Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Date: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 Time: 5PM to 7PM Place: Seyfarth Shaw LLP 620 Eighth Avenue, 32nd Floor New York, NY 10018-1405 The 2008 NAAS is a groundbreaking study of the contours and contexts of Asian American civic and political engagement. Funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Russell Sage Foundation, the James Irvine … Read more
Iikiru (Japan, 1952) Running Time: 143 Minutes When a stoic government official (Takashi Shimura, with a BAFTA nomination for Best Foreign Actor) in post-war Japan learns he has terminal cancer, he realizes he has squandered his life on meaningless red tape and has no close family or friendships to lean on. He resolves to use … Read more
Better Luck Tomorrow (USA, 2003) Running Time: 99 Minutes Ah, the pressures of being young, rich and brilliant. Discontent with his current lifestyle of straight A’s and upper-middle-class monotony, overachieving high school student Ben Manibag (Parry Shen) seeks a lifestyle of excitement and danger. He finds it with help from a suburban gang of other … Read more
Asian American Film Lab Presents Top 10 Films to Be Announced and Screened at the 32nd Asian American International Film Festival on July 24, 2009 The Asian American Film Lab (AAFilmLab), in association with Asian CineVision, is pleased to announce the Sixth Annual 72 Hour Film Shootout (“Shootout”) taking place this year from June 26-29, 2009. The Shootout is a … Read more
Coalition for Asian American Children and Families Presents Time: 10AM to 12PM Place: 25 West 43rd Street, 18th Floor between 5th & 6th Avenues, Manhattan A community briefing to release the Coalition for Asian American Children and Families’ newest report on the impacts of language brokering on families and to discuss the implications on … Read more
Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies – CUNY Presents Underground Undergrads: A Conversation About the DREAM Act Date: Monday, June 15, 2009 Time: 6PM to 8PM Place: 25 West 43rd Street, 18th Floor between 5th & 6th Avenues, Manhattan This student publication, Underground Undergrads: UCLA Undocumented Immigrant Students Speak Out, features the … Read more