• FIRST THURSDAY | Thursday, September 2 @ 10am–5pm
• LECTURE: Erika Lee & Judy Yung: Immigration Lessons from Angel Island | Thursday, September 2 @ 7:30pm
From 1910–1940, Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco served as a processing and detention center for over 1 million people. But unlike Ellis Island, this station was designed to detain, interrogate, and exclude immigrants from Asia. Erika Lee and Judy Yung, authors of Angel Island, say the station's history reveals how U.S. immigration policies and bias played out in daily practices and decisions, with real consequences on lives and on the country itself. This presentation will include an introduction by Deputy Executive Director Cassie Chinn from the Wing Luke Museum. Presented by The Town Hall Center for Civic Life, with Elliott Bay Book Company and the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience. Series media sponsorship provided by Publicola. Series supported by The Boeing Company Charitable Trust, the RealNetworks Foundation and the Otto Haas Charitable Trust.
Tickets are $5 at www.brownpapertickets.com or 800.838.3006, at the door beginning at 6:30 pm.
Town Hall Seattle | 8th and Seneca (downtown)
• JAMFEST | Thursday, September 2 @ 6–9pm
4 venues in Chinatown-International District + Hing Hay Park. Enjoy live music performances with new bands and old favorites. Experience dance in Hing Hay Park. See contemporary art in galleries. Shop late and eat to replenish your energy for more. For more information visit www.wingluke.org/jamfest
Tickets include gallery admission to The Wing:
•$8 non-member ($19 series pass)
•$5 Museum member ($12 series pass)
• MIX IT UP: Asian Pacific American Artist Networking Event | Friday, September 10 @ 5:30–7:30pm
Network with Asian Pacific American artists, curators and other arts professionals. View current art exhibits and learn about programs and opportunities at The Wing and other local organizations.
For more information, view the complete invitation.
$7 Museum member; $10 non-member | In Community Hall at The Wing
• SACRED SEATTLE…: Exhibit Opening Reception | Thursday, September 16 @ 6–8pm
Is Seattle Sacred? The Pacific Northwest has the distinction of being the most "churchless" place in the U.S. Sacred Seattle… traces the spaces, places and paths where Asian Pacific Americans both belong to and long for the sacred. Specifically, how APAs map spirituality onto what is considered a very secular landscape. Sacred Seattle… will orient visitors to sacred spaces throughout Seattle, such as churches, mosques, temples, natural landscapes and more.
6–7pm for Members and invited guests. RSVP to Liz Shaiken
7–8pm open to the public | New Dialogue Initiative Exhibit at The Wing
• FAMILY FUN DAY: Romson Regarde Bustillo creates Fiesta Masks | Saturday, September 18 @ 1–3pm
Create fantastic masks embellished with feathers, fabric and other objects with artist Romson Regarde Bustillo.
Free | In Community Hall at The Wing | Sponsored by Target
• THE UNIQUE HMONG CULTURE | Saturday, September 18 @ 4:30pm
Join us as the Hmong community teaches you about their food and clothing. Listen as they explain about their special diet and taste what they have prepared. Learn why they choose certain colors for their traditional dress and the history behind story cloths. Find out these and much more interesting facts about this extraordinary culture. During the food tasting portion of the program, we regret we are unable to accommodate any special dietary needs.
Presented in conjunction with Paj Ntaub: Stories of Hmong in Washington exhibit on display through October 17, 2010, and A Refugee's Journey of Survival of and Hope exhibit on display through December 12, 2010.
Free | In Community Hall at The Wing
• CULTURAL TRANSCENDENCE: Exhibit Closing | Sunday, September 19 @ 10am–5pm
Five Asian Pacific Islander American artists exhibit works that explore the importance of technology in our modern experience and technology's influence on contemporary installation art. Their conceptual themes peer into history but do not dwell on negative past — inequality, discrimination and alienation; instead they search the present and envision a better tomorrow.
Free with admission | George Tsutakawa Art Gallery at The Wing
• PEOPLE BRIDGES: Street of Gold | Sunday, September 19 @ 2:30pm
Bridges performances are historic narratives dramatically presented by a single actor. Characters are an artistic composites based on real-life individuals. Street of Gold is a historic performance based on a real-life Chinese immigrant in the early 1900s who came to Seattle with early Chinese entrepreneur and city leader Goon Dip. Determined to carve out a new life, he endures a lonely and dangerous existence..
