Chinatown is an evocative place. It exists in our cities, in our imaginations, on our television screens, and in our memories. It is at once a sprawling, vibrant immigrant community and a forgotten strip mall of buffet restaurants. Chinatown is the ultimate Hollywood metaphor and a space where families still live.
The Chinatown Film Project tackles Chinatown’s elusiveness and its stereotyped representations by constructing new images for the viewer. The project starts locally, where we ask ten of New York’s most exciting filmmakers to present their unique visions of this global icon.
Featuring ten original short films and videos of Chinatowns from all over the world, as seen on MOCA’s YouTube Channel.
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This imagined evening of musical history, set in the landmark Phillips Music Co store, will feature an all-star line-up of musicians, writers, and Boyle Heights locals, along with video, rare photos and spoken word tributes.
Reflecting the rich tapestry of Jewish, Japanese and Mexican immigrants who shared the trials of assimilation into mainstream Angeleno culture, the Phillips family invites you to join us as we celebrate the neighborhood and the Phillips Music Company’s East L.A. democratic ideal.
To learn more about the Phillips Music Company, click HERE.
When: August 27, 2011, 8:00pm
Where: 300-350 S. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90071
Admission: Free
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Both a study of a budding friendship and a compassionate look at the perils faced by illegal immigrants, Philippe Lioret’s Welcome centers on Bilal, a 17-year-old Iraqi Kurd who is stuck in Calais, and Simon, a recently divorced swimming teacher. Desperate to join his girlfriend in London, Bilal vows to swim across the English Channel if he has to, setting the stage for his meeting with Simon. An unmistakable condemnation of xenophobia, Welcome also features richly drawn, fully fleshed-out lead characters.
Admission is free. All films are subtitled in English. Support for the Tournées Festival is provided by the French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, the Centre National de la Cinématographie, the Florence Gould Foundation, the Grand Marnier Foundation and highbrow entertainment.
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Make the Road New York’s annual Walk for Immigrant New York recognizes and celebrates the contributions of New York’s immigrant workers, students and families. More than 500 people of all ages, from the five boroughs of NYC and Long Island, will walk together in Queens to raise $75,000 to serve, educate and empower immigrant New Yorkers. Join us!
Why We Walk
We celebrate Immigrant New York because New York–Queens in particular–is one of the most diverse places in the world, with residents heralding from nearly every country and speaking more than 170 languages. New York is the original “melting pot,” where different foods, styles, customs, languages, beliefs and stories come together and continually enrich our lives, our streets, our schools and our workplaces ... 
FILM CLUB – Documentary films by Martin Rysavy. Free admission.
Country of Dreams / Země snů
Martin Ryšavý / Czech Republic / 57 min
The Vietnamese community in the Czech Republic is now in a very difficult situation. A part of its members are, thanks to the economic crisis, at very difficult economic conditions, have to leave the familiar method of earning money and find new one. In this situation the new Vietnamese immigrants are becoming their competitors, because they try to look for a job in Czech companies with the help of a personal agency. The majority of economic immigrants come to the Czech Republic already with huge debts for intermediation their journey and extreme expectations as well as without any knowledge of local language, environment and the Czech law i.e. without ... 
Get inspired and be entertained! Join us as we unwrap New York for you as never before. Meet true New Yorkers – two amazing individuals you haven’t heard of that make NYC what it is! All along while supporting the cause of Lend A Hand India!
Scott Weiner of “Scott’s Pizza Tours”, turned his love of New York style pizza into Scott’s Pizza Tours, NYC’s most popular pizza history and tasting tour ! Featured on NBC, Fox News, the Cooking Channel, Travel Channel, and Discovery Channel, learn howAmerica’s favorite food grew up right here in New York
Rafael Colon, a teacher heading the award-winning robotics team “Stuypulse” at Stuyvesant High School and ” Featured as New Yorker of the Week by NY1, for the past ten years, Mr. Colon ... 
Judith Sloan’s Yo Miss! Teaching Inside the Cultural Divide
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, November 3, 4, 5, at 7 PM
and Sunday November 6 at 3 PM
Nuyorican Poets Café 236 East 3rd Street Between Ave B & C, NYC
Tix: $20 general $15 students/seniors/groups 212-780-9386
http://www.nuyorican.org/
What happens when a performing artist survives a near-fatal car accident and collides with the oncoming traffic of Hip Hop culture? In Yo Miss! actress/writer Judith Sloan remixes stories from twenty years of reporting on and teaching immigrant/refugee teenagers and incarcerated youth as they grapple with the cataclysmic global events that shaped them. Through poetry, vivid character portrayals and music, she brings their tales to life along with her own stories reveali ... 
“Crossed” is Teatro Luna’s eighth original production which seeks to explore (and “explode!” ) stereotype and poetically navigate what it means to be an immigrant in the United States in an era some have called “post-racial.” Teatro Luna is Chicago’s renewed first and only all-Latina theater ensemble. The “Lunáticas” focus on collaborating with community members to explore the various issues that immigrant Latinas face.
When: Monday, November 21st to Wednesday, December 28th, 2011
Where: Viaduct Theatre
3111 N. Western Ave, Chicago, IL
Cost: Previews $12, Shows: $15, $20, $25
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This contemporary play spans from the Bible belt to Rangoon, Burma. A family of Indian immigrants must deal with seductions of American life, while trying to keep its heritage alive. RANGOON is funny and tragic— a quintessential 21st century American tale.
Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, in our 35th Anniversary Season, presents RANGOON, a world premiere that continues our commitment to telling stories from the pan Asian spectrum, and the centerpiece of our Season long focus on India.
“Rangoon revisits Arthur Miller’s take on the American Dream from an Indian point of view, updating it for the new millennium and its unique challenges…
MAYANK KESHAVIAH is a playwright, screenwriter, and educator. Before moving to Los Angeles in 2005, he served on the board of South Asian Theatre Arts Guild Expe ... 
