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LOCAL EVENTS (MN)

April 2008

  • April 5, Saturday
    Amy Anderson, AK comedian, to perform at the UMN for the Asian-American Student Union 29th Annual Spring Conference Banquet. This event will have multiple performers.

    Coffman Memorial Union (UMN)
    6p.m. doors open, 6:30p.m. dinner
    Free for UMN students, $10 general public
    ASU 29th Annual Spring Conference Banquet event notice
  • April 26, Saturday
    Equilibrium: Spoken Word at the Loft presents
    ISHLE PARK and MAYDA DEL VALLE
    with special guests Magdalena Kaluza and Christy Namee Eriksen

    At the Loft, 1011 Washington Avenue South, Minneapolis
    $5/$3 for students and Loft members

    Ishle Park is a Korean American artist who is the former Poet Laureate of Queens, New York. She has performed her unique blend of poetry & song across the United States, Cuba, New Zealand, Singapore, and Korea. Her first book, The Temperature of This Water, is the winner of three literary awards including the PEN America Beyond Margins Award for Outstanding Writers of Color. Ishle has opened for artists such as KRS-One, Ben Harper, De La Soul, and Saul Williams.
  • April 28, Monday
    Competing Discourses on Modern Womanhood
    In Transcultural Korea
     
    Hyaeweol Choi
    Associate Professor of Korean Studies
    School of International Letters and Cultures
    Arizona State University

    4:00 – 5:30 p.m.

    101 Walter Library
    117 Pleasant Street SE
    Minneapolis, MN 55455

    This lecture will focus on the genealogies of the 'modern' woman among Korean intellectuals and American women missionaries within the context of Korea's colonization by Japan at the turn of the twentieth century.

March 2008

  •  March 24, Monday
    Korea Seminar Series:

    FILM SCREENING of Family Project: House of a Father
    Director will be present

    Auditorium
    Bell Museum of Natural History
    10 Church Street SE
    Minneapolis, MN 55455
    7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
    Cost: Free and open to the public

    Beginning with her own personal story, director Yun K. Jo considers current hierarchies and dynamics in the Korean family.

January 2008:

  • 6 January:
    Bu-Hyun Nam's Korean language class begins.
    Beginner level is from 2:00-3:30pm
    Advanced level is from 3:30-5:00pm
    For more information call 952-221-8407.

CONFERENCES AND MINIS

January 2008:

  • 13-16 January:
    IKAA Mini-Gathering: Las Vegas!

April 2008: 

July 2008:

October 2008:

We update this calendar frequently, so check back often!  Please let us know if you'd like to submit an event for us to post here by emailing: contact@akconnection.com

 

Event Archive

December 2007:

  • 5 December:
    Poetry Reading at Nina's Cafe with Sun Yung Shin
    165 Western Ave N., St. Paul 55102/651-292-9816
    7:00pm
  • 8 and 9 December:
    Sun Mee Chomet + 5 Asian American women artists come together. 
    Presented through Mu Performing Arts with the Jerome Foundation's support.
    Asiamnesia at Center For Independent Artists : 4137 Bloomington Ave S., Minneapolis 55407/612-724-8392
    7:00pm
  • 9 December:
    Christmas Party given by the Korean Adoptees Ministry Center.  5:00pm at Rev. Sung Chul Park's home.  For directions, call: 612-324-0208 or 612-636-6180.  Korean dinner provided.  You may bring something to share.

November 2007:

  • 27 November:
    Korea Seminar Series: Reading women writing space in modern Korean literature
    University of Minnesota
    4:00pm
    Details here
  • 27 November:
    Andersen Library Research Forum Presents:
    Representations of Transnationally/Transracially Adopted Koreans in American Children's Literature with Sarah Park, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 
    3:30-4:30pm.
    Details on directions here
  • 28 November:
    Paul Muldoon:
    University of Minnesota
    7:30pm
    Pulitzer Prize-winner Paul Muldoon is considered by many "the most significant English-language poet born since the Second World War."
    Website: http://www.paulmuldoon.net/

