UCSC Professor, Renee Tajima-Pena’s NEW FILM

What’s up fellow organizers and student orgs,

Below is some information on UCSC Professor and filmmaker, Renee Tajima-Pena’s (filmmaker of “Who Killed Vincent Chin?) new film entitled “Calavera Highway” which will be premiering in the bay area on May 4th at the San Francisco International Film Festival.

I think this would be a great event for you and your orgs to attend.

-If you saw “Carry the Tiger to the Mountain,” you should definitely come.
-If you saw “Who Killed Vincent Chin?,” you should definitely come.
-If you saw both, you should DEFINITELY definitely come.
-If you know friends and others who saw either, you should bring them.
-If you or your friends haven’t seen any of these, then you should definitely come.

Renee needs as much support as she can get. If any of you are at all interested in attending this screening, please reply back to me and we can collaborate on trying to get a group of us up there to help support Renee and her new film. Thank you all so much for your time.

“Little Manila” airing on PBS

We wanted to let you know that our documentary, “Little Manila: Filipinos in California’s Heartland” is going to be airing nationally on select PBS Stations. We’d love it if you could watch the program on your local station!

About the Program:
Narrated by Dean Devlin, famed Filipino-American movie producer (Independence Day, The Patriot), the program is about the infamous neighborhood in Stockton, CA, once called, “The City of Gold” by Filipinos. Filled with chop-suey houses, gambling dens, and dance halls, Little Manila was once home to the largest number of Filipino immigrants outside of the Philippines.

The show is part of the Asian Pacific American Heritage Month on PBS. Below are a few broadcast dates and times, but if your station isn’t listed here, please download the PDF schedule for broadcast times all over the US.

San Francisco Bay Area:
on KQED Channel 9 and KTEH 54 on Sunday May 4, at 1:30 PM

New York:
on WNET Channel 13 on Sunday May 4, at 7:00 PM
Monday May 5, at 4:00 AM
Friday May 9, at 11:00 P

Los Angeles:
on KLCS Channel 58 on May 1st, at 11 PM

Boston:
on WGBH Channel 2 on Friday May 30, at 7:00 PM
Saturday May 31 at 12:00 AM
Saturday May 31 at 8:00 AM, 2:00 P

We’re also working on another documentary about the Filipino farm workers in Delano, CA called “The Delano Manongs: Forgotten Heroes of the UFW.”
For more information on it and our other programs please go to: www.mediafactory.tv.

And feel free to email us with any questions!

Sincerely,

Sheila Flores
MediaFactory
www.mediafactory.tv
Saul Zaentz Media Center
2600 Tenth St. Ste. 600
Berkeley CA 94710
office: 510-295-4305
screening@mediafactory.tv

“The Debut” Screening

Hello everyone! I just wanted to let you all know about the screening that’s happening at Cowell’s Fireside Lounge on Friday (tomorrow) at 7:30pm. We’ll be showing the Filipino-American movie “The Debut,” and it’s open and free to all UCSC students! We’re hoping to attract as many people as possible by advertising all over campus and showing a trailer and documentary for the film at tonight’s Filipino College Night. Please tell all your members about this event, and forward this to anyone else who might be interested! We hope to see you there!

Andrea Aquino UCSC, Cowell College Programs Assistant aquino@ucsc.edu

Whose History? Resistance Nostalgia and Filipina/o History

Thursday, April 17, 4pm 

Oakes College, Mural Room 

 

For an event flier: http://www2.ucsc.edu/aapirc/Index/flierDFR.pdf 

 

Dorothy Fujita-Rony will address the contested terrain of Filipina/o American history, and how various kinds of power shape how we reclaim, understand, and share this history. In particular, she will explore literary and film representations of Filipina/o American workers who arrived prior to World War II, and what these representations suggest about the role of race, gender, class, and nation in informing our understanding of Filipina/o American history in present-day California.  Dorothy Fujita-Rony is an Associate Professor in the Department of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Irvine.  She earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees in the Department of American Studies, Yale University.  She is the author of American Workers, Colonial Power:  Philippine Seattle and the Transpacific West (UC Press, 2003), and is currently working on project addressing a life history of a New York Chinatown pioneer, Lung Chin, and another book on California agricultural workers. 

 

For more information or accommodations, contact UCSC Center for Labor Studies, Dana Frank (dlfrank@ucsc.edu/831-459-2542) or Karin Mak (ktmak@ucsc.edu/ 626-840-5408). 

 

Maps 

Stevenson College: http://maps.ucsc.edu/cdwagstaff.html 

Oakes Collge: http://maps.ucsc.edu/wvoakes.html 

 

The UCSC Center for Labor Studies is funded by the Miguel Contreras Labor Fund of the University of California Office of the President, and co-sponsored by the UCSC Division of Humanities and Division of Social Sciences. Co-sponsored with the Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center. 

1st FSA Grad Meeting

Hello FSA COMMUNITY!!

It’s that time of the year…. FSA GRAD PLANNING COMMITTEE must UNITE!! FSA GRAD planning committee is the committee that basically plans out the end of the year celebration to honor our wonderful seniors.

Please join us 
4pm-5pm 
MONDAY, APRIL 14th
In the Stevenson patio outside of the Stevenson Event Center

this meeting will be an informational meeting. we just wanted to get a feel of how our FSA GRAD team is going to be and create an email list.

If you cannot make it to this meeting or you have questions please feel free to email us back!! also if you will be at the PCC run throughs we will have a sign up list going around

Thank you,
FSA GRAD planning committee 2008
FSAgrad08@gmail.com

“KASAMUAN” Dance Workshop

Have you ever wanted to learn dance ballroom? What about hip-hop?

WELL NOW YOU HAVE THE CHANCE TO LEARN BOTH!

Learn from the Kasama Ballroom Dance Troupe & Haluan Hip-Hop Dance Troupe.

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Meet at the EAST FIELD (by the main dance studio)
7:30pm - 11:00pm
$5.00

 

Whose History? Resistance Nostalgia and Filipina/o American History

Thursday, April 17, 4pm
Oakes College, Mural Room

Dorothy Fujita-Rony will address the contested terrain of Filipina/o American history, and how various kinds of power shape how we reclaim, understand, and share this history. In particular, she will explore literary and film representations of Filipina/o American workers who arrived prior to World War II, and what these representations suggest about the role of race, gender, class, and nation in informing our understanding of Filipina/o American history in present-day California. Dorothy Fujita-Rony is an Associate Professor in the Department of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees in the Department of American Studies, Yale University. She is the author of American Workers, Colonial Power: Philippine Seattle and the Transpacific West (UC Press, 2003), and is currently working on project addressing a life history of a New York Chinatown pioneer, Lung Chin, and another book on California agricultural workers.

For more information or accommodations, contact UCSC Center for Labor Studies, Dana Frank (dlfrank@ucsc.edu/831-459-2542) or Karin Mak (ktmak@ucsc.edu/ 626-840-5408).

Maps
Stevenson College: http://maps.ucsc.edu/cdwagstaff.html
Oakes Collge: http://maps.ucsc.edu/wvoakes.html

The UCSC Center for Labor Studies is funded by the Miguel Contreras Labor Fund of the University of California Office of the President, and co-sponsored by the UCSC Division of Humanities and Division of Social Sciences.