The Hyphenite's Social Calendar: Prince of the Himalayas, Queens Noir

Friday December 23rd -- NYC

Prince of the Himalayas Screening

The Rubin Museum of Art is offering the first US screening of Sherwood Hu's "exhilarating high-altitude Hamlet" Prince of the Himalayas, presented in association with Asian CineVision. Check out the trailer and showtimes here. Showing through January 14, 2012.

Rubin Museum of Art

150 W 17th St, New York

$12; tickets here

Saturday December 24th -- Los Angeles

Little Tokyo Walking Tour

Relive history at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) and learn about present-day Little Tokyo with National Museum docents. Comfortable walking shoes and clothes recommended. Weather permitting.

10:15 am to 12:15 pm

JANM

369 East 1st St, Los Angeles

$9 Members; $14 non-members, includes Museum admission.

Thursday December 29th -- NYC

Queens Noir Reading

Tejas Desai

Join three writers from the anthology Queens Noir as they discuss their craft and relationship to New York's largest and most diverse borough by taking participants on a tour of some of Queen's most iconic neighborhoods. Shailly Agnihotri introduces a Jackson Heights matrimonial agency, Ken Wishnia peers behind a bodega in Corona, and Denis Hamill discusses the Bayside riverfront. Tejas Desai, a Librarian at the Bayside Community Library, will lead the conversation. Copies of Queens Noir will be available for checkout. Includes refreshments.

6 pm

Bayside Community Library in Queens, Meeting Room

214-20 Northern Boulevard, Bayside, NY

Opportunities

Shui Kuen and Allen Chin Scholarships Acceptng Applications

Two $1,000 scholarships for restaurant workers and children of restaurant workers are available from the Shui Kuen and Allen Chin Scholarship, a program of the Asian Pacific Fund. Go here for more info on eligbility and application. Application Deadline: March 15, 2012.

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Cynthia Brothers was born and raised in Seattle and works as a grantmaker in the immigrant rights and civic engagement fields. She's also paid the rent as a social work and mental health researcher, food stamps coordinator, and espresso flunky. Cynthia has been involved in API voting and language access rights, leadership development, and stalking microcelebrities. She has performed with the Tribes Project and been published in the International Examiner, Mavin Magazine, and The Cultural Appropriation Reader.

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