Lantern Festival 2005 & Chinese New Year Parades

SAVE THE DATE!

Lantern Festival 2005
Saturday, February 19, 2005
12 noon – 6pm
at the Chinese American Museum

CAM's most beloved tradition is back
and better than ever!
Celebrate this popular holiday with us!

Bring your friends and family!
FREE ADMISSION

Stage Performances:
Chinese lion dance
Chinese traditional dance
Chinese drummers
Chinese music
Acrobatics
Contortionist
Martial art
Puppet show
Magic show
Arts and crafts booths on:
Lantern making
Chinese calligraphy
Chinese opera face painting
Chinese paper design cutting
Mexican paper design cutting
Origami
Kite building
Tea drinking
Feng shui

plus

Storytelling with local community artists Cindy Suriyani, Dominique Moody, and Michael Massenburg
Lantern contest for children in grades 1-6
Lantern parade
Extended Museum hours until 5pm
Free docent-guided tours of the Museum



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Have you ever wanted
to march in a parade?
*Now here's your chance! *


The Chinese American Museum needs volunteers to
march in two upcoming Chinese New Year parades:


Saturday, Feb. 5, 2005 at 10am / Presented by Alhambra
"14th Annual Volvo Lunar New Year Parade" (in ALHAMBRA)
*CAM has been invited to participate in this parade. Volunteers are needed to march in the parade, under the CAM banner. All participating volunteers will be given an official Lantern Festival t-shirt to keep and wear for the parade. RSVP by Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2005.


Saturday, Feb. 12, 2005 at 2pm/ Presented by Los Angeles'Chinatown
"Golden Dragon Parade and Festivities" (in CHINATOWN)
*CAM has been invited to participate in this parade. Volunteers are needed to march in the parade, under the CAM banner. All participating volunteers will be given an official Lantern Festival t-shirt to keep and wear for the parade. To march in the parade, please RSVP by Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2005.


SHOW US YOUR CAM SPIRIT!

As a parade marcher, you will be walking alongside other volunteers, representing the Chinese American Museum. All you have to do is smile, wave to the parade audience and have a great time! This is the first time CAM is doing this so help us make this a SMASHING SUCCESS!


Volunteers can sign-up to participate in ONE or BOTH of the parades above. We are expecting a huge turnout for both events so
the more marchers, the merrier!

Please email Betty Liu @ bettycamla@yahoo.com if you are interested.

THANK YOU!


*Lantern Festival 2005 is an exciting community event presented by the Chinese American Museum, to be held on Saturday, February 19, 2005. Live musical and acrobatic performances will be featured along with a variety of arts and crafts activities, a children's lantern contest, and a spirited parade to cap off the festival! FREE ADMISSION.

Tony Award-winning PROOF at East West Players

Special ticket discounts available for members of UCLA Asian Pacific Alumni, KCET, KCRW, K-Mozart, the Organization of Chinese Americans, and Asian American Journalists Association. For more information visit www.eastwestplayers.org/singletix.htm.

PROOF
By David Auburn
Directed by Heidi Helen Davis

On the eve of her twenty-fifth birthday, Catherine, a troubled young woman, has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, a famous mathematician. Now, following his death, she must deal with her own volatile emotions; the arrival of her estranged sister, Claire; and the attentions of Hal, a former student of her father's who hopes to find valuable work in the 103 notebooks that her father left behind. Over the long weekend that follows, a burgeoning romance and the discovery of a mysterious notebook draw Catherine into the most difficult problem of all: How much of her father's madness—or genius—will she inherit? East West Players will present this Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play for the first time with an all-Asian American cast.

Cast: Kimiko Gelman, David J. Lee, Dom Magwili and Joanne Takahashi

Now - February 27
Thursdays-Fridays @ 8 pm, Saturdays & Sundays @ 2 pm (no Saturday
matinee on 1/29 & 2/5)

Tickets $20-$38
Student, Senior and Group discounts available.

Pay What You Can on Thursday, February 3 @ 8 pm (tickets on sale one hour before show time, cash only, minimum $1)

Purchase tickets at www.eastwestplayers.org or (213) 625-7000

An invitation to watch: The Magic of Ordinary Days - Performance by UCLA Alumnus Gwendoline Yeo (1/30)

Please watch UCLA alumnus and APA member Gwendoline Yeo in the Hallmark movie "The Magic of Ordinary Days."


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Hey Friends,

I spent 6 weeks in Alberta, Canada shooting the Hallmark movie "The Magic of Ordinary Days." It's a world war II love story between Keri Russell (Felicity) and Skeet Ulrich's (Scream) characters with a side arc on the Japanese Internment camps. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor anti-Japanese sentiments arose and Japanese Americans living on the coasts were taken from their homes and lives and moved inland to internment camps to work. I play Rose Umahara. Mare Winningham (Clubhouse, Helen Keller) is also great in it. Directed by Brent Shields. I invite you to watch!


NEXT SUNDAY, January 30th, 2005 9-11pm on CBS


Thank you for your continued support and encouragement,
Gwendoline
www.gwendolineyeo.com