Docent Tours for the Chinese Culture Center’s new exhibition, Icons of Presence, led by Janice Hom, are now available from 1 to 2 pm on the following dates:

Friday, November 21
Saturday, December 6
Wednesday, December 10
Wednesday, December 17

If you would like a group tour, please send email to: janice@c-c-c.org.
Individuals can show up promptly on the day of. If you cannot make these dates and would like a tour, please contact Janice.

Date: 10/23/08 - 1/3/09
Location: CCC Gallery
750 Kearny Street, 3rd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94108
Hours: Tue-Sat, 10-4
Admission: Free

The Chinese Culture Center is proud to present its new exhibition, Icons of Presence: Asian American Activist Art, organized by guest curator and scholar Margo Machida.
Icons of Presence highlights the substantial role of printmaking and graphics as a powerful means of social expression for Asian American visual culture. Learn more >>

When: Nov. 12
Time: 7-9 pm
Where: CCC Gallery
750 Kearny St, 3rd Floor
Cost: Free for CCC members; $5 for KSW members; $15 for non CCC or KSW members

Along with its new exhibition, Icons of Presence, the Chinese Culture Center is organizing a discussion with five Asian American artists. Presented in conjunction with Kearny Street Workshop, this event aims to honor the older generation of artists who struggled for their voices to be heard, and helped change the artistic climate for APA artists today. Learn more >>

Artists Reflect and Connect with Community

When: November 12, 2008
Time: 7-9 pm
Where: CCC Gallery
750 Kearny Street, 3rd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94108
Cost: Free for CCC members; $5 for KSW members; $15 for non CCC or KSW members

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The Chinese Culture Center and Kearny Street Workshop invite you to join in on a discussion among five artists about the development of their art practices, their influences and how they work within their communities.

Nancy Hom is an artist, writer, organizer, and arts administrator with over 30 years of experience in the non-profit arts. As an artist, curator, and organizer, she has worked in many communities in San Francisco, including the South of Market, Manilatown, Chinatown, Japantown, Western Addition, and the Mission. Nancy served as executive director of Kearny Street Workshop from 1995-2003.

Leland Wong, artist, illustrator, and photographer, is best known for the silkscreen posters he has designed and produced for more than thirty five years, particularly the series of posters he produced annually for the Nihonmachi Street Fair from 1974-2004. He is the owner of A-Town Graphics, a one-man photography and graphic design business.

Lenore Chinn’s paintings explore the super-realistic depiction of a wide spectrum of people of color, lesbians and same sex couples. Her portraits documenting the historical evolution of San Francisco’s queer community challenge the social conventions that currently constitute the racialized order of things. Lenore is a founding member of Lesbians in the Visual Arts, Queer Cultural Center and the Asian American Women Artists Association.

Choppy Oshiro, graphic designer and illustrator, created the promotional material for the Chinese Culture Center’s exhibition Icons of Presence: Asian American Activist Art. Her work was recently featured in Dirty Work: artists eye domestic labor at Kearny Street Workshop.

Richard Godinez is an ex-political cartoonist who creates large-scale oil paintings and pastels that protest imperialism and globalization. Richard is an associate professor of visual art at Diablo Valley College.

Robynn Takayama (moderator) is an award-winning audio producer. She was segment producer for Crossing East, a Peabody-awarded radio documentary on Asian immigration. Her art projects have been presented through video, web, and gallery installation in San Francisco, Berkeley, Los Angeles, and Chicago.

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For more information about this event, please call (415) 986-1822 x24 or send an email at the following address: clpape@c-c-c.org

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Picture 1: Richard Godinez
Picture 2: Robynn Takayama (photo credit: Jay Jao)
Picture 3: Choppy Oshiro & Margo Machida (photo credit: Jay Jao)

When: Saturday, November 1, 2008

Time: Champagne reception will begin at 6:00 P.M., followed by dinner at 7:00 P.M.

Where: Grand Ballroom,
750 Kearny Street, Third floor, San Francisco, CA 94108

One night every year, the Chinese Culture Foundation board members and our supporters in the community get dressed in their very best.

