One School's Effort to Create a Culture of Peace in Their Community
Wednesday, March 19; 6:30 to 8pm
Museum of Flight 

The Museum's Education team has once again teamed up with Aviation High School and Legacies of War, creating a curriculum on the history of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, with a focus on the Secret War in Laos.  In part of the curriculum, the students conducted oral histories with Southeast Asian refugees, now living in America, and US-Southeast Asian war veterans from the 1960s and 1970s.  

Please join us for a short program at 6:30pm, and then take the opportunity to view the students' exhibits and projects on this subject.

To view last year's student created exhibits, please visit www.tornbywar.org.

The Voice of the Drum: Taiko and the Japanese-American Experience
Thursday, March 20; 7:30pm
Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center

Join outstanding artists from the US and Japan during this free talk and demonstration. The event is part of Town Hall Seattle's Japan in America program and celebrates the Japanese American experience through performance, culminating in a major performance on Saturday, March 22 at 8 PM at Town Hall.

Artists participating in the Thursday event include: Chieko Kojima, a  dancer/drummer from Japan's famed KODO drumming ensemble; Susumu Yamagami, Japanese shamisen and shakuhachi player in his first US appearance; Kaoru Watanabe, former KODO musician; and Kenny Endo, the great American taiko master and composer. For more information visit, www.townhallseattle.org.

Wing Luke Asian Museum’s Lion Blessing for the Year of the Rat
Saturday, February 16 at 12pm
Starts in front of 7th Avenue & Jackson Street to the Museum's new home at 8th Avenue & King Street
In celebration of the Lunar New Year, cheer on the Lieu Quan Lion Dance Team’s energetic youths while they perform the traditional lion dance in hopes of bringing joy, happiness, good luck, good health and prosperity to our current and future homes!

The Lieu Quan Lion Dance team was founded in 1978 and is part of a nonprofit organization at Co Lam Pagoda in Seattle. Their team consists of energetic teenagers ranging from 10 to 20 years old. They specialize in the art of the Lion Dance to help preserve their own Vietnamese culture and traditions, and at the same time, provide a unique service to the community.

The lion dance will start at our current yellow building at 7th Avenue and Jackson Street then will parade up King Street to our future home in the East Kong Yick Building on 8th Avenue and King Street. This is definitely an event not to miss!

Hard Hat Gala and Art Auction
March 22, 7:00 PM
Be the first to explore the new facilities of the Wing Luke Asian Museum! Don your black tie and boots or sequins and steel-toe shoes for an evening of savory hors d'oeuvres, lively entertainment, and fabulous works of art. You'll feel like a star with the full red-carpet treatment and valet parking! You'll also have a chance to participate in both silent and live auctions and bid on exquisite original works of art by renowned artists such as Roger Shimomura, Aki Sogabe, Lolan Lo Cheng, Darlene Nguyen-Ely and Thu Nguyen. This event will serve as the Wing Luke Asian Museum's annual fundraiser and will take place before the public Grand Opening of our new building in May.
Gala Information       Art Auction Preview

Equal Voice for America's Families
Sponsored by the Marguerite Casey Foundation
Equal Voice for America's Families is a campaign to lay the ground work for a family-led movement for social change. The goal: a sustained shift in national attitudes and policies affecting poor and working families. Marguerite Casey Foundation and its grant making partners will host a series of town hall meetings through out the Foundation's grantmaking regions to develop and generate support for a national platform that addresses issues of concern identified by families.
http://www.equalvoice2008.org/

TeensWAY After-School Youth Program
TeensWAY-- an art-based program that strives to engage youths in Asian Pacific American history, culture and contemporary issues affecting the community-- is currently recruiting middle school and high school youths for the upcoming year. For more information and to get involved, contact (206) 623-5124 ext. 116 or email ahun@wingluke.org.

Volunteer at the Wing Luke Asian Museum!
We have many volunteer opportunities available. Contact (206) 623-5124 ext. 132 for more details.