Coming to Asian Arts Initiative Spring 2009

Cooking Con Karimi
Featuring Robert F. Karimi
Friday & Saturday, February, 6-7pm
Friday, February 13, 7:30pm
$15 tickets (Click to buy tickets) 

Calling all food lovers, dreamers, and community builders! Join us for an interactive theatrical journey with revolutionary “chef” Mero Cocinero Karimi, who blends family stories, humor, and a critique of the current political environment as he prepares recipes live on stage and serves up a tantalizing cultural discussion as well! 

Cooking Con Community:
A Community Potluck Performance
Saturday, February 14, 7:30pm
$10 tickets

An enticing menu of stories and food shared with performers from the Cooking Con Community workshop!

Cooking Con Karimi is a National Performance Network Creation Fund Project co-commissioned by the Asian Arts Initiative in partnership with Pangea World Theater and the National Performance Network. Additional residency activities are supported in part by the National Performance Network’s Community Fund and Performance Residency Program. Major contributers of the National Performance Network include the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency), Altria, and the Nathan Cummings Foundation. For more information: www.npnweb.org.

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Asian Arts Initiative Calendar Fall 2008

All activities will take place at the Asian Arts Initiative’s new home at 1219 Vine Street in Chinatown, Philadelphia unless otherwise noted.

EVENTS

Youth Arts Workshop
Open House
NEW DATE: December 10th,  4-5:30 pm
FREE, donations gladly accepted!

Come chill with other teens, make art, eat snacks, play games, and discover new ways to get involved in our Youth Arts Workshop!  With a special presentation by students from our Big Picture partnership with the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, and a sampling of programs coming up in the spring!

WORKSHOPS

Big Picture Mural Arts Workshop
Tuesdays through Thursdays, 3:45-6:00 pm
Fall Session: October 7 - December 12
FREE, donations gladly accepted

The City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, Big Picture mural-making workshop at the Asian Arts Initiative is open for registration again!  Open to all teens 13 – 18 years old, who are interested in learning about the visual arts and creating a mural. Participants will develop basic drawing and painting skills, create a mural design, and complete a group mural by the end of the semester.

Chinatown Youth Radio Philadelphia
Stay tuned for details about dates and times!

Join Chinatown Youth Radio Philadelphia as they embark on their second session of ChYRP programming! Engaging young people with radio production, ChYRP seeks to inspire a new generation of student journalists to think more critically about their community and the world around them and to become more effective and informed leaders of tomorrow, while filling in the longstanding gap of mainstream media’s coverage of the Asian American community.

Cooking Con Community Storytelling Workshop
Sunday, February 8 - Saturday, February 14
$150 registration, scholarships available
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Sign up for a week-long workshop with Robert Karimi exploring the process of storytelling through recipe-sharing, theatrical improvisation, and character development. Culminating with a “Community Potluck Performance” on Saturday, February 14. Open to all ages and backgrounds. No prior performance experience necessary!

IN OUR GALLERY

Transplants
October 27 - January 16
Reception: Friday, November 7, 5:30 – 7:30 pm
FREE, with donations gladly accepted!

Inspired by the Asian Arts Initiative’s own recent experience of moving multiple times, Transplants examines the life-changing journeys made by artists and communities ‘transplanted’ from one place—whether physical or conceptual—to another, revealing the critical and creative roles that culture, immigration, exile, and home play in our ideas of ourselves and our world. Transplants shows the complexities and particularities of communities’ and individuals’ stories and representations of movement through space and time.

Curated by Sean Stoops, the exhibition will be based at the Asian Arts Initiative with a video art installation at the International House Video Lounge, a space programmed by InLiquid Art & Design Network.

Hidden Geometry by Joanna Kao

The Asian Arts Initiative hosts
in collaboration with the City of Philadelphia Big Picture
Mural Arts Program
a year-long mural-making workshop for youth

October 6th- December 12th, 2008
3 days a week/ 3:30-6:30pm

Asian Arts Initiative Salon Space
1219 Vine Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107

This workshop is free and open to all interested youth ages 10-18.

Register Now! Contact Chon at 215.557.0455 or chon@asianartsinitiative.org

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