Free with admission | In Tateuchi Story Theatre at The Wing
• PEOPLE BRIDGES: Music Pill | Sunday, September 26 @ 2:30pm
Bridges performances are historic narratives dramatically presented by a single actor. Characters are an artistic composites based on real-life individuals. Music Pill showcases real-life Asian Americans influences by the area's once thriving, boisterous African American jazz scene.
Free with admission | In Tateuchi Story Theatre at The Wing
OCTOBER — Filipino Heritage month
• FIRST THURSDAY | Thursday, October 7 @ 10am–8pm
• FILM SCREENING: Miyori in the Sacred Forest (Miyori no Mori) | Thursday, October 7 @ 2pm
Miyori is an 11 year-old girl, who has a closed heart as she grows up under her parents' discord. Due to her mother leaving, she is forced to stay at her grandparents' house in a very rural village for a while. Though her father thinks it will be better for her to stay in the natural surrounding rather than her urban home, Miyori becomes even more obstinate, thinking that she has been abandoned. One day, Miyori enters nearby woods and experiences mysterious phenomena by encountering the spirits of forest. The spirits tell her that she is chosen to become the guardian of village forest. Though unconfident in the beginning, Miyori gradually opens her mind and grows up to be a strong and responsible girl. She learns to get along with her schoolmates and the spirits to fight against people who plan to destroy the forest, constructing a dam… (2007, 116 minutes)
This program is part of the Tateuchi Story Theatre Performing Arts Series sponsored by the Atsuhiko & Ina Goodwin Tateuchi Foundation. The event is co-sponsored by The Wing, the Japan Foundation, the Consulate-General of Japan in Seattle, and the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Washington.
Free | In Tateuchi Story Theatre at The Wing
• AFTER HOURS | Friday, October 8 @ 7–10pm
Back by popular demand a fun and energetic event for Seattle's young professionals and emerging leaders to mix and mingle, network and experience the innovative exhibits at The Wing!
Featuring music by Soul Kata, original funk/soul music to move and groove your spirit to!
$7 Museum member; $10 non-members in advance ($15 at the door) Must be 21 or older to attend.
Sponsored in part by Chi Sigma Alpha Sorority, Inc. For more information or to purchase tickets visit www.wingluke.org/afterhours.
• PEOPLE BRIDGES: King Street | Sunday, October 10 @ 2:30pm
Bridges performances are historic narratives dramatically presented by a single actor. Characters are an artistic composites based on real-life individuals. King Street showcases an arranged marriage, a difference in age and a change in lifestyle, a Filipino American couple makes their home in the Chinatown-International District from the 1960s to 1980s.
Free with admission | In Tateuchi Story Theatre at The Wing
• HOME REVEALED: ARTISTS OF THE CHINATOWN-INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT: Exhibit Opening Reception | Thursday, October 14 @ 6–8pm
Home Revealed highlights the work of seven artists who have made the Chinatown-International District base for their place to live, work and create art. Featured artists include: Juolei Deng, Kikuko Dewa, Andrew Hida, Meng Huang, Alan Lau, Amy Nikaitani and Dean Wong. Exhibition runs from October 15, 2010 to April 17, 2011.
6–7pm for Members and invited guests; 7–8pm open to the public | George Tsutakawa Art Gallery at The Wing
• FAMILY FUN DAY: April Richardson creates Nature printmaking | Saturday, October 16 @ 1–3pm
Local printmaker April Richardson will teach you how to make nature prints. Use leafs, small tree branches, and flowers with paint to make color landscapes or works of art. To find out more about this artist, check out her website at www.aprilrichardsonartist.com.
Free | In Community Hall at The Wing | Sponsored by Target
• BOOK READING WITH PETER BACHO | Saturday, October 16 @ 4:30pm
Join Peter Bacho, author of Leaving Yesler (Pleasure Boat Studio, 2010) as he talks about his first novel for young adults. Set during the Vietnam War era, Leaving Yesler tells the story of Bobby Vicente, a 17 year old who is dealing with the loss of his mother and his older brother, in addition to the highs and lows of teenage life in Seattle's urban housing projects. Bacho is an Evergreen College professor and author of Boxing in Black and White (Holt), a Children's Center for Books Best Books List in 1999, as well as several award-winning books for adults.
