Events
Imagining Atrocity: An Illustrated talk by Michael Berry, Ph.D. on the City of Life and Death
Directions in Sound
Notes from the Asian American Underground
FRIDAY, MARCH 12 2010
Mighty
119 Utah Street, San Francisco
9pm 21+ | Cover: $12 CAAM Members, $15 General
DIRECTIONS IN SOUND is a genre-bending showcase featuring the best future-forward sounds that are blowing up around the globe. This year our lineup features internationally known artists and up-and-comers bubbling below the radar. If you can dig non-stop bangin’ beats, electro-clash with a neon sheen, and even hip-hop smashed on video, DIRECTIONS IN SOUND 2010 will satisfy all the senses.
FEATURING LIVE SETS FROM:
DJ SHORTKUT (TRIPLE THREAT DJS)
A member of the world renowned Beat Junkies and Invisibl Skratch Piklz, DJ Shortkut is not one to be mesed with when it comes to rocking parties and strutting his turntablist skills. Now witness the future of turntab- lism, as this multiple DMC champion incorporates all manner of machinery and technical bedazzlement with an exclusive video- mixing set!
HOT TUB
The Bay Area’s premier party starters, this trio of spandex-clad ladies bump and grind over hip-hop beats while spew- ing zany, racy rhymes.
KERO ONE (PLUG LABEL)
Remix Magazine’s “Best Hip Hop Album of 2006” award winner, Kero One bounces be- tween soulful jazz-tinged tracks and upbeat synth-driven party bangers.
GREEN TEA (PLUG LABEL)
Green Tea’s fresh sound combines electro funkiness and jazzy hip-hop sensibilities, and appeals to dance floors from SF to Tokyo.
NAVDEEP (MUTINY)
The visionary DJ/producer/tabla player brings raw passion to the decks, with a stylish melange that slides from South Asian sonics and Bhangra rhythms to hard-hitting DnB, pounding hip-hop and fragments of furious rock.
NAKO (POPSCENE)
Resident DJ at SF’s long- running POPSCENE, her signature indie rock/’80s/brit- pop sound has kids going wild every week.
Curated by Marky Enriquez and Brent Hall
Festival Forum
Saturday, March 13, 2010, 12pm-10pm
Japantown Peace Plaza (Post Street between Sutter and Laguna Streets)
San Francisco
A day-long, outdoor fair, fun for the whole family—all in the heart of Japantown—during SFIAAFF!! Enjoy live musical performances, film screenings and interactive art projects from celebrated Asian American performers and artists!
SCHEDULE
Curated by Kevin Chen and Kuniko Vroman
Sponsored by:
MC: Anthem Salgado
Anthem Salgado is a multi-disciplinary artist who has performed his original solo-theater creations on the stages of Asian Art Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Intersection for the Arts, and Kearny Street Workshop.
All Day:
LORDY RODRIGUEZ
Neighborhoods change. There are always multiple narratives associated with any neigh- borhood, both new and old. Lordy Rodriguez’s interactive art project reveals the historical narratives of Japantown and integrates them with the personal stories of individuals to create a “map” of experiences. Check out Rodriguez’s booth at the Festival Forum for instructions on how to interact with this project.
Imin Yeh – DOWNLOADABLE CRAFTS: Internet Enabled Letter-Sized Art Project
Downloadable Crafts is a forum for creating, curating and distributing arts and crafts. Works are offered as downloadable modular elements that are grey scale and can be printed on letter sized paper. Participants are invited to download, print, create, and then upload documentation of their finished work to the site for sharing.
12:00 – 2010 Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival Preview
FESTIVAL FORUM will offer a preview of the upcoming Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival, scheduled for April 10-11, 17-18, 2010 in San Francisco Japantown. In this early look at the program for this long-standing community event, MC George Yamasaki Jr. will preside over performances by the San Francisco Taiko Dojo, Shimaoka Koto Group and Nishikawa Classic Dance Group, as well as an introduction to the candidates for the annual Cherry Blossom Queen.
2:00 – Prasant Radhakrishnan’s VidyA
With an almost telepathic interplay, VidyA merges the virtuosity of Jazz with the melodic and rhythmic nuance of South Indian classical (Carnatic) music. Featuring Prasant Radhakrishnan on saxophone.
3:00 – THE ROBBIE KWOCK MELECIO MAGDALUYO QUINTET
Hard-hitting post-Bop from this Bay Area quintet.
