Category: Arts

  • War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art [Exhibition] DePaul Art Museum 935 West Fullerton Chicago, Illinois 60614 2013-04-25 through 2013-06-30 As an increasingly ethnically ambiguous Asian American generation is coming of age, War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art looks at the construction of mixed-heritage Asian American identity in the United States. Working…

  • Special Event: An Evening with U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey The Newseum Walter and Leonore Annenberg Theater 555 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20001 Telephone: 888/NEWSEUM (888/639-7386) Tuesday, 2013-04-16, 23:00Z (19:00 EDT Local Time, 16:00 PDT) This event will be streamed live on Newseum.org The 19th U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, Natasha Trethewey will read selections…

  • Performing ‘Race’ and Challenging Racism One Drop of Love: A Daughter’s Search for her Father’s Racial Approval Blog Updates 2013-04-08 Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni, Playwright, Producer, Actress, Educator It is an exciting time to be an actor, when the notion of ‘performance’ is taking on new meanings and has the potential to change the way we…

  • Nihon NY – Episode 30 – JERO Japan Society NYC 2012-06-18 Pittsburgh-native, Tokyo-based enka superstar JERO made his New York debut at Japan Society earlier this month. With his smooth voice and hip-hop stylings, JERO has breathed new life into this sentimental Japanese music genre often associated with themes of one’s hometown, lost loves and…

  • Hapa Japan 2013 Los Angeles, California 2013-04-02 through 2013-04-06 A free Festival Celebrating Mixed-Race and Mixed-Roots Japanese People and Culture! Come join us at Hapa Japan 2013 from April 2-6, 2013 in Los Angeles for a concert featuring emerging hapa artists, a comedy night at East West Players, readings by award-winning authors, a historical exhibit…

  • The Colour of Beauty National Film Board of Canada 2010 00:16:50 Elizabeth St. Philip Renee Thompson is trying to make it as a top fashion model in New York. She’s got the looks, the walk and the drive. But she’s a black model in a world where white women represent the standard of beauty. Agencies…

  • Anne Marie Nakagawa’s documentary examines what it means to have a background of mixed ancestries that cannot be easily categorized.

  • Can Drake Save the Bar Mitzvah? The Jewish Week Blog: Well Versed 2012-04-12 Eric Herschthal When Drake’s new video, “HYFR,” dropped [was released] over the weekend—in which the Jewish, biracial hip-hop superstar raps at a bar mitzvah—I was thrilled. Initially. For years, pop culture references to the Jewish rite of passage have been stuck in…

  • ‘Visible & Invisible’ Exhibition to Explore History of Hapa JA Experience The Rafu Shimpo: Los Angeles Japanese Daily News 2013-03-31 The Japanese American National Museum, in collaboration with the USC Hapa Japan Database Project, will present its next exhibition, “Visible & Invisible: A Hapa Japanese American History,” from Sunday, April 7, through Sunday, Aug. 25.…

  • Barry McGee art21: Art in the Twenty-First Century Public Broadcasting Service Season 1 (2001), Place About Barry McGee A lauded and much-respected cult figure in a bi-coastal subculture that comprises skaters, graffiti artists, and West Coast surfers, Barry McGee was born in 1966 in California, where he continues to live and work. In 1991, he…