Free | In Community Hall at The Wing
• FILM SCREENINIG of Operation Babylift: The Lost Children of Vietnam | Saturday, October 16 @ 4:30–6:30pm
"Operation Babylift" was a $2 million U.S. initiative that airlifted over 2,500 Vietnamese orphans out of a war-torn country to protect them from the impending threat of the Communist Regime. Even with the best intentions, these adoptees grew up facing a unique set of challenges in America, including prejudice overshadowed by a controversial war and cultural identity crisis. Nearly 35 years later, this 2009 award-winning documentary takes a candid look at a significant, yet untold event as seen through the eyes of the volunteers, parents, and organizations directly involved, showing a contemporary look at Babylift and its relevance to international adoption today through the eyes of the adoptees themselves. (2009, 72 minutes) For more information, check out www.thebabylift.com. A panel discussion will follow the screening.
Part of the program series for A Refugee's Journey of Survival of and Hope on display through December 12, 2010.
Free | In the Tateuchi Story Theatre at the Wing
• PAJ NTAUB: STORIES OF HMONG IN WASHINTON: Exhibit Closing | Sunday, October 17 @ 10am–5pm
The Paj Ntaub (pronounced 'Pa Dau') is a flower cloth woven by the Hmong women. The cloth serves as a narrative record preserving Hmong history. This exhibition reveals the rich history and cultural significance of the Hmong in Washington Sate through artifacts, photographs and oral histories.
Free with admission | Community Portrait Gallery at The Wing
• PEOPLE BRIDGES: Native Shores | Sunday, October 17 @ 2:30pm
Bridges performances are historic narratives dramatically presented by a single actor. Characters are an artistic composites based on real-life individuals. Native Shores showcases an introduction to the indigenous people of the Puget Sound through the eyes and experience of a Duwamish Native girl during the time of Chief Sealth and a Native Hawaiian John Kalama, seafarer, who leaves his legacy in the mid-1800s.
Free with admission | In Tateuchi Story Theatre at The Wing
• PEOPLE BRIDGES: Code of Silence | Sunday, October 24 @ 2:30pm
Bridges performances are historic narratives dramatically presented by a single actor. Characters are an artistic composites based on real-life individuals. Code of Silence showcases a Japanese Kibei (American born—educated in Japan) who served as a code-breaker for the U.S. military during World War II finally reveals his story to his family after fifty years of silence.
Free with admission | In Tateuchi Story Theatre at The Wing
• FIRST THURSDAY | Thursday, November 4 @ 10am–8pm
• APIA ADOPTEES: Exhibit Opening Reception | Thursday, November 4 @ 6–8pm
6–7pm for Members and invited guests; 7–8pm open to the public | Community Portrait Gallery at The Wing
• FAMILY FUN DAY: Chiyo Sanada creates sumi gift bags | Saturday, November 20 @ 1–3pm
Make your holiday gift bags stand out! Calligrapher Chiyo Sanada will show you how to add beautiful Japanese calligraphy art to those dull bags. Check out her work at www.chiyosanada.com.
Free | In Community Hall at The Wing | Sponsored by Target
• LOCAL REFUGEE ORGANIZATIONS SPEAK | Saturday, November 20 @ 4:30pm
Hear from a panel of local representatives on how they are working first hand with the growing refugee community by guiding, preparing, engaging and educating them about living in America. Also learn how you can get involved.
Part of the program series for A Refugee's Journey of Survival of and Hope on display through December 12, 2010.
Free | In the Tateuchi Story Theatre at the Wing
• FIRST THURSDAY | Thursday, December 2 @ 10am–8pm
• FILM SCREENING: Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes | Saturday, December 4 @ 3pm
Set in 1955, this film is the true story of Sadako Sasaki, a young Japanese girl, on the threshold of adolescence, who developed leukemia from radiation caused by the bombing of Hiroshima. While hospitalized, her closest friend reminded her of the Japanese legend that if she folded a thousand paper cranes, the gods might grant her wish to be well again. With hope and determination, Sadako began folding. (1991, 20 minutes) After the movie, learn how to create cranes of different sizes and colors.
This program is part of the Tateuchi Story Theatre Performing Arts Series sponsored by the Atsuhiko & Ina Goodwin Tateuchi Foundation.
Free | In the Tateuchi Story Theatre at the Wing
• FAMILY FUN DAY: YouthCAN | Saturday, December 18 @ 1–3pm
Join YouthCAN, one of The Wing's youth groups, and their artist Mentor as they lead an art workshop to show you how they create a piece of art.
Free | In Community Hall at The Wing | Sponsored by Target
More exciting programs and events are in the works. Stay tuned!
The Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience events and public programs support our major exhibitions and gallery displays, but also arise from community concerns and input. If you would like to suggest a program or program partners, please let us know by emailing us at events@wingluke.org.
To learn about upcoming events featured in our Tateuchi Story Theatre or connected to the Tateuchi Story Theatre Performing Arts Series, please click here.
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