Featuring:
Robbie Kwock: Trumpet
Melecio Magdaluyo: Saxophones
Ron Belcher: Bass
Murray Low: Piano
Paul Van Wageningen: Drums
4:00 -
BWAN & MrREY
BWAN and MrREY are two social activists who happen to create music, merging universal steez of flowing compliments and eclectic, hard-hittin slappers with beats!
Andrew Vai & Joel Dela Merced – Melodic ukelele & vocal duo
San Francisco natives Joel Dela Merced & Drew Vai are two college students who find common ground through music, bringing the jam session live and direct tearing the stage up with an island vibe!
5:00 -
POISON APPLE PIE
Torrey Hart, Emmalee John- son-Kao, and Jasmine Stade formed Poison Apple Pie in 2008 after a session of Bay Area Girls Rock Camp. A locally grown production, all three girls attend middle school in Oakland, CA.
6:00 – Mike Lai
Choreographed Bruce Lee fight scene!
Performance by winner of SFIAAFF and Locus@ KSW’s DIY Music Video Contest! To be announced!
7:00 – THE JUNIOR PANTHERS
With influences such as the Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine, Primal Scream and the Rolling Stones, the Junior Panthers like to shake it up with their own style of raucous riffs, driving rhythms and addictive melodies.
8:00 – Outdoor Film screening: ENTER THE DRAGON
A special outdoor screening of the legendary kung-fu classic ENTER THE DRAGON, featuring Bruce Lee in his final film. Don’t miss this opportunity to see Lee’s famed “fists of fury” in outdoors in the Japantown Peace Plaza! (Robert Clause, 1973, 99mins)
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Imagining Atrocity: Lu Chuan’s City of Life and Death and the Nanjing Massacre on Film
An illustrated talk by Michael Berry, Ph.D., UC Santa Barbara Contemporary Chinese Cultural Studies
Wednesday, 10 March, 2010; 5:45 PM
Fromm Hall, USF Main Campus
(Enter off Parker between Golden Gate & Fulton)
On December 13, 1937 the Japanese army entered the Chinese capital of Nanjing, beginning a six week slaughter where an estimated 300,000 Chinese citizens were killed. The incident was largely marginalized in the west (until the 1997 publication of Iris Chang’s bestselling The Rape of Nanking) and consistently underplayed in China for political reasons. In China, it was not until the mid-eighties, when the Nanjing Massacre suddenly began to reenter Chinese public discourse and popular consciousness (via a changing PRC political agenda), that a handful of celluloid depictions of the Rape of Nanjing began to grace theaters and classrooms in China. This talk will trace the evolution of the Nanjing Massacre through popular culture, with special attention to cinema and television. From Luo Guanqun’s 1987 film Massacre in Nanjing (Tucheng xuezheng) to Lu Chuan’s landmark 2009 film CITY OF LIFE AND DEATH, (NANJING! NANJING!), Professor Berry will explore the intermingling of history, politics and the cinematic imagination of the Nanjing Massacre in contemporary China.
Michael Berry is associate professor of contemporary Chinese cultural studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Speaking in Images: Interviews with Contemporary Chinese Filmmakers (Columbia, 2005; Rye Field, 2007; Guangxi Normal University Press, 2008), A History of Pain: Trauma in Modern Chinese Literature and Film (Columbia, 2008, Rye Field,. 2010) and Jia Zhangke’s The Hometown Trilogy (British Film Institute & Palgrave Macmillan, 2009; Guangxi Normal University Press, 2010). He is also the translator of several novels, including The Song of Everlasting Sorrow (with Susan Chan Egan) (Columbia, 2008), To Live (Anchor, 2004), Nanjing 1937: A Love Story (Columbia, 2002, Anchor, 2004, Faber & Faber, 2004), and Wild Kids: Two Novels about Growing Up (Columbia, 2000).
Chiho Sawada, Ph.D., Director of the Japan Policy Research Institute at the Center for the Pacific Rim, will moderate.
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Reservations recommended; call (415) 422-6828. City of Life and Death will screen on Wednesday, March 17 at 9:10pm at the Kabuki Sundance Theaters in San Francisco, and on Friday, March 19 at 9:10pm at the PFA in Berkeley. To purchase tickets visit the Film Festival site.
Cosponsored by the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, and the Fromm Institute for Lifelong Learning.
For more information please visit: http://www.pacificrim.usfca.edu/events/index.html#Atrocity