Behind the scenes, the staff and board of the Chinese Culture Center take out their personal phone books and make calls, have weekly meetings, send e-mails late into the night, and make sure all the details are perfect from the linen to ingredients in each dish because….

the biggest fundraiser of the year, Harmony & Bliss 2008 is approaching!

We warmly invite you to come and join us for an evening of great wines and a dinner carefully selected to excite your tastebuds! Come and support us and ensure that we remain a strong organization for years to come.

Tickets are: $200 per individual

Purchase of whole tables are available and start at: $2,000 per table, so you can bring all your friends and family!

For more information or to reserve a ticket/table please call: (415) 986-1822. We are looking forward to seeing you at Harmony & Bliss 2008! Thanks in advance for your generous support.

Ming Dynasty Replica Junk: A Conversation with Captain Nelson Liu

Captain Liu will show 50 photos of the Ming Dynasty Replica Junk and share it’s amazing adventure.

Date: Saturday, October 25th, 2008 Cost: FREE

Time: 2-3 pm (in English) and 3:30 to 4:30pm (in Mandarin)

Location: Mason Room, 2nd floor of the Hilton Hotel, 750 Kearny Street, San Francisco, CA 94108

Media coverage:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/16/BAL213HM1B.DTL

http://chinesevoyage.com/html/front/bin/ptlist.phtml?Category=150249

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2008/10/junk_on_the_pier_princess_taip.php

http://www.times-standard.com/localnews/ci_10657648

*Note: We are no longer screening “Forbidden City, U.S.A.” on this date*

C4 is pleased to present “Made in China” (2008). Filmmaker John Helde sets out to understand his father Tom’s remarkable childhood as a white American growing up in 1930’s China. Navigating his father’s reticence, he tracks down Tom’s China-born peers, a unique community of Americans who grew up with a foot in two cultures. But when cancer intervenes, John’s hope for his father to return to the home he left behind fades - and John’s ensuing solo journey across modern China, guided by new friends, becomes an exploration of what “home” really means.

This film is 70 minutes long, and in English.

For more information about C4, and a listing of the entire year’s program, visit our 2008 Film Series page.

Icons of Presence: Asian American Activist Art

Runs: October 23, 2008 – January 3, 2009
Opening Reception: October 23, 6:30 - 8:30 PM
Chinese Culture Center Gallery
750 Kearny Street, 3rd Floor
Gallery Hours: Tue- Sat, 10-4
Admission: Free

Chinese - 中文網頁

Related Activities:

• Kearny Street Workshop Panel Discussion
• Screen Printing Workshop (more information to come)

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The Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco is proud to present its new exhibition, Icons of Presence: Asian American Activist Art, organized by guest curator and scholar Margo Machida.

Icons of Presence highlights the substantial role of printmaking and graphics as a powerful means of social expression for Asian American visual culture. It showcases both graphic art and posters from the landmark decades of the 1970s and ‘80s, and more recent work by Jim Dong, Nancy Hom, and Leland Wong, who played a pivotal role in the San Francisco Bay area’s Asian American arts movement. Putting the work of these three Chinese American artists in a wider context, the exhibition and its accompanying catalog also emphasize the range of influences that have shaped their art and cultural activism.

Icons of Presence is conceived as a counterpart to Asian/ American/ Modern Art: Shifting Currents, 1900-1970. This national historical survey exhibition of Asian American art, with significant West Coast representation, is on view at the de Young Museum in San Francisco from October 25, 2008 – January 18, 2009. Since the de Young show does not extend through the ‘70s or beyond – the period that witnessed the rise of the Asian American movement and cultural politics – Icons of Presence foregrounds the activist turn in Asian American visual art. By focusing on the work of these three individuals, Icons of Presence provides a slice of a larger history in American art that is both national and international in scope, to which these still-active Chinese American artists bring their own distinctive perspectives.

Major funding for the Icons of Presence Exhibition is provided by generous contributions from Zellerbach Family Foundation, Vincent Woo Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, Union Bank of California, Portsmouth Plaza Parking Corporation, Grants for the Arts, our members and individual donations.

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Picture 1: A Future for Our Children?, Nancy Hom, 1985
Picture 2: Fate, Jim Dong, 2007
Picture 3: Demonstrating the Sword, Leland Wong