October 2007:

  • 9 October:
    Sun Yung Shin and Shannon Gibney discuss Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption
    Magers & Quinn: 3038 Hennepin Ave S., Minneapolis 55408/612-822-4611
    7:30pm
  • 10 October:
    Kimberly Michaels Trio performs
    Bellanotte: 600 Hennepin Ave, Minneapolis 55403/612-339-7200
    8:00pm - 10:00pm
  • 10 October:
    Korea Seminar Series: Another "language that failed": The abortive attempt at creating "Soviet" Korean in the Russian Far East, 1922-1937
    University of Minnesota
    3:30pm
    Details here
  • 11 October:
    Dr. Richard M. Lee "Culture Matters: The role of race and ethnicity in International Adoption"
    124 Nolte Center, 315 Pillsbury Dr. SE, Minneapolis (on the campus of the University of MN - East Bank)
    4:00pm
  • 11 October:
    Kimberly Michaels Trio performs
    Bella in Blaine: 10950 Club West Parkway, Suite 280, Blaine 55449/763-746-9990
    6:00pm - 9:00pm
  • 13 October:
    Poetry Reading with Sun Yung Shin and Graham Foust
    The Beat Coffeehouse: 1414 West 28th Street, Uptown Minneapolis
    7:30pm
  • 18 October
    Mayda's Stereotype EP Release Party!!! 
    The Varsity Theater (in Dinkytown)
    18+!!! $8, doors at 8pm
    The Line up:
    CHRIS LAWRENCE
    MAYDA
    w. Michael Bland (Soul asylum, Prince, Paul Westerberg)
    Jake Hanson (Halloween Alaska)
    Yohannes Tona (Alicia Wiley, Dr. Mambo's Combo)
    Ryan Leistman (The Rule)
    DESDAMONA - an amazing female MC!!!!!!!!!
  • 25 October:
    Korea Seminar Series:  Cloud, Wind, Thunder and Rain: An instrumental introduction to Korean traditional percussive music
    University of Minnesota
    7:30pm
    Details here.
  • 27 October:
    Korean Quarterly 10th Anniversary
    Details here.

November 2007:

  • 12 November:
    Korea Seminar Series: Selection of bilingual readings 
    University of Minnesota
    4:30pm
    Details here
  • 13 November:
    Melissa Fay Greene:
    Weisman Art Museum
    7:30pm
    Nonfiction writer Melissa Fay Greene is most recently the author of _There Is No Me Without You_, about Haregewoin Teferra, a foster mother in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and the AIDS orphans she has raised.At her appearance here, she will be in dialog with Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs Professor Larry Jacobs. Event followed by book-signing and reception.
    Website: http://www.melissafaygreene.com/
  • 17 November:
    CHS RCAA Adoption Awareness Month event
    University of MN: Smith Hall, Room 231, 207 Pleaseant St. SE, Minneapolis
    4-7pm
    Keynote speaker: Shannon Gibney, Growing Up, Growing Through Adulthood: The Role of Creativity and Community in Adoptee Development, Free!
    Website: http://www.childrenshomeadopt.org/RCAA
    Event details: http://www.childrenshomeadopt.org/National_Adoption_Awareness_Month_event_2007.html
  • 17 November:
    9th Annual Chang Mi Korean Benefit Variety Show & Market
    Where: White Bear High School South Campus Theater
    3551 McKnight Rd, White Bear Lake, MN 55110
    When: 10:30 a.m., FREE 1 PM benefit show.
    Why: Fundraiser to support child services in Korea - baby hospital, orphanage and foster care programs with Eastern Social Welfare Society (ESWS).
    Event includes, bake sale, children’s activities, Children’s Home Society Korean Market, Korean lunch and more!
    Collection of vitamins for infants, children and teens served by Eastern Social Welfare Society programs in Korea. Chang Mi travelers will carry donations to Korea in March.
    Want to volunteer? mnewmast@ties2.net
    Website: For more information and to order lunch tickets visit http://www.changmi.org/.