THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, everybody... It is wonderful to see all of you -- some of you back for the second time. Some of you work for me, so you’re here all the time. (Laughter.)
June 4 is on the horizon and we have you on our minds. As our release party approaches, the brains of our events teams continue to churn, combining efforts in order to bring to you a Hyphen event unlike any other.
Thursday May 27th -- Oakland
LGBT APIA Literary Night
Oakland Asian Cultural Center (OACC) presents an evening of readings and reflection on the APIA queer experience, Featuring Aimee Suzara, Joel Tan, and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. The evening will start with contributions from students from the Oakland Word program.
7 pm
OACC
388 9th St, Suite 290, Oakland
Sim and Tanveer Bhullar are 7-foot Indian brothers who are emerging as two of the top high school basketball players in the country.
While the media spins the Time Square (non)bombing and immigration reform every which way, we have nothing in particular to talk about. So what do you have to say this week?
We've been in home limbo for the past month or so. In a week and a half, my husband, our daughter and I will set off on our road trip from Connecticut to our new home in Los Angeles, CA. My mom is taking over the house we currently live in, so we've been living together since she sold her condo three weeks ago. It has been...interesting.
That's not funny!
Know what else isn't funny?
Tammy and Victor Jih are really tall.
As promised, I attended Richmond Area Multi-Services (RAMS') 35th Anniversary Gala on May 12th. Themed "Changing Reality: the Voices of Asian American TV Stars," RAMS sought to connect reality television to mental health. So that night, TV show champions Tammy and Victor Jih (Amazing Race, Season 14), Chloe Dao (Project Runway, Season 2), Chef Hung Huynh (Top Chef, Season 3) and Dr. Pamela Ling (Real World, Season 3) took the stage. They were introduced by Senator Leeland Yee, who called the panel "one large group therapy."
Filmmaker Harry Kim followed urban artist David Choe for seven years, documenting Choe's turbulent coming-of-age as an artist. The resulting documentary, "Dirty Hands," isn’t simply about art -- it is art. Kim brings us beyond the spray paint, the urine, and soy sauce that Choe uses on his canvases, and presents a strikingly intimate, raw portrait of the artist.
Hyphen will be throwing its first release party in the Big Apple on June 4 since 2003. We'll bring along some West Coast flavor in form of hip hop duo from Seattle, The Blue Scholars, who will be performing live.