

From Leverett Wing:

On behalf of WGBH-TV/Radio (Boston's PBS affiliate) and my event Co-Hosts, I wanted to invite you to an engaging evening of presentations and conversation as we celebrate Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month 2014 at WGBH.  Details:

WGBH's Annual AAPI Heritage Month Celebration
WhenThursday May 22 at 6:00 p.m.
Where: WGBH Studios, One Guest Street, Brighton.
RSVPs (this event is free but space is limited): http://www.wgbh.org/support/boxoffice_asian_pacific_american_heritage_month.cfm
Co-Hosts: WGBH Overseers - Susan Luo, Helen Chin Schlichte and Leverett Wing

The presentations will include documentary film excerpts from WGBH's The WORLD channel that highlight a range of issues facing Asian Americans in society today, including hybrid & mixed-race heritage and Asian American female identity.

You’ll also hear from a distinguished panel, and have the chance to pose your questions during the Q & A, moderated by Liz Cheng, General Manager of WGBH Television and WORLD Channel.

A dessert reception and tours of the studios will follow the presentation.

The event discussion will touch upon a couple of films you can view during the month of May on WGBH's The WORLD channel: "Local, USA 200F - Building an Identity" and "The Grace Lee Project" (details below).

We hope to see you on May 22nd.
- Susan Luo, 
- Helen Chin Schlichte,
- Leverett Wing

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Local, USA 200F | Building an Identity
As the Asian American population in the United States rises, so do their questions about their place in America; a Japanese-Filipino man narrates the story of his "becoming American"; a group of mixed race professionals in New York address issues of identity and acceptance; and new mothers try to balance their old heritage with their new culture


The Grace Lee Project
When award-winning Korean-American filmmaker Grace Lee was growing up in Missouri, she was the only Grace Lee she knew. As an adult, however, she moved to New York and then California, where everyone she met seemed to know "another Grace Lee." But why did they assume that all Grace Lees were nice, dutiful, piano-playing bookworms.


Pursuing the moving target of Asian American female identity, the filmmaker plunges into a clever, highly unscientific investigation of all those Grace Lees who break the mold, including the fiery social activist Grace Lee Boggs, the rebel Grace Lee who tried to burn down her high school, and the Silicon Valley teenager Grace Lee who spends evenings doing homework, playing piano, and painting graphic pictures of death and destruction.

This refreshing film reveals the intriguing contradiction of the "Grace Lee" persona simultaneously impressive and forgettable, special and generic, an emblem of a subculture and an individual who defies categorization. With wit and charm, THE GRACE LEE PROJECT challenges the cultural investments made in the idea of Grace Lee, all the while sending her a love letter.

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