AAA’s Cultural Shock
March 31, 2006 at 8:12 pm | In Happenings/Events | Leave a CommentThis just in from the newsletter of the OMA:
Cultural Shock
Saturday, April 1st, 2006, Doors open at 8 PM
Roone Arledge Auditorium, Lerner Hall
West 115th Street and BroadwayTickets: $10 In Advance; $13 On Saturday
AAA will be selling tickets in the Lerner Box Offive everyday from 10 AM to 5 PM and 10 AM to 9 PM on Saturday.Afterparty: Casbah Rouge
West 110th Street and Broadway (21+ ID)Cultural Shock is Asian American Alliance’s annual show that hosts scores of performances (from dance to musical theater to spoken word) by student organizations and Asian-American celebrities from across the nation.
Year after year our show receives over 500-600 people in a packed Lerner auditorium as we represent the many diverse cultures part of Asian-America to the Columbia community.
This year’s theme will be the expression of the Asian-American identity through visual and performing arts. Through Cultural Shock 2005, we plan to define the meaning of “Asian-American” and what it means to us as individuals, as separate ethnic groups, and as a unified group of people.
Exhibitions of “Edvard Munch”; “Without Boundary”; “A Passion for Asia”
March 31, 2006 at 8:04 pm | In Exhibitions | 1 CommentThe following exhibitions just came to my attention, thanks to the current issue of the New Yorker:
Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street (212-708-9400)
“Edvard Munch: The Modern Life of the Soul” is the first American museum retrospective of the Norwegian artist (1863-1944) in thirty years. Through May 8th, 2006.
In “Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking,” artists from Islamic backgrounds examine their cultures and homelands, mostly from afar. Unexpectedly, perhaps, women reign. Included are works by Mona Hatoum, Shirin Neshat, Ghada Amer, Shahzia Sikander, Shirazeh Houshiary, Emily Jacir, and Marjane Satrapi. Through May 22nd, 2006.
Asia Society
Park Avenue at 70th Street (212-288-6400)
(Open Tuesdays through Sundays, 11 AM to 6 PM, and Friday evenings until 9 PM.)
Photographs accompanying “A Passion for Asia: The Rockefeller Family Collects” show various Rockefeller manses tricked out with Asian booty, and the images register as alarmingly Orientalist at first glance. Then, though, there are the objects themselves–near-priceless metalwork, statuary, textiles, ceramics, manuscripts, screens, scrolls, and costumes–which are tastefully installed in dimly lit, creamily colored galleries that accentuate their beauty, craft, and opulence. Chinese and Japanese vessels, Persian and Indian manuscripts–even a Noguchi sculpture–vie for attention on one floor, while religious works, from Chinese, Nepalese, and Indian bodhisattvas and gods to a simple wooden cross by the American modernist George Nakashima, occupy another. Ultimately, the quality of this collection demonstrates the Rockefellers’ passion for, and commitment to, Asian art, which drove them to found this institution, in 1956. Through September 3rd, 2006.
“The Dutch Model”; “Relatively Deprived”
March 31, 2006 at 7:48 pm | In Readings | Leave a CommentThe Netherlands ponders over diversity issues. An Economist excerpt from the March 31st, 2005 issue:
Faced with the challenge of absorbing immigrants from traditional societies–and drawing the right line between curbing extremism and fostering diversity–Dutch common sense will certainly help, but may not be enough. Like their American counterparts, the ideologues of the new Dutch right have won a wide hearing for the idea that values are important. They have yet to convince Dutch society that they have found the right means of upholding these principles.
