Lost In Your Eyes

Lost In Your EyesLe Roy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New YorkOpens November 23, 2008 at 6pm
“Lost In Your Eyes” is a collaborative exhibition that aims to comment on how authorship, mutability, subjectivity and fabrication destabilize simple representation, allowing fiction to take on the appearance of fact and vice versa. The exhibition title “Lost In […]

Art In Site

Art In Site will be the Filipino magazine for artists, by artists, about artists.
For their 1st issue, they are giving artists the cover of the magazine to use as canvas, a blank sheet, a bullhorn, however you want to use it. With a print run of 3,000 copies, each magazine will have its own unique […]

RIP, Robert Asprin.

via: Angry Asian Man:
5.23.2008
fantasy/science fiction author robert aspirin diesNoted fantasy/science fiction author Robert Aspirin has died. According to the official Myth website, he passed away quietly yesterday at his home in New Orleans. He was 62: RIP, Robert Asprin.
I was actually a fan of his work back in the day, and I remember reading and […]

get your Slow Jam!

You can now finally own a copy of indie cult hit, SLOW JAM KING - the award-winning feature film debut of Steven E. Mallorca. The DVD is released by Unitel Pictures International, the people who distributed such Sundance hits as Imelda and The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros.
Official site:
http://www.slowjamking.com/

April 20 in Queens: LYFE, Kasama, Action: FAHSI Cultural Showcase

at The Queens Museum of Art
www. queensmuseum. org
Sunday, April 20, 5:30 - 8 pm
Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs Immigrant Heritage Week: LYFE, Kasama, Action: FAHSI Cultural Showcase
Each spring, the Filipino American Human Services, Inc. (FAHSI) sponsors an event that invites various community based organizations and community members to commemorate the various experiences and contributions of […]

April 17, 18 NYU Symposium: Philippines: Colonial Cultural Perspectives + film screenings

Thursday, April 17, 6:15 p.m.
Symposium: Philippines: Colonial Cultural Perspectives
With the participation of Edward Sullivan (NYU Professor of Fine Arts and Dean for the Humanities), Nina Capistrano Baker (Director, International Exhibitions, Ayala Museum), and Vicente Rafael (Professor of History, University of Washington).
Lectures as follow:
“The Afterlife of Empire” by Vicente Rafael
“Lost in Translation: Juan Luna between Europe […]

The Center for Book Arts: Fine Press Publishing Seminar for Emerging Writers

The Center for Book Arts invites applications for our Letterpress Printing & Fine Press Publishing Seminar for Emerging Writers. The next section of this seminar is scheduled for Thursday through Sunday, March 13th through 16th. The seminar is tuition free for participants and includes the cost of materials. Those selected must attend the entire four-day […]

Call for Submissions: Marginal Bodies: Illness, Disability, and Queer Community

A Conference, Community Forum, and Performance Event
National Queer Arts Festival, June 2008, San Francisco
Event Description:
What does it mean to encounter the Other within one’s own body? How do illness and disability destabilize our fixed notions of the body, and how does this impact queer sexuality? Given that queerness is already a marginal way of being, […]

NYFA 2008 Immigrant Artist Outreach Initiative

New York’s Immigrant Artists Get Needed Boost from New York Foundation for the Arts’ Mentoring Initiative
New York, NY (January, 22, 2008) – To help bolster New York’s immigrant artists, New York Foundation for the Arts has announced the launch of the 2008 Immigrant Artist Outreach Initiative.A year-long effort to support New York’s immigrant artists currently […]

Feb 1, 2008: Celebration of New Asian American Poetry

A Celebration of New Asian American Poetry
In recent years, there’s been a palpable increase in books published by Asian American poets. A flight of fancy? A movement? Has our time finally come? One thing is certain: Asian American poetry is thriving with a panoply of enigmatic individual voices. The participants will read […]

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