For further reading, go read “The Dutch Model: Multiculturalism and Muslim Immigrants” by Jane Kramer in the April 3rd, 2006 issue of the New Yorker, in which there is another interesting article on the poverty identity. In Relatively Deprived: How Poor Is Poor?, John Cassidy talks about the idea called “relative reprivation”:
Introducing a relative-poverty line would help shift attention to this larger problem of social exclusion. Although few attempts have been made to address the issue, the results have been promising. A recent long-term study of Head Start, which began in 1964, as one of the original “war on poverty” initiatives, found that poor children who participated in the program were more likely to finish high school and less likely to be arrested for committing crimes than those who did not. And in another initiative, undertaken between 1976 and 1998, the city of Chicago relocated thousands of impoverished African-Americans from inner-city projects to subsidized housing in middle-class, predominantly white suburbs; researchers found that the adults who participated were more likely to be employed, and their children were more likely to graduate from high school, than their inner-city counterparts. (A more recent experiment, in which the federal government gave vouchers to poor residents in a number of cities, enabling them to move to wealthier neighborhoods, has failed to produce similar gains. Many of the participants chose to live near one another, which researchers think may account for the disappointing results.)
Join Columbia Community Outreach; Participate in a Survey about Occupational Choices
March 31, 2006 at 7:31 pm | In Community | Leave a CommentCheck out the following community happenings:
Columbia Community Outreach (CCO) is a student organized, student run undergraduate service day that promotes community service on campus. Founded in 1997, CCO is a community service initiative that seeks to bring together the Columbia University community and to form mutually beneficial relationships with the Harlem and Morningside Heights communities. Every year over 1,000, students, faculty, staff and alumni volunteer for a day and go out into the city to work alongside community members and non-profit organizations. It’s an amazing day and you should join us this year!
For those of you who have not registered for CCO, the website is
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/outreach.
Help a senior with his thesis. Complete a survey about Columbia students’ occupational choice:
I need to have 400 current CC or SEAS students to take my thesis survey. My thesis is about how the Columbia environment shapes our attitudes towards occupational choices. Please take my survey and try to persuade as many of your friends as possible to take it and try to have them to send it out to their friends.
As a bonus, for people that take my survey, I’m going to randomly give away $50 to one lucky person by lottery.
You can find the survey by going to http://www.savebobby.org. Thank you!
Panel on “How Far Are We From MLK’s Dream?”; Screening of “Darfur Diaries: A Message from Home”
March 31, 2006 at 7:22 pm | In Happenings/Events, Screening | Leave a CommentHot news from the College Democrats:
Panel on “How Far Are We From MLK’s Dream?”
Monday, April 3rd, 2006, at 7 PM
Roone Arledge Cinema, Lerner Hall
West 115th Street and BroadwayColumbia Democrats are co-sponsoring a panel discussion on the topic “How Far Are We From MLK’s Dream?” with panelists such as Professors Manning Marable, Robert Lieberman, Eric Foner and others to be announced! Contact College Democrats at jab2069@columbia.edu with your questions for the discussion, whether it be for any of the panelists in particular or for everyone. College Democrats will collect the most intriguing questions and make sure to include them at the event.
Yet another wonderful screening:
Screening of “Darfur Diaries: A Message from Home.”
Tuesday, April 4th, 2006, at 9 PM
Roone Arledge Cinema, Lerner Hall
West 115th Street and BroadwayOn October 19th, 2004, the team of three filmmakers–Aisha Bain, Jen Marlowe and Adam Shapiro–left for Darfur, Sudan and eastern Chad. After watching woefully inadequate media coverage on the crisis for months, their goal was to provide a platform for the people of Darfur (both those displaced inside Darfur and those living in refugee camps in Chad) to speak for themselves about their experiences, their fears, and their hopes for the future.
For more information about “Darfur Diaries: Message from Home,” please visit http://www.darfurfilm.org.
Following the film one of the filmmakers will be available for a Q & A session.
Asian Pacific American Awareness Month Reception
March 31, 2006 at 1:34 am | In Happenings/Events | Leave a CommentThe Alumni of Color Outreach Program of Columbia University and The Asian Columbia Alumni Association invite you to the Asian Pacific American Awareness Month Reception. Details:
Asian Pacific American Awareness Month (APAAM) Reception
Thursday, April 6th, 2006, 7 to 9 PM
Faculty House, Columbia UniversityTo RSVP, please click on the following link: http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/multicultural/events.
The dress is business casual.
Screening of Chisholm ‘72 with Director Shola Lynch and State Senator Kevin Parker
March 30, 2006 at 1:15 am | In Screening | Leave a CommentA free screening tomorrow! This just in from the Political Science Department:
Screening of Shirley Chisholm ‘72
With Director Shola Lynch and State Senator Kevin Parker
Friday, March 31st, 2006, at 7:15 PM
304 Barnard Hall, Barnard CollegeThe critically acclaimed film about Columbia graduate Shirley Chisholm, the first serious female or African-American presidential candidate in the United States. The screening wil be followed by a Q & A session with Director Shola Lynch and Senator Kevin Parker. Free pizza and refreshments will be provided.
This event is co-sponsored by Black Students Organization, Columbia University College Democrats, Office of Multicultural Affairs, Campus Progress and Working Families Party.
“The Harder They Come” and “Innocent Voices” Film Screening
March 29, 2006 at 11:24 pm | In Screening | Leave a CommentNext Monday, April 3rd, two film screenings will take place in the community. First comes “The Harder They Come” screening in Teachers College:
“The Harder They Come” Film Screening
Monday, April 3rd, 2006, at 4:30 PM
Thompson 136, Teachers CollegeJoin the Black Student Network, the Center for African Education and the Office of International Students at Teachers College for a film screening and discussion of “The Representation of Jamaica in the Eyes of the World” facilitated by Ed.M. candidate Winston Thompson. Delightful West Indian refreshments will be served!
Then “Innocent Voices” screening and panel with screewriter Oscar Torres:
“Innocent Voices” Film Screening and Expert Panel
Discussion with screenwriter Oscar TorresMonday, April 3rd, 2006, at 5:30 PM
103 Jerome Greene Hall, Columbia Law School
435 West 116th Street (at Amsterdam Avenue)
Dinner will be providedAbout 300,000 children currently participate in armed conflicts in over 30 countries on nearly every continent. Innocent Voices turns this statistic into reality through the story of an 11 year old boy caught up in El Salvador’s civil war. Screenwriter Oscar Torres will talk about his film and his childhood, on which it is based. The discussion then will be broadened with the help of Columbia faculty, students and graduates who have worked with children in war and other violent situations.
Although we cannot attend both, delightful refreshments will be served at either!
Latino Diaspora Conference; National Action Network Convention
March 29, 2006 at 5:43 pm | In Happenings/Events | Leave a CommentExciting community events are taking place:
Connecting Issues, People & Regions:
Latino Diaspora 4th Annual Education Across the Americas ConferenceFriday, March 31st, and Saturday, April 1st, 2006
Sponsored by the Association of Latin American Scholars, Teachers College. Please RSVP to ag614@columbia.edu.
Reverend Sharpton’s National Action Network Convention on Thursday, April 6th, 2006, from 9 to 11 AM:
Media Panel: Are Blacks Projected Fairly in the Media?
New York Sheraton Hotel & Towers
53rd Street and 7th AvenuePanelists: Mr. Brian Williams, Anchor, NBC Network News (Moderator); Ms. Nayaba Arinde, Editor, New York Amsterdam News; Ms. Shon Gables, Anchor, CBS News; Mr. Errol Lewis, Columnist and Reporter, New York Daily News; Mr. Bryan Monroe, President NABJ and Assistant VP News at Knight Ridder; Mr. Mort Zuckerman, Publisher, US News & World Report and New York Daily News.
Conversations with Prof. Brent-Zook
March 29, 2006 at 5:28 pm | In Happenings/Events | Leave a CommentThis Friday Professor of School of Journalism Kristal Brent-Zook will be speaking about “Black Women’s Lives: Stories of Pain and Power”:
Friday, March 31st, 2006, at 4 PM
758 Schermerhorn Extension
“Conversations” Lecture Series
Light refreshment